The Wedding Industry - Part 2

continued from Part 1
Save the dates. What save the dates? Party favors. What party favors? You don't sweat the small stuff. You forget to wear something borrowed, something blue …
We almost did save the dates - but felt that sending out our destination wedding invite early would be enough.


You'd rather go for a hike than have a bachelorette party. Sure, your friends who don't like to hike will want to kill you for making them exercise—and you may never hear the end of it if they disagree with your interpretation of an "easy" hike—but if they're your friends, they'll still love you. And that sip of wine at the top of the trail will never taste so good.
Amen! How about a 20 mile bike ride with a brunch rest stop?


You opt for nontraditional wedding invitations. Whether you and your fiancée design them yourselves or your best friend and brilliant graphic designer offers to do the legwork, you want the invitations to reflect you as an individual couple, not an ideal that others aspire to.
Graphic designer in the house! Our luggage tag invites fit perfectly with our destination wedding.


You don't own anything resembling a wedding planner. You don't have any how-to guides or planners... Any bridal magazines on your bookshelf were given to you by your mother during the aforementioned period of trying to convince you to have a wedding, and any planning is done on an as-needed basis.
I've got a folder with stamps, addresses and reviews of the hotel.

You only need a few months to get your act together. Short engagements certainly aren't for everyone, but you can see that needing nine months to a year to plan a wedding is a myth. In fact, aside from writing sincere thank-you notes, the anti-bride probably sees that most of the dos and don'ts of wedding planning are myths. In the end, as long as you and the groom are planning to show up, the anti-bride knows that everything will work out just fine.
We had a long engagement because we wanted to enjoy it. We didn't even start thinking about a wedding until six months after. Who wants to jump into a whirlwind of chaos as soon as bit of bling descends on their finger? A lot of people have asked how the planning is going, and actually is fairly easy because there's not a lot to do. Will do it the week before at the resort - easy peasy!