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Too often, the focus of wedding attire is solely on what the bride will wear and not the groom. Like the bride, I think the groom’s attire has equal weight in revealing the groom’s personality and setting the tone for the wedding. From a Hawaiian shirt and shorts at a beach wedding to a tux with a bowtie at a more formal wedding – anything is possible! Lately, Mr. Cookie and I have been discussing his wedding attire.
This weekend, thanks to my lovely and talented Maid of Honour Erin, I was the guest of honour at a truly awesome bridal shower complete with special kitty guests! (but I’ll get to that later).
Things were a little crazy leading up to the shower as I had a bit of “stage fright” and Canada Post lost a bunch of the invites (Grrr!) which left us scrambling to re-invite people with a week to go, but everyone had a great time. In fact, one of my friends who came told me afterwards “I normally hate these things, but yours was fun!”
Anyway, Erin was kind enough to take pictures and e-mail them to me so I could share them with you guys, my lovely blogging audience, so may I present, the photographic tour of my shower!
(L to R: Mr. Hum’s Aunt Kathleen, Mr. Hum’s Mom, My friend Kim a.k.a. zombiebride, Yours Truly, family friend Cathy and the lady in the sunglasses is my bubbi!)
This installment of my ‘Looking Back’ series* focuses on one of the details about our big day that I wish I had planned for a bit better: cake cutting logistics.
As you can see in the photos above, Mr Corn and I go from ‘Hey, let’s cut the cake’ to ‘hmmmm, how about this side’ to ‘fine, I’ll just jam the knife in’ to ‘for crying out loud, how hard can this be?!’
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Mr. Coconut and I have been engaged since March of 2007. Initially I thought to myself, wow we’ve got a ton of time to plan our wedding, this is awesome. Little did I know what a long engagement really meant: loss of social life, increasing stress, and LOTS of time to change yo damn mind. Oh yeah. No one told me how many times I, “Miss Decision Maker” would question and 50-guess my decisions!
The hardest part without a doubt was choosing our color scheme. I’ve been asked a ton of times, “What are your colors?” My reply, “ummm, I don’t have three colors, I have like 7.” Yes, I got strange looks. Eventually though (like this week), I’ve finally come up with some solid elements of our wedding.
This is the first element I KNEW had to be at our wedding. Lots of branches and romantic lighting from the ultra-fab knottie mrs.anayisnin (photo by Laura Novak):
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After my previous failed attempt at dressing the two adorable little boys in my bridal party, I have finally succeeded!
Happiness is having, in your hot little paw, the complete set of your professional wedding photos. My paws are so very happy today. 
The Inimitable Chris Richards (I’ve given him an epithet, à la Homer) has bestowed upon us all the files of our photos - fully sized and fully awesome! Hopefully, you’ll indulge me if I revisit the stories of the day through them…
Our wedding day began with one very nervous little bug. I’ll admit it - I was a stress case. Between all the DIY projects and details I’d arranged, I was feeling extremely anxious about whether I’d have enough time to set it all up exactly how my control-freak self wanted it.
I awoke at ten, in my hotel room at our venue, to a phone call from catering manager Kathleen telling me that the reception room was all mine. I flew out of bed and spent the next three hours hauling favors, menus, books, signs, candy, jars, etc. across the grounds to the reception room and arranging it just so. It was largely a solo operation, until it dawned on me to employ the services of the bell boy and waitstaff. Durrh.
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Mr. Canary and I had another productive weekend and finished our parents’ gifts. Although originally I had wanted to be super creative and make a keepsake album, it would be too time-consuming to complete before the wedding for both sets of parents, so we opted to get them each something to wear on the wedding day.Our first stop was Bloomingdale’s in midtown Manhattan. I’ve always loved Bloomie’s men’s department because they carry a wide range of styles (from super trendy to very classic) so there were a lot of options.
Papa Canary did not want to rent a tux and instead had one custom-made in Hong Kong. We decided to get him a very nice tie to match his tux vest. I was looking for something classic and formal and made of high quality silk. This is what we opted for:
Giorgio Armani silk tie
The color was the perfect complement to his vest and the diagonal stripes in different shades of blue added a pop of color.
Today we have a yummy giveaway from Product Body! Miss Jasmine has already blogged about loving this fabulous line, and it’s been receiving rave reviews in magazines and blogs everywhere.
So we’re giving away two of Product Body’s most popular products, the Crush on You exfoliant scrub and the Whipped Shea Butter, and a $25 gift certificate to one lucky winner. These products are sure to get your skin beautiful and wedding ready!
To enter, please tell us — what are looking for in bath and body products for your pre-wedding needs?
You have until 8pm EST tomorrow to enter. Good luck!
Product Body is also offering 10% off to all Weddingbee readers with the code “weddingbee10″ through June 1st.
Time consuming unnecessary DIY project #428: Menus
I bought all the materials I was going to need for some cute little menus to fold in each of our guests’ napkins. I took inspiration from my friend Andrea over at Studio Ayt, who made these incredible “cutout” menus for her own wedding last year.
photo credit: andreayung23
Mr. Pineapple will be starting a new job next week and decided to have his prescription updated and worn glasses replaced before switching insurance companies. He took me along to help pick out his new frames. (I guess I will be looking at them more than even he will be.) Here is the pair we chose:
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What does this have to do with wedding planning? They are copper, one of our wedding colors! Mr. Pineapple will be so coordinated, without even trying. They will even match his rose gold wedding band after the big day. We picked them out, because we both loved them , not because it was one of our wedding colors. But the fact that we have been buying and creating so many coppery things has defiantly influenced our tastes. We now love all things copper - copper cookware, copper mail boxes, copper paint, copper jewelry, copper planters, and I will certainly miss the penny if the mint stops making them.
Has anyone else become obsessed with their wedding colors outside of wedding planning?
Venue
The Clarke Estate [Tamra Wilbur]
Highly Recommended
10211 Pioneer Blvd.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
562.868.3876
www.santafesprings.org/depts/history/Clark_estate.asp
As soon as I pulled up to this venue, I knew it was perfect for our wedding. The well-kept grounds, the charming courtyard, the splashes of red, all the bamboo, the Modern architecture, and the expansive outdoor areas met our aesthetic criteria.
On our two year anniversary (the year Mr. Candy Corn proposed), I gave Mr. Candy Corn 365 Hershey kisses, each one with a note inside wrapped around it, with reasons why I love him (it may not sound like a lot, but 365 reasons were pretty hard to come up with!). It took me months to do this (unwrapping and re-wrapping the kisses with the neatly-written note). I put them in our “happy box” that I collaged with things that reminded me of us. Anyway, Mr. Candy Corn opened the happy box sometime last summer and discovered where our random roaches were coming from (we’d find one once a month or so). The box was infested with hundreds of roaches (AHH!), so we had to throw all of the Hershey kisses away. It probably wasn’t the most well thought out anniversary present on my part. Note to self: next time use Tupperware!
Luckily, I had written down all of the 365 reasons in a notebook so Mr. CC could look back on them. I decided to share them with the Weddingbee readers, to give you folks a sneak peek into our somewhat bizarro relationship.
This post is a little more TMI then I normally like to put on here, but I think it’s important to bring up because I know I’m not the only girl who has this problem. I’ve fought on and off with acne my entire life. Right when things start to clear up in one area, they pop up in another. Right around dress fitting time, this area happened to be my back.
I used to have this problem when I played tennis all the time and sweat up a storm, but never just because. While I would love to get “back-cials,” or facials for your back, it’s just not in my budget. When perusing the skincare section of my local Walmart (I refuse to spend tons on beauty products, except for shampoo and some makeup) I came across Neutrogena’s Body Clear Body Wash. 
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into some old projects that I want to share …
Some of you have asked about the favor tags, so here goes. I created the template in Powerpoint by creating 1.5″ circles and spacing them evenly top to bottom and left to right, so that when I printed the backside of the circle, it’d line up exactly. A good trick to know if the circles on the two separate pages are lined up is if you are tabbing between page 1 (front side) and page 2 (back side), you don’t see the page blink or change much other than the text.
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GASP! I think I’m getting married soon!! And I thouggght there was something we needed to do first… OH YEAH, GET LICENSED.
Well, luckily we did. Since we’re both living in NH, we got to take our pick of Maine town halls - so we hopped the border into Kittery (home of the wonderful Kittery Outlets) and got ourselves semi-hitched!
And we even photo-documented:
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