Hands down, my best friend in the world is my Mom. Of course Mr. G is my best friend, too. He is my life partner. But my Mom and I go back further in the timeline of my life than anyone I have ever known. I am blessed to have the relationship that I have with her, and I am thankful for it every day.
Growing up and finding your way as an adult isn’t always easy. The past few years of my life have been challenging. There have been financial hardships and family struggles that have, at times, overtaken my life. Sometimes I think my Mom wishes my brothers and I could be little again. When we were kids, she could save us from anything. She was our world protector. When we were hurt, she gave us a Band Aid and kissed our wounds. When we were having trouble in school, she talked to our teachers.
But now that we are older, my brothers and I have problems that she can’t fix, and sometimes that makes my Mom sad. But she never gives up. She is always there cheering us on and believing in us. Our victories are her victories. Our pain is her pain.
I want both of my parents to walk me down the aisle. It just feels like the right thing to do.
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Mrs. Tiramisu, Mrs. Champagne, and Mrs. Pineapple are intown, and we’ll be meeting at Teaism in Penn Quarter THIS SUNDAY, March 22 at 3:00. It’s right off the Archives/Navy Memorial metro stop, and easily accessible by car as well. You may recall that Teaism was actually Mrs. Tulip’s reception site!
All are welcome (brides, grooms, friends, moms, etc.)!!! Comment below to let us know you’re coming, and we’ll see you for tea at three!
For months now, we’ve been going back and forth about whether to include our beloved dogs in the ceremony. From the moment we were engaged, we were gung-ho on the idea of them being our ring bearers. I mean, we got them when we moved to New Mexico together two years ago as teacup-sized, two-month-old puppies. Okay, they were never teacup-sized, but 17-pounds is pretty small compared to their current state.
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Meet Odin (below), our year-and-a-half Pit Bull-Lab mix. Or Odiferus, Wilbur, Yoda (check out his ears) or Pequeño Toro. Yep, those are all of his nicknames, all of which happen to be longer than his real name. We got him from the pound as a sick little puppy, and he’s grown into a handsome young chap. It would be a mistake not to include him in the wedding. I mean, he already has his tuxedo on! But, because he was a stray for the first two months of his life, he has his quirks, which include quite a bit of anxiety in crowds of strangers, horrible leash-pulling habits, and an obsession with licking any visible skin. Hmmm…
As the wedding date looms closer and closer, I’ve begun to think about not only my dress and accessories, but what I will be wearing underneath my dress, if you catch my drift. Tee hee hee!
I’ve searched high and low for things that will not only tickle Mr. Powder Puff’s fancy, but will also serve a purpose. Namely, to make me look and FEEL my gorgeous best on the big day.
And since I love you all so much, I’ll give you a peek into my trousseau.
When I think of weddings, I envision comfort, breeziness, breathability, with a hint of sexiness. Which is where these bad boys come in.
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So Mr. Joey and I went back and forth about a wedding website for a long time. While we liked having a central place for travel suggestions and wedding information, he was not too excited to have his information in a searchable place.
Mr. Joey has some devoted but nosey students. It’s the reason he doesn’t have a Facebook or MySpace account, and the reason he’ll never tell them my last name (it’s pretty unique). He’s OK with a blog where his name wouldn’t be in searchable text, but he’s not OK with a website designed to give out info about us and our relationship that his students could find.
Yes, it seems a little crazy, until you have 3 students show up at your apartment one Sunday afternoon. Yes, it really happened. He teaches at a small private school, so keeping info from the kids can be hard. We’ve even had a few kids threaten to crash the wedding. Luckily, it’s in the summer when no kid wants to be at school (the ceremony is at the school chapel) and few other teachers who are invited have sworn themselves to secrecy.
So what to do about sharing info? Local guests are easy. They don’t need travel info, and essentially everything they need to know is on the invitations. Out-of-town guests need travel info and suggestions for visiting the city. What to do?
Well, I came up with an idea I stole from the back of Blueprint Magazine (R.I.P.).
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Wow! I am truly flattered by all of your wonderful comments about the DIY cake trial results! Thanks! So many of you had questions, so I thought I would write up a separate post to answer as many as I could, as best as I could.
Here goes:
How much did it cost?
Adding it all up, here is what I have paid and what I’m expecting to pay for the wedding cake.
Total for Styrofoam tiers: $27.55
Total for Fondant (estimated 10 lbs.): $10.34
Real cake layers -$5.24
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I always knew I wanted to incorporate as much snowboarding into our wedding as possible. Snowboarding is the one great passion that Mr. Martini and I share, and it seemed like the perfect way to personalize our wedding. I always knew I wanted to name our tables after trails at Stratton Mountain in Vermont, which is the place we call our “home mountain”. We had a season pass last year and went, literally, every other weekend.
The issue was, I wasn’t sure how to display the names. My original thought was to take a picture in front of the signs and place them on each table. But there was a problem - the signs aren’t always standalone, and are actually grouped together, like this:
Then I thought maybe I’d take a close up picture of the sign, and display that. But I just didn’t think it would look nice. I was pretty stumped, until BM E suddenly suggested, “Why don’t we just MAKE the signs?”
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Let’s talk about the “L Word”….
No, not ’love’… LINENS!
Let’s talk about how our potential rental company thinks they can charge $30 to rent a plain white tablecloth. Can’t you actually purchase them at that price? No, you can’t. You can actually purchase them for much cheaper, like $17.
Hello?
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While Mom Taffy has been planning our upcoming shower, Mr. Taffy and I have had some discussions on whether the groom should or should not be present. Some might argue that the groom merely needs to show up toward the end of the shower, to help with the gifts. Others might say that he doesn’t need to be present at all. I would like Mr. Taffy to be there from start to finish! After all, people are there to share in our joy and shower us with gifts for our life together. 
To back up my opinion, I busted out some pictures from my mom and dad’s shower.
Mom & Dad Taffy circa 1977
I love checking out the pretty vintage gift wrap!
As proof that my dad didn’t just “pop in” for a quick hello, I found these pictures of him:
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Well, well, well. One month from today we will be in San Antonio, blissfully exchanging our vows in front of our family and friends who have traveled from near and far to witness our blessed union. This I am so very excited about. For one, I cannot wait to be married to my best friend and to express the love I feel for him, to join our families, and to celebrate with all our loved ones. I also cannot freaking wait for this planning to be over. Seriously. It’s not really fun anymore.
Over the past couple of days, so many loose ends that we’ve been trying to tie up have come unraveled. I haven’t heard the arrangement or pieces of music for our ceremony. Timing? Well, let’s hope it works. Wedding rings? Yeah, starting over on those. The cheap-ass national chain that we were going to purchase them from, the one that told us on multiple occasions that they could have the rings in 3-4 days, told us last night that it would be a minimum of 45 days until my ring comes in. Now, I’m not the best at math, but methinks that timeframe isn’t going to work. Awesome. There are countless other little BS issues I could share with you, but I simply don’t have the energy and, to be honest, I feel sorta bridezilla-ish complaining all the time.
So here we are, one month out, and I fear sleep and socializing are luxuries that I won’t be able to afford until after April 18th. Oh well. Here’s to hoping it’ll be a damn good party.
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Previously: Alphabet Soup
It’s your loyal linguistic pundit (::wink wink::) here, with another round of wedding witticism. Have you cottoned on yet to the fact that I consider wordplay a full-contact sport?
fondon’t
-noun
a person exhibiting a polarizing attitude about the superiority of buttercream as wedding cake icing
We hoped to try a variety of cake combinations, but since the baker was a fondon’t, we only sampled confections topped with buttercream.
betroved
-noun
a fiancee (and/or fiance) that is inappropriately focused on the potential gifts, and other objects, that guests might bestow upon them
Every weekend, Macy’s housewares department is inundated with betroved couples working on their wedding registries.
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Besides our ceremony, the thing I was most looking forward to on our wedding day was the music and dancing. From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to hire a band to play live. It’s not that I was all that adverse to an iPod reception or even to a DJ - I’ve been to plenty of weddings that worked well with them - but I love live music, and neither iPod nor DJ seemed to fit into Montana ambiance or our Americana theme. Our wedding just seemed to call for a band - so I started to search for one.
I found our band, Good Wood, as the first hit in a Google search for local Montana bluegrass. After I listened to a few clips, I thought, “Damn, these guys are good.” I made a mental note to come back to them later. Then, I scoured search results, local directories, and MySpace for more worthy bands and could find nothing that compared. So, I listened to every streaming mp3 that Good Wood had to offer, was suitably impressed, and dropped them a line. Two days after we started entertaining the idea of live music, we had booked our band.
Like our photographer, they were the first we found (by random chance) and the only option we really considered. In both instances, we were more than satisfied. There was no choice - it was fate!
One of the disadvantages of getting married in a small town is the lack of limousines to rent for wedding day transportation. The only limos available are from about 1980, and people drive them around as their actual cars. Driving around in one of those on our wedding day? No thank you. Luckily for us, Mr. Mascara’s dad happens to own a 1936 Chevy Sedan that he’s been fixing up for the past year or so.
I think this picture was taken before a lot the fixing up began. It looks much better than this now, I swear! It is definitely better for us to leave the ceremony in this rather than in Mr. M’s truck, although that would be pretty funny, and not that surprising in the UP.
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