TheKnot.com

Since starting to plan my own wedding the knot website has been unbelievably helpful.

Being my first wedding and all I had no clue where to begin. I honestly had no clue on how much is involved.........and don't get me started about the politics of it all!!

Seriously I thank God for this site! After entering my wedding date and location upon registration I have all of these great tools to help me plan my wedding down to the last detail. Details that I didn't even KNOW I needed to plan! Bridesmaids tea anyone?

I love signing on and seeing my "count down to the wedding" every day. And the tools are really great. It has a handy dandy budget calculator, guest list, and a notebook that you can save ideas and images to that you've found on the website!

The real weddings posted are beautiful and actually do-able. But the truly most helpful part of the site is the message boards where you can TALK ABOUT YOUR WEDDING TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT! and the girls there are actually interested! unlike your mom, sister, best friend, neighbor, co-workers, mailman, grocery clerk, etc. Happy planning!

Bridezilla?? Who me??

OMG who knew trying to plan a wedding was such hard work???

So far I've changed the date, changed the location, changed the bridal party, oh yeah and also called it off once!!

Since I've taken the handmade challenge I really want to stick with it and that includes my wedding and reception decorations.

So far here's what I've got:

Colors are plumb (of course!) and pear

Small evening ceremony and large rockin reception following!

If anyone has any awesome budget friendly wedding ideas please let me know! Weddings scheduled for November 2009. Did I mention that I have nothing booked??