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Generally, I am overly concerned about looking terrible in photographs. This fear that is compounded by the fact that I just received a new license. I think it has almost become second nature to duck out of pictures and/or just generally avoid them whenever I can. But really, I LOVE pictures, and this is the one thing I am most excited about for the wedding - weird, I know. Keeping this in mind, here is a list of things I am most concerned about on my wedding day:
A. Yellow teeth. I don’t drink coffee or smoke, so I really shouldn’t be so concerned. Also, I use straws whenever possible, because they just make things more fun. But I just get nervous about yellow teeth. So, Crest White Strips, here I come… again. (The last time I used them they made my teeth super sensitive and it hurt to eat. Hmm, maybe that will actually be a good thing for me…)
B. Looking so much taller than Mr. Gloss.
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I love a deliciously foamy cappuccino. I could easily lose myself in the luxuriously smooth texture, cloud-like layers, and sugary sweet embellishments.
And my favorite “baristas“? Jenny Lee, Junko Yoshioka, Priscilla of Boston, Melissa Sweet, Amsale…
~~~ See ya later, Mr. Bruschetta (and, any Bruschetta guests or wedding party members who don’t want to ruin the surprise!). ~~~
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Miss Bruschetta’s post about her and Mr. B’s Apartmenticipation got me thinking about my cohabitational history with Mr. D. I’d always thought that before I was married I would have lived in several different cities (check), lived alone (could never afford it), finished my masters or had an established career (half check?). I thought I’d be almost 30 (about 5 years early on that one) and my future husband and I would move in together after the wedding/honeymoon (nope).
Why did I imagine all that? I don’t really know. I always try to create benchmarks, plans, and such. I think it’s just the planner in me. But, the funny thing about plans is that you’re constantly revising them, since life seldom consults your Excel sheets and goal charts before going about its business.
Does anyone remember the Friends episode where Rachel turns 30 and all the friends reminisce about their 30th birthdays, and Phoebe found out she was an entire year older than she thought she was? Life doesn’t wait for you to tell it what to do (or to tell it how old you are).
After our road trip, Mr. D and I were apart for another month and he agreed to come back and visit for a month in late May. While he could have rented a place in Miami, it would have been VERY expensive, and honestly, it just didn’t seem worth it.
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***Mr. M, there are details in here about my rehearsal dinner outfit. For the love of surprises, I command you to avert your eyes! Thanks, baby! :)****
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Um, people, my rehearsal shoes are like whoa.
Has your love for a pair of shoes ever crept up on you? You know, when you look at a pair, cock your head, and think, ’um, no,’ but you can’t look away, and suddenly you find yourself thinking dirty thoughts about them and realize you luuuuuuve them? Where it’s almost like a pair of shoes are actively seducing you?
(*crickets*)
Well, maybe it’s just me. But that’s exactly what these babies did to me.
These in particular:
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The question sits with me often and I don’t have an answer yet.
Putting together our playlist, I see “What a Wonderful World” in my music file, and I wonder if I should include it. See, that song was our first song at my first wedding, so maybe not. And yet, I love that song - that’s WHY it was our first song. I’m still me, and I still love it… so then yes. Except, I’ll be reminded of my first wedding at my second and that seems a little bit, I don’t know, wrong.
I’m considering wearing my favorite pair of flats for the trek to our ceremony and back… but I bought them on a trip with my ex-husband, a trip we’d spent all of our money on and really I shouldn’t have been buying a pair of shoes, much less at full price, but he pushed me into it and I’ve loved them ever since (5 years!). So is that a yes, because I love them, or a no, because that memory comes up each time I see them?
I remind myself that I won’t be able to avoid thinking about my first wedding, my first marriage, my (only) divorce. That’s the thing about weddings - they really are about your past meeting your future, and my past includes a failed marriage. And the thing about the past is that it’s impossible to cleanly divide. Memories are shared, so I can’t say that a song or place or experience is “mine” if my ex-husband was there. The thing about marriages? You really do become a part of “our”, as unable to separate yours from his as to separate the grains of sand in the ever popular wedding sand ceremony.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
I’ve been putting off choosing the ceremony music for whatever reason. Maybe because I’m utterly an inside-the-box thinker when it comes to this. It’s going to be exceptionally unoriginal and a unabashedly trite (like the teaser image above).
So tonight, I got it over with; I ripped off that Band-Aid super quick. I scanned our musicians’ (a string trio) recommendations and threw together a list after listening to the music on YouTube (that’s class, right there, ladies!).
All I know is I would prefer not to use the famous Wagner Bridal Chorus (you know, “here comes the bride…”). And when I checked Weddingbee’s ceremony music wiki, I felt validated:
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I truly wish calligraphy was in my budget or that I could create such beautiful characters with ease and consistency. I had dreams of teaching myself some calligraphy techniques, but every attempt was a big FAIL, and I just didn’t have the time or commitment to practice the skill. I wanted the addresses to be handwritten, so my own handwriting would have to do.
My biggest challenge was keeping the writing straight. When I addressed my Christmas cards one year, I had way too many where the names looked like they were climbing a mountain. Since I was using colored envelopes for the wedding invites, I couldn’t do the trick where you place a lined piece of paper inside the envelope to guide your writing. But, I did have one tool in my massive craft supply collection that proved to be one of the best investments I’ve ever made: The Journaltopia from Creative Memories.
Basically, this tool is an eight-inch ruler with nylon loops across the top.
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So, I selected my first bridal hair piece. Then I selected my second. And now I hope I’ve selected my last one. I loved the first one, but wasn’t sure how I’d actually wear it. For some reason I couldn’t love it like I should’ve. The second one I also loved, and even had boutonnières made to match. I paid for and received it, and was happy. Then, one fateful day I looked at it again and realized it was just not right for a Joey wedding. It was lovely, but it was beachy. I put it away and thought I’d feel differently, but I didn’t. So I surfed Etsy again until I found a seller with really lovely but interesting recycled pieces. I sent Jessica at Beetle and Bloom a note asking her if she’d be interested in making a custom piece. I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew what I didn’t want. I sent Jessica pictures of my dress, shoes, and pictures of the hair pieces I’d selected and passed on. She was great! She went to work, and a few days later came up with these lovely numbers…
Option 1 is smaller but is more in line with the style of my dress. The flower is paler than the yellows we are wearing, but it is super cute.
Having eco-friendly invitations might be the easiest way to go green for your wedding.
I think the most luxe example of an eco-friendly invitation company is Bella Figura - you can check them out on Weddingbee PRO!! They are totally dedicated to all things green, and their invites are to die for:
How cool is this idea for escort cards from Once Wed? They would be perfect for a modern wedding.
Rule number one: Don’t ever let your best friends tell you that trying on dresses at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills is a good idea. Don’t let them lure you with ideas of giggling, designer dresses, and bottles of champagne. I don’t care that it’s been four months since you’ve seen your best friends, that both of them are your maids-of-honor, and that this girls’ trip to the bridal department of an upscale store sounds all-too-delightfully-fun and Pretty Woman-like. (No, I’m not a prostitute, but you get the idea.)
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Because, if you do bite, if you even nibble at their supportive, ultra-fun, best-friends-a-girl-could-have behavior, you’ll end up like this…
Drum roll please…
MR. COWBOY BOOT. ABSOLUTELY NOT. STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER.
Room #2.
That’s where I’ll spend the last night I’m a Miss and the first night I’m a MRS!
We decided on the Blair Hill Inn for a few reasons. Number one, it’s one of the best luxury inns in the state, and the owners are said to be as charming as the estate they so lovingly care for. Number two, it’s super close to our ceremony/reception site. Number three, we are doing most of our formal pictures prior to the ceremony (since I don’t want all our pics to be on the boat), and they have allowed us to take some pictures on their grounds (which are GORGEOUS!). We looked into having the actual wedding here, but at $200+ per person, and rental of all the rooms for the whole weekend, it was WAY out of our budget.
Check out the main house: (all images from here)
Just a few years ago, I had my own head of “down to there hair”. Freshman year in college, I decided to grow my usually shoulder-length locks for a worthy cause. Then, a few weeks before starting senior year, I kissed a sizable chunk of my tresses goodbye. The stylist pulled my hair back into a ponytail, grabbed a ruler and snipped through at the ten-inch mark. It was nerve-wracking and exhilarating all at once!
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