My Small Skinny Hallowedding: 10 Days Out

This is not normally a wedding blog and when I started it I was not expecting to get married on Halloween. Honestly, I was not expecting to ever get married. While I believe in love, I do not like the idea of marriage. I feel like it says that if you want to break up that you have to pay a fine for getting together in the first place. Everyone else seems to feel differently.  Now that we're signing paperwork, all of a sudden my mother is getting a son. My boyfriend is now more than happy to call me his wife, even though we've been living together for years and have known each other since high school. And, um, I'm a bride.  For years I told Greg I did not want to be a bride.  No ring, I would lose it.  No dress. No standing up in front of people saying vows.  No dancing. No. Not no to Greg, but no to marriage.

Then the first week in October Greg's out-of-pocket insurance premium increased by 360%. WITHOUT WARNING, GUYS. My benefits, however, have stayed the same. And we were like, "Oh crap, we have to get married now." We picked Halloween so we could have a fun anniversary to remember. At first we were going to keep it a secret because his brother Jeremy has been planning a wedding for the past year, and now we're up and getting married less than two weeks before the big day? Is that a forgivable offense?  Well apparently so, because everyone seems to be happy we're finally making it official and it's not like we are throwing a big shindig and making people attend two weddings in the same month. We're running to elope at the courthouse and nobody is officially invited. We can still always renew our vows and invite people next year or something.

So here I was expecting a two year engagement and now it's ten days before my wedding day.  Let's get to details:

Us:

(This is me on my 29th Birthday.  It's my favorite photos of us.)

Wedding rings:  Have not come in the mail yet.  We ordered them from Typerings.com on October 11th.  If we don't get them by the wedding, we'll just use some cheapo rings and then swap them for these:

But I really hope we get to use the ones we want.

And, of course, my engagement ring:

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court is really pretty in a quaint looking part of Downtown Annapolis! I served Jury Duty there back in 2009 and while I was there I saw some couples get married so it has been in the back of my mind that I could always get married here if I absolutely had to.

We'll eat here:

 Red Robin, hands down, is our place. We always go there to celebrate everything and it has been our rock when other restaurants have let us down.

My wedding dress!  I plan on wearing it everywhere as long as it fits.  I've always wanted an LBD!

And no, I won't look like a lean little noodle in it.  ;-)

Necklace.

Bracelet.

A wrap.

I haven't decided on hair, shoes, veil, or flowers. That's my next step.  I feel like I should give local businesses some, well, business, but part of me wants to try my hand at being crafty and pinteresting.  Pretty last minute though.  We'll see!

Greg's still deciding what to wear. He thinks probably a white shirt and black pants and two different color vans. :)  He has a closet of vans in all different colors in the same pattern.  

We're also stick deciding if we want to dress up in Halloween costume. Maybe paint our faces. :)

Is it weird that I hope it rains that day and is dark and spooky looking? 

I can't wait to start planning my vow renewal!  I have all these ideas!