i hear the best place to start is at the beginning...

first, a confession because confession, i hear, is good for the soul:
hello my name is talda and i am not yet engaged.

okay, so my name's not really talda but i really am not engaged yet. so why do i have a wedding planning blog? the same reason why i have the binder: i am pretty weirdly obsessed with planning and researching…oh just about everything under the sun. give me an idea, the internet, and an hour and i’ll have a pretty good list going for you. with sub-bullets. i plan/research just about everything that’s going on, from birthday parties to new apartments that i haven’t moved into yet to vacations with the boy that haven’t even had a chance to happen, as if they were happening tomorrow. it’s what i do. sometimes i think i’m more excited about the research than anything else.

to the uninitiated, planning a wedding on your own seems like a daunting task but it is actually made easier with the proper research and lead time. it started innocently enough when i started to help my best friend plan her wedding two years ago but anyone who’s planning a wedding knows that all it takes is one exposure to a bridal magazine and next thing you know you’re emailing potential venues to price them out even though your ring finger is empty.

see, that planning-itis is no joke.

thankfully i have a very supportive and understanding boyfriend who puts up with my antics. he’s fully aware of the binder though is waiting until we are officially engaged before venturing a look but he has already voiced some opinions on what he would like and has vetoed other ideas of mine.

and i've secretly and lovingly nicknamed our wedding, “the weddening.” i’m sure he wouldn’t mind. right?

want to know what i’m doing when i’m not thinking of the millionth and one craft idea i totally want to do for the weddening? check me out at my personal blog where i’m probably talking about some other craft idea i saw somewhere that i totally want to do.

only with less tulle.