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Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist Engagement Date: May 4, 2007 Wedding Date: June 28, 2008 Blogging Since: September 18, 2007 Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property. About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
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Cute Little Ideas

January 11th, 2008 @ 3:27 pm by Mrs. Hummingbird

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Photo from Faye and Greer: I shake my fist at you for making me love
wedding fluff Matha Stewart! Everything looks so clean and pretty!

For the most part, I blame Martha*. I didn’t used to think about what kind of glasses our guests would drink out of or what our favours would look like or what kind of earrings I would wear with my dress. Then I made the mistake of buying Martha Stewart Weddings and before I knew it, I became completely obsessed with all the little wedding details. The beribboned mason jar glasses. The tiny little shortbread cookies stacked to look like little wedding cakes. The miniature aquamarine dropped studs made to resemble tiny moonbeams. I started keeping a folder with all of these little inspirations, pulling it up on my computer once in a while to pore over it in delight. This would be my wedding, I thought to myself as I calculated out how long it would take to grow, cut, arrange, hand-wire and tie my very own bouquet of purple hybrid delphiniums**.

I was merrily chugging along with all of my tiny, precious little plans when I began talking to Mr. Hummingbird about them. As an environmental artist on a videogame, Mr. Hummingbird has, in the last few months, become an expert on how to turn a creative idea into a feasible idea, so I figured that, with the wedding being now less than six months away, he would know how to turn my Martha-riffic wedding dreams into a reality. However, the more we talked about things and the more he asked questions, the more I began to realize:

1) I actually didn’t know how to do many of the things I dreamed of,
2) I didn’t have the money to pay a professional to do them for me.

In fact, when I finally sat back and surveyed things, the more I realized how impractical it was to take on this many projects and while the cute little ideas were still cute, I would be significant less cute if I ended up tearing out all of my hair because I couldn’t figure out how to perfectly cut the 480 pieces I would need to assemble the intricate programs I was imagining.

So, to keep my hair (however temperamental it might be) and to keep from being dragged from my apartment in a straight-jacket yelling “Those fans! Those (expletive deleted) segmented fans!” I’m making a point of scaling back and picking fewer things to focus on. In fact, Mr. Hummingbird is even getting into the act, looking at my original plans and helping me work out easier and more cost effective alternatives that still definitely qualify as cute little ideas (but less time consuming and no longer requiring a staff of 50 to assemble).

In this wedding world of personal touches and minute detail, it’s incredibly easy to get swept up in the fantasy of things and to focus too heavily on tiny little details, so I was curious - has anyone else become obsessed with cute little ideas? Did you pull them off or did you realize they were too much work and nix them? What did you do instead?

*= On the off-chance Martha Stewart employs a team of smartly dressed and deadly efficient assassins, I do realize that my obsession is not actually Martha Stewart’s fault, but more stemming from my own love and attention to detail.
**= I’ve exaggerated my obsession for comic effect, but sadly not as much as you’d think. smiley4016

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8 Responses to “Cute Little Ideas”

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Bride888 (message)  125 posts, Blushing bee

I’ve realized that the wedding will not be the only party you will throw. So you don’t have to incorporate all these wonderful ideas in one event. After your wedding, there will be a lifetime of celebrations to come.

 
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rzblna (message)  265 posts, Helper bee

Yes! Actually, I’m still in your Phase One. Reality won’t hit me until I’m actually sitting down with cardstock and an exacto knife and realize that I have no crafting talent.

 
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brendalynn

I hear ya, sister! It’s all Martha’s fault!

My recent obsessions is figuring out which project ideas will have the most effect on the wedding experience–you know, which ones will really please me to do & which ones will have some sort of real effect on guests–and try to cut out the ones that don’t have as much…

 
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GetMarried4Less (message)  915 posts, Busy bee

this was hilarious! and thank you sooo much. i have been down and out bc i can not afford the materials to make all the beautiful little things i have fallen in love for over the year that i have been mock planning my ewdding. now that the planning is a reality and my broke wallet is too, i’m bummed.

but this story helped lift my spirits! Thank you again!

:)

 
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jessicalynn (message)  62 posts, Worker bee

you are too funny! i shake my fist at MS all the time for her all-too-perfect creations!

 
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Quinnkd

this is soooo true. even my fiance laughed when i read it to him. yup thats me.

 
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Alex

If you need any assembly staff Kim and I will help.

 
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[...] I had to do. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t fall under the spell of some of it. As I’ve mentioned before in my blogging, sometimes it’s hard to focus on what can actually and practically be done. After all, Martha [...]

 


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