Sorry, starting with a quick Pinterest rant here.
Not to get off track, but I used to LOVEEEE Pinterest. Love it. Like Kanye loves Kanye, if that dates me. I’ve been religiously using Pinterest since the early 2010s. If you scroll back far enough, SURE ENOUGH there are mason jars and swaths of pallet boards and excessive amounts of mint-and-coral chevron print.
We’re going WAY back in the blog vault here, but come on. Look at all those crafts I did and aspired to do like, 10 years ago. There’s a reason my DIY + Decor page here is called “Randi with a Pinterest addiction.”
Anyway, all that to say that Pinterest (like most of the internet/ society as a whole) has been destroyed by AI, influencer culture, advertisements, clickbait, late-stage capitalism and human greed.
Sigh.
What used to be an incredible place to visit for project ideas, visual inspiration, handy tutorials, etc., has now turned into an absolute fucking cesspool of AI slop and advertisements.
Juuuuust in time for me to both plan a wedding and design a house. Swell.
I’m grateful Pinterest has started to implement some level of control over the prevalent AI slop, but so much AI garbage is unmarked and still making its way onto my feed. I feel like Pinterest will be completely dead in a few months unless it takes dramatic action.
Huge, HUGE shoutout to the Hive Chrome extension for helping me wade through AI junk.
Even though using Pinterest’s home feed is more effort that it’s worth, Pinterest is still useful as a bookmarking tool, which is good.
I’ve been saving wedding content for the past few months and I just wanted to share some of it.
For some reason, Pinterest won’t let me embed board sections directly into my site, but the board (“OUR 2026 WEDDING”) is separated into sections (venue, colors, flowers, dresses, etc.) if you care to click/ explore.
Because we’ll be having an October wedding at an outdoor venue here in Flagstaff, a lot of our choices will lean into the rustic fall vibes.
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Introducing… our wedding venue!
Also, our venue is close to all-inclusive, which means we’ll probably end up with a very of-the-time aesthetic, which we’re OK with. While I’m trying to avoid as much of the overly-kitschy and tacky (rhymes, reception games, script fonts, “BRIDE EST. 2026” stuff, etc.) and overly-trendy (neon signs, pampas grass, hexagons, etc.) stuff as possible, I know that a lot of it is unavoidable just because we’re trying to be as sustainable as possible, and use what’s already out there.
We are, however, committed to the classics: An open bar, a giant cake, and “Get Low” at full volume on the dance floor.
Everything is still very much a work in progress. We’re a little less than a year out, and while we’ve made some major decisions (booked a venue, a caterer, a photographer, a DJ, etc.) we still have a lot of little stuff to do (engagement photos, bar selections, menu selections, DRESS SHOPPING, decor, etc.)
Between this and the house, the decision fatigue is real.
But, it does feel good to actually be making progress toward things! It’s fun to see it start coming together… and it’s reminding me why I did not pick a career in event planning, coordination and logistics.
