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Hi! I’m Miss Cream Puff!
I’m feeling a lot of pressure to make this first entry super awesome. After all, you only get one chance to make a first impression, right? And of course, I want to make a good one. I could start by telling you any of a number of things. I could tell you about the way Mr. Cream Puff proposed to me, but I kind of feel like saving that story for later. I could tell you why I chose “Cream Puff” over all the other names I could have chosen, but that seems like kind of a boring topic (mostly because it’s a very short story!). Heck, I could even start detailing the numerous DIY projects I’ve started and half-completed. But for some reason, I just feel like rambling a little. So maybe I’ll just tell you about Mr. Cream Puff and I.
Let’s see, where to start. Well, most obviously, Mr. Cream Puff and I are inter-racial. Mr. Cream Puff is Chinese, and I’m Jewish. Our cultures are very important to both of us, so we’ll be incorporating both of them into our wedding. And speaking of incorporating both of our cultures, both of our last names are linked to our cultures and neither of us wanted to give them up– so we’re both going to hyphenate (yes, Mr. Cream Puff is changing his name! I’m totally proud of him).
Hmm, what else? Okay, confession: we are really dorky at heart. Although Mr. Cream Puff would be mortified to know I’m telling you all this, we met on the Internet. I am personally not ashamed of this fact, but I think he wishes we had a better story. In fact, I think he’s secretly hoping we can go the rest of our lives with people thinking we met “through friends” (he’s actually muttering to himself right now, “that’s a good story, ‘through friends,’ I think we should just say that.” What a weirdo! Tons of people meet online.). Let’s see, what else. Oh. We’re head-over-heels for our pets. We have four cats (Peete Tails, Gwynnie, Elvis Purrsley and Dr. Miles) and a dog (Lulabelle). Yup, it’s a nice little menagerie we’ve got here.
I work part-time at Paper Source while I start my own Illustration business (yay for the employee discount while we’re planning our wedding, huh?!). Mr. Cream Puff works as a Merchandise Planner for a big clothing retailer, but is starting his own business as well. 
So yeah. I’d say that’s a pretty good introduction to who we are as people. I am very excited to be a bee and to join the hive, and I’m definitely looking forward to sharing my wedding plans with you all! Here’s to getting to know one another!
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You work at Paper Source?! You’ll be loved around here! Welcome! Which one do you work at? I heart the one in the Marina.
Papersource??? That’s awesome!
Welcome to the hive! It’ll be so great to have you here! I can’t wait to follow your wedding planning journey!
Yay! Welcome Miss Cream-Puff…I’m from the Bay Area too! I look forward to reading about your wedding plans! 
welcome Miss creampuff!
we want to know everything you are planning!
Welcome! I can’t wait to hear all about your wedding planning adventures!
That’s so cool that your fiance’s meeting you half-way with your last names! Very modern of him. And yeah, um, the Paper Source thing? Prepare to be stalked.
Can’t wait to see your artistic creativity.
Welcome Miss Creampuff! Wow, I bet working at Paper Source gets you into trouble.
Welcome!
My friend met her husband online too. They tell people they met at a “Cookie shop” - as a little nod to the computer beginning.
welcome! what a fun first entry! and wow, props to mr. creampuff for changing his last name! that is so awesome. haha and yes, prepare to be stalked…i bet you’ll be getting a lot of visitors in the near future yay for more sf brides!
Welcome Miss Creampuff! FH and I also met online, but I like to say, “We met at school.” Which could be true. Anyhow welcome and lucky you employee discount!
cool! i can’t wait to see what you have planned to incorporate both cultures.
Yay! I love reading about new bees. Awesome points for you working at Paper Source and MORE awesome points for your fiance changing his name!
We will also have a total of four cats and a dog together, and are absolutely mad for our domestic livestock. My cats are awfully nice to his toy poodle, who is really timid. (Integrating his cat is going to be another story - we have our fingers crossed.) Welcome aboard, and can’t wait to hear all the stories!
WOOP WOOP norcal represent! I like me some creampuff goodness, cant wait to hear more about your wedding plans!
HOORAY FOR THE INTERNET lol… we were the same way for awhile but we bust out the true story nowadays.
It’s almost brave of you to mention that you work at Paper Source! Very cool on the last name thing, can’t wait to hear all about your plans.
Yeah for internet too!! We met online and I am never shy about sharing! As long as you are cautious and responsible, I think it is a great way to meet people.
Welcome!
YAY to many things: you being Jewish, him being Chinese; hyphenating the last name; meeting online; working at Paper Source! I am none of the above, but think all are cool. Also, your picture is super cute.
Haha. Men We met online also. I didn’t find out he had his own little ’story’ until I told his step-mom the truth. Opps! On his part for not letting me know he was telling fibs!!
Me, I have no secrets. (which in all honesty is probably a bad thing) I have no problemo telling people we met online - and that he starting IMing me because I was cute and I was ‘free’ to contact. (I had match figured out!) It’s the part where we got to know each other and fell in love that’s the important part - and that didn’t happen online
Anyways - I was meeting him and some co-workers for lunch the other day (he’s been there a year, we’ve been married for 9 months) and he warned me not to mention that we ‘met online’. I was shocked - what? How do they think we met? Why are you so silly about this! haha. At least he gave me a heads up this time!
Welcome - looking forward to your creativity!
We say “through friends” too. I’m getting married in 2 weeks and a lot of people don’t know that our first mutual “friend” was Tom!
oooh, so very brave of you to announce your affiliation to paper source. that place is like crack in the hive!
my bf and i met online too…after we were at school together! lol. we didn’t tell our parents the truth because it would have taken a lot more time than just saying we “went to school together” which is a half truth…we just didn’t know the other one was there!
welcome welcome — love that your fiance is taking your name too. that’s fab and very 2008 of him
You CANNOT be embarassed that you met on the internet, SEVERAL bee couples met over the net!!!
And its better than my meeting story of me stalking Mr. Penguin in real life until he was forced to realize that there was no getting rid of me
Welcome, welcome and GREAT picture for your little bee box! Me likey!
yay! another bay area bride! i think it’s very cool that you’ll both be changing your names…and i’m looking forward to reading about how you incorporate Chinese & Jewish cultures into your wedding (I’m Chinese and could definitely use some ideas). Welcome!
I bow to thee, oh Paper Source bee.
(how cute, it rhymes!)
If there was a church of paper, that is where I would worship.
Big ups on the hyphenated name change for both of you.
my fiance our interracial as well… I cant wait to hear some of your ideas that you are incorporating… my fiance is german & italian and I m chinese & vietnamese… welcome to the weddingbee!
YEAH for San Fran weddings ! I met my FI on the net… and sometimes I just say we met at Starbucks, which is true…. it’s just not how we were introduced ! LOL.
So happy to have you, Miss Cream Puff! Especially because Mr. Tulip is Taiwanese and we too have 4 cats and a dog!! Hooray for interracial 5-pet-owning couples!
(And my last, 4-year, relationship was with someone I met on the Internet…. Never would have given him chance if we’d met at a party, so I’m a big proponent of Internet meets — recommend it to all my single friends. But his chosen story was “met through friends” too!)
mr bee and i met through my personal blog, so you’re not alone.
welcome miss cream puff!
how cool is your name!!! lol…..i love it!
can’t believe you work at Papersource! omg! can hear you hear that “Squee’ing”? lol…..
Thrilled you made the cut and am looking forward to “stalking” you. everyday. just like the other bees…..
*wink*
Welcome!!
My FH and I met online as well - so you’re not alone!! I always say that meeting online gives you the opportunity to get to know someone MUCH better than if you had met in say, a bar, y’know? So no worries! I bet there’s a great story behind the monitor!
welcome!! i am also having an asian/jewish -”ish” ceremony and am looking forward to seeing what you incorporate! and your icon looks positively deelish. makes me wanna have a beard papa!
Awe, I met my bf online too! We’ve been dating a year, and until a month or two ago, he was telling people we met on myspace, when in reality, it was yahoo personals - but for some reason he thought myspace sounded *soooo* much cooler. LOL boys….
My husband & I met online too - nothing to be shy about. Can’t wait to hear about your Chinese/Jewish wedding! Go Norcal!
Welcome Miss Creampuff, can’t wait to hear all about the wedding! (and maybe see some pictures of all your kitties?)
I know you may not believe this … but I totally called this 1,000,000 years ago because I have seen you all over the norcal knottie boards — love everything you do!! Congrats!
Welcome Miss Creampuff! It’s so great that you’re both changing your last names. And I think it’s wonderful that you met on the internet.
Congrats on being a bee! It was fun meeting you at the DIY flowershop and then running in to you at PaperSource.
Yeah Miss Cream Puff!!! Start showing your stuff lady cause I know you have plenty of ideas Just stay away from the glitter - I hear it’s bad news
Karen
Welcome! I love the name Cream Puff since we will being having Beard Papa at our wedding instead of cake :-). You know, everyone I tell we met online, INCLUDING MY PARENTS, responds with, “I know a couple who just got married who met online.” Online is actually the boring way to meet these days.
yea miss cream puff! my fi and i are both illustrators, too! and, big dorks. i’m so excited to see your planning unfold. i hope we get to see a few of your drawings!
That is super cool that you are an illustrator. My fiance and I both graduated with BFAs in Illustration last May.
I sat at Starbucks tonight after work and worked on drawings for the wedding coloring book I’m making for the kids.
I hope we get to see some of your illustrations!
Yay for another Bay Area wedding on WeddingBee! The Green Room is absolutely stunning — that’s going to be fabulous venue. We wanted to be there but of course by the time we asked in July 2007, all Saturdays in July and August 2008 were already taken. . . . Can’t wait to read more — and I too would love seeing pictures of kittles . . . since we would love one (or two or three) but can’t have one where we rent.
Wow, you guys are all so awesome and welcoming! I assure you, in the future you will definitely be seeing my babies (otherwise known as my sons, my kitties), and my drawings, which actually take up a huge part of our wedding plans.
Just a couple of notes to some of you guys who commented:
Paper Source does cause quite a bit of trouble for me! It’s hard to bring home a paycheck when you work there, for SURE!
Jilian–I have no secrets either, and I’m with you: I haven’t figured out whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing yet!
Katy–I love your rhyme!
Cara–The first time we actually met in person was at the airport. In the beginning I told people we met at the airport, just to appease Mr. Cream Puff…but I found that they asked too many questions! I realized a very romantic story should accompany “we met at the airport,” so I just gave up. I tell people the truth, whether Mr. Cream Puff is embarrassed or not!
Miss Tulip–the other night Mr. Cream Puff and I were looking at some of your posts and were almost disturbed by how much we have in common with you guys! It’s crazy! The last line of your bio (about multitasking with TV watching and computer time and various other things) could have been written by me! We must talk.
And, of course, a shout out to my NorCal Knotties. I LOVE YOU GUYS!
I’m learning so much from reading your Weddingbee entry - I had no idea you and guys were combining your names. What a great idea and now liberated of Mr. Cream Puff.
Great first entry, Stinkerpants!
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Mrs. Cream Puff, San Francisco Bay Area
Age and Occupation: 25, Illustrator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Merchandise Planner
Engagement Date: May 27, 2007
Wedding Date: August, 2008
Blogging Since: February 7, 2008
Venue: Ceremony at Crissy Field and Reception at the Green Room
About Me: I never dreamed about my wedding as a little girl because I was too busy playing in the mud or pretending to be Martha Stewart–but now that it's here, I'm having a fabulous time DIYing everything in sight! We’re planning a very fun multicultural wedding (I'm Jewish and Mr. Cream Puff is Chinese), filled with as many personal details as I can muster.
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