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Please click on over to Weddingbee PRO and help us welcome the talented sister duo behind letterpress invitation company, Hello!Lucky! They’ll be guest blogging for us over the next month, and their posts are guaranteed to be jam packed with inspiration and eye candy. 
Happy Chinese New Year!
This Lunar New Year is the first new year that Mr. Toucan and I are married. It means that it’s also the first year we’re giving out these, instead of receiving them:
{our custom-made red pockets display our last name phonetically translated into Chinese*}
Lai See, or red pockets, are filled with money and given to wish the recipient good luck and wishes for a prosperous new year!
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Congratulations to the winner MrsSl82be!
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Can you believe that we’re giving away a Nintendo DS and the Personal Trainer Cooking game to one lucky bride courtesy of the fantastic folks over at Nintendo?!
You could be cooking gourmet recipes from 30 different countries on your brand new Nintendo DS! To enter, please tell us:
What is your favorite Nintendo game?
You have until midnight PST tonight to enter. Good luck!!!
Remember my post from a month ago about how disappointed I was that my regular hair salon would not be able to do my wedding day hair? In the last few weeks, I’ve called around to a bunch of different places and came up empty handed. I was starting to consider taking a course on how to up-do your own hair at my local community college, but thankfully, I won’t have to!
Imagine how tickled pink I was when I got a call this week from my salon (the one that originally said they couldn’t help) and was told that they will now be able to do hair for the bridesmaids, my mom, FMIL DE, and myself! They will be opening up just for us on the day of the wedding, so we’ll have the whole place to ourselves!
The downside? The total cost of our services has to meet a minimum, which is bit more than I had anticipated. But at this point I was starting to get desperate and spending some extra cash is worth knowing that our day-of hair will be taken care of for all of the ladies in the bridal party. I’m getting my makeup done, too, which will help chip away at that minimum.
But, there is a bonus!
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***Mr. Meatball, you best stay away. My dress ain’t in here, but some other ones are, and I know you just don’t wanna go there.***
Alright alright, I’ve heard your plaintive cries regarding my wedding dress, and I will do what I can to ease your pain.While I still have to keep my actual dress a secret, to preserve its anonymity from Mr. Meatball and any other wedding guests who may or may not be blog stalking me, I do want to share a bit more about what makes it special… beyond the fact that it’s mine, yo!
You may remember me mentioning that I worked off part of the cost of my dress by helping the designer around her studio. The designer, Deborah Lindquist, is an eco-responsible green clothing genius. She’s known primarily for her use of recycled (or reincarnated, as she calls it) cashmere and leather, out of which she designs incredibly chic, funky and drool-worthy fashions.
Can I get an O-Ma-Ga?
Wedding favors. Just invoking the words makes the hair on my beastie arms stand up on end. I have emerged from many a Chinese wedding with doodads that I didn’t know what to do with but felt bad for chucking: a small gold paperweight with the bride and groom’s names, wallet-sized pics of the happy couple, an acrylic medallion etched with the couple’s likeness… Chinese weddings are a veritable crap-bag — I mean, grab-bag — of useless tchotchkes.
An example of a typical Chinese wedding favor.
Haven’t you always wanted an acrylic swan mini sculpture?
I was thus determined not to have favors. Maybe a candy or cookie buffet, but no tchotchkes. But when I revealed this awesome cost-savings plan to my mom, she balked.
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
This post is long overdue! This is the addendum to my original post back in August about our “Wedding Weekend Packet”. We created the primary packet for our friends and family, but gave our vendors smaller, individualized versions. I promised I would share them, so here they are! We created five separate ones…
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Some of our closest friends and family aren’t ‘close’ at all. From Montreal to New York to Hong Kong, they’re scattered all over the place. This is a big reason why we chose to have a destination wedding, but it’s also the reason why we didn’t have stag/stagette parties.
We figured we’d just throw something together (easy-breezy style, yo) once we got to Punta Cana. So on the Saturday before our Monday wedding, we spread the word that the guys and gals were going to dinner separately. Little did I know that Mama SB, my amazing sister-in-law and a couple of my girlfriends had been conspiring all along to throw me a mini bridal shower too. Yay! A showerette!
We gathered together for champagne toasts and then did something I absolutely LOVED:
This is a hard post to type—seriously, I poked myself with a seam ripper and I have a Band-Aid on my right pointer finger and it is making it physically hard to type.
I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time in the last few weeks working on several crafty DIY projects that I thought would be amazing!! And if you’ve noticed, I haven’t yet blogged about any of them—well, except for this ridiculously easy project.
Why haven’t you seen the rest of them? They’ve been failures.
I wasn’t joking when I stated in my opening post that I was DIY challenged, and I think after this weekend I have taken it to a whole new level.
My goal this weekend was to sew up a wedding purse for myself, makeup bags for my bridesmaids, and a ring bearer pillow.
And what do I have to show for it?
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“Girl in Heart House” Source
We want interesting invitations. I mean, who doesn’t? I kind of feel that since Mr. P and I are into arty stuff, have artsy friends, and love cool paper and texture… we should find something novel. The criteria are that we: 1) don’t want to pay an arm and a leg, and b) would like something handmade (on some level). I would like a bit of TEXTURE. I looove texture. And ORIGINAL ARTWORK.
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My fiance and I are pretty fresh out of college, so we have a lot of friends that are quickly making our guest list skyrocket. I think that it would be fine if we invited the guys from his fraternity without dates and put them all at a table together, except for the ones in serious relationships. We would put those couples together.
He doesn’t think it can work like that. I think if we were older it would be different, but these practically still college boys really aren’t going to care! We’re talking a jump from 20 people to 40. That’s a big jump.
Do you ladies think it would be okay to go ahead and invite some people solo and not others?
MissSparkle
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O Weddingbee how I missed you! On top of the post-wedding and post-honeymoon busy-ness, we just moved into a new apartment this past weekend so it’s been quite hectic here. Once everything has settled down I will post everything and more, but for now here are a few pictures from our studio pictures taken by Dowan Kim from MiLK Studios. (You might remember him from our e-pics in NYC.)
Reader ahnlee is selling white ostrich plume feathers. They range from 10 to 22 inches long and there are over 300 feathers. She is asking for $560.
Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee classifieds and you might see it featured on the blog!
Other great items for sale:
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So, after a few setbacks, I had put my wedding dress search on hold. That week, I had a chat with Jennifer Nichols, our wedding photographer, about what we would wear for our engagement photos. Jennifer suggested I wear something brightly colored. When she saw me visibly cringe at her suggestion (I’m a neutral kind of girl), she suggested that I wear some sassy shoes to the shoot. I was thrilled about the idea and left her studio for Neiman Marcus Last Call (the Neiman Marcus Outlet) in Austin.
As soon as I walked in, I spotted a wedding dress in the front of the store and a big “SAMPLE SALE!” sign. Although I knew I had my mind set on the Lia and Amelie dresses, I had to check out the sale. I walked to the back of the store, past the doors, and into the warehouse, where I discovered racks and racks of designer gowns! They had Vera Wang, Reem Acra, Carolina Herrera, Monique Lhuillier, and others! And what did I find among the racks and racks of gorgeous gowns, but my coveted Amelie dress! I also found another, similar, Monique Lhuillier dress named Ava that I loved. I couldn’t decide which one I liked better so I bought them both! The best part is that both of these dresses were in AMAZING condition and cost a fraction of the original prices!
Amelie
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