What's in a monogram

In all the hustle and bustle of wedding planning, I did a lot of research on invitations. There is one common theme that I noticed in most of the invitations, monograms. I didn't know too much, nor did I care about monograms before I became engaged. After spending way too much hours looking at wedding porn, I noticed that those with monograms that are carried throughout their wedding have clean and consistent look. I tried exploring several options, and designing them myself, but nothing seemed to work right. Plus, I didn't know how I felt about using our Joe's last name initial before the wedding. So, I scratched the idea but have always loved the way they look in other weddings I seen.

Recently however, I decided to give it another shot in designing our monogram. It took about 5 minutes, and I absolutely love it. However, it is a bit too late in the game to incorporate this into our wedding since the invitations have been made and the majority of the other paper decisions have been started. Also, it still uses our new last name initial, so I'd like to save it to use after the wedding as a symbol of our new family.
I loved this monogram because I love the look of black and white. It pays tribute to my love for damask. Unlike other brides, I don't have experience with Photoshop, even though I have the program. I find it very hard to use. So, I did a lot of my design in Microsoft Powerpoint and turn it into a jpg picture to use for my purposes. I think doing it this way is extremely inefficient, but I don't have the time to learn to use Photoshop and I don't care to. I'll definitely have more tutorial on the creation of this bad boy.