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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 426487" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>HAHA You always make me smile Star!!</p><p></p><p>Okay, so we're going budget, but not grungy. Does that help? lol</p><p></p><p>The men in the wedding party will be in tuxes. I will be wearing a very simple but traditional white gown. The females in the party will have floor length simple but elegant dark burgandy/maroon colored dressed. Seeing as it is also everybody else's new years eve celebration, we plan to do it formal. Give everyone a double reason to dress up and whoop it up. We do however also want a relaxed atmosphere. So formal in dress code and elegant tables, decorations. But the rest? We want it to be fun and relaxed and for everyone to just have a great time. We do plan to put out a midnight buffet, but about 11 instead of 12, and then bring out favors for ringing in the new year. </p><p></p><p>There won't be too many older people there, most will be middle aged. We will have a "teen table" for easy child and her "escort", and a few other family teens and their dates. We want something fun for them for when their eyes glaze over. So we're setting up a small karaoke section and bring rock band for them, there is a smaller room attached to the reception room that will be perfect and they can go in there whenever they like to fart around. </p><p></p><p>The hall already has some pretty amazing dj equipment as well as the karaoke system and a full bar type karaoke catalogue. We have a friend who is going to dj for us, she's great. No band or anything. My loud goofball friend will be our MC. He's a total drama king and funny as all get out and he'll be perfect and set the one hopefully for it to be fun. We do want the elegant look, but we're down to earth and we want people dancing, and lots and lots of laughing. Otherwise I'll feel it was a disaster. No serious faces allowed lol.</p><p></p><p>I can't say what our final "budget" would be. I don't think we have a real "budget" in mind. We just want nothing outrageous, we don't need all the bells and whistles and the absurd themes and costs associated with them.</p><p></p><p>We want the focus on us, our happiness of our special day, and on our loved ones. Given the small invitation list, everyone there will be very close family we enjoy and are very bonded and comfortable with, and dear friends that share in our every day lives. That should go a long way to helping it feel intimate and focused on the real reason we are there. Then about 11 p.m. we plan to switch the mood to feel new year's eve-y and festive and let everyone have a more traditional news years eve party feel. The thing is, we'd be with a lot of these people celebrating in a family fashion for new years anyhow lol. So it will really feel more like we're just having a family get together that we all are used to, with the added joy of us getting married.</p><p></p><p>S/O's family have seen him transform himself and his life and are so happy for him. They have a special place in their hearts for the baby of the family. He's sort of everybodies favorite. On my side, the family that WILL be invited, are the ones who have always known I'm there for them and in recent years have really been there for me with my MS diagnosis and this stuff with my father, and with deciding to remove my mother and brother from my life. I'm also the baby, other than the new generation which is MY kids lol. And one cousin who has a teen boy we all love. But to them all, I'm the baby. I know they have all wanted me to find real joy in my life and have seen me go through a lot since I was a child, and I doubt there will be many dry eyes. It will have that kind of vibe I'm very certain. Everyone knows the gift I believe S/O to be in our lives and for our family. And I know they view him that way too. Both families are warm and welcoming, the hug and kiss type, demonstrative and for some reason both sides seem to hyper focus on enjoying the S/O and me "grand love affair". I do believe it will be very romantic and the focus I do not want to be on some chintzy "pirates of panzance" theme or anything hahahahaha. It most definitely should demonstrate that this is a day that we will both remember, that my kids have wanted for a very long time. The symbolism of Matt giving me away will not leave many dry eyes let me just say. And easy child, my tomboy, can't wait to be my maid of honor and claim S/O as a "real" step father. So any thing that gets over the top will distract in my mind. </p><p></p><p>I love the idea of the tv slideshow Janet! The venue actually has plenty of screens to show them on as a matter of fact. </p><p></p><p>easy child is also going to play us a classical piece on keyboard at some point of my choosing throughout the night. </p><p></p><p>We will likely have the ceremony at about 5p.m. with dinner around 6:30 so that it isn't a whole day event. I also like the idea of it being dark outside, meaning the lighting inside can really set the mood without sun coming in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 426487, member: 4264"] HAHA You always make me smile Star!! Okay, so we're going budget, but not grungy. Does that help? lol The men in the wedding party will be in tuxes. I will be wearing a very simple but traditional white gown. The females in the party will have floor length simple but elegant dark burgandy/maroon colored dressed. Seeing as it is also everybody else's new years eve celebration, we plan to do it formal. Give everyone a double reason to dress up and whoop it up. We do however also want a relaxed atmosphere. So formal in dress code and elegant tables, decorations. But the rest? We want it to be fun and relaxed and for everyone to just have a great time. We do plan to put out a midnight buffet, but about 11 instead of 12, and then bring out favors for ringing in the new year. There won't be too many older people there, most will be middle aged. We will have a "teen table" for easy child and her "escort", and a few other family teens and their dates. We want something fun for them for when their eyes glaze over. So we're setting up a small karaoke section and bring rock band for them, there is a smaller room attached to the reception room that will be perfect and they can go in there whenever they like to fart around. The hall already has some pretty amazing dj equipment as well as the karaoke system and a full bar type karaoke catalogue. We have a friend who is going to dj for us, she's great. No band or anything. My loud goofball friend will be our MC. He's a total drama king and funny as all get out and he'll be perfect and set the one hopefully for it to be fun. We do want the elegant look, but we're down to earth and we want people dancing, and lots and lots of laughing. Otherwise I'll feel it was a disaster. No serious faces allowed lol. I can't say what our final "budget" would be. I don't think we have a real "budget" in mind. We just want nothing outrageous, we don't need all the bells and whistles and the absurd themes and costs associated with them. We want the focus on us, our happiness of our special day, and on our loved ones. Given the small invitation list, everyone there will be very close family we enjoy and are very bonded and comfortable with, and dear friends that share in our every day lives. That should go a long way to helping it feel intimate and focused on the real reason we are there. Then about 11 p.m. we plan to switch the mood to feel new year's eve-y and festive and let everyone have a more traditional news years eve party feel. The thing is, we'd be with a lot of these people celebrating in a family fashion for new years anyhow lol. So it will really feel more like we're just having a family get together that we all are used to, with the added joy of us getting married. S/O's family have seen him transform himself and his life and are so happy for him. They have a special place in their hearts for the baby of the family. He's sort of everybodies favorite. On my side, the family that WILL be invited, are the ones who have always known I'm there for them and in recent years have really been there for me with my MS diagnosis and this stuff with my father, and with deciding to remove my mother and brother from my life. I'm also the baby, other than the new generation which is MY kids lol. And one cousin who has a teen boy we all love. But to them all, I'm the baby. I know they have all wanted me to find real joy in my life and have seen me go through a lot since I was a child, and I doubt there will be many dry eyes. It will have that kind of vibe I'm very certain. Everyone knows the gift I believe S/O to be in our lives and for our family. And I know they view him that way too. Both families are warm and welcoming, the hug and kiss type, demonstrative and for some reason both sides seem to hyper focus on enjoying the S/O and me "grand love affair". I do believe it will be very romantic and the focus I do not want to be on some chintzy "pirates of panzance" theme or anything hahahahaha. It most definitely should demonstrate that this is a day that we will both remember, that my kids have wanted for a very long time. The symbolism of Matt giving me away will not leave many dry eyes let me just say. And easy child, my tomboy, can't wait to be my maid of honor and claim S/O as a "real" step father. So any thing that gets over the top will distract in my mind. I love the idea of the tv slideshow Janet! The venue actually has plenty of screens to show them on as a matter of fact. easy child is also going to play us a classical piece on keyboard at some point of my choosing throughout the night. We will likely have the ceremony at about 5p.m. with dinner around 6:30 so that it isn't a whole day event. I also like the idea of it being dark outside, meaning the lighting inside can really set the mood without sun coming in. [/QUOTE]
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