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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
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.
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:
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:
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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.
What is an LDR bride to do early on in the wedding-planning process? Plan a registry! Looking for china patterns and comparing product reviews is easily done from across an ocean.
I started our process by checking out reviews and comments on the stores that offer registries (to name a few: Macy’s, Crate&Barrel, Walmart, Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, Bed Bath & Beyond…and more recently The Container Store). I also looked into amazon.com and myregistry.com, which both offer universal registries (which means that you can add a link to any item that you can buy online, regardless of the seller).
We decided (OK, I decided, but I did check with Mr. Bracelet) to create our first registry at BB&B. They have a wide selection, a good return policy, and many physical stores that people can visit. I started out by making a comprehensive registry checklist tailored to our needs. Then I proceeded to look for needed items on BB&B. I created a wish list to keep track of the things I was interested in.
Mr. Bracelet and I visited the BB&B store in Bozeman one afternoon last summer. We walked into the store and announced that we would like to open a registry. We sat down in the small registry corner (or booth?) and quickly filled out the paperwork. As this location doesn’t have a fine china section, we were given a catalog to flip through. They paired us up with a young employee who guided us through the different areas of the store. While he was helpful and not pushy, I felt cheated out of the “scanner gun experience” because he held on to it and scanned everything for us. 
Mr. Bracelet examining knives, and our guide holding the scanner gun
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…I been here for years. Well, not years, but days, weeks, months even! I know you haven’t heard from me in ages, but I promise I’ve been around, lurking and catching up on all the exciting news in the hive. This past tax season was a beast and there was no time, let alone energy, to start writing my recaps. (Bonus points to anyone catching the song reference.)
It feels so great to have free time once again and really get settled into married life. I promise my recaps will begin soon, but there is just one more thing the Sunhats need to do.
Image via SecretsResorts.com
Finally take our honeymoon! We are jetting off to Riviera Cancun for a week of relaxation, and I cannot wait. Preparing for the trip has given me plenty of excuses to purchase much needed items such as this:
For our August wedding, I’m hoping the stars align and we’re able to have the ceremony outside. I don’t think it’s a stretch—it doesn’t usually rain here. If we do have a bit of a drizzle rain, I’d rather hold off on the ceremony for 15 minutes than go inside. Getting married outside is important to me! But…I don’t necessarily know how to decorate an outdoor venue. We’ll have gold Chiavari chairs so that will help everything look pulled together, but we do want to have some sort of floral decoration. We’ll be having cream and blush peonies as our flowers, just for a reference point.
When I was at home for Mother’s Day this weekend, I found the perfect outdoor decor item: large ornate shepherd hooks! I got them for $16 each at Big Lots. They’re about as tall as me (5′10″), and so pretty.
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