Planning a wedding....mine!

Ronni said:
@Linda part of the reason I started this thread was to keep adding to it as the plans evolve. It'll be fun to have a sort of timeline of everything. We've talked a bit about a honeymoon, and other than both planning to take a full week off work, we haven't decided on a destination yet, though we've talked about Hawaii, a cruise, Jamaica. Ron is going to book the Honeymoon Suite in the Opryland hotel for our wedding night, which is one of the premier hotels in Nashville, and then we'll take off for our honeymoon next day.
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Since you both love to dance, find a honeymoon place where you can compete in a dance competition. I know, it's probably not doable for the Oct 17 timeline. I have no idea what I'm talking about. :unsure: Or how about a river cruise? I'll never go, so would be able to enjoy it vicariously through you two.
 
Sounds like this will be the WEDDING of the year in your
part of the Country.

I hope it all goes as well as the planning is and you have
a great time, you will certainly have a musical one.

Congratulations.

Mike.
 
Here's a dress you DON'T want:
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There must be a wild story behind THAT choice!
About your honeymoon choices:
I've been to Jamaica, on cruises, and to Hawaii. I recommend Hawaii, either Maui, the Big Island, or Kauaʻi. NOT O'ahu, though~too many people, not enough to do. Humpback whale season starts in November, so you may spot some breaching in mid October. Each island has it's own charming places to visit. They all have beautiful beaches, luaus, waterfalls, rain forests, great sunset locations, good restaurants, and tropical gardens. Only the big island has active volcanoes. Trip advisor can help to find things to do there.
If you choose a cruise, get a balcony room.
The best caribbean islands I've visited are; Antigua, St. Vincent, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, and any private island that the cruise lines offer.
Best wishes to you both. This is so exciting, starting a new chapter in your lives.
 
Catlady said:
Since you both love to dance, find a honeymoon place where you can compete in a dance competition. I know, it's probably not doable for the Oct 17 timeline. I have no idea what I'm talking about. :unsure: Or how about a river cruise? I'll never go, so would be able to enjoy it vicariously through you two.
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I'd be down for that, but Ron not so much I don't think. He's a newer dancer while I've been dancing for a long time and he gets a bit intimidated. Don't need that on a honeymoon, y'know? ;)

Duster said:
Here's a dress you DON'T want:
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There must be a wild story behind THAT choice!
About your honeymoon choices:
I've been to Jamaica, on cruises, and to Hawaii. I recommend Hawaii, either Maui, the Big Island, or Kauaʻi. NOT O'ahu, though~too many people, not enough to do. Humpback whale season starts in November, so you may spot some breaching in mid October. Each island has it's own charming places to visit. They all have beautiful beaches, luaus, waterfalls, rain forests, great sunset locations, good restaurants, and tropical gardens. Only the big island has active volcanoes. Trip advisor can help to find things to do there.
If you choose a cruise, get a balcony room.
The best caribbean islands I've visited are; Antigua, St. Vincent, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, and any private island that the cruise lines offer.
Best wishes to you both. This is so exciting, starting a new chapter in your lives.
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Good Lord that's hideous!!! I agree with you about Hawaii. I've been a few times, and I think my favorite island is Kauai...it's not as touristy and a bit more laid back, but with all the amenities of the larger more commercial islands.

Good tip about the balcony room, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
 
I'm really struggling with what to wear. I don't want a traditional wedding gown/ball gown affair, nor a veil. Not my thing and not at all in keeping with the informality I'm going for. I do want something festive/pretty/different, but I'm all over the map about what that would actually look like. Someone mentioned a tutu, which I've seriously considered!!! 🤣

Here are a several I've bookmarked. None are quite right, all are different from each other. I can't even really settle on a particular theme or look right now.

Love the shoulder detail....I wear a lot of cold shoulder items, because I have those bicep tattoos y'know? so this would really show them off. But the rest of it is a bit too formal for me.
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Love this one...the sleeves and neckline are lovely. And it doesn't look like a wedding dress either. But it's online only, and there are no returns or exchanges because it's clearance. I've searched EVERYWHERE for an outlet for the same dress where I can return it but no luck. So what do I do if I don't like it on? Or it doesn't fit right? I'm prepared to do some alterations, but there's only so much a seamstress can do before it's more plausible to just go up or down a size.
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I like that this is so different. But I'm thinking it's a bit costumy looking. On the other hand, I love that I can buy matching bootie shoes and the choker with this corset dress
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What a wonderful, talented family you have! Your plans sound fantastic! Good thing you still have a bit of time to find your wedding outfit. Wishing you and Ron the very best.
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Firstly congratulations to you both
Are you tallish ? @Ronni I’d think what ever dress / outfit you decide on it will be beautiful

We to are Ballroom dancers ( social ) we mainly do new vogue with a bit of old time sequence dances thrown in. Hence my avatar
 
I am so very glad I had no responsibility for planning my own wedding when I was 19. My mother did it all, my only request was that the wedding dressing had no frills or flounces, which I would have hated. It was elegant but not OTT. We had loads of guests but very few were people I knew they were mostly friends or acquaintances of my parents. I just wanted to get the whole thing over and done with, and move to the UK, my husband is English.
 
pleinmont said:
I am so very glad I had no responsibility for planning my own wedding when I was 19. My mother did it all, my only request was that the wedding dressing had no frills or flounces, which I would have hated. It was elegant but not OTT. We had loads of guests but very few were people I knew they were mostly friends or acquaintances of my parents. I just wanted to get the whole thing over and done with, and move to the UK, my husband is English.
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Well the vast majority of the guests are folks we both know, and so we'll be surrounded by friends and family. I'm not a frills person either (though I've discovered that "no frills" means different things to different people) so I've started to refer to the way I want things as "untraditional" or "relaxed" or "informal" to convey the idea.

Most weddings, at least first weddings, tend to be more formal affairs, which is fine because up to that point it's typically the most important event in two people's lives. But that formality just isn't for me. And not just weddings either. I mean, I'm just not a formal person. I don't entertain formally either. If we have people over for dinner, It's a sit around the kitchen or propped up against the counter kind of get together.
 
Ronni said:
We definitely think alike @Wren! Those hemlines in the dresses you posed are hi low, and that's just what I'm looking for!
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Pleased you like it Ronnie, not quite a tutu but still, a bit different, I just thought, with your colouring a deeper colour might suit you better than cream or pastel shades, are you wearing anything on your head ?

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Wren said:
Pleased you like it Ronnie, not quite a tutu but still, a bit different, I just thought, with your colouring a deeper colour might suit you better than cream or pastel shades, are you wearing anything on your head ?

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Those are called fascinator hats I've discovered, and yes, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for! I've actually ordered a couple already, just to get a sense of how big, how they sit on my head etc. I'll be sending the ones I ordered back now that I have a better idea of what I want, as I've discovered I want something a bit bigger, but not as high, if that makes any kind of sense!

I have an appointment with my alterations gal for Friday, for me to try on the dress I ordered and see what she can do with it. It's the corset dress I posted earlier. It fits well and I love it! but I want to make the bodice less fussy, remove some of the lace and flounces, remove the shoulder straps and replace them with a full sleeve of either lace or netting, close fitting and ending at a point to cover the top of my hand.

@Wren, while I agree with you about the color of the dress, I decided to go with the champagne color because I want my ink to stand out, and also because I'll be putting turquoise highlights in my hair, and I don't want to have to try and coordinate dress and hair color lol!!

I just found out Ron's brother in law is a minister, and he's been doing weddings for years!!!! I am SO happy about that! I was stressing about an officiant. I didn't want to just pick someone out of the phone book, but it looked like I was going to have to do that anyway. Then Robin, Ron's sister reached out and asked me who we were using, and one thing led to another and now I'm emailing back and forth with him talking about the ceremony, and he's going to give me suggestions on wording the vows etc, which was yet another thing on my ridiculously long wedding to-do list!!
 

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