Mission Statement

Welcome to Not Bridal, a resource for the unconventional bride.

I am engaged and planning a wedding. I am not quite thirty and living in Mexico. I am as feminine, silly, and vain as the next woman. I love parties and pretty dresses and champagne toasts. But I do not love weddings. At least not the bloated, $50,000 affairs they have become, elaborate events that take a year or longer to plan and potentially alienate a bride from fiance and friends. I want to be married to my partner. I adore him. He is my dearest friend and companion in crime and laughter. I very much want to spend my life related to and enthalled by him. I like the idea of the sacrament of marriage; it is a lovely union of convention and romance. I want to be a wife. I just don´t want to be a bride.