An Introduction

Our wedding could have been perfect. And if we'd gotten everything we dreamed of, it would have been horrible.

Allow us to explain. We were in a relationship for almost ten years before we got married. When you've been together that long, you have a lot of time to think about what you would do for your wedding, with varying degrees of seriousness.

About a month before our actual wedding, we were knee-deep in mason jars, unity candles, and RSVPs, trying to write our ceremony. In a haze of wedding-planning delirium, we stumbled upon the perfect theme to tie the elements of our ceremony together. After a short break to regroup, however, we realized that a Captain Planet-themed church wedding might not make as much sense to our guests as it did to us. This got us thinking about all the other "completely amazing" wedding ideas we'd had over the years, and what our impending nuptials would look like if we'd put all those plans into action.

Ten years is also enough time to have those dreams dashed on the rocks of reality, gunned down by parents, and brutally strangled by your significant other. In the very back of Amanda's wedding planning notebook, we listed of all the ideas that had hit the cutting room floor. Revisiting them now, we maintain that some of them are legitimately great ideas. A few of them were designed to exasperate others, but most of them were simply infeasible.

So we'd like to share them with you. We invite you to imagine what our ideal/awful wedding could have been like, and hope that by putting these plans out there, they won't simply die in the back of that notebook.