What are you doing AFTER the wedding? I don’t mean your honeymoon, or any of that … ahem … other stuff. I mean, what are you and you beloved DOING? Have you worked out the who / what / where / how / why yet?

I’m a person who MUST have goals, has to plan, has to work towards something. At uni it was finishing my degree and getting into grad school, at grad school is was getting out of grad school and getting a job, in 2008 it was planning the wedding, this year it was planning our OE … and when we’re finished the OE … phew boy!

CDH and I want to move to Scandinavia. We know roughly what we expect to pay for land. We know which areas we want to live in. We know the design of the house we’re gonna build.

The next few years we intend to stay in NZ, however, and prepare ourselves for the move. We need to both be in a position where we can support ourselves on home-based business when we get over there, so we’re not relient on finding jobs in a foriegn land where we don’t speak the language. We also intend to be self-suffient (off-the-grid wind and solar power, not connected to mains water, producing a large portion of our own food, you get the idea …)

So the next three years I have to work on – the house design, buying our first home in NZ so we have the capital behind us to make the move and budgeting to put CDH through audio engineering school.

I’m also taking a series of night courses on all the crafts I want to learn, my part in helping us become self sufficient and to help bring in more money through products in my shop, etc.

I’m doing sewing, soapmaking, organic gardening (which I already do, but badly), painting (to brush up my skills and motivate me to continue painting), and possibly graphic design, if I have the time.

I need to expand my writing business to cover our asses as a full-time income when we move, and help CDH get his drum-making business up and running.

As for how Wedding Skulls fits into all these plans, I don’t yet know. I love the shop and blog and hope to keep doing them for as long as I can, but there will come a time when I can no longer talk about weddings.

I have a wicked cool idea for another blog / shop which has the potential to reach a much wider audience than this here lil’ dark wedding blog, I’m NOT saying goodbye, though! I’m just saying, “I’m thinking about changes. Ch-ch-changes!”

Skully brides (and grooms) what are your post-wedding plans? Are you doing anything exciting? Are you buying or building a house, spitting out some babies, or trekking the world? Lets share!