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A Real Conversation in the Swan Household:
Miss Swan: [Choose your own random wedding detail and insert here]. Can you help with that? Thanks, boo.
Mr. Swan: I’m excited about getting married, but the planning is a lot. There’s so much to think about. [Isn’t he cute? He doesn’t know the half of it.]
Miss Swan: I know, and we’ve been doing this for about 10 months now. We’re almost there. ACK!! I haven’t done anything all weekend. Maybe I should do something today. Ughh….
I spent a whole lot of procrastinating this past weekend and definitely not enough on the wedding. I don’t want to be left out there scrambling the week before, BUT I think I am getting tired… of planning. In some ways I feel like I can’t think anymore about the details. I’m not necessarily the world’s most original person when it comes to wedding decor and details, so I feel pretty tapped out (escort cards, anyone? I will figure that out somehow). The funny thing is that I am not doing a ton of projects or things myself, and I’m still staring at a pretty long to-do list.
Given that we are now in the home stretch of planning, we should be amped right now.
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Since our wedding’s going to take place about 45 minutes from Grand Forks, Mr. Mary Jane suggested it might be fun to hire a limo to bring us and all of our guests there and back.
I was thinking, ‘OK, I guess I would be alright with going a little over budget to spend a couple hundred dollars on this…’
A couple hundred? Hah!
We’d need at least three hours, I figure. I found out that for this vehicle, which seats 14…:
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In fact, June was unseasonably cold, and much more cloudy and rainy than what we normally experience this time of year in the City of Brotherly Love. Early summer? It felt more like mid-spring!
No, I’m not fretting yet about our wedding weather (though I have been researching cute umbrella options, just in case). Right now, I’m too preoccupied with what all this moisture’s been doing to my hair.
Unlike Sister Bruschetta — who has awesome natural curls that seem to thrive when there’s extra humidity in the air — I’m stuck with wavy(ish) hair that reacts unpredictably at best whenever there’s a greater than 10-percent chance of precipitation.
Katie and Sean met at her sister’s wedding 10 years ago, but nothing came of the meeting then. They met again while on a ski trip in New Hampshire in 2005 and have been together ever since. With their pooch Dexter (and the memory of their other beloved dog Mirna who recently passed), they treated friends and family to a sunny seaside ceremony at Sebasco Harbor Resort and a rocking reception with Bonerama, a funk band from New Orleans Sean has long followed at Jazzfest. J and Whitney did a fantastic job capturing the essence of the setting and the spirit of this fun occasion.
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Hi Ladies!
My name is Alyssa and I am so glad I found these boards because I’ve been going insane the past few months. My boyfriend and I have been together almost seven years, and we picked out THE ring in March. I have been going NUTS waiting for it. My question is, for those of you who are waiting, or have waited, have you ever totally thought, ‘this is it!’ and then he did something like tie his shoe or stretch? On my birthday weekend, my man and I were in Chicago (my hometown) and I was sitting on a bench in Millennium Park, surrounded by blooming tulips. He got down on one knee - my heart fluttered - and then he tied his shoe. Haha! This also happened in an episode of The Office. Anybody else having all these false hopes? I find myself thinking, ‘What if he does it while I’m in the shower? Or, he could put it in my Diet Coke!’ I’m just making up all these crazy scenarios because I want it to happen so bad.
So, what “I thought he was gonna propose!” moments did you have?
SweetheartDealer
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Dear Mr. Bunny,
Right now I am sitting in my parents’ kitchen getting my hair done. You might be surprised to hear this, but I didn’t have any trouble sleeping last night (once I actually got into bed, of course). We’re actually doing this. We’re actually getting married today!
There were so many times when neither of us was sure this would actually happen. But you know what? With every doubt and every uncertainty, you were there standing by my side, holding my hand. And knowing that you’ll keep on being there that same way after we’re married is one of the many reasons why I’ll say ’I do,’ today.
I’m so glad I get to spend the rest of my life with you!
Love,
Miss Bunny
P.S. Thank you, hive, for being there for these final weeks as I stressed and planned and stressed some more! Weddingbee saw me through the whole engagement process. It wouldn’t have been the same without you!
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The summer is flying by and our wedding is quickly approaching. I feel as though I’ve barely gotten anything nailed down due to both financial issues, and being so “on the go”. I recently finished one internship and will be moving on to my next come Monday (after some good old fashioned 4th of July fun!). In between, I came back home for 3 weeks to pick up some shifts at work and replenish my bank account since, well, internships are basically slavery (see video below).
So what does this all have to do with our wedding?
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Going along with my ever-present theme of changing my mind about every possible wedding-related detail, I did the unthinkable and changed plans on my bridesmaids after I’d already asked them to buy their dresses. Before you think I’m a horrible person, please hear me out!
I had originally been planning a pomegranate and gold color scheme, and I found these cute, classic pomegranate-colored dresses (called vintage burgundy) on the J.Crew website.
I thought the color was perfect and the shape would flatter all my ’maids. I was excited to cross something off my to-do list, as the wedding planning was feeling pretty overwhelming at this point.
As the planning progressed, an English garden, vintage-y theme began to emerge and, along with it, a new color scheme:
Reader t-blaz brought in something cool and unique for wedding favors - a machine that makes souvenir pennies!
Keep on loading your inspirational wedding pics to the gallery to see them featured here on the blog! Remember, your images must be under 1MB in size, or they won’t load.
Any and every bride that is on the web has run across at least one or two pictures from mrs.pootiekins‘ beautiful wedding. I don’t know when or how, but I fell onto her wedding bio very early on in my planning process (you can also drool over her planning bio here). I must admit, like many other brides to be, I was in L-O-V-E!
This was also the first time I had really noticed any bride wearing a hair flower.
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Hellllllo gorgeous! I NEEDED one!
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Well hive, we’re back! Officially Mr. and Mrs. Yorkie now for 19 days, with the honeymoon behind us, we’re just beginning to settle into married life. The wedding went beautifully (it was a Plan A day!) and even featured a few surprises, like thunder rolling overhead during Mr. Y’s vows to add a little emphasis.
The 4th of July is may favorite holiday! Yep, more than Christmas and more than my birthday, I LOVE the 4th of July. Why? I really can’t describe it, but I love BBQs and I LOVE LOVE LOVE fireworks. The 4th of July just makes me happy.
When Mr Frenchie proposed, I immediately told him I wanted to get married on the 4th of July. What luck, the year we’re getting married my favorite day happens to fall on a Saturday, the most common wedding day of the week. I had already fallen in love with an inspiration board on Style Me Pretty.
As you know my wedding is not this weekend. *le sigh*
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While my plans for dressing up the dinner tables are slowly coming together (thanks to you guys! 
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Since our venue doesn’t allow open flames, I plan on filling our mason jars with pretty vegetables and flowers. I’d love to have that glow-y effect of the flickering candlelight behind aqua glass, but it’s just not in the cards. I need the aqua jars, though. Need them.
Seeing as how I’m a whole hemisphere away from my venue (and my family), I can’t exactly troll through antique stores and Goodwill at my leisure.
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Mrs. Cupcake incorporated oodles of various cut glass bowls and glasses in to her centerpieces. Mrs. Cherry Pie used mismatched mason jars and cans at her beautiful rustic Montana wedding (which I had the privilege of attending). Miss Bunny used stuff she already owns to create wonderful wedding day decor. These ladies (and many others) created amazing ambiance by hitting garage sales, asking relatives, looking through their attics, and otherwise exercising their bargaining muscles. Heck, Miss Joey is a Craigslist pro!
If you’re taking a casual or laid-back attitude toward your wedding theme (and not everything has to match), have you been taking advantage of thrift shops?
From the time I went to college, I’ve been a big fan of garage sales, thrifting, eBay, and even dumpster diving. Only within the past year did I buy any new furniture; up until then almost everything I owned was used. I have many depression glass bowls and candle holders, ’70s-era wall hangings, and cute little tchotchkes that I’ve picked up over the years… each for under $5. My kitchen mixer cost me $3.49 at a garage sale, my utility shelves are someone’s discarded Target closet-system, and I found my ironing board in the alley behind a former apartment.
I find that thrift stores usually have a mixture of “garage-sale” and “grandma’s-house” stuff. Just think of some of the “shabby chic” centerpieces you could make with some of these previously-loved treasures.
For a couple of who loves to read: mismatched ornate reading lamps and stacks of old books on each table at the reception. You could just cut the cords off of the lamps, turn them in to votive-holders, and even paint the table numbers on the lamp shades. You could find books that match a common theme (example: romances, cookbooks, or travel guides), or simply books whose bindings match your color theme.
One thing about planning a wedding in a place that you are not currently in is that you have to travel a lot. I just counted, and between the beginning of May and the wedding in September, we will have traveled to the UP eight times. EIGHT! Multiply that by 5 hours each way, and you have 80 hours of driving. That is a lot of hours spent in the car my friends, and that doesn’t even include trips to other places during that time period. No bueno.
I shouldn’t complain. I’ll admit, I’m not typically the person driving. The boy usually drives and I find things to do to occupy the time. Things like picking potential songs for the ceremony. Things like entering our entire guest list into our table planning software. Things like figuring out who all needs to be at our rehearsal dinner. Oh, and things like choosing our wedding party. Yep, that was done in the car too!
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