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Want to create your own monogram but don’t know how to go about it? Here’s a simple (and free!) way to create a monogram using Microsoft Word and MS Paint:
Step 1: Open MS Word and navigate to “Insert“, then from the drop down menu, choose “Textbox”
One of the things about wedding planning is this discussion of “colors.”
Shortly after we were engaged, curious friends and family began asking us about our colors.
What do you mean we are supposed to have colors? Why do we need to have a theme to the wedding? Shouldn’t getting married be enough?
In reality, though, it seems that deciding on colors would be useful to do. It would make the decision making process easier because there would be fewer choices that would coordinate. Only thing is, this means that we would have to actually make a decision about colors. And there are an infinite number of colors and combinations.
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Mr. Jasmine doesn’t just love football, he looooooves it. He would marry it if he could. He loves college football, professional football, football video games, football paraphernalia, football trivia, football message boards, etc. He crushed my dreams of a lovely fall wedding by saying it would be practically blasphemous to have a wedding during football season. “What about our friends with season tickets? And how can we possibly work around the schedules of all the teams? No matter what Saturday we choose, it will inevitably be during a very important game!” Not wanting to deal with a groom who is checking his iPhone during the ceremony for scores, I happily agreed to a spring wedding.
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While searching innocently for something that may or may not end up being a wedding gift from me to Mr. Magnolia, I stumbled across the following:
(All images courtesy of cufflinks.com)
“Just Married” cuff links
With every relationship comes compromise, and for many couples, one of those involves determining who will relocate to accommodate the other. With numerous factors to consider, ranging from careers, schooling, family, friends and just overall personal preference, deciding where to live can quickly become one of the toughest issues to work through, one that has been a make-or-break decision for many a couple.
Though making decisions regarding this issue has been relatively smooth for us overall, it definitely comes with its share of work, compromise and effort. You may recall from my post early on about how Mr. D and I have been long distance for quite a length of time over the span of our relationship. We were very committed to making our relationship work and to being as close in proximity to one another as we could, and even still, it was very challenging!
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Yeah, not so much the case with me.
I never imagined what Mr. CB would be like when he became the groom. As much as I am wedding crazed, I never thought I’d be making all the decisions on my own either. I knew Mr. CB was the type of guy that knew exactly what he wanted but I never knew he’d be as particular as me. It’s because of this, I brought him along with me when I went dress hunting because of all people, he was the only person I wanted to wow! and he saw and pointed out things that only helped bring me closer to “THE ONE.” As much as I wanted to surprise him, I just couldn’t make the decision without him. He’s definitely not the tell me when and where and I’ll show up type of guy. The guy has an opinion about everything even down to color, table setting, flowers, AND the bridemaid dresses (he likes long dresses)- haha. But it’s good, I like that he’s involved and not “I-don’t-really-care” type of attitude.
I think it works out great this way, he knows exactly every thing that is going on since we’ve made the conscious choice to be mutually involved in every decision we made. It has bummed me out before when some people have had the misconception that either one of us is getting our own way in the wedding but we’ve learned to trust each other and not let others influence our choices. It hasn’t always been easy but I love that we made each and every decision together.
How involved is your groom?
Okay readers, I had my fitting and I didn’t take pictures. 
Please don’t hate me- I have a good excuse! I’m terrified of my alterations lady. She’s very no-nonsense about things, and says very little, all of her correspondence regarding my fittings go through my FMIL before they get to me… so when it’s time to do it, I find out the day before and show up. While this does nothing for scheduling my evenings, I’m usually in and out within a half an hour.
Slightly different from the last fitting, this time the sides were already undone, and ready to be fit to my body. The last time I put the dress on, she sighed and said, “There is so much I have to do before we even try to fit it.” As I pulled the dress on this time, I could hear beads falling to the floor! My poor beads! Each one probably cost me like, a dollar to have sewn on that dress (damn you, shop markup!)! There was such a rainfall of beads that even Theresa (the seamstress) remarked about it.
One of the things that Mr Peony and I like so much about our venue is that they include so many things in their package. While brides who want total control over every last detail of her wedding may find this disagreeable, we saw it as a time and money saver. For example, we do not need to rent tables, chairs, dinnerware, or linens. We don’t even need to seek out a bakery because a wedding cake is included in the package too.
However, they also include menus, seating cards, and direction cards. The samples they showed us were not bad at all, but very plain. I told myself that I will make my own because I wanted to add the additional personalization.
I like Hello Kitty, I admit it. I have a few odd hello kitty paraphernalia that I collected over the years. You know, Hello Kitty douche set (i kid you not), Badtz Maru Condoms, Hello Kitty Maxipads… the usual. Mr. GB has no idea how much I used to bathe myself in Hello Kitty goods, buying as much as I could and drooling over the Hello Kitty Vespa… but those days are over. I still look at the Sanrio website from time to time though and found a Hello Kitty Wedding Line! I could start over with the wedding planning if we were only a few weeks away…. a Hello Kitty themed wedding!
(I’m not posting the Hello Kitty Wedding dress MONSTROSITY because it’s just that, a pink horror with lace. And it’s not Sanrio official!)
Hello Kitty Ring Pillow:
by Sister Emerald
[My sister, who is a Junior in high school recently had to write a "How To" paper for English class, and this is what she wrote. I don’t think she meant to be intentionally funny, but seeing how she translated her experiences from my own wedding, I found the whole thing to be super cute and rather tongue in cheek! Yes, it’s super long, feel free to skim, I italicized the amusing bits! And yes, I did get permission to post this! 
]
A wedding is an unforgettable milestone in one’s life. Some dream about it well in advance and have a perfect vision of their wedding day. My sister is one of those people. Having recently been maid of honor for my sister, I find it fitting to lend a few pieces of advice in supreme hopes that they will prepare you for your sister’s big day.
“Near and far, near and far
I am happy where you are”
– From the Tin Wedding Whistle by Ogden Nash
Our ceremony is something that I put a lot of time and thought into. I began very early searching websites for readings and knew I didn’t want a cookie cutter ceremony. I also didn’t want it steeped in religion as neither of us are particularly religious. Our minister gave us a typical ceremony that she uses and said we could modify it however we liked — add our own readings, include music, write our own vows — as long as it was “us” she was happy. Because she gave us so much freedom I think our 30 minute ceremony was really personal and touching. Everyone who greeted me afterwards commented on how lovely, how personal, how enjoyable the ceremony was.
And now — on with the pictures!
Last minute adjustment from a bridesmaid
I have a new favorite dessert place. It’s ideal for me because I can pick up some pick-me-ups from Vanilla Bake Shop on my way home after a long day.
The white on white, oh-so-girly interior.
These past few days have been hectic, spent doing last minute wedding details. One of the most difficult things is organizing the seating. I had completed 18 tables of 10, when I found out we can’t fit more than 15 tables in the ballroom! 12 people per table! That sounds a bit squishy but I suppose that might be more fun? 
Does anyone have any experiences when they felt too squashed at a wedding table?
With only days until the wedding, I feel as though I’m trying to mentally prepare myself for marriage. Sure, it’s going to be great being honeymooners and getting used to living with a man who can lift heavy things for you (haha). But what happens after 5, 10, 50 years? How do you make things work, make the romance last, make 2 completely different people live under the roof for as long as they both shall live? I don’t think of myself as an pessimist, I think I’m an optimist actually but I’m realistic too. Honestly I do get depressed hearing story after story of the greatest marriages gone terribly wrong.
I have to admit it. I’ve got a bit of a body issue that’s coming to light now that we’ve actually decided to get married. It’s not my butt or my hips or my thighs or my feet (although at 6’1″, they are kind of freakish) but something that most brides don’t even give a second thought about. It’s my hand.
Five years ago, while at the part-time job I was working to help pay for school, I got into an accident. A serious accident. Through some slip of fate, my left hand got slammed in a steel door and the tips of two of my fingers were crushed and severed. Although the doctors I had were great and worked hard to give me as much function as they could, at the end of the day, I was still left an amputee.
The first few months after the accident were devastating, not just physically, but mentally. I had to get used to seeing myself in a new way, to reconcile the loss of a physical piece of myself and still accept myself as whole. It was a very hard road. A lot of my friends dropped off the face of the planet, I guess not knowing what to say to me, and the guy I was seeing at the time ended up not being a support of any kind so we broke up. I didn’t know what to do or what to say to anyone, so I kind of ended up receding into myself for some time afterwards because I felt like such a monster.
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