staging a wedding
The past weeks had been a never-ending search for a wedding caterer, photographer and whatnot. I was telling myself everything would have been easier if our prospects (vendors) won’t have to subject to 3 important qualifications:
1. That they deliver good-quality service.
2. That they fit our budget.
3. That they deliver good-quality service and fit our budget.
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Seriously, a budget wedding is so damn easy to achieve. All that one really needs to get married is an officiating personnel, the rings, some witnesses and a partner. It’s actually the dream that complicates everything. And it’s when we get so mired in our fairy-tale ideas that wedding preparations became what seems to be a never-ending period of madness.
We’re sweating that small stuff because, yes, dream weddings are made up of those teeny, weeny bit of details. If we didn’t get the right color. If the ribbons were tied differently. If the band played the wrong song.
I got lost in the trappings of my own dream wedding that I failed to see the essence of it all. I had to pause, step back and look at the wider picture. I had to stop looking behind rose-colored eyes.
I want OUR wedding (not mine alone) to celebrate us. Not stage us. Yes, that is my dream.
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Did anyone fits the bill? No one did and I think I’m going crazy.
