Wedding Blog

Last night Mr. Bee and I attended a wedding at a unique and intimate Manhattan venue called the Explorers Club. Mr. Bee called it an “intellectual wedding” because it was a wedding between two lawyers, presided over by a judge. There was also very little dancing and partying as the focus was on eloquent and heartfelt speeches by the father of the groom, father and…

Only now that Mr. Penguin and I are engaged do I realize what a bummer it was that a few people in our lives, especially my parents, didn’t take our relationship REALLY seriously before we officially got engaged. Despite the fact that we had been dating for 6 years, had lived together for 2, and had co-signed on a home, they still treated me like…

As I mentioned in a previous post, we shared a photo slide show with our guests at the reception and it was very well received. I think our families enjoyed seeing childhood photos of both of us as well as photos of themselves (we had a photo of almost every single guest). After the historic and childhood photos we moved on to photos of us…

Part 1 - What we were looking for.
Part 2 - So Mr. Dahlia vetoed Mexico.

“But what about Spain?” we thought to ourselves. So many people have said that Barcelona is amazing. And you can rent out really nice apartments for way cheaper than you would get in a comparable hotel. Check it out here.

Just a sample of what is available:

Studio apartment in Las Ramblas for…

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During the countdown of the last month before my wedding, I suddenly realized I had forgotten to book a make-up artist for my Chinese reception down in Southern California. I panicked as the first two people I contacted were already booked. Would I, Ms. Never-Wears-Makeup, be left to my own hands?

I scoured both The Knot and Weddingbee, and soon found a few more contacts. Natalie…

After months and months of searching for our rehearsal dinner venue we finally decided to host it in our favorite Thai Restaurant. Yummy! My mouth starts to water just thinking about it. *drooling*So after making that all important decision, I was finally able to start creating our rehearsal invitations. Mr. Jelly Bean’s reaction was quite priceless “Do we really need another invitation?” Silly wabbit!

I…

This is how I felt putting on this borrowed Korean Hanbok. My mother was very adamant about wanting to involve us in a Korean ceremony. She’s trying to block a full hour for it, but honestly, our main ceremony is 20 minutes at the most and most of our guests don’t speak a lick of Korean, including Mr. GB. But she’s my mom and so…

Part 1 

We ended up having a great time at Hearst Castle and started heading back to Malibu towards our favorite spot on a hill. This peculiar sandy hill, just off the Pacific Coast Highway in the middle of nowhere, was discovered by Mr. Caramel when he went on one of his drives to think. It doesn’t even look like it’s for the public, but you can veer…

Got a few teaser pics from our photographer, Jan Domek. They are from our day after shoot. I really dig the first running picture. I did a lot of running and skirt twirling that day. Later that day we met up with Von Trapp family.

1. Sugar Pie Honey Bear by Miss Licorice
2. One Ring To Rule Them All by Miss Chickadee
3. Weddingbee Tagline by Mrs. Bee
4. Oh My, It’s So Big! by Miss Penguin
5. Let’s Start At The Very Beginning… by Miss Chickadee
6. Cinematically Smitten by Miss Hummingbird
7. One Hour To “The Dress” by Miss Penguin
8. Casual Chic Bridesmaids by Miss Penguin
9. My Chinese Cookie Party by Miss Eggplant
10. Guestbook Sillies by Miss Kiwi, Floral Puppies by Mrs. Ant & How Much Does It Matter? by Miss Peony

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• Magazines 
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Have a great weekend everyone!

When I first started researching how our invitations should be worded, I was met by a barrage of templates, etiquette, and guidelines on the subject of wedding invitations. In short, I was a bit overwhelmed.

For example, I never knew that traditionally, the party/parties paying for the wedding should have their names on the invites. If a bride and groom are paying for the wedding without…

I got a lot of comments on my short wedding dress in my post, Informal “Formals” so I thought I’d address this in more detail. I didn’t set out to buy a short wedding dress. After looking at many different dresses at many salons (see my “dress shopping” post), Anju, the wonderful woman helping me at Mark Ingram’s Bridal Atelier said, “I have an idea,…

I just came across this amazing place. New York Wedding Ring, located in both New York and in San Francisco, lets you make your own wedding ring or engagement ring. How cool is that? The price strikes me as being a bit on the high side, but think about how awesome it would be to tell the grandkids that not only is your wedding ring…