Weddingbee

I think there must be a happy medium between a too-long engagement and a too-short engagement. We have been engaged for a year now, and we have been unhappily floating in that sticky morass known as “OMG we can’t wait for this all to be OVER” for at least three months now.
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Well, she is finally here, in our house, on the bed in the “wedding room” (as I affectionately call the guest room now).

She is resting there, carefully folded (squished, she complains) in a cotton garment bag, lightly veiled from the all-seeing eyes of one Mr. Shortcake.
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If you liked my rehearsal bouquet, you’re going to adore this wedding!

Megan Hunt and David Homan got married on May 31st, 2008 at the The Slowdown in Omaha, Nebraska. Like most couples getting married, they were blissfully in love. Also like many couples, these two were unaware that their wedding details would send one Miss Shortcake over the edge into a blissfully sweet, sugary coma of joy.

Oh bliss, oh sweet sweet rapture!
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One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my wedding planning, is that if it feels good, do it. And if you have little niggling thoughts that won’t go away, don’t do it.

Quite simple really.

One of my glue-fume-induced bouts of creativity saw me making hand sewn felt and vintage button flowers to embellish my and my bridesmaid’s bouquets. I had them all ready to go…

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We’re a couple of simple tastes, really. We grow our own vegetables, bake our own bread. We recycle like it’s a mandate, and I DIY like it’s going out of style.

When it came to rings, we were pretty sure that we wanted plain, traditional gold bands. The symbolism would be heavy, and our wallets wouldn’t become as light. Easy peasy.

Witness Mr. Shortcake’s 6mm yellow gold “comfort fit” band:

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I told you I can’t make up my mind!

(image from here)

I won’t go into the gory details, but ever since I discovered my father’s copy of Panati’s Extraordinary Endings at the tender age of nine, Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen and I have had a ‘thing.’
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I had my first dress fitting yesterday. It was so wonderful to see my gown, all lovely and new (and wrinkled, bah), and intact.

I had my bustle pinned into three French points:

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Because of the long nature of our engagement (over a year), my mind has developed the unpleasant propensity for flip-flopping like a flap-jack over any and every decision.

Besides causing an inordinate amount of stress, my unflinchingly flakey mind has been responsible for some of the biggest wedding changes. Happily, many of these changes are for the better:

Example A: Deciding that a pastel palette would be inappropriate for an autumn affair

RESULT: New retro colour scheme!

Example B: Deciding that a dress bought off of eBay in a pique of post-engagement budgeting excitement probably wasn’t the one, if only because it, to quote youngest sister shortcake, “screamed 1980s”

RESULT: blowing the budget and buying a dress I loved.
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So far, my pre-wedding exercise regime has consisted of speed walking to and from work everyday. I walk at a brisk pace to my job, in order to get there early (or at least as the clock strikes), and I sprint home in order to avoid the clouds of Winnipeg-brand mosquitoes in the evening. I originally started walking to work (which is over 2 km away) so as to save money on bus passes, and have continued since then, as daily walking proved not only to be a wallet-saver, but a really, really good way of slimming down. To date, walking at least 4 km per day (with 8 km on double shifts days not being rare), has helped me to lose over ten pounds! This is such a welcome benefit, as working full-time has ‘prevented’ me from seriously sticking to any sort of fitness program. Walking so far everyday has also increased my endurance, and has decreased the number of tachycardiac episodes I experience every week. Hooray!
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Sometimes, when it’s almost midnight, and you still have twelve more hand sewn felted birds to make, dark little niggling thoughts can creep into your brain. Thoughts like,

“are these birds really and truly cute? are people just trying to humour me? will placing these birds in our twig and flower centrepieces be way over-the-top…are my little feathered friends…TACKY?”

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