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I have finally decided on a bouquet for the bridesmaids, and this time I promise, I won’t change my mind…
I have been through 3 different bouquets - mostly because the flowers I wanted (amaryllis, then peonies) really aren’t available in the middle of July - unless I want to spend and arm and a leg…
So I have decided to go with this…
I have a dilemma now I didn’t expect to have. Until two weeks ago I had a location and was ready to sign a contract for an October wedding, when my mother in law sent an email to my fiance and I asking if we really insisted on having the wedding on a Friday, which posed a problem for her guests. I live away from the city, have had lots of promises of help with no follow through from her, and I loved the first place I saw. I also loved Friday for the price and fact that my out of town guests have the full weekend to see NY.
2 weeks and many fights later with my fiance, the date is cancelled to next year due to most Saturdays being booked up now. This was crushing to me to say the least but now my fiance tells me his mother is going to give us a lot of money. With my mother’s limited ability to help financially, I’m worried but don’t want to receive this large donation. My fiance would otherwise carry the largest burden since he makes more (his bonus is my yearly salary) and has the largest group of guests.
So with all this info as background, how do I make sure I control the wedding details and not offend his mother by not asking for her help in some items I simply want to control? I just am very hurt by what happened and don’t want this to happen again. The person who controls the purse has the say, and that is not me here. Anyway I appreciate your help as I am really conflicted about this .
Vanessa
One of my favorite online boutiques, Room Service Home, has these GORGEOUS rosary crosses that would be great for the religious bride to carry down the aisle and/or wrap around her bouquet.
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m going to make my guests earn their cake and bubbly. None of this come-as-you-may, pampered and indulged nonsense. There will be challenges to be met. Obstacles to overcome. Puzzles to…puzzle out.
Take for instance, the table names. This baloney:
is entirely too easy. Enter my favorite online wordscrambler. In three easy steps, you can create your own personalized placecard-to-table puzzles that guests must solve to find their seats. Read more…
Unfortunately for me, the majority of Mr. E’s family speaks 90% Cantonese, and 10% English. I, on the other hand, speak about 99% English and 1% Cantonese. (My vocab consists of “I am hungry,” “Tastes good,” and “I love you.”) This makes communcation a bit difficult to say the least! His family gets together frequently for dinners, birthdays, holidays, etc., and I am always invited. Of course it makes me happy that they like me, but most of the time I just feel kinda useless cuz I sit there, not understanding most of what’s going on. Mr. E does his best to translate, but sometimes it’s just difficult for him to translate EVERYTHING (his sister and/or his uncles will sometimes chime in with translation help as well, which is great).
But the toughest part is not being able to communicate with his parents or his grandma, who he’s very close to. I know it bums him out a bit…So recently, I’ve been pondering ways to secretly learn Cantonese and “surprise” him. What would be a better wedding gift than this?! Has anyone tried something along this line? (well, maybe not the secretly part) I am thinking of ordering this CD by Pimsleur from Amazon:
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Miss Bluebell’s family post made me think, for those of you who have future nieces and nephews, how are they going to refer to you? I’m pondering this because although Grandma Kiwi calls me “Aunt Kiwi” to my future nephews and niece–they seem to just take to calling me “Kiwi”. It’s too bad because I want to be someone’s aunt! I LOVE the idea!
I’ve been around them almost four years–the youngest are turning four this year, so it’s almost been since birth. Unfortunately, they’ve grown up calling me “Kiwi”, and the transition from “Kiwi” to “Aunt Kiwi” isn’t going to be easy. Mr. Kiwi, their blood uncle, has always been “Uncle Kiwi”. The same with the other in-laws; all kids were born at the same time (two are now six, and two are now four), amazingly. At one point, I was “Uncle Kiwi”, too. Fun. 
So, while I’d love to be “Aunt Kiwi”, I think I may have to get used to being “Kiwi” forever. How are you dealing with this?
10. Your ribbons are tied to things using other ribbons.
9. Words like “festoon” and “garland” enjoy daily use in your vocabulary.
8. Your friends and family staged an intervention that involved you shredding five yards of double-faced satin ribbon with dull pinking shears.
7. You can say “ribbon” in French, German, and Italian (from specialty orders overseas).
6. You get around your fiance’s “No More Ribbon!” rule by substituting things like shoelaces and quilling paper.
5. You find yourself eyeing the priest’s collar and wondering if he’d mind substituting it with a nice grosgrain.
4. The expression “tying the knot” makes you tingly all over, and it has nothing to with getting married. Read more…
The Department of Tourism invited me and a couple of other wedding magazine/website editors to come visit the Cayman Islands last weekend on a press trip. Not only was it a fantastic opportunity to mingle with some of the top people in the biz, we got to spend 4 days in the beautiful Cayman Islands! What an honor for weddingbee to be invited! 
The island is clean, safe, beautiful, and the people are so friendly… I had an absolutely fantastic time, and would definitely love to visit again with Mr. Bee.
Now I’ll start off with the water excursions, because I got to experience a lot of things I’d never done before. On Saturday, our free day, I went snorkeling in Stingray City with Red Sail Sports. I purchased an underwater camera case for my digital camera for about $60 off ebay before the trip. Totally worth it! I got some amazing pictures and videos, and I’m sure to use it over and over again - a must have if you’re going to be participating in water sports on your honeymoon.
Here is the fruit of my many hours of labor: My completed Pocketfold invites. Basically, I thought I couldn’t afford them. I had given up on the idea. Even if I got a basic Pocketfold with only one or two ink colors, I would be running at $6.00 an invite, minimum. Then, I found Cards and Pockets which helped make my invitation dream a reality. I didn’t get all my supplies from them, but they got the ball rolling and made me believe it was possible to have Pocketfold invites at a reasonable cost. Here, they are complete with rhinestones in my flower art.
The outside:
While I’ve never really wanted a mother-in-law to call “Mom”, I always thought it was cool when people did have that close relationship. My future in-laws (the ones not blood-related to MIL), call my future MIL “Lita”. Mr. Kiwi’s brother and sister call her Mom. Mr. Kiwi, however, calls her “Em”.
See, Mr. Kiwi’s mom goes by the nickname “Lita”, short for Emerita. At her work one day, Mr. Kiwi heard a co-worker call her “Em”, short for Emerita. Thinking it could be “M” for Mom, or “Em” for Emerita, Mr. Kiwi quickly adopted this–thinking he was soooo cool for making it up. All this time we’ve been dating, I always considered calling her “Em” as well, since he will be my husband, and it’s not necessarily “M” for Mom, right?
Well, when I brought this up the other day, he said that I can’t, it’s HIS name that he thought up. Of course, I brought up the co-worker who thought of it first, and Mr. Kiwi said it didn’t matter–HE thought of using it for Mom. Brat. 
So I fought for the right to use it as well, and he grudgingly gave me the go-ahead. Well, I don’t want his pity nickname! 
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