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I thought I’d share this with the hive cuz I know how much you ladies love boobies. I just got a call from Mr. Lovebird who basically surfs the web all day looking for bargains when he’s not studying his medical books. He told me there was a deal going on for the Natural Bra and I bought four of those babies at GraveyardMall for $4.99 each!
Yea, I know I don’t need them for our wedding since it has already passed, but I bought four of these babies a few years back and they were quite handy when I used them for my TTD in NYC. Can you say, “Holy Boobage, Batman!”
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Mr. Pinot Noir and I drove to Fairfield, Connecticut last month for the 2008 Fairfield County Irish Festival to search for his wedding ring! As you may remember, Mr. Pinot Noir and his brothers will be wearing their family kilt for the wedding. He wanted a Celtic two-tone, open knot wedding ring and found a vendor online from Massachusetts who would be at the festival, so we decided to make the drive up.
After almost 2 months of married bliss, Mr. Toucan is still not used to wearing his wedding ring! I pretend to get mad, and jokingly say he’s “trying to look like a single guy” again! His reaction is so cute, though. He gets pretty upset with himself for forgetting! So, the past week, after he forgot to wear his ring 3 of the 4 days, I made him a sign and hung it up at the door.
So far, he hasn’t forgotten to wear it since!
How good is your spouse (or you!) at remembering to wear the wedding ring?
My last post on the bridal shoot was already ridiculously long, so I thought I would split it up and do a little “behind the scenes” coverage for you on what doing a bridal shoot in Rome is really like. If you thought it was all glitz and glam, those dreams are about to be dashed, my friend.
We spent all of our money getting from Washington state to Rome, so I ended up walking from place to place in my dress instead of riding in a taxi. I got a lot of strange looks and a lot of whistles.
Don’t I look so relaxed and happy, like I’m in my own little bridal induced world? Scroll down to discover the shocking truth…
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I’ve always wanted a winter wedding. That is, until I saw a summer wedding in my hometown. Growing up in a small town in the mountains of Colorado, there are limited choices as to where you can tie the knot. Most summer brides opt for an outdoor wedding either on the mountain or somewhere special to the couple within the Vail valley.
So when I say people get married on the mountain, I mean LITERALLY the top of the mountain…
I admit I’ve never seen this:
(source)
I’m not sure how flattering ski boots would be with my dress. I think I need a little heel and I’m pretty sure ski boots only come in flats. Would be kinda fun though… hmm.
Instead, the mountain weddings in Colorado are usually more like this:
Weddingbee was just down for 25 minutes! It had nothing to do with our servers: our webhost’s nameserver went down. 
When you type weddingbee.com into your browser, your computer has to ask a “name server” which IP address to send you to – so that you can find our servers. The name server is like the Yellow Pages of the net: you look up the name, and the Yellow Pages tells you the phone number and street address of the business. That’s the system that went down for us!
We’ve never had that happen before. We’re looking into getting a more powerful name server with backups built in, so that this doesn’t happen again. It’s pretty expensive though, so we’re weighing the pros and cons first. We’ll know more as soon as we talk to our name server provider.
But we wanted to let you guys know right away what the word was! We’ll keep you posted in the comments…
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As with many bachelorette parties, mine included an assortment of underthings from all of the girls. When we came back to the room from the cabana, I was surprised to see that our small room was opened to the suite next door, leaving a huge living area for us to continue the celebration.
I was completely surprised!
I’m a real fan of stilettos. I have some in pink, turquoise, taupe, brown, black… the list goes on. Not only are they elegant, but simply beautiful, especially in bright shades. Though sometimes, especially at outdoor weddings, they sink into grass, get stuck in cracks and get ruined by pebbles.
Well that’s all history with the SoleMates High Heeler™.
Images courtesy of SoleMates
Jennytyum is selling these new, never worn, annabellagio “Francesca” style earrings. She purchased them for $52 and is looking to sell them for $40 OBO with free shipping.
Once I had decided on a purple shoe, the search started in earnest.
I searched high and low. I trudged from store to store, all over Vancouver, Montreal and Seattle. Nada. Well, that’s not entirely true. I did find one pair. ONE PAIR of pretty purple peep-toe pumps–the appropriateness of which was directly in proportion to how desperate I was starting to feel (i.e. not so much, but starting to get VERY):
(Pardon the picture, it happened to be a fishnet sort of day. Shoes by Ferragamo; closest I’ve found online are these.)
They felt like buttah. But something wasn’t right. They seemed too… winter-ish.
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The votes are in and these are your favorites for our next generation of characters:
1. crab cake
2. sushi (variety tbd)
3. dumpling
4. bruschetta
5. quiche
6. cheese (variety tbd)
7. spring roll
8 & 9. shrimp cocktail & meatball (tie)
Several of you also suggested the following:
hummus
Again, I am going to point out that this is just one more example of how I am “using my resources.” I am lucky enough to have a mother who is a professional wedding photographer.
After spending a few days scouting out locations, we decided that we would do the shoot on Saturday night at the Trevi fountain and also at the Coliseum. We knew that we would have to do the shoot in the middle of the night in order to avoid the crowds, and so we didn’t even leave the hotel until somewhere around 10 PM. Walking around Rome in a wedding dress (without a groom!) is an incredibly surreal experience. People are constantly yelling “Tanti Auguri!”, which translates roughly to mean “many wishes.”
All photos by Denise Andersen.
Passion: strong feeling or emotion (google definition).
Is that all it is?! Really?! I’ve felt so much more! Come on, google… give me more!
I think of my relationship with Champ as one that kind of began with simple physical attraction and quickly, and I mean quickly, evolved into romance and passionate lovvvvvve. Yeah, well we were college kids, you know?
Like many, many couples, Champ and I met when we were in college - very young, and probably not completely ready to meet our “mate”. When we met, I was in a carefree time in my life where “the one” was “the last” thing on my mind. I think Mr. Champagne was in the same situation, as his involvement in track as a sprinter was his #1 priority and I’m pretty sure partying was #2. If you can believe this, before we met, we had each pointed one another out to our friends… it’s true I swear! I had seen him one day in our greasy college dining hall and I thought to myself “I’m gonna marry that guy”. Now, I’m usually full of overly ambitious statements, but I really believed this one!
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So yesterday I showed you our table name cards that invoke our invites and also serve as ice breakers. Today I will share a couple extra tidbits also incorporated with this detail:
Let’s start with the keepsake: I’m told that one of Mr. Green Tea’s aunts is the record holder for being the biggest collector of bookmarks in the world. I’ve tried to verify this, but came up with nothing, so I’ll just have to take the in-laws’ word for it. To give her something to remember our wedding by, I made this bookmark out of our wedding invitation (the snippets inside can move around, I included a quick tutorial below):
My lovely Niece-in-Law Pom will be the Flower Girl in our wedding. Not only do I love this girl to pieces, but she is gorgeous and smart to boot! How lucky of a future Aunt am I? I knew that I needed to find an amazing dress for little NIL Pom to wear while she’s walking down the aisle.
After many, many online searches, I stumbled upon a few black and white polka dot dresses that I fell in love with. Namely, one dress by Rare Editions and another one by Bonnie Jean. Both were affordable, adorable and comfy looking. I wanted to go with a sundress sort of look - while October is technically a Fall month, in California, early October is pretty much always an Indian Summer.
Rare Editions Gradient Dot Dress
Originally $40, on sale for $12 at Dillards.com
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