Weddingbee Blog

Some of you may have read Mrs. Bee’s post about the craziest vendor response ever. It was totally nuts indeed, but my post isn’t to talk about crazy customer service emails. I thought it would be fun to explain why we needed the punch in the first place.

My friend C needed help with making her escort cards. She had a great idea but she needed a few hands to pull it off. About four of us agreed to help out on a specific day. When weeks passed and the stamp was nowhere in site, C panicked at the thought that she was going to have four helpers at her apartment with nothing much to help with. The stamp was a huge part of the escort cards and with the wedding date so close, it would have been difficult to reschedule another meet up.

In the end everything worked out great, even though it wasn’t exactly what we were looking to achieve.

The original stamp C had ordered was this one:

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While I love flowers passionately, I have always felt they are an unnaturally large expense at weddings. A good portion of any wedding budget can be sucked into this, and in the end, the flowers often go to waste.

With our own budget in mind, I have already reduced our centrepieces to include only a few blooms, if any. But then there are other elements, such as boutonnieres, bouquets and corsages to consider. I have always been determined to make these things myself, but I have to admit that time will be limited to make these with fresh flowers on the day of the wedding, or even the day before.

So I began researching alternatives for flowers… and look what I found.
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Once again, we’re back a month before the wedding — June 5, exactly four weeks before our wedding date! Because I was a newly chosen bee, I took advantage of the time I didn’t have to spend blogging in order to buckle down and get some things accomplished. First up: my dress.

I purchased my dress from Midwest chain Wendy’s Bridal on a whim.
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We picked up the Dude’s pants from the alterations place, and now his wedding day wardrobe is complete! The pants fit perfectly–worth every penny of the $75 alteration job. I wouldn’t have trusted those pants to just anyone, because the suit has serious sentimental value.

As a reminder, here’s what the pants looked like before.

And here’s how they look now.
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Some users have mentioned that it’s quite hard to get from Bumble bee status to Honey bee status (don’t I know it, I’ve been a Bumble bee for quite some time!), so we just added a new Bee Level… Buzzing bee, at 1750 posts!

Congrats to our new Buzzing bee: Mrs. Taffy!!

We’ll be adding a new bee level soon: Sugar bee, at 3750 posts. Mr. Bee and BIL Bee are hard at work to make that happen for us! For now, the new bee rankings are as follows:
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Thanks to Endless and Zappos, I am now the proud owner of six possible pairs of wedding shoes. I just lined them all up and started snapping photos so I could get a different view of how they look with my dress.

Please join me in a virtual shoe adventure!

Pair #1

These shoes are super cute, but they don’t have any sort of heel, which is bothering me more and more. A lot of the shoes I am finding are flats, but now that I have tried the flats on with the dress I am really thinking I need a bit of a heel.

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There’s no turning back now… it looks like Mr. S and I are really going to do this thing, and it’s time to get down to brass tacks… the “I do” kiss. The big one. The one all of our loved ones are going to see.

The scene from the “Wedding Singer” between Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler has been in the back of my mind for months. Remember? Drew’s character Julia was engaged to that awful way-too-’80s guy, and Julia’s sister was getting her to practice the church kiss with Sandler’s character Robbie.

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Not ringing a bell? Don’t worry, you can watch the scene and get up to speed - I’ll wait for you.
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I’ve shown you some details and our wedding day outfits but I really haven’t been sure where to go from there. I’m going to do this as a chronological story of the day because that’s the only thing that makes sense to me. I know it’s not a shocking revelation and I should have come to this a long time ago. I blame the heat for my slowness. My goal is to finish all our recaps before our one year wedding anniversary (which is in 24 days!) though, so you’re gonna be getting a whole lot o’ Margarita in the next few weeks.

As, usual the day started out getting pretty with my lovely family, bridal party and friends. There were a lot of people, but luckily the bridal suite was massive, so everyone got ready in the huge dining/living room area and I got to have my own space in the bedroom. I was full of anxiety the morning of the wedding. I just knew we were going to be late no matter what time we started getting ready (of course, we were). Mr. Margarita’s family is incredibly punctual and usually 5 minutes early for things. My family is all scatterbrained and crazy and runs a minimum of 30 minutes late for everything.

On top of that, I think many brides must feel anxiety for a bunch of different reasons and I felt like there were a million things I was forgetting. My control freak nature was having a hard time leaving all the details to our coordinator. Of course, our fantabulous wedding coordinator Mary Sushinski orchestrated everything beautifully but it didn’t stop me from holding this coffee with a ninja death grip. Actually, it looks like a peaceful picture, but that’s not how I remember it…

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Congratulations to the winner, suzanne1880!

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Papeterie is known for their elegant and affordable designs, and today they’re giving away a $200 gift certificate that you can use towards save the dates, invitations, programs, place cards, menus, tags, thank you cards, and more!

To enter, let us know what you would purchase with your $200 gift certificate. You have until midnight PST tonight to enter. Good luck!

So, I have already posted on our embossed Escort Cards and our perfectly quoted chocolate. Now, it’s time to show you two more projects I finished the week of the wedding: Our programs and menus.

First up, the programs. Since we were having an interfaith wedding I wanted to make sure that all of our guests understood the various components of our wedding. I also knew that I wanted to make the programs short and sweet.

The good news was that I had purchased about six packets of PaperSource’s Eco-White #10 Note Cards at 50% off around the holidays. So at about $2.25 for 25 note cards, the whole project cost about 5 bucks. (I think for 60 guests, I made about 45-ish programs.)

Before I printed them, I also ran them by our Rabbi to make sure he approved. He loved them.

Here’s the wording:

Love.

Friends and Family, Thank you for joining us on our wedding day. We hope our inter-faith ceremony is a harmonious mix of both of our backgrounds.
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Mama Quiche is my best friend (in addition to Mr. Q, of course!), so there was no doubt that she would take part in walking me down the aisle. I’ve known Stepdad Quiche (hereafter referred to as Petey Quiche, because it’s more fun) since I was a lanky teenager, running cross country. Yes, my mom married my cross country coach. He has made her very happy, and is always looking out for us Quichey women! I was honored to have him walk me down the aisle as well (& he may or may not have cried when I asked him, but SHH! Don’t tell him I told you that!).

What’s that you see in the first picture? Does the veil attack Petey Quiche this time? I think it did!
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Have you ever had one of those moments during wedding planning when you want to just squeal and do the happy dance because you are so excited? Well, I often have those moments whenever I meet with our amazing florist, LaVonne from Adorations.

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During this wedding experience, I’ve told you how important it is that I can trust our team that is helping us  make the day happen.
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So, a few months into wedding planning, Mr. Lightning and I had this elaborate bird theme for our wedding. We were quite convinced that this was a great, innovative idea that we could tie into all the decorative elements. We were so convinced that we purchased 10 birdcages that happened to be on sale, an indicator to us that this was meant to be.

Fast forward a few weeks, and we were quite sure this was a huge mistake.
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Samisomsam and her fiance put words into pictures during their engagement pic session!

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.

You’ve heard bees rave about Gilt Groupe and its unbelievable sample sales for some time now. It’s where I scored my precious pink Kate Spade peep toes and where Mrs. Hot Cocoa found her incredible Badgley Mischka rehearsal dinner dress. Scanning the site’s sales is part of my daily routine!

Well, you can imagine my delight when the announcement of Gilt Fuse arrived in my e-mail recently! The new site promises women a wider range of styles from designers that we know and love at much lower prices. That’s sweet music to this budget-conscious girl’s ears!
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