As a way to keep things exciting for themselves as well as their friends and family, Katie and Mike enjoy changing their life plans on an almost daily basis. Similarly, they planned (and nearly executed) three very different weddings before finally deciding to get married around the world. Along the way they learned a lot of valuable lessons:
1) Weddings are really ridiculously expensive.
2) There is no possible way to make everyone (especially parents) happy.
3) Breaking all the rules is awesome.
4) Weddings are really REALLY ridiculously expensive.
Now join us as well take a stroll down the path of FAILED wedding plans. Enjoy!
Plan One: Big Tent Wedding
Tents are cool. Tents are big. Tents allow your parents to invite 3,000 people who you’ve never met or heard of before. Oh yeah, you have to feed those people. Tents also require a small army of people to build, air condition, decorate and tear-down this cool and big structure in the days surrounding the wonderful festivities.
Although we’ll be the first to admit that we almost went through with it simply to get the portable bathrooms with the marble countertops (they were freakin’ sweet!), in the end, we decided that it was too much work and not quite our style for plans to work out the first time around.
Verdict? FAIL.
Plan Two: Destination Wedding – St. Thomas, USVI
Isn’t the beach soooo pretty? The wind in your hair, the sand between your toes, your great aunt Sally getting totally trashed and wandering off with the cabana boy… Okay, so maybe we don’t have a great aunt Sally, but we do come from very large families, thus making it nearly impossible to include everyone who we love in our “big day”.
Despite the allure of a casual, sunset ceremony on the beach and a stack of pictures of our parents completely trashed by the end of the night (not that those pictures don’t already exist), we knew that a beach wedding wasn’t the best fit. That and the fact that Katie turns into a lobster when out in the sun for more than six and a half minutes (it’s true).
Verdict? FAIL.
Plan Three: Destination Wedding – Napa, CA
This was our most promising plan yet…seriously! Instead of a small island wedding, we thought that a few days in wine country with a hundred of our closest family members and friends would be the perfect mix of weekend getaway and intimate wedding. We flew all the way out to California to book the venue, meet the caterer, heck, we even tasted 10 different kinds of cake! Unfortunately, upon landing in San Francisco, we found out that our venue (a beautiful house on top of a mountain) had been sold and was no longer a possibility.
We thought this was it. We promise. We really did. Third time’s a charm, right?! Nope!!!
Verdict? FAIL.
So, after an extremely long journey filled with a great deal of failure, Katie and Mike decided to forgo all expectations of what a “normal” wedding should be and booked two tickets around the world. Literally. Around the world. Now, this doesn’t mean that we are ditching you, our dear family and friends. Check out our path with {The Trip}, follow along with us via {The Blog} and welcome us home at {The Celebration} where we will share our pictures and videos from along the way.
We love all of you and we appreciate all of your support. It’s been a long journey, but the day has finally come…WE’RE GETTING MARRIED!!!
xoxo,
Katie and Mike
P.S. Dana…our tickets are BOOKED. We are following through this time. Seriously.
P.P.S. Thank you to the {FAIL Blog} for the inspiration.
