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Planning our wedding entirely by myself has had its advantages. Using our own money for the wedding enables us to call all our own shots and allows for us to avoid many discrepancies with my own family as well as my future family. However, the value in delegation is something that no bride should do away with at the two-week-to-the-wedding-mark. I asked my mom to make a big trip to Ikea to buy these $1.99 vases ($2.99 in Canada), to help me out, and help include her in the wedding. Instead of buying the vases, she noted that “those opaque vases you’re talking about are so ugly, I’ve already planned to have tall clear vases from Costco and fill them with gelling-water-medium and hydrangeas, they’ll look much better.”
You have to understand that I’m the type of girl that would much rather receive a single flower over a big bouquet. That is why I want one of these simplistic looks. So should I stand my ground, or let my mom have her way?

I’d had the idea to raid my bridesmaid’s garden of hydrangeas the night before the wedding to use as centerpieces. I’ve tested it out, and while they do last over a week in water, their spherical shape overwhelms the simplicity of the vase, so I’m vetoing the hydrangeas as centerpieces unless we decide to have clear square vases, but those are $3 a piece just to rent.
I love the look of blackberry branches, and they go with the botanical invites we designed and adore (the actual invite was later revised and this flowering branch image was put on the reply card, but you get the idea).


I’ve purchased a huge box full of these flowers. I’ve been pretty absent lately, but you may remember me as the dead things!!!-bride:

The mums would match the bridesmaid bouquets but I’d have to pay for them.

This is a rose I picked from my garden today. Each table will have two bottles of wine on it—we could accompany them with empty wine bottles with one flower in each, but I still like the simple look of the small white vase.

In the end, it doesn’t bother me that much, but these centerpieces were the only decorations I’d been planning on for the past year. I told my mom that she can decorate everything and anything else around the place that she wants.
Should I back down and let her have her way with these, too?
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