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Who doesn’t want a big ol’ bloomer on their head? I know I do. So many people on Etsy have beautiful work for sale. Any quick Google search will locate these very talented people. Me, on the other hand, I feel like I can try and make things myself. Now, this doesn’t mean that I can actually make anything that comes close to the work of these very talented people I’m talking about, but today I will walk you though my first attempt at making myself a flower hairpiece.
Materials:
Instructions:
(1) Take your faux flower apart. If the flower is very large, you might find that their are plastic discs in between each layer of petals.
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So, what to do with heirloom lace that is 50+ years old? If your mother is an avid quilter, you wash it with the same stuff that quilters use to wash antique quilts. A little goes a long way—I only used the soap left on the protective seal after opening this product and there were plenty of suds. The spoonful that comes with it is enough to do a whole quilt, so don’t use a lot or you will be rinsing forever.
Don’t worry, we didn’t just dunk all of the lace in and keep our fingers crossed, we tested a small piece of it first to make sure it didn’t disintegrate. Then we dunked it all in a big soapy pot. We then proceeded to rinse it about 12 times. That much lace got really heavy and with all that ’careful kneading’ to make sure we didn’t rip it, our arms got tired.
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When we reentered the barn after taking a few post-wedding pics, the room had been transformed from our ceremony space into a magical English garden wonderland.
Since Mr. Pencils and I both actually had weekdays off together, the holiday break presented a great (read: our only) opportunity to head to the courthouse to get our marriage license!
It was a cold, clear day in Frederick, Maryland. After a scrumptious lunch of Subway, Mr. P and I arrived at the county court house only to learn that our phones and camera weren’t allowed in. After Mr. Pencils ran them back to the car, we swore an oath to tell the truth, handed over our seventy five bucks in cash, and received our marriage license!
Once back outside, Mr. Pencils ran back to the car again to get our camera (love him!) and we took some shots to celebrate!
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Last month, Miss Snow posted a wonderfully informative graphic about weddings around the country. I almost snorted coffee out my nose when I saw that Seattle was the 4th most expensive city to get married in. Gulp! Why, you might ask, did we decide to get married here when neither of us is from here? When we first started to talk about getting married I offered up the suggestion that we get married in Fort Wayne, Mr Pretzel’s hometown. He quickly vetoed the idea, because he didn’t want the stress of planning a wedding from across country. I have to admit that I let out a sigh of relief because I wanted to get married somewhere we both considered home, and at that point I had never even been to Fort Wayne.
The decision was made; Seattle is our home and Seattle it would be. However, when we started to compile a guest list we noticed a concerning trend.
70% of our guest list is a plane ride away. After an informal poll of our families we made another concerning discovery. While a good percentage of my family will be coming to Seattle, we estimated that only 10% of Mr Pretzel’s family would be celebrating with us.
Insert big sad face.
I decided. I did it. I manned up and made a bridal decree. I grew some bridal balls. I put on my big-girl hat.
Last night, I officially decided on bridesmaids dresses. Color? Decided. Dress? Official. Much to my surprise, the walls didn’t crumble, the earth didn’t spin off of its axis, and nobody is mad at me. I stopped trying to people-please and just did it. I went with my gut. I’m in a state of shock that I actually made a decision, and I feel so relieved that I can check this off of my list.
This, the Vera Wang Olivia in antique gold.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
For fun, I wanted to share some excerpts from Dior himself, via The Little Dictionary of Fashion, with some notes from me. It’s always interesting to see what fashion geniuses think — you don’t have to agree 100 percent, but it’s amusing nonetheless!
Accent
An accent is that little personal touch which makes a dress designed by a couturier your own dress. It is of great importance. With your feeling no one can do it better than you.
This is how I’ve started to approach wedding planning — yes, much of what I’m doing is unoriginal, but gosh darn it, it will still be mine.
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Like most things wedding, I had no idea what type of wedding band I wanted before getting engaged.*
I mean, they’re just little pieces of jewelry, right?
No big deal. Just little pieces of jewelry you wear for the REST OF YOUR LIFE. Little pieces of jewelry that symbolize love and commitment and a whole bunch of other big, weighty hard-to-describe emotions. Little pieces of jewelry you have to stare at for the REST OF YOUR LIFE.
Whoa! That means that in the grand scheme of wedding planning, wedding rings are a pretty big deal! We won’t have to live with our fill-in-the-blank-with-almost-any-other-wedding-detail-here for the rest of our lives. Nope. Just our rings and each other. 
We could just go the easy route and get something matchy matchy a la:
So remember that embossing paper debate?
We ended up buying a Cuttlebug! Hooray! (Okay, yeah we eventually did get the heat embossing things too, but that’ll be for another time…)
We got it on sale at Michaels for 40% off… huzzah! But there was one little problem. I didn’t like any of the embossing folders they had at the store! And none of Provo Craft’s current line really worked with our theme.
So I ordered an embossing folder from a different company, Sizzix. To be specific, a Sizzix folder made exclusively for Stampin’ Up.
Here’s what we’re going to do:
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JuliaRemix is selling 40 hanging glass votive holders. She’s asking $50 for all of them, and will include flickering LED tea lights for an additional $15.
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I haven’t really told you much at all about our photographers thus far. That’s a shame - they’re first friends, second fabulous photographers.
Mr. Bear Cub and I asked my friends from college to photograph our wedding. I know this doesn’t work for everyone (they aren’t exactly “Uncle Bob” with a new DSLR & kit lens), but for us it worked out just right.
In college (at USC) I was a member of the climbing club. Los Angeles is a great place for rock climbing! There’s Point Dume (on the beach!), Malibu Creek State Park (Planet of the Apes, anyone?), Echo Cliffs, & so many more awesome places it’d be silly for me to list them all. Long story short, I had a blast with my fellow climbers! One of my friends in the climbing club, Susánica Tam, was getting serious about photojournalism - she took her camera everywhere! Susánica especially liked to capture action shots of us climbing in ridiculously gorgeous places, like Owens River Gorge and Joshua Tree. After graduation, she became a sports photographer, especially for rock climbing.
Did I tell you I nearly completed a double major in French in college?
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With this being my second marriage, I wasn’t sure if I would, or even should have a shower, but everyone tells me that it will happen whether I like it or not. And I like it! And who am I to say no to a party? My friend Sharon started throwing around ideas for a shower for me, and she’s keeping me in the dark about the little details, so I’ll share with you all what I know so far. Sharon was faced with a few obstacles…
The first question was where to have it. I know she threw around the idea of having it in a party room in a restaurant, and she looked at Jimmy’s Charhouse as a possibility. However, I am a big fan of showers thrown in the comfy confines of someone’s home, so she then talked to my mom about possibly having it at my parents’. Good plan, if it wasn’t for my new little brother Charlie…
Have you ever had a point in your wedding planning when you suddenly changed direction? I totally had that moment… let me explain…
To be fair, in regards to the florals involved in the wedding, I never really had the “perfect” idea. I see flowers… I think they are pretty… but nothing has essentially jumped out at me as being the flowers I MUST see on our tables or in bouquets.
Here was the original plan:
Hydrangeas, hydrangeas, hydrangeas.
I was drawn by the “poofy-ness” of them, if you will. Oh no, wait… the florist suggested these… I more or less agreed. Don’t get me wrong, I think they are beautiful… but…
I’d been thinking a lot about my DIYing… my mother and I have decided that we are going to tackle the centerpieces ourselves. And I am a nit-pick. Hydrangeas are known to be delicate, and to die quickly. I started to worry about a wedding day hydrangea catastrophe. We can’t have partially brown flowers on our tables. I’d die.
Then comes the issue of price. Thankfully, with a DIY option, we can purchase flowers in bulk and save money by arranging them ourselves. However, flowers are still expensive…
***Screams angrily in frustration***
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Now that I had successfully dressed the ladies, the men, and myself, it was time to move on to the most nerve-wracking test of all:
Dressing my mom.
My mom is notoriously good at finding outfits for me (she picked out my prom dress in 30 seconds after I had seen nothing I liked in 5 stores. Granted, she was probably tired of the whole process by then). However, she rarely, if ever, finds anything for herself. Whenever we buy sweaters or the like as Christmas presents for her, my sister and I know to staple the receipt to the sales tag. Within her exclamation of “Thanks!” is an unsaid “I will put the cash I get from returning this to good use!”
The one big priority that my mom had, and I kid you not, was that the dress should be loose enough for her to eat with abandon at my wedding.
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Angga and Nate shot their vibrant engagement photos at Naftzger Memorial Park.
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