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I left you way back in November with some of our wedding details promising to tackle accessories and outfits.
I had two outfits for our day - a sari for the ceremony and a lengha for the reception. The sari for the wedding was a ivory/cream color, keeping with Sri Lankan tradition. I had it custom made in LA by Mehr Design Studio (described here) along with my veil.
I have this little joke going in my head, a joke that started way back when the first reader called me out on not posting pics, and continued when it was pointed out that I wasn’t doing any wedding planning, or DIYing anything, or really doing much except talk about my relationship with my fiance.
The joke is that I could totally be a faker, acting as if I was getting married but secretly a teenager with no hopes of dating or a retired teacher with free time on her hands. Okay, so that sounds more creepy than funny, but it still makes me laugh.
I’m not, though, and I have proof, courtesy of my fabulous photographer Angela:
For the past few weeks, I’ve been whittling down the enormous number of inspiration pictures that have found their way onto my computer over the course of our engagement. I recently touched base with our photographer — I’m still in disbelief that it’s time to reconnect with our vendors to finalize plans (we’ve had some of these pros booked since early 2008!) — and mentioned I’d love to show some of my favorites to her, so she can understand the “vision” I have for our wedding day. I also made sure to communicate that the photos I was sharing are by no means pictures I want to copy pose-for-pose; they’re just really unique, striking images that have me thinking how we can get creative on the wedding day!
Well, Cindy is awesome, and encouraged me to send along as many as I wanted — and to keep the pictures coming as our wedding approaches, so she can let these ideas “marinate”. (Her word choice, not mine — though it’s definitely appropriate for our wedding!) So when I shared my Picasa album, I included some shots to get Cindy thinking about how to feature one of the most important elements of our cocktail hour and reception — the food.
At the end of July, I will have one very full day/night of celebrating with the ladies! My one and only bridal shower will be taking place in the afternoon, followed by my bachelorette party extravaganza in the evening. Why, you might ask, would I jam pack all of this into one day?
As it so happens, 3 of the 5 Stiletto bridesmaids are spread out throughout the country - San Diego, New York City, and Tampa, to be exact. I didn’t feel comfortable asking them to fly in for a separate shower and bachelorette, PLUS the wedding in September, and I didn’t want to sacrifice the opportunity to celebrate with all of them! So I made the executive decision to lump it all together into one fun weekend. Good thing I’m taking off the Friday before and the Monday after from work to effectively prepare and recover!
While the date has been set for quite sometime, I’ve been on the prowl for some smashing ensembles to celebrate the day. I was most worried about a shower dress, as I can find any old cute black dress for the bachelorette. I loved this dress from ModCloth, but it’s forever out of stock. This cute little retro number from Bettie Page completely stole my heart, but was more than I wanted to spend, and I honestly didn’t know how many opportunities I’d have to wear it again (other than when I put on my pearls and heels and vacuum the rug, of course). I wanted to love this one from Macy’s, but the colors just seemed… off. I swooned over this lovely Nine West dress, but they didn’t have my size. On a side note, who knew Nine West had such cute dresses?!
In searching Bluefly’s site one more time this morning (as they are, of course, having a dress sale!), I came across this simple and cute blue and white dress:
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Much like The Bear Cubs, we, The Cowboy Boots don’t really need all that much stuff for our house. We’ve lived together for over three years at this point, which means we’ve made numerous trips to Bed, Bath & Beyond, Target, and many other home goods stores throughout the course of our relationship. True, we don’t have much furniture (we rent a partially furnished place) but we don’t expect our guests to buy us expensive things—I mean, they’re traveling all the way to Colorado for our wedding.
So, we put in for a few things on Williams-Sonoma (we’re big into cooking), Pottery Barn, and Sears. You know, a toaster here, a shower head there. Mainly just little things that would make our lives that much better.
And while we never got the luxury of going through the store scanning things (does that sound fun to anyone else? It does to me!) because we registered online, there is one store we got to handpick our items. Mr. CB’s parents’ gallery. That’s right. They own a gallery in Upstate New York called Gallery Three, Two, One. With one-of-a-kind crafts, gorgeous pottery, and other goods, it’s like a treasure trove when I’m in there (not to mention the jewelry). Here are a couple of the items we registered for:
A pottery bird feeder
If you’re having children at your wedding, you might want to consider a designated kids’ table, complete with babysitter. (Read this if you’re considering not having children at your wedding).
It doesn’t have to cost a bundle to keep the little ones entertained. Some ideas include:
Here are a few photos to inspire you:
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Well everyone, I had my final fitting the other day, and I am now the happy owner of a wedding dress! A dress which is currently hanging on the back of the closet door in the guest room at my parents’ house, with the train spread out, all dramatic-like.
The wedding is three weeks away, peeps! All of the big and most of the little decisions are all made, and I am totally over making decisions, at all. Which is where you all come in.
My dress comes with a white satin sash, which flares out at the ends and has some embroidery, as well. I’ve been feeling kind of blah about the sash overall, so I’m thinking about ditching it.
Here’s a little something to jog your memory:
My dress, with sash (I’ll want it tied in a bow) and bustled.
Here’s a look at the venue budgets of Bees who got hitched in major cities! Part II will feature the venues of Bees who got hitched in small or medium cities.
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Miss Bruschetta’s Venue
Venue/Location: F.U.E.L. House in Philadelphia, PA
Venue Fee: $6,500 license fee, plus the cost of rentals and caterer
Rental Time: 24 hours
Whenever I have to buy something, I always check 2 sites to see if there are any good deals going around that I should know about. The first one is Slickdeals, and the second is Bargainist. Slickdeals is a place where savvy shoppers post coupon codes and other great steals they found online or got sent in emails. Sometimes things are free, but most of the time they are just dirt cheap.
Today I found out Aldo was have a clearance sale that you need a code to get into. If you enter their site via this link, you get prompted for an access code. If you enter 5489548, you get access to the clearance deals. If you enter the code 22040422, you get 10% off your clearance purchase, and shipping is free. I just picked up this super cute clutch for the wedding. I got it for $14.69 total, including tax and shipping. Score!
Bargainist is just a nice place to see all the published deals official stores/sellers are advertising.
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Have I mentioned yet that we are planning to have a photo booth of sorts set up at our reception? We will be setting up a backdrop for pictures in the cocktail area. Our Canon D60 camera will be set up on a tripod (that my boss gave to me for free… thanks boss!) and we bought a wireless remote (with a gift card we got for buying our camera) for people to snap their own pictures with! My cousin will be there to troubleshoot and will probably take the pictures during the rush at the beginning of the reception, but for the most part, it will be self-service.
When we got engaged last May, I couldn’t wait to tell everyone! Even though Mr. Cubbie and I were in Thailand, we immediately hopped on a computer at our tiki-hut to spread the good news. Two of my future bridesmaids (FB?) were on Gchat - I told them right away I wanted them to be my bridesmaids! The rest of my girls I asked over the phone when we were back in the country.
There’s a million and one ways to ask your friends to be your bridesmaids. No one way is better than the other. Personally, if I have a fab secret, I can’t keep it! I’m bursting with happiness! Asking my girls while I still had that “just slipped the ring on” glow was 100% me.
And then I saw all those other wonderful ways to ask, “Will you be my bridesmaid?”, and I of course I wanted to do that, too! I decided this would be a great way to
The only problem is that now I live in Chile, and as we already know, there’s not a whole lot in the way of crafting supplies here. No Goccos, no PaperSource, no nothing that you lucky lucky brides in the States get to play with. You know what I did? I went to the grocery store.
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Thanks to all of you who have been following me and have patiently awaited posts about what the dress looks like. I was really worried that Mr. Ballet Flat would accidentally come across a post, and I wanted to keep the dress a complete surprise! You will definitely see the details of the dress in the bridal pictures. 
So, I’m from the New Orleans area, and it was hard to choose a place to take pictures. The city is so gorgeous to me, but since it was the spring, I decided to take advantage of the beautiful New Orleans City Park.
That morning, I had a bit of a snag in my plans. I currently wear contact lenses, and I’m pretty blind without visual assistance. That morning, my contact tore. So, I was walking around the park with very blurred vision, and I was worried that the pictures would look weird since I had trouble focusing on where the camera lens was. (For what it’s worth, I did wear glasses that day. I wasn’t walking/driving around blind!)
Thankfully, my photographer, Amanda Meyer, came to the rescue and really helped me out! Amanda, if you are reading this, thanks for kicking away spiky black caterpillars that I couldn’t see and for leading me around the park!
Here are some of my favorite pictures from the session. I have them in black and white as well, but I think it gives you a better idea of why I chose City Park with all of the colors.
Credit images to Amanda Meyer Photography
I’m sure what I’m about to blog about is a common problem among those honeymooning out of the country. I’m talking about the new passport that will be good for about 1 month (if that is how long it takes me to get my name changed).
It had the potential to be really easy though, my current, which may or may not still be good, is renewable by mail.
But, I just can’t find it… and I looked EVERYWHERE. I did find my passport from 16 years ago, when I was 12, but it was “canceled” when I got the newer one.
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The tradition of showering the newlyweds as they leave the wedding comes from the Ancient Romans. The Romans showered newlyweds with nuts, seeds, and grains to symbolize wishes of good luck and abundance upon the happy couple. These days, we aren’t using nuts and grains so much–but for the modern couple, there are plenty of options to choose from!
Here are the more traditional options:
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Cake is very important to me. It’s one of my favorite foods, in fact! But I’m no cake-snob: I prefer plain, ordinary cake white cake with buttercream frosting. The kind offices always serve for employee going-away parties. You know, the ones with all the excess frosting stuck on the plastic spatula?
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(Dirty little secret: I’m the corner-piece snatcher. 
And I’m the one who waits until everyone turns their backs, then scrapes that leftover frosting on to her plate. YUM.)
Since my taste in cake isn’t what anyone would classify as “expensive”, we’ve pretty much known all along that we have two options for our wedding cake.
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