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Mr. Lace and I went to Vegas over Labor Day weekend to visit his family and relax. We take any chance we get to go to Vegas since it’s so close, but we love going there to visit family, go swimming and eat (buffets are our specialty).
In August, Mr. Lace mentioned going to Vegas during Labor Day weekend and I was all for it, but then he didn’t bring it up at all after that. A few days before Labor Day weekend, I was the one who had to ask him if he still wanted to go. He nonchalantly left it up to me. I thought it was a bit strange that he didn’t jump at the chance to go, but didn’t think much about it. We arrived on Saturday and spent the day with his family. His sister mentioned that she got free tickets to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower at Paris. I was excited because I didn’t know you could go to the top and thought that there’d be a nice view. However, Mr. Lace seemed unenthused. He said that when he went to Paris with his friends, they didn’t even go to the top of the real Eiffel Tower. I wanted to go, but I didn’t want to go if he was so uninterested in the excursion. However, on the last night after dinner, Mr. Lace’s sister handed me the tickets. I suggested that she and her boyfriend use them because Mr. Lace didn’t seem like he wanted to go, but she encouraged us to use them anyway. We began walking down the strip and the whole time Mr. Lace was playing it off like he didn’t want to go, saying things like, “How far is it? Isn’t Paris really far down?” and “Are you sure you guys want to walk all the way down to Paris?” His sister kept trucking on, so I followed.
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There are a lot of lists you can get online for wedding photos—the must haves of wedding day photography. But there is quite a bit of debate as to whether or not you should give your photographer a list. I would suggest contracting a photographer that you trust to take all the must have shots, and then some. However, there are just some shots that you absolutely want to make sure to have taken. Maybe there’s a cultural tradition that will take place that your photog doesn’t know about. This is a good thing to tell your photog. Just like in any good relationship, if they don’t know, they can’t please you. So instead of a traditional photo list that you can get here, here, here, here, here, and here, I’m going to list the photos that I think are worth noting to your photog(s). Of course, I expect all the formal and traditional shots of me and Mr. Hot Wings putting our rings on, our first kiss, our first dance, etc. These get a bit more descriptive and will allow our photographer to get a better sense of what we’re looking for in our photo set.
(1) A frameable photo of US!
Remember me? I started my recaps and then dropped off the face of the planet? Sorry about that, but I have a good reason, I promise. 
When we left off we had just boarded the boat.
After our captains declared we had reached ‘the spot’ they cut the engines and we got ready to process down the aisle. We lined up just like we had practiced the night before, and Mr. Gloss gave the “we’re ready” sign. I really don’t know who he was signaling to – but clearly somebody got the message because our music started playing and it was time to get married!!!
Our wedding party walked out to River Flows in You by Yiruma
The guys went first…
The last, but certainly not least, installment of this year’s Valentines!
AllisonC’s box of homemade cookies and Valentine-themed sweets.
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I think the alterations business at the salon from which I purchased my dress is somewhat of… an absolute and total racket (and is probably the case at plenty of other places as well).
(Marlon, I know you were kinda.. .out there by the end, but I saw you in On the Waterfront, and you were sexy as hell—is that wrong?)
You searched for your dress. You found it. You’re excited. However many months later, you go in for a fitting. You get all pinned and tucked, look at yourself admiringly from various angles, etc.
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Mr. Rainbow and I initially registered at Crate & Barrel and Target. Both times we went to the actual stores and scanned the items. At C&B this worked out great; the items we scanned showed up in our online registry with absolutely no problems whatsoever. Not so much at Target. Some of the items we scanned in the store wouldn’t pull up on the online registry—the item number would come up with no picture. Obviously this was a problem, because people aren’t going to purchase something off of your registry without so much as a picture to know what it is they’re purchasing.
I went through our Target registry trying to sort it out and figure out what the items were that we wanted, but that didn’t show up on the registry. Some things we registered for in store weren’t even available online! I don’t know who’s in charge of the Target registry, but I must say, as a loyal Target shopper, I was really disappointed in their system. They’ve got way too many kinks in their system than I would think is acceptable for a huge chain like Target.
Luckily, I discovered the Amazon.com wedding registry, complete with Universal Registry Button (seriously, uh-may-zing). Whatever you can’t find on Amazon (which isn’t much), you can register for with the URB—it’s brilliant. Needless to say, I deleted our Target registry and hopped on the Amazon train!
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My biggest fear during my daily commute comes at night, after the sun has set. There tends to be deer all over the fields, rolling hills and backyards of the back roads. My biggest fear is hitting a deer.
I’ve sat on this post for a while now, debating if I had enough courage to share it. In all honesty, this wedding planning and marriage stuff has brought up real fears. Fears about things before the wedding, fears about the wedding itself, and fears about marriage and our life after this ONE DAY that we’ve spent two years planning.
I fear that I’ve chosen the wrong colors, the wrong seasons, the wrong date. I fear that I’ve chosen the wrong dress, the wrong venue, the wrong food.
I fear that sharing these things with you all will make you think that I’m just a silly girl, worried about superficial things like my dress and date.
I fear that I won’t lose the ten pounds I need to so that my dress slides nicely over my hips. I fear that it won’t fit even if I do lose those ten pounds. I fear that it’s too short and I just don’t know it.
I fear that everything will go wrong on the wedding day.
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(Are you a guest at my wedding, or Mr. Spaniel himself? If so, please go away now. kthxbai.)
I’ve already told you about my little meltdown about the bridesmaids’ dresses. For me, the late bridesmaids’ dresses (and the missing sash) felt like major catastrophes, even though I objectively knew that I had tons of time and a million options for resolving the problems. My rational brain was just not switched on when it came to the girls’ dresses. But my rational brain was on when it came to my own dress—I didn’t panic when the dress came in months after it was promised; I just got angry.
I bought my dress on layaway in late August, after declining the bolero, which I was quoted an extra hundred dollars for (I knew House of Brides included the bolero for Allure 8601 in the cost, so I didn’t see why I should pay more for it when I didn’t like it enough to pay extra money anyway), and was told the dress would arrive in late November—about 12 weeks later. In the meantime, I came in every month to dutifully make my next payment, and in November I asked when I could expect my dress.
“Oh, it should be here in 12 weeks… beginning of February.”
o_O Wh…WHAT???!!!
(source)
So there we were, minding our own business at our sweetheart table: eating our wedding dinner, chatting with guests as they stopped by our table, and letting our ears fill with the sweet sounds of our perfect playlist.
You can see our sweetheart table in the middle here, though we’re not sitting in it.
I was sitting on the side facing the bar and our iPod set-up, and the Dude was facing the opposite wall. I noticed out of the corner of my eye my SIL, J-Dawg fiddling with the stereo, but honestly it didn’t really register with me what she was doing. Obviously, I was a bit preoccupied with enjoying my delicious veggie lasagna and chatting with my brand new husband.
J Mendel Crystal Blue Gown Spring 2010
Sigh. Isn’t this dress to die for? I wish it could be an affordable bridesmaid dress instead of a thousands-of-dollars designer dress. And it’s in my color, too! Because I can’t get enough of the thing, here’s Kate Walsh in the dress at the Emmy Awards:
Mrs. Dumpling is selling her strapless BCBG rehearsal dress. She’s asking $60 for the small (size 4-6) red/coral party dress.
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This past weekend we finally finished one of my favorite projects: woodware sets! 
[Photo by yours truly]
And event thought it looks like a “piece of cake” kind of project, we had a lot of people involved in the process.
About 4 months ago my Aunt J gave me a HUGE jar and a bag of buttons. From the minute I saw them, I knew I wanted to make something for the wedding with some of them, because they are SO CUTE! So, a week later I had Mr. Poodle and Groomsman Scott help me separate all of the brown, purple and green buttons from the jar.
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After much thought, and even quite a bit of encouragement from Mr. Argyle (I’m beyond shocked), I actually broke down and bought a Cricut. You heard me correctly. And, it will arrive on my doorstep (okay, at my office) sometime next week. I’m extremely excited about all of the things I can do with this, but mostly looking forward to cutting out my envelope liners. (Side note – have you seen the new Cricut Cake?)
The things I do for wedding planning.
Have you bought any craft machines specifically for your wedding projects?
While Mr Trail Mix and I have had our share of adventures together over the years, we’re by no means an adventurous couple. We’re pretty happy to be asleep by 9:30 on a Saturday night after Chinese take-out and TV. Yeah, we’re lame like that.
But sometimes ya gotta shake things up and get out of your rut, which is what we did on Sunday when I got my Miami-born-and-raised fiance to slide down a snowy mountain with two little sticks attached to his feet. Yes, my mister had his first skiing experience at the age of 27 and I think he had a good time, by gosh!
As a Valentine’s Day present, I gifted him with a lesson that included rentals and a lift pass, along with some sweet NorthFace snow pants. We ate our picnic lunch together in the lodge, chatted it up on the chair lifts (We saw an underwear tree… why on earth do people throw their undergarments onto a tree near the chairlift? And more importantly, how?? Aren’t they super-cold? I digress…) and really just enjoyed the experience together.
(Personal Photo)
Check out Mr Trail Mix shreddin’ some gnarly pow!
Yup, you heard it. What if I don’t want flowers for our centerpieces? What are our options? I think flowers are pretty, but I don’t like how expensive they can be and the fact that they are cut and so are destined to death. Morbid, isn’t it?
A lot of people have done candles for centerpieces. This makes a great centerpiece, and you have the added bonus of ambiance via soft glowing candlelight.
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