To new beginnings...

Hello, and welcome to A Rosey Wedding! I've always wanted to start a blog, and I finally have a reason to do it.

I'm newly engaged (since April 2010 which doesn't feel so "newly"). I hope to relay my experience and findings in planning my wedding. I hope to fill it with posts about random yet adorable wedding nicknacks, great contests I find, affordable DIY ideas, suggestions on good questions to ask, and hopefully some words of wisdom along the way.

My goal is to make one decision a month so I don't get overwhelmed with the planning. My fiance and I were originally looking to have the wedding during the summer of 2010, but as we looked at locations we found that there was little left in the summer on a Saturday. We also were quite naive in knowing the cost of weddings. In our minds we could get away with a nice, but quaint $5,000 wedding.

Well, our expectations are now a little more realistic. We decided to move the date to the summer of 2011 and to boost our budget up to 10-15 thousand. The change of date means we have a lot more time for planning and negotiating, and for the most part getting the pick of the litter. Plus the extra time means extra saving! The increase in budget means we can have something more than a backyard BBQ (nothing wrong with those mind you, but just not what I envisioned for my own wedding day).

I look forward to this new endeavor, and I hope to make some new online friends along the way. :)

A Rosey Bride