When we were originally engaged, we planned on getting married in Spring 2013. Last year we realized that since we are paying for the wedding ourselves, cash, we needed more time to save money. We moved the wedding to 2014. This also has the added benefit of my having 10 years at my work, so I will have 4 weeks of vacation instead of my usual 3 = I can take a whole week off leading up to the wedding without 'feeling' like I'm loosing a week of vacation.
Over New Years, talking to my mom about a family vacation to Las Vegas (no one in my family has gone) we somehow got onto the subject of my getting married in Vegas. I was completely against the idea (it had been brought up a million times by friends here in Oregon), until my mom pointed out a fact that I had overlooked. Getting married in Vegas did not mean getting married on the spur of the moment in a place like the Chapel of the Bells:
Based on this tidbit, I have spent the last twoish months talking myself into getting married in Vegas, at the Venetian, on their Wedding Bridge.
Going this route would mean having a lot less people at our wedding, and we would not have selected to have a formal reception, just everyone going to dinner afterwards.
While this would have been a beautiful, and somewhat simpler, option, and I would have been happy on my wedding day, I was having trouble fully investing in this idea.
Then a friend asked me the other day if I really wanted to get married in Las Vegas, or in Eugene. I closed my eyes and imagined my wedding day. I imagined myself walking towards my fiancee. I was not in Las Vegas. I was not indoors standing on a bridge over a canal. I was outdoors, surrounded by the beauty that in my home. I was in Oregon.
That was it, I knew what I wanted in my heart. I talked to Jessy about it and I asked him, where do you want to get married? He said he wanted to get married here, in our home, with our friends and family.
That was it. Decision made. We are getting married in Oregon.
Now to find a venue.
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