Interesting fun fact: Smorgasbord is the Swedish word for buffet. Trying saying it with a Swedish accent... really fun.
I don't have any other major weddings news other than we're sending our save the dates out in the next month. SO WATCH THOSE MAILBOXES! I know snail mail is pretty much an ancient art form these days but there is something magical about it.
My younger sister is home from college and helping me with wedding ideas. It's nice to bounce ideas off someone who's crazier than you. My older sister told me recently that she never knows what to expect from Kristin and I because we do seriously crazy things together.
My problem was (and still is) my plethora of ideas. I have SO many ideas I want to use, how do I narrow it down? Or can I use them all? Although the fear with the latter option is idea overload and my wedding becomes a hot mess. Kristin seemed to understand my problem. Although she didn't really help me narrow down my ideas, she did give me platform to express them.
After the obvious questions of where and when, the next biggest one I got asked was theme. What kind of theme did Alison want? What was my master vision for the wedding? Most of the time I said, "I don't have one yet." Although truthfully I was thinking, "My vision is one of pure epicness!"
I think weddings should be a reflection of the couple's personality. I like to think Zack and I are a fun couple so the wedding should be fun. Kristin wasn't sure what a fun theme meant so she helped me narrow it down further.
Her first choice was starry night. The theme fit our colors wonderfully (dark blue and silver) and the pictures were gorgeous. Can't go wrong with starry night because it's so utterly romantic, right? Well, it was just too sophisticated and it looked WAY too wintery. AND I LOATHE WINTER (I was going to use the word hate but it wasn't strong enough). Kristin didn't agree, arguing the cake could be done differently, but I stand by my choice.
Second choice was a traditional fall theme. The dark reds, yellow and oranges would be great, and the amount of fall decor would make decorations a snap. My Aunt Sandy joked we should just put a pumpkin on each table and call it a day. Eh... I don't really like pumpkins (unless it's pie) and the dresses are blue. I'm not sure how the reds and oranges would work. Plus, I'm not a typical bride so typical themes don't really do anything for me.
Third choice: MUSICALS! I was totally on-board for this one. The word love doesn't even begin to describe my relationship with musicals. However, the fall theme got more consideration because I remembered this is Zack's wedding too. He's not as quite into musicals (although I got him hooked on Singin' In the Rain, which is when I knew he was the one). He's actually mad at me because I lost my copy and he can't watch it. Outside of Singin In the Rain, his scope of enjoyable musicals is like 3 so that's a no.
The choice led to a discussion of what Zack likes, including sports. Kristin opened her mouth to say something about it and I said, "No!"
I shot down every idea Kristin gave me, which probably annoyed her. My Aunt Sandy stepped in at this point and said, "whimsy." Kristin and I looked at each other and (after getting a definition) decided it would work. To me, whimsy has always meant like cute woodland creatures and dancing merrily down a shady path. Although I do enjoy a merry dance, I didn't see the whole woodsy thing working. I like the outdoors but Zack isn't what I'd call an outdoorsy guy. He likes to fish and golf but at the end of the day, I think he'd rather be inside drinking a beer and watching baseball.
The definition of whimsy is "a playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor."
Bingo.
Kristin and I threw the word around for a couple of days trying to see if we could narrow it down further. There's a lot of DIY going into this thing. I'm a HUGE craft person so my wedding is a perfect time to showcase it. The invites, the centerpieces, the flowers... all DIY.
I told Kristin all of my ideas and asked her what it all meant. She says, "It's a whimsical smorgasbord."
Rock on.
My theme is a tastefully awesome whimsical smorgasbord of cuteness. That's my official title for it but for simplicity, we're calling it a whimiscal smorgasbord. I'm taking a lot of smaller ideas and tying them in to different parts of the wedding. And to you naysayers who are thinking, "This will be a mess," I laugh at you because I make messes work.
I know some of you are curious as too what's going through my brain for a whimsical smorgasbord. For now let's just say this: origami and superheroes.
Oh and my first act as a whimsical smogasbordian is creating my own hashtag (yes, I'm that wedding): #teamzalison.
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