Party people, check out our WEDDING PAGE. Yes, there is finally some information to be found on this site’s static pages. The WEDDING PAGE is the place to check for the most up to date wedding details. Please contact me (riam [at] pastabroccoli dot net) or j. (jft [at] pastabroccoli dot net) if you have any questions or feedback.
So our wedding category is lacking posts, which might lead anyone reading this site (who does read this site, anyhow?) to think we haven’t been doing much planning for this supposed wedding taking place next summer. In fact, we’ve been doing plenty of wedding planning all this fall, but there hasn’t been much to publicize except for our wedding date.
Do you really want to know how much I ooohed and ahhhed when I looked at Noisette Patry Works’s wedding cake gallery? And would you find it as funny as I did that the fellow who owns Sweet Gallery, an Old World-style bakery my family has purchased cakes from for years, exclaimed, “Good girl! They know how to cut wedding cake there.” when I told him the wedding was going to be at the Old Mill Inn and Spa?
We are heading to Toronto for Christmas, followed by roaming to all ends of the GTA for wedding related appointments between Dec. 26 and Dec. 30, which should be productive and fun. All this should also yield some interesting updates as we get deeper into wedding planning: more gift registry scanning, visiting a florist, Old Mill menu and wedding cake tastings (mmmmmm), trying on tuxedos and a bridesmaids night on the town (no drunk pictures of me shall be posted on this web site… but they may get posted on Flickr if I finally get my act together and start posting to my pro account there!)
I’ll try not to bore you with too many details and stick to things that give you insight into what we are planning and at the very least, give you the scoop on what you need to know if you will be one of our wedding guests. I was thinking about saying something snarky here about people who might stumble across this site and who are not invited to our wedding, but for now I will hold my blogging tongue.
One final observation/insight for this post…
The Internet has been our best friend as we plan this wedding from afar, from showing j. what the Old Mill looks like to finding ring designs that we both would be happy wearing for many years to come.
I’ve mostly steered clear of those generic bridal clearinghouse web sites, places like The Knot and the Wedding Channel (there are tonnes more) because a) the sort of wedding they depict and cater to is not the sort of wedding I want and b) the vendors listed are either way too expensive or they don’t rate the vendors because they are paying to appear on the site.
I somehow found Frugal Bride the other day, and although it’s got a garish front page it is a Canadian site and it does cater to people who don’t want to turn their wedding day into an event that costs more than what they make in a year. The site includes an aptly named “babbling brides” bulletin board. Searching the posts there has helped me learn about what a florist costs (it can be a lot cheaper than I thought), that there are people as clueless as me when it comes to centerpiece ideas and even what people think of the Old Mill Inn and Spa as a wedding venue (it’s considered to have excellent food and service, by the way).
It goes against my non-girly nature, but I have gone so far as to include the site in my “rIAm reads” list. I do plan to continue to consult Frugal Bride to find out what people are babbling about, but I sincerely doubt I will post there. I’ll just save all that wedding babble for our dear PB site readers, whoever you might be.
