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Initially, I wanted all of my bridesmaids to wear the same dress. My vision was of an affordable tea-length, black dress that my seven beautiful friends would not only want, but love to wear again. After a week of searching, I found “it” at White House Black Market. Things were going oh-so-good. But then, after a few of them tried it on, I started to realize something - the dress looked very different on each one of them, from length to cleavage to fit. So, rather than have them all spend even more money on alterations and such, I set out to find something new. This was harder than I thought. After a month of searching, I came to the conclusion that no dress was going to fit the same on each one of my lovely bridesmaids.
I’ve decided to let each pick her own classy, tea- length, black, non-strapless dress. This will be much easier on their wallets, preference, and my brain. To help you see what my scatter brain is envisioning, I created the inspiration board below.
I promised you guys a post on what we’re looking for in a bee, so here goes!
I often tell people that if I were to apply to be a bee today, I’d get rejected. 
There are so many talented ladies blogging in the hive! But I’ll let you guys in on a little bee secret: many of our bees are second and even third time applicants.
Why does it usually take a few applications to become a Weddingbee blogger? Most of the time, it’s because most blogs have a more ”personal blog” like tone. On your own blog, you can pretty much blog about whatever you want - because it’s mostly your friends reading, it’s all good. A Weddngbee blog is kinda dfferent: you have to write for an audience, which can be a tricky transition.
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I’ve been thinking about wedding favors for some reason from the moment we got engaged. I think it’s because my sister in law gave me the idea to give away pashmina shawls. We were going to order a bunch of them and then tie them on the back of chairs to look like ribbon/chair decorations. Then at some point in the night, we’d tell our guests what they were and to take them home as gifts. I was even going to get little labels made with our names and wedding date sewn on them. I eventually abandoned this plan as the numbers grew to 450-500. Also, I was feeling bad for not even attempting to include the men in the favor.
So, one day my mom and I were talking and we came up with the idea of doing something with tea. Sri Lankans and Indians alike are obsessed with tea so this seemed like a pretty perfect idea. Then Mrs. Onion posted about using adagio tea samples for wedding favors. I went on their site and ordered some samples, and they were adorable. I came up with this idea to do a Ceylon tea (Sri Lankan tea) and a Darjeeling (Indian tea) so it brings the two cultures together. I think I’m going to stick little Sri Lankan and Indian flags on them or something like that to make the idea clear.
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It’s back to reality here at work. Sad face. Just as Mr. Penguin and I were getting used to the slow and steady seep of alcohol into our bloodstream, we’re both back home.
But ahh, the memories! We spent our honeymoon at the less-than-one-year-old Excellence Playa Mujeres Resort, 15 minutes north of Cancun, Mexico. It was all kinds of excellence, all over the place.
We headed out to the airport on Monday morning after the wedding. I use the term “morning” loosely, as there is no good reason to call 4AM anything other than the hour of the dead. But we were 50% awake and 100% excited to get our booties to the airport!
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GAAAAAAHHHH!!! I am soooOO excited!!!
So, as many of you know, I married Mr. BG. With that marriage, I OFFICIALLY (unofficially, I was already there) got a brand new mom, a brand new dad, and a brand new brother.
Well, guess what people!!! Brand new brother got engaged!!!
Now our unofficial family will be one big official family (and family pictures can be hung on walls 
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Basically, it happened here:
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After my delicious shower hosted by my friends Amanda and Marianne, I went directly to my bachelorette party, hosted by my supremely creative future sister-in-law, Katie. Katie rented out a hotel room in San Francisco for us and had all kinds of fun things planned.
First on the agenda? Changing my outfit. Katie gave me a bag full of stuff. The first thing I pulled out was a shirt with a picture of Mr. Cream Puff on it. It’s probably the world’s weirdest photo of him. He’s wearing a cowboy hat with a dead rattlesnake on it– some weird guy in a Dim Sum restaurant let him try it on, and he made a really weird face and made me take a picture of him. But alas, I digress.
Weddings are expensive, and it seems like every time Mr. Cookie and I say “wedding,” the price seems to triple, if not quadruple. I think what is even worse is the nickel and diming - corking fees, cake cutting fees, food shortage surcharges, photography usage fees - it’s vendors trying to squeeze every last penny out of you! Mr. Cookie and I want to have a nice wedding, but we don’t want to auction off our first child to do so! But one bride did something similar!
I just stumbled on a little miracle product, and given the current 90-degree temperatures here in Maryland, I thought I would share! The weather has been killing us, as Mr. T and I are moving this week - YAY for our first place together! We’ve been living for the past year in a house together, but we have a roommate- and while I’m going to miss Roommate Tiramisu (ha Brandon, I promised you’d get a little Weddingbee mention!), it’s going to be nice to be living just the two of us in our own place.
Anyway, I was at The Body Shop a few weeks ago buying my favorite body butter, and found this Seaweed Mattifying Day Cream in my bag as a free sample. I have what I consider to be pretty normal skin- a little dry in the winter, and a little oily in the summer. I’ve tried other makeup primers before, but none could seem to stop that sort of oily T-zone look that creeps up on a hot day. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this one works! The key ingredient is “bladderwack seaweed” (mmm, that sounds like something you’d love to slather on your face, right?), and I swear it keeps my face from getting shiny all day long. I used to rely on blotting paper, but I haven’t needed to use any at all since I purchased this stuff.
I’ve been DYING to share these with you for the longest time! Here are our perdy programs…
Congratulations to the winner beebs!
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Today we’re giving away 25 of PosePrint’s new customizable silhouette invitations! These playful invites can be used for save the dates, bridal showers, rehearsal dinners, or any wedding related event!
To enter please tell us — If you win, how will you use your PosePrints Silhouette invitations?
You have until 8pm PST Friday to enter. Good luck!
PS - Poseprints is also offering weddingbee readers a 10% discount with code “wedbee” through the end of July!
We were fortunate enough to have two engagement sessions - totally unplanned! The first was completely unscheduled, but impromptu plans sometimes turn out the best, yes?
The first engagement session was inspired by my lovely FSIL who also happens to be an extremely talented photographer. We all happened to be meeting up to welcome home my FBIL from Iraq. My Future-In-Laws were gracious enough to host us all at a rented beach house on the Topsail Island beaches of North Carolina where we spent a week of having family fun.
With the addition of Rooney the puppy a couple weeks ago, there are now six members of the Pineapple household.
Here is a quick recap:
Rooney
Part of the reason I have been getting increasingly stressed about the wedding does not have anything to do with things that Mr. Canary and I have not prepared for or planned… but mostly things our guests have not done. Perhaps it is because we are the first among our friends to get married or perhaps people don’t realize that planning this wedding has taken up about 90% of our time in the past few weeks… but we are still met with so many questions that have been driving both Mr. Canary and me insane.
Among the many annoying things have been travel plans. We realize and greatly appreciate that so many of our guests are going great distances (literally and figuratively) to attend our wedding, so we posted a lot of travel information on our wedding Web site six months ago. We are merely three weeks away from the big day and I am still getting emails this week which included questions like this, "So where should we book our hotel? Do you have any suggestions? Can you book the hotel for us?" I really wanted to scream. We provided you all this information. We even printed a save-the-date six months ago so you could prepare for this.
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