My Next Big Project: Our Wedding!

Yes, it's true! My next big creative project is going to be our wedding and it's going to be soon! My mister and I have been together for 10 years, we've been engaged for 1 year, and we just decided in December that we're getting married this April. Eek! It's all very exciting. And very distracting, let me tell you.

So my studio is now dotted with guest lists, potential invitation designs, vintage family wedding photos, and all sorts of drafts for dresses, theme colors, and cake tops! No, we won't be making everything our selves and we won't be having a big traditional day. But, yes, we will be aiming to have an eco-friendly wedding and a DIY spirit for a small beloved gathering of family and friends to help us celebrate. And, I can't pass up the opportunity for a pretty dress, a good meal, and a bit of dancing all adorned in flowers and romance and dear friendships!

My two bridal bibles have been the Anti-Bride Wedding Planner and The DIY Wedding. Not to mention, a handful of smart crafty married friends with all sorts of pointers and references and good ideas. One of my favorite ideas? A vintage metal birdcage for the cards on the gift table. If the slots are wide enough, the envelopes slip right through. And another fun idea is somehow using vintage family photos in our decorating theme. Good grief, I'm going to be a bride! The great thing about planning a wedding in 4 months is the liberating effect of making decisions somewhat quickly and moving on to the next decision. Oh my!

Forgive me for a bit of dreaminess and distraction but 3 months is a only a little bit of time. And somehow, in these moments, the loose threads of life & art & love & grief & inspiration & creativity all seem to tangle together at the ends. Suddenly, my wedding invitation designs are scattered among recent Polaroids, tucked under my new Denyse Schmidt quilting book, all just next to the list of publishers I'm soliciting with my poems. (Dear studio, forgive me, in just a few months you'll be all cleaned up again. I promise!) I guess sometimes the lines get a little knotted and art becomes love becomes life. Oh, swoon. Dear friends, I'm getting married in April!