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No bones about it. I love cake. Love it. If I could eat cake every day and not risk tripling in size, I’d do it. As I said before, we hired crazy talented Wendy Kromer to do our wedding cake (YAY!), and I just got an email from her telling me we’ll get started on the design in a week or two. I can’t wait! I constantly keep my eyes out for beautiful cakes around the ‘net to keep and drool over as inspiration. Thanks to the slew of wedding blogs out there, I’ve come across some real beauties! Here are a few talented bakers and beautiful cakes that caught my eye.
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When I first found out we bees were going to continue the “Honeymoon In My Hometown” series, I was not planning to contribute. It’s not exactly romance-central. But I eventually decided to give it a chance. At the very least, upon finishing this post you’ll know a lot more about Grand Forks than most of your friends do! (Heck, I’ve spent 18 years of my life in this area and I learned a lot while writing it!) There’s also the fact that Grand Forks isn’t really my “hometown”. My family moved a lot when I was young, so I don’t really have a hometown. I own a house in Grand Forks, so my hometown it becomes.
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With a little more than a month left to go, you would think I would be taking projects off of my list at this point. Instead, I added one on. Uninspired when it came to designing our programs and sick of teal taffeta table runners being the only sewing I’ve done in months, I decided to make a simple garter to wear on the wedding day.
Every once in a while (or, if you’re like me lately, every few days) a time comes in a person’s life when splurging is simply the requirement of the day. Your day’s splurge might be thanks to the blues, a celebration, hormones, boredom, entertaining, or any number of worthy (or unworthy) reasons…. but if you’re going to do it, you wanna do it up RIGHT.
Periodically, I happen upon a splurge so good that I want to share it here, but then I think to myself: ;Self, this is not a healthy recipe! What will all the readers who look to you as a good example of fitness and diet savvy think?; But after a few recent splurges too-good-to-withhold, I have decided that from time to time, I’ll share a favorite naughty recipe with y’all - because you deserve it! I mean, why should you suffer because of my guilt? It’s just too delicious to be nutritious!
To kick it off - my newest obsession….
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I love hair flowers, but I never had an excuse to wear one until I started planning the wedding. 
I’ve been dreaming about having a cute hair flower since I was like 15 years old, along with making my dress hehe.
My first option was a clay hair flower, because I’m in love with clay ever since I started making the flowers for my bouquet.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped me figure out what on earth to do with my head. I ended up going for a blend of the inspiration photos. At first we tried to give the style a bit of texture on the sides, but neither of us were too wild about it.
Then we slicked the front back and gave the bun/chignon part more texture.
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I have never felt so grateful to have only one sibling in my entire life, because marrying off a family member is exhausting! I am sure it was much more so for my mother who outdid herself on the DIY details of this wedding. But Sistacado looked beautiful, and they both were so happy, and that is all I have ever wished for her.
I know it’s a bit unusual for someone to “recap” the weddings of their sibling, but I think you’re going to agree that it would be a good idea in this case because of the amount of unbelievably awesome DIY details my mom and sister came up with! I have a few iPhone shots I took throughout the day to act as teasers for right now, and when Kelli Nicole (yes, Sisatacado loved Mrs. Avo’s photos so much that she used the same photographer!) gives the photos back I’ll see if I can get my hands on them to share some of the inspirational details with all of you.
A bridesmaid with no updo experience did her hair (after a failed attempt to do her own) and she altered a strapless dress to make it temple ready. Can you believe those sleeves are built onto what was once a strapless dress? The pleats on the bottom and at the sleeves were her own design.
I’m fresh from my bridal shower/bachelorette weekend, and I can’t wait to share the fabulous details of the day and night! While I wait for my lovely bridesmaids to send some pictures my way, I thought I’d share the gifts I put together for the bridesmaids.
Mrs. Latte’s gifts for her bridesmaids had stuck in my head and I knew I wanted to do something similar… but lacking creativity, I decided not to reinvent the wheel and instead just take her idea (thank you, Mrs. Latte!).
Please don’t mind my awful photography… these weren’t completed until just before the shower, so I had to quickly snap some shots!
I bought these great gable boxes that were the perfect size, and using a handwriting font, printed out the “thank you” message onto card stock, which I then cut out using pinking shears and glued onto the boxes.
I must admit that I am currently a two dress bride (perhaps soon to be three, but that’s a different story for a different time). I happened to buy both of the dresses in one weekend, while my mom was in town visiting. I blame mother-daughter wedding shopping over-excitement energy. Long story short, I bought a brand new shiny, beaded, lacy monster of a dress and then decided (in the middle of the night) that it just wasn’t me. I am not a lacy, beady person, even if I think such things look amazing on just about everyone else. And the dress was really, really heavy! The next day, while browsing stores in Hollywood, we stumbled upon this during a 25% off sale. We walked out with dress number two. Unfortunately, I could not return the dress from the day before, so it is still hanging around our house while waiting for a good home.
You know that moment everyone talks about? The one where you slip into a gown and just know in your heart that it is the one you will wear on your wedding day? I never had that moment. Don’t get me wrong, I love the dress that I will be wearing, but it just didn’t happen in that magical way. At first I thought something was wrong with me, then I thought something was wrong with the dress, but ultimately I think that the feeling is different for everyone. I didn’t grow up dreaming about my wedding day, so of course I didn’t have a “dream dress” in mind!
Without further ado, my wedding gown:
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This question came up during my BeeTV segment on Saturday night: What wedding blogs do you read? To be honest, I’ve shied away from them. I felt like they were extremely beneficial when it came to figuring out what our overall theme would be and then using the blogs to find details we could incorporate. But once you start incorporating those details, you have to turn a blind eye or you’ll get overwhelmed. You’ll get confused. You’ll start re-doing or renovating your plans.
Ashley & Jamie’s Same Day Edit from Anguilla from Julie Hill on Vimeo.
I never really considered the idea of a videographer. We can’t afford one. I doubt we’d watch it very much. But, now, I’ve decided I may need to include this detail into our day.
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***Warning: If you are offended by photos of dead fish, please proceed no further***
‘Now wait a gosh darn minute,’ you may be thinking to yourself. ‘We’ve talked all about what the girls were doing the morning of the wedding. Where on earth were the guys?’ Well, wonder no more my friends, because pictures have surfaced of the elusive boys’ time on the morning of the wedding. And I am here to share them all with you. So where were the boys? On a boat. Fishing, smoking cigars, and drinking scotch. Yep, nothing says “it’s 8:30 in the morning” like scotch and cigars. Let me explain. My dad, ever the host, felt the need to arrange some sort of entertainment for interested peeps on the morning of the wedding. So, he chartered a boat and took Mr. Powder Puff, two groomsmen, my brother, and Sister Powder Puff’s boyfriend out on a fishing adventure.
A beautiful Michigan morning.
You’d never guess this post was about our invitations, would you?? I know it doesn’t sound very romantic, but bear with me! Since Mr. Sunbeam and I grew up together, we happen to have a few very special keepsakes - like a home video taken by FFIL Sunbeam. The video was taken during our Halloween parade and for about ten seconds, Mr Sunbeam is standing right behind me! I love watching that brief moment of two kids, who couldn’t care less about each other, clueless that they will be getting married 20 years later! He was a skeleton, and I was a clown.
You’re probably thinking, okay that’s cute and all, but this still doesn’t feel very wedding-y to me.
I know, I thought the same thing. That’s why when Mr Sunbeam started sketching our motif, I encouraged him to make it as un-Halloweeny as possible! We’re certainly not throwing a day of the dead wedding here. I think they turned out great, but you can be the judge! Here is the final suite:
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Since the Joey wedding is 5 days away (!!!!!!!), I don’t think I’ll be able to get pictures up of my AWESOME shower until I get back from the honeymoon. Just to give you a taste of the fun and creative presents, I want to share with you a picture of one of my gifts. Get ready to be impressed.
Hi. I’m Cheese and I once blogged here. And, much like many of my blogging buddies, I am now apologizing for dropping my once-breakneck recap frequency.
Frankly, I’m not sure what happened, though I think it’s a combination of factors. First, I have no idea how to write about something as personal as a ceremony and still make it interesting to people who aren’t me. That’s closer to the truth than it first seems: I wrote our ceremony with myself in mind and it was a bit too long and too rushed for everyone else, but I don’t care.
See, I struggle in this relationship thing. (Cue the laughing at such an obvious understatement.) And I know myself well enough to know that I will need words of wisdom and support and guidance to get me through the low times. So, I wrote our ceremony with that goal in mind: to get me through the rough times by reminding me why I was married, what being married meant, and what to do next. Literally.
My husband is not a words person; he’s more of an actions guy. We both knew that our ceremony wording mattered more to me than to anyone else, which gave me permission to be selfish. I am not good at selfish, but I’m glad I was.
Since then, we’ve had a few fights (more laughing at the inevitability of this fact), and I’ve thought of our ceremony, and of our vows, and of the faith our people have in us that we can make this work. I’ve remembered that we are bound together through rough times, we are supposed to ask for help, and we are guided through it all by our God and our people. See? It worked!
And finally, you all have been such sweethearts about my previous recaps that I’m feeling the pressure of writing something great. Our ceremony wasn’t nearly as emotional as the morning before or as funny as the reception afterward.
It was perfect, though. So, with your expectations hopefully lowered, I’ll go ahead and get this part recapped.
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After seeing her work in several of Miss Cowboy Boot’s posts — and on Weddingbee PRO — I eagerly reached out to Sarah Parrott hoping she could create our rehearsal dinner invitations.
I loved the crisp, clean, monochromatic style Sarah had used for her sister’s bridal shower invitations, and envisioned capturing this same look and feel with a Gocco design featuring one of our main wedding colors in combination with summer produce like oranges, peaches, grapes or plums.
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