Sales
About: Links to special deals
March 18th, 2009 @ 3:45 pm by Sales
There are a number of good sales floating around the web so we thought we’d share them with you here!
- Get 25% off purchases at Bobbi Brown through March 19th — no code needed! Free shipping is also available on purchases over $60.
- Prescriptives is offering 30% off purchases through March 21st with the code FRIEND9.
- Get 40% off one regularly priced item (some restrictions apply) with coupon code EED087 at Joann’s through March 28th.
If you know of any great sales re: wedding related gifts and purchases, please comment below! 
Mrs. Joey, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 28, Project Administrator for Public Health NGO
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, High School History Teacher
Engagement Date: June 24, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: Eastside Catholic Chapel and Lake Union Cafe
About Me: I'm a Seattle girl through and through except for the fact that I don't drink coffee. I love my job most of the time because I get to travel and work with brilliant people who are trying to prevent Malaria. I love DIY projects of all sorts, cooking, and watching sports. I'd wear anything at Anthropologie and could spend all day on Etsy. I love to travel but shouldn't because I always get myself into unbelievable situations!
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I had my first wedding-related freak out. There was minor swearing, massive amounts to emails to members of my committee, and lots asking myself, “Why, oh why?!”
I found out today that the annual Seafair weekend is the same weekend as our wedding. What is Seafair, you ask? Well, for those of you not familiar with this ancient Seattle tradition, Seafair weekend is when the annual hydroplane Chevrolet Cup race and Blue Angels air show occur on and over Lake Washington in the heart of the greater Seattle area.
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Wiki
Feature Launched: March 3, 2008
About: A wedding wiki created and edited by the weddingbee community.
March 18th, 2009 @ 3:12 pm by Wiki
Today’s wiki is Place Card. There are so many unique ways to show your guests to their seats, and you can help fill the wiki with great ideas! This wiki is mostly empty, so we’d like to know:
- What information should you include on a place card?
- What are some unique place card ideas?
- What are your tips for helping your guests to find their seats?
- What are some sources on the web for great place card inspiration and information?
Add all your tips and tricks to the Place Card wiki:
If you’re unsure how you can contribute to the wiki, take a peek at this wiki article on how to edit a wiki. Check it out and share your expertise! Or, if you’re shy, just leave your tips in the comments, and we can add them to the wiki for you!
Mrs. Piglet, Virginia/Oahu
Age and Occupation: 28, Consultant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Entrepreneur/Fashion Apparel Wholesale Importer
Engagement Date: June 22, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: Ceremony at the Lanikuhonua Phase II private estate, reception at a historic hotel in Waikiki
About Me: I'm an East Coast gal with intense road rage and an addiction to romantic comedies, fast food, gadgets, Korean BBQ, and my wiener dog George aka Georgia May. I carry mustard packets in my purse and I love perusing the aisles at discount stores. A self proclaimed shopaholic, I impulsively buy electronics, software, and craft tools; none of which I know how to use. I'm excited to dust
these babies off and immerse myself in DIY projects galore in
preparation for our DW in paradise!
I fell victim to the bang craze (multiple times) over the past couple of years. I was that girl who brought in a picture of Reese Witherspoon’s bangs, and told my stylist to fix mine to look like hers. The picture below is evidence that twisting and cutting sections of your bangs doesn’t look so hot. But lately, I’ve been itchin’ to pull out the scissors once again. I’ve resisted so far, but my hair is the longest it has ever been, and it is disgusting.
I know I want to wear my hair up with side swept bangs (professionally cut) for the big day, but I’m having a hard time picturing it since I’ve never really glammed up my hair in an updo. For my own peace of mind, I decided to book a trial session, even if it is only 2 days before the wedding. In the meantime, I toyed around with the InStyle Hollywood Hair Virtual Makeover to get a feel for different styles on my face shape… like these bangs…
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Featured Product: Laura Ashley Delicate Damask Invitation
Mrs. Hot Cocoa, Boston/Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 31, JD/PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, Medical Student
Engagement Date: May 30, 2008
Wedding Date: March, 2009
Blogging Since: April, 2008
Venue: Ritz Carlton, Marina Del Rey
About Me:
I am a professional student by day and an amateur cupcake taster, bargain shopper, and wedding planner by night. I am obsessed with NPR, the Food Network, paper, dance shows, Anthropologie, post-structuralist theory, Weddingbee!, "The Office," and celebrity gossip. When not procrastinating from my dissertation, I spend time catering to Jellyby, our overly anxious shih tzu, and getting to know Mr. Hot Cocoa. We have only been dating for fifteen years, so it's like I'm in love with a stranger! From the East Coast, we are planning a Jewish-Chinese Extravaganza in L.A., where we both grew up.
To kick off our Chewish wedding, we’re having a Chinese tea ceremony in the afternoon of our wedding day, before the (mostly Jewish) wedding ceremony. We’ve invited a number of Mr. HC’s family members to participate, and many of our guests have expressed an interest in coming to watch the ceremony. To make everyone feel more comfortable and knowledgeable about our traditions, I put together a program. I thought the text of it might be helpful to some of you (in which case, as always, please feel free to borrow), so I’m posting it below.
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Mrs. Gloss, Boston/Maine
Age and Occupation: 24, Designer/soon-to-be Architect
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Systems Engineer
Engagement Date: May 23, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: SS Katahdin/Lakeside Tent
About Me: I don't like nickels or the skin that forms on pudding when it's in the fridge for too long. I couldn't live without Pantone markers, fountain soda (3/4 diet, ¼ regular Coke), run-on sentences, or ridiculously oversized sunglasses. I will try to DIY almost anything and am just OCD enough to make most of it work. I am truly excited about having all my family and friends together, becoming Mrs. Gloss, and having amazing photos to prove it!
I was strolling around the internet the other day and stumbled across this great site called Pioneer Woman Photography. She has some great posts about photography and Photoshop. If you don’t know, Adobe Photoshop the ultimate tool for photo editing - it’s quite expensive to buy if you don’t use it all the time, but you can download a free-trial at Adobe.com.
Anyway, she has created some ’Action Sets’ that you can download for free! Actions modify your photos through the use of layers to create different effects and can easily add drama to your photos. It basically takes all the guesswork out of adjusting your own photos and saves a TON of time.
Action Set #1
Action Set #2
This is a picture I took a few summers ago - these old men sat on this bench downtown every day. I like to imagine they are the oldest of friends and will be sitting here until they have each moved on. I’m not sure why the guy on the end looks so confused, as I asked if I could take their picture… but I kind of like it anyways!
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Mrs. D'orsay, Baltimore/Lancaster UK
Age and Occupation: 24, nonprofit communications
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Web site developer and designer; co-owner of men's skincare shop
Engagement Date: August 10, 2008
Wedding Date: August, 2009
Venue: Oakland Manor
About Me: I'm a Maryland raised environmental policy wonk/activist/organizer and communications aficionado. In the past year I've lived in Baltimore, MD, Tucson, AZ, Miami, FL and Lancaster, England. In my not so spare time I enjoy planning trips with Mr. D' Orsay, visiting friends and family and crafting like a mo-fo. I also enjoy modern dance classes, rugby and soccer but have been banned by my mother, MOHs, and Mr. D' Orsay from playing till after the wedding. I have an unnatural addiction to cheese and shoes, but love Mr. D' Orsay more than either and can't wait to become Mrs. D' Orsay!
I love the FAIL blog. On Monday, if someone had taken a photograph of a particular incident, I would have been on it. We’ve tried to plan ahead for my proclivity towards injury and have made a few wedding decisions on what to avoid. For example, we’ll be dancing in the ballroom instead of on the brick patio to avoid tripping and falling. If you take a peek at my bio, you’ll see that I’ve been banned from rugby and soccer until the wedding. I thought that meant full on, organized sports. But it turns out that the rule should have been applied in blanket force.
I looked out the window and saw Mr. D’s little cousins playing with a rugby ball, so I naturally headed outside to forget about dinner on the stove play with them. We had a few fun runs, and then… BAM. I rolled over my ankle and am now confined to RICE (Resting, Icing, Compressing and Elevating). This means I can forget about doing the 30 Day Shred with my pal Jilian, or dancing with the NYC ballet, since I now have a big, swollen, squishy ball for an ankle. I’m hoping Mari Winsor and I can still hang out for 20 minutes at a time with that stupid circle, because I don’t want this setback to get me down. In the past few years I’ve had several concussions, broken my foot, and have sprained/ripped apart my ankles multiple times. All this, along with the mother of all injuries: I had one of my ACL (knee ligaments) reconstructed. So, you can see why the ban was in place… if only I had listened to it.
What that ultimately means that picture like these:
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Beehive
Feature Launched: Aug 31, 2006
About: A forum for readers to post questions and get feedback from the hive, aka the weddingbee community.
March 18th, 2009 @ 1:18 pm by Beehive
This economy, and the state of our once-successful industries, has me SO frustrated as a young adult!
I work for what was once a leader in our niche industry… but we, like everyone else, have taken financial hits. We found out today that our “incentive checks” (technically worked into our annual salary) will be significantly less this year. I had budgeted for this money to go towards our photographer.
Now I have to mull over the idea of paying our photog with a credit card… which I’m SO against! High interest rates, monthly payments… I had always told myself I’d only use it for emergency/necessities. I guess I can chalk this up to being a “recession emergency”…
Has anyone else hit an economic roadblock in their pre-determined wedding budget??
Miss Pinot Grigio
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Please comment on the thread here.
Mrs. Cowboy Boot, Santa Fe
Age and Occupation: 25, Magazine Editor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Artist and Whitewater Rafting Guide
Engagement Date: April 28th, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2009
Venue: Devil's Thumb Ranch, Colorado
About Me: I grew up in Los Angeles and have since lived in San Diego, Boston, Italy, Hawaii, New York City, and Santa Fe. I speak Italian and love pasta. My real passion is the outdoors, though. When I'm not at work, I'm snowboarding, hiking with my two dogs, mountain biking, surfing, cross-country-skiing, or boating New Mexico's rivers. Despite my boyish love for adventure, I'm a girly-girl at heart and am overly-excited to pull off the romantic, vintage-inspired, country wedding of my dreams.
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That’s right—locals call this Santa Fe, “Fanta Se”. It’s actually not a surprise given how stunningly beautiful the high desert is. I had no idea until I moved here. If anything, New Mexico was at the bottom of my list but, once I got here, I was sold: twelve-thousand-foot peaks covered in pine and aspens, foothills in juniper and pinon, striped sandstone cliffs, hills spotted with earth-colored adobe homes (it’s a zoning law, here—they have to look like that), temperate seasons, art galleries galore, and sunsets that are as red as they come.
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Mrs. Peep Toe, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 29, Policy Analyst
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 36, Olive Oil Production Manager
Engagement Date: December 16, 2007
Wedding Date: May, 2009
Blogging Since: November 26, 2008
Venue: Hotel Vitale
About Me: I am a west coast lady who loves the San Francisco Bay Area. I love living with Mr. Peep and our animals: Huck the Dog and Ferris the Cat. I work to save the environment in San Francisco, while Mr. Peep makes ridiculously delicious Olive Oil. On any day you can find me reading the latest book I have gotten my hands on, eating Swedish Fish, and perusing wedding blogs! We are both champagne drinking foodies on a Bud Light budget. We are planning an eco-chic, intimate, and interfaith San Francisco City wedding.
My friend Katie is a master jewelry maker. In fact, she’s so amazing that she made all the jewelry she wore at her own wedding, and all the bridesmaids’ jewelry as well. Katie is second from the left, and Bridesmaid C is third from the left:
While at my friend M’s (the lovely lady on the left of the photo) wedding last year, Katie offered to make a bracelet for me for my big day!! I was so excited. Finally, my first friendor! I gave Katie basically no direction. I said make it sparkly and make it dangle. Really, that was about it. Oh, and I mentioned that my bridesmaids were wearing brown.
She is so amazingly awesome, and she sent me three options.
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Mrs. Mascara, Chicago/Upper Michigan
Age and Occupation: 25, Biomedical Engineer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Process Engineer
Engagement Date: July 27, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: Catholic ceremony, reception at local armory
About Me: A lover of Mr. Mascara, crafting, baking, Gossip Girl, diet soda, and all things wedding. A Yooper girl somehow displaced in the Chicago suburbs, planning a wedding from a distance, and counting down the days until I marry my best friend.
While back in the UP, my mom and I whipped up a trial cake to see how much work the fondant and gum paste is going to require. My mom makes wedding cakes all the time, but she’s never used fondant before. I realize fondant doesn’t taste very good, but we both think the wedding will be a nice way to broaden her horizons and use some different materials. Her cakes are quite popular in our little town. I think everyone coming to the wedding has eaten a cake or two or hers at some point, so using fondant on our cake will be a nice way to give our guests a little something unexpected.
My mom baked the cake and frosted it with her famous frosting recipe while I made the gum paste flowers. I set the flower petals aside for them to dry when I was finished. Then I helped her roll out the fondant (we used the box kind, since this was our first trial) and we placed it on the cake. After smoothing it out, I added a little border with more fondant to the bottom to make it look more finished. The last step was to “glue” the gum paste petals together with frosting (you are actually supposed to use royal icing, but I was lazy) and place the finished flower on the cake.
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Mrs. Kitten, Austin/Grand Cayman
Age and Occupation: 25, Law Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Dental Student
Engagement Date: October 19, 2006
Wedding Date: April, 2009
Venue: The Grand Old House, Grand Cayman
About Me: In 2009 I will get married (after a two and a half year engagement!), become an Army wife, graduate from law school, take the bar, move from Austin to Washington, D.C., and start my career as a lawyer! With all this going on, Mr. Kitten and I decided to have a tropical, "stress-free" destination wedding. Nevertheless, my micromanaging, detail-oriented, perfectionist side has prevailed---I am currently obsessed with every last detail of my "stress-free" destination wedding! But most of all, I'm beyond excited to become Mrs. Kitten on a fabulous Caribbean vacation surrounded by my friends and family!
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I’ve been dropping hints for a while now (skull and crossbones on the Fruit-Roll-Ups?! Pirate ships on the invitations!?), but now that our invitations are out and guests have seen them, I can tell you all about the Kitten Wedding Pirate Party!
Yes, I said Pirate Party! Instead of having a large rehearsal dinner where we invite all of the out-of-town guests (which is everyone at a destination wedding!) we decided to have a fun, pirate-themed party aboard a pirate ship in Grand Cayman!
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Mrs. Joey, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 28, Project Administrator for Public Health NGO
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, High School History Teacher
Engagement Date: June 24, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: Eastside Catholic Chapel and Lake Union Cafe
About Me: I'm a Seattle girl through and through except for the fact that I don't drink coffee. I love my job most of the time because I get to travel and work with brilliant people who are trying to prevent Malaria. I love DIY projects of all sorts, cooking, and watching sports. I'd wear anything at Anthropologie and could spend all day on Etsy. I love to travel but shouldn't because I always get myself into unbelievable situations!
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Calling all Seattle based hive members! Mrs. Cherry Pie and I will be joining 12 other hive members for drinks and/or dessert. Please join us! We’re meeting at B & O Espresso at 4PM on March 29th. We’ll send out a reminder closer to the meet up. Hope to see you all there!
Comment if you’d like to join us!
Mrs. Cheese, Knoxville
Age and Occupation: 29, Engineering Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, CAD Designer
Engagement Date: July 31, 2008
Wedding Date: May, 2009
Blogging Since: October 16, 2008
Venue: Our home and the two acres it sits on
About Me: I’m an emotional girl who loves sentimental things, parenthetical asides, and trying to do things herself. I can cook, sew, am a whiz at planning, terrible at delegating, and totally in love with my fiancé (who will be my second husband but first love of the rest of my life). For our home/ garden/ DIY wedding, we’ll be moonlighting as interior designers, home improvers, and gardeners with the help of our fabulous friends and neighbors. We can’t wait to be married, and are learning how fun getting married can be.
Back before I started obsessing over fonts and stressing over text, I threw together our Save the Dates in about 10 minutes. They’re not the most amazing, unusual, surprising, or unbelievable Save the Dates, but they are cute and they were quick. And cheap.
That’s the front, created by adding a single line of text to one of our engagement pictures.
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Mrs. Bruschetta, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 25, Communication Professional
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Physical Therapy Graduate Student
Engagement Date: November 30, 2007
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: St. Thomas of Villanova Church & the F.U.E.L. House
About Me: I’m a self-proclaimed grammar geek who loves singing (like, really belting it) in the car. My mister and I are planning a vibrant summer soiree celebrating our passions – including food and Philly – and when we make it official, we’ll have been together for eight years! Being super competitive is in my nature, and talking excessively is in my genes. I’ve got a terrible sense of direction, but can always easily find my way into Mr. Bruschetta’s arms.
It may sound corny…
… but hosting a one-year countdown party proved to be a great way to
A) Introduce our families and friends to each other
B) Share some of our favorite summer recipes, AND
C) Try out some new treats for our guests
We cooked up the idea in the late spring, and it seemed like the perfect idea for a longer engagement like ours (21 months!).
The feel? Casual, backyard celebration. Not an engagement party; rather, a celebration of 365 days until our wedding!
The guests? Both our families and our close friends.
The cuisine? Well, now. Here, we were realistic. We ordered two hoagie trays, but committed to making three (huge!) side dishes, two desserts, and one appetizer.
With an event starting to take shape, I turned my focus to the invites.
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