Eclectic – Adjective: Deriving ideas, style or taste from a
broad and diverse range of sources.
Although we are having a fairly traditional wedding I have
still been sneaking in some personal touches here and there. And now that a
large number of those touches are coming together I’m starting to notice that
they don’t always jive. For instance, we like wine, but we also like
coffee. Our cake toppers are Charlie Brown and Lucy, but our
toasting glasses are dragons. And I haven't written a post about it yet (whoops!), but my bouquet will have both bees
and some cute coyote charms I found.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to themed weddings –
especially since Miss Potion gave us her awesome breakdown of how she and Mr.
Potion chose theirs – and I started to wonder if I was a bad bride for not
having one. When people ask me what my wedding vision is (one of my most hated
wedding questions by the way), I usually respond with, “Our vision is to
get through the day with the least amount of things going wrong as possible.”
And while I’m being tongue-in-cheek with my answer, it’s the
truth. But sometimes I am paralyzed with fear that our wedding day is going to
look like a big ol’ smorgasbord of “Things The Coyotes Think Are Cool”
because we chose not to have cohesive theme like “birds” or “carnival” or even just some key
words like “beach” or “pumpkins” to describe our wedding and bring everything together. But then I think,
is that what we really wanted to bring to our wedding? Seashells on our
invitations and our tables and our cake?
The truth is Mr. Coyote and I are kind of eclectic. He likes
biking and video games and wine. I like hiking and reading and coffee. And our
life reflects both our mutual and diverse interests. Why shouldn’t our wedding
reflect the same aspects of our relationship? And so, our theme will be a
compilation of our favorite things on one of our favorite days. We basically want to say to our guests: “Welcome to the
Coyote wedding. We are so happy you are here with us today, now please enjoy a few of our favorite things.”
Are there any other
theme-less brides out there? Are you worried about how it’s all going to tie
together?
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