{"id":119,"date":"2013-01-11T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T17:03:42","slug":"first-comes-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/first-comes-love\/","title":{"rendered":"First comes love…"},"content":{"rendered":"

then comes marriage.\u00a0 But see, what those jerks don’t tell you is about this awful process in between called WEDDING PLANNING.\u00a0 Warning<\/strong>– this post will probably not be inspiring, but thank you in advance for listening to me vent.<\/strong>\u00a0 You are the best \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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No, I have not day dreamed about my wedding since I was 5.\u00a0 I hate dressing up, hate public displays of affection and I tend to get very uncomfortable with too much attention.\u00a0 In fact, I have had more nightmares about my wedding than any other subject matter.\u00a0 I actually had a dream once where people were dragging me down the aisle\u00a0 like some convict.\u00a0 I know, I have issues.\u00a0 Just was very scared of it for quite some time.\u00a0 It\u00a0 took almost 8 years with the same guy to realize that\u00a0 it really is<\/strong> what I want.\u00a0 So fast forward, here I am with this shiny thing on my finger and taking the plunge AND OH MY GOD do you know how much weddings cost for a girl with an outrageously large Italian family??\u00a0 Enough to pay off all my student loans and feed a small country turns out.\u00a0 I feel like the wedding industry people are a bunch of criminals, seriously.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I am VERY excited to be married<\/strong> and be surrounded by friends and family and have a fun celebration.\u00a0 But you see, I am lame.\u00a0 I don’t really like to drink a lot, have a hard time staying up past 9pm and my idea of a good time is one glass of cheap wine, a good book and a good sunrise workout the next day.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Told you, lame-sauce.\u00a0 So, I have never really envisioned myself throwing this big bash for a wedding.\u00a0 A low key backyard BBQ is more my style.\u00a0 BUT, I also want to do something nice so that I do not break my mother’s heart (it’s not my fault you raised a tomboy, Mom).\u00a0\u00a0 So, somehow I\u00a0 need to find a balance between those two and it would be a bonus if it did not cost a million dollars. Barf.<\/p>\n

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There is a place in Oswego we are looking at next week that is like an old restored barn and so cool. \u00a0 Even though their prices are way more than we want to pay, I am hoping we can charm them into working with us.\u00a0 I mean come on I LOVE OSWEGO,\u00a0 so much.\u00a0\u00a0 Shouldn’t\u00a0 there be a discount for that?\u00a0\u00a0 We live here, work here and consider ourselves a pretty good asset to the community.\u00a0 PLEASE GIVE US A DEAL.<\/p>\n

So for the next few days I am going to take my own advice and manifest that this venue will magically lower their cost because Shain and I are so stinking awesome and they want to help fellow Oswegoans out. \u00a0\u00a0 If it doesn’t, then it was not meant to be and something else will come a long that is even better.\u00a0 Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

Happy Friday, stay blessed in the mess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

then comes marriage.\u00a0 But see, what those jerks don’t tell you is about this awful process in between called WEDDING PLANNING.\u00a0 Warning– this post will probably not be inspiring, but thank you in advance for listening to me vent.\u00a0 You are the best \ud83d\ude42 No, I have not day dreamed about my wedding since I was 5.\u00a0 I hate dressing up, hate public displays of affection and I tend to get very uncomfortable with too much attention.\u00a0 In fact, I have had more nightmares about my wedding than any other subject matter.\u00a0 I actually had a dream once where people were dragging me down the aisle\u00a0 like some convict.\u00a0 I know, I have issues.\u00a0 Just was very scared of it for quite some time.\u00a0 It\u00a0 took almost 8 years with the same guy to realize that\u00a0 it really is what I want.\u00a0 So fast forward, here I am with this shiny thing on my finger and taking the plunge AND OH MY GOD do you know how much weddings cost for a girl with an outrageously large Italian family??\u00a0 Enough to pay off all my student loans and feed a small country turns out.\u00a0 I feel like the wedding industry people are a bunch of criminals, seriously. Don’t get me wrong, I am VERY excited to be married and be surrounded by friends and family and have a fun celebration.\u00a0 But you see, I am lame.\u00a0 I don’t really like to drink a lot, have a hard time staying up past 9pm and my idea of a good time is one glass of cheap wine, a good book and a good sunrise workout the next day.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Told you, lame-sauce.\u00a0 So, I have never really envisioned myself throwing this big bash for a wedding.\u00a0 A low key backyard BBQ is more my style.\u00a0 BUT, I also want to do something nice so that I do not break my mother’s heart (it’s not my fault you raised a tomboy, Mom).\u00a0\u00a0 So, somehow I\u00a0 need to find a balance between those two and it would be a bonus if it did not cost a million dollars. Barf. There is a place in Oswego we are looking at next week that is like an old restored barn and so cool. \u00a0 Even though their prices are way more than we want to pay, I am hoping we can charm them into working with us.\u00a0 I mean come on I LOVE OSWEGO,\u00a0 so much.\u00a0\u00a0 Shouldn’t\u00a0 there be a discount for that?\u00a0\u00a0 We live here, work here and consider ourselves a pretty good asset to the community.\u00a0 PLEASE GIVE US A DEAL. So for the next few days I am going to take my own advice and manifest that this venue will magically lower their cost because Shain and I are so stinking awesome and they want to help fellow Oswegoans out. \u00a0\u00a0 If it doesn’t, then it was not meant to be and something else will come a long that is even better.\u00a0 Fingers crossed. Happy Friday, stay blessed in the mess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}