Wedding Buzz Slowdown

So after a furious few weeks of wedding enthusiasm and planning and choosing and selecting all the fantastic nitty gritty details, MrT and I have done very very little in the way of wedding planning of late. (Okay correction: we came up with a few Genius Ideas about how to make the wedding more US-ish and less generic-wedding-ish ... but it's a secret - the wedding gremlins might steal the ideas)

We started off so terribly excited and we went trotting through venues and wedding diaries and catalogues and price schedules. We made selections on venue and menu and photographer and cake and flowers and theme and colours. But the concept of the cost of it all becomes really overwhelming stressful. I put on my big girl pants and accepted that my parents aren't being withholding and mean but that they really just don't want to spend frivolous money unnecessarily. (Not that we asked for frivolous money... yet)

Then I delved into wedding dress shopping on a very cursory level. I watched one of my betrothed best friends try on some dresses for herself. I accessed every wedding dress website advertised in my SA local bride’s catalogue. And the result was far less than inspiring; it was more of a boggy disappointment. I am heartbroken that the nice dresses are three times the price of what I want to spend and the ones that are in my price range, are honestly a little bit ugly and out of fashion by half a decade. (Does anyone else want to wear a dress that looks like it was made out of lace table cloths, a ton of pearlish beads and a glue gun?)

So I found a happy place in my head to deal with Wedding Dress Stuff (until I have time to find a suitable solution) I browse all the Really designer wedding dresses (the kind that I would never consider even asking for the price for) and I fantasise about the idea of if I lived in a world where a dress costing the same price as a small car would be nothing. It's like shopping for real estate by looking at buying a castle in Scotland or Bavaria. We don't really want to own a historical land mark but it's nice to think about. I don't really need a Vera Wang wedding dress but gosh, that woman makes a fine white dress.

We will regain momentum soon enough but for now I need a solid break from reality and a little happy time in the 8 year old princess dream land.

Send on the Cinderella pictures! (Castle pictures accepted too)