Last Splash

The gene pool could use a little Chlorine.

So, I've discovered what my new favorite thing in the world it...registering for a wedding. Come one, it's like shopping except I don't have to spend any money. It sounds totally obnoxious of me, but I'm getting sucked into it like it's some kind of underground world that only "brides and grooms to be" get invited to party at. And I HATE being a bride to be on most days. Any time another newly engaged bride meets me, I want to run away to keep from getting sucked into all the fake "are you getting married here in town" questions that are really just meant to be like "oh, Caffe' Luna, that's a nice place for a reception, we're having ours at the Fearrington House...ha ha ha...mine is a FOUR star restaurant" bullshit. They act like we're supposed to be all bonded for life now because we're in that "special time" in our lives. I've gotten about, um, 3 1/2 things done, bought a new car, had a few breakdowns about buying a wedding dress, started a diet, and besides that and finding bridesmaids dresses for incredibly cheap, my wedding planning is at exactly the same place it was 2 1/2 months ago. I don't have a DJ or a cake or invitations or flowers...and I really don't know where the money is going to come from to pay for those things other than credit cards...I start most conversations with my fiance' or bridesmaids with "because I'm cheap, we're going to just do this..." and then explain about ordering flowers online to make bouquets, only having candles for centerpieces, and buying ourselves a nice shiny new video camera to record the wedding ceremony, because we'll be making a future investment and be able to take it on our honeymoon and have it when babies come out, etc...instead of paying the same amount for some guy in a tux to eat my reception food and set our wedding DVD to some cheesy Celine Dion music.

But I digress so...back to the registry...I feel like I could decorate the new house we won't be buying for a year with my registry...dishes, table linens (but not tablecloths because we don't know what size...) centepiece bowls, towels, patio furniture, rugs...the list is endless. It's so exciting. Dishes and barware especially. Our entire collection of glassware consists of NCSU plastic cups we stole from games and the free wine glasses you get when you go to a tasting. I have one nice set of traditional pint glasses that will stay, and I might keep my multi colored plastic IKEA glasses because sometimes you just need that, but the rest of that shit is gone! And, you know that one pattern of Pfaltzgraff that EVERYBODY YOU'VE EVER KNOWN has owned? You know the one, kind of dark-cream-oatmeal colored with the brown fleur-de-lis like thingy in the middle? Well, we have a hodgepodge of 2 sets of those...his parents before the divorce and my grandmothers (that belonged to an older cousin before me). Can I tell you how glad I will be to see those go? Whew...I cannot wait! So far, we've totally agreed on everything except flatware. Oh well, you can't win them all! I'm starting to wish we could register for interior paint and curtains and faucet fixtures, but that's going a little overboard. And all of this from a girl that didn't know if she wanted to register at all because we already had enough cookware!

posted by: Cannonball14 at 16:23 | link | comments (7) |
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#1  24 March 2006 - 01:29

 

I'm waiting for the post where you list your registry and an addy where we can send everything. Just remember us Mo'Time folk are a poor group! ;-)

Windhazel

#2  24 March 2006 - 16:27

 

I don't think you have to worry about that! If I didn't invite you to the wedding, then I certainly don't expect a gift! Actually, we don't expect gifts from anyone, but people love us so we may as well pick stuff out.

Cannonball14

#3  26 March 2006 - 03:22

 

Wait a second! Now I'm not invited to the wedding?! :-O I thought maybe you were just waiting to send out my invitation!

Windhazel

#4  28 March 2006 - 15:35

 

Wait...I have to send invitations? I thought since I was in the South I could just tell my aunt and everyone would show up at the right time and place!!!

Cannonball14

#5  29 March 2006 - 02:35

 

Is that how they get by without invitations in the South? :)

Cannonball, you can register for whatever you want or whatever you might think you'll need. I think bridal registeries are great so that I have an idea what to get someone and it also makes for fewer duplicates provided that the registery system is working properly to keep it up to date. :)

Where did you find your bridesmaid dresses if you don't mind me asking. My friend is getting married this fall and I am in her wedding. We are supposed to look at bridesmaid dresses this weekend. She doesn't want us to have to spend a lot of money. Of course she said the same line that I hear all the time, "I want to find a dress that you'll be able to wear again." Seriously, where would I ever wear a bridesmaid dress again, especially the ones that are prom dress like? To go grocery shopping? Take the dog for a walk?

AdventureSpice

#6  29 March 2006 - 04:03

 

CB - Where does your aunt blog so I can find my invitation to your wedding? ;-)

Windhazel

#7  29 March 2006 - 14:47

 

WH- I think I will call you bunny. It sounds enough like "buddy" and seeing as how you have a thing for rabbits...My aunt is a lady in her fifties from the SOUTH...she doesn't blog!!! I think she's got AOL, though.

Spice- Nordstrom. I was looking online and found a style I like for $138, and when I went to the store it was on the sale rack for 1/2 price. Every one of my bridesmaids has said she would wear it again, and Nordstrom has FANTASTIC customer service...they have an automated system where they enter what sizes they need transferred in and when they all get to the store we go buy them. And they shipped my best friend's dress to her $5 (she's a Yankee, and therefore does not live here).

Cannonball14

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