WedLog

Yes, I stole the Title from East Side Bride.

She’s hilarious and blunt and I love her.  I, however, am not really all that outraged that someone posted a photo shoot in a “real weddings” section on a blog.  Because, seriously, have you seen the other “real weddings” in the blogosphere?  Come on!  So maybe they aren’t technically photo shoots for magazines and stuff, but seriously.  “Real weddings” that get featured on most blogs are basically indistinguishable from photo shoots.  Case(s) in point - the pictures below from Style Me Pretty and Southern Weddings Magazine.

Sure, I admit that I like to peruse the posts for elements I might incorporate into my wedding, but let’s be blunt.  If it looks like a photo shoot, and feels like a photo shoot, and was staged, lit, shot, and edited by a professional photographer then how is it not a photo shoot?  Seems to me that it was a photo shoot of your wedding.  Except that you styled it instead of the photographer.

I fully intend for my wedding not to be a photo shoot.  Other things to keep in mind:

Your wedding is not a state dinner

Your wedding is not a debutante ball

Your wedding does not involve royalty

Your wedding is not a gallery exhibit of all of your unique talents and interests

Your wedding does not exist for the sole purpose of impressing your friends

Your wedding is not a transaction of woman from father to husband*

*hopefully

I came across this wedding via Style Me Pretty and I decided that I need to designate someone to remind me not to make the same EXACT face in every picture.  Seriously, is this not creepy?  This bride is smiling in exactly the same way in every picture!

We came across this box of stationary at Anthropologie the other day and we loved it!

We were thinking we were going to do square invitations, but now we’re thinking long, horizontal invitations.  We were also thinking about leaf/tree/nature-type silhouettes but I’m more of a geometrical shapes type person than a natural, leafy type person :)  So I think I’m going to have to steal some inspiration from these paper products:

These are some pictures Jeff took on his iPhone inside the church.

Click here to see why I love her so much.

I think I found a way to post our songs.  Let me know if this works!

The version by Postal Service is the original and the one for our first dance, the Iron and Wine version is what we’re thinking for the last song of the night, and I just happened upon the Ben Folds cover, which I also kind of like.  Enjoy!

Yummy fall wedding stuff on Design Sponge today …

More from COLOURlovers …

Fall Wedding

Subtle Fall Wedding

It’s a first attempt, Jeff will probably have input later …

Fall fuit from Perfect Bound, my own engagement acceptance by Kelli Anderson, Karen Wise photography via Style Me Pretty, lemon lime photography via I do! NYC, PenelliBelle hair pin via Something Old Something New, Sheri’s table setting via Offbeat Bride, Scottadito wine cellar via NY magazine, Freddy&Ma handbags via I do! NYC, dress from Nordstrom via broke-ass bride, type photo from chewingthecud via Perfect Bound, and Beka + Jesse via Snippet&Ink.

Okay, not related to my wedding, but I came across this picture and couldn’t resist posting it.