Let's ALL Equally Plan Some Weddings!

You Too Have the Right to Get Married & Deal with Planning this $***

As a young multi-ethnic professional woman, who has a multi-ethnic fiance (who owns a small business), with MANY MANY MANY LGBTQ friends/family I obviously voted for - Romney/Ryan 2012! JUST KIDDING! 

We did it!

Of course I supported the GOBAMA campaign, but boy was this past election day a nail biter! Thankfully our nation's new and well informed generations were there at the polls! Not only did Obama get re-elected, but FOUR states have won the fight on marriage equality! 

Marriage equality was 1 of many good things to come out of this election!

It has always baffled me why some people feel that other people's love could affect their own lives. Now that this country has taken some serious steps forward in marriage equality I am happy to greet my LGBTQ friends with open arms to... WEDDING PLANNING HELL! MWAHAHAHAHA!

I mean COME ON! How could wedding planners, businesses, registries everywhere not rally together sooner to support gay marriage? They're going to make a killing! If my geeky wedding is going to be an amazing and beautiful thing, just imagine all your gay friends' weddings!

Lol this is pretty much going to be my wedding - except with video game tie ins... :D

Good luck to all of you - I'm so glad you will soon get to battle "The Wedding" monster alongside of me and go just as crazy while doing it! Here, have an extra 1up!

Points to you if you hear the sound bite while looking at this image!

My Thoughts on Marriage Equality: DO IT! Let's make this a national phenomenon, that way I can attend some of the most FABULOUS weddings EVER!

To my friends/family who DESERVE Marriage Equality: Your time will come where we can all laugh & cry as you recite your beautiful vows in front of us. And then we'll eat & drink the night away until the wedding planners/venue have to kick us out. Mwa. :) 

XOXO 
- Lani

Pinterest: Great for Geeky Stuff, Wedding Stuff, but Not really Geeky Wedding Stuff

Dear Pinterest, It's Not You...It's Me

I joined Pinterest way before I was engaged. And since I'm a girl & the rest of Pinterest are almost all girls we helped one another plan our flawless $1,000,000 imaginary weddings. LOL!

Now that I am ACTUALLY planning a wedding I'm digging through my Holy Bells of Matrimony board and realizing that the things that I want or like were not directly found via the gaggle of girls that are on Pinterest. I mean, how many froo froo wedding pics do I really need to see?

What is with the weird eggs & the china?  

When it comes to all things GEEK, Pinterest is chock full of material. Comic geekery, anime geekery, superhero geekery, video game geekery, Doctor Who geekery, Star Wars geekery and so on and so on. BUT - the Geek/Nerd Wedding ideas are waaaayyyyyy to cheesy for my taste...I mean OUR tastes (LOL, love you honey). 

Yes, it's a Harry Potter wedding ceremony

Being that we are "Undercover Geeks" to most people when they look at us (that is till they see our apartment or hear the 2 of us chatter on about Legend of Korra) we want our wedding to be geek AND chic. 

Don't get me wrong, we do want/plan on having a Ninja attack at some point in our wedding, but we don't want the whole thing to be a charade - we want a little bit of seriousness & romance. Just a bit. :)

As for the DIY aspect of a wedding (invitations, center pieces, gifts, decorations, etc) there's quite a bit more that I feel is well worth digging through. I almost feel like I'm at Ross, shopping during a huge sale, hoping to find a few gems within the mess of clothes. LOL!

So as you can see Pinterest IS useful, but can only help me in my wedding endeavours as far as everyone else's imaginations and tastes can go. Which stinks a bit as I was kinda hoping it would be a one stop shop for ideas. 

My advice to those who want an original & personalised themed wedding is: Using technology, online resources & tools is fantastic. BUT the best way to reach your goal(s) is to meld minds with your partner in crime, your league of super friends & family, and to share/brainstorm TOGETHER. <3

And doing this over wine couldn't hurt. :D