Weddingbee boards

Since Mrs. Bee added this new category,  I thought I'd say hi. 

 I guess I'm waiting....sort of?  I mean, I'm not married, but am in a serious relationship and have been for almost three years, and I live with my boyfriend (Who I have taken to calling Mr. Bananas for lack of something better).  

 At the same time, I'm not  **waiting**, not in the same sense of waiting that prompts girls to post things on truebrideconfessions like "OMGzz when will he purpose?!"

In the future, I will likely go down that road with Mr. Bananas, but for now, I am content with the way things are - I just graduated, for Pete's sake!  I need to get my finances in order before I could even think of a wedding.

So, I love weddings, and pretty chairs and flowers, and the community that Bee has built here.  And I'm storing all this info away for someday.

Anyone else here waiting - whatever that means to you?

I just recently got engaged, but I was right there with you guys, religiously following wedding blogs, building wedding planning spreadsheeds, including comprehensive check lists and budgets.  I even called prospective vendors--"just to get an idea of their prices"--so that my budget was as accurate as possible!  Who does that??

Then something funny happened--my bf and I got into an argument, and I was basically upset with him because I felt like he kept giving me false hope of getting engaged "soon" but never stopped to think about the financial feasibility of it (he's very bad at budgeting and math).  As part of the argument, I went a little cuckoo and threw out ALL of my wedding mags (not just into the trash--I took the trash OUT to the dumpster) and deleted (permanently) all of my wedding-related documents and emails.  There were tons!  

And then... he proposed two weeks later.  Turns out, he was planning to propose all along, and he had actually PURCHASED the ring the same day I went nuts and threw out all my wedding stuff!  

So the moral of the story--I think it's normal to think about wedding planning and peruse wedding blogs even when you're not engaged.  For the sake of your sanity, though, don't follow in my footsteps--it took me DAYS to rebuild those spreadsheets and gather up all that information.  And those wedding magazines (with all of my tabbed "favorites") can never be replaced.  *Sigh*

For me, it's like I don't really remember ever playing wedding when I was little - I played horses and built forts.  I never really knew what I wanted my wedding to be like, or my ring, or my dress.  I think that the last 6 months or so for me have made up for the 22 years I spent never thinking about this at all, which is nice, because now I will have some frame of reference from which to start.

I'm waiting too

I have a lot of notes and bookmarks saved while I wait for my bf to save up his money to buy my ring. We've picked it out, but we haven't actually told anyone yet. I'm really excited to be "official" and tell everyone and anyone, haha.

I got into weddingbee (among other sites) over a year ago when I was helping a friend plan her wedding. Along the way I started thinking about what I would want for my wedding, and have fallen into the habit of constantly searching since then. Like you ladies I have tons of wedding ideas stored away. My biggest focus and the reason I think I put so much effort into it is that I am all for the lowest cost wedding possible. I love looking for great inexpensive ways to pull off a lovely wedding.

As far as the boy and I go, he is really excited about proposing. He is waiting on his  finances to get lined up and I show him rings I like from online occasionally. We both know that there is no rush, bur can't help getting excited by the idea. We also have the problem that we will likely be going to a long distance relationship in May.