Finally wedding preparations started

So, finally after going through a lot of websites, wedding blogs and talking to friends and relatives, I have starting getting some ideas for my wedding decorations. I have written down certain ideas which are in very nascent stage ofcourse. Some of them, I have already discussed with Vish and as usual he agrees with me :-)

Let me scribble them here. I may change them as we go on.

RING
Lets start with the most important one. THE RING. I always wanted a 3 diamond ring even though Vish likes a solitaire but Vish has gladly agreed to buy me a three diamond ring. You wont believe how happy I am. For himself, he wanted a simple yet elegant band. Something like attached photos.






CEREMONY
I want my ceremony in a beautiful park. A lush green park having fountains, rivers, bridges, pathways and a nice free flowing waterfall. Maybe it is too much for asking but Vish has promised he would try his best to arrange that.

FLOWERS
I want my wedding to be black and white with a tinge of pink here and there. I am still thinking about my bouquet, bridesmaid bouquets and for Vish. I will write about it sometime later when I have made up my mind.

CAKE
I have been looking for wedding cakes information in books and internet. And I think I have decided. I always imagined wedding cakes to be tiered, white and with ribbons. I have always wanted a 3 tiered cake. A fresh vanilla cake with strawberry center, white icing with black and pink ribbons. A few flowers matching my bouquet surrounding the cake on the table. Wow, I am getting good at imagining things. :-)

CAKE TABLE
I want a carriage made up of white and hot pink balloons. This carriage will surround the cake table. I am sure, it will look very cute. The cake table itself will have filled up with pink rose petals, thick but small candles around the cake. As I mentioned earlier, cake will be a 3 tiered vanilla cake.





MONOGRAM
I would like to create our monogram myself. Something stylish and elegant. It would have initials of me and Vish on either side and a bigger 'B' (our next common surname) in pink in the center background. I will post the picture of the first one hen I create it. Right now, it is in my mind. I am very excited about doing this myself.

OK, I will put a stop here for now. I am putting too much strain on my mid. So many things are going on in my mid simultaneously. I have though of so many things yet a lot of thing are still pending like dresses for me, Vish and bridesmaids, transportation, favors, my hair styles, guest list etc etc.. The list seems endless. Even though I have 6 months, still I feel I am short of time. I will post more tomorrow or day after.

- Steph.

After the Proposal

Welcome back to my wedding blog.

When the proposal sinked in and I came back to my senses, I started to panic. The excitement started to turn into a scary feeling. I had so many questions in my mind doing rounds that I could not even start to explain. A few of these questions were:
What type of wedding do I want?
What will be the budget of my wedding?
Where - a beach, a church, at a farm house or somewhere else?
What will I wear?
What type of wedding decorations?
What will be the color of my wedding?
How many guests will we invite?
What about wedding favors?
Wedding flowers, wedding cake, wedding song, wedding invitations, wedding vows...

This list just kept on growing and the worst part was I didn't even know what I don’t know. Meaning is there any else which is not even on my list which ought to be there. I was on the brink on nervous breakdown. I had no clue how was I going to manager all these. Since I am the kind of person who would like everything to be perfect, therefore I wanted to take care of even the smallest of things on my own. I have been talking constantly to Tracy who doing her best to calm me down.

I took control of myself one fine morning, got hold of my laptop and started researching. One search on google about wedding planning and found so much on internet. I have not been that internet savvy there not aware of the almost infinite options available on internet. I have to admit that I was a bit overwhelmed looking at the options. There are so many websites selling almost everything related to wedding be it wedding decorations, wedding cakes or some of them doing A to Z planning related to a wedding. Some of them provide a lot of useful information and others sell everything you could possible need right from wedding dresses to decoration material. They will even do all the decorations. After reading for a couple of days, I am much relieved. This is not gonna be that difficult as I thought it would be.

Now, let me get down and chose a wedding planner according to my need. I have to zero in on someone reliable and who can understand my vision of my wedding. Give me a couple of days and I will be back with more…

- Steph.

The Proposal

Its great that I found about this website. I have been itching to write about this oh so great new experience of mine ad have been looking for a good platform which is easy to use and has a large community base. I went through a few blogs on blogger and was even more encouraged to start my own. It is so beautiful to read post of other girls going through the same experience. I know it would be great to share thoughts and get great new ideas.

OK, enough of 'how i started this blog'. Let me start the actual blog by writing the first one and you cant even imagine how excited I am.

THE PROPOSAL - WOW This is the what which comes to my mind instantly when I hear this word. When I used to think about proposal, I used to image the perfect pose man on one knee with a beautiful diamond ring in one hand and asking the question 'Will you marry me?' And man did the same thing happen to me or what.

Vish popped the question just a day before the valentine day. And that too in front of my parents. We have been going around for months and I could see it coming from his behavior for last couple of days. I was hoping he would asked on V-day. But when he asked one day before I was caught off-guard. I had no option but to say YES YES YES. I had never thought of any other answer to him anyway. When In asked why he chose that day, he told that he wanted our V-day to be special with me as his official bride-to-be. And believe me, I am happy about that.

It took me a coupe of minutes to come back to my sense (which actually felt like years..), there was a plethora of things which started going in my mind. How will the wedding take place, where, how will the wedding decoration be, where will we go for our honeymoon, what dress will I wear and GOD knows what all. But then I calmed myself down and first thing I did was to call Tracy (my best friend). She was so very happy to hear my news...

OK, I think this is enough for my first post. I didn't realize that I have been blabbering so much.