I'm Wearing What???

I'm going to say that I feel that "the dress" is the girl's most favorite part of wedding planning. It is also one of the first decisions you make since in today's dress making world it takes six to eight months to order your dress and get it in stock. This did not bother me so much since I have plenty of time. But of course I cannot wait to start trying on dresses. Sadly, my mother is not very involved in my life so I do not get to experience that whole mother daughter dress moment with my mom. I do, however, have the best future mother in law that has been more than a mom to me that I get to go dress shopping with. Let me tell you she is more than excited about it.

At dinner one night we open the table discussion to where we are going to look. My fiance piped up after hearing all those places and said well none of those places sound like they are going to have a Star Wars wedding dress. My heart stopped and I think his mother choked on her food. These are the three options that my fiance thought I was going to be wearing down the aisle:

I could not tell whose face was more priceless mine, my future mother in law's, or my future father in law's. We all come from very conservative back grounds nothing about these options said conservative or traditional. Well if he wanted me to wear this, that made me think about what he was planning on wearing. I will just show a picture of his answer:

I know all of our family would have gotten a kick out of this wedding attire but I could just not do this.  If I started to walk down the aisle and I saw Darth Vader waiting on me, I would be laughing the whole way down the aisle. When I say laughing I would be on the ground. I just think a wedding is a serious moment and I would not be able to take anything seriously dressed like any of these options. If we were going to Comic Con or any other fan gathering I would be all over this but our wedding? 

Needless to say I needed back up on this compromise. My fiance's mom and dad were great with this one. They really helped me to where now I can wear something like this :

And he will be wearing a traditional tux with some Star Wars enhancements like: 

Although I feel like I got the better half of the compromise I feel that the fiance is going to be happy at the end of the day looking back at the pictures. Or, he could totally surprise me and be Darth Vader at the end of the aisle either way I get my dress. 

The Thing With Star Wars is...

The thing with Star Wars is that it has been my fiance's favorite movie collection all of his life. Funny thing about our story was this is how we started dating. I made it known to him that I had never seen Star Wars except for Episode I which my dad took me to see in theaters. I had no idea who Luke Skywalker was, I had no idea that it was Darth Vader instead of Dark Vader, and I had no idea that Princess Leia was Luke Skywalker's sister. I did know who Princess Leia was and loved her hair. After I guess my fiance realized that the love of his life had no clue about his favorite movie he decided to introduce the two of us. 

Let me just say we watched from Episode IV all the way to Episode III, starting from the classics up to the most recent. The best quality time I think either of us could have asked for. I fell in love with Star Wars: the characters, the plot twist, and the amazing story of good always triumphing over evil. I think that was the night my fiance realized I was the catch of a lifetime. 

With all of this being said and it being made clear our mutual love of Star Wars you would think that I would be all for a Star Wars wedding. However, this is just not the case. I am totally fine with hints of a Star Wars like theme but at the end of the day I am not dressing up as Princess Leia to walk down the aisle. Let me just say this crushed my fiance's wedding dreams. And it opened my eyes to the fact that my groom was going to be least to say very involved in wedding planning. 

We eventually had to come to the agreement of compromising on certain things. The first one being the date we would actually have our ceremony. 

It has been a personal preference of mine to have graduated college before I got married, I do not graduate school until December 2014. That put us at having a two year engagement, which the fiance was not into. So, the first compromise I offered was to get married right after I graduated we could have a Christmas wedding since both of us love Christmas all our families would be in town it would just be perfect. That was shot down when he said he wanted to be married by May 4, 2014 so we could go to Star Wars week at Disney World for our honeymoon.

In my mind I'm thinking is May the fourth such an important day? He had to break it down to me the week of May 4 & 5 is Star Wars week all around the world. On May fourth it is known to Star Wars fans as "May the fourth be with you" a play on of "May the force be with you".  May the fifth is know as "revenge of the fifth" being a play on "Revenge of the Sith". The compromise we finally made after several days and a new Star Wars movie announcement.  Our date will be May 4, 2015. This was reached because I will have graduated from school and it is on Star Wars week. Also, the new Star Wars movie is set to release that year which helped me out. The thing is we will have 2 years to plan this wedding and it is just a really long engagement according to my fiance. First compromise done!

We are getting Married!

Hey There,

Pretty much in today's society you tell someone you are getting married and people just have three questions for you at that point. When is the date? Followed by, What type of wedding is it going to be? And the last question being : How does the groom feel about all the planning? So, to get those three questions out of the way I will be answering them right now.

When is the date?  - Our date is May 4, 2015.
What type of wedding ? -It's complicated,we will be having a Southern Classic Star Wars Wedding.
How does the groom feel? -Let's just say I think he was planning this when he was five.

So, I'm sure everyone is wondering how I am going to pull off a Southern Classic Star Wars Wedding, when I have a fiance that strictly wants Star Wars and then myself and the rest of the family involved would just like a Traditional Southern Classic Wedding. Welcome to the world of compromise meeting wedding planning. In this blog I will be laying out our wonderful compromises for all the world to see.

But just so everyone understands the length of the compromise here are a couple of pictures of the style of wedding we will be blending into one wedding.

The Fiance's Idea:

My Idea:

Welcome to our journey, May the fourth be with you and us!!