Is The Bride a Wedding Stalker?
Nicola is concerned that her fixation with weddings is a little obsessive. Let her know your thoughts after reading her confessions!
by Nicola Griffin
I fear I’ve become a wedding stalker.
Yesterday James called me at two in the afternoon to tell me that he had just driven past the park where we are getting married, and that there was a ceremony currently in progress. I had to refrain from putting down my work and running to sneak a peek, such was my excitement. Luckily, I do understand that ACTUALLY stalking weddings in real life would not be good behaviour. My stalking is more limited to the ‘published’ world. I’m yet to cross that invisible line from honing in on wedding pictures in newspapers and magazines to standing behind a hedge with a pair of binoculars.
I do, however, believe that my fixation on weddings is perhaps a little bit over-the-top. If I’m standing in a newsagency debating which magazine to buy, a front cover snap of a wedding dress will draw me in every time. Yet as soon as I buy the wedding magazine in question, I quickly flip to the section that features ‘real-life wedding stories’. Also whenever I visit The Knot website, the first article I will read will be about the latest featured real wedding. My appetite for wedding stories is insatiable.
I think the reason why I love these stories so dearly is because they detail the true beauty of the wedding experience. It’s more than just a dress, a suit, two rings, some vows and some food. It’s getting a glimpse of people’s special day, and hearing them share their wedding stories. It puts all the elements of wedding planning together and lets you imagine what your wedding day will be like, what stories you will be able to tell.
So never fear, dear reader. You won’t catch me hiding behind a tree at your wedding. But if your story gets published somewhere, you might, just might, catch me reading it and dreaming about the day I marry James.
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Comments (5)
MrsGross2B, NSW
i do the exact same thing, and my wedding isnt for nearly 4 years. to save my partners sanity i make little scrapbooks so i can obsess a little over weddings and not have him thinking im asking him to buy everything i ‘oh and ahh’ over.
Bec87, WA
I agree with MrsGross2B. My wedding is nearly 4yrs away as well and i have a wedding box! my mum bought me a big cloth storage box from ikea for wedding stuff when we first got engaged and its now full of magazines and clippings. I dont think you are a wedding stalker at all. Most of us brides have been planning our wedding since birth and now that we have the groom it can make us a little morw wedding crazy. Thats not to say we are Bridezillas though!
Have fun, you only get married once (fingers crossed).
Bec87, WA
oh, and if it were me, and i heard of a wedding taking place where mine was, i would have donned my best frock and snuck in as a guest just to have a peak! hehe
jojo17
I agree with these ladies! I am getting married in 18 months 2 weeks ;-P and I am obsessed! I got engaged a week and a half ago and already I have 4 inspiration boards, a notebook, a folder on my computer full of stuff, my bridesmaids/MoH planned, Church booked….so many ideas! I love weddings and whenever there is any mention of the W or the M (marriage) word, I’m there with my full attention! And I wouldn’t have it any other way!
JessMaj
wow it’s good to hear that others do this as well as me…I am obsessed with the real weddings sections – love the videos the most! And I am always looking at and thinking about everything wedding. We get married in just over 9mths now! It’s getting so close! I swear my wedding obsession grows with every month that passes. I think part of the reason is that I am trying to picture mine and put together all of the little bits and peices into an overall image, and looking at other peoples weddings helps me to imagine it.