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Before and after we got engaged, we were trying to figure out the answer to our biggest question: where to get married. As in which side of the Atlantic Ocean.

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First off, you’ll need to know a bit more about our respective backgrounds. I grew up in Germany. I have relatives here and all my friends are here, but I also have many relatives in the South (of the US). Mr. Bracelet hails from Montana and has a large extended family, who own a big ranch. This means that traveling for a long time is not an option for them.

When it was just Mr. Braclet and me talking about getting married, I favored…

Option 1: Having the complete wedding in the US, maybe even Montana.

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bRooklynRocks had a glam and romantic centerpiece layout for her wedding reception.

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The next morning, my alarm went off way too stinkin’ early. First thing I did? Put on my swimsuit and hopped in the hot tub. While the ladies were inside scrambling to get ready for the day, I took about 10 minutes to just enjoy the morning. Like I mentioned before, I was still seeing this as just another Saturday. Finally a knock on the cabin door brought me out of the hot tub and to the kitchen table to get my hair done. I love you guys enough to post this picture of me freshly scrubbed and mid hair-doing. Because there’s a good story to go with it.

Photo courtesy of Sis-in-Law K.S.

I was the last one to get my hair done. I scarfed down a breakfast of eggs and brownies (duh…) and watched as Becca curled and pinned the four girls’ hair. Then it was my turn.

Anyone remember this scene? Yeah, that happened. To me. On my wedding day. For the record, there was no way we could have known it was going to happen. Becca had already used the same iron on everyone else, but for whatever reason, it shorted out and amped way up just as she started in on my hair. I nice big chunk of hair on the underside of my head was gone. Everyone was really quiet and didn’t know how to react. But I just shrugged it off. Not a big deal—with enough spray and pins, you would never know. And the morning just kept on rolling.

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Hello hive! Mr. Beanstalk and I just got back from a little weekend getaway to Miami! It was a very busy trip filled with tons of wedding-related outings. Mr. Beanstalk and I got a TON of planning done, which makes us both feel extra good because, now that most of the big things have been booked and decided on, we can kind of just sit back and relax for a bit! I still have quite a bit to do, but it’s all of the little DIY details that I feel I can now take my time on and therefore really enjoy the process.

Delray Beach, Florida / Personal image

So what did we do while we were in Miami? Swim and bask in the warm South Florida sun was what I desperately wanted to do, but sadly couldn’t do, due to my little friend on my right foot, Mr. Cast!. My fractured foot (and cast) did make my trip hard. I didn’t realize how swollen my leg would get due to the heat. Every once in a while I would have to stop whatever I was doing so that I could elevate my foot. Another hardship due to my foot: I couldn’t take as many photos as I normally would (crutches and a camera don’t mix well!). Also, using crutches in the heat is so incredibly hard. Walking up the street in Delray Beach was torture! But thankfully I had Mr. Beanstalk to help me when we were out. (He gave me quite a few piggyback rides!) And I had my parents, who helped me a ton while we were at home.

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Lady T makes few wedding requests. She’ll tell you that she is not the creative genius behind our event, but rather the inspiration and the enabler.

I say, “T, I want shiny metallic table cloths.” She says, “OK! Let’s figure out how to do that!”

It’s really quite awesome for me––in fact, she’s this way with me in most life situations. I’m a little crazy, but she always helps me build the foundations under my dream clouds.

Because her requests are minimal, I take them very seriously.

Time and time again she has mentioned that she’d like my hair to be down and that I don’t wear any sort of veil at our wedding. She’s really partial to my hair when it is curled.

Photo by me

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I am so stinkin’ excited to finally share about our favors!! They are something that I had seen in a magazine and fell in love with awhile back, but I had to wait until much closer to the wedding to acquire all the necessary ingredients and assemble them. Don’t get me wrong, I changed my mind about what they should actually be about 29,853 times before I finally settled on one, but once I stumbled across this idea, I knew it would be perfect.

At first we were thinking bottles of Dinosaur BBQ sauce for everyone, but that would really only make sense if we had the wedding in upstate New York near Foxy’s parents and actually served their (freaking delicious) BBQ.

Image via Amazon

We also considered wine as favors since we are both such big wine-heads, but that had the potential of going out of our budget very quickly. I also think it fits more with a vineyard wedding, and it didn’t quite work with the rest of the feel of our wedding, if that makes any sense.

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The New York Times recently published an article about the quirks of people who live alone. Mr. T and I both live alone and have for the last four years. My lease is up about a month before the wedding, so I’ll move into Mr. T’s condo then. Even though we spend a lot of time together, I’m trying to savor my last six months of single living. This means embracing my Secret Single Behavior, a phrase coined by Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City about the things people do when they’re alone.

Some of the things I do are:

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The night we got engaged, I called and texted pretty much everyone in my phone’s contact list. I bet you can guess what the number one response was.

“Congratulations! Have you set a date yet?”

Did I mention this was less than 24 hours after he popped the question?

For most engaged couples, picking the “where” is a lot easier than picking the “when.” For us, it was the complete opposite.

Let’s start at the very beginning—I’ve heard it’s a very good place to start.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a very specific image of what a bride looks like. She’s young, she’s radiantly happy, and she’s wearing a long, white, lacy, long-sleeved dress with a crown and a full veil.

What can I say—I’m a detail-oriented person.

My very specific image of the perfect bride comes from this picture:

Isn’t she the most beautiful bride you’ve ever seen? / Photo courtesy of my Mammaw

Hive, meet my Mammaw, my dad’s mother. It’s fitting, really, that she should provide my image of an ideal bride, because she and my Papaw have also provided one of my images of an ideal marriage; my parents have provided another. Since I was very young, mental images of my wedding day have changed greatly, but my dream bridal ensemble has always resembled this (perhaps with a slightly different crown).

See, I’ve always felt a bride should look like a princess. And princesses wear long-sleeved white gowns on their wedding day!

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I know I talked a bit about ordering our wedding bands, but I didn’t take any photos of my own so all I could do was find some that looked similar. I’m happy to report that our bands have finally arrived and it’s time to show off the real deal!

Here they are in all of their glory:

Shhh. I took a sneak peek of wearing my wedding band when Mr. Coyote wasn’t looking. I absolutely love how perfectly my two rings go together.

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