Wedding Blog

I always believed that having a theme or motif for your wedding helps you to not blow your budget. If you can only buy items that have a specific color/design on them, then that rules out a lot of stuff that doesn’t fit and so you never give it a second look.

However, every trip I make to Target, Wal-mart, or Hobby Lobby leaves me salivating over their newest black and white damask items. I find myself standing in the middle of the store, trying to come up with how I could possibly use a damask-print lampshade/crib set/paper plate/comforter/name-something-it-comes-in-damask in the wedding. I come up with all these insane ideas (clearly, the lampshade could be turned upside down and with a bowl inside could be used as a candy dish) before I finally snap back to reality and run out of the store screaming. I think this is why Mr. Fondue won’t come shopping with me.

The weirdest damask purchase I’ve made to date is a damask ballpoint pen. I reasoned that it could be used for the guestbook, purchased it, got home and then remembered what our guestbook plans were: black pages written on with white gel pens. However, I’m still positive that I can come up with something for this pen, so it remains, unopened, in my pile of wedding stuff.

So, you can imagine my glee when I was doing a (perfectly innocent) Google image search and came across….

Source: Tommy Bahama @ Zappos

Yes, damask bikini separates. No matter that I can’t wear them to the wedding. I can stay in theme for the honeymoon!

(Don’t worry. I haven’t actually bought a damask swimsuit. Yet.)

How has having a theme affected your budget?