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Ms. Poodle did an amazing tutorial on how to make clay roses. While I followed instructions in this book, the process is really similar, and I think the results are, too:
When we were finished shooting at the sponge docks, Mr. Buttons, Chad, and I drove a mile or two down the road to a local park, where we were meeting up with our canine children (come on… those of you who own pets KNOW this is an accurate description… haha). For those of you who aren’t familiar with Florida weather; summer is rainy season. Every afternoon, the sky opens up and it rains for a few minutes. Then… poof! It is gone… but the humidity left behind is horrendous. GREAT situation for e-pics, right?
I tried to not let the rain get me down, and quickly hopped into the back seat of Mr. Buttons’ car for a wardrobe change!
All photographs are by Chad Pilster of Pilster Photography (here are his blog and website)
Thankfully, Mommy Buttons and FMIL Buttons were waiting with umbrellas! Side note: can’t you immediately tell which one is my mommy? We are twins.
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I’m going to be in a wedding in May, and this is the dress we maids will be wearing.
[I’m not either of the bodies in the picture above; no one gets to see my dress on me until I have it altered to fit my, um, extreme height difference and smaller bust.]
Anyway, that’s the dress. (The bride, by the way, is wearing a short dress, too. It’ll be a sassy soiree for sure!) The bride has requested that we choose our own shoes (thank you, bride!), but they should be pink ballet flats to match the dress. I figured that since we’re getting in to springtime, you Weddingbee girls might appreciate seeing some of the options for pink flats I have found.
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Our search for invitations was a lot like a Disney fairy tale, minus the ridic, repetitive songs by Randy Newman, subjugation of women, and impossibly tiny waist sizes. We knew what we wanted, and short of singing about while longingly looking into a reflective pool, we were on the hunt to find it. In this analogy, us=princess, invitations=fairy tale prince. I’m now slightly offended and disgusted by my own analogy, and will chock it up to a 70 hour work week.
Originally, I had imagined a beautiful DIY invite project that allowed me to utilize one of these designs from MyGatbsy:
I loved the options of colors and the cool price (around 2.50 each). I imagined myself spending a few Saturdays, watching reruns of bad TV, baking cookies and crafting some awesome invites. I kept looking though, just to be sure.
Then I found cool fabric folio invitation like this on the Wedzilla blog:
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Do you find that you look back on certain aspects of wedding planning and are totally mortified by the lack of perspective which influenced the process? Let me introduce to you one of my favorite words, and one that could be applied to me, um, more than once.
de·com·pen·sa·tion
n.
1. Medicine- Failure of the heart to maintain adequate blood circulation, marked by labored breathing, engorged blood vessels, and edema.
2. Psychology- The inability to maintain defense mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or psychological imbalance.
This describes the state of mind in which I found myself one evening, growing delirious with the difficulties of picking a motif for our invites. I was one second despondent, the next second giggling, and shooting annoying emails to my sister at a rate of 5 emails per minute.
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In honor of the fact that we have less than five months left until the wedding, I’m going to tell you all how we decided on our wedding date. Hooray for story time!
I’m weird with numbers. Numbers and dates and, well, anything that I can obsess over. First of all, the only choice for month was June, which worked out well because I always wanted to be a June bride! May wouldn’t’ve worked since we’re both gradumacating in May, and July in Georgia is, well, how shall I put this… we’d all be sweatin’ like whores in church.
So June it was. My type-A self then wrote out all of the possible dates for June 2010…
No fun numbers there, really.
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Even though our venue is only about an hour from Baltimore and DC, it’s essentially an out of town event for everyone involved. No one coming to our wedding actually lives on Kent Island, which probably means that a fair number of people will be staying in the area hotels, at least for Saturday night. And while the hotels are only about 10 minutes from the venue, word on the street is that the island’s cops really love sitting at the on-ramp to the highway and nabbing people leaving wedding receptions (there are a couple of other venues nearby too), who have a pretty high likelihood of having had a drink or two before driving home from the party. Now, I know that the MD government needs more money, but I’d rather not supplement it with DUI tickets.
(source)
We do NOT want our guests drinking and driving. Obviously.
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I mentioned in my post about Carnival that I had to call the courthouse to make sure they’d be open so we could pick up our marriage license, and whew, they will be! Mr. Nachos wasn’t too keen on the idea of a civil ceremony at home so he was very happy to hear that. 
I didn’t really mind the thought of taking care of the legalities beforehand and going to the courthouse here, (plus a marriage license is cheaper in IL), but I am in fact very happy that we’ll be making it official at our Wyndham ceremony.
In order to have the marriage license ready for us when we get to the courthouse, there are a few steps that need to be done. The instructions for obtaining our marriage license in St. Thomas don’t seem too difficult, but there’s a lot to do. We have to send the following to their courthouse…
These all have to be at the St. Thomas courthouse at least 8 days before we arrive, although some websites I’ve seen recommend sending it all up to 2 months before, which would be next month. GAAAAAHHH, time is starting to speed up on me! Then we have to call to confirm that they received everything and ask for our license confirmation number.
Once we arrive, we have to go to the courthouse in person with photo IDs and sign for the license. We wanted to go straight from the airport, but I doubt our shuttle would be willing to stop and wait, we’ll have all our luggage, AND we arrive at 3 and the courthouse closes at 5. It’s a shame though because…
(Map from Google, altered by me)
…oh well. I guess we’re taking a taxi the next day.
Then a few days later, we get married!!!
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Choosing a theme or overall vision for one’s wedding is, I think, one of the most important and difficult hurdles in the planning process. How can anything be decided without it? Especially in this sea of ideas and resources known as the Internet. Without direction, one can be kicking and clicking and thrashing around for days, drowning in color swatches, fonts and feathered-sequined-beaded-lace veils. A centralized idea is the backbone of all future decisions. It’s why us cubicle-dwelling corporate folk have bosses, and boss’ bosses, and boss’ boss’ bosses. The high point on the totem pole that tells everyone else, “This is where we are going, get me there.”
When Mr. Sewing & I first got engaged, we went to the library and checked out a DVD called “Wedding Planning for Dummies”.
Dummies, indeed.
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We woke up on Day 5 of our cruise knowing that this was it––the last day on board and the last full day of our honeymoon. Day 5 was a scheduled “Fun Day at Sea”, which is a poor PR spin on a day spent traveling without any port stops. We were on our way to Ft. Lauderdale from Belize and there would be no time for anything but cruising.
For our fun day, we decided to sleep in. We had both checked the Cruise Compass, the newsletter delivered daily to each cabin that outlines all the important information and lists the day’s schedule of events, and decided there were some things we wanted to do together and some things we wanted to do on our own. Yes, we spent time apart on our honeymoon. It was only about 2 hours, though.
Mr. DE wanted to hit the fitness center and work out. The activity on the itinerary that caught my eye was scrapbooking. We agreed to meet up for lunch, did a quick kiss goodbye and were on our own separate ways.
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Genetics are an interesting thing - it can give you height, hair texture, the ability to wiggle your ears. For the Mister and me, genetics as well as ethnicity have granted us the ability to turn a traffic-stopping red with just one alcoholic drink. Behold - with just one beer, we’ve got… a tomato!
The Mister turns beet red, but he feels fine. We’ll be treating his color-challenged complexion on the day-of with some Pepcid or Tagamet. However, I have a serious allergy to alcohol. Just one sip and I break out into hives and migraine headaches. Not fun.
So, while our venue serves a signature drink to guests pre-ceremony, I thought it would be great to have a non-alcoholic option for my similarly alcohol-challenged guests, in addition to the traditional drink.
Now here comes the fun part - what should that drink be?
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Aloha, hive! Howzit?!
Looky here, that’s us on our wedding day in Hawaii. Has it really been five months?! Is it odd that I’m grinning from ear-to-ear writing this?
A decent amount has happened since then. We’ve finally settled into our cozy apartment near the beach. I quit my job as a consultant, and now work alongside Mr Piglet doing fashion wholesale.
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For all of those July brides (and grooms) out there, we have officially hit the 6 month mark!
For me, this means that it’s finally time to start a health and fitness routine that will turn me into one hot bride. But before I tell you about my plans to achieve my most hottest self, I think that we should flashback to 2008, just before Mr. Pudding and I got engaged, and became legally married.
Even though we didn’t consider our civil ceremony to be “the real deal”, I still wanted to be a smoking hot “non-bride”. The problem was that after my first year of working, I still had not lost the weight that I gained in college.
Now, when you are a tall girl like me (5’9), you realize that there are pros and cons to your height. First of all, you must come to terms with the fact that no matter how much you diet or work out, you will always be “bigger” than your girlfriends. Miss Samantha Jones demonstrates this quite accurately:
I was raised Catholic, then Episcopal, and Mr. Pencils attended a Protestant church until high school. I would classify myself as spiritual, and Mr. P… well, he’s not sure what he believes. A church wedding was out, to say the least.
The question remained though: who should marry us? It took literally 30 minutes of being engaged to name one person:
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