The Very Bloggy Wedding

At some point you have to trying to put things in order and focus instead on celebrating the wacky, cooky spot you are standing in today. In a world of First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, After Sanctifying Marriage Under The Law Comes A  Legitimate Baby In A Baby Carriage it seems we missed the memo. One baby and several years later, the wedding just now occurred to us. And because the Big (little) Day should be a reflection of the couple’s personality, we are embracing the absurd and celebrating all things odd and unique. True to our love of creativity, it was the perfect choice to have YOU, The Ramblings’ readers, plan our little Love Party.

How does this work?

Good question. It seems no bride is insane (or genius?) enough to have tested these bloggy waters before. Weekly I will feature a post allowing you to vote for your favorite option of the day (colors, invitations, best songs to watch your dad drunk-dance to, etc.).  Check this page to follow the wedding plans as they come together! Creativity is key, so a little poll here and there won’t nearly do the trick. Each Bloggy Wedding post is also an open forum for your ideas, stories from memorable weddings past, and your always funny comment banter.

Here is some insight into how chronic heartburn turned into a baby, a proposal, and a very wacky idea for planning a wedding via blog!

THE VERY BLOGGY WEDDING…. SO FAR

Date: April, 2012

Location: Aerial Nashville: Rooftop venue overlooking Broadway.

Color Scheme: Readers voted for icy blue + orangey red

 Readers help with Wedding-In-A-Word: a personalized banner featuring readers’ words to summarize marriage. While “Life Over” didn’t quite make the cut, you all offered so many other fantastic words to help describe The Big (little) Day!

The Basic Concept

 Plus your lovely input…

{Just a taste}

Bloomin’ Boots courtesy of Kathy @ Reinventing The Event Horizon & Reader, Britney P. will act as funky, Southern centerpieces on some of the tables.

Vintage Nashville postcards will act as (cheapy, cheapy, McCheapy Pants) fun Save The Date cards for guests!

Reader’s chose Fabric Stencil custom PDF invitations from Amy Adams at {a} Printables: 

I botched the vote so the Runner Up Winningest Loser Fabric for those invitations was (kind of) chosen by readers, too!

YUM. Readers select the Country-Goes-Modern menu from Nashville’s own Bacon & Caviar Catering! 

Coretta from Stella & Dot comes bearing bling. Readers style my bridesmaids pretty!

For an inexpensive pop of color, we will feature a ribbon installation deemed the “Wonder Wall” at our wedding. Ramblings readers can send in small notes, photos, doodles (NO to anthrax or boxes containing live things. A big ol’ YES to unmarked 100 dollar bills) & be a part of the littlest Big Day:

Tori Nelson

PO Box 11241

Jackson, TN

38308

The fantastically crafty Autumn will make custom fabric bouquets that I can keep in my house and drool over… Oh, and carry down the aisle. Readers voted for the Funkified Frilly look from the Etsy shop AutumnArt!

This week the great Bridal Registry Debate is up for discussion (or…err… debation). I think it’s weird to ask for too much from guests, and I’m very confused why folks don’t appreciate the delicious humor and economical sense in registering for a lifetime’s supply of bacon. Nom.

Readers got their votes hijacked when I picked my own WEDDING DRESS. The nerve of me! Boo!

But spirits quickly lifted when you all decided you liked my bargain bin/ clearance tagged Vera Wang discount dress. Yay!

It’s a cheapy cheap masterpiece is what it is.

Then the lovely Rachel from Lovely Day Hair & Makeup stopped by for some glitter & lip glossy fun. You voted for a Bloggy Wedding Beehive with Retro Red Light makeup and took me from this:

Don’t be alarmed. This is my normal look. Ok. Be alarmed

to THIS!

Sassy Mama

Perfectly fitting for a celebration centered around sweetness, Shelby from TooTall Designs lent her mad baking skills to our little wedding. Readers kept with a festive-Southern-retro-whimsical-edgy-what’s-our-theme-again-? style and a Red Velvet (with cream cheese frosting), Ruffled cake will grace the sweets table (err, umm, my belly) come wedding day!

What’s all this planning for without stellar pictures to remember this special day? The coolest (and only) Swede I know, Celi Mosley of Celi Mosely Photography & Media offers her expert eye to capture every last reader-voted detail!

And no Music City wedding would be complete without some music, y’all. Talented performed, Dakota Jay swooped in with banjo in hand to bring the funk (and country and 90s alt. rock and maybe some Doo Wop, too). Beyond his twangy voice and killer guitar riffs, Dakota won us over with his knows-no-bounds set list options. Find me another cowboy who’ll sing TLC’s r&b hit “Scrubs”. I dare you.

Last week readers got a thrilling sneak peek of all of those hard-cast wedding votes put into action. This is also known as The One Time Tori Crafted Without Killing Things. Behold! With Amy Adams’s genius design help, I made invitations that were not altogether awful!

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Thanks for the wedding, y’all.

 

We done got hitched!

For those of you up North, this translates to “Why yes, kind sir, we did indeed vow marital union to one another. Good day!” or… um, something like that. On April 14th, 2012 high above the hustle and bustle of Nashville’s Broadway Avenue, months and months of reader votes, ideas, and contributions came together to create one amazing wedding. From table decor to the bridal ‘do, invitations to bridesmaids’ bling, Ramblings readers chose it all and proved that planning the best wedding really is a labor of love. For those of you who tuned in and cast your votes or for those of you just stopping by all clueless and WTF?-like, here are some recaps from this uniquely wonderful day:

Celi & Her Camera

Ceremonious Maximus

Music In The Music City

Yums & More Yums

Two Receptionists & A Reception

Guest of Honor: Meeting A Blogging Friend For The 1st Time… On My Wedding Day

Deanna Does Details: Creatively Cheap Ideas Every Bride Should Steal

    With a boat load of ingenuity from a bunch of bloggers, our small budget wedding was more than we could’ve asked for!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!