Mrs. Penguin, Northern California
Age and Occupation: 27, Weddingbee Editor in Chief
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Doctor of Physical Therapy
Engagement Date: January 29, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: September 14, 2007
Venue: Winery in the Gold Country
About Me: I love the Spice Girls, dogs with underbites, bean burritos, making messes, high fives, avoiding showers, crossword puzzles, blogs, weddings, and blogs about weddings!
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Here is the third installment of the Bee ornament exchange. The only parameters? The ornament had to be under $15. Check out the impressive bee creativity below!
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Mrs. Guinea Pig, Baltimore, MD
Age and Occupation: 26, PhD student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Operations Director at a non-profit
Engagement Date: December 25, 2008
Wedding Date: May 2010
Venue: The Chesapeake Bay Beach Club
About Me: I'm a tomboy science nerd whose girly side has made a startling appearance thanks to wedding planning! I love to bake, knit and sew but I also ride a motorcycle (that Mr. Guinea Pig wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole). We live with our three crazy cats and love to read, travel, watch movies, and do home improvement projects together! My parents/family are Canadian but I'm definitely American, although I've lived in 5 different countries, 6 different states, and speak Russian fluently. Mr. GP and I met online (did I mention I'm a scientist?) and had a whirlwind romance - now we can't wait to get married & celebrate with all our friends and family in a blue and yellow waterfront affair!
That was Mr. Guinea Pig’s response when I told him I wanted to make these:
(from the ever-so-crafty Martha Stewart)
I discovered this idea very early on in our engagement and the above photo made it into the very first wedding inspiration board I ever made. I absolutely love the warm glow these have, and the intricate patterns casting shadows on the bag.
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Mrs. French Fries, Milwaukee
Age and Occupation: 27, Paralegal
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Investments Advisor
Engagement Date: September 20, 2008
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: Ceremony: Catholic Church, Reception: Hotel Ballroom
About Me: I'm a Midwestern girl who longs to live in a warmer climate (my feet would be happy in flip flops any day!). I love travel, impromptu napping, grilled cheese sandwiches, my iPhone, singing with reckless abandon in my car, and Mr. French Fries.
“It’s beginning to look a lot like weddings… everywhere you go…”
We’re 110% into the holiday season — I know this because I willingly stood in line for over 45 minutes on Black Friday for a sweater for Mr. French Fries. This year, I have found that “wedding world”, unlike the United States Postal Service/banks/universities/my diet… doesn’t take the holidays off.
Wedding inspiration can come from anywhere — even your tree! Take this ornament from Pottery Barn for example:
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Mrs. Scissors, LaGrange, GA
Age and Occupation: 25, Photography & Graphic Design
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Engineering Grad Student
Engagement Date: January 1, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: Ceremony - First United Methodist Church; Reception - My parents' house!
About Me: I’m a six-foot-three bride with a fifty-foot personality! I love great art, fabulous design, intense color, tons of music, indie photography, watching movies on repeat, and being really awesome. This super-tall, Southern, loud, quirky, neurotic artist is marrying a German, quiet, silly, super-amazing roboticist in an eclectic, funky, fun, snazzy, technicolored June wedding. Anything is game for this shindig, for it is all about us! We’re bringing giant paper cranes, six-foot-tall portraits, fortune cookies, a photo booth, a club-circuit DJ, handcuffs, and possibly a kidnapping to this small Southern town. Watch out, y’all, and try to keep up!
In July, I found this post by Mrs. Candy Corn. She wrote about her ceremony reading—excerpts from Sandol Stoddard Warburg’s I Like You. By the end of the post, I was trying not to start boo-hooing. I thought it was sweet, lovely, and fit Mr. S and me perfectly. I added the book to my laundry list of things to get.
I looked for the book everywhere. Nobody had heard of it, and I think they thought I was batnuts crazy, to be honest. Why would I want this little ol’ children’s book written in 1965? I’d end up blabbering on about how fabulous it was, how I couldn’t read through the excerpts I’d read without crying, and other crazy things. I was a woman in love.
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Mrs. Nachos, Chicago/St. Thomas
Age and Occupation: 33, Commercial Real Estate & Hairstylist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 36, Radio Producer
Engagement Date: May 22, 2009
Wedding Date: April 2010
Venue: Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort, St. Thomas
About Me: I'm a happy, laid back city girl that can find the silver lining in any situation. An optimist at heart, my motto is to turn your "what ifs?" into "so whats!". My fiance is a radio producer and the biggest Cubs fan you'll meet - our apartment decor definitely shows it. He and I grew up next door to each other and because of it, we have the best home videos and easiest holiday dinners. We are planning an intimate wedding in the Virgin Islands and a cocktail party in June for 150 of our closest friends.
When I bought my dress and accessories, I had my hair up in a loose messy bun (pretty much my norm these days – 5:30AM workdays have killed my motivation to get up early and glam myself out). So when the saleslady put the flowers and veil in my hair, she stuck the veil underneath my poof.
I’m not sure what was going through my head, but I love my expression!
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Mrs. Sprinkle, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 26, Preschool Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Television Production/Writer
Engagement Date: December 24, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: The Marvimon House
About Me: I'm a Bay Area native trying to create a life for myself (and my fiance, and our three cats!) in the vast city of Los Angeles. I love vegan red velvet cupcakes, pilates ,and mid-century furniture. Mr. Sprinkle and I met when my band toured through his city (we bonded over cake and a mutual love of Morrissey) and we are getting married on the four year anniversary of our first date. When I am not teaching preschool (or blogging!) you can find me perfecting recipes, petting kittens, hiking in Griffith Park, and overusing exclamation points. We are planning a vegan, green-as-possible, DIY wedding, and I couldn't be more excited to share all of the details!
We had such a tiny wedding party that I didn’t really have any planned-out photos in mind. Luckily, our photographer did! We didn’t do anything too crazy, and although I long for a shot of all of our shoes together, I am extremely pleased with how these turned out.
You might recall that I had both Gina Sprinkle and Cory Sprinkle pick out their own outfits, and I think they both made perfect choices! The dresses looked beautiful on both ladies, and their shoes and other accessories were perfect, as well.
The first picture is one of my favorites, just because I love how our different hair colors look all lined up. I also think its hilarious that Gina S. looks so much taller than me… she was wearing some crazy high heels!
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Mrs. Cheeseburger, Baltimore, MD/State College, PA
Age and Occupation: 25, Medical Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Medical Student
Engagement Date: June 28, 2008
Wedding Date: March 2010
Venue: Catholic Church Ceremony & Hotel Reception
About Me: I'm a passionate girl from Pittsburgh, currently living in Baltimore for school, who loves Penn State, seeing movies, football, thunderstorms, black and white photos, Christmas, good beer, my amazing friends and family, and of course, my mister! We met, fell in love, got engaged, and will be married at our alma mater (go lions!) in a traditional Catholic ceremony followed by a hotel reception with lots of DIY details. It means so much to have our families and friends meet at our favorite place on earth to celebrate our love for one another - I truly couldn't ask for anything more!
So, I told you about the flower girl dresses and sashes, which I absolutely love! But, like many other details of wedding planning, I just have to make things more complicated. 
I’ve had a crazy idea since seeing this picture in Martha Stewart Weddings:
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Can you say gorgeous?! I fell instantly in love with this look, and while it was shown on a bride, I thought it would look equally awesome on the little ones.
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Mrs. Trail Mix, New York
Age and Occupation: 26, PE Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, MBA Student
Engagement Date: March 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: Tannery Pond at the Darrow School
About Me: I'm a country girl who somehow found herself living in the Big Apple and loving every minute of it. I'm planning a rustic, country-chic wedding in my hometown in upstate New York and it's going to be a Party with a capital P. White wine, flea markets and running keep me happy and my friends, family and fiance are my world. I'm a little bit crafty, a little bit crazy but mostly just crazy in love.
Although it’s cold and dreary outside, I need to start brainstorming pretty, summer inspirations for our Chuppah. In case you aren’t familiar with the term, a Chuppah is a canopy that Jewish couples are traditionally married under. It is supposed to represent the new home the couple is creating together. The lack of walls in the structure is meant to symbolize the welcoming of everyone into the home as well as the tradition of Tzedakah, or charity.
My grandmother has already offered to let me use her mother’s (my great-grandmother’s) lace tablecloth for the top of the Chuppah. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out how to work out the details of the structure. It has to be big enough that at least myself, Mr Trail Mix and our rabbi can all stand underneath it.
I know I want to keep it organic-looking and natural. It’s possible we will either stick the poles straight into the ground, but if it rains, then we will have to have the ceremony inside and I can’t really stick poles into a wood floor, so I need to think of an alternative. Oftentimes, the groomsmen or other important guys physically hold the four poles up, but I think I’d rather not do that because… well, you can imagine all the possible scenarios where that could go terribly, terribly wrong.
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Mrs. Rainbow, Tampa
Age and Occupation: 22, Makeup Artist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Electrical Engineer/Programmer
Engagement Date: November 27, 2008
Wedding Date: May 2010
Venue: The Gamble Plantation
About Me: I'm a quirky (and slightly Type-A) freelance makeup artist who was born in Washington State, raised in Alabama, and now living with my one and only in sunny Florida. I'm fashion and beauty obsessed, and have recently discovered my inner domestic diva extraordinaire. I'm a wannabe chef, decorating addict, and trying desperately to be as crafty as possible---albeit only with a glue gun. I'm hopelessly in love with my fiance, and all things sparkly and feathery. Despite the glittery exterior, I'm a total hippie on the inside. When I'm not making up pretty faces, I love doing what I can to help people, animals, and the environment. Someday the FI and I will change the world, but first we're tackling our modern-vintage-Marie-Antoinette-meets-Alice-in-Wonderland inspired wedding. I just can't wait to be Mrs. Rainbow!
One fine evening, I dragged Mr. Rainbow, against his will, to a bridal show. I was expecting Mr. Rainbow to loathe it, and I to love it. Needless to say, it didn’t work out quite as planned. Mr. Rainbow did, in fact, loathe it, but surprisingly, I did too. I really thought I would love all the bright weddingy frou frou-ness of it, but that was not the case.
I always thought that planning a wedding was kind of a like a not-so-secret society that, instead of a secret password or key card, you get a shiny new ring on your finger. You know, ohhh ahhh, exciting! Oh, how naive and void of WE TV’s “Bridezillas” I was back then. In the year we’ve been engaged, I have learned that while weddings are certainly exciting, the actual planning is not all sunshine and rainbows 24/7, oh no.
Anyway, back to the bridal show. After walking through to pits of hell, er… shiny French doors, I noticed what seemed like an endless sea of frantic, rabid looking women with their eyes popping out of their heads. Did I miss something? Did the swine flu vaccine have horrible zombie-like side effects, a la I Am Legend, Resident Evil, or any other zombie movie plot you can think of? Oh no… these women were… brace yourself… brides. The horror!
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Mrs. Pug, New York City/Half Moon Bay, CA
Age and Occupation: 33, Lawyer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, ditto
Engagement Date: July 2008
Wedding Date: March 2010
Venue: Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay
About Me: The Mr. and I are two 30-somethings who enjoy tasty sweets of all kinds, our neighborhood wine store, and cuddling with our pug. NYC is where we live and the city we love, but we’re doing the deed out in Northern California. We are trying to keep the affair small, intimate, and manageable. Our motto is: the less people, the better! (I’m kidding.)
December 16th, 2009 @ 3:17 pm by Mrs. Pug
Hee hee. I’m so clever. This is another post about our honeymoon, although I do the above as well.
As I mentioned, we’re going to Bali for our honeymoon. A few days at a beach-y place (I’m thinking Jimbaran Bay), and the rest of the time in Ubud, which is in the central area and known for allowing visitors to get a sense of Balinese culture with museums, marketplace, etc.
This is our honeymoon. There is hardly any other excuse in one’s life to do some serious splurging for our trip. So while our other vacations are filled with third-choice locations, we wanted to do this honeymoon proper.
Is this ridiculous? It’s a lot of money. Oh the guilt. *Pause*. OK, I’m over it.
In Jimbaran Bay, we have been considering several options for lodging. For 3 to 4-star places (this is our honeymoon, after all), there actually isn’t a huge selection. In general, you can get so much more for your money in Bali than you would at other places—like, way more than my booger-sized NYC apartment, and you also get flowers in the tub!
Having said that, one place that totally busts the you-get-more-for-what-you-pay rule is The Four Seasons:
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Mrs. Spaniel, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 28, Law Student
Fiance's Age and 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.)
With a major school assignment looming on the horizon and my dad’s flight departing the next morning, I found I was too pressed for time to do anything fancy with the invitations. So, I did the minimum necessary: RSVP information. If any of my Pakistani family does attend—unlikely, since travel visas are difficult to get and flights can be prohibitively expensive—they’ll at least know the address of the website where they can RSVP starting in January.
This may be the easiest DIY project ever, but what I did was open the PDF proof of the invite in Photoshop and cover all of the text and the bottom decorations with blank white boxes. After cropping the image down at the bottom, I resized to 1/4 sheet size and added new text. (The fonts don’t match perfectly since I didn’t want to purchase Shelley Allegro—I used Sheer Elegance—but I doubt even I, crazy bride lady, would have noticed the mismatch if I received one of these invites.)
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Mrs. Frozen Yogurt, Dallas
Age and Occupation: 28, Special Projects Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Equity Trader
Engagement Date: March 19, 2009
Wedding Date: April 2010
Venue: Marie Gabrielle, Dallas
About Me: I was born and raised in Texas, and have lived in several of the cities across the state, but I currently reside in Austin. I went to college in Boston and have a special place in my heart for the Northeast. I love reading, shopping, wine, reuniting with college friends that are scattered across the country, reality TV, trying out new recipes, and attempting all the DIY projects that come along with wedding planning. I'm a "bleeding heart, save the world type" and thankfully my job allows me to work on legislation and policy to help out those in need. I met Mr. Frozen Yogurt in a bar, though he doesn't even drink! And now we are planning a modern yet vintage wedding in Dallas while dealing with the trials and tribulations of first time homeownership.
We all want white teeth for our weddings, right? Well, since I’m signed up for god knows how many different discount websites (Gilt Groupe, HauteLook, Ideeli, etc.), I constantly get emails about discounted products, clothing and jewelry. Most of them are great, but sometimes they are still out of my price range.
However, recently HauteLook had a sale on the Go Smile teeth whitening kit (I think they’re doing it again this week). I got 2 of them (one for me, one for Mr. Fro Yo) for super cheap! Now, I’d never used this before, but I’d seen it at Sephora, and I usually love their products.
The box arrived and it looked like this:
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Then I opened it up and saw all of these:
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Weddingbee Gallery
Feature Launched: April 10, 2009
About: A collection of inspirational wedding pictures from readers and bees.
A cheerful combination of reds, pinks and oranges pops against NixLapi’s white gown.
Keep on loading your inspirational wedding pics to the gallery to see them featured here on the blog! Remember, your images must be under 1MB in size, or they won’t load.
Mrs. Guinea Pig, Baltimore, MD
Age and Occupation: 26, PhD student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Operations Director at a non-profit
Engagement Date: December 25, 2008
Wedding Date: May 2010
Venue: The Chesapeake Bay Beach Club
About Me: I'm a tomboy science nerd whose girly side has made a startling appearance thanks to wedding planning! I love to bake, knit and sew but I also ride a motorcycle (that Mr. Guinea Pig wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole). We live with our three crazy cats and love to read, travel, watch movies, and do home improvement projects together! My parents/family are Canadian but I'm definitely American, although I've lived in 5 different countries, 6 different states, and speak Russian fluently. Mr. GP and I met online (did I mention I'm a scientist?) and had a whirlwind romance - now we can't wait to get married & celebrate with all our friends and family in a blue and yellow waterfront affair!
(Flavor Flav)
Who wouldn’t want this guy at their wedding, right?!
Okay just kidding. As much as I love watching rappers on a reality TV show, I actually want to discuss the many, wonderful, delicious cake flavor options out there. And not just for the filling but the icing choices, too! To start off with, here’s a cake that I desperately want to make - how fun would this be to surprise your guests with?!
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Mrs. Sunbeam, San Francisco/Grove City, PA
Age and Occupation: 26, Grad Student & Office Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Motion Designer
Engagement Date: May 10, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: Harbison Chapel & The Maple Lane Farm
About Me: Mr. Sunbeam and I are high school sweethearts. We both come from a small town in PA but are growing to love the California lifestyle. He loves wine and I love cheese... the perfect combination! When I'm not drooling over wedding blogs, I'm attending grad school, out being a foodie, or attempting to "walk" our cat at the park. Two things guaranteed to excite me are wedding cakes and breaking out my suitcase to travel. Mr. Sunbeam and I are personalizing our hometown wedding to celebrate our high school sweetheart status and PA roots with a few CA touches. After ten years of dating we couldn't be more excited to call each other husband and wife!
Since my bridesmaids’ dresses have been getting so many comments I thought it was due time I did a post on them! If you didn’t catch the background, I had chosen a range of red hues that I thought would be appropriate for their dresses and sent each one a note with the swatches, along with a few loose suggestions on style and length. From there the girls were let loose to find whatever suited them best! They had a few email chains going where they would share dresses they were considering with me and each other. In the end, everyone looked fabulous and happy! Here are all my lovelies together.
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