I’m going to be cliché and start my first post off with: HELLO WORLD!

Ever since Jeff told me that he wanted to create a wedding website I was completely stoked and couldn’t wait until it was up and running… and here we are! I’m so excited to have a place to share our thoughts, ideas and experiences on the planning of our wedding extravaganza! And yes, I’ve taken quite a liking to calling it that: EXTRAVAGANZA! Sounds way more exciting, right?

The purpose of this site is,  as Jeff mentioned, a place for our friends and family to get new developments on the wedding planning & upcoming events, as well as a place to connect with us or our amazing wedding party. But as a first time bride (and last time bride! ;P) Jeff also encouraged me to use this as an outlet to share whatever was on my mind when planning the wedding – the good, the bad and the ugly.  I thought that this was an awesome idea since for the 8 or so months that we’ve been engaged, I’ve accumulated a ridiculous amount of ideas, inspiration and advice so I’m almost positive that I won’t experience the dreaded writer’s block here! The goal here is to hopefully help other brides in the planning process; whether you learn something through my own successful experiences or through my inevitable blunders – either way, I hope that I can be a resource to others the way so many other brides, blogs, sites and forums have been for me these last few months.

I’m also looking forward to documenting the whole process… somewhere to immortalize the whole experience. Time goes by so quickly that it would be nice to look back on this, post-wedding, and be reminded of the true labour of love it took to get there

So since I’m obviously going to be around a lot (giving Evelyn a run for her money as The Chatterbox, no doubt), I  thought it’d be a good idea to prepare you for my, um, writing style. What you can expect (”Jeanna-isms”, if you will):

• I have my own vocabulary and will often use made up words
• I quote Family Guy. Often. “Now I may be an idiot, but there is one thing I am not, sir, and that, sir, is an idiot.”
• I like to make stupid plays on words… for my draft speech, I actually have written: “Jeff, you have been my caterpillar of strength.”
• I sometimes have Valley Girl Tourettes.  I, like, totally blame The Hills, like.
• I sometimes have Gangsta Tourettes. What is that saying? You can take the girl out of Scarborough but you can’t take the Scarborough out of the girl? Don’t hate, yo.
• I’m corny and enjoy a good pun or two
• I usually write like I converse and when I converse I laugh often… so expect a lot of haha-ing and LOLLERSKATING ;P
• I love, LOVE emoticons. I apologize in advance if you suffer from Emoticon Fatigue.

Aside from those things, I think I’m a pretty ok writer

Anyway, thanks for reading my intro and disclaimer… I guess I’ll see you around!