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.
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…
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Open Question
About: Do you have a question for the Weddingbee community? Please email us at ask@weddingbee.com with your question!
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…
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Mrs. Apple, Dallas
Age and Occupation in '07: 28, Entrepreneur
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, Police Officer
Engagement Date: Easter Day 2006
Wedding Date: May 27, 2007
Blogging Since: September 28, 2006
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant & Gardens
About Me: I'm in the midst of trying to plan a "perfectly beautiful" wedding and decorating my new home. It's been exhausting but totally worth every minute of it. Ironically, I was never the type of person to want to get married but now that I'm engaged, I get giddy over anything that is wedding related! I'll try my best to give you all unique and practical ideas.
Artichoke and Garden Cake
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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!
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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Weekly Roundup
About: This week in wedding news
- Martha Stewart Crafts to debut on May 1st.
- Mark Burnett, Roma Downey Marry in Malibu
- Wedding Dress Shopping With ‘Willow’!
- Lifting the Veil on Seventh (Priscilla of Boston store opens in New York)
- Latest Wedding Rite is all about the guys
- 10 hot honeymoon spots
- Operation Wedding Dress (LES gown shops)
- Wedding In A Week
- The Perks of Good Wedding Day Posture (thanks, Daffodil)
- The First Dance Spins Out of Control (thanks, BaghdadBride!)
Comment below with links to interesting…
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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!
Update 2: Based on your feedback, here’s a version with a larger bride and more transparent swirls here.
Update: Reader kp suggested that we make the header white, so you can check out a version with a white header here. What do you think? Better?
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We’ve been working on a site redesign for weddingbee! It’s about time we had a little facelift, wouldn’t ya say?
The very talented…
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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson
Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant
Engagement Date: February 18, 2007
Wedding Date: April 19, 2008
Venue: Historic Inn
About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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…
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Mrs. Emerald, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 26, Wedding Planner
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Paralegal
Engagement Date: October 8, 2006
Wedding Date: September 2007
Blogging Since: November 29, 2006
Venue: Hyatt Lodge, Oak Brook IL
About Me: I have been dreaming about my wedding forever, and flipping through bridal magazines since high school, so I am in my element! I am calling our theme "Vintage Inspired French/Asian Fusion." Mr. Emerald is very involved in the planning process, but of course he generally defers to me cuz I have a strong opinion of how I want everything to be :-).
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.…
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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!
Special sale plus free standard shipping from The Knot Wedding Postage Collection on Zazzle.com
The USPS is raising its rates again on May 14th. Now, for a limited time, you can buy tomorrow’s postage at today’s prices from The Knot Wedding Postage Collection on Zazzle.com!
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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.
April 27th, 2007 @ 4:16 pm by Beehive
In today’s hive:
- kandaceandjason is thinking about getting the members of her wedding party a book like “The Idiot’s Guide to Being a Groom” or “Everything You Need to Know About Being a Bridesmaid”, but she’s afraid they’ll seem like an inappropriate gift. Or just go unused. Thoughts?
- Christine would like to know how to find florists who use pesticide-free flowers (for her wedding cake).
- heyjanety is looking…
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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!
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…
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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson
Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant
Engagement Date: February 18, 2007
Wedding Date: April 19, 2008
Venue: Historic Inn
About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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…
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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!
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…
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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.
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.…
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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!
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…
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