My De-Constructed Wedding

Hello!

I am so happy to be writing here in this little space! Like Jen, my husband and I were pretty clear on what we wanted the day to be like. What we didn't feel was necessary was not going to be included just because our celebration was called a "wedding".
I was introduced to world of wedding blogs and I did pick up wonderful tips and ideas from various sites, but we chose specific ideas because we both LOVED them and not simply because it was trendy. We didn't have favors which is practically blasphemy in the Latin culture and instead spent our money on Retro candy from our childhood. I did insist on a candy buffet, but my husband ended up loving it and half the guests at our wedding had never seen one before so imagine the look on my face when I was complimented on my "original" idea, hehe, yeah I basked in it but we all know that buffet was my something borrowed....
We did go against the grain in many parts of our wedding, we had not one but four "first dance"songs, we remixed our mother and father dance and had the crowd on its feet taking the spotlight away from us onto his mother and my grandfather doing the hustle and a mambo respectively. We also did stick to some traditions, I wanted my grandfather to walk me down the aisle and my dream came true :)

People still wonder why we got married on the 29th of February.

Why the 29th?
because that's the day we chose
But you will only celebrate your anniversary once every four years.
yeah so?
That's not right.
says who?
I don't know...
we don't celebrate our anniversary now and we have had EIGHT years to do so , why start now?
Yeah, but still...
If it will make you feel better we will try our hardest every year to celebrate on March 1st and February 28th, but you know, I'll expect two cards from you every year...
No, you can't do that either

{Here is where I would throw my hands up in the air in the beginning and then just smile and nod towards the end. Smile and nod.}

This conversation, almost verbatim, plagued us for months but we were happy as can be with the way it worked out and the 29th even fell on a Friday(read: DISCOUNT).

I currently have a blog, kugab.blogspot.com, it's a personal blog that allows me to talk about upcoming events: the trials, mock-ups, inspiration, colors, materials and flowers I will use. I love to show the process as well as the end result. Showing a bucket of flowers ready to be transformed into something beautiful that will be photographed and admired long after the flowers have wilted-it's simply the best!

I hope to share with you ideas, pictures, and designs that make my head spin and hopefully dispel the old roses and babies breath make a wedding nonsense(Unless your into that, then well, I'll have to figure out a way to make it modern and chic)

So I say- its your wedding, do what you want, go against the grain,be different, be happy, be you!

Anyhow,

till then :)

Brenda