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I would like to thank Weddingbee for the opportunity to write about my wedding. It was a lot of fun for me. I received a lot of positive feedback from many brides and I will try to write about more DIY projects in the future. I hope this inspires some of you, as you have inspired me. I will post future DIY projects to my site diyweddingdetails and the Weddingbee DIY section.

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I shared some of my favorite makeup products in a post last year, and since so many brides are diy-ing their makeup nowadays, I thought I’d share a couple of my recent favorite finds!

For someone who probably wears makeup around three times a month, I sure have a lot of it.  I’m so lazy about putting it on, but I do love makeup!

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It was time to read our vows. This was the moment I was dreading more than anything, apart from our first dance, which I was sure would cause me to have nervous poops. My brother had just finished reading “I Like You” when our adorable officiant turned to us and said, “I like you too.” What was my reaction? I responded by doing my best Senator Clay Davis impersonation (for fans of The Wire out there) and saying, “Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyit.” I stared blankly for a moment and wondered if I had really just said that. I glanced around at our giggling wedding party and gave Mr. Candy Corn a “I-so-hope-your-parents-didn’t-just-hear-me-say-that!” grimace, while cackling hysterically. Luckily most of our guests were clueless and our videographer wasn’t able to pick anything up. I took a deep breath and told myself it was time to get back to bid-ness.
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Hey Denver Bees! This is a reminder that we’re headin’ down south of the Metro to Lone Tree for margaritas and wedding talk tomorrow, Saturday, July 11th at 5:30pm at the Rio. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on an ice cold margarita. Yummy.

Below is the fantastic flier that Curlysue made for the event. If you can come, please PM Curlysue so she can add you to the reservation.

See you on tomorrow!

Last night we met with our officiant for the first time. Ever. As in, I had never spoken on the phone or seen her in person ’til last night. Mr. D and I aren’t particularly religious and we come from different faith based backgrounds. We don’t have a church we attend regularly (when we’re not country hopping) and as such, we don’t have a minister or priest that we have a close relationship to. Not to mention that we haven’t solidified which (or if) organized religion suits us, and we simply wouldn’t feel comfortable marrying in a faith we weren’t 100% committed to.

Many people have asked how we found our officiant, and really, I’m just a huge review devotee. I searched on Wedding Wire for an officiant, did a general Google search (Maryland non-denominational wedding officiant), and checked out the reviews on Project Wedding. Then I scoped out her website, too. Because three sources just aren’t enough for me. I told you, I’m devoted to reviews! So I shot off a preliminary email, and when she wrote back, Laura was so friendly and warm, and I just felt comfortable working with her.

I’m a fan of “gut feelings” and I’m happy to say that this one panned out quite nicely.
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Enough tears had fallen and it was time for the real party to start. Let me tell you… we did not have any problems with that. The guests were up an dancing even before the DJ cued the official “bust-a-move” music.

The dance floor was packed and we had such a great time. The music kept us on our feet, to the point that I missed a meal or two. It shows how important great music is to any party… and our DJ did an awesome job!!!
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In mid-May, our reception venue hosted a networking evening for 300+ wedding professionals in partnership with Brides.com and Brides Philadelphia/South Jersey. No, I wasn’t in attendance. (I wish!) But our caterer — one of the event sponsors — recently sent me the link to an online photo gallery. And as I clicked through them, I realized my mouth was actually wide open. (All images courtesy of Brides.com.)

Seeing these photos has me even more excited for our wedding day feast — and soooo happy we’re going to be in attendance for the entire cocktail hour. How delish does this all look?!
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I have been wanting to write a post about wedding anxiety for a while now, but as I was going through it, I couldn’t find the words to describe it. Now that I am a newlywed, my thoughts seem to be flowing much more easily. So here goes…

Keeping busy with wedding tasks helped distract me from the fact that I was scared sh*tless of my wedding day. Not about the marriage and “happily ever after” part (because I knew I wanted to marry Mr. G), but the actual wedding part. Being the center of attention is never my style, and having 250 people staring at me was a daunting thought. I put on a calm face to the outside world, but inside, I was a panicking, nervous wreck. Ahhh, it feels so good to finally admit that.

I’m not usually a very nervous or high strung person. I swear, I’m not. However, planning for months on end for one big day is a lot of pressure. My mind was constantly racing. I second guessed many decisions I made. I obsessed over outlandish things like if I would faint or vomit while walking down the aisle. My stomach hurt constantly. One evening, I wondered if I was giving myself an ulcer. Then I Googled “stomach ulcers” and spent the rest of the night worrying that my worrying was giving me an ulcer. I guess you could say I had issues.

Two weeks before the wedding, I couldn’t sleep most nights. I would wake up with my heart racing.
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Hmm, not exactly the sort of bachelorette party entertainment I had in mind…
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A few weeks before our wedding, Mr. K and I had our bachelor/bachelorette parties. Mr. K and his friends rented a lake house in the nearby town of New Braunfels while I had a Girls’ Weekend in Austin– my second bridal shower and bachelorette party! I selected a specific weekend in March because it was during my Spring Break, after some major law school assignments were due. And after I determined the date, my lovely friends stepped in to organize the festivities.
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I was perusing Dear Abby (yet again…shameless!) & the topic of asking your girlfriend’s parents for “permission” to marry their daughter was heating up!

The reader responses were all over the board, of course. Some stated that they were independent women who have been succeeding on their own & would be downright insulted if their fiance asked her parents first. That to me is a bit ridiculous… insulted? I know it’s old fashioned, but I like the tradition of the hubby-to-(hopefully)-be nervously approaching his girlfriend’s father (or mother, you get the idea) with the anticipation of what is about to finally happen. I love it!

Mr. Quiche called my mom before he popped the question, and I thought it was very thoughtful & downright cute of him to do it! It made my mom happy, too. When I called her after he proposed, she was practically bursting at the seams!

With Mama & Petey Quiche… a little wedding day teaser for you!

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Reader erynbeth is selling 6 long, black, rectangular table linens for $20 each.

Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee classifieds and you might see it featured on the blog!

Other great items for sale:
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Well, you have heard the story of my engagement ring, and if you thought that was the end of the ring drama, you were wrong. But this drama does not fall on me. This time it’s Mr. Cloud and his indecisiveness. We have been looking at different rings for a while now, even brought one home with us only to return it later. Our first trip to the jeweler was actually to the same place that just reset my engagement ring—Adolf Jewelers a local place here in Richmond. As I said before, they came highly recommended from a lot of friends, but I think we just got a salesman who was having an off day. Mr. Cloud had no clue what he was looking for; he just knew he didn’t want yellow gold, and no stones. So, we ended up looking at a little bit of everything.

We looked at a tungsten ring like this one, but he wasn’t crazy about it.

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Some friends of ours were a little shocked to discover that with less than 25 days left, we’ve only received 4 wedding presents, only one of which was from the registry.

Is that weird? Our friends told us the presents started rolling in when they got to the 3 month mark. They literally were getting presents every day. I think that was the case because they were getting married in San Diego, but live in Seattle. They specifically asked guests (via their website) to mail gifts because they weren’t sure how they’d get them up to Seattle.

About 75-80% of our guests live in Seattle. Why would they pay for shipping when they could run down to Crate and Barrel and save a little dough? On the other hand, we did register at Amazon.com so we could save people money on shipping.

I think another reason we’re not getting gifts is because we don’t have a wedding website. I’m not sure everyone knows where we’re registered and I’m not really sure how I’d tell them. Plus, I think there are a lot of people (mostly my relatives) who are just giving us money.

Lucky for me, I haven’t really noticed the lack of packages much.
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I’ve mentioned Rebecca Grinnals several times in past posts on Weddingbee, but she really has been like my wedding fairy godmother. I met a very enthusiastic Rebecca very shortly after we launched — she just “got” Weddingbee right away, and has been a champion of the site ever since. I’m extremely introverted and hate networking, so Rebecca introduced me to everyone in the industry when I was just starting out. She also encouraged me to speak at all three of her Engage conferences, and despite being terrified of public speaking, there was no way I could say no! She is warm, genuine, and one of the savviest people in the wedding industry today. You will never meet anyone who has a negative word to say about her — which is how she was able to get such a superstar line-up of speakers at Engage! 09 Something Blue! Thank you Rebecca for everything you’ve done for me and Weddingbee. I’m honored to call you my friend!

So without further ado, here is my monster recap of this legendary event!

The “Something Blue” theme was carried throughout the entire conference. All images are by the talented Stacey Kane unless otherwise noted.

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As I’ve mentioned, Mr Frenchie and I are waiting until after we’re married to live together. Since our wedding is less than 2 short months away (holy cwap!), I’m really happy we nailed down where that will be last weekend.

I would like to tell you we sat down and looked at all the apartment complexes on a map between his work (A) and my work (B), and that we contemplated drive times and proximities to grocery stores, etc. But we didn’t.

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