decor around the place.

when weddings were simple.

So lately, I've become a little bit overwhelmed by how much MONEY weddings cost! Tal and I could put a down payment on an apartment for what the average cost of a wedding is nowadays. IT'S ONE DAY! ONE SPECIAL DAY OF YOUR LIFE!

What matters, the marriage or the wedding? I'm excited to be married to Tal, to have our own little life together, the wedding doesn't mean all that much.



It didn't always used to be this way. It used to be easier for young couples to get married, and most of them are still together today. Now we spend $10,000 average on a wedding, and then breakup 2 years later. hmm. Weddings used to be affordable, the women would get together and cook, they'd have them in backyards, little country halls, and it wasn't ridiculous.

That's what I want.

We're engaged, we're broke, and life is wonderful.

It's funny how something that I never used to do, became so much a part of me that I'm going through weird withdrawal not doing it.

Nowadays, we can post memories, photos, videos, thoughts, anything to facebook literally seconds after it happens. It's strange to not know what to do with the photos on my iPhone. It's become second nature to just automatically post them to facebook. SO!

I'm going to start a photo album. Not on facebook, not with a flikr account, not on a photo blog, but a true honest to God photo album, with paper photos. An album that withstands any computer crash, that will show our future kids what we were like, when we were engaged, broke, and life was wonderful.