The Hunt

The Ceremony
The time has finally come for me to start getting real about my planning and that begins with the ceremony.

Oliver and I are not religious. We do not belong to a church. For the most, part churches in Southern California are not very attractive, which is why I don't want to get married in a church.

We want to get married in the beginning of the year, because it is less crowded and hot for our honeymoon. Also, we don't want a long engagement (it's hard enough for us to wait as long as we are).

I want to get married somewhere that is romantic and beautiful. I started with those wedding websites: the knot, wedding compass, etc., which are great starters. They have multiple photos of weddings and ideas, which is great, but the vendor list gets stale very fast.

Getting married on the beach is not going to happen. My hair will frizz up in minutes. Outdoor is too risky before June. So that leaves indoors and money. They have places that are beautiful, but will cost you 30k plus and then they have those wedding "places" with that tacky white picket fence stuff that makes you cringe.

So I went on the google hunt for something different, something romantic, something my mother will pay for. I discovered a wedding in an old theatre. It was beautiful. It was simple. They took candles of different heights and created a horseshoe shape around where they had the ceremony on stage. No tacky floral arrangements. No white picketed arch way. Just white candles surrounding them.

I fell in love. again.