Then I had to ask myself, "Ok self, if you're SO fine with being single, why do you have a whole pinboard devoted to your wedding on pinterest?"
Oh. You got me.
Actually, I have a perfectly good reason for that. I didn't ever play wedding as a kid. Maybe it had to do with me being an only child? Or thinking boys had cooties until the 5th grade. Probably both.
When I hit BYU, I got this wonderful curse of ALWAYS having an engaged roommate. Some engaged people are lovely, and some show their happiness in disgusting proportions. And some of the engaged people you never see because they're always off doing... something. Ew. But they are all happy, and that's something you want to achieve, right?
Planning a wedding on pinterest is just like planning for a long-term goal you've set. That way when the diamond comes, you can enjoy getting to know each other better rather than having to plan the biggest event of your lives. Some things will need to be figured out at the time of the wedding, but the details like colors, decorations, flowers etc. are very easy to decide on ahead of time. (I can point you to a Sister Dalton talk about deciding now rather than later, except that had to do with rules to set for yourself, not weddings. Bummer.)
And, it's really fun to imagine the day you will be able to dress up like a princess with your prince charming by your side. Because girls don't get to play dress up that often after we get out of 2nd grade, and we like showing our inner princess off once in a while.
I think you are really smart to do as much planning as possible now. When I was engaged I could care less about what people were going to wear and what kind of flowers we had. There were a few random things I knew I really wanted, but the rest was just kind of annoying. So keep up the Pinterest board because it's way more fun now than when you'd rather be out on a date with "the one". :)
ReplyDeleteAnd congrats on deciding where you're going! Best of luck!
I agree. I gave myself a hard time for wanting to dwell on my future wedding before I had any prospects. Once I actually became engaged I was wishing I had planned a little more. It was harder to plan a wedding than I thought. The few decisions I did make before I got engaged helped me tremendously, and made things easier for me. I definitely wish I had planned more. Heck, I wish I would have planned a wedding for every season (I always envisioned getting married in spring and that didn't happen, it was the one thing that I couldn't quite control).
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