2010 February | Weddingbee

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!

Adventures in Color-Picking

February 1st, 2010 @ 9:19 am by Mrs. Scissors

I don’t think it comes as a surprise to any of you that I LOVE COLOR. Love it, love to attack it, smush it, roll around with it. This undying love for color has made wedding planning a wee bit difficult, because I’ve realized that I need some sort of basic palette. I can’t just say “I want every color possible” and expect to keep my sanity.

That is why I developed this little project to help! I like to call it…

Adventures in Color-Picking : wedding color schemes Stickit stickit

Why? Because I like how it sounds, and it was totally and completely 100% free. Hah, take that world! You can have your color, and play with it too.
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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!

Introducing… Mr. and Mrs… Uh…

February 1st, 2010 @ 8:45 am by Mrs. Guinea Pig

When I was a kid in 6th grade, I used to play the M.A.S.H. game (Mansion-Apartment-Shack-House) with the best of ’em. We’d giggle over crushes, bemoan our poor luck in seemingly always pulling Shack, and be terrified at the thought of having 24 children (still am!). I was guilty of trying out my first name with boys’ last names, and sometimes even doodling them in notebooks to ’test it out’.

Introducing... Mr. and Mrs... Uh... : wedding legal Doodle doodle

This fascination though, only lasted until high school when I really started thinking about what changing my name would mean. College did nothing but confirm that I was uncomfortable with the tradition of women dropping their last names to take their husband’s name.

After Mr. Guinea Pig and I got engaged, I was giving my phone number to one of his friends when she said, “Shoot, what’s your last name? Nevermind, I’ll just go ahead and put you in as {my first name, Mr. Guinea Pig’s last name} - how exciting!”

Um, exciting?
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Mrs. Moonbeam, Los Angeles/San Antonio Age and Occupation: 26, Intern Architect Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Studio Analyst, aspiring Screenwriter Engagement Date: May 20, 2009 Wedding Date: November 2009 Venue: Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church (LaCoste, TX) and Mary Gray Events Center (Castroville, TX) About Me: I was born and raised in Texas, but after college I moved to Seattle for a couple of years and loved it. Then I followed my beau out here to LA and we're getting settled in. I've been making things since I can remember. I was raised by crafters. I love to sew, draw, paint, build, cook, bake (anything with a tangible end result is fair game). In that same spirit, I've been hosting since I was old enough to cook and set a fancy table. I kind of take after my grandmother, who believes that your morning OJ always tastes better out of the good crystal.

Making the Dress, Part 1

February 1st, 2010 @ 8:12 am by Mrs. Moonbeam

Since I’ve been married for a couple of months now, I guess it’s safe to talk about the dress. Momma MB swore me to secrecy before the wedding, but now I can let y’all in on the process of having my mother make my dress.

We started with two patterns from Vogue. I liked the geometric quality of this top, but, clearly, those weird little points had to go. They don’t really say ’timeless’ to me. And be warned that this top has absolutely no darts and for the non-sewers out there, darts are what give shape to a bodice. They are usually the way you make room for ’womanly’ curves. Luckily, I don’t have many of said curves up top, so it was possible, though it definitely still gave Momma MB a headache.