I first came across the blogging world after I googled "Los Angeles wedding venues." I was very interested in The Bungalow Club as a potential venue... and wanted to see pictures of a wedding done there... which ended up leading me to this rad-as-balls wedding blog: The Broke-Ass Bride. The *instant* I read a post from Dana, I was in love. Hooked. And for once, I actually got excited about planning our own wedding. But I came late to the game. Her wedding had already been planned and executed by the time I found her site. But that didn't matter. What drew me to Dana's amazing blog was her writing style, her honesty, and her think-outside-the-box mentality. But what I connected with the most was Hunter and Dana's amazing love story. I sat and read her blog from beginning to end in practically one sitting. I even read all her posts on Weddingbee as Mrs. Meatball... in the hopes that there was a post on there I hadn't read on her personal blog. (I know. Fangirl-alert). Reading their story just made me fall in love with being in love all over again. And just because I found her site after her wedding was over, that didn't stop me from starting at the very beginning of the blog. You can learn SO MUCH about planning a wedding from reading a bride blogger or groom blogger's journey from the very beginning. Because *that* is what our blogs really are: big electronic journals documenting how we all fell in love, got engaged, and experienced the blissful insanity that is planning a wedding.
So, as a service to you all, I have compiled a list. A list of links to "First posts" from my favorite must-read-if-you're-planning-a-wedding Blogs. Click on the link, and start reading from the beginning. And fall in love with planning your wedding the same way I did...
Oh, and here's MY FIRST POST... Just in case you want to go back and fall in love with our love story! And to all the bloggers listed above: Thank you. I couldn't have survived this journey without your support and inspiration. I love you all!
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Stop Trying to be Anti-Traditional & Just be YOU.
One of my daily must-reads in blogland is A Los Angeles Love. Becca, the ever-so-wise, totally honest, and just plain awesome bride who runs the site, offers up sane, wow-I-didn't-think-of-it-that-way, lifesaving advice on weddings and on life in general. I fo' sho' would have become A[Bride]in Sane on more than one occasion if I hadn't sought her advice. (Thank you, B!) This week on LA Love, Becca is passing the blogging duties over to her partner, Jason. We so often get to see the wedding world through the eyes of us brides, that it's fun (and super beneficial) to hear what our other halves have to say once and a while.
Jason spoke very candidly today about the concept of a traditional wedding vs. a non-traditional wedding . If any of you brides out there ever felt "pressured" to have your wedding be one or the other - traditional or non - then I urge you to check out his post. Jason's words really made me put this whole debate into perspective. Let me explain. Ever since Mike and I got engaged for the first time four years ago, I battled - like reeeeaaaallly struggled - with thinking I was being forced to adhere to the traditional rules of a traditional white wedding. I mean, the only weddings I had ever been to at that point in my life were traditional ones (and I had no idea indie bride blogland even existed), so I in turn thought that if you're going to get married, it's EXPECTED that your wedding follow the rules. Having *just* moved to California at the time of first getting engaged, I was still in process of breaking out of my "follow-the-rules" mentality that I too often lived by as an Arizona gal in my teens and early twenties. Once I fully blossomed into the "follow-MY-rules" kinda gal that I am today, I was able to look at this wedding in a different way. Which was great, but I found that my new attitude towards wedding planning was being fueled solely by negativity - not so great. My constant hating on the traditional white wedding was making me into this eff you, stick-it-to-the-man, bi-otch who was planning a wedding that had everything to do with being indie and non-traditional, but nothing to do with US. I was waaaay too focused on making our wedding Anti-traditional just to be contrary or to make a statement or to be defiant (defiance is both a strength and a weakness of BOTH Mike and I). Well thank our lucky ballz that we woke the f-ck up from that nightmare. Instead of our defiance being fueled by negativity, our defiance is now fueled by the simple desire to make our wedding represent us and our worldview in every aspect possible. Ever since then, the wedding has been an absolute joy to plan - because we KNOW that every decision we make and every ritual we decide to include in the affair will be chosen by us, for us. And who can blame us for doing what we know best - being ourselves!
So if the whole traditional white wedding debate has you buggin' out, then go read Jason's post on A Los Angeles Love and prepare for a possible epiphany. And Jason will be posting all week, so show him the love!
Jason spoke very candidly today about the concept of a traditional wedding vs. a non-traditional wedding . If any of you brides out there ever felt "pressured" to have your wedding be one or the other - traditional or non - then I urge you to check out his post. Jason's words really made me put this whole debate into perspective. Let me explain. Ever since Mike and I got engaged for the first time four years ago, I battled - like reeeeaaaallly struggled - with thinking I was being forced to adhere to the traditional rules of a traditional white wedding. I mean, the only weddings I had ever been to at that point in my life were traditional ones (and I had no idea indie bride blogland even existed), so I in turn thought that if you're going to get married, it's EXPECTED that your wedding follow the rules. Having *just* moved to California at the time of first getting engaged, I was still in process of breaking out of my "follow-the-rules" mentality that I too often lived by as an Arizona gal in my teens and early twenties. Once I fully blossomed into the "follow-MY-rules" kinda gal that I am today, I was able to look at this wedding in a different way. Which was great, but I found that my new attitude towards wedding planning was being fueled solely by negativity - not so great. My constant hating on the traditional white wedding was making me into this eff you, stick-it-to-the-man, bi-otch who was planning a wedding that had everything to do with being indie and non-traditional, but nothing to do with US. I was waaaay too focused on making our wedding Anti-traditional just to be contrary or to make a statement or to be defiant (defiance is both a strength and a weakness of BOTH Mike and I). Well thank our lucky ballz that we woke the f-ck up from that nightmare. Instead of our defiance being fueled by negativity, our defiance is now fueled by the simple desire to make our wedding represent us and our worldview in every aspect possible. Ever since then, the wedding has been an absolute joy to plan - because we KNOW that every decision we make and every ritual we decide to include in the affair will be chosen by us, for us. And who can blame us for doing what we know best - being ourselves!
So if the whole traditional white wedding debate has you buggin' out, then go read Jason's post on A Los Angeles Love and prepare for a possible epiphany. And Jason will be posting all week, so show him the love!
And lastly, if you ever feel like your head is gonna explode from all this talk of tradition vs. non, just relax, and repeat this phrase:
Stop Trying to be Anti-Traditional & Just be YOU.
Changed. My. Life.
Changed. My. Life.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sugar Dollin' It? More like Sugar BALLIN' It!
Two of my fave bride bloggers, A Cupcake Wedding and Dawn @ The Alternative Bride passed along "The Fabulous Sugar Doll Blog Award" to me! Thanks, Dawn! Thanks, Cups! And thanks for continuing to inspire me with your awesome blogs. Y'all rawk the casbah on SERIOUS full blast.So this is what I'm supposed to do:
"Tell everyone 10 interesting facts about yourself & pass the award onto other bloggers."
I'll make 'em short and sweet, my little Bowie beauts.
1. When I was an actor, I was always cast as the 'bitch' or the 'villain'... Wicked Witch of the West, Evil Stepsister, Pepper in "Annie"... not sure how I'm supposed to feel about that...
2. I worked at Gracie Films for a time and got to drive James L. Brooks' Lexus. No, I didn't crash it. Yes, I was nervous as hell. And YES it was a sweet-ass ride.
3. I have been a SoCal resident for 4 years. Before that I lived in Arizona, San Francisco, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
4. I have a BA in English from Arizona State and an MFA in Screenwriting from Chapman University.
5. I want to play keyboards for Parliament Funkadelic. On tour. For one year and that's it. I'll also settle for back-up singer or 'a-hole who dances on stage in dreads and a diaper'.
6. I had a weird childhood obsession with Ace Ventura. As in, I fantasized about playing the role of Ace's daughter in the sequel. Thankfully my obsession had slightly waned during the time "When Nature Calls" came out. Otherwise, I don't know how I would have handled the let down...
7. The first role in a play I ever landed happened in 6th grade. I played the lead MALE character, named Johnny Appleseed. Hmmmph. So what if I had one of those short mushroom haircuts! That doesn't make me a boy!!! Or does it??? (sadly still trying to figure this one out, guys).
8. I feel it is my duty to educate people on marriage equality.
9. I have little to no spacial awareness. I trip and run into things ALL THE TIME and it drives me crazy - yet I keep running into things. Ugh.
10. This is where I wish I was RIGHT NOW: Rome. '89. Phil Collin's concert. Front row. Phil in a purple blazer. Me in Acid wash jeans and a neon crop top T-shirt that says "Take me Home". Beer in each hand and a glass of wine on deck. Hardcore jamming to 'Easy Lover' with the promise of gelato and a decent lay on the horizon. (This is a normal fantasy, right?)
I'm going to pass this award to the following peeps:
1. The Danger Zone with Kenny Bloggins - Not a wedding blog, but hands down one of the funniest chicks I've ever met. This is her tagline: I love the two Kenny's: Chesney and Loggins. Only check out her blog if you think you can handle it's extreme badass-ery. She also has another blog called Kenny Chesney Serious that is equally as genius.
2. A Los Angeles Love - I can't say enough good things about Becca. She has the most thoughtful approach to wedding planning ever. I love her style, her views on marriage and partnership, her devotion to being a green bride, her love of LA, and her thought-provoking analysis of tradition and how it applies to her and her partner's modern day nupts. Her posts truly inspire me everyday - which makes me a very lucky gal, because I get to meet her tomorrow!
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