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I’m married now. It still hasn’t completely hit me yet that I’m married. It’s been a little crazy the past couple of days saying goodbye to family and friends. I’m married!!!! Holy moly! I’m married.
Here are some funny teasers. I’ll post pictures once I get them back from F8 next week.
Poor Mr. Apple. I felt bad so I was wiping away all of the chocolate.
Hi Weddingbee readers! I’m absolutely bee-lighted and honored to be part of the hive! Out of all the adorable veggies available, I picked Miss Eggplant because purple is one of my favorite colors (and my head is kind of shaped line an eggplant 
). As a veritable veggie-bee, I vow to voice every visionary idea I have with you all!
It would only be proper to introduce myself and Mr. Eggplant before I start blogging away, so I’ll piggyback on Miss Lemon’s entry about similarities and differences:
Similarities:
1. Mr Eggplant and I have similar scholastic interests: Both of us consume anything related to the studies of sociology and psychology and we love writing in our spare time. Mr. Eggplant is a great writer while I only try, but we’re both internet junkies who love to blog. Blame it on being a product of Gen X & Y. 
2. We have the same taste in music. Our first group date involved an intimate concert watching one of our favorite singer-songwriters who is practically unknown. It was a big coincidence that we both owned her album.
3. We both adore romantic comedies. Mr. Eggplant is a true romantic and he will be the first to admit that his favorite movies include Fever Pitch and Jerry Maguire. I don’t have to drag him to watch chick flicks because he suggests them himself.
I love large gable boxes. You don’t have to worry about wrapping tiny corners, they are so easy to assemble and all you need is a pretty ribbon to make your package complete! There’s also so much you could put inside of these boxes. For the labels I added a watermark image of the Liberty Bell and placed our welcome sign in front of the image.
Just when you thought it was going to be another quiet Wednesday…
Announcing our latest addition to the hive, Miss Eggplant! She’s loaded with great ideas and DIY projects, and has a knack for finding smokin’ deals. In fact, I just may apprentice myself to her. Let’s give her a warm fuzzy, buzzy welcome, shall we? 
Miss Eggplant, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 28, Human Resources
Fiancƒ©’s Age and Occupation: 24, Associate Marketing Manager
Engagement Date: January 19, 2007
Wedding Date: October 2007
Venue: Ceremony at a cement and stained glass cathedral and reception at a boutique hotel ballroom
About Me: I’m a shopping junkie who lives to discover great deals and a craft addict that loves to scrapbook and knit. Mr. Eggplant is a resourceful marketer with a penchant for pop culture and analogies. We’re hosting two wedding receptions: a western-style dinner and a Chinese banquet. Between the both of us, I hope to have some original ideas to share. When I’m not perusing Weddingbee, you’ll most likely find me scouring eBay for the next big steal.
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Some of the flowers I hope to incorporate into the floral designs…
I have loved this color palette for florals since I saw it in a Katina Katoo ad a loooong time ago:
Oh sweet Peony
Exquisite is your beauty
Oh how I wish you would stay
Around for my wedding day 
Courtesy of my mom’s peony bushes. *sigh*
Sorry, I’m an awful poet, and I know it. 
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Congratulations to Katya, whose random comment made her the winner of our Rariteas tea and teapot giveaway!
More giveaways and contests to come soon…
There was much debate whether or not we should have a band, DJ, or an iPod playing our music for the reception. My fiance’s mom liked the idea of having a band. The look of having a band at your reception is very classy and the sound is so much better live. The cons for having a band is that it’s very expensive and you really have a limited song list collection to choose from. I contacted most bands in the Philly/South NJ area and the minimum cost to book one was about $2000, which is way out of our price range. Read more…
I am so burned out with wedding planning. Part of it stems from my frustration with planning some events at work, and that has trickled into my personal life. It just seems like I am ostriching myself right now — sticking my head into the sand and ignoring the wedding work to be done. My brain is in crisis lockdown mode. I do have some big things left to do:
1. Address invitation envelopes and mail them out
2. Finalize cake details
3. Create and print menus
4. Finish creating and printing programs
5. Dress fittings
6. Buy a veil
OK, now that I actually write it down, it’s not *that* bad…but I still feel like I should be doing something and right now, I am doing nada. I guess this is that infamous wedding lull.
Has anyone just completely disconnected from the wedding process? How do you get back that enthusiasm and zest for planning?
In today’s hive:
To add your question to the beehive, leave a comment below and we’ll update this post to include your question. See all past beehives here.
Free stuff makes me say “Yay!”
And the scent divas over at Urban Botanic are giving Weddingbee readers a free sample from their corresponding fragrance family (determined based on the results of a 10-minute personality test). Yay!
All you have to do is take the test here. Then send an email titled “Weddingbee offer” to shawna@urbanbotanic.com and include your mailing address and test results. Then just sit back and prepare to smell delicious.
And if the idea of having a signature wedding-day scent intrigues you, check out this article.
Now, this may be one determined groom, albeit a careless one! A Georgia man (identity not released, probably due to fear of public beatings) infected with a very rare case of tuberculosis boarded a flight from Atlanta to Paris, despite being warned that he knew he could possibly expose his diagnosed case of TB to other passengers. Although his strain of bacteria was resistant to the first line of treatment, he headed off to Greece for his long-planned wedding, thinking everything would be fine.
Although most likely not highly contagious, the man is infected with an extensively drug-resistant form of TB, one that the Centers for Disease Control aren’t very experienced in. While in Europe on his honeymoon, the groom was notified by the health authorities that his TB was deadlier than they thought, and to immediately go into isolation and to turn himself in to the italian officials. Read more…
A good 5 months ago, I posted about wanting my ring bearer and flower girl to walk down the aisle carrying teddy bears. Unfortunately, I hadn’t been able to find any bears to my liking, so I eventually forgot/dismissed this idea entirely. BUT a recent stroll through the chocolate aisles of Macy’s led me to this adorable find for a mere $8.50 each (originally $24, I think)!!
I just returned from a fabulous weekend away with my leading ladies… and I know you can’t resist waiting any longer for a few pictures, so I put a couple of “appropriate” ones together…
And first I must say - I have THE BEST maid of honor in the world!
So the weekend started with us arriving in Western New York on Friday night… We stayed at her family’s cabin right on the golf course…
Saturday morning we had the dress fitting, which was very successful and then picked up the bridesmaid shoes at TARGET! They all liked the same pair and they were only $30!
I’m a die-hard Mac girl. Having to do my Weddingbee work on Mr. Lovebug’s PC is warping my personality, I’m sure of it. The phrase “The depths of my hatred for Microsoft can never be plumbed” goes through my head several times a day.
As therapy, I like to lose myself for a while in one of my favorite Apple orchards: Dashboard Widgets. On my last visit, I harvested a handful or two that I thought might be handy for my fellow Apple-savvy brides:
Percount: a small and tidy countdown you can personalize with the date, a title, and any picture you like. Countdown to the wedding, the honeymoon, or the day your dress arrives.
Deilivery Status: speaking of deliveries, this widget lets you track packages from the USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, and more. Just enter your order or tracking number into the widget, and it’ll update the package’s status automatically and give a countdown till delivery. Read more…
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