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The other night, six close girlfriends found time in their busy schedules to come together over cheesecake. While we stuffed our faces like our favorite Miami-based octogenarians, one friend—we’ll call her Sofia because she is both saucy and Italian—told us about a wedding she is a bridesmaid in next weekend.
Sofia loves her friend dearly, but she was frustrated by a level of thoughtlessness that had gone into the planning of the wedding.
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This is one item I thought we didn’t need. That was before wedding planning. After we picked out our cake, the baker offered to rent us a cake stand similar to this:
The catch? It was going to cost us $45 (for something I can’t keep?!? uh, no thanks). At first I was going to forgo one all together, but then I kept seeing pictures like this:
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Is it too early in the day for a little legal pun? Possibly. When the Mr. and I first got engaged we did a lot of research on possible venues in our area. We had a hard time finding one to fit the bill; we weren’t going to be inviting 350 people to our soiree, and the food and beverage minimums were a little more than what we had bargained for.
A lot of the venues in our area (like a lot of areas, I suspect) while beautiful, can be a tad on the pricey side. If we were swimming in piles of money a la Scrooge McDuck, however, we’d definitely be having our reception right on the lakefront in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Calatrava:
A look through the church door’s window at ke3’s ceremony.
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What strange things do you and your FI/husband have in common?
Mrs. Mary Jane - What a fun question! Mr. Mary Jane and I are a little quirky in a lot of ways. For example, we both love that ‘nasty’ fake butter they put on popcorn at the movies, to the point that we’ll go in to the theater and order the popcorn with “lots of super extra tons of butter”, and then bring it home and eat it as our supper. We both hate eggs almost as much as we hate mustard, and have a shared favorite Chinese restaurant — a hole-in-the-wall in the middle of nowhere, better than anywhere we’ve been in the country. Funny how all of the quirks I’m listing involve food. We like food, I guess!! We also grew up near the same very small town, yet somehow didn’t know each other (though one of my best friends was his childhood neighbor!) and met in a much larger city and purely coincidental situation. Because of our practically identical primary educations, we have grammatical quirks that are a result of the region. We’ll both say things like, “Are you taking that book with?”
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Woo hoo! We finally tried to outfit Mr. Fro Yo! I’ve had my dress choice squared away since June, so it was only fair that my Mr. finally figure out what he’s going to wear. But alas, I’m getting ahead of myself. We went to 2 different stores recently so that we could peruse the racks and racks of grey suits, and we came across some great contenders.
The first place we went was Joseph A. Bank. We were lured in by their advertising of buying one suit and getting a second for $99, and maybe a third for free? I’m not sure; they were running so many specials in there, but at least they had some good suits. The sales guy was kind of a lurker, which wasn’t all that helpful since he was just watching me pull out suits, even though I told him that we were interested in grey suits in size 44. Hmm… anyway, so while we were there, Mr. Fro Yo tried on 2 suits.
The first suit was a plain grey suit, but unfortunately I didn’t pull out my camera until he had his 2nd suit on.
The second had a thin pinstripe (sorry he’s not looking at the camera. He won’t be looking at the camera in any of them, and it’s not that I’m a bad photographer, he’s just being shy):
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I have a confession to make: I am hopelessly obsessed with all things ballet.
From Degas dancers (source)
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It’s about time I shared our bouts with you! I gave you a sneak peek of them when I was on Bee TV, and shared my inspiration here. A few weeks prior to the wedding I had not yet settled on the lace bouts, so I flipped through some choices with Mr. Sunbeam and I was surprised when he chose the lacy ones! Woot - lace theme! So during the last two weeks before the wedding, between the favor bags and bouts, I was sewing like a mad woman.
When we had finished taking pictures at the abandoned house and open field, we headed back to the venue to join our guests. Brian announced us as Mr. and Mrs. Espresso, and we made our way in!
I have theme addiction. It’s true. I thought about seeking help, for themes often conflict with practicality, and practicality is high up on my list. But before I go get myself fixed, I indulged in MOH-Ho’s sugary shower details. You’ve already seen my ’Sugar Spice Nice’ shower invites and I’ve also shown you the food and drinks dessert set up. Now I must confess that beyond the leftover labels and the special drink signs, there is more. Looking at all this pink makes me nauseous (I’m not a pink person, MOH-Ho is), and I apologize in advance if you also wanna throw up a little bit in your mouth. Okay, here we go.
For the cotton candy set up, homeboy will be making the fresh mini puffs with popsicle sticks instead of cones, and place them in pink cupcake liners for display in a cupcake pan. I made these little stickers for the popsi-sticks:
It’s been awhile, so let me reset the scene. We’re at the temple. Everything is looking gorgeous (if I do say so myself)!
You hear the soft sounds of Hawaiian music playing in the background.
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Hi my name is Sprinkle, I got married a month ago and I am finally ready to talk about it all! Let’s start with the honeymoon, move on to some budget goodness/nonsense, follow it up with another project or two, throw in some advice and then… well, by then I should have my pro photos and I can pop out some stellar wedding day recaps! The problem is, I have nothing to say and so much time! No, scratch that, reverse it…
I know that you all have just been dyinnnnng to know where we went on our honeymoon (well, I am sure you aren’t literally dying to know, but there has to be at least a few people who are still curious, right?!). So, here it is! Writing about the honeymoon was fun for me, and I hope it is for you to read as well.
Our honeymoon started out just like any other. Our flight was at midnight the day after the wedding, so we were able to sleep in as late as we wanted on Sunday, and use the rest of the time to straighten the house and pack. Our house was a disaster…
Dear Martha,
When I first met you, I thought you were a leeeeetle too fussy for my taste. I flipped through an issue of your mag and couldn’t find one thing that applied to my life. Martha, let’s be real here: I don’t know what a dust ruffle is. For me, milk goes directly from the plastic jug into my coffee and, ergo, into my belly. So, no, I don’t need a method of cleaning and arranging antique creamers. I don’t know why people call curtains “window treatments”, and I don’t understand the purpose of a wall sconce. Is a sconce like a scone? Can I put butter on it and eat it? If not, I am not interested. If I ever host a dinner party, I will proooobably not forage for fallen branches to arrange in milk glass jars, or dabble in dimmers. I’ve never been to an estate sale, and the perfect Sunday morning involves jammies, pancakes, and television, not antiquing.
Despite our disparate lifestyles and views of what constitutes a good party (me: keg, you: fruit kabobs in decorative vases), I have to say, I prefer your wedding magazine to all others. Your Winter 2009 issue was the source for many of our initial decisions, and I will forever adore your approach to non-matching bridesmaid dresses, which I recently emailed to my ladies for inspiration. How cool, elegant, and lovely.
Driving into work this morning, I caught two of the morning talk anchors discussing a friend of the female anchor. Evidently the female anchor (we’ll call her Lois) has a friend (we’ll call her Debbie). Lois and Debbie were at a wedding this weekend, talking and gossiping and the like. Debbie has been seeing the same guy for the past 6 months (we’ll call the guy Ted), and everything, according to Debbie, is going great. So great, in fact, that she gushes to Lois about how she’s already picked out, ordered, and has sitting in her apartment the wedding dress that she wants to wear when she marries Ted.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: maybe they’re already engaged? Or, maybe they’ve already been ring shopping? Maybe there’s a specific reason (i.e., armed forces deployment)? Um, nope, none of the above. Debbie has completely preempted any sort of proposal by Ted. Debbie claims that they’ve talked about getting married, but it’s been noncommittal, and nothing has been set in stone. There’s no date. No talk of an engagement ring (other than the one that Debbie has already picked out, and hasn’t yet told Ted about). No talk of even getting engaged.
I figured I would throw this out there as a bit of conversation fodder. What do you think of “Debbie’s” situation? Do you find it completely ridiculous (and perhaps a little bit bad luck) that she’s purchased her wedding gown to a guy she’s not even engaged to?
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