First blog post. Not an interesting title.

I've never been the kind of girl to dream about her one-day wedding, and I think it's helping and hindering the process. It means that other than the man, my heart isn't set on any particular detail of the process, but it also means that every little thing is a decision I have to make, down to the color of cream for the invitations. Ugh.

There are so many details to consider, but my philosophy is to keep it simple, and to always keep in mind the kind of mood we want our wedding to set. We're not fancy people; we've joked about doing side-by-side keg stands at the reception. And though I doubt it will be as casual as that, I still want to avoid too much frouff.

We've been engaged almost a whole year now, but about a month ago I got an itch to start planning. So far we've looked at three places to hold the ceremony/reception (we want to be outside), and luckily we were able to rule out two of them fairly quickly.

The first was an easy decision: instead of the tour woman painting a lovely picture of how our wedding could be, she led us around the property and nitpicked the details of what we had to or could not do. The second place I fell in love with online, and it was just as gorgeous in person as in the pictures. I could imagine a beautiful wedding there, but it wasn't our wedding. The third place (which is actually the first we looked at) is nice, but has a lot of potential for a fun, casual party. Cole wants to keep looking though, to make sure we like it more than anywhere else. Ugh.