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I love weddings and wedding planning. It’s true. But I don’t like wedding budgeting. Nothing related to wedding planning brings you crashing down to earth faster than realizing that the small extra colour item you want would add $200 to the budget.
I’ve been careful. MM and I have edited out a lot of extraneous things that the wedding industry seems to try to suggest are absolutely necessary. Not for us are the custom printed cocktail napkins. Gone are the favours, the toasting flutes, the special cake cutting knife set and yes even the garter. W’e have an open bar until dinner, then we’ll serve wine, but after that, it’s going to be a cash bar. We’re hoping too that will cut down on drinking excess and keep people sober enough to remember the fun. We’ve cut corners where we don’t think it will be noticed and we’ve tried to stay on track and focused on the celebration aspect of our upcoming day. As one of my bridesmaids put it so eloquently the other night, this day is about celebrating the formal blending of MM’s life with mine, which includes the mingling and blending of his family and friends with mine. So really, as long as the details related to the mingling and the celebration are taken care of, the extras shouldn’t be missed.
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So much has happened since I last posted here yet at the same time it feels like not much. The biggest and most important news? MM is home from the desert!!! I’m told I’m glowing these days.. hmmm… coincidence?
MM is nicely adjusting to life in Canada again and oh am I thrilled to have him back! That smile, those eyes, that ability to make me laugh at the drop of a hat! Ok yes and the fact that it’s up to him to shovel the snow and do the dishes and run to the store at the last minute when I have no oatmeal to make my famous cobbler.
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With the sunshine finally out and some of our friends returning home from their tours in the next few weeks, counting down to the wedding feels as important right now as counting down to MM”s eventual fall return. So I’m setting aside the doldrums this week and rejoicing in the fact that I’m engaged, and to a wonderful Military Man.
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When I sat down tonight to write this post, I thought I’d talk about the stuff I saw in Europe that has inspired me, or share the news of what has happened in our wedding planning process. Things have moved along, decisions been made, deposits paid, checklist items marked off as done. But the words for talking about those things won’t come. I can’t write them, not right now.
Instead, what I feel inside of me tonight is the hole in my life caused by that goodbye in Heathrow a few weeks back. It is the bittersweet joy/pain of counting down not to the wedding, but to that day on the sometime-horizon when MM comes back home again.
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I’m back in Canada after a lovely yet bittersweet three weeks in Europe with MM. We met in the airport in Rome, spent a few quiet days in a little Italian port city then boarded a cruise. 15 days and a dozen beautiful European city-ports later, we disembarked in the east of England and spent a few days in London before saying tearful goodbyes at Heathrow last weekend.
(a house on the canals in Bruges, Belgium)
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Just before *the* big humanities conference of the year started here in Ottawa a week and a bit ago, I got the chance to meet up with Susan and spend the day doing, what else? wedding planning.
It was a fabu day that went by way too fast!
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As mentioned earlier, late last week (actually one week ago … time flies!), I headed up to Ottawa to meet this year’s blog winner, Tarriell … or is she last year’s winner?! Through a series of circumstances her date was postponed so the planning hadn’t kicked into full gear until now. And boy, did we ever accomplish a lot!
Our first stop was the Chateau Laurier. While not *really* wanting to get married in a hotel, T decided to check it out. And I could honestly see the excitement starting to creep in to her as she started to imagine the day being held there. The room for the reception is a great size (not too big or too small like many others) and an interesting shape!
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In early March, before flying off for his tour, MM and I went to check out a little country inn near our city. It turned out to be beautiful, and while not perfect (what venue is?) we had high hopes for it, based on what the proprietor told us. It seemed like all that was left was for us to get the contract, confirm that the pricing and terms matched what we’d been told, and voila! the search would be over.
It was the one we wanted. Or so we thought. MM flew away thinking it was all over but for the ink.
It was not to be.
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I haven’t been to many weddings in my life. Not sure why, but it means that I’m not influenced too much by family traditions or reciprocal relationships with friends.
These days then when I’m looking for inspirations for our wedding, I find myself looking at photos of ‘real’ weddings on various websites and in bridal magazines. And what strikes me as the most important aspect of any wedding isn’t tradition, or theme, or colour. It’s feeling.
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By now, MM should have finally left Canada and is who knows how many feet up in the air, flying towards his new desert home. This means I won’t be able to talk to him for a few days, as he settles into his desert cubby. :-/
What better way to distract my wistful self than some retail therapy, you say? I agree! Here are some today’s finds from mTs’ fave site, Etsy.
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