before i explain my wedding website hypocrisy, let's get three things out of the way:
1. it's JULY! holy cow how did that happen? a lot of important things happen in july so don't worry, i'll be posting more regularly than i did during the second half of june. the world didn't want me to learn much for the past week and a half-ish, but i'm pretty confident i'll learn a lot in july. if i don't, i'll lie.
2. the fourth of july is in TWO DAYS! super pumped!
3. when i originally said i had three things to get out of the way, i know there was a third ... but it's gone. it flew right out of my brain and instead of changing my original sentence, i'm just leaving it to say three things and giving you guys a glimpse into the chaos that is my life. it's all about transparency, people.
so now that our business is taken care of, let's move on to the beast that is the wedding website.
i've recently (or maybe not so recently ... but i'm just now admitting it) realized that i'm the poster child for wedding website hypocrisy. now don't get me wrong, i've never actually made one due to my lack of boyfriend/fiancé/husband, but roughly a million people that i know have gotten engaged or married in the past two to three years. you think i'm lying, but people are marriage happy these days and everyone and their mother is getting hitched.
most of those people make wedding websites ... you know the type, right? maybe they used the knot or wedding wire or even e-weddings, but somehow they put all their information into some kind of cutesy website so friends and family can read all about the event. until just recently, i vehemently stood by my opinion that these were probably unnecessary considering that most everything you find on them is already news to everyone via the invitation or word of mouth. and if it's not already known, it's probably not that important anyways.
i mean, come on ... if you don't know where someone is registered, you just buy whatever you want because they should really just be happy that you're spending the day celebrating their vows, but whatever. when i get married in 1,000 years i'm going to ask that everyone take their money and buy themselves a gift and come ready to run crazy throughout the magic kingdom (talk about a baller reception venue).
anyways, as much as i hate to admit it, i've decided to change my tune about those pesky little websites. i realized as i searched for the details regarding a friend's recent engagement that the only thing more annoying than a wedding website is not having a wedding website. this revelation shocked me since i was so anti-website, but seriously. i might not give two craps about where you're registered or how you met (both things i either already know or won't need to know ever), but i do care who's in the wedding party, where your event is, and maybe even where you're honeymooning. because let's be honest, that's the cool part (unless of course you're receiving the gifts...then that part is cool for you) and people survive off of cool gossip.
so in conclusion, can all the newly engaged people do the world (or maybe just me?) a favor and make wedding websites? i promise to stop thinking they're silly if you promise to give the world/megan what it wants: DETAILS.
