Miss Peach, New Jersey/AtlantaAge and Occupation in 07: 25, Mechanical EngineerFiance's Age and Occupation: 24, StudentEngagement Date: January 27, 2006Wedding Date: March, 2007Venue: Korean Presbyterian Church of Atlanta + Flint HillAbout Me: Mr. Peach and I started dating our senior year of high school when we both lived in Georgia. Since then, we spent 6 years in a long distance relationship. And now by the grace of God, we've made it through; we are living in the same state again (NJ) and we are gettin' married! I was originally going to ask if I could be Miss Mango bc I loveee mangos sooo much, but in the end decided to be true to my GA peach roots! woot!
The DJ I’m considering offers a motorized light show for an additional $75 with his services. Have any of you been to a wedding where they had a lightshow along with the music? What did you think?
My initial thoughts: could look cool, maybe it will really liven up the dance floor? But on the other hand it could look tacky…
Mrs. Daisy, New YorkAge and Occupation: 32, AttorneyFiance's Age and Occupation: 32, FinanceEngagement Date: December 10, 2005Wedding Date: November 11, 2006Blogging Since: June 7, 2006Venue: Metropolitan ClubAbout Me: My favorite activities used to include knitting, cooking, doing the crossword puzzle and about a million other relaxing pursuits. Since my engagement, well, not so much. Wedding planning has become my primary hobby. So much so that I am downgrading my work schedule to part-time in order to more fully dedicate myself to my wedding (and reality tv, as well, if I'm being honest).
In theory, anyway. That’s why we decided to do a proper rehearsal at the Met Club the night before the wedding. Make our wedding party earn their dinners and all that.
My wedding planners (Jennifer and Shira of the Wedding Library) were at the rehearsal to make sure everything went off without a hitch. As it turns out, the rehearsal was a *great* idea, because we…
Mrs. Kiwi, Los AngelesAge and Occupation in 06: 27, BookkeeperFiance's Age and Occupation: 27, P.E. Teach/Coach @ private schools in LAEngagement Date: March 31, 2006Wedding Date: November 3, 2007Venue: Radisson HotelAbout Me: I'm a bookkeeper who failed high school algebra. I'm currently living in Los Angeles, literally a street over from where I grew up with Mr. Kiwi, my honey of three years. We have a jumbo mini-dachshund (seriously, he's huuuuge), and we're planning an autumn themed wedding on a shoestring, paid for by ourselves. The wedding date is my late grandma's birthday, I needed her there somehow, and that seemed like the best way for us. I can't believe I'm a Bee! I couldn't be more proud!
Mr. Kiwi has two wedding related jobs: deciding where we’re having the ceremony (because he’s Catholic and I’m not religious), and finding the music. Since Mr. Kiwi works at a Catholic school, we had two places to consider - either his school’s church or the large white tent in the back of our reception venue. As of two days ago, he decided to forgo the…
Thanks to everyone who entered the Share a Vendor/Website contest. The winner of the Oxo Salad Spinner is Jenn! Congrats! We’ll be shipping it out to you this week.
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Last night I had planned on turning this into a contest, but once I started pulling everything out, I didn’t know what to do. See I have 6 binders, organized according to category, filled with pages…
Mrs. Pearl, Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, High school history teacherFiance's Age and Occupation: 37, Software engineerEngagement Date: No official date, we just decided :-)Wedding Date: July 2007Venue: St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Church, Ritz Carlton Huntington HotelAbout Me: Mr. Pearl and I have been together for about four and a half years now. We've been "engaged" since 2004 and were originally supposed to get married in June 2006, but postponed the wedding to July 2007. I love shopping for housewares and office supplies, music, reading chick lit, football, and the diverse world of Los Angeles dining.
As a tip, there’s a fabulous store Iomoi that sells personalized stationery items. Mr. Pearl and I got our thank you cards from there at an amazing discount (they were half priced when we bought them) and in our wedding colors!
This is an example of their fun, fresh designs:
They’ve moved more into personalized announcements, notecards, invitations, etc., but a lot of their pre-printed cards (like…
Mrs. Bee, New YorkAge and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee PublisherFiance's Age and Occupation: 33, InternetEngagement Date: May 7, 2004Wedding Date: March 5, 2005Venue: Westside Loft, New YorkAbout Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
You guys loved Threadless so much I thought I’d share another cool t-shirt site I stumbled upon today via Shirt Snob. I’m a total nostalgia buff so I love these tees from Nerdy Shirts!
Mrs. Raspberry, DC/New YorkAge and Occupation in 07: 24, Owner/Chief Creative DirectorFiance's Age in 07: 24, Special Investigator for the governmentEngagement Date: August 5, 2006Wedding Date: July 2007Venue: The Roycroft Inn, East Aurora NYAbout Me: I love wedding and event planning. I am having a great time with all of my DIY projects and can't wait to share them with all of the WeddingBee Readers (some have to wait until after our wedding)! Other favorites include: cooking, running, tennis, knitting and making crafts. Mr. Raspberry and I also have two dogs - Gewurz, a 2 year old
yellow lab and Stella, a 1 year old old cock-a poo.
We started to think about the flowers for the wedding. My sister has worked at a nursery for several summers now and does beautiful work, so she will be doing the bouquets and boutonnieres while the arrangements for the reception etc. will be done by a florist (TBD).
I thought the boutonnieres would be an easy place to start the flower search. Flowers that I…
Today’s open question about engagement rings provided some interesting responses in the comments, so I thought we should definitely do a reader buzz on it!
Mrs. Bee, New YorkAge and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee PublisherFiance's Age and Occupation: 33, InternetEngagement Date: May 7, 2004Wedding Date: March 5, 2005Venue: Westside Loft, New YorkAbout Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
Weddingbee reader Jenny sent us a link to Kuler, a new web-based Adobe program that helps you put together color schemes. Users also create, share and vote on color schemes on the site so it’s a great site to get some color scheme inspiration. This one titled Earthy Pastels by mprewitt is a popular one right now:
Kuler offers color rules you can base color schemes on.…
Mrs. Blueberry, Kansas CityAge and Occupation in 06: 21, Full-time StudentFiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Full-time StudentEngagement Date: September 10, 2005Wedding Date: May 25, 2007Venue: Wynbrick Center - a historic mansion in my hometown.About Me: We're having an intimate, 125-ish person wedding with a full-blown dessert reception. When I'm not obsessing over wedding stuff or studying for my BA in English, I'm usually playing with our two kitty cats, blogging, doing crafty things, or hanging out with Mr. Blueberry!
Ihateweddings.com is so mean…just reading some of the horrible things that people were saying made me cry.
I can understand not being all *that* excited about someone’s wedding, and I even agree with some things they are saying on the site, but they just went waaay over the top :(.
Miss Lily, New York/TucsonAge and Occupation in 06: 30, Public Health ResearcherFiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Art/Web StuffEngagement Date: February 11, 2006Wedding Date: April, 2007Venue: Tuscon, ArizonaAbout Me: Here are some things I love?�‚�? painting, drawing, knitting and all other crafty things (including glueing popsicle sticks together); burritos (must be from Arizona); indie/70s rock; whiskey; dogs (if only my tiny apt could support one!); bad TV; and reading. I'm also crazy indecisive so fingers crossed wedding planning doesn't kill me.
Thanksgiving Day for most people is a time to gorge. You eat, you laugh, you lie on the couch and rub your swollen belly. This year, we had a full week of non-stop eating — we squeezed in FOUR wedding tastings on top of the normal holiday fare and my mom’s compulsive need to feed people whenever they set foot in her house. Here’s a…
Keri is getting married in late April and her bridesmaids are wearing navy blue, springish style dresses. Her wedding is at the beach and she’s wondering what a good complementary color would be?
Aleta was planning on buying a wedding organizer, but yesterday’s open question piqued her interest. She’s wondering if the readers can share where they found all their checklists, timelines, planning info,…
Mrs. Bird of Paradise, New OrleansAge and Occupation in '06: 26, Graphic DesignerFiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Operations ManagerEngagement Date: November 28, 2005Wedding Date: November 18, 2006About Me: The wedding is around the corner and planning has been a blast! I've enjoyed nearly every detail obsessed minute of it and I can't imagine what I did with my time before all of this! I can't wait for our wonderful day and the rest of my life with Mr. Soon-to-be Bird of Paradise.
Now that our wedding is over, it’s time for vendor reviews. In addition to blogging on Weddingbee, I’m also a member of other wedding related forums. This got me thinking - should I mention to a few of my favorite vendors that I’ve raved about them and rated them? Has anyone (bees or not) mentioned to their vendors that you are involved in a wedding…
