This week a friend who will remain unnamed told me that she’s been reading and watching the weddings/celebration section of the New York Times for the last several months. I understand.
Here’s my first true confession for this post: I read other wedding blogs, the blogs of complete strangers. And I love them. Here are a few I’ve been following:
A $10,000 Wedding (Can I Do It?)
This California bride is trying to keep her wedding and reception under $10,000 like Don and I.
A Practical Wedding
Meg and David are planning, in her own words, “a sane wedding on (gasp) a reasonable budget that reflects our personal values.” She’s a lovely wedding blogger.
$2,000 Wedding
Described as “Our quest to wrest our wedding from the hands of the Wedding Industrial Complex and make it our own (in a budget-minded, hand-crafted, eco-friendly way)”
DYI Bride
Well, of course I like it.
There’s a million more, too … but no one should spend this much time reading wedding blogs so I’ll leave you with these few to peruse.
Here’s my second true confession: I like The Knot, and Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings (they have a great blog, too) and the Wedding Channel. I get great ideas from them and use a lot of their ideas on my style boards. I even posted a question on The Knot and actually got a lot of answers - only a few of which made me physically ill (I can’t seem to link to it but it was a question the already married about what songs got the most people on the dance floor at their weddings).
Today I found something that made me laugh. Here’s a picture from the wedding of good friends Jen and Tom a few years ago: 
And here is a picture from the wedding of Melanie and Saul, a couple I have never met:
I guess some things are the same at almost every wedding, huh?
August 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
My related confession: I look at random wedding photos on flickr nearly every time they show up in the “everyone’s uploads” of the home page. It’s like Sorry I Missed Your Party only the people are generally dressed better and there’s much less chance of seeing a photo with vomiting.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I got so wrapped up looking at / reading “Sorry I Missed Your Party” that I neglected to comment on Ed’s sappy instance he look at all the wedding pictures on Flickr. Awwww.
Anyway, in the meantime I found a crazy list of wedding planning sites - Top 100 Wedding Planning Sites