A Wedding Post

Okay, so we haven’t had a wedding post yet and we thought it was about time to communicate some of what we’re thinking so far. And because this is so important to both of us, Casy is sitting next to me helping to write this post (and he says hello). This is a text-heavy post, so take breaks if you need to!

Generally speaking, we’d like our celebration to be small, low key, non-traditional, and inexpensive. We have some challenges in front of us…ironically, some of these challenges come from wanting to keep things simple and small and some come from having family literally all over the nation! On my mom’s side alone, we must occupy at least 5 states! But we’re determined to keep with our original vision of our special day and we’ve come up with a pretty good plan.

We’re going to get married in the courthouse, surrounded by our immediate families only. Parents, siblings, and grandparents. That will be our entire wedding!

Following the wedding, we’ll go to my parents’ house for a small celebration of our marriage with the Johnson side…we’ll have a tent in the backyard, simple food, a cake made by my sister, and iPod music playlists. We’ll have croquet and badminton…and we’ll pray for good weather.

Once Casy is done with school, we’ll travel down to OK with my immediate family to celebrate our marriage with the Fath side. We’re thinking we’ll have a pot luck barn party! We’d like to talk with Tony and Jill to see how we can best plan this piece of it…it’ll be a bit harder since we won’t be there, but we have some time to travel down there before the event if we need to.

We’ll postpone the honeymoon until Casy is done with school and then we’ll leave for a week to visit Prince Edward Island and/or Montreal…we’ve never been to PEI before, but it looks beautiful so we’re going to give it a shot. We’d also like to plan a larger trip sometime in the next couple of years to Europe…but not until we’re more established financially.

Our wedding date is May 1st and we haven’t set a date for the OK celebration or our honeymoon. We’re taking a trip down to OK at the end of December so hopefully we can spend some time hammering out those kinds of details. And if we have to wait until August for the honeymoon, we’re okay with that! Maybe we’ll get married on Casy’s birthday and be on our honeymoon on mine!

We’re not currently registered anywhere, and we were debating whether to do that at all (we really don't need anything...we filled a lot of those gaps when we moved in together), but everyone we talk to says it would be appreciated so we’ll probably put something together. We’ll keep you posted!

Our final note about all of this is just that we’d like it to be special, intimate, simple, and responsible. Responsibility, for us, is both financial and environmental. We’d like to waste as little as possible in both of those contexts.

Anyway, that’s what we’re thinking!

Love, Casy and Theresa