Image courtesy of Snippet & Ink (taken by Evan Miller)When you're in the midst of wedding planning, the smallest wedding details can suddenly feel like The-Biggest-Deal-in-the-Whole-Entire-World.
It doesn't help when you visit blog, after blog of pretty details. Don't get me wrong: I love pretty details. I recently spent several hours making a fabric banner to hang in our house during the month of December, for crying out loud.
I just think we have to be careful not to let the pretty details overshadow the more significant and lasting aspects of the process, like proactively strengthening our relationships for the years of commitment that lay ahead, learning to navigate and negotiate two (or more) families, combining finances, etc.
When I saw this lovely picture of a very simple cake over at Snippet & Ink, I thought to myself, "What an amazing marriage between pretty and simplicity!"
So this here post is a little toast to the marriage between pretty and simplicity.
It doesn't help when you visit blog, after blog of pretty details. Don't get me wrong: I love pretty details. I recently spent several hours making a fabric banner to hang in our house during the month of December, for crying out loud.
I just think we have to be careful not to let the pretty details overshadow the more significant and lasting aspects of the process, like proactively strengthening our relationships for the years of commitment that lay ahead, learning to navigate and negotiate two (or more) families, combining finances, etc.
When I saw this lovely picture of a very simple cake over at Snippet & Ink, I thought to myself, "What an amazing marriage between pretty and simplicity!"
So this here post is a little toast to the marriage between pretty and simplicity.
3 comments:
in most cases, even weddings, a little bit goes a long way.
I just LOVE all of our posts! Thank you for continuing to blog after your wedding, ive tried to follow blogs before but they always quit posting. And I wish I wouldve kept up with everything like the dress give a way! Hopefully you have another soon so I can enter =)
i feel like bribery can work wonders. i had dinners and wine nights with my girlfriends when they
came over to craft. also, sometimes your friends might feel like if they help with a project it
may not come out as good as you would like, so they are nervous about crafting. do your best to
make them feel at ease. if you have something that you WANT to be perfect, do it yourself.
otherwise, let them help you and do your best not to re-do their work.
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