Wedding Blog

I’m helping a friend research photographers in the New York area. Her budget is around $4000 - $5000 including albums. I’m going to be posting portfolios from some photographers, so please let me know if you’ve ever worked with them and what you thought. We both liked Zia Photography - with prices starting at $4500, this is at the way top of the budget.

This is…

My good friend Jennifer recently started doing wedding make-up in the New York/New Jersey. She does amazing work! Here are some pictures from a modeling shoot she worked on recently..

Photographer: Tony Yang
Model: Liz Wong
Make-up Artist: booly

For make-up tips and make-over pictures visit booly’s site! She’s especially awesome with Asian makeup.

My mom just called and asked when we’re going to have a baby. She said that Mr. Bee and I would have such beautiful babies… and that it would be great if we had a daughter. She hinted at wanting to become a grandmother in a recent Christmas card, but the official baby pressuring has now begun.

Our plan was to wait 2-2 1/2 years…

First_Loves had an interesting link to the average cost of weddings by zip code on her site. I don’t know how accurate it is, but I put in my home zip code and it gave me an average cost of $80,132 excluding honeymoon, engagement ring, and wedding planner. Including that it says the average can be as high as $106,247. I know New York weddings…

Click here to check the average wedding cost by zipcode.

Where we live now: “On average, couples will spend $72,092.00 for their wedding in New York, New York 10022. This does not include cost for a honeymoon, engagement ring, bridal consultant or wedding planner. Add that in and cost could reach $95,587.00.”

Where we grew up in NJ: “On average, couples will spend $49,580.00 for their wedding in Edison, New Jersey…

Poll Results! This is completely unscientific based solely on the people who commented.

Rings:
1. Round - 22%
2. Ascher - 19%
3. Princess - 17%
4. Radiant - 14%
5. Cushion - 10%
6. Emerald - 10%
7. Marquee - 3%
8. Oval - 1%
9. Pear - 1%

How You Met
1. Through friends
2. College
3. Online
4. High School
5. Club/Bar
6. Party

Average Length of Time Dating Before Getting Engaged: 2 years and 8 months
Average Length of Time From…

I need some hair advice. This is how I originally wanted my hair done:

The stylist thought it would look better parted on the side with some bangs (more pics in earlier post):

I like it but a few people have said that I look Hispanic with my hair styled this way. Looking Hispanic isn’t a bad thing, its just, well, that I’m not Hispanic and my…

My Birthday isn’t for another two weeks, but I’ve been “borrowing” my fab birthday present - a Canon Powershot SD 550. Was finally able to take pictures of my engagement ring:

I bought a wedding band while we were on the cruise. It has princess cut diamonds, .5 carat total weight… can’t really see the detail in the pictures. I can’t wait to actually wear both…

Cakes:
bijoux doux - new york
confetti cakes - new york
jolly be bakery - new york
lovin sullivan cakes - new york
morning starr creations
sylvia weinstock cakes

New York Decor:
armour products - vases
candles 4 less - candles
crate & barrel - vases
durwin rice - vases
etch world - vases
flowers by design - dried flowers / vases
fresh rose petals - fresh rose petals / fresh gardenias
hampton store - candles
illuminations - candles
jamali garden -…

Today we went to pick out our weddings bands and to get my engagement ring fitted. It turns out that it was a 4 but after I got it resized I found out I was a 3. Damn midget fingers.

Ok so back to the wedding bands. Woohoo! Mr. Ladybug’s like “Ok it doesn’t have to have diamonds hun. We’re gonna have to cut costs.” I…

Does anyone have any diy info for this? Also, what is this called? Floral monogram? What’s the correct terminology for this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Borrowing a question from theknot NYC message board:

Married and almost married girls, if you could have done something different with your wedding, what would it be and why?

Right now, I think I would have opted for a small (immediate family and close friends) wedding in the Caribbean or maybe Miami (for easier travel)! Less money and less aggravation!

Each insert you put into an invitation - rsvp card, reception card, direction card, etc. costs $$$. Having very little time to get anything specialty printed for my brother’s wedding, I made maps out of vellum paper and inserted them into the invitations.

Total cost - $20 for the vellum paper.

I finally sent out my save-the-dates. Woohoo!

I sent out my 2nd deposit for my reception hall. Woohoo!

My minister won’t marry us unless we take pre-marital courses which means we have to go to church. Boooooo. (I’m joking! I’m joking! God I’m sorry. I joke.)

I ordered these from paper-source. I thought they were $3.00 each so I ordered 70 but when I got it I realized…

I still haven’t changed my last name. There was a time when everyone I knew changed their last names immediately after marriage. Nowadays I see brides wanting to keep their last names more often. Some plan to change their names eventually but want to hold onto it just a little bit longer. Some don’t want to change their names but do it because they want…