Our wedding is going to be in December in the winter capital: Bemidji, MN. We are both hometown heroes and love the beautiful small town that we both grew up in. Our wedding will be a great one to have featured. Chris and I grew up in the same town and probably should have known each other for years, but as fate had it, it wasn't time. We had attended the same high school (although he was a couple of years older than me), went to the same college for the same major, attended some of the same classes (25 people in the class), and had some of the same friends. But both of us had been in serious, long-term relationships through all of this and had we met at those times, things may have not turned out the way they did. Finally, during my senior year of college, we met through our mutual friends and after our first date (he took me rock climbing for the first time), we were both hooked. I think we both knew that this was different from anything else that we had ever felt before.
We dated for a little over a year when he proposed, and when he did, every other groom was put to shame. Dancing has always been one of the loves in my life, and hunting, his. We made a deal that if I went goose hunting with him during the fall (which I had never done before), then he would take dance lessons with me (something that he had never done before). All through college I participated in a dance show, and part of the agreement was that he would do one dance with me in the show. Well, we danced our tango, and the night that all of my family was there and his family too, after we took our final pose, he pulled me out of the dip and took me back to center stage. He got down on one knee and pulled out the ring that he had designed himself and proposed right there in front of TV cameras, hundreds of people, and all of the people who matter most to me. I couldn't have dreamed up a better proposal.
Our wedding is going to be almost completely DIY and I have been using many things from your website to help. We don't have a lot of money to create this wedding, but I still want to make it completely gorgeous, elegant, and the celebration of the year. Because of the budget, my future mother-in-law will be making my wedding dress and the wedding cake. We will also be making gingerbread snowflake cookies as our favors. My two grandmothers and great-grandma love to bake and we are going to make a little party out of decorating the cookies. My mother and I took a small road trip down to the Twin Cities to a paper warehouse and made all of the invitations and programs as well. One of our downtown bistros will be catering the meal and my trusted hairstylist, who has done my hair since I was a little girl, will be doing my hair for me. My father's wonderful cousins will also help decorate the ceremony and reception halls.
We will be having my reception at the brand new recreational event center that is going up in Bemidji. It will be the first wedding in the ballroom of the center and is sure to be fabulous. I have looked through the pictures of winter weddings on your site and only a few actually had snow in them. We plan on taking numerous pictures outside and also hope to have a horse-drawn carriage from family friends transport us from the church to the ballroom across town.
I also haven't seen any pictures on your website of the many winter wedding colors, and I think this is another good reason to feature our wedding. Deep purple, sage green, and ivory provide a tastefully elegant charm to any wedding, and with the candlelit ceremony and reception, the colors will be radiant. I think that our wedding would put a nice spin to your website, with a small town, family-oriented, "real" winter theme.
May 13, 2010