Theme and things

Wishes. That's our theme. As in, "I wish I get to go to Disneyland for my honeymoon, and not stupid Paris like Pumpkin wants." Paris, in itself, is not stupid of course. Beautiful city. Anyway, I'm getting that wish. Which kind of makes me froth over with joy because my boyfriend - um, fiance accepts the little kid in me. Kind of seems to admire it, or something. Also a good thing since I've been doing all this "what is the meaning of..." and "wow, it's a long way off this cliff into that grown-up marriage..." and maybe acting more than usually like the acid is just coming on. Witness this attempt to share some fun (to me) and interesting (I hope) details while we wait for the date to lock and how it's devolved into "Matt is great! He gives me chocolate cake!".

Oh My God, what if no one comes and all our jello melts?
Okay, back to reality. Some things to share.

Wishes is our theme.

We're asking the minor children in our family to be in the ceremony.

The fastest, easiest decision was cake. S (braced for a long debate about fondant): "What do you think about the cake?" M: "Chocolate raspberry." S: "Sold!"

Rings really had us stumped. Clearly a couple who shouts about baby arms when walking past jewelery stores is not about to plunk down a bunch of cash for some metal. But rings are important. But we will not be crushed by the wedding industry monster. But we like shiny things. Solution: jewelry making class.

(We may not end up with the most beautiful rings.)

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I realized that Matthew already mentioned these details, so here are a couple more.

We're asking the guests to dress in monochrome. Any number of shades of the same (or similar) hue(s). The bride will be in rainbow and the groom in white with rainbow embroidery done by the bride. Somehow ribbons will be involved for at least the young ladies we're asking to participate. Stumped somewhat on an accessory for the young gentlemen, so if anyone has an idea?

Both atheists, we agree that invoking a deity during the ceremony would feel blasphemous. But since we could be wrong about the nature of the universe (I mean, odds are, right?), we want to have a period of time after the ceremony when our friends & family members of faith could bless us according to their own understandings. In my head, this happens under a small canopy, but we'll need to let that one ferment.

Music - The only piece that struck us both is Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me To the End of Love" (which is probably called something else). If we think of you as a friend, and you perform music, don't be surprised if we ask you if you'd like to play something of your choosing. Once we have a locked date. Riley, you should count on it.

Bride saves wedding guests from paint poisoning! Matthew wanted very much to paint minis for cake toppers. But we came up with an even better alternative.

Coloring books, paper airplane materials for guests to play with. I hope we can also revive the Monster Lab of Broken Dolls.