Weddingbee Blog

Have I mentioned that Christina Hendricks is my Sty-dol (style-idol)? She recently had this to say to LA Times Magazine:

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At the end of the day, you’re just going to a big party. You have to remind yourself to wear the things you love. Sometimes your friends or a stylist will go, “Yeah…no.”

Okay, I realize she wasn’t referring to a wedding, but award shows. But so often in modern weddings, we brides try so very hard to avoid these typical faux pas.

Sometimes we don’t even know that’s what they are until after we’ve decided to do them. There have been many discussions, on the hive and elsewhere, about the “overdone” ideas. I was just recently informed that a pre-built wedding website was *so* over. If I didn’t build my own from scratch, then just what kind of archaic, outdated wedding was I planning here?

Sometimes it feels like there is such a critical aspect to this whole wedding planning process. That other recently married or soon-to-be brides will judge the decisions you’ve made.

“Oh, your guestbook is a typewriter? Mm-hmm, I saw that on Once Wed too. You’re renting a photo booth? What a, um, -vintage- decision. I’ll be making mine. Personalized stamps with a picture? I used vintage.”

Yes, I’m exaggerating. And it’s quite possible no one actually thinks this way. But it seems so many of us strive for a fun, individual day that every idea just gets shot down because it’s all been done before.

So I present to you my new motto, and the rest of the quote from above:

Sometimes you can’t see yourself with objectivity, but you have to go with what you think is pretty.

Even if sometimes what you think is pretty just so happens to be what everyone else thinks is last season.

Have you struggled with how to go with what you think is pretty? Do the opinions of other brides cloud your confidence in your own choices?