I want my wedding to have a theme. Not something like you'd do for a children's party "Come to my Pirate-Themed Wedding ARRRR!" (not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just not who I am), but something to tie the whole thing together, to make people look at things like invites and centerpieces and think, "That's REALLY Ellie and Jessi, what an awesome touch." Plus, I find it more aesthetically pleasing to have things go, like the Save the Dates and Invites both having cherry blossoms (I can say that because I'm not doing it) on them, then cherry branches as our centerpieces, and maybe soft pink napkins and table overlay. I'm not expecting the hall to be dripping in the silly little things, but enough to tie it all together.
But we have so many interests, and don't want to choose something that will be tacky, overbearing, only a little bit us, or overly silly. We've bounced around a bunch of ideas, and I have even more in my head. But then I start to over-think and the spiraling of "Is that US? How will I implement THAT with centerpieces? Isn't that overdone? etc" happens and I understand why people go sans theme.
I really shouldn't be thinking about all of this since I still have a month of classes to get through, but I wanted to process it or it would eat at me even more.
But we have so many interests, and don't want to choose something that will be tacky, overbearing, only a little bit us, or overly silly. We've bounced around a bunch of ideas, and I have even more in my head. But then I start to over-think and the spiraling of "Is that US? How will I implement THAT with centerpieces? Isn't that overdone? etc" happens and I understand why people go sans theme.
I really shouldn't be thinking about all of this since I still have a month of classes to get through, but I wanted to process it or it would eat at me even more.
I'm dealing with the same thing. It kinda helps that we've chosen colors. But I'm getting frustrated finding things that will hold everything together that aren't overdone, not us, etc. At this time I'm taking the "If I don't think about it, it doesn't exist" approach.
ReplyDeleteThat's not a bad approach. I'm trying to do the same, but it's hard, and an easy distraction from my schoolwork. How long do you have?
ReplyDeleteIt can be hard to tie things together. I don't think you need to go over board with a theme and still have things work. I think as long as you are true to what you both like it will work. If you need to bounce ideas off of someone who is an outside person I love thinking/brainstorming for weddings :)
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