Weddingbee Blog

Miss me? I swear I’m the worst bee… I didn’t mean for this to happen, but I now COMPLETELY understand why some bees disappear ~ 2 weeks prior to their weddings… I am exactly at that point (just under 2 weeks), and I’m a weeeeeee bit stressed.

So, let me make some excuses, like:

• Mr. Ramen and I just moved into our *new* apartment!!! This will be our first time living together, so we are suuuuuuuuuuper excited, and I can’t wait to play house with all of our new kitchen stuff. Since Mr. R is finishing up his internship/job in AZ, I am left to setup our new nest alone. It is a bit intimidating to weed out all of the old household hand-me-downs from my mom that I (and my sister) have used throughout college, to make room for all of our new registry toys! I’ve been packing up/moving/unpacking over the past week, in between classes and labs. Phew!
• I have 3 exams and 3 proficiencies to take by next Tuesday. It actually wouldn’t be so hectic IF I didn’t have to reschedule my exams and proficiencies for next week so I can try to RELAX before the wedding. Needless to say… school is keeping me a bit busy. Yes, I think my school is determined to kill me. They are currently winning.
• I had my Phoenix shower and my second bachelorette. Call it old age, or maybe I have no stamina, but all of these parties (which I loved and appreciated very much!) exhausted me. I can’t hang anymore.
• Wedding “crap”. This is the stuff that needs to get done, but keeps slipping through the cracks. I usually remember them while doing something else, which makes me go, “Crap! I still need to pay the florist!” etc.
• The usual “can’t do it until last minute” wedding stuff, e.g. reception seating, programs, gifts, last minute arrangements/rentals/payments, etc…

I actually hate giving excuses but I kinda just wanted to vent. And hopefully you won’t think I’m that huge of a slacker, still.

Anyways… this post is actually about, duh duh duhhhhhhhhhh…

Registry stalking.

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I do it. We all do it. Admit it. So, to begin with… registering was actually one of the most stressful things we’ve done. Crazy right? See, I have crazy amounts of gift guilt (which I’ve dealt with). I am the type of person who will never tell people what I want because I get guilty that they are spending money on me, so I just buy things for myself. The exception would be with Mr. Ramen, but of course. Anyways, that, and I always do tons of research when I buy appliances, SO…

I basically researched via Amazon reviews, consumerreports.org, and epinions.com. So I finished registering and… I dunno what prompted me to do this, but… one night… in the privacy of my own room, I looked up our registry, just *wondering* if anyone had bought us gifts yet.

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Someone had bought us our Cuisinart Brew Central coffeemaker from BBB. I excitedly called Mr. Ramen to share the good news. A few days later, our Silpats (I’m a baking enthusiast) were gone and I was hooked.

I tried to keep myself from checking it every day, so at first I limited myself to a little peek every few weeks. It was so hard to keep myself from stalking! I know! So… I finally got busy with school and forgot about it… until my shower when a few of my friends told me that I needed to ADD MORE stuff to my registries. Uhm, what? OKAY!

Since that point, it’s pretty much been a stalking free-for-all, especially when school gets rough. It cheers me up. I know, I know, so superficial! Shame . Anyways… at least I’m honest. It’s still cool, because even though I know WHAT we’re getting, I don’t know WHO we’re getting things from.

And in the past few weeks, the Ramens keep getting tons and tons of packages at our parents’ homes. Hehe. This Christmas is going to be the best (which means every Christmas afterwards will be less exciting, I guess?), since we will probably open all of our wedding gifts around that time. Woohoo!

This was my pre-Thanksgiving shipment. Apparently this is nothing compared to the stack that awaits us…

Am I the only stalker out there? Anyone else reveling in all of their new house goodies?