Weddingbee Blog

I wouldn’t have it any other way! For starters, we’re having a dessert buffet instead of a dinner buffet–we’re noting on our invitations that a reception of dessert, drinks, and dancing will follow, but not telling guest just how much dessert they’ll have available–we’ve arranged for not one but TWO chocolate fountains, both a wedding cake and SOLID FUDGE groom’s cake, a few ethnic desserts, fresh fruit, a coffee bar, tons of other kinds of cookies, candies, and pastries, and whatever else we can think of. I want guests to walk in the door at the reception, see the lavish spread, and just have a jaw-dropping “WOW” moment.

Beyond that, we’re having a “starry night”/”midsummer night’s dream” theme. It’s not going to be overt and “prom-y”, but more subtle–I love light in any and all forms, so we’re draping twinkle lights around the ballroom (with chiffon netting), having luminaries on all the walkways, floating tealights in the centerpieces (floating tealights in clear glass bowls of those “squished marble” clear glass rocks, sitting on square mirrors and surrounded by star-shaped confetti), chinese lanterns strung among the trees outside, even sparklers for the grand send-off!

We’re planning the wedding on a budget, so since we can’t wow the guests with lobster and a 10-piece band, we’ll attempt to do so with personal, funky touches that hopefully they haven’t seen before.

I think it’ll be a bit “cookie-cutter”, as we are going to be on a limited budget, pretty much…as I want to have an AMAZING honeymoon, rather than spend 60,000 on a wedding or something…I really don’t know. I’m still in the researching phase…

Though, all that said, I’d like them to notice that night that everything is beautiful, and delicious, and not entirely just like every wedding they’ve ever been to — with the smaller personal touches, like Katie says.

And I don’t want it all to look completely generic. Bleh.

No way, J! I was gonna do the same thing! lol Except *I* was gonna be the naked girl hehehehe

Break out the white body paint!!!

i’m doing something along the lines of a movie theme…mainly because when people ask me how we met, i tell them to think “sleepless in seattle meets serendipity.” that and a lot of friends have said that we have a “movie love” we’re not going to do too much but my fav idea i came up with so far is to give away a few oscar style awards to guests who give the best speech, travelled the furthest, and is the best dancer…or something like that. but they don’t know that yet.