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Congrats to Melissa! You’re the winner in yesterday’s Life on Record Giveaway!
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Today we’re giving away a beautiful, palm-sized copper and porcelain orb hand-painted with the words “to have” and “to hold”, from Scarlett Alley. Mrs. Bell Pepper used these as her something blue in her wedding just last month. To win, comment below telling us your “something blue”. 
Contest ends 8:00 pm EST tomorrow. Good luck!
If my eyes tear up when I’m looking at something fantabulous, does it mean they are really drooling?
On a scaled down version, a few strands dangling from an arch/canopy/chuppah would be so pretty. I’ll bet a DIY faux flower project could replicate this look.
In my efforts to stay on track with the wedding planning, our next big task is to settle on invitations. I’ve been neglecting this choice for awhile now. Frankly, it’s not as fun to daydream about a piece of paper as it is a white dress. Nonetheless, in my search for an invite, I have encountered many drool-worthy options.
The real debate lies in whether we want to design our own or order invitations from a company. Originally, Mr. Peppermint and I were very gung-ho about making our own. However, as months have flown by and projects have multiplied, the DIY route is seeming less exciting. That being said, we’re also lacking in the inspiration department. We spent so much time coming up the with Save-the-Date, that I’m afraid that the invitations won’t get finished in time. But they would be more personal (and cost effective…hopefully) if we did them. Hmmm. What to do??
My latest pastime has been to spend copious amounts of time searching online for alternatives to DIY invitations. Here are some of my favorite contenders…
This gorgeous wood invite (”Burst”) is from Oslo Press:
I now invite you to view pictures of what can only be described as the fastest Dressing of the Bride ever.
You can just *see* the hurrying in these still images…
Featured on Weddingbee
All-Inclusion Invitation Suites
“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
Mr. Lemon and I took different approaches to the bridal party gifts. I went and got all of my girls the exact same thing. He, on the other hand, went in search of something different for his guys.
For the girls:
I am having the HARDEST time. My fiance is not a wedding person. He is also very non-traditional. If he had his way, we’d elope or have a very intimate, family only, non-traditional wedding. I, on the other hand, am very traditional, really want a full-on wedding (not huge, mind you, but I want all my close friends and family to be able to attend.). My fiance believes that the significance and all that’s sacred about weddings has been lost because it has turned into an “industry” and weddings are now not at all meaningful.
So, my impression was that if he didn’t care about weddings, then he wouldn’t care about the decisions I made about it. Was I wrong. He now believes he is an “accessory” to MY wedding, not OUR wedding. And please believe me, I’m not disregarding his feelings nor am I having an extravagant, expensive, bridal-magazine worthy wedding! So now, whenever I ask for his opinion about things, he likens it to when he asks me for my opinion about what kind of motorcycle parts he should buy. In other words, he doesn’t care and thinks I don’t care about him or his opinions either. Totally indifferent.
We are now less than two months to the wedding date and he has yet to put together his guest list or pick his groomsmen. He did, however, take care of photography. Other than that… I don’t know what to do. He wants untraditional, intimate, small and meaningful… I want traditional, friends and family, meaningful. I don’t know what to do or how to reach a compromise!
HELP!?
Shara
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
My long, arduous search for the perfect wedding shoe has come to an end. After checking out several boutiques in Florida while visiting a bridesmaid, I was ready to call it quits. As I drove back home through Atlanta, I decided to stop by Lenox Square Mall to give it one more try. Luckily, the Stuart Weitzman and Kate Spade stores are right across the hall from one another. I received excellent customer service from both stores! I love these Stuart Weitzmans, but unfortunately, they are too high. I know I can’t manage a 4″ heel for several hours!
In today’s hive:
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Do you think if I took naked engagement pictures, it would start a wedding trend?
Our engagement session is this Friday and I have Nothing. To. Wear. 
It doesn’t help that I’m immensely picky about my wardrobe already, let alone an outfit that will be forever cemented in JPEGs and passed down to my future grandkids.
“Mom, what are those funny looking shoes that grandma is wearing in her engagement pictures with grandpa?”
“They’re called UGGs, honey, and they used to be in style back then.”
“Oh. Ew. And what are those funny looking shoes that grandpa is wearing?”
“They’re called crocs, dear. And they also used to be popular back in the early 2000’s.”
(Yes, Mr. Eggplant really does wear those shoes EVERYWHERE.)
What words of wisdom do you have for brides diy’ing their invitations? What lessons did you learn, and is there anything you wish someone had told you?
Mr. Radish is a volunteer ESL tutor on Saturday mornings at a place here in Chicago that helps immigrants and refugees improve their English and get citizenship. Anyway, he has been tutoring the same Chinese woman for a few months now, and she has not been having an easy time in life lately. She immigrated to America from Fuzhou, China but had an abusive husband that she had to leave, then she got laid off from a job at a soap factory. After getting laid off she couldn’t afford her apartment. Since then, she has been living in a women’s shelter. She was working at a fast food restaurant, but she had to quit because the government has not sent her work papers back. It’s been really hard for her to get by living in Chicago. On top of her other problems, her English skills are not very good, which makes it hard for her to find a better job, etc. She told Mr. Radish that she can’t easily tell people how she feels in English, so he’s been working with her on teaching her more words and phrases to express emotion.
This Saturday, Mr. Radish came home from their tutoring session with this wedding gift from her.
“Here’s some wine… um… in a juice glass.” How uncouth. Of course, I’m not a wine drinker. I love root beer floats and chocolate milk, and the Crate and Barrel cooler-sized glasses are perfect for them. Of course, what happens when actual wine drinkers squeeze into our little railroad-style apartment? I suppose we must have some wine glasses, since the two we have (that match our lone martini glass) aren’t exactly nice.
Since we’re not big wine drinkers we don’t know the difference from a red, white or what. According to Bed Bath & Beyond, we need 12 each of: beer mugs (which will come in handy), champagne flutes, coolers (check), double old fashioneds, highball, margarita, juice, martini, pilsner, red, white, water goblets, and shot glasses. Twelve shot glasses? Lucky for us I have my collection of naughty and tasteless shot glasses I’ve collected over the years. 
As well as those items above, Crate and Barrel insists we register for brandy/cordial glasses and irish coffee mugs. Yeah. Because all of a sudden I’ll have a craving for something I’ve never had. 
What’s a non-wine drinker to do? I’d love to register for water goblets, I always feel so chi-chi when I use them. Since we’re not huge wine drinkers, and most of our friends are beer people (yeah, that’s how we “roll”), do I really need 156 (thirteen types of drink cups times twelve of each) drinking implements? I don’t think so.
This next entry is a one of the bigger diy projects we’ve seen… Check out the balsa wood house that Jennifer and her architect fiance built to hold cards from guests!
It’s been almost 2 months since my wedding and I am still visiting Weddingbee (this has now become an addiction) at least ten times a day. I’m still anxiously waiting for our wedding video from our videographer. 
But in the meantime, just to reminice back, I’ll scroll through my IPhotos, visit our wedding website gallery, and read my postings.
After reading my final wedding posts, I realized I never posted a photo of my wedding cake. Last night Mr. Apple and I caved in and cut ourselves a big chunk of our wedding cake. I know it’s bad luck to eat it before one year, but man it tasted so good even 2 months later!
This is what we ate minus the pretty flowers.
Funny moment : Momma Apple came up to me letting me know that we should eat the cake now since it’s melting and starting to collapse. Though you really can’t tell from the photos, it was a Mad Hatter Cake.
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