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No. There is no problem with my dress. I still love it. The dilemma is with sister/MOH Joey’s dress.
We bought her dress months ago, way back in September, I think. This cute little number was the perfect shade of yellow, came in petite, and was on sale.
9 months later, we both still love her dress, but now were worried it won’t fit. Having just experienced an unexpected weight loss myself and being shocked by my own dress being too big, I was worried about her.
Congratulations to the winners peaches_skittles, Suzy, missomally, Bluegrassbride, and shannamt!
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With the economy stuck in a rut, lots of couples are opting to choose honeymoon destinations closer to home. Fodor’s has recently introduced their new Compass American Guide Series, and today we’re giving away 10 copies of two of their newest books from the series: 5 copies of Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, 1st Edition and 5 copies of Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, 1st Edition.
If you’re thinking about a trip on the mainland, check out Fodor’s helpful guides to Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks! To enter to win this contest, tell us where you’d go if you were to honeymoon in the U.S.A.! You have until tomorrow at midnight PST to enter. Good luck! 
Deciding on jewelry hasn’t been nearly as taxing for me as deciding on a dress has/still is. From the start, I knew I would wear the strand of pearls my grandparents gave me for my birthday a few years back.
Since my ring is white gold and antiquey-looking, I wanted some earrings to “tie together” my accessories. I have been browsing various websites in search of perfect vintage/art deco/sparkly/silver/pearl earrings. Perfect Details had a bunch of styles I really like, and so did emitations and 1928.
Though I’ve found some fun and fitting designs, I haven’t been seriously looking for earrings (or uh… anything) because of our house purchase (tomorrow OMG!!) and that pesky possible income loss I recently mentioned. Pretty much every extra penny we have is either going toward closing/moving/home-improving funds or contributing to our new emergency plan. Mr. Mary Jane and I don’t have anything set aside to pay for the wedding. I don’t have a jar with $1000 in it with “Wedding Money” written on the side. We’re just paying as we go. (It’s a perk of skirting the land of vendor deposits!)
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As you may know, we did not register for anything. Well, actually, we buried a pseudo registry (Honeyfund.com) in our wedding website, but didn’t think anyone would navigate to it. However, people are more tenacious than we thought! So we had some thank you cards to write (especially after the non-shower dinner the other night)!!
Initially I was going to order up some thank you notes from Lindsey (our invitation designer extraordinaire) to match our invitations. But we never got around to it. A little while back, Mr. P came up with the idea of using something that is reflective and specific to our venue (since it’s kind of like a third character in our wedding play!).
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Because I’m pretty honest about my first marriage — both good and bad — I sometimes get messages or comments from women who are marrying as young as I was the first time, wanting to know what I would have done differently (other than, I suppose, not being young). I suspect other readers have been turned off by the same topic, figuring I just made stupid decisions that had little to do with my relative youth. In my last session with my fabulous therapist, he asked me the same thing: what could I have done differently?
Thing is, I didn’t think I needed to do anything differently, not at 21. There’s not a thing you could have said to me that would have made me doubt our ability to make our marriage work. We loved each other, we’d lived together, we knew each other’s weaknesses. How could we fail?
So accepting that waiting to get married wasn’t gonna happen, I would say to myself: decide that no matter what, you won’t get divorced until you’re 31*. Wish for it, consider it, but then set it aside until your 31st birthday. On that birthday, take stock of your relationship and then decide.
Your mid-twenties are going to be turbulent years, years spent trying to figure out how to extricate the threads of your own being from the cloth of your family. You’re going to feel lost, and alone, and not very sure about anything… and you will blame your husband and your marriage for that. You’ll believe you have lost yourself in him, are alone because he’s not with you, would know yourself better if you didn’t have to worry about him, and while that may be a little bit true, it’s mostly not. Without a pact — a real, honest, boots-on-the-ground commitment — to not actually leaving until those years are behind you, you will lose a wonderful man who was a great husband. You’ll discover that your life is just as crazy without him as it was with him and you’ll suddenly realize that it wasn’t him, it was you all along.
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As I said on Monday, I have a bunch of projects that I haven’t shared with the hive yet, and I am trying to get them all up before the wedding. This project was supposed to be makeup bags for my ladies, but I wanted to spice them up. After some trial and error on my part, the project turned into this:
Clutches for my ladies!!!
Here’s my best shot at a sewing tutorial. I’ve never written up a sewing project like this before, so I am going to try my very best to be specific, but I just really sew by trial and error, and I don’t know all of the technical terms for things.
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One of my longtime friends, Special K, and I hung out one weekend a few months ago in the hopes of finding some makeup for the wedding. Well, actually, it was more like a trip to try and break me from my fear that makeup makes me look like a clown. I’ll save that for a separate post…
Anyway, I let Special K take the lead in speaking with the cosmetic counter ladies. The problem is that Special K let it slip that we were hoping to find makeup for me for my wedding. WRONG MOVE!! We were summarily dismissed and asked to make an appointment for a “wedding trial” that would require a $50 minimum purchase. Um…WHAT?!! Isn’t this a recession? We’re hoping to possibly spend money on something that is, under these economic conditions, not a necessity, but we must come back later because it’s for a wedding? I totally don’t get that.
I feel like the “W” word (WEDDING) can be the kiss of death when trying to plan. Some people have done experiments with pricing, and found when they contact companies and or service providers that they will increase the price when told their services will be for a wedding.
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Before Mr. Powder Puff and I were even engaged, I never pictured myself making my own invitations. EVER. In fact, I considered myself a girl who didn’t even really care what the invitations looked like.
That was until I started reading wedding blogs. And oh! What gloriously beautiful invitation suites! They had letterpress! Calligraphy! Gold fairy dust! Aaaaaand they were completely out of our budget.
Enter DIY invitations. Now, there are times when you can buy invitations for much cheaper than you can make them. For us, it was definitely more cost-effective to make them. And in the interest of helping you, dear readers, make that all-important decision if you’re wavering on the edge of the DIY canyon, I’ve decided to disclose our invite budget.
A wise woman once told me, “A short pencil is better than a long memory.” With exactly one month to go until our wedding, I’m quickly realizing how very true that little adage is.
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Fittings, appointments, and unfinished details are all vying for my time and attention, and I find myself worrying that I’ll inevitably forget something. In the past, I’ve had a tendency of spending way more energy fretting about getting things done than what is required to actually accomplish them. It’s one of those crazy little quirks of mine that I’ve been working on.
I’ve found that making lists helps me combat those little pangs of anxiety that creep up on me at various hours of the day and night.
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Reader ktahsequah is selling a Giselle cathedral length veil. It is ivory and has crystal embellishments. She is asking for $150.
Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee classifieds and you might see it featured on the blog!
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I can rock a low v-neck while maintaining a more than passable level of modesty, because my dip in the gene pool left me rather tiny on top — and normally, I’m totally fine with that. For ladies on the other end of the spectrum, my position could sometimes seem like a mighty fine place to be. But it can definitely be frustrating — more than once, I’ve found a cute top while shopping, only to have to leave it at the store, because the size that’s smallest enough to fit my chest is too tight around my (apparently He-Man-esque) arms. And most bras aren’t readily available in my size, or they lack the necessary padding that makes me feel like I have, in fact, passed puberty. Well-endowed I am not, so you can see why, as my first fitting approached, I was stressing about finding an ideal undergarment.
When we first decided to host our own outdoor “garden wedding”, I was annoyed at the lack of boots-on-the-ground information about them. I wanted a list of things to know and do so that I’d be prepared, but I couldn’t find one. Consider this my first attempt to remedy that situation; I will update this again afterward as well.
In addition to the “normal” wedding items, don’t forget:
Where did we leave off? Oh right, I was trying the dress on again.
So yes, I tried it on again… and the verdict?
I LOVE it. I don’t know if it was my headache or the lighting or just being tired. It’s perfect and it looks great with my shoes. The only thing is that it’s too big. Yes! TOO BIG. I was measured for it in February, and come May, it seems I’ve dropped a dress size or two.
So here are the pictures. I must warn you that they aren’t great. I tried taking a picture of me in the mirror, but the flash blurred me out. I had to come into the back room and take the shots with iphotobooth. So, I ran back and forth from the computer while I tried to hold my dress back. Then I tried to take a picture with my shoes, but that didn’t turn out great… you’ll see.
Mr Frenchie, Mama Frenchie, and I visited the winery on Saturday to meet with our potential florist (which I will tell you about soon). When we were there, I thought it would be a good idea to make sure we were allowed to do a toss. Annie (the coordinator) wasn’t sure if confetti would be alright with maintenance, but we are definitely allowed to do a toss with flower petals.
So, this fluttery goodness may not be in our future…
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