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Words of Wisdom Feature Launched: July 9, 2007 About: A forum where users share their best advice on various wedding topics.
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DIY Invitations

July 31st, 2007 @ 3:32 pm by Words of Wisdom

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? 

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Mrs. Radish, Chicago/Syracuse Age and Occupation: 27, Executive Assistant/Journalism Student/Musician Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Anthropologist/Musician Engagement Date: December 20, 2005 Wedding Date: August 18, 2007 Blogging Since: June 26, 2007 Venue: The Wellington House in Fayetteville, NY About Me: Mr. Radish and I are both from upstate New York, so we are planning a wedding in Syracuse from about 700 miles away. When I’m not obsessing about our wedding I play the cello in my band (which Mr. Radish is in too), read as much as I can, sleep even more, travel whenever possible, and try to find time to have fun with my friends. I’m also working on finishing up my journalism degree with a concentration in environmental reporting and I’m the VP of my campus Amnesty International chapter… so I’m a pretty busy bee.
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An Unexpected Gift

July 31st, 2007 @ 3:22 pm by Mrs. Radish

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.

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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!
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Wine Glasses For Dummies

July 31st, 2007 @ 2:52 pm by Mrs. Kiwi

“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. laughin032 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. whateva016

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.

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Contests Feature Launched: Oct 5, 2006 About: Weddingbee contests and giveaways.
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DIY Project Contest Entry #7

July 31st, 2007 @ 2:36 pm by Contests

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!

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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.
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I Almost Forgot About Our Wedding Cake

July 31st, 2007 @ 2:15 pm by Mrs. Apple

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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Mrs. Blueberry, Kansas City Age and Occupation in 06: 21, Full-time Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Full-time Student Engagement Date: September 10, 2005 Wedding Date: May 25, 2007 Venue: Wynbrick Center - a historic mansion in my hometown. About Me: We're having an intimate, 125-ish person wedding with a full-blown dessert reception. When I'm not obsessing over wedding stuff or studying for my BA in English, I'm usually playing with our two kitty cats, blogging, doing crafty things, or hanging out with Mr. Blueberry!
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Calm Before The Storm

July 31st, 2007 @ 2:00 pm by Mrs. Blueberry

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Mrs. Pumpkin, Saskatchewan, Canada Blogger Since: April 10, 2007 Age and Occupation: 28, Lawyer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Farmer Engagement Date: July 14, 2006 Wedding Date: June, 2007 About Me: I love movies, music and I am addicted to TV. When I have some spare time I also love scrapbooking and making personalized greeting cards and above all playing Hide & Seek or Duck, Duck, Goose with my two adorable nieces!
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The Bare Necessities*

July 31st, 2007 @ 1:37 pm by Mrs. Pumpkin

There was absolutely no question as to whether we would be having flower girls at our wedding since I have the two most adorable nieces in the whole world. Even though the rest of our wedding was child-free, there was no way that my girls weren’t going to be there and be front and centre with me. At least that was the master plan. I had completely prepared myself for the possibility that one or both of the girls may get spooked and refuse to go down the aisle. If this happened I was fine - I did NOT want them to go through anything like this!

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Miss Peppermint, LA/Palm Springs Age and Occupation: 23, Actress Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Web Producer Engagement Date: October 21, 2006 Wedding Date: December 2007 Blogging Since: July 2, 2007 Venue: historic estate overlooking the heart of Palm Springs About Me: I am a Southern California native who enjoys cooking, writing, travel and all things in the arts. Mr. Peppermint and I met in college and he proposed on our four year anniversary in one of our most special places, Joshua Tree National Park. We're having a destination wedding in Palms Springs that will incorporate tradition as well as reflect our personalities!
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The Art of the Hat

July 31st, 2007 @ 1:10 pm by Mrs. Peppermint

Last summer the Peppermint Family went to my (second) cousin’s wedding in the UK (just outside of Ipswich, where the bride’s family is from). Prior to going on the trip, Mama Peppermint did some online research to make sure we dressed appropriately and didn’t stick out like the Americans we are. Among the many interesting tid bits she picked up, she learned that it is proper to wear a hat to an English wedding. When my mom told me this, I mostly dismissed it. Perhaps the older women wear hats, but young twenty-somethings definitely do not…

Well, upon attending I learned that not only was I mistaken, but perhaps more twenty-somethings wore hats than the older women! I was one of the only people who didn’t have a hat or hair piece of some sort. Many of them were elaborate and had feathers of all colors. Very festive! I don’t think I’ve seen any hats at American weddings other than those worn by the bride (and that’s rare). After all this hat talk, I stumbled upon this article on Martha Stewart Wedding about bridal hats.

I think I’ll be sticking to a veil, but I have to say, some of them are pretty cute…

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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!
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Giant Cupcake Cake

July 31st, 2007 @ 12:49 pm by Mrs. Bee

Sur La Table carries this giant cupcake cake mold.  Cute for a bridal shower! :)

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Mrs. Lollipop, Pittsburgh Age and Occupation: 26, Computational Linguist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager Engagement Date: August 2, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2, 2007 Blogging Since: July 17, 2007 Venue: The PPG Aquarium at the Pittsburgh Zoo About Me: I'm a Pittsburgh transplant who grew up in the deep south. I have a weakness for exotic alphabets, DIY projects, mobster movies and international travel. My fiance and I are both non-native Japanese speakers and we have a bullfrog named Skinny.
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Our RSVPs Are Fowl

July 31st, 2007 @ 11:54 am by Mrs. Lollipop

Mr. Lollipop’s favorite animal is the duck. For his birthday one year ago I rented two ducks from a nearby farm and he spent the evening following them around the yard and smiling.

Lots of work went into our invitations, so I wanted to try and draw some creativity of our guests in return. Other than real ducks, what could be better for the water fowl obsessed man than armfuls of paper ducks from our loved ones? Plus, the paper kind don’t poop everywhere or gorge themselves on our our garden herbs like the real thing.

Thus, our RSVP cards were born:
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