My S.O. and I have been together for over 2 years. We're completely in love. We're not engaged yet, because of finances (We're both in school, we know what rings we want and the prince so we're saving for those.), but we've started coming up with ideas and planning. (We're not looking at a long engagment)
The thing is...I don't know what I want? I can't picture how I want my wedding to go. We've talked about the easy stuff like what colors to use (Blues, silver, and gold) We've talked about flowers (I like Calla and/or roses something elegant, but he likes simple flowers like Daisies) We've talked about who we would want there (His immediate family, my immediate family, and only our closest friends.), but I can't think of where we would get married (neither one of us are really church goers. We're both Baptist, but my mother and her family are catholic, and under my mother's stipulations I must get married in a church.) I can't even think of a good wedding date! (Do we get married on the anniversary of the day we started dating? I don't want it to be too close to my brother's anniversary. Is an Ohio winter too cold for a weddding?) I know we want to wait until after he gradautes from College (December '11) and after he gets out of basic training (hopefully he goes into the military right after graduation) I can't think of where to have the wedding and reception (His home town or mine, the city we're we met and have lived most of our relationship, or somewhere in between our families since they live three hours a part, should we get married somewhere in between?)
I know almost every woman has fantasized about her wedding at least once since she was a little girl, but I honestly never thought I would get this far with a man in my life! but I found Stefan and honestly I just want to marry him. I don't want to go through the stress of planning and who's coming and who isn't, who would be offended if I didn't invite them and who won't care if I invited them. I have a huge family (six siblings, fifteen aunt's and uncle's, and an un countable number of cousins, that my mother would insist on inviting.) My invites would my invites would almost double his.
We just recently talked about how we would do our wedding and I kind of thought of a different way to do it (If this is different?), but I'm thinking we should get married with just the closest family (siblings, parents, grandparents and a few very close friends), go on our honeymoon, and then have a reception with everyone later. He likes the idea, but I'm sure my family will have something to say about it or they won't like it or people would get offended because they only got invited to the reception and not the wedding. How do I please everyone