So today I have been engaged for exactly 2 months and 5 days and man has it been an amazing time! I keep having to get over the fact I'm going to be Peta van Wyk?! (mom keeps telling me it sounds like the name of a pizza?) Anyway from the moment I've had beautiful diamonds on my finger I have been obsessed with everything "wedding". I got my first bridal magazine the day after the proposal from my friends mom and its been opened countless times... it had folded pages, circled pictures, pages torn out, after only a week! Since that first Fairlady Bridal, I've been given two more magazines, one from a family friend and the other as a gift from my mom from the states. A Martha Stewart bridal magazine! I was ecstatic when she gave it to me, a thick, 200-and-something page magazine on EVERYTHING wedding!
One thing I have realised in this whole process is that there is so much to choose from. From colours, to venues, to dresses, to favours, to decor.. the options are endless! So what I did was found a hardcover book and on the first page I wrote down all of my ideas.... and it looks a little something like this;
-barn
-rustic
-country
-bohemian
-beach
-morning
-red
-vineyard
-roses
-vintage
-proteas
-shwe shwe
-bunting
-bedouin tent
-garden
-stone chapel
-rusted tins
-mismatched vintage tea cups and saucer
-coke bottles
-wheat
-wildflowers
-powder blue, cherry red
-lace bunting
-felt bouquet
-vintage glamour
-grecian
-felt flower brooches/corsage
...and the list goes on. As you can see there are some HUGE differences, but like I said I wrote it aaaalllll down and I am going to slowly work through them one by one. But at least I have made some sort of start, however vague, towards planning the wedding of my dreams.
So thats it for now from the soon-to-be Peta van Wyk!!