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I’ve talked quite a bit about our honeymoon, and now that it’s coming close, I realized there are some things that I need to figure out.
Like what to pack. As we are traveling with carry-ons only (since spending a month backpacking in Europe, I have a hard time packing more than just a carry-on), space is pretty limited. I thought I’d share my packing list for other people traveling to warm climates who hope to pack light, as well as open it up to any suggestions for items that I have forgotten.
Clothes (including what I will wear on the plane):
2 knit dresses
1 pair shorts
1 pair pants
2 short sleeved shirts
1 cardigan or long sleeved shirt
birkenstocks
sneakers
socks
underwear
3 swimsuits
1 pashmina
rain jacket
(I plan on buying some nicer sandals once we’re in Bali.)
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Congratulations to commenter #129 jenniferb - the winner of the Perfect Details Earrings!
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Today’s giveaway comes to us from Perfect Details, purveyor of elegant bridal shoes, accessories, gifts and more. They’ve also recently opened a boutique in lovely Santa Cruz, CA, and to celebrate they’re giving away a pair of earrings to one lucky weddingbee reader!
These are some of their bestsellers: clockwise, dangling pear drop chandelier, vintage teardrop, pearl drop w/ cz, godfather waltz
Simply comment below with your favorite, or click on over to their gorgeous earring section and let us know if there are a pair that you like better – one lucky winner will win her pair of choice!
You have until midnight 4/30 to enter. Good luck! 
Working on all of the little details for our wedding is turning out to be WAY more difficult then searching for vendors. Right now I’m on the hunt for 8-9″ black table stands. I don’t want anything fancy or theme related. Just some decent, plain looking stands. So far, these options are the only two that I’ve come up with (found at Food Service Direct):
When first faced with the task of planning a wedding, I honestly thought I could have a super fabulous wedding in San Francisco for 10k. After only a tiny amount of research, I discovered that I was seriously out to lunch. Most of the venues in San Francisco have rental fees upwards of 6k–which, in my fantasy budget, left us with only 4k to decorate and feed people. Not gonna happen. So the budget was re-evaluated, and I found much less expensive options for pretty much everything. But everything is still adding up, and recently I crunched some numbers and started to freak out a bit.
First, we added 20 people to the guest list. This was sorta-kinda necessary, as the 130 people we were aiming for only covered our families, but not our friends.
Second, there was the videographer, which we all agreed we should have, but we hadn’t budgeted for.
Third, there were the decorations–our flowers are WAY under budget, but we went with fancy linens and chivari chairs (which, as it turns out, we will now only get to split 2 ways, as the 3rd couple can’t afford them). All of this would have been fine, if it weren’t for the extra tables. The extra tables mean extra centerpieces and extra fancy linens, not to mention extra service staff.
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As time passes, I seem to change my mind on what I want to do for the table numbers. At first Mr. Flamingo had suggested having vintage movie posters, but I soon realized that they could be very complicated and hard to understand. First off, if the guests don’t know the movie specifically, they will need to search to find the actual title on the poster. In those years there was type all over the place - the actors’ names were more prominent than the actual movie title - so I think it may be hard for the guests to find their table. Another important point is that the majority of the guests are French and all the movie titles are in English.
I really liked the imagery of the 1933 movie The Songs of Songs. Not only is the imagery beautiful, but it’s vintage and wedding perfect… and it’s actually a love story too.
Here is the original poster :
After putting it off for months, Mr. Hum and I finally bit the bullet this past weekend and picked out our rings. We had looked at some conventional jewellery stores, but in the end, we decided to go with Kalupe, a Toronto jeweler we’d known of for a while and who Mr. Hum had dealt with a few years ago when he purchased a beautiful necklace for my 23rd birthday (I’ve worn it constantly since I got it, I love it so much).
Because we were looking for something a little original and funky, their pieces were perfect for us. Not only are they customizable, but many take their cue from historical designs dating back as far as the 5th century which I totally love. I mean how cool is it to think that something you’re making the commitment to wear for the rest of your life has endured for so many years?
Anyway, as for what we ended up choosing, I’m not spilling the beans on the specifics just yet, but suffice it to say Mr. Hum picked out a band design he liked and I am getting a customized version, using the same design motif but modified for my smaller hands.
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We’re thrilled to see that so many people are using the Classifieds right here on Weddingbee to buy and sell all kinds of wedding related stuff, so this week we’re launching Weddingbee’s Classified Roundup!
Every week we’ll feature the best of what’s currently for sale by readers. So if you’ve got something that you’d like to sell, post it in the classifieds, include a link to pictures, and you just might see your item featured here on the blog! As usual, you’re always welcome to check out everything that’s for sale over in the classifieds section.
Today, reader janeoak is selling four brand new sets of Swarovski pearl necklaces and earrings. They’re beautiful, classic, and would make a great gift for your bridesmaids. They’re all for sale for $100 plus s&h, a fantastic deal!
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about adding a pop of pink by having my bridesmaids wear hot pink shoes with their blue dresses. Finding pink shoes for two of my bridesmaids (one of my sisters and FSIL) wasn’t hard at all - they have “normal-sized” feet. The other two were an entire different story - my cousin is a size 5.5 like me, and my little 17 year-old sister is a freakishly small size 4! 
If you recall, the two with “normal-sized” feet had picked the same styled-dress, and the two with tiny feet chose the another dress, so I didn’t feel the need for them to have matching shoes either. But now, the hard part - where to find size 4 pink heels?!?!
Tra-la! Nordstrom to the rescue!
While planning our wedding, I loved the idea of staying at a nice hotel the night before the wedding (by myself) and on the wedding night (joined by Mr. T). Unfortunately, we couldn’t spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars for the privilege. Originally, my plan was to bid on Priceline a few days beforehand and see what came up. But then my favorite travel discount site, Travelzoo, shared the great news that a new Hotel Monaco had opened in Alexandria, just 3 blocks from our ceremony site, and they were having a $99/night special.
And it turns out, staying there was a fantastic decision — they made the wedding weekend an absolute dream!
(Taking a pre-ceremony break on the world’s most comfortable bed)
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Who is this woman, and why am I not married to her??? SERIOUSLY.
Mistress Zalita of the Magical Kingdom of Cuppy-Cake has stolen my heart, and broken it into a thousand crystalline fragments. There’s nothing left.
My heart is racing like I’ve just met Johnny Depp and he just said something profoundly witty and intimate. Like, “hello.”
I can’t breathe.
…..I can’t liiiiiiiiivvvvvvve
if living is without youuuuuuu (Zalita)
I can’t giiiiivvvvve
I can’t give any mooooorrrre….
As promised, here’s the cost breakdown for my DIY invitations… They were (mostly) fun to make, but they did take H O U R S ! Since I’m still a grad student, my time = 0$/hour. Here’s the price breakdown of the rest of the supplies:
Paper (all from Paper-Source):
A7 envelopes in Superfine soft white: 15 packs @ 3.83 each = 57.45
(10% discount for 10 packs or more)
4Bar envelopes in Night: 15 packs @ 2.70 each = 40.50
4Bar cards in Night: 6 packs @ 2.75 each = 16.50
4Bar cards in Superfine soft white: 12 packs @ 2.48 each = 29.76
A6 cards in Superfine soft white: 6 @ 3.75 each = 22.50
A7 folded cards in Night: 8 @ 7.00 each = 56.00
Total paper = $222.71
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Way back when the wedding planning first began, I thought that I would be wearing a headband on my wedding day. Of the weddings I had been to up until that point, most of the brides had worn tiaras or headbands, so I kind of took that for granted. Once I began scouring wedding blogs and checking out “real weddings” on The Knot, I fell in love with the idea of having smaller hairpieces pinned into my hair along with fresh flowers. Thus began my search for the perfect hairpieces!
I am excited to say that after looking for a while, they are finally here! I custom ordered them from Haute Bride, a local San Francisco bridal salon that specializes in bridal jewelry. While there are plenty of other salons that sell jewelry for cheaper, in my opinion, the selection and intricacy of detail they have just don’t compare to what I found at Haute Bride. They turned these around for me in one day, and I also placed my custom jewelry order with them as well, which took two weeks (picking them up on Friday!).
Aren’t they exquisite? I was so excited at how dainty and just “pretty” the detail was!
Har har now… Let me get you your escort card…
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I’m back and tanner from Vegas! We had a blast doing “chick stuff” all weekend. I have to admit, I don’t love to do Vegas as most bachelorettes like to. I’m kind of low key, and I don’t particularly enjoy nude men nor night clubs, so my girlfriends had a doozy of a time trying to figure out an itinerary I would enjoy…and they did a great job!
My engagement ring was custom made to fit the diamond Mr. Pineapple picked out, so we had to send it away to have a wedding band made to match. This makes me sad. I have been without my ring for over 4 weeks now. You would think that being engagement ring free for 4 weeks after being engagement ring free for 23 years would not be so bad. I just love being engaged to Mr. Pineapple and having the ring remind me of how lucky I am every time I look at my hand.
So, I went to Claire’s and got 2 sweet cubic zirconia rings for $6.50. I purchased 2 because they were all fairly ugly and because I wanted Mr. Pineapple to be able to have a hand in the choice. For a while, I wore the first one, but it felt kind of ridiculous. It is so big and there were definitely clouds in my stones.
Here is the first ring:
It’s huge! Look at the pseudo bling! My honorary bridesmaid Jacki said “oh wow, look how it has no sparkle!” She was obviously impressed.
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