Choosing a Unity Ceremony Part 1

Previously, I wrote about the type of unity ceremony I would like to add to our wedding ceremony.

Here are a few popular choices with my pros and cons.

First is the very traditional Unity Candle Ceremony: 

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So much to catch up on

I have so much to update my blog with since my lapse in posting. The holidays were really busy this year shuffling to and from, and having sister DNA stay with us. 

Now that things are settling back into a (somewhat) normal routine, I feel ready to pick up where I left off. 

Stay tuned for Ceremony inspiration, Keeping things real, and the vendors we have recently met with. 

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Speaking of Unhitched...

We are currently in the process of actually finding someone to marry us.

This hasn't really been as easy as I thought it would. I found myself being picky about the officiants we researched. Nothing really in particular, but most of them just didn't feel right. Mr. ATC voiced that he would prefer a male officiant. I didn't have a preference either way.

We decided to meet with our internet favorite on Saturday morning at starbucks. He actually lives right down the street from us, we could have walked to his place. It was such a nice change to be able to meet with someone local, because we have been dealing with vendors about 2 hours north of us, since that is where our venue is.

Peacock Inspired Wedding

So I think we have finally decided on colors for the wedding. After this post, I sort of stopped thinking about colors for a while because I didn't want to obsess and pressure myself into making a decision. So I just sat on it for a while.

One night while we were out for dinner a few weeks ago, I asked Mr. ATC his opinion on the colors of the wedding. I told him that I was really liking purple but couldn't decide what other colors to go with it. He told me that he really liked blue. I tried to think of how we could incorporate both colors for the wedding, but I didn't want a navy or royal blue with the purple because I thought the colors were too dark together.

Then I started researching blue weddings to see if there was anything out there that I liked with blue as a main color. That's when I came across peacock themed weddings. I realized that I had seen this color combo previously during the very beginning of our engagement and had forgotten about it.

what do you call a wedding without a coordinator?

Unhitched.

Haha Get it!? Haha

*Crickets*

No?

Well let me explain.

Wedding Lab: Creating our Save the Dates Part 3

Finally the good part! haha

Our magnet Save the Dates:

Wedding Lab: Creating our Save the Dates Part 2

I promised in my last post to show you the outside of the envelopes including my faux-ligraphy, and postage stamps.

We actually bought the stamps way before we even started our STDs because I saw the stamps and wanted to use them before the post office changed them again. We picked out the awesome Pansy Love stamps that are purple and actually do go with our wedding color scheme now.

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