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It may take a village to raise a child, but I’m pretty sure it took a village to make our wedding happen. The assistance and donations of dear friends warms my heart to this day.
The Gift of Joy: Mrs. Tulip kindly sent me a package of hankies from her wedding, along with a very sweet card. I used these as she did, displaying them at the ceremony for people to take. There were so many I was able to select the blue/purple ones to fit the color scheme. I’ll include the final product in my details post.
Remember how I said that after we let go of our first photographer we were lucky enough to find another amazing photog with our wedding date available? Well, that is not exactly the entire truth. The truth is that the amazingly talented photographer only had our date open because prior to us hiring her, she was going to be our guest! Jessica Oriole Salay of Oriole Photography is a good friend and sorority sister of mine and I have been obsessed with her work since we lived across the hall from each other in the dorms as freshman. I know, I know, I should have hired her from the start but after standing by her hubby through multiple deployments (who doesn’t love an Army wife?) and having an adorable baby boy, she and her family finally settled back in Richmond and she officially opened up shop at Oriole Photography a few months AFTER we hired photographer number one. That’s what I get for being impatient!!
Fast forward to less than two months before the big day. I had the break up talk with our original photographer, hired Jessica, and set a date to have a far more successful engagement shoot than the first. We had canceled a few times because of weather or Mr. Cloud’s crazy scheduling issues, so even though it was raining on and off all day I was determined to get the pictures done—even to the point of risking frizzy hair! Lucky for us, Jessica was down and tramped around downtown Richmond with us to get some amazing shots!
Getting married a few months after Christmas is awesome. When someone asked me what we might like for Christmas, I just said, “Well, you can always get something for us off of our registry.” And several of our family members decided to do just that.
I haven’t talked about our registry experience yet, but I’ll save that for another post. What I will say though, is that we chose to register at Crate and Barrel and Amazon. Amazon lets you add things from any website through their universal registry program, which I love! Oh, and Mr. Fro Yo really didn’t do much of the registering, so he was really surprised when he opened up the gifts. 
Do you want to see what we got?
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I gotta admit, I just can’t get it up for cuff links. They’re one of those things I just don’t get. They hold shirt cuffs together? Isn’t that what buttons do? Mr. Potato Head had to explain that they’re like shirt jewelry, in lieu of buttons. Ohhh like a broach! A BRO-broach! So to jazz up Mr. PH’s yet-to-be-determined wedding day ensemble, I gifted him with his very first pair for Christmas/anniversary/engagiversary (you like how I lump those all together?).
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All-Inclusion Invitation Suites
“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
OK hive, I’ll admit it… I am notorious for NOT making a New Year’s resolution. This is probably due to the fact that generally, people tend to make unattainable promises to themselves or make unrealistic goals (“I’m going to go to the gym EVERY DAY…” cough cough… yeah right! For a week!).
However, I wanted to take some time to make some “Wed”solutions this year (too cheesy??), as our wedding day is swiftly approaching.
So, I’m publicly announcing to you all that I resolve to let go of the reins a little bit with the planning process.
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Our guestbook, that is!
Now, I may not be LeVar Burton, but I am Miss Rainbow and I’d like to think that my namesake’s connection to The Reading Rainbow has caused some of his book selecting magic to rub off on me—albeit only in the form of guestbooks—but I mean… that counts… right? Right? Anyone? Ooookay, moving on…
Early on in our wedding planning adventures, I was browsing Google and The Knot looking for guestbook ideas. Why I was even concerned with the guestbook so early on, I cannot tell you. But I was, and I blame it on Bride Brain. As a matter of fact, I now blame everything on Bride Brain. Let’s take a look-see…
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Today, I took some more glamour shots of my engagement ring because, well, because I felt like it. I’d never actually taken the time to sit down and do an only-engagement-ring set of pikchas, so it was long overdue. I also went non-traditional, which is pretty dang obvious. (And also not too surprising.)
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Although I don’t want to reveal our actual invitations until we send them out to our guests, that doesn’t mean I can’t show you some of the little details going into them!
Something I discovered on Weddingbee thanks (again) to Mrs. Lemon is Wilshire Graphic Press embossers. I loved the way the embossing looked on her envelopes and knew that was how I wanted to do the return addresses on our invitations. I don’t foresee the post office needing to use our return address as we have verified the addresses for all our guests, but just in case, I did some research and have heard that for the most part people don’t have a problem when they mail something with an embossed return address. Onward it is!
(Wilshire embosser models)
Northwestgirl19 is selling 20 green table squares. The moss green squares measure approximately 18″ x 18″ and are perfect under centerpieces. She’s asking $35 plus shipping for all.
She’s also selling the table numbers (pictured below). She has double-sided numbers, 1-16, and is asking $10 plus shipping for all.
Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee classifieds and you might see it featured on the blog!
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Once we decided on the Wyndham Sugar Bay, it was time to get down to the wedding nitty-gritty. The Wyndham Sugar Bay (or WSB as I’ll call it from now on ’cause I’m lazy like that) offered 3 wedding package options on their website, complete with pricing which was really nice because we didn’t have any surprises in the end (or at least not up to this point, fingers crossed!).
Let me say, it was VERY overwhelming when I first looked at all of it, but after taking a few days to soak it all in and really truly look at it all, I decided to do a little math (with a spreadsheet, of course!). The contracts that Brian, the wedding coordinator, aka the Romance Specialist, (ha, I love that that’s his title) emailed to me had a breakdown in price of what each individual aspect would cost if paying a la carte. If added all up individually, the package prices were basically $50 cheaper than piecing it together ourselves.
When it came time to decide which of the 3 we were going to pick, we chose the Ultimate Romance in Paradise, the priciest but most inclusive.
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I have the world’s best ladies serving as my bridesmaids on my big day. I really wanted their gifts to be special, but also practical; I tried hard to think of things they would enjoy not only on the wedding day, but also afterwards.
Alright Cheeseburger Maids - avert your eyes if you want to be surprised!
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It’s growing larger and more powerful everyday. I can’t stop it, I can’t control it—no one can, we can only try to limit its growth for as long as possible. Right now, it only occupies 1/4 of the room but there’s no telling how big it could become. There’s no weapon strong enough to defeat it. Shutting the door will only help for so long. It feeds on the burning desire of this bride for her wedding to be as beautiful as possible. Run for your lives, folks, the wedding crap is taking over!
Yes, it’s true, my old bedroom has officially become the storage room for all wedding decor and crafts. Thank goodness my parents are fine with storing everything there because if I had to keep it all in my little studio apartment, Mr Trail Mix and I would literally be tripping over things right and left. Don’t believe me? Take a look…
(Personal Photo)
As of now, we are not having dancing at our wedding. I love to dance, but Mr. Pug does not. I also feel like with 50-60 people, we can get away with the dinner-party vibe without dancing. Furthermore, I worry that with such a small group that there won’t be enough people to get the dance party going. So, I guess my mom will have to miss out on me breaking it down to “Push It” by Salt n Pepa.
But I want guests to be entertained by something other than just conversation with tablemates.
I love the photobooth idea, but renting a real one is out of our budget and I’m not even sure it will fit in the room. So I’m now seriously considering a faux photobooth/instant photo guestbook.
With a “faux-tobooth” (fxbooth), a photographer takes photos of your guests in a specific area, or guests can take pictures of themselves, sometimes with an interesting fabric backdrop and/or fun props.
(some of our favorite and, um, wacky bees)
It’s been another wonderful year here at Weddingbee! Sometimes it amazes me that I’ve read every single post that has gone up on the blog this past year. With about 25 posts a day on the weekdays, that’s at least 6000 posts! Over the course of the year there have been distinct trends that we’ve noticed, and we thought we’d take the time to share them as the year closes.
Rustic Chic
There has been a huge surge in barn and rustic weddings this year! The hive was brimming with rustic weddings (Mrs. Cowboy Boot’s, Mrs. Bunny’s, and Mrs. Espresso’s, to name a few), and 2009 was filled with beautiful receptions in nature!
OK, so we are all hoping to be beautiful and glowing on our wedding day, but really, who has lots of money for different treatments? Um…not me. Well, recently I heard of some different beautification techniques that are really cheap, and can be done with items you likely already have around your house. So, the problems I will tackle are under eye circles, puffiness, tightening of pores, softening of the skin, acne, environmental damage, and aging. Wow, that sounds like a hefty list, right? I hope the tips and tricks I have for you will be beneficial.
Here’s how I looked before all my beautification began:
First up: Acne, softening of the skin and tightening of pores via an Aspirin Mask.
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