My Non-existent Wedding.

(Disclaimer to The Dizzle: Perhaps you shouldn't read this post as it contains many o' wedding talk. Consider yourself warned.)

It's happened.

I've become the creepy girlfriend who has created a Pinterest Board on wedding stuff when an actual wedding is nowhere in my near future.

And I've even titled it, "My Non-Existent Wedding."

I don't know what's come over me. I feel like this seems so sad and pathetic.

But I can't help it! I'm at the age now where weddings and engagements are happening at every corner! I mean, basically every week I can guarantee that Facebook will be updating me on yet another engagement or wedding that has taken place. Just this week at work, I heard several high-pitched squeals from an entire department as one girl showed off her newly acquired bling that was given to her the night before. On a picnic. At sunset. If you must know.

It's all around me and it just won't stop!

What is it with women and weddings? What's with all the fascination? How have we come to this place in society where this one day has erupted into something so ginormous? It's no longer just walk down the aisle, say 'I do,' and be on your merry way. It's now all about the dress, the flowers, the decor, the music, the drinks, the food, the location, the party favors, the photo booth, the photographer, the videographer, the DJ, and so on and so forth!

The other week, I sat, mouth agape, as two friends were telling me the difference in chairs. CHAIRS! Like - the thing you sit on while you eat at a reception and never think twice about as a guest? Before that conversation, I never would have thought twice about chairs being a thing. I would have just been like, "Yes. Yes I would like chairs for people to sit on, thank you and good day." But now it's like, Chiavari, what?? And that costs HOW MUCH?!

You see, friends, I'm a little bit torn.

Thing is, since I was little, I always dreamed of having a beautiful, elaborately planned wedding that was magical and deemed wedding of the year!! But, truth be told, as I'm getting older, I'm also very tempted to just hop on a plane, climb to the top of a volcano in Bali, or something equally as cool, say our vows, and be on our merry way. Or, ya know, I could court house it too. No fuss. No hassle. Just a special day for me and my love to make this commitment together and who cares if there's steak or chicken or a buffet involved and maybe there won't even be a single chair in sight!?

Sooooo, TELL MY WHY, just yesterday, I somehow spent an embarrassingly long time looking through someone's online wedding album. Someone who I have not seen nor spoken to in over 4 years. I've never met his wife. We were barely friends as it is. And yet, there I was, spending way more time than I'd like to admit, scrolling through photo after photo of their dream wedding. I mean, really.

And now look at me.... A Pinterest Board?!

It's quite baffling to me. And here I am, writing this long-ass blog post about weddings, when, like I said, it's not even something that needs to be worried about in the slightest! Do you see a ring on this finger?! No.

But, I guess I'm just curious...

So - - To all you married ladies (or want to be/soon to be married ladies) out there: What kind of wedding did you have and would you change anything if you had to do it all over again? Is a big hype of a day, costing 10's of thousands of dollars worth it? Or is something low-key just as great and memorable?

Ready. Set. Go!

xoxo