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Screeeech - My recaps are a bit out of order! Before we get to the wedding I want to share our rehearsal and a gathering at my folks’ house! I hope you’ll hang in there with me just a bit longer!

It was the day before our wedding. I woke up with 101 things to do, as you may have guessed from my previous post. One thing that wasn’t mentioned was that among my already scheduled appointments and to-dos, I found out I had to completely redo our seating chart. With no time to do this, I ended up fixing our seating chart in the car on the way to our rehearsal dinner, which was scheduled for 4:30PM.
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This invitation suite we just did with our fabulous retailer, The Dandelion Patch, came out so pretty I had to share. The bride chose the Vintage Romance collection from the Letterpress Album and customized the design with her color palette of Champagne and Blush.

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The way I see it, damask is the undisputed champion of weddings these days. Wedding blogs are full of inspiration for the “damask bride”. I have to admit, I love the idea of damask. It’s romantic, it provides a theme and central focus to the wedding, and gives texture to the decor. However, I had a problem with jumping on this bandwagon. I really wanted to find a theme that had a similar feel, but was a little bit more unique.

After deciding on the ivory and navy blue colour scheme, I began searching for inspiration. I had this idea in my head to find striped table cloths. I didn’t manage to find any, but I did find this:

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This is Toile de Jouy, and according to wikipedia:
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Getting to and from another country and then all around said country is not always an easy feat. It requires a lot of planning, a whole heaping helping of patience, and is often one of the largest vacation budget items, behind lodging and food.

Over the course of two weeks, The Stars utilized just about every method of transportation possible. But don’t worry, we documented it so you would know what we were getting into.

This is on the train to Newark airport from NYC. We weren’t even an hour into our honeymoon and Mr. Star was busting out the crazy faces. Transportation count: 1.

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I’ve got opinions… lots of them. I also fancy myself a creative-type. That’s all well and good, but Mr Pretzel has the same characteristics. This really hasn’t been a problem… until wedding planning, more specifically, the save the dates.

Mr Pretzel and I decided very early on that we wanted to design all of our paper products ourselves. I was excited because Mr P was a computer graphics major in college, so I knew I would have some help in this department. Little did I know that the design process would thrust us into the biggest head-butting competition of our relationship. It might sound funny, but even though we are both opinionated people, we don’t argue much. When we talked about inspiration, we were on the same page. We both wanted our Save the Dates to have a “rock ‘n’ roll poster” feel to them. The problem came in articulating the vision that that term brought to mind.

I am a get things on paper kind of girl. As soon as I have an idea, I boot up Photoshop and try to get my idea from my head to the screen. Mr P looked at my first mock up and said, “I don’t like it.” I asked him what he was thinking of, and he said, “a punk poster with bright paper and black text,” and I said, “no freakin’ way.” We talked a little more and I tried to incorporate his ideas a second time. “Nah I don’t like that either.”

After a minor blow up, I got him to sketch on paper what he was envisioning. This is what he drew.
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Mel0463 is selling 215 gold charger plates from Pier 1 Imports. The plates are 13.5 inches in diameter. Due to the heaviness and fragility of the plates, pick-up in the Metro Detroit are is preferred.

She’s asking $400.

Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee classifieds and you might see it featured on the blog!

Other great items for sale:

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When I started wedding planning, I had all these dreams of making my own tablecloths, napkins, bridesmaids’ dresses, fabric draping, and centerpieces. A lack of sewing skills caused the fabric-related DIYs to fall away, but I was still determined to add a homemade touch to the centerpieces.

So I went and bought 50 vases, all of which have been sitting in my basement, waiting to be personalized and Parfait-ized. And here’s what I plan to do with them!

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Today we’re welcoming our newest doggie bee—Miss Spaniel! She’s planning a multicultural wedding in Southern California, and we can’t wait to hear of all the details! Say hello to Miss Spaniel!

Miss Spaniel, Los Angeles
Age & Occupation: 28, Law Student
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 29, Psychologist
Wedding Date: March 2010
Venue: Calamigos Ranch
About Me: I’m a third-year law student trying to balance graduating with starting my career, keeping up a relationship, and, oh yeah, planning an Old World, multi-cultural, “mountain lodge” wedding for 180 guests! A South Asian Jewish girl getting ready to marry my handsome Catholic Dane, I’m hoping to blend our cultures in our wedding just a bit more gently than by providing samosas as appetizers and offering æbleskiver for dessert. (Although that would also be awesome.)

We had our second engagement shoot while we were in San Francisco for Cousin Ramen’s August wedding. Sister Ramen has a natural eye for photography, so we borrowed our uncle’s SLR and took some photos around the Academy of Science and the DeYoung Museum. It was a super cold August day, but we braved the frigid San Franciscan weather and got some amazing shots! Cousin Fishcake and little Cousin mini-BM came along to help direct poses and hold purses/coats. It was actually really fun, even if my freshly-shaved leg hairs ended up growing 2 inches in the cold.

We stopped by the Ferry building beforehand and spontaneously picked up a couple bunches of dahlias from some street vendors and made a little bouquet to use as a prop. This little impromptu bouquet actually came in handy as one of the buttons on my dress popped off (too much good food in SF, I guess!), and I was able to use it to prevent any over-exposure! Either way, I was glad I got to have pictures with some pretty dahlias since we won’t be using them in the wedding.

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I think it’s safe to say everyone loves the Martha Stewart Weddings magazine, ya? I was looking at the current fall issue online and found this picture, which I am beyond in love with and had to share…

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OK, I confess, there’s an ulterior motive for posting this picture. Not only is it a beautiful shot, but that pretty little red-headed lady sitting there is my Maid of Honor!

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What are your favorite things to do together/hobbies you both enjoy together?

Mrs. Bunny - We’re both reporters, so we talk about work a lot, but that’s not really a hobby. Together, we enjoy watching movies and, um… playing Magic: The Gathering.

Now, don’t judge my geekiness before you hear me out. Mr. Bunny has been playing since the fifth grade, but was on a break from it when we got together. Then he and an old friend moved in together and each rekindled the other’s interest in the game … and they talked me into learning how to play.

I only play with him every once in a while because I like to use my spending money on other things, but it’s nice that we have a hobby that we both enjoy and can do together on the occasional Friday night.

We’ll also go out to karaoke every once in awhile. We both LOVE to sing!
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All eyes were on Yogigal in her dramatic Amsale halter gown.

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After we got engaged, it was time to plan our civil ceremony, or our “Engagement Party” as we liked to refer to it. We had to get legally married to begin the immigration process, which we wanted to start ASAP. It was really important to us (or rather me) that we have a big and beautiful Catholic wedding, and it was just not possible to plan the type of wedding that I (we) wanted in a short amount of time. So, we decided to have a civil ceremony first, and then the wedding of my dreams at a later date. Also, we wanted to make sure that our first days and weeks as newlyweds were spent together, which would not have been possible if we didn’t have a civil marriage first. So, we got to planning!
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Around 5:30 the night before the wedding, we all started to congregate inside of Winter Park’s Hernando’s Pizza Pub, the site of the rehearsal dinner Mama and Papa CB were throwing us. This was the first time the bridesmaids, groomsmen, and families really got together since we decided that we weren’t going to have a rehearsal.

All photos by Amanda Wilson unless otherwise noted

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We were recently at a wedding and my future-mewether-in-law lamented that the traditional farewell toss was not bestowed on the couple. I was glad to tell her that we had one planned for our exit from the church. While other brides before me have debated the nature and material of their tosses (two of my favorites being Mrs. Kitten’s lavender and Mrs. Caterpillar’s petal cones), I had one choice due to the contract with our church: bird seed. Amazingly, it fit perfectly with our wedding - traditional, yet fun.

At first, I was set on sewing glassine envelopes with our monogram (a la Mint, the design blog). After researching the costs of envelopes or being faced with the task of cutting sheets of vellum, I resorted to pre-cut tulle rounds. I still wanted to personalize them a bit and so I decided to print out hang tags. I unoriginally chose “For the Love Birds”. Despite the lack of creativity, I think they turned out just swell. Feel free to follow my little DIY to make your own birdseed toss packets.

Supplies:
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