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Now we don’t get emails from our male readers very often, so I had to share this with you! Please let Aaron know what you think!

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hello weddingbee ladies,

i find your blog very helpful and filled with some great ideas. my fiance is doing most of the planning of the wedding, and i try to help where i can (she has the fashion/style/color/theme/etc-sense). one way i did help was by designing our save the date magnets with photoshop. i thought i would show you what my fiance and i came up with. we decided to make three different designs, one for our older relatives (a bit formal), one for our friends that have a sense of humor (or at least appreciate our sense of humor), and one that’s kind of more cute (i guess for the people in between, i got the idea from ohjoy’s blog). and of course, these are pictures of us when we were little.

keep up the good work with your blog.

aaron

p.s. my fiance initially thought it was weird that i started reading your blog.

…just put your ipod on shuffle and see what happens!

You can’t make up this suggest a great wedding song game. Put your ipod on shuffle and think of each song in the context of a husband and wife’s first dance. I like to think of Badly Drawn Boy’s “The Shining” which is a really lovely song, but the lyrics are a bit odd and oddly timed.

Faith pours from your walls, drowning your calls
I’ve tried to hear you’re not near
Remembering when I saw your face
Shining my way, pure timing
Now I’ve fallen in deep, slow silent sleep
It’s killing me, I’m dying

to put a little bit of sunshine in your life

In response, Sterogum requests interesting wedding song options from their readers. There are some good ones in the group.

via: topbutton

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban enjoying their honeymoon at the St. Regis, Bora Bora. They’re reportedly staying in the $18,000/night “royal suite.”

It’s kinda sad that they can’t even enjoy their honeymoon without paparazzi following them. Of course I’m not helping by posting this…

(via usweekly)

I know a lot of you are planning on going somewhere sunny and tropical for your honeymoon. Hawaii (If this is you, I hate you), Tahiti (If this is you I really, really hate you), Bora Bora (Same shit, hate you), Fiji (Can you stuff me in your suitcase?), etc…

The hubs and I have been talking about Costa Rica and Belize at the end of this year. Til then, as you know, we are taking a mini vacation in a few weeks to Puerto Rico (HO) which means bikini time! I love bikinis! Especially really cute ones! Every spring I search the web for new swimsuits. I have about 5 bikinis but I only wear 2 - one by J. Crew and another one by Onda de Mar (which is one of my FAVORITE swimsuit designers).

Ok so here are the 2 that I wear:

Here are the 3 that I don’t wear: (Citrus / Pursuit / Pan Dulce)

Here are 3 that Mr. Ladybug wears: (Abercrombie / Hollister / Ralph Lauren)

Hahaha ok I just threw Mr. Ladybug’s in cause I thought they were cute. The one at the bottom he bought on sale ALL BY HIMSELF. The reason I say ALL BY HIMSELF is because he picked out swimming trunks once ALL BY HIMSELF and they were ok. *coughfuglycough* Did I mention that I have a cold? That’s why I’m coughing. *coughitwashideouscough* Whoa nelly! Maybe I need some Robitussin?

Anyways it’s the beginning of a new summer which means I want a new swimsuit! La~ These are ones that I found that I thought were cute. I just ordered the 2nd one, Pretty Paisley. I’m still on the hunt for a great green print bikini so if you see one let me know! You know how I feel about GREEN!

Onda de Mar: Be Delicious
Aqua triangle top with white crochet overlay / Moderate coverage bikini bottom, rides low on hips

Onda de Mar: Pretty Paisley
Halter top is connected in the front w/ pearl style beads / Bikini bottom has moderate coverage

Onda de Mar: Lily Flowers
Asian inspired flower print with belted retro stripe bottom is sexy and sophisiticated.

Vitamin A: Cosmo
Triangle top w/little gold rings at the top of each triangle / Low cut bottom with signature ring, skimpy coverage

L*Space: Teal Wall Flower
Adjustable Slide Halter with rings on strap and removable pads / Open Side Sring Bottom with contrast strings

Roxy: U Spin Me
Adjustable halter, removable pads w/ gold beading on the cups / Moderate coverage, self-tying belt with beads on the end of it and gold beads all over the front of the bottom.

Sources:
Best Swimwear
Canyon Beachwear
Exquisite Swimwear
In Style Swimwear
Molly Brown Swimwear
Swimwear Boutique
Swimwear Express
Victoria’s Secret

In today’s beehive, T wants to know how to deal with a bridesmaid who’s more of a bridezilla, C wants to locate Ann Nguyen’s Knottie bio, and leishia wants to know how she can ask her bridesmaids to purchase their own dresses.

Please feel free to add your question to the hive!

I know I’ve told you often enough about the crazy-madness bridesmaid’s dress I was forced to wear at my friend’s wedding — the hip high slit, the ruching covering the front and the back so it looked like I had more than one butt, the stabby boning in the bodice — yes, I know you’ve heard it all before. But, did I tell you about the makeup person? That she used the same foundation on all 7 of us? Even though we were all of different ethnicities? My face did not match my body at that wedding. Really, no one’s face matched her body — it was like some sort of avant garde performance art thing.

In any case, this was not going to happen on my watch, at my wedding. And, I’m not going to let it happen at yours. Go see Tony at the T. Le Clerc counter at Barneys on Madison. He does amazingly natural makeup — very carefully matching one of the billion T. Le Clerc powder colors to your actual face. And he’s really nice. We’ve decided we’re best friends. And, he has no idea I’m telling all of weddingbee to go see him, but . . . he’ll deal.

Tony at T. Le Clerc
Barneys
660 Madison Ave.
He’s off Mondays and Tuesdays

Check out more of Marcia’s wedding pictures at People.com.

The title of my entry really explains it all when it comes to me and wedding planning. When I went through wedding magazines in the past, I came across the timelines and to-do lists thinking, “ooooh~~ I am TOTALLY going to follow this when I get engaged!”

That is SO not the case with me.

I’m not really sure as to what I’m doing, except that I’ve gotten pretty much everything done by letting my parents take the reins. My own personal confession on why I’m not getting myself so involved with the planning, is the fear for others that I will become THE ultimate bridezilla. I am really the perfect candidate for one with my strong personality and how I naturally tend to be on the bossy side. (or so my sister says)

I’ve lost sleep in the past on whether I made the right choices on the colors of my bridesmaid dresses. Currently, I’m thinking if I should’ve ordered my bridal gown a size smaller. I am leaving that totally up to the bridal shop owner because I feel she would know best if anything. When the other weddingbee brides blog of color schemes, I feel I can’t really contribute because I have all sorts of colors. I am leaving that up to the florists because I am confident that they will do an amazing job. *keeping fingers crossed*

All in all, I just hope everything will come together perfectly like matching puzzle pieces in the way my fiance and I have.

Hi,

Recently my BM asked me to compose a list of who to invite for my potential shower. But aside from my friends, who should I invite? My fiance is pretty close with some of his cousins — should I invite them? And I can’t just include some of his cousins, I’d have to invite all of them, right? I’m just concerned about making them feel obligated to attend and/or getting me a gift.

Thanks,
rm

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Hey Rm,

This one is pretty easy, though it does require a bit of thought and planning. You should invite your fiance’s cousins to your shower if they are also invited to the wedding. All of the women who are invited to the wedding should all, technically, be invited to the shower (so you’ll need to think about who makes the list and who doesn’t). The exception would be those who live a long distance away and won’t be able to attend, however, depending on your relationship, you may want to invite some of them out of courtesy anyway.

Without knowing the dynamic of your family, it’s a bit harder to answer this question, but I would probably say that yes — if you invite one cousin you should probably invite them all. If they cannot attend, then at least they know they were included and that you wanted them to be there. I’ve usually found that in situations like this when I did not want to “burden” others with obligations or gift giving responsibilities, they were usually more hurt by not being included.

Of course, nothing is written in stone and different situations may require different responses, but this is just my point of view (which I should remind you is NOT at all based on anything but my opinion and my own self-annointed wedding junkie status).

shower the people you love with love,

Erica
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My recent registry post garnered some hurtful comments. One person said it was tacky of me to register for things I don’t need. Another person accused me of trying to “make” people pay for my wedding and told me guests are not customers. This second person also told me to elope if I don’t want to bankroll my own wedding. The post has since been taken down.

While I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinions and as a public website we open ourselves to criticism, I find it discouraging and frustrating to read comments like these. Planning a wedding is not easy and I often find that humor and sarcasm gets me through the tedious stuff. While I categorized certain things on my registry as items I don’t necessarily need (in a basic survival kind of way), they are still definitely things that I would be delighted to have. And while I certainly value a guest’s presence over a gift, cash or otherwise, do couples not feel slightly miffed when people show up empty-handed? And lastly, I found the suggestion that I should elope instead of complaining about my money woes to be simply mean.

Going forward I will be more careful about broaching sensitive topics such as money and gifts. This I will do for the sake of peaceful existence but I can’t help feeling that it is a shame. I pour my heart out in my entries and for people to respond in such hurtful ways is truly disheartening.

Drunken figs from Brooklyn’s Cocoavino. Doesn’t that just sound divine? $8.25 for two.

Their bonbons are also supposed to be sinfully delectable. $5.25 for two.

Miss Caterpillar and I attended a Maidenform event yesterday, where they introduced their new line of bridal, bridesmaid, and mother of the bride undergarments.

While I liked their bustiers and control slip, the product I was most impressed with was the One Fabulous Fit Endless Options Demi Bra (which also comes in a strapless variation that can be worn 17 different ways!).

Fabric slits along the back band of the bra enable you to move the straps closer or further apart (or even halter or crisscross) to accomodate your outfit. Since I’m not a big fan of strapless bras in general, this is the perfect solution for widenecked dresses (like a boatneck or scoopneck). And at only $23 online, it’s also very affordable. I have to get one for myself.