Another Wedding? Sheesh!

The problem with being one of the first people to get married among your friends is trying to set the bar high. The problem with getting married among wedding aficionados (people that go to weddings like it's their job) is making it unique enough to not have it fade away in their memory. Funny enough, I have both problems.

Not that it is an issue. Long ago I thought I wanted to be a wedding planner. I was planning events like crazy and loved it - not knowing that weddings were a whole other beast. So setting the bar high is kind of turning into my goal. Not that I am trying to compete with my wedding, I just want to make it so unique and so fun for our guests that we'll hear how much people appreciated it for years to come. Just because I have a ton of friends that get married later on, doesn't mean that I'll try to slip things by hoping they won't remember. We are planning this thing like it's the last wedding on earth.

Which leads to my other problem in trying to make it unique. I have a few friends that go to 8,9,or 10 weddings a summer. They are sick of seeing the standard fare and want something different. While I am not willing to forgo all traditions and some things will be the same as everyone else, we are adding in enough pizazz that I think people will be surprised at every corner. Yes, I will have a white strapless dress. Yes, I do have a solitaire engagement ring. Yes, my dad will walk me down the aisle. But I am getting married on a dude ranch for goodness' sake, so I think our guests will be happy especially my pro-wedding guest friends.

These problems aren't problems at all. I am taking these "challenges" as ways of making our friends and family more and more welcomed to the ranch, we are putting more and more effort into small projects that probably most people won't notice, and we are loving our wedding more and more everyday. It helps that I am unemployed, of course, but I'm enjoying it.