Did the court house & now We're doing the ceremony

[MarKara]

Ok so Mark & I jumped the gun a little but we seriously felt like God told us to get married so we did. Anyhow On March 25th, 2005 I went from being a girlfriend to being a fiance & then 2-3 hours after that I be***e a Wife! Mark & I went to the court house & got married there & we plan to have an actually ceremony for our family & friends. As you could guess most of those people are pretty upset with us, but whatever, we did what God laid on our hearts.

So now we are going to start planning a wedding ceremony. I'm pretty anxious & scared, I don't know how to do this. I don't even know where to begin. I guess we should talk about setting a date (another one) & we should get a planner (book, not person) right? :)

Does anyone else feel lost in the whole getting started in planning thing? :confused: Just curious. The whole doing it at the court house was a lot easier & faster to plan. Anyhow I better go I have company coming soon. Talk to you later.

~*Kara*~

[esp1087]

Ok so Mark & I jumped the gun a little but we seriously felt like God told us to get married so we did. Anyhow On March 25th, 2005 I went from being a girlfriend to being a fiance & then 2-3 hours after that I be***e a Wife! Mark & I went to the court house & got married there & we plan to have an actually ceremony for our family & friends. As you could guess most of those people are pretty upset with us, but whatever, we did what God laid on our hearts.

So now we are going to start planning a wedding ceremony. I'm pretty anxious & scared, I don't know how to do this. I don't even know where to begin. I guess we should talk about setting a date (another one) & we should get a planner (book, not person) right? :)

Does anyone else feel lost in the whole getting started in planning thing? :confused: Just curious. The whole doing it at the court house was a lot easier & faster to plan. Anyhow I better go I have company coming soon. Talk to you later.

~*Kara*~
Planning isn't that bad! In fact once you get into it, it can be a lot of fun!

Congratulations on your marriage, and you'll do great in planning the ceremony! Just remember to try to not do it all by yourself. It makes things much easier when you have help whether it be your husband, your maid of honor, your mom, etc.

Start your planning by putting together a rough guest list to give you an idea of how many people you will be expecting. Choose a date or choose your date based on the availability of the church and reception hall you want. Book the church and hall first, choose attendants, then start on the vendors (photographer, DJ, flowers, cake, invitations, etc). A planning book is GREAT to have, but this website and theknot.com have checklists that are also very helpful. This forum is great for answering questions too.

Welcome to this forum, congratulations again, and we look forward to hearing about all of you great plans!!!

Elizabeth

[MauiGirl]

Congratulations on your wedding! :D

[Kelly1Mickey]

Congratulations! My advice is not to woory about the little stuff yet. Plan the big thing (guest list, date, location, caterer, photographer, etc.) Then think about the smaller things like invites and favors. It feels like so much in the beginning, but once you get started it just rolls right along.

[MarKara]

Thank you so much for your replies, & great advice... :o I just hope that after we've planned this all out & have it all ready to go that my parents show up. They are very upset with my husband & I. Infact they are kind of over reacting. They say some pretty harsh stuff. But we aren't letting that get us down. It would just suck if we get everything planned & then here we are with the ceremony & they don't show up.

I'm very excited & I can not wait to have an actual wedding ceremony. I'm a little anxious & hoping that I won't run into too many problems. But whatever, I know I'll run into some speed bumpes everyone does right? Anyhow Thanks again it was greatly appreciated.

~*Kara*~

[esp1087]

Thank you so much for your replies, & great advice... :o I just hope that after we've planned this all out & have it all ready to go that my parents show up. They are very upset with my husband & I. Infact they are kind of over reacting. They say some pretty harsh stuff. But we aren't letting that get us down. It would just suck if we get everything planned & then here we are with the ceremony & they don't show up.

I'm very excited & I can not wait to have an actual wedding ceremony. I'm a little anxious & hoping that I won't run into too many problems. But whatever, I know I'll run into some speed bumpes everyone does right? Anyhow Thanks again it was greatly appreciated.

~*Kara*~
No problem... I hope your parents will come around, but if they don't, it is really their loss. I think everyone here has had a conflict of some sort with their parents while planning the wedding. I know we have!!!

I am sure you will do a great job, and it will be totally worth it. You will have a beautiful, fun ceremony, and don't let anything get you down... You deserve to be on Cloud 9 for a while!!!