Wedding Planning and Reality

Remember when you were younger and would watch wedding movies like My Best Friend's Wedding (Julie Roberts, Cameron Diaz) and think that a wedding like this was normal?!?!

Then, on that romantic, perfect day when the man you love gets down on one knee and opens a little box with a sparkly trinket, your mind begins to drift to the perfect dress and images of your dream wedding - after you catch your breath and say YES with tears and shaky legs, of course!

Then a few weeks later you get out a calculator, vow to never talk to your mom or fiance about wedding details and dollar signs because it is just too stressful. You also vow to absolutely never watch Say Yes to the Dress again (who has $10,000 for a dress?!?!). Honestly, I just want to steal their dress, sell it on eBay and feed the hungry for a few days.

Kyle and I planned on waiting two years from engagement to wedding. I am in two other weddings, have bachelorette parties to make special, and a few other things along the way (buying a house, for example). After some heavy outside pressure, we then decided to wait only one year - why not cram everything into 2010? We (I) went wedding planning crazy and booked everything in about 8 weeks. After my new job turned out to be not-so-hot and I left for a new opportunity and finally had some time to think, we realized this wedding I planned like someone was holding a gun to my head, while it would have been beautiful, was NOTHING like what we wanted. So - we canceled everything and got our money back! Mom was not so happy, but no Save the Dates had been sent so we were safe.

Now, in less than two weeks, we fly back to the 'scene of the crime' (the proposal) in San Francisco to plan the wedding we dreamed of. Small, pretty, in the place where Kyle and I had the happiest day of our lives is where our wedding will be. No tiered cake, no bouquet toss, no dollar dance - just Katy & Kyle's style turned into one wonderful day!