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Yeeeup, another cupcake bride. In order to avoid the per person cake cutting fee, we opted for wedding cuppity cakes. We’re going with a tiffany blue-ish/canary theme for our wedding, and cannot decide between the two for our cupcakes. I’m not a huge fan of frosting, so all of the inspirational cupcake photos were selected for that reason. Each of the designs would be customized to our liking of course, but you get the picture. Depending on price, we may ditch the floral top pieces, and sprinkle orchids throughout the cupcake tower.
All cupcake creations by SugarBloom Cupcakes
I’ve had my eye on this black and white damask cake for months and months. I thought that was completely what I wanted.
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While wedding planning and all the fun details that go along with it are so fun and exciting, we can’t forget about what brought us to this point: a relationship. Whether you are nearly engaged, engaged or married, it’s probably a safe assumption that your relationship has had ups and downs. From the first date and every day after there is so much learning, growth and emotion that occurs.
I’m training (and about to graduate) for my degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and have been working as a counselor with teenagers for the last year. Obviously my training and learning has had a lot to do with relationships. I wanted to jump on my therapist soap box and share a little bit more about my and Mr. Ducky’s relationship and a book that helped us to grow.
During the first year of our relationship, I read Dr. Gary Chapman’s book, “The Five Love Languages for Singles.” I had heard a lot about the book and finally decided to read it. It made so much sense and not only helped me with other friendships in my life, but my developing relationship with Mr. Ducky. After reading it, I also had Mr. Ducky read the book (he skimmed and listened to my explanation).
How I love/hate thee, let me count the ways… Since I’m stuck several thousand miles away from our wedding location and I can’t stomach $2 a minute phone calls, my father has been left in charge of sorting out the contract for the caterer.
Neither Mr. D or I are as eagled eyed as we should be, so it’s helpful that my dad is an ace at contracts; he checks them thoroughly, reviews statutes from the attorney general’s office etc before signing anything. He is your average “measure thrice, cut once” kind of guy - except it usually ends up “measure 10 times, cut once”. While this process has proved helpful with checking over apartment rental agreements and such, it’s been a bit different with the wedding.
There were a few problems in the original catering contract that worried my father. His main concerns were that although the catering company had the necessary amount of insurance if anything were to happen, would we personally need an additional insurance policy because we would be the ones sued in case of a terrible accident. Also, if for some reason the catering company cancels on us or they close their business, we lose our substantial deposit. These were just the tip of the iceberg for my dad, so he set about making revisions and emailing contracts back and forth between the catering company.
Although it hasn’t been fully sorted yet, I was wondering if anyone else has gone though something similar? Did you accept most of your contracts as is or did you make revisions to them?
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One of the biggest of those issues has been the bridesmaids dresses. From the beginning, I decided that I wanted to pay for the dresses myself. My ladies were hauling themselves all the way across the country. The least I could do was try and help them out with a few of the expenses, right? So I got the cost question out of the way quickly, but then it gets a bit dicey. I also wanted them to be able to try the dresses on themselves. I am a firm believer in trying on clothes before you purchase them because you truly never know what they will look like on you. (This makes internet shopping very difficult for me!)
I wrote a post many moons ago about dress lengths and colors. Well, I finally made some decisions (a huge deal for an indecisive girl like me).
Color: Black.
Length: Tea Length.
Style: Simple, elegant, with a hint of vintage.
Price: $150 or less.
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These are adorable and would make AWESOME bridesmaids’ gifts (girls don’t be surprised if these show up in your gift basket). 
I found them at the awesome Supermarket.com and they are by an amazing paper good designer called Night Owl Paper Goods.
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Our own Mrs. Avocado is trying to build her portfolio, and is offering free bridal and engagement shoots through the spring to Dallas area brides. Check out her Classified listing for more information!
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While we have a couple songs that are our songs, neither of them are first dance material. The first song is My Doorbell from the White Stripes. But it is so not first dance material. The other song is almost a contender; I love it, but you can’t really dance to it (we tried, and failed): See the World by Gomez
- Because of the success of our recent contest, Navy and Lavender is offering 10% off their welcome totes through February 28th with code 10%OFFTOTES!
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Fourteen months into out 17-month engagement and Mr. Deviled Egg and I have selected wedding colors, contemplated menu options for our reception, decided on favors, planned decorations and centerpieces, worked on our guest list, put together a wedding spending budget, hired a photographer, discussed details of our ceremony and completed several other tasks for making our day special and personalized. While we still have one or two major decisions to make (and what seems like a million minor tasks to complete), the planning process is wrapping up and the plans for the wedding are falling in place.
But, it’s impossible to plan for a wedding without looking past the day on which we will say our vows. Sure, it’s easy to get caught up in tradition and excitement of a wedding day, but we’d be fools to ignore the marriage itself at the expense of making one day perfect as possible. There are so many things we have to think through and prepare for prior to tying the knot. Mr. DE and I have spent quite a bit of time over the past year or so talking about how things will be once we are married. And, it seems like this topic comes up more and more in our conversations as the wedding date approaches. From housing, family planning and money to cooking and cleaning, we are doing our best to discover whether or not we have similar (or even realistic) expectations about how things will be.
In addition to our own discussions, we’ve also started premarital counseling with our Pastor. While the counseling session is standard protocol for a marriage ceremony performed by our Pastor, we both see it as an opportunity for creating an open dialog about marital life that will further prepare us for the “from this day forward” part.
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Mr. Kiwi and I had been married a year and a month when one of his best buddies offered us a super cool Christmas present: she would take portraits of us! I’m not exaggerating when I say that Mr. K and I have probably about 5 pictures of us from the day we got engaged to the wedding- that’s a whole 19 months there, people. Not counting the wedding pictures, or the one picture of us we took in Hawaii last July, there are no pictures of us. We have three 8″x10″ pictures from the wedding we’re going to frame, as well as one 11″x14″ canvas I had made of us.
We’ve just signed a lease on a new, bigger place, and are adamant about framing these pictures and hanging them as soon as possible because that’s one thing we never did in our current place- it still looks as barren as the day we moved in, sadly. So, when Mr. K’s friend Tina Dela Rosa offered us this opportunity, I was more than thrilled- finally we’ll have pictures of us!
Since Tina is currently living and going to school on the East Coast (Law School!), she would only be back in town visiting family for a few weeks this past holiday season. We were able to hang out with her for an afternoon, and she got some fabulous pics of us.
Mr. Kiwi saw this one and said, “Wow, I have a LOT of grey hair. DAMNIT.”
So, I’ve been continuing to stress out about the bridesmaid attire, specifically their shoes. After we chose the black and white dresses from White House Black Market, and since I’d been planning on bold touches of green, I immediately chose green pumps for the girls. And since I want a little bit of a vintage feel, I thought the combination of peep toe and patent leather would be perfect.
Source: Newport News
I hadn’t heard much on it until they actually bought the shoes this month (I think many thought it was a whim). I haven’t heard rave reviews on the choice. Instead, I’ve heard “interesting,” “a lot going on” and “are you sure??” Alright I can take a hint. And if I changed my mind, the shoes were only $30.
However, I’ve found that I’m not alone!
…Courtney from Joyful Weddings & Events is our month-of-coordinator!!
When I was looking for a day of coordinator, I did lots of research to find vendors in my area. I emailed a lot of different people and met a few and talked with people I liked, but no one that I was really excited about; or they were so far out of my budget there was no chance. (If you are an OC/SD person and want to hear more details about those vendors, shoot me a message and I’d be happy to go into more detail)
Then I got an email from Courtney and she invited me to meet her at a bridal show she was doing in San Diego. I met her really briefly there and unfortunately couldn’t stay long, but based on her and her awesome booth I decided I wanted to meet with her again.
A great thing about Courtney is that she does weddings in both Orange County and San Diego, so I was able to meet her for coffee in Orange County after class one night. As we chatted back and forth at the local Starbucks, she seemed to just understand me and get what we wanted for the wedding. I loved hearing about her life, family and wonderful business. Our time flew by and at the end of it I felt like I had just found a new friend and most importantly someone I wanted on the team!
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After our ceremony, even the mountains came out to say hello! The clouds that had been hanging low over some of the highest peaks lifted, revealing a brand new dusting of snow. Despite the increasing chance of rain and fast-moving weather, it had been a beautiful afternoon.
Congrats to the winner AliCherri1!
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Today we’re giving away a beautiful rehearsal dinner dress from designer Kathlin Argiro! One lucky bride will be able to select a semi-custom dress from Kathlin’s collection, with your choice of silhouette, fabric, color, and trim. The value of ths dress is up to $400! The floral print dress in the first picture below may look familiar because I once wore it to a wedding.
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