Mrs. Plum, Dallas
Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin
Engagement Date: December 31, 2004
Wedding Date: June 29, 2007
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens
About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
p.s. thanks Yumi - I decided to wear the tiara you got me!
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Mrs. Bee, New York
Age and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee Publisher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Internet
Engagement Date: May 7, 2004
Wedding Date: March 5, 2005
Venue: Westside Loft, New York
About Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
Not Martha has great step by step tutorials on how to make your own wine charms and marble magnets. Either of these would be excellent bridal shower or wedding favors - they’re both easy to make and super affordable! I’m definitely going to try these projects when I need some cute, inexpensive gifts. Thanks Not Martha!
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Mrs. Lime, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation in 06: 25, Design
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, IT
Engagement Date: July 7, 2006
Wedding Date: August 5, 2007
Venue: An historic estate
About Me: Between work and wedding planning, I try to squeeze in napping, drawing, random spurts of craftiness, tennis, and eating lots of Sprinkles cupcakes, dark chocolate, and noodles of all kinds. Mr. Lime and I have spent our adult lives growing up together, and we're very excited to finally be getting married!
[1] I cannot whistle. At all.
[2] I don’t like eating certain foods because you have to use your hands, and they’re greasy or messy. In other words, I’m lazy. For example, fried chicken, El Pollo Loco or any other build-your-own fajita type things (even if utensils are provided), etc. But then I don’t mind eating Ethiopian, Indian, or Thai sticky rice + accompaniments with my…
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Mrs. Blueberry, Kansas City
Age and Occupation in 06: 21, Full-time Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Full-time Student
Engagement Date: September 10, 2005
Wedding Date: May 25, 2007
Venue: 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!
Last night my MOH and dear friend Katie turned 21. Since many of our other friends are still 20, she wanted to go celebrate somewhere that they could come along (ie not a typical bar). So about 15 of us got together at the new Dave and Buster’s that opened not too long ago out at Legends (a big shopping/dining complex out on the Kansas…
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Beehive
Feature Launched: Aug 31, 2006
About: A forum for readers to post questions and get feedback from the hive, aka the weddingbee community.
March 31st, 2007 @ 12:03 pm by Beehive
In today’s hive:
- Bella wants to know where she can get her shoes and her bm’s shoes dyed in NYC.
- heyjanety wants to know where she can get cute hair accessories for her two flower girls ages 1 and 3. Preferably a headband, but clips are ok too. Any suggestions?
- helene’s fiance only likes ice cream cakes, so she wants to surprise him with an ice cream grooms…
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Mrs. Plum, Dallas
Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin
Engagement Date: December 31, 2004
Wedding Date: June 29, 2007
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens
About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
We finally had our menu tasting today - and I have to tell you - it was SO GOOD! I am so relieved now (not that I was too worried in the first place) because I booked the venue before ever tasting/doing any researching on the food! Everyone told me not to worry - that it was the best food at a wedding they’ve ever…
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Mrs. Bee, New York
Age and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee Publisher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Internet
Engagement Date: May 7, 2004
Wedding Date: March 5, 2005
Venue: Westside Loft, New York
About Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
BFF Bridal is a fabulous weekly email newsletter that covers the latest in high-end wedding trends. Last week they had a great feature on Colin Cowie’s favorite wedding resources (which can be found on their website), and today’s newsletter featured some great information on J Crew’s bridesmaids dresses. They often share inside scoops, so you gotta sub to stay in the loop!
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One Year Ago...
Feature Launched: March 1, 2007
About: The best posts from this time last year.
- Knottie Bios of the Week by Miss Dragonfly
- Flower Power by Mrs. Bee
- Candy Buffets by Miss Ladybug
- Til Password Do Us Part by Mrs. Bee
- Wedding Realities Part I by Miss Ant
- Photograph Opportunities (in New York) by Mrs. Bee
- My Invitations and Centerpieces by Miss Ladybug
- Love and Money by Mrs. Bee
- Makeover Roundup by Miss Firefly
- Pimple Potion by Mrs. Bee
- Shoe Clips and Bagettes by Mrs. Bee
- Messageboard Lingo by Mrs. Bee
- Red…
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Mr. Monkey, New York
Age and Occupation: 27, Internet
Wedding Date: September 2007
fiance: im gonna go look at wedding bands today at michael c. fina. k?
mr. monkey: who? who’s that?
fiance: it’s a store
mr. monkey: oh ok.
fiance: http://www.michaelcfina.com/
mr. monkey: sounds expensive
fiance: it’s actually not that bad
mr. monkey: i found a place to get my ring. they have a pretty good selection
fiance: ok!
mr. monkey: and its reasonably priced
fiance: better not be toys r us
mr. monkey: oh come on -…
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Mrs. Hibiscus, Orange County
Age and Occupation in 06: 25, Eyebal Doc
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Commerical Underwriter
Engagement Date: September 26, 2004
Wedding Date: July 7, 2007
Venue: Laguna Beach on the beach, reception on a yacht in Newport Beach
About Me: I'm an eyeball doc. Normal is boring. I'm a hat person and a cat person. I'm in love (so very very in love). I'm a dreamer. I want to change the world. Superheroes are my friends. Kindness is contagious. Music is in my heart. Carpe diem.
1. I am 25 and have never been drunk in my life. I do not drink, have not taken any drugs with the exception of medicine (which I never really take as well).
2. I am allergic to calamari. I did not find this out until last year.
3. I can’t fold my tongue into a taco like everyone else in the whole entire world. I believe…
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Mrs. Bird of Paradise, New Orleans
Age and Occupation in '06: 26, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Operations Manager
Engagement Date: November 28, 2005
Wedding Date: November 18, 2006
About 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.
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Wedding Date: September 01, 2006
Location: Seattle, Washington
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Mrs. Poppy, New York
Age and Occupation: 27, PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, High End Retail General Manager
Engagement Date: February 25, 2006
Wedding Date: July 2007
Venue: Astoria World Manor, Queens, New York
About Me: I'm a graduate student majoring in Piano Performance. I love knitting, crochet, cooking and learning languages ( I know six so far!). You can find me at your local karaoke bar, yarn shops, sheet music store or any store with Hello Kitty!
This an exciting weekend for me because all of my wonderful bridesmaids (except one ) are coming in for a weekend of food, fun and an 80’s night. No one’s telling me what’s going to happen, but I’ve already been told that I’ll be kicked out of the room when all the bridesmaids arrive tonight so they can discuss what plans will be.
I do know…
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Mrs. Pearl, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 26, High school history teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 37, Software engineer
Engagement Date: No official date, we just decided :-)
Wedding Date: July 2007
Venue: St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Church, Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel
About 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.
I got an email from our invitation designer Tara from Ephemera Letterpress with the final drafts of our wedding invitations.
*eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* (that’s my bridal squeal). They are gorgeous! Mr. Pearl and I looked at the final draft and were ready to send the final approval when we both stopped short. The RSVP address. It’s our current address…but we’re moving at the end of July when our…
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Mrs. Raspberry, DC/New York
Age and Occupation in 07: 24, Owner/Chief Creative Director
Fiance's Age in 07: 24, Special Investigator for the government
Engagement Date: August 5, 2006
Wedding Date: July 2007
Venue: The Roycroft Inn, East Aurora NY
About 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.
For all you cherry blossom brides who are lucky enough to have scheduled your wedding during the 2 week period - which fluctuates - when they are in bloom, and for all you brides (including me) who wish we had the cherry blossoms for our weddings….
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Mrs. Kiwi, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation in 06: 27, Bookkeeper
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, P.E. Teach/Coach @ private schools in LA
Engagement Date: March 31, 2006
Wedding Date: November 3, 2007
Venue: Radisson Hotel
About 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!
There was a post on lip treatments to make your lips weddinglicious a few months ago that caught my eye, because my lips are very sensitive. I don’t mean sensitive to touch and things like that, I mean really sensitive to sun and makeup. It’s a huge pain because my lips start puffing up, and the area around my mouth gets pink - looks like…
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