Warning: Gushing ahead!!
I love Weddingbee because everyone is just so nice. I get great advice and suggestions about everything from Fray Check for my ring pillow, to figuring out a better florist situation, to ideas on invitation designers (you readers are the reason for my invitations)!
And every so often, I’ll get a PM or a comment from a reader who thought of me for some reason. Like, reader, mrspaetz sent me a link (on my post on photography no less) to a great pair of shoes, citing how the pale blue and deco design made her think of me. So. Nice!
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We’ve introduced a new category in the Weddingbee gallery: Inspiration Boards!
Today’s gallery upload of the day was created by tegeee. Check her “Posh Lemon” board here!
Share your inspiration boards with the hive in the new inspiration board section! Remember, your images must be under 5MB in size, or they won’t load to the gallery. Keep on loading your inspirational wedding pictures to the gallery for your chance to win this week’s prize, a 9-piece makeup set from Maybelline!
I have no clue what song we will dance to for the first time as husband and wife. I have no idea what song I’ll walk down the aisle to in the last moments before we get hitched. The only song that I have written into the little Excel spreadsheet that is our playlist is for the father-daughter dance.
Before getting engaged, I had always imagined my dad and I dancing to “Daughters” by John Mayer. I’ve always loved John Mayer, and I think that the song is perfect for a wedding dance with daddy. Bonus points are in order as well for it not being overdone and overplayed. I thought for sure this was the song that we’d be playing for the father-daughter dance.
(source) (fast forward to about 0:40)
That is, until my dad mentioned that he’d really like to dance to “It’s a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. At first, I didn’t know what to think. Of course, it’s a classic song for the occasion, but this song has some history for my family.
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I have a confession. I didn’t come up with our wedding theme of “Southern Romantic Charm” all by myself. The truth is, the city of Savannah did most of the work. How could anyone have anything BUT a romantic, Southern wedding in that city?!?
Our choice of venues reflects our theme perfectly. For our ceremony, Mr. Lab and I chose the charming Whitfield (or Whitefield) Square in historic downtown.
How gorgeous is this?!?
It has this cute white gazebo right in the middle that will be the perfect backdrop for the ceremony. It’s also on a residential block, so we won’t have to worry about tons of ugly office buildings in the background. The first time I ever visited Savannah, I knew I would get married on this square one day.
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I’m not well-versed when it comes to buying bras. I usually wear the same Calvin Klein or Gap Body underwire bras I’ve been buying since college. Which leads me to my next wedding-related challenge. Allow me to be frank with you, hive. The “girls” will need some wedding day enhancement. They aren’t the biggest girls in the world, and I’d like for them to really fill out my dress.
(CAUTION: Anyone reading at work, there are undergarment-related photos ahead…)
Here are some of the options I am exploring.
Victoria’s Secret Seamless Bustier: A simple multi-tasker (holds in the tummy, too). It seems low maintenance and easy enough for me to handle.
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Jellyby, our shih tzu, is 50% sweetheart, 25% spoiled princess, and 25% psycho. When she’s with people, she’s all sunshine and lollipops: loving, gentle, and happy.
But dog forbid she gets left at home by herself.
Without company, she becomes completely unhinged. She’ll squawk like a dying chicken, attempt to claw her way out of whatever room she’s in, basically have a total, Telemundo-style meltdown.
We’ve tried a dog shrink (”a canine behaviorist”), expensive medications (liver-flavored Prozac, anyone?), natural remedies (Mr. HC’s still giving me a hard time about my purchase of the “anxiety wrap“), Kongs and other puzzle toys… all to no avail. It’s okay, you can laugh: I have reconciled myself to the fact that I am more Meg Swan than Cesar Milan.
Anyway, this self-flagellation is just context for why we ended up not taking Jellyby with us to our wedding. I wanted so much for her to be “Canine of Honor” — I even bought a darling pearl collar for her from a fancy schmancy pet store — but because of her separation anxiety, we just couldn’t figure out what we were going to do with her post-ceremony. So Jellyby stayed behind in Boston with her godparents, our wonderful neighbors, who spoiled her silly while we were off at our Chewish wedding.
I like to think of myself as our little family’s CFO (that’s Chief Financial Officer). Giving myself a title frees me to be detailed and business-like about our finances, helps put me in the right frame of mind to update my guy, and makes me a little less grumpy about the time I spend paying bills, calling the stupid cable company because they’ve screwed up my bill yet again, and keeping track of mountains of paperwork.
And I even have an office with a view (oh, and it IS in the corner of the house!). Now if only I was cool enough for an assistant…
Anyway, I see my role as the family CFO as extremely important. Not only do I handle the tactical stuff (paying bills, checking balances, filing records), I help frame and recommend strategic decisions. Do we want to take a yearly vacation? What’s more important to us, eating out or keeping the Home Depot stock afloat? Should we rent or sell our extra house?
Today, for example, I will update our net worth spreadsheet (which feels like a facetious title right now, but won’t always be that way!), look at our list of projects and wants to see what will fit into the budget, and then meet my guy for lunch to do a quick review. If anything weird shows up on our statements, our balances hit a fun target (we watch our mortgage closely), or I pay something big off, I’m sure to share.
See, I’ve always done this - well, at least since early in our relationship. But during one of our arguments, it was mentioned that one of us did everything around the house and the other did not.
This poll is closed. Please check out the final round of inspiration boards and vote for your favorite!
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Check out our latest set of inspiration board entries for the Kathlin Argiro Bridesmaid/Rehearsal dress giveaway. Vote for your favorite of this set below!
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Board 2, “Going Green” by Katie D.:
Mr. AC and I are excited about our honeymoon and we have made NO decisions on where we are going. I must say that whoever created the “honeymoon” should get a wedding invite, because it is such a great idea: A vacation after the best day of your life. For Mr. AC and me, having spent years apart, the idea of days together as husband and wife is just so exciting.
BUT… we have a dilemma. Where should we go? We keep changing our minds and finding new places, and I would love to get ideas and thoughts from the community.
Honeymoon Idea Numero Uno
Renting a gorgeous cabin somewhere in the mountains of NC, TN, VA or WV. The cabin would be large and beautiful. It would have a great view, a Jacuzzi, and be located near an adorable town where we can wine and dine.
These aren’t real homes, just log home mock-ups, but you get the idea!
After Mr. Mary Jane and I had ogled dozens of ring photos online, we decided to go see some rings in person. For me, this outing really solidified the process. “Wow. We’re really doing this.” Because anyone can look at photos of fancy things on the internet, but going to the store was for real.
On our first trip out ring-shopping, we ran in to a couple of roadblocks. The first was entirely expected but somewhat insurmountable: we do not live in or near a heavily-populated area. Seriously. Go to the website of any dress designer, ring designer, vendor finder, or other huge nationally known organization and type in 58203. You will probably get nothing. You might luck out and find one or two results (usually in Fargo, only about 1.5 hours away), but generally the results look more like this:
We’re sorry, no results match your query.
No retailers within 250 miles of your location.
The location you entered does not exist. Please try again. (Ouch!!)
What did this mean for our ring-shopping excursion? We weren’t going to simply traipse in to a Tiffany store and ask to see their bridal collections. This lack of widely publicized options will remain a trend throughout the planning of our day. I try not to see it as an inconvenience, however. I look on the bright side and focus on our opportunity to have a unique occasion. There may not be any Men’s Warehouse or PaperSource locations nearby, but we’ll also probably save money and still look damn good doing it. And, I always have my best friend: the internet.
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If you’re in the Philly area, consider stopping into Plate in Ardmore at noon to hang out with food-themed bees Mrs. Cupcake, Mrs. Sushi, Mrs. Candy Corn (and me!), and other local hive members.
Feel free to comment below if you’re joining us, so we can have a general idea how many people will be buzzing by. Hope to see you there!
One of our biggest DIY projects to date has been the creation of our wedding website—and to think, I almost forgot to blog about it! A website was important for us since it will be a ’destination wedding’ for roughly 90% of our guests. The pre-made wedding templates just really weren’t cutting it for us. I think I searched them all, and they just didn’t feel ’us’ - so, in true Glossy fashion, we made our own!
The concept of our website came from my wedding planning notebook. I have a small black moleskin notebook that I carry everywhere with me (because who knows when wedding inspiration will hit!). It’s small enough that I can carry it all the time and barely know it’s there, and it holds all my random wedding thoughts, vendor contacts, and everything else, from the guest list, to the style of the b’maid dresses.
Using a ’notebook’ concept as the basis of our design, we came up with this as our intro page:
I love shoes. I think this post is evidence of that. Almost as soon as I found the dress (okay, maybe even a little before that), I started thinking about what shoes I would wear with it. I think I may have even considered finding the right shoes to be almost more important than finding the right dress! 
Have I mentioned I love shoes? When I started my shoe search I was looking for a unique style, preferably in satin, with a small to medium heel… bonus points for any bow or flower ornamentation.
I thought about purple (to coordinate with our wedding colors):
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