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For all of you keeping up with my gown play by play, I’d hoped to perhaps venture into downtown Seattle on Monday to get the last three great stores in the area over and done with….but I woke up to a fresh blanket of snow.
The past two Sundays, Mr. Hydrangea and I have begun to ask his family to participate in our wedding for all of the Hispanic traditions that will be incorporated into our wedding ceremony. Well, I should say they all talked and I more or less listened as they all spoke in Spanish. I can understand nearly everything, but have yet to work up the nerve to try to speak to his family. I get a little embarrassed and intimidated, which I’m hoping I’ll grow out of one of these days.
Because one of the couples that we wanted to ask to be in the ceremony lives in Mexico, we had to call them and ask them to be the Padrinos for the arras. Essentially this means that they will purchase the arras, or coins, that we will use in the ceremony. The arras are the 13 coins that the Padrinos bring up to the altar and hand to the groom. The groom then places these coins into the bride’s hands to symbolize his promise to support his new family.
I interrupt my wedding re-cap to bring a smile to your face and to encourage you to think outside the box. I loved our save-the-dates, don’t get me wrong. But they were very traditional — they matched all our other stationery. I wanted to encourage you brides-to-bee (pun intended) with a sense of humor to not take your save-the-date’s too seriously.
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This post is long overdue, but I wanted to make sure all my guest received their invitations before writing about them. Before weddingbee, I never thought in a million years that I would “gocco” my invites. I remember emailing my bridesmaids this gocco post when it came out last February, which got them all excited. Then, my super-talented bridesmaid, Michelle graciously offered to design and help make my invitations! Without her, none of this would have been possible.
My first task: get a gocco! In August, I had bid for and won one off ebay as a pure impulse buy.
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I’m patiently waiting on my pro pics (two or three more weeks to go!), but until then, I wanted to post some of the guest pics I’ve received over the last few weeks. I love how even my guests were able to capture some fabulous moments that I otherwise might have missed…
Cutting our fab cake. Seriously, it turned out even more beautiful than I ever thought it could!
If you don’t mind engaging in a brief discussion of my breasts, I could really use some input.
Ever since I liberated my dress from the clutches the bridal salon, I’ve been dying to post pictures. I haven’t been able to wrangle anyone into a photo session yet, but I’m going to go ahead and post some crappy, poorly lit, self-taken pics.
Because I need to know - am I crazy or do I need to have the bust on this bad boy altered, like, big time??
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We’re super happy to announce that we’re now offering weddingbee t-shirts (the ringer tee is my fave), totes, aprons and more in our new weddingbee store (check out the new gear tab above)!
When we first tried selling weddingbee t-shirts last year, we realized how much work it was to fulfill orders and ship them out. But now all orders are processed through Printfection, so it’s less work for us, and we’re able to offer a bigger variety of products!
Please have a look around and let us know what you think. And of course… you’re welcome to purchase anything as well! 
A huge thanks to BIL Bee who set this up while sick as a dog.
…doowop doop doop ba doo-wop doooowop….
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If you are still hunting for a honeymoon location, and if you remember that smash hit (ie. I watched it everyday after school) educational kid’s game show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, have I got a mission for you!
Hi, my name’s Miss Chickadee and I’m a wedding procrastinator.
I’m proud to announce that it’s been almost an entire week and a half since my first (and hopefully last) major wedding breakdown, which was followed almost immediately by a wedding intervention courtesy of Big Sis & Mama Chickadee. Needless to say, it was an intervention worthy of Dr. Phil himself, complete with motivational speeches, list-making, and more than a few tears.
The good news is, I am a reformed Chickadee and the proud possessor of 100 COMPLETELY FINISHED Save the Dates. I also managed to check many many other things off my to-do list… including a few toughies like choosing a veil, shoes, and bridesmaid dresses!
Today though, is going to be completely devoted to my Save the Dates. I know what you may be thinking, though, “didn’t we already get a post about this?” Um, yes. Good memory. You’re right, I did already write about them… but they’ve changed. What can I say, it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.
I hope a sweet shade of blue on the toe nails will cover this one of the ’something ’something requirements, since much to Mr. Petunia’s dismay, I axed a garter long ago (along with its accompanying toss). I was going to do away with the tradition altogether, not being much of a superstitious gal in the first place and unsure of what I’d use for the something old, but I figure it’s best to get good luck on my side than against it. That, and my sweet MOH offered me her grandmother’s handkerchief (something borrowed, too).
Can we say, all your base are belong to us? Check out this ebay seller, where you can apparently get this Jim Hjelm dress that I tried on last week for one cent, plus a pretty penny for shipping. For an eighty-some-odd dollar investment and a one week turnaround time, I’m almost tempted just to order this dress just for the heck of it… a) I’m sure it would make great blogging material b) maybe it would be decent enough quality to wear for a trash the dress?
But seriously, has anyone out there purchased any made-to-order ebay dresses from China? Share your photos, share your horror stories, or maybe someone out there has had some luck?
For our wedding reception, I want to try incorporating new ideas that are fun and entertaining that our guests will remember for a long time to come. Partly because I like to be a little different, but mostly because I want everyone to have an awesome time.
In the South, you grow up attending wedding receptions where there is the wedding cake…and then there’s the groom’s cake. If any of you have seen Steel Magnolias, think blood red armadillo cake. To many, it’s the chocolate cake at the reception, usually depicting something important to the groom, whether it be his alma mater, favorite sports team or hobby.
Mr. Hydrangea is pretty impartial to the whole wedding planning process. He likes to stay in the background and watch Mom H and I plan, and only gives his opinion if it is something that really concerns him. A few months ago, I brought up an alternative for his groom’s cake which he seemed to like.
I LOVE our engagement pictures, so I really wanted use them to make a guest book, however I also really wanted to go the traditional Chinese route and use the traditional red silk embroidered signing cloth. I really tried to convince myself that we could have two guest books. But then, Mr. Toucan slapped some sense into me - no one is going to sign two guest books. He’s completely right. I had to chose one or the other. In the end we opted for the signing cloth and bought this one in Hong Kong:
If you had to choose one word to describe your relationship with your future mother-in-law, what would it be? What would you want it to be? For me, being able to answer this question truthfully has been one of the greatest things to come from planning our wedding.
As a child, Mr. Lovebug had a soccer mom. A make-the-Halloween-costumes-by-hand mom. A never-miss-a-single-important-event mom. A doting, expressive, and very available PTA mom. I had one, too. Only, mine isn’t around any more, for a handful of those complicated yet devastatingly simple reasons that life sometimes dishes out. And if there’s one thing I’m not looking for, it’s a replacement.
I know; that’s a shockingly cold thing to say, isn’t it? Particularly when the woman in question is an effusive, bubbly sweetheart of a mother, just dying to pull me under her wing and into the nest. I mean, really. She calls me her “kidlet”, which is just about the cutest thing ever, right?
Only, why does it make me feel like a phony? Am I an ungrateful brat, for not wanting that?
As we all know, trying to manage all the little details of a wedding can get a little overwhelming. Miss Hydrangea shared her secrets to keeping her sanity. Here are mine. And I know how nerdy I am about to sound, but apparently being nerdy has become the new cool.
Before Mr. Peacock proposed, I loved my Gmail account. I would tell everyone about how they needed to get out of whatever tired email account they had because Gmail rocked. Then, as we started talking guest lists, booking appointments with vendors and reading mass amounts of wedding blogs, I realized that my love for Google went beyond their near perfect email system and large database of images. I don’t actually mean to pick favorites, but I can’t find any similar programs out there that work as well. Here are the highlights!
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