Weddingbee Blog

Hello dear hive!! Maybe you haven’t noticed I’ve been M.I.A. this past week but I sure have… I’m missin’ you like CRAY-ZAY. Last week was insane and sad at the same time. It’s given me a lot to ruminate on… and if you read Meatball’s Midnight Confession, then you’ll have an inkling of what’s been going on in my head too. To make a long story short, my company laid off a third of its workforce last week for the second time in the past two months… I wasn’t one of them. It sure was hard, though.

Needless to say, it’s made choosing the color of our parasols even more trivial/frivolous than it was before (which it was, I’ll be the first to admit) but then again… in times like these, sometimes what you want most is a little distraction, you know? If we look to history, we’ll see evidence of this effect time and time again. We’re only human, after all. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself.

Speaking of distractions and parasols…

After going through your votes and awesome suggestions for various purple-lilac-white combos, I finally decided what to order.

After all that, I came to the conclusion that three different colors was too much. I know, I know… I’m so annoying. I also realized that in most of the examples I had seen, the girls all had white parasols and so of course, the trailblazer instinct in me flared up so I ordered 3 lilac, 1 purple and 0 white.

Imagine my dismay when they arrived and I realized that the lilac wasn’t so lilacky after all. It looked more like pink! Dontcha think?

Good thing I ordered them through Ideal Favors because dealing with them was a dream. Their customer service rep was very kind and understanding and within three hours, had dispatched a courier to come pick up the parasols for an exchange. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Oh and what am I getting instead? All white, of course. D’oh.

Crisis averted! Well, maybe not ‘crisis’. After all, it’s just a parasol. My definition of crisis has been redefined this past month.

Are you having a hard time putting your wedding planning into perspective these days? Are you flip flopping between thinking it’s frivolous on the one hand, and a welcome escape from our current economic and political reality on the other hand? Is there a happy medium somewhere in there?