Wedding Blog!

In case you didn't know, I'm getting married in less than 6 months. We have been engaged just over a year and have been planning the wedding long-distance, which is a bit of a challenge. Technology has been a wonderful asset to our wedding planning. I was able to email my fiance pictures of potential venues along with spreadsheets that I created with pros/cons for each. I did the same for potential photographers and he was also able to go to all of the photographer's websites. We just ordered our save-the-date cards through VistaPrint, which we sort of designed together. I sent him a screen shot for his approval instead of ordering a PDF proof because I'm thrifty, but it worked, so I see nothing wrong with it.

It would seem that some things would be impossible to do without being in the same country, but so far we have found a way to cope. The first part of our marriage counselling was done via an online test, which we were supposed to do separately anyways. Of course, we'll both need to be in the same room to go over the results of the test, but we'll worry about that later. Because the save-the-dates will be going out soon, we decided that it would be good to start our wedding registries. On our both our Amazon.com registry and our Target registry we can both add/delete items from the list, which is really nice. We even typed up a list of things to register for via Skype.

Although, it is really easy to register for board games and movies without touching them, I think we are going to run into issues when registering for bedding and towels. There are no Targets in Canada, so he won't be able to inspect some of the items that I want to register for and vice versa. If all else fails, we will just really have to trust that we know each other well enough to pick out items that we will both like and pick neutral colors so everything will match. That said, if anyone has any ideas of how to get around this problem, I'm open to suggestions!

My fiance and I have started a blog about our struggles and triumphs trying to plan our wedding long-distance and on a tight budget. Check it out! http://jayandchristy.blogspot.com