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Dear Weddingbee,

Your site has become my daily obsession and source of wedding knowledge. I was wondering if you could help me and other brides with a discussion about wedding colors. I’m sure this probably sounds really simplistic, I mean, I don’t know how many brides have this problem…but, well, I’m having some difficulty envisioning the color of my wedding! So far my invitations are cream and aqua- but how does this translate to flowers and table settings? (Aqua in large doses can run the risk of looking tacky).

So, can you discuss colors (coordinating colors, color combinations, popular seasonal colors, etc.) in future postings? I would really appreciate it. Thank you for your consideration.

Cindy

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Help with color schemes is one of the most common questions we get here at weddingbee, so I thought we’d have a little contest about them! Leave a comment suggesting any color scheme, and we’ll pick one winner at random at 12 pm tomorrow. You can enter more than once, but that will not increase your chances of winning.

The winner will receive a Yasmena wristlet sport bag (similar to Cindy’s color scheme coincidentally ;)) - perfect for travelling or carrying on a jog.

In today’s beehive:

• kp is looking for a wedding planner book to purchase. She’s considering Martha’s, Bride’s Essential Wedding Planner, or Bride’s Book of Lists. Any recommendations/reviews?
• glass is debating whether to take her engagement pictures in the fall or next spring. When did you take yours?
• Emmy wants to know what the deciding factors were in deciding on your veil.
• arbela99 is coming to New York this weekend and is looking for places to check out bejeweled hair combs and any other good wedding stores.

See all past beehives here. To add your question to the beehive, leave a comment below and we’ll update this post to include your question.

I have sensitive skin. Like allergic to everything sensitive skin. Like my cat scratched me in third grade and I still have the scar sensitive skin.

Naturally, my bathroom is filled with bizarre cosmetics from foreign lands, all promising to brighten/tighten/renew/repave without causing an unsightly face rash. Sometimes these things lie, and I end up looking like a leper for a few days. So, it was with great trepidation I approached the fresh facial mask bar at Lush Cosmetics.

But, I really can’t pass up anything that looks like pudding, so I ended up buying a little plastic take-out container of Cosmetic Catastrophe. It’s supposed to be deep cleaning and moisturizing and balancing all at the same time. And, it is.

Sort of a shocker. It managed to clean all my pores and still not leave me all dry and flaky. And I’m face rash free. Ooh.

Lush Cosmetics
#108 - 1293 Broadway
(at 34th St.)
212-564-9120

Hello. I had decided early in the planning process that the men in the wedding party will not wear ties. I have never in my life seen my dad in a tie, and my fiance will wear one only if he has to. I don’t think they should be uncomfortable at our wedding, but I still want the guys to look stylish. However, every ad or article on menswear assumes that ties will be worn, even for casual weddings. Are there particular shirt or jacket styles that look good without ties that I can be looking for? I’m hoping that someone will have advice, pictures, ideas, etc; as I have never seen this issue addressed in magazines or on websites. Thanks.

Maggie

Janelyn - A Houston celebration.

Alikay - Brown, ivory, and green themed Atlanta wedding.

mrsbohlerry - Vibrantly tropic Hawaiian nuptials.

JoeyQsBride - Ivory, green, and orange themed affair.

Mr. Caterpillar’s mama purchased parasols for some of the more sun adverse guests to hide under during the ceremony. A brilliant idea. But the parasols came topped with an odd little square of yellow polyester over the finial for who knows what reason. My OCD required me to pull off all those little pieces of fabric and add decadent southern luxury.

I gilded the tip, then decoupaged a strip of vintage sheet music around the bottom of the finial, and added some silk hydrangea to the top. Finally, I tied a length of ribbon around the whole thing.

Hi wedding bees,

My fiance and I are currently searching high and low for unique groomsmen’s gifts… all four of his groomsmen are completely different from each other - with different interests/occupations/lifestyles/etc. In the process of searching, I found this really cool product idea and I thought perhaps some of your readers might be interested… I think in the future I may be purchasing these for my brothers and my dad, as christmas/birthday gifts.

Basically, this guy, Richard Hamlet invented the “stay tux” technology and applied it to shirts that never get un-tucked. Something about the fibers cause the shirts to re-tuck themselves every time you move. Cool, eh?

If you go on the Richard Adams website, they very cleverly came up with a pre-paid gift set, which is a dress shirt and tie. You purchase it (with free shipping and no sales tax), and your gift receiver will get to submit their own sizes, etc, and receive the gift directly from them. I thought this was as brilliant marketing idea.

Anyways, just thought I’d share the wealth of info.

cheers!

-peachy

There were many imposters but 23 year old Jeong-Hyun Lim, a self-taught guitarist, has officially been confirmed as the man behind the now legendary rendition of Canon in D. When asked why didn’t show his face on the video, he replied:

“Main purpose of my recording is to hear the other’s suggestions about my playing.” He added, “I think play is more significant than appearance. Therefore I want the others to focus on my fingering and sound. Furthermore I know I’m not that handsome.”

Awwww sounds like a nice guy. That totally rocks. Check out his Canon in D one more time.

My Gocco just arrived!

Let the good times roll.

So, I fired my hair and makeup vendor.

I tried to be flexible, I asked her to stay an extra hour — still 2 hours before the ceremony is set to begin — I asked if she could bring someone else along that might be able to stay later. Her answer? NO. As manager of the makeup department of Neiman Marcus, she MUST MUST MUST be a beauty event in Palo Alto, and cannot stay any longer than 12pm. As well, she can’t stay to do hair. And she tried to enlist another hairdresser, but they’re all booked.

Um . . . didn’t we settle this IN MARCH? Did you not have 6 months to figure this out? So, I’m done. And she’s done. I just fired her, and I feel really really good.

I met the women behind Three Designing Women at the National Stationery Show earlier this year, but forgot about their cool product until I saw them featured recently on another blog (sorry forget which one!).

Three Designing Women offers self-inking stamps that you can customize with addresses, monograms, names, sayings, etc. A return address stamp for instance, could be used on your save the dates, invitations, RSVP’s, and more. Best of all of course, you can continue to use them after the wedding.

They also offer monogram stamps in 6 different styles and every letter of the alphabet. Letters can be purchased separately and filled in. These could be used on everything from save the dates to menus to favor tags.

I love their stationery which is designed to be used with their stamps. Just stamp and voila - personalized stationery ready to go. This would even make a nice bridesmaid gift.

Available in fine stationery stores nationwide.

Sometimes it is the little things that remind us why we love our significant others. This morning I found myself daydreaming about my wedding ceremony and how I want to express my love for Mr. Spider. Instead of grand gestures and romantic declarations, I found myself thinking of the small moments we share and the minor things that hold infinite meaning to me. His comforting smell, the way he smiles at me when he says Good Bye in the morning, how tiny I feel when he hugs me, the look of deep concentration on his face when he folds my laundry and the way he holds my hand when we sleep. For these reasons and more, I will love him forever.

What is your “little thing”?

Check out KTtheKCbride’s research on whether or not denture cleaner is safe for cleaning your engagement rings.

How do you clean your engagement rings?

I absolutely love alt_meg8’s silkscreened poster invites she made… in her basement!

Cards, clips, and monograms from Paper-Source

Info sheet and hand-silk screened poster

Wonders of America stamps

See the rest of the pictures on her Flickr invitation set.