What are we getting into?

So, Bucklebee Barnes and I are getting married.

We biked 23 miles to the Chicago Botanic Garden a few weeks ago. In a state of exercise-induced giddiness and excitement over giant pumpkins we decided to get married. Bucklebee gave me beautiful Tiffany diamond earrings - engagement earrings are the new thing, you know.

Now we're trying to plan something non-traditional (but it's still a wedding), fun, modern, feminist, simple, affordable, pretty and us. We're blogging about this to share information with the people who are helping us plan and to share this information with people who are also interested in avoiding the wedding industrial complex while planning a wedding.

We are happy to hear opinions and ideas. We are open to just about everything (except for a church wedding, calligraphy, too many white flowers, playing YMCA, being mean to our friends by asking them to wear stupid outfits, or anything extraordinarily stupid). So, here goes.