It's the most iconic image in your wedding album and a picture of the very symbol for forever. However the details in the "wedding ring" shot can be a sweet reminder of your unique celebration. Check out these creative and charming ring shots!
photo by Danielle Mousley
Anyone who has been engaged can relate to the excitement and joy of having made the decision to marry their very best friend. For the first few weeks you are consumed with endless expressions of joy from friends and family. You've showed the ring and recalled the "how it happened story" too many times to count. But, once you've updated your Facebook status to "engaged" it's time to face the reality that you have a wedding in your future. SO many factors to consider! You start sketching out a guest list which quickly adds up into the hundreds. You start to perouse wedding photographers' websites to learn the smallest photo package starts at $3000. You learn that what sets your wedding date is the availability of a venue, which by the way isn't until next year sometime. All you want to do is wake up to your new husband or wife and start the next chapter of your lives. Fear not. Perhaps it is time to take into consideration...Eloping! In this "Top Ten Reasons" list, you will find you are not alone. Less money, less complicated, more intimacy are our thoughts exactly.
Check out the best reasons to elope!
In an attempt to offer a wide range of perspectives on small weddings and elopements, I will be featuring a real wedding on Wednesdays. What is fascinating to me about real couples who decide to celebrate their wedding by eloping or going the intimate route, is how unique and personal these celebrations are. Each one is so uniquely different from the other. It’s like when you strip away all the tried and true traditions of a big wedding, all that is left is very personal, very honest, and very you.
Today’s real wedding is extra awesome in that Mountain Side Bride was able to get a personal interview with the bride herself. It is so refreshing to hear her honest feelings about their small and intimate wedding celebration. Complete with hindsight advice, this bride tells it like it is. So for all those couples who struggle with their visions of a smaller wedding, you may find the courage and resolve you are looking for with a little help from Chelsea and her groom Nate.
How to Elope with Style and Verve | Real Hindsight Advice
I love this clip from Portlandia (heck I just love Portlandia). I see shades of the show’s cultural color right here in my home town KC. Which is why a Portlandia wedding fits right in - well maybe not quite to this extent. Although this couple starts off with plans of never-before-done-in-a-wedding, the end result remains the same. (Spoiler alert!) They get married! (see Portlandia Cool Wedding for the entire episode). It seems that weddings today don’t rate if your personal stamp isn’t on it. Pinterest is flooded with those same never-before-done-in-a-wedding ideas that everyone is doing, even The Vow Exchange to a certain extent. But just as Spyke and Iris learn, it doesn’t matter if your guests are seated in a scatter with Dad off in a corner, at the end of the day you are married to the one who matters most. What makes this day so memorable is how much love you feel for your new husband or wife. Believe me when I say that it is your love that is the best thing never-before-done-in-a-wedding.
Anyone who has been engaged can relate to the excitement and joy of having made the decision to marry their very best friend. For the first few weeks you are consumed with endless expressions of joy from friends and family. You've showed the ring and recalled the "how it happened story" too many times to count. But, once you've updated your Facebook status to "engaged" it's time to face the reality that you have a wedding in your future. SO many factors to consider! You start sketching out a guest list which quickly adds up into the hundreds. You start to perouse wedding photographers' websites to learn the smallest photo package starts at $3000. You learn that what sets your wedding date is the availability of a venue, which by the way isn't until next year sometime. All you want to do is wake up to your new husband or wife and start the next chapter of your lives. Fear not. Perhaps it is time to take into consideration...Eloping! In this "Top Ten Reasons" list, you will find you are not alone. Less money, less complicated, more intimacy are our thoughts exactly.
