Weddingbee Blog

Lisa,
The Weather Channel (weather.com) should have what you are looking for there.

lisa - a bunch of readers answered your question in the previous beehive here: http://www.weddingbee.com/2007/03/21/beehive-134/

everyone else… i’ll be back to try to answer as many of your questions as i can after i grab a bite to eat.

3. m, try old navy. they sometimes have sales where they end up being less than $1 each, but you have to be diligent in checking out the stores. the ones on sale are usually in limited colors, too. if you’re not picky about color, that may be the way to go.

6. christine, i’m doing aqua (not slate blue, but close) and red to punch up the flowers. orange would be nice and fresh for a summer wedding. you can always do brown, which is oh so popular right now, but getting played out, IMO.

Glass,

I was having the same issues with creating a wedding map. Then I found this guy through ebay of all places. He makes a customized map for $35 and his samples are really really impressive. He started working on mine the day after I contacted him (yesterday) and it isn’t done yet but I’m super impressed so far. His name is Charles: c_harles@yahoo.com. He’s a professional GPS mapmaker and he’ll email you the file to print on whatever paper you want.

JW — I had really good results with my hp 5150 inkjet, which isn’t even an expensive printer. I think it’s probably outdated now (and so you can’t buy one) but there’s probably a newer version of it out. It printed every size, even down to the response cards, perfectly, and the ink was dry almost immediately.

http://www.weatherunderground.com/

Cherry Blossom - regarding the tea ceremony - my mom just bought a new tea set in Chinatown — it wasn’t anything fancy although it could be if you wanted it to be. From snapshots taken of our tea ceremony by other people, there were a lot of tea cups being used so I guess you could have 40 tea cups. But I think it should be ok to re-wash them and use it over. There just might not be enough time to do that.

In terms of serving only the married elders question — everyone we served turned out to be married - our parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and older siblings. So I don’t know the answer to that question!

New Question.

Can I get some help with votes for a free engagement shoot? My fiance and I are finalists and the voting is open for a week. We live in Miami and are getting married in Costa Rica next January.

We are couple #3.

http://photosbymp.blogspot.com/

Thanks, I don’t know if you will post this kind of stuff or not.

CherryBlossom,

The tea cups that comes with the teapot set should be the ones you serve to your elders, e.g grandparents and parents (or close aunts and uncles). The remaining folks can use those tiny “bathroom” cups. Or, just plastic cups.

M - I’m doing the same thing for my wedding except I’m putting a basket of slippers in the ladies bathroom stating something along the lines of “We want you to keep dancing all night so please help yourself if your feet hurt.” (Obviously the final sign will be much more poetic). A really good place to get good slippers would be Chinatown. You get those cut ones with the mesh top and cute sequence and beading. And as always, bargain bargain bargain (esp since you’ll be buying in bulk).