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All photos below by The Wiebners unless otherwise noted. We purchased a disc of all unedited images from our wedding day, so some post-processing has been done by me for the purpose of sharing the photos with you. Click on any photo to enlarge.
After we cut the cake, we had planned to say a few words of thanks to our guests. While we didn’t write anything down ahead of time, we knew that we just wanted to express to everyone how amazing it was to have them all there, in one room, supporting our relationship and celebrating with us.
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We’ve already hit our 6-month mark on the wedding countdown. Because only 2 people on our guest list live in our wedding city, we need to send out STDs to inform friends and family of our “destination wedding” SOON. But I keep going back and forth on possible STD options. How can something that’s supposed to be so simple be so hard to pick out? I’m definitely gonna need the hive’s help on this one.
I’ve been bored at home all day because of the downtime between the end of classes/work and my internships. I took this rare free time as an opportunity to narrow down the choices to 3 (for now). Here they are!
Option 1: Simple & Classic
This option would ideally coordinate with the rest of the wedding paper details. Because a damask print will be incorporated in the wedding decor, why not use it on all the wedding correspondence? This option would also be perfect for incorporating an engagement photo. The particular design shown is only $16 for a digital file and I can print them anywhere, making it the cheapest option, by far.
So I lied to the hive on Friday. I said that I’d have a weekend full of last-minute wedding stuff, but in actuality, I did nothing wedding related (unless you call going to the gym and treating myself to a mani/pedi wedding related)! Which, in a sense, it was—I think I have learned how to justify just about anything as wedding related.
While I don’t have much to show for my weekend, I do feel VERY refreshed today, and finally feel ready to tackle some of the projects that I should have posted about ages ago.
First up, I showed you our invitations, but I never showed you the full package. One of the things I really wanted was brown envelopes—and boy, did I get them. Finding brown, square, eco-friendly envelopes was a challenge. Fortunately, we found them—and paid a pretty penny for them. Unfortunately, I don’t have the name of the envelope company anymore (sorry guys). I will say that getting brown envelopes over cream ones ended up being an unexpected wedding splurge and catastrophe, all in one.
Since calligraphy was never in the budget, I thought I could easily print them out on our handy-dandy color printer. When I went to print our envelopes, I constantly got this message:
ERROR!!!
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I’ve finally started to wrap my head around florals and have a clear idea of what blooms and greens will be present on the day of the wedding. I feel… relieved, and excited about our decisions! I’ve set for us a very small floral budget, so we’ve worked to get the most out of what we’re spending, while trying to have unique and beautiful choices!
As you might recall from my earlier post about bouquets, I’m set on this great dahlia, ranunculus, sweet pea, gardenia and hydrangea bouquet. I may not get to have all of these blooms, but dahlias, ranunculus and hydrangeas are the three I would like to see, with a heavy presence of dahlias and ranunculuses. I was so fortunate to come across this picture, because not only did it provide great inspiration for my bouquet, but there is bridesmaid inspiration, as well! The bridesmaid bouquet features dahlias in a great way, so I’m using this is as a starting point with our florist.
Source: Brides.com
Mr. Powder Puff asked me to be his wife.
And in exactly two months, I’ll follow through on the promise I made to him that day.
This wedding has been a loooong time coming, and now it’s finally starting to feel real. I’m getting butterflies in my stomach- I can’t wait!
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Reader gmarie76 is selling a Maggie Sottero wedding gown. It is style “Bethani”, size 14, and has never been worn or altered. The dress is ivory with champagne beading. She is asking for $500.
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The passing of my beloved dog Mieko got me thinking: Can I have kids? Losing Mieko was like losing a sibling. It hurts so hard and so deep. My parents cried for days before and after — and so did I. He was part of our family, and losing him is really, really hard.
Losing Mieko made me think about kids. If this is what it’s like to worry about the health of a dog, then crap, what’s it like with kids? Mr. Joey and I weren’t 100% sure we wanted kids. When we first started dating, he didn’t want kids, and I was sure I wanted them. As time has passed, he’s come around. His brother wasn’t sure he wanted kids, either. Both FBIL Joey and his wife were focused on their careers. FBIL Joey is a professor and his wife is a neurologist. But FBIL also came around and now Mr. Joey is uncle to two very cute little boys.
I, on the other hand, have gone the other way, a little. I was so sure I wanted kids, and then I got a job where I travel a lot. Could I really be a mom and travel? Could I give up traveling? I know it sounds selfish, but traveling is a disease for me. No joke. I get fidgety and tense if I haven’t traveled in a while. My Dad worked on a Greek merchant ship for 10 years and traveled the world before he married — it’s in our blood. I’ve been actively traveling internationally since I was 16 years old. Could I really stop? And if I didn’t stop, would it be fair to leave Mr. Joey to care for a child alone for weeks at a time?
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Something old? I don’t have anything right now. New? I guess everything––the dress, shoes, jewelry, etc. Something borrowed? I have no clue what I’ll be using. Blue? Again… nada.
But, I am very lucky to have something homemade by my mom. For the last few weeks she’s been making this:
What is it?
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I’m so silly. I do this type of thing all the time, you see. I pick one thing, then change my mind. I think of one extreme, then switch to the other. I do it all the time, and this aspect of my personality comes out in all areas of my life… so, of course, my extremist nature rears its head whilst wedding planning.
At first, I envisioned an ultra-modern wedding, sleek lines, at a loft in the city, with a sheath dress (no lace), structured flowers, bold colors, and a birdcage veil.
As planning has progressed, I’ve seen myself gravitate towards traditional and classic, and away from that ultra-hip, too-cool-for-school wedding. That no-lace sheath dress? Became the all lace dress. The structured flowers? Became the soft, feathery flowers. That hip, city space? Became a country manor.
I’m sure you can see where this is going (if only I had!). In those very first stages of wedding planning, I was determined to have everything planned before I left for England. So, I rushed and forged ahead, without fully thinking things through. I circled, dog-eared, and tabbed bridal magazines out of their little papered minds. The first thing I knew I wanted? A birdcage veil.
So I rushed again, did a quick Google search, found a woman whose veils looked nice and prices seemed reasonable, compared to what I had seen in bridal stores (mistake).
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Please give a warm hive welcome to our newest Hive Hostesses! You’ve probably already seen most of them buzzing around the boards! 
We’d been focusing on growing our local boards, and we’re currently looking for Hostesses for these major metropolitan areas:
If you’d like to host any of these boards, or any of our other available local boards for that matter, please apply to be a Hive Hostess today!
I can’t remember if I told you about our DIY wedding photobooth. Nonetheless, here’s the scoop: photobooths are freaking expensive! For a fleeting moment, the husband thought he would build one himself. After reality settled in, I called our photographer and asked if we could set one up. I’d buy the fabric and props, and he’d bring the flash, umbrella, camera and tripod. There was a minimal rental fee, and I asked a few of our friends to take turns taking funny pictures. Many of our guy friends who “don’t do the dance thing” were happy to oblige.
{All pictures by Jason Angelini, with some Photoshop editing by yours truly.}
I’ll be honest, I’m beat, needing a weekend to recover from the weekend, so this post might be a bit lacking in style. However, I have decided to post as often as possible in the few weeks leading up to our wedding, be those posts good or bad, up or down, exhausted or giddy.
Here’s why: lately I feel everything more than usual. I go from excited and enthusiastic to exhausted and emotional in the blink of an eye. I alternate between looking forward to the party to that butterfly thing that makes my hands tremble slightly. And I’m betting that every bride feels this way with two weeks left to go. Heck, I’m betting that any woman hosting 50 of her closest peeps feels this way.
And yet, we sometimes act as if the only acceptable non-Bridezilla emotions are calm zen and excited joy. I have high hopes for overwhelming happiness on our wedding day but realistic expectations of everything else between now and then. I feel less alone when I know I’m not alone, but bridal blogs are often lacking in emotional detail in the days leading up to the big day because brides are getting stuff done. So I will blog about them all, and I’ll limit editing. Or so I tell myself.
We had a crazy-busy weekend packed with painting (what else?), hanging with the FILs, bench-building, and other stuff I can’t remember right now. What I do remember was a beautiful moment between my guy and I: driving back from his parents’ house, he said, “You know, I really feel married now. I didn’t before, but lately I do.”
“Does that freak you out?” I asked.
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My mother, Mr. P and I went to FMIL’s for Mother’s Day. There, we celebrated with a nice lunch of ham and Champagne and toasted to our wonderful mothers and Mr. P’s SIL (who is the mother of our flower girl and ring bearer).
It felt so warm and happy, and it was a lovely day. The sun was shining as we laughed, chatted, and ate out on the deck. My mother and FILs have met on several occasions, but these past few get-togethers have brought them so much closer together. Everyone gets along, and I’m grateful for that.
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Hold on to your sun hats folks! This is an insane post of our wedding details dissected (all photos by Jules Bianchi unless otherwise marked)!
Destination: St John, USVI (fly to St. Thomas, STT, and take ferry to St. John)
After J proposed last May, we decided to wait until the end of wedding season before focusing on our own plans. Knowing we couldn’t get married during the summer in Maine, because we are so busy focusing on our clients’ weddings, we decided a destination location was necessary for a warm weather climate (a must-have) in our off-season. So late last fall, we settled on the Caribbean island of St. John without having ever gone there (though we did take a quick 36-hour scouting trip in November to make some of our major planning decisions in person).
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