Sunday Figurings

So, I 'd like to think that I haven't become this totally wedding-absorbed bridal beast, but I must admit that I do subscribe to some blogs from gals that have done this thing before, because frankly, I am clueless. I haven't gotten married before. I wasn't the type of little girl to play "pretend wedding" nor did I stare up at my ceiling at night deciding what I wanted my dress to look like or what music played; I was more concerned about the killer robots that hid under the bed. So I am a babe in this bridal world thus the reading of others' blogs.

Both of these blogsters (A Practical Wedding  and 2000 Dollar Wedding) are still writing even after the fact of their own weddings and are dispensing advice to thousands of clueless readers like me (well, they are probably less clueless than me). Sometimes I have to step back and think, whoa there Nelly, this is a lot of thinking going into a day that most likely will fly by, and later, I will have forgotten all the little details that are on my centralized task list (because I tend to forget little details all the time) that according to the blogosphere make a wedding personal and memorable for the guests.

Nathan and I were going over our ceremony script that I threw together from others' idea (again, I had no idea where to start). He was very adamant about not including poems (I like poems--I'm a literary geek), because he doesn't want other people's words to take place of what we feel and want to say. I think that was the best wedding advice I have heard so far. We are back to the drawing board on that one. I am actually glad that he has an opinion about this if not anything else. It seems like the ceremony part, the whole exchange of vows and promises, is the most important part of all. From our ceremony, you can expect scientific ramblings about the autumnal process of the forest and how that ecology is metaphor for our lives. Or, something to that affect...

So, this is what I figure:
I figure that while advice is a helpful starting point, it is just a starting point. I figure I should take it, leave it, mold it, build on it, stomp on it, kick it in the air, embrace it, absorb it, or walk through it.