Weddingbee Blog

Sometimes I float off into wedding la-la land. You know…where I see something often enough that I think I want it or even need, despite it being 100% Not Me.

Example:

Me, looking at wedding blogs: OMG I have to have those shoes.

Mr. PD, glancing over: Huh. I thought you didn’t like heels that high.

Me: Oh yeah. Haha. I totally don’t.

Those shoes are, I’m sure, great for the bride who wore them. But they’re so not me. Luckily, PDog knows how to gently nudge me down from my little identity-crisis moments. (That sort of makes it sound like he’s spoiling my fun…but I swear, it’s helpful! I NEED a reality check sometimes.)

Another example:

I was glancing through a photographer’s online portfolio. I figured he/she must be great because said photographer is very, very expensive. Plus, the photo I was looking at had made its way to a wedding blog [not this one].

“Oh my gosh,” I breathed, turning my laptop for him to see. “Wow.”

He furrowed his eyebrows. Tilted his head a bit. Clamped down on his lips.

“What?” I prompted.

“Well…” he began hesitantly. “It’s nice, but…I don’t know that I want a picture of us trying to look model-y with stoic expressions on our faces…standing in the middle of a random field…”

I blinked. “What. Are you talking about. Willis.”

(What did he MEAN he didn’t want these pictures that I have seen all over blogs?!?!)

He continued. “I mean…maybe that’s right for that couple. But that’s so not us.”

I blinked again. I could see his point. Sort of. “Then what do you want the pictures to look like?”

“I don’t know.” He shrugged. “I guess all I want pictures of us looking really, really happy…mostly candid. And pictures of the people who love us, having a good time.”

REALITY SUH-MACK. Bless this man for reminding me of the bigger picture. Yes, I still want pictures of all the little details that got so much of my time and attention. Yes, I still want pretty pretty pictures that we can turn into a canvas print or frame. But mostly? We are dorky and goofy and blissfully in love. That is what I want to see.

Does your fiance help pull you out of wedding la-la land?