Weddingbee Blog

After the ceremony we loaded up in our super-sized limo with our wedding party and fabulous photographers to go have some fun. We had allowed about 2 1/2 hours for pictures and chose locations very close to the church and reception, so it was a really laid back and fun time.

My first job as a wife? Making sure Mr. S’s shoelace was tied!

Our first photo stop was Lindberg Park in Oak Park. We had scoped it out the week before the wedding and I loved the garden of prairie grasses with a path winding through it.
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I was feeling so proud of myself for finally posting my flowers. I have been on the project for months now, but somehow posting about it feels like copyrighting the idea or something.

That was until I opened this issue of Martha Stewart Weddings.

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FMIL Pudding bought me a subscription when Mr. P and I first got engaged, and I love getting inspiration from the magazine.

In this issue, however, Martha not only steals my idea (which was inspired by her in the first place, but whatever!), she does it soooo much better than me!
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The day after I finished my dress for our legal ceremony, I went to Michaels for the first time, which was pretty awesome. I got all of the supplies I needed for the project I had in mind to give our guests at our legal ceremony (stay tuned, because that’s my next post).

That same day, Mr. Poodle and I decided to invite his family for dinner at our house for the first time. It was funny because we don’t really have a lot of things in our kitchen. We definitely didn’t have a big enough pot to cook in for the 9 of us, so we had to ask FMIL if we could borrow several things.

Once the family started to arrive, we noticed TONS of gifts! Mr. Poodle’s aunt and uncle decided to give us our wedding presents now, because they know we don’t really have stuff in our kitchen and they didn’t want  us to have to wait until the actual wedding.

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On most wedding decisions I haven’t been wishy-washy. OK with one exception—bridesmaid dresses. I wanted each girl to pick a dress from Dessy in the color assigned to her. At first I wanted solid dresses. Dessy has a lot of dresses where you can have an accent color and I got seduced by the idea of tying the different colored dresses together with a common accent. So, it became colored dresses with grey accents, then colored dresses with colored accents, then grey dresses with colored accents. Somewhere in there I entertained the idea of black dresses with colored accents.

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If I were one of my bridesmaids I would have smacked me.

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Date: September 12, 2009
City, State: Finger Lakes Region, New York
Budget: $13,057.63
# of Guests: 156 invited, 120 attended

We originally thought we might be able to do an $8,000 wedding, but after doing a little research and committing to a church wedding, we realized we needed to bump it up. We decided on $13,057.63 by budgeting out each individual piece, rather than the entire wedding as a whole. Since we already knew how much some stuff would cost when we made our budget we came up with a very specific number, instead of a round one.

We saved in a lot of areas, but the biggest savings for us was probably the catering. It was done by a local grocery store (Wegmans). We splurged a bit on the ceremony and paid a lot of fees to the Church and for music. Our parents also contributed around $2,400 and the bride’s sister and BIL paid for the champagne. We kept what they paid for in the budget to portray the real costs of this wedding, even though we ended up paying less due to their contributions.

Wedding Day Costs
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If I’m remembering correctly, we decided on the colors of our wedding first. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe it was because it seemed like an easy thing to cross off the to-do list. It started with a simple concept: his favorite color is green and my favorite color is purple (basically, just like Miss Poodle!). Easy enough, right? Ha. I soon found out that there are about 50 million different shades of purple and green, and I got really caught up in the nitty gritty of the exact shades to fit the vision of our day.

Doing some research (the knot, an unending supply of wedding magazines), I realized that purple was quickly becoming the shade for weddings (as evidenced by the many, many purple bees in the hive!). I felt a little bit unoriginal at first, but then I realized that I had pictured a purple wedding since I was a child (my favorite flowers are lilacs), and I felt better.

A lot of what I was seeing at first was eggplant and apple green, and I thought - this is it! Modern, elegant, not too girly… perfect.

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Halo Halo’s engagement pics celebrate a romantic autumn in Seattle.

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