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Hey, remember when I got married… back in 2010!!?? I can’t believe it was that long ago! Remember how my photographer skipped out on us like an evil witch and then sent unedited and small photos to me. 🙁
Well…I remember. What I DIDN’T remember was to go through the photos that came with the little wedding package we had.
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When I was in FL for the holidays my gram yelled at me because she didn’t receive a wedding picture from us. I told her that even I didn’t receive a wedding picture from us! Put it on the back burner to remedy later.
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I was cleaning up and attempting to organize this weekend when I found a folder with my marriage license and the photo ordering sheet. Oooops! (I still need to find the video of the ceremony.) Reading the bottom of the sheet i saw some bad news….my photos are only available for printing 30 days after the ceremony. *teardrop
For some reason I tried to log in anyway, and….IT WORKED!! I ordered some shots for gram so she wont have to yell at me the next time I see her.
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Midway through browsing the shots I realize: I’m not a good wife/bride. Shouldn’t I have done this like…
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the minute we got the info? Shouldn’t I have been thrilled about seeing the memories of my big day? I got a lil teary (preggo hormones) and asked John if I was a bad bride and explained why. He said “Your the best bride, you’re just untraditional.” made-up word aside, I like that. I’m just untraditional.
We’ve kinda had an UNtraditional ride:
- We dated, broke up, and dated again. (cardinal sin!)
- We moved in together before marriage. Well, before an engagement even.
- We didn’t have an engagement party, bridal shower, rehearsal dinner, bachelor/ette party
- We didn’t get married in a church.
- We didn’t have a full out wedding.
- We didn’t go on our honeymoon straight away
- We’re having a baby before having a house.
- We’re not baptizing/christening our baby
- We’re not doing the whole godparent thing
- We almost weren’t going to have a baby shower
What’s next?!
Are you traditional? How long did it take you to go through and get your wedding shots printed?
That picture is so precious! Hope you have it framed! I got married 9/3/10 and STILL have not printed out pictures for family. lol. I’m horrible… but I seriously do not have the energy to sort through them all. They all want albums and well… that takes forever. I do want to try and get that out of the way before the baby comes… we’ll see!! I’m pretty traditional in the sense of family traditions… but there are times I go outside of the box and mix things up. 🙂
Wedding photos…what photos? Lol. I have like 10 blurry digital camera photos! I wish we could have afforded a photographer then. You and me are the same! Babies before house, shacking before marriage, no showers or full out weddings…I kind of like being untraditional.
I have my wedding photos but still haven’t made a wedding album. I made a honeymoon album, and a 1 year album, but a wedding album…still working on thinking about getting it started.
I am very traditional and even a bit of an overachiever so all my albums, pictures and such were printed within 6 months of the wedding. However, I love it when I see untraditional people and it suits their relationship and personality so well. I really like that pic of you and John and totally love the response John gave you. So fitting.
Yup, I’m Untraditional. We have the wedding pictures, but we haven’t sent the Thank You cards (we were married back in 2006), is it too late to send them now? Eh, not going to bother.
We have a child before the house, and I don’t see anything wrong with that. Sometimes you have a lot on your plate, I think people will understand.
lol! yep I think it is too late to send the thank you’s
Lol glad I am not the only nontraditional one. We have never been on a honeymoon and we have been married going on 7 years. We moved in before we got engaged also to save money. We were broke when we got married so we had someone take pictures with a regular camera lol it turned out pretty decent and we did not have to spend any money on pics. It’s good to break tradition and do things that you want to do.
I love that you’re untraditional. (although I don’t love that you had such a bad experience with your photographer!) 🙂 I think people should concentrate more on what they think is important and what they want to do, instead of just following along with everyone else. 🙂
I’m traditional and tried to keep everything traditional on our wedding day, but my hairdresser left on a last minute holiday & my make-up artist fell sick… But the photographer was there 🙂
I am also an UNtraditional bride-to-be. People are always so shocked when I tell them that since I write about weddings in magazines for a living. But you don’t have to follow all “the wedding rules” It’s our wedding so we choose to do it our way. If it wasn’t for my fiance, I would be eloping, and have no engagement party, or bachelor party. But he wants it all. Go figure!
Now that I’m reading your story about your photography experience, I’m getting a little nervous. Sometimes you never know what to expect from photographers when you are having a destination wedding. Hopefully, it all turns out well.
I don’t think having a baby before a house is untraditional- not everyone may want to be a home owner. And quite frankly having a baby (only in my experience) requires less funding upfront than a baby. Furthermore not baptising/christening your baby wouldn’t be a tradition if you weren’t Christian.
Being traditional is highly over-rated! Be who “yall” are as a couple. Not what society says to be. Your marriage will be a lot happier and life long … because it’s “yalls” … not traditional. Good luck with your new baby! http://www.dashingdiva.net
Pictures?!?..Developed?………It’s been 7 months and I haven’t even given it a second thought…at least not yet..lol….We did the same thing….shacked up for like 3 years before we got married ….ttc before buying a house. your not alone. I wouldn’t consider myself untraditional…I just figure I’m the type to do what I want, when I want.
Pictures?!?..Developed?………It’s been 7 months and I haven’t even given it a second thought…at least not yet..lol….We did the same thing….shacked up for like 3 years before we got married ….ttc before buying a house. you’re not alone. I wouldn’t consider myself untraditional…I just figure I’m the type to do what I want, when I want.
I am non-traditional in my own way too. I think that part of the joy of life is that you can and should live it in your own style, set your own rules and boundaries.
I am a huge one for photography and that photographer would have felt my wrath. I guess I would have gone the traditional route of ‘sue her backside!’
We can definitely relate! We lived together before engagement. No engagement party or rehearsal dinner. Didn’t get married in a church.
Looks like a lot of us are UNtraditional…. so doe that actually make us Traditional? Lol!
Most of your list mirrors mine. We didn’t officially move in together until we were engaged though, but everything else is pretty much the same lol. We did send our pictures out already, but it’s because my MIL bought them lol.
EEP sweet baby bump and i wouldn’t consider myself traditional either. we moved in way early, won’t baptize either which will break my mom’s heart but she’ll get over it. much love
Ooh I might be heading into that untraditional route..I have done a few on your list…no biggie…it’s all good:-)
We were the same on some fronts! Destination wedding, no photo album, no honeymoon, baby in apartment etc.
Same here. You list looks exactly like mine. Lol
But I’ve always known I’m a little nontraditional…no, a lot nontraditional. Nothing wrong with that 🙂
Yep, quite untraditional. We put the Cart, the carriage, the buggy or whatever else you want to call it before the horse.
Like you, I was on again and off again. We also had two kids prior to getting married. And we really predominately got married when we did was because he was joining the military. And we just purchased our first home together after all of this. ‘Tis life.
Being traditional is overrated sometimes. I understand that it’s important in some aspects but still it’s always nice when a unique spin is put on it. I lived with my husband for 5 years and some change before we eloped. We were engaged for 4.5 of those years. We split for a year then reconnected. We have two kids and not a house in sight yet.
I think these little off beat paths make life more interesting and more worth living. I learned a lot and what I would do different if given the chance. I have lessons I can pass down to my children.
I don’t think your untraditional. I think your just older and a little wiser. When your older you have a few experiences and decide to take your time and try to do you more then what people want you to do.
My checklist:
Moved in before marriage
Engaged and then got pregnant
Pregnant when we married (didn’t wear white)
6 people at the wedding total @ nice small restaurant wedding and reception
Dad gifted honeymoon (we were going to wait)
Happy to know that we didn’t spend tons on one day when we been making memories for years.
Your post sounds exactly like me! LOL We got married in Jamaica, 6 guests, honeymoon there. Dated for 8 years before we got married and that’s ONLY because I had baby fever bad and refused to have him as just a baby daddy…haha. Even though I call him that when he makes me mad. Love your blog! 😀
My husband and I are beyond untraditional. We got married in the courthouse after 8 months of dating. After that we moved my things to his house and then we went to work. 16 years later we still have yet to have a honeymoon. We have been enjoying raising our kids.
I was 6 months pregnant on our wedding day and I let my bridesmaids pick out their own dresses. The only rule I gave was that they had to be black and formal. My first child wasn’t Christened.