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Because we were doing so many things, it took me a while to realize the flowers were missing. I couldn’t wait to see them.
If you will remember, after I met with our wedding coordinator, I thought I was getting this style of bouquet, but with a mix of white and purple flowers.
Well, the flowers were finally delivered to our room and what we got was this:
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Later this week, I’ll be posting photos of our invitations. But first I thought I’d start by posting about all the things we forgot to think about when creating our invitations. May our foibles bring your laughter or wisdom… or both.
Mistake #1: Don’t forget to ask someone to help proofread your text… especially if you can’t read the language that the text is in. In law school, I served as what was basically a glorified copy editor for my law journal, and as an English Ph.D. student, I teach writing for a living. So when it came to the text of our invitations, I was feeling pretty confident. Silly Hot Cocoa.
We had a tri-fold invitation with a Hebrew panel, an English panel, and a Chinese panel, and I’m only literate in English. Yeah, you can see where this is going.
We had a company that specializes in Jewish wedding invitations throw together the Hebrew text for us, and for some reason I got so delighted with the aesthetics of the Hebrew that I completely neglected to proofread it. Thank goodness at the eleventh hour I recovered enough sense to ask one of our groomsmen who knows Hebrew to look over the text for us, because I got this delightful email from him: “Your guests who know neither English or Chinese might wind up a bit confused, as your wedding hotel is identified both as being in Tucson, AZ, and Marina del BEY, CA.” D’oh.
And all that confidence I had about the English text?
I have a confession to make. Mr. Kitten and I weren’t always going to have a destination wedding. We actually flip-flopped on the issue for quite some time. I was never the little girl who dreamt of my wedding day, and I always had the feeling that I might want to have a small destination wedding on the beach (or even elope!). Mr. Kitten is an Army brat and I moved around a lot growing up, so our families are scattered throughout the country. If most of our wedding guests will have to travel anyway, why not have them go somewhere fabulous?
When we shared our tentative destination wedding plans early in our engagement, our friends and family had a lot of opinions about our decision.
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J.Crew and I have had a loving relationship for over a decade. She (He? Would J.Crew be a “he”? Nah!) always provided for my every clothing need. When I needed a dress for my high school graduation, who was there? J.Crew. When I needed a suit to wear for my very first job interview, who provided? J.Crew. When I needed “cool” outer wear to impress my friends, who came through? J.Crew. Yup, she has always been there for me with fashionable clothing that keeps me rollin’ in style.
(Remember this bad boy from the mid-’90s? This J.Crew anorak was STYLIN’!!!)
Naturally, I turned to her first for bridesmaid dresses to outfit my special ladies. And faithfully, she provided me with some beautiful dresses. Taffeta, cotton cady, and silk chiffon in a wide array of styles and silhouettes. Colors like light flamingo, fresh mint, tea rose and spiced wine in reasonable prices that made me… WAIT, hold up J.Crew. $225 for a taffeta dress? Since when did you get so pricey, missy?!?
Oh, that’s right. I’d been hanging with J.Crew’s stepsister, Miss J.Crew-Sale Rack. I couldn’t possibly ask my BMs to shell out that much for a dress, so as a result, my relationship with J.Crew was severed. We were officially in a fight.
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Today’s wiki is the wedding day timeline. Wedding day timelines are extremely helpful to all of the parties involved in your wedding day. Everyone from the photographer, to the bridesmaids, to the parents all benefit from having a detailed day-of timeline! I actually had a pretty lame wedding day timeline until my photographer Sarah stepped in and graciously sent me an example of a GOOD timeline. From there, I changed all the details to fit our wedding day, and I’m happy to say everything happened on time! My best advice for distribution of the wedding day timeline is to create and share it via Google Docs. The beauty of sharing it via Google Docs is that every time you make a change to the document, readers of the document will automatically get the latest version of the timeline, without you having to re-email them the latest copy.
Check out the wiki and share your ideas and tips for what makes a good wedding day timeline here:
If you’re a recent bride, share with us on the wiki how you distributed your wedding day timeline, what was beneficial to include on the timeline, and any other nuggets of wisdom you have to offer!
If you’re unsure how you can contribute to the wiki, check out this wiki article on how to edit a wiki. You’ll be a wiki editing addict in no time!
Martha Stewart’s fabulousness has inundated every area of my life, and lord help me, I’m loving it!
Have you seen her new wedding/crafts line for Walmart? There’s everything from invitations to card boxes, and super cute paper lanterns, all for awesomely cheap prices.
Check these out:
Super cute eyelet lanterns for $12.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
I did it. I made a name decision, AND got an email account in my new name. Scary and super exciting! Then I told Mr. Cheese about it all… in reverse order. *cue the confused man look*
A friend recently changed her email address due to a divorce-induced name change and was unable to get one with her more common maiden name. Uh oh. I’m going from less common to more common. Way more common. Off to Gmail I went to see what name combos were still available, and firstname+maidennameinitial+newlastname was still available. I hit the Submit button on that puppy and pumped my fist in triumph!
Oh. I think I just committed to changing my name. Hmmm. *the thoughtful cheese look comes out* Neat!
Here’s how I decided:
Women of my mother’s generation learned to sew at a young age. Many knew how to at least stitch or mend. My mother is verrry good at making clothes, and actually created a lot of the outfits that my sister and I wore as children. I love expert hand-made craftsmanship, especially fine tailoring and couture. So, I’m really excited that my mother is going to construct the bridesmaids’ dresses!
Bridesmaid dresses can be tricky. I know that I want ours to echo the lines of my bridal gown, including the v-neck and long, flowing fabric. And I want them to be somewhat timeless…and flattering. Nothing too ostentatious or dramatic.
So when my mother and I went to G Street fabrics the other weekend, I browsed through the pattern books and saw a bunch of new and vintage dress patterns. The best ones seem to be by Vogue.
Reader dandooneh is selling three Alvina Valenta bridesmaids dresses. They are style #AV9739 in French Almond color. The sizes available are 10, 12, and 14. Make her an offer!
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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I loved my Cynthia Rowley wedding shoes! The “something blue” of the soles were so sweet. I didn’t know much about her clothes until I found these shoes, and now I drool over them frequently.
I got an email offering 20% off for Valentine’s Day and I had to share it with all of you, if you’re looking for fabulous clothes/shoes for wedding related events!
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As I reviewed our handy checklist from The Knot, I’m sad to report we weren’t able to check off any of the items with the exception of photography! Well, sort of. We considered videography a ‘nice to have’, not a ‘must have’. It was never at the top of our priority list.
Reasons being: 1) we had already splurged on our photographer, 2) friends commented that their wedding DVD collects dust on their shelves, 3) I sound so nasal-y all the time (thank your lucky stars you only see me and not hear me through the screen), and 4) this one goes hand-in-hand with #1, but we just didn’t have room in our budget for a videographer.
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For a while there, I was torn as to what we would do with those big tissue flower pomanders we made for the ceremony. I didn’t really think that there was much space for them in our home, so they were just sitting in my parents’ garage, gathering dust. I couldn’t bear to throw them away! Someone suggested selling them, but I just didn’t really know what they were worth, and to be able to ship them and for them to arrive to the buyer intact was somewhat of an expensive (or risky) prospect. I must have paid less than $30 in materials for them, yet with the tens of hours it took several people to fold and fluff about 1000 little tissue poms, I think I could only rightfully charge 8.2 billion dollars for these things to have made them worth a sale. And, especially in this economy, who’s gonna pay 8.2 billion dollars for paper pomanders? I mean come on, that’s just ridiculous.
My parents threatened to throw away our wedding junk so I have slowly started migrating it over to our house.
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Little brother Dumpling is just cool. There’s really no other word to describe him. He was cooler than me all through school, and I will forever be “W’s sister”, despite the fact that I am two years older than him. (OK, that was always kind of annoying.)
Here’s an excerpt of our conversation after my bridal shower:
Brother: Hey, dude, I heard you telling mom that you don’t have a “Something Blue” for your wedding. I don’t really know what that is or what you are trying to color coordinate, but I figured I’d help you out.
Me: Uhhhmmm, thanks! Hand it over.
Brother: Here you go….I figured since it was for the “wedding” (said with those quote fingers) that it needed to be fancy. I hooked you up. You’re welcome.
Mr. Kitten proposed during my first semester of law school. Law firms start recruiting students for summer clerkship positions in the fall, so in October, my entire class was abuzz with talk about law firms, jobs, and grades. Because many firms make offers before first year students receive any grades, students try to use every connection possible to get their foot in the door. One of Mr. Kitten’s best friends has a dad that is a lawyer in Austin (let’s call him Mr. B). I didn’t know Mr. B very well so I didn’t feel comfortable asking him for any favors, but Mr. Kitten insisted that he would pass the word along to Mr. B that I was job hunting.
One day in mid-October, I unexpectedly received a phone call from Mr. B. He told me that he knew I was job hunting and invited me to a recruiting event a few days later at the Four Seasons.
This weekend Mr. Dragon and I boarded the wedding gift registry train! As I have said before, we have a multitude of married friends who were more than willing to advise us on the process, and of course, I will pass those learnings on to YOU, my dear Bees! Some of the tips are super basic and common knowledge, but… we might as well cover all our bases in case some of these tips are helpful to you!
Originally, Mr. Dragon and I considered not registering for gifts at all. In case you haven’t heard, there’s a recession going on, and we just felt extra weird about registering, especially since it’s not like we are 18 and just starting out. However, as a close confidant pointed out, we have a guest list of approximately 140 people, and somebody *may* want to give us a gift, so we might as well make it easy on them. This is true. Mr. Dragon and I always send some sort of wedding gift when we are invited to a wedding, and the few times that the couple didn’t register… it was kind of difficult to figure out what to give them, especially if we weren’t best friends with them.
So, onward with the registering.
Mr. Dragon and I got up bright and early, as we expected the process to take all day… which it did! We actually only got through two of the three stores at which we planned to register: the universally popular Bed Bath & Beyond (of 20% off coupon fame!) and Crate and Barrel. We felt that the combination of these two stores provided a WIDE range of price points, and they both had a decent return policy, in case anything shows up broken or otherwise unusable!
Neither Mr. Dragon nor I enjoy shopping (actually, we HATE it!) but we kept a positive attitude and it was actually pretty fun!
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