Weddingbee Blog

From friendofthebride:

My Wedding Favors is giving away 3 free samples of their products including the pea in a pod salt and pepper shaker we featured awhile ago! All you have to pay for is shipping! Woohoo!

Mr. Bee and I are boarding a plane to California this evening for a wedding in the Bay Area tomorrow. We’ll see you when we get back!

Hope you enjoy your holiday weekends!!

(image via: ccpollen)

I never get tired of looking at flowers because they’re just so beautiful and inspiring. (I wish I were half as talented as some of the designers out there!) These extraordinary concoctions are from Bardin Palomo - a talented two person team, and St. Regis Hotel’s in house floral/event designer.

Many wedding videography companies are now offering live webcasts so anyone in the world can be “at your wedding.” Live Internet Weddings charges $400 over the cost of their regular videography services to stream your wedding live on the internet. The webcast is also kept up on their site for 2 weeks for any guest who misses it. Cashman Pro, which serves the Las Vegas area, has been offering webcasting services for three years and even sends out “digital invitations” your guests. (source: nytimes)

Maybe you can’t afford a wedding, or don’t want to deal with everything that goes into planning one. With a webcast wedding, you can have all your friends and family “present” at your ceremony. Or perhaps you’re having a destination wedding where many guests can’t attend, or even an elderly relative who can’t travel. Having a webcasted wedding may just be the next big thing.

What do you think about wedding webcasts? Is it something you’d consider for your own wedding?

In today’s beehive, JW would like to find out about the cost of florists.

Please feel free to add your question to the beehive!

So many things went wrong on our wedding day (like my parents getting stuck in the elevator for an hour and a half at the end of the night, and the fire department coming to rescue them). But of course we look back now, and the things that went wrong are actually some of the best memories. Despite it all, it really was one of the best and happiest days of my entire life.

I like justabride’s honest reviews of her big day and how she kept everything in perspective:

So many things that went wrong leading up to the wedding. So many things that didn’t go as planned on the day. It was far from a perfect wedding and so many moments were a complete blur. But it didn’t matter because I had so much fun.. and I finally was able to exchange vows with the man I love.

Not everything will go according to plan (you can count on that!). But take a deep breath, don’t forget what the day is all about, don’t obsess over all the little details, and most importantly enjoy yourself. The day goes by so fast. Remember you’re marrying the one you love and no matter what… it will be wonderful.

Bentley Meeker is one of New York’s most talented and renown lighting designers. He’s done the weddings of Michael Douglas, Billy Joel, Salman Rushdie, Eddie Murphy, Rudy Giuliani, and more.

The one thing I wanted most for our wedding… was a lighting designer. But it simply wasn’t in our budget and you have to cut back somewhere. Lighting has such a dramatic effect on an event’s ambience - it can truly transform a venue. Looking back, maybe we should have had less flowers and more lighting.

If money were no object, what would you splurge on for your wedding?

Hi there!

I have a question that maybe other brides have also. Do you know of any good recommendations for “bouquet preservation”? Does anyone have any thoughts, pro’s or con’s on it?

Thank you! Love your site!!!

Dana

CD’s are a popular wedding favor, and increasingly nontraditional save the date and invitation. Cleartray offers beautiful and affordable CD’s, DVD’s, and packaging that you can customize with your own design.

Here are some wedding themed examples:

They offer the option of buying just the sleeves or the cd’s/dvd’s. What a fabulous presentation your friends and family are sure to love.

I have a friend who fights with her husband all the time. But they always make up and then they’re closer than ever. I have another friend who’s never been in a single fight with her significant other of many years. So this got me wondering, what’s better (or worse) - fighting too much or fighting too little?

I am the said second person with the SUPER MEAN comments. I’m sorry they were hurtful and I’ll be more sensitive in the future. I actually noticed the post was taken down and felt badly about that. My response was vehement because I felt the tone of your post did not seem to be fully aware of how all this may come off sounding - it seemed like you were flaunting what you were doing, despite acknowledging it wasn’t entirely “proper” (the Emily or Peggy Post comment). Now I know that’s now how it was meant at all.

Please accept my apologies. And I’m sorry my carelessly mean post will prevent you from posting about these issues in the future. I’ll keep a tighter rein on my comments from now on and only post when positive.

Oh, and to your supportive fans (and I’m very much a fan actually - probably why I responded so strongly - I especially love when you, Miss Spider, post inspirational pictures as you have wonderful taste), like I said, I didn’t intend to be mean. I only wish I saw this post earlier to apologize sooner, because looking at some of these posts (OUCH), you guys can be pretty mean, too. So, I hope we have peace and forgiveness?

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It takes a lot of guts to own up to posting that intial comment, I give this girl props for coming forward and for apologizing. I also give props to my supporters who came on strong to show that the weddingbee community has zero tolerance for antagonists. That being said, since the above poster is also a part of the weddingbee community I think we should all accept her apology and move on.

Numb3rs star Diane Farr wed marketing executive Seung Chung in Mammoth Lakes, California last Saturday. She had a traditional Korean ceremony followed by a barbecue on the 23rd, and another American ceremony the next day. The couple plans to honeymoon in Korea and the Maldives.

(source: Starpulse)

Having honed my shopping craft to some degree at a recent trip to the outlets, I proceeded to drag Mr. Daisy to start the wedding band search (we’re talking finger-wear here, not ear candy). At the suggestion of wedding planners Farrell and Jennifer, Mr. Daisy and I headed to Fragments in Soho on a very rainy Saturday.

In the past, we had great success at Fragments, but we didn’t plan on buying on this particular occasion. The trip was more of a reconnaissance mission. There weren’t a ton of men’s rings, but there were a couple of contenders. I wasn’t allowed to bring my camera with me (cough–strict Mr. D–cough) but we especially liked a few brushed platinum bands, with some tooling/indented lines and also plain.

Then yesterday, taking full advantage of my new part-time schedule, I headed to the Fifth Avenue shops to explore more ring options. At Tiffany, I found some classic options:

plain platinum 4.5mm Lucida band

with milgraining

Somehow, in my quest to find Mr. Daisy a ring, I managed to find a band contender for myself as well:

the Tiffany Legacy ring

Aren’t I efficient? I kind of love that band for me but, at the same time, my engagement ring has detailing on the sides:

So I wonder if it’s a lame idea to block those details with a band that has plain, unblingy sides. I also suppose I could have the place that created the e-ring design a band of the same style, that would incorporate the e-ring band details, sans stone basket. Mr. Daisy thinks I should just switch my e-ring to my right hand once we’re wed, but I kind of like the stacked look. Do I switch? Do I stack? Do I customize a band?

And if I switch, then whatever do I do with my Trinity ring, which I love and currently wear on my right ring finger? And also happens to be the very first gift Mr. Daisy gave me, when we’d been dating just under 4 months.

However, all in all, I now am starting to realize the dangers Mr. Daisy warned me about. All this free time is allowing me to go completely batshit insane. I literally just spent the last 1/2 hour photoshopping my e-ring to approximate how a band in its style would look. I think this is my cue to head to the gym. For an entirely different kind of torture and stress.

This seems to be the ultimate topic on weddingbee at the moment. My friends have been stressing and asking me what I want. Not to worry. It’s really s-i-m-p-l-e.

I’ve told them all, gift cards. I personally would rather have credit towards my stores of choice, so I can slowly take the time with my husband-to-be to pick out things to furnish our new place. But for our friends that don’t like the idea of gift cards, I know they will come up with something that I love anyway.

Also, the #1 reason is time. It is not something my fiance and I have a lot of these days. The whole registry idea - pointing and shooting items of choice - seems like a lot of fun. But it’s nearly impossible to find a day in our schedules where we can meet up for even a few hours. When we finally get time for ourselves, I’d rather spend that as quality time to eat, laugh and maybe catch a flick instead. I feel it’s the only way we’ll keep our sanity and our record of three and a half years fight free.