About Yours Truly

Hi. I’m Nicole and I love all things wedding.

I’m a bubbly twenty-something who refuses to spend more than $10,000.00 on my wedding.

I live in the  D.C. area and was born to two pretty stellar people who love each other very much, who raised me well, put me through school (thank you xo), but don’t want to shell out the big bucks for my wedding. My parents aren’t horrible people who refuse to help with my wedding; on the contrary, they’re wonderful and they’re more than willing to help pay, but they don’t believe in a “one day party” that costs tens of thousands of dollars. The good thing is that I don’t either.

I love writing, love all things wedding, love food (cooking it and eating it), love decorating things (we just bought a house); I coach varsity cheerleading at the high school near our house (Go Bulldogs!), I am crazy about my crazy family, and I live for the people I love. I work in Interactive Marketing and absolutely love what I do.  I really, really love what I do. I consider myself pretty lucky.

We have two wonderful children of the four-legged variety, we’re big Redskins fans, we love grilling out, drinking beer, watching movies and lots of other stuff.

This blog will document our wedding planning, other couples’ real weddings, any other wedding-related things, and frankly, it’s a place for me to get all my wedding-blabber out so I don’t bore/annoy Mr. Man to death with it.  And don’t worry, I plan on continuing to blog about all things wedding (and life in general) even after we tie the knot!

Oh, and I want to be a blogger when I grow up.

About Mr. Man

He’s not much of a talker.  I (hi again) do most of the talking; but that’s okay.  Mr. Man loves football.  Really loves it; he knows everything there is to know about it, blogs about it, eats, breathes, sleeps, bleeds it.  I think this is a good thing; as he’s dragged me in with him – we look forward to Sundays (read: REDSKINS FOOTBALL), good snacks (provided by yours truly), and beer!

Mr. Man hails from Michigan — well, his family does.  He loves American muscle cars, sports (bigtime Washington Caps fans, too), our doggies, and me (duh)!

About Our Big Day

• Location:A great little historic site about 5 miles from where I grew up, in Great Falls, Virginia
  • Total Cost: $1975.00 (for 11 hours)
• Date: September 24, 2011
• Colors: No “real” color scheme… other than grey everywhere! I’m having mix-matched flowers (that we’re doing ourselves) and there will be accents of orange, yellow and teal in the rest of the decor.
• Theme: Think backyard cookout… but more fun.
• Food:We are having our favorite BBQ joint cater our wedding, we’re also going to have someone grilling hamburgers and hotdogs (complete with all the fixins), cole slaw, grilled corn, baked potatoes (again, fixins), salad and pasta salad
  • Total Cost:
    • BBQ, buns, and sides (pickles, cornbread, slaw, green beans, baked beans) $1300 and some change
• Drink:Beer & Wine
  • Costs: Trader Joe’s has crates of wine for $20/piece… not too shabby.  For beer, we’ll probably get 3 kegs
• Dress: Plain Jane.  No frills. Has pockets. Cost me $289.
  • Veil: no thank you
• The Boys: Grey tuxes.  Yellow/orange bouts.  Black ties.
• The Girls: Black eyelet lace pencil dresses with a sweetheart neckline, gold sandals.
• The Ceremony: Quick and dirty. 15 minute maximum.