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?Â
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.
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. 
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.
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!
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.
Calm Before The Storm
July 31st, 2007 @ 2:00 pm by Mrs. Blueberry
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!
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…
Giant Cupcake Cake
July 31st, 2007 @ 12:49 pm by Mrs. Bee
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:
