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If you remember, Mr P and I fell in love with the budget and eco conscious Ecoware wooden cutlery. I didn’t think we could be more in love with our utensils… until my coworker sent me a link to these:
Yep, that is definitely personalized Ecoware – what a freakin’ fan-tab-u-lous idea!
How much does Neiman Marcus want for said cutlery? $64.00 for twelve 3-piece sets. Whoa… wait… that is $1.77 each piece! Hummm… I think my trusty Gocco and I could personalize my forks for… let’s see… zero dollars! I can reserve small sections of my upcoming Gocco screens (can you say invitation suite?!- YAY) to burn some sayings for our Ecoware.
What will we say?
Do you ever just want to cry because a bunch of little things are going wrong? Like, if any of these events occurred individually, you would just let them roll of your back and it would be no big thing. However, when they all occur on the same day you get to the point that you’re ready to lose your noodle? Yeah, that’s me today. And I apologize in advance because I’m really not one for complaining on the interwebs, but damn y’all, I’m sad.
Maybe it’s because the wedding is about 50 days away and I just want everything to be perfect, and of course that’s unreasonable and unrealistic. So what’s my drama all about? Stupid stuff, really.
Up first, I searched and searched for a hair flower and I finally decided on one. Well, it got here today and I hate it. The seller said it was organza, but unfortunately there is nothing organza about it. I feel like I could have done a better job on my own, but instead I spent $30 on something I hate.
Then, the guest list is expanding.
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As the cocktail hour went on, it naturally started to get dark. The lights came on, and it got all pretty and glow-y in our venue. I don’t recall exactly how it happened, but suddenly we were sitting for dinner.
The mister and I knew we wanted to live in the heart of Chicago after we got married, so we decided to start looking around. On our first and only day of apartment-hunting, we came across THE perfect condo. Mr. Parfait made an offer. They accepted; he signed the papers; we started packing.
“Packing?!” you say? Yep, we decided to move in right away—it was way too beautiful and exciting to ignore until April. It was a two-week process from choosing the place to moving in. It’s been a whirlwind, and it’s not over yet!
Wanna see our new place? This is one of my favorite parts:
Chef Bear approves of our kitchen
As mentioned in the title, moving was an adventure. The two of us took turns in ambulances and emergency rooms for injuries that were out of our control. Don’t worry—we’re doing just fine! Here’s the short version:
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I know what you’re thinking… wait a second Champagne, wasn’t your wedding in the snowy mountains of Colorado? It was, indeed but I thought a bridal session without snow might be fun! Plus, I figured I’d get back into my recaps with a series of two different portrait sessions—our original day-after photo session with my cousin (and bridesmaid) Marybeth of Design MB Fotographie, and my second session with DC area photographer Abby Jiu.
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Pinkbelle is selling a size 2 Melissa Sweet dress. She’s asking $100 for the French blue satin strapless dress. The style number is MS215.
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I have always been a long hair kinda’ girl, except for when I was in 4th grade and my mom let me decide how I wanted my hair cut, for the first time. I whacked it. I mean SHORT. And I hated it. I looked just like my twin brother. Eeww.
So, since then, my hair has been to my shoulders or longer. I was blessed with hair that will do just about anything and, when left to its own devices, does wonderful little waves with not a frizz in sight. So I’ve never had to worry about the humidity messin’ up my ’do. In fact, my hair has really been my pride and joy; the one constant thing that I love about myself when I look in the mirror. So when I decided to “whack” it again last spring, everyone was a little shocked. This love affair with my hair was no secret.
I’ve had my hair short since then. Nothing TOO extreme. Right at my chin, and a little longer when I’m too busy for a trim. So as soon as I started thinking about our wedding day, I started looking into short hairstyles. I was happily trolling through wedding hairstyles, when I came up with this beauty:
Ceremony music is something that I’ve been sort of dreading for months, because I wasn’t sure what to do. I don’t think I’ve ever shared this, but I’ve been playing the violin since I was six. I played in my first wedding when I was 11. I’ve been around the traditional-wedding-ceremony-music block. I think the music is beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve just been there, done that. I glaze over a little bit. (Said music will remain nameless, to protect the innocent, or people that haven’t beaten it into the ground yet as I have.) Our church also has quite a few rules with respect to what can and cannot be played, so that also made me nervous.
Today, we had our first official meeting with Callie, the girl who is heading up our ceremony music. I’ve known her for what feels like forever, and we played violin together for about 100 years. She’s amazing, super talented, and has fantastic taste. Going into our meeting, I had my list ready, and my “Oh God, please don’t let my ideas be crazy” hat on.
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I love the idea of having our guests share their pictures with us. I’m sure a lot of people will upload pics onto Facebook, but I have trouble saving pictures from there, so this will fix that problem!
I had seen this done by Mrs. Cream Puff (among others in the hive), and it seemed like a really cute and easy project to do!
This weekend I was finally able to cross it off my list! I set up a quick Word document and printed about 100 cards (probably way too many)—they were cute and to the point.
But wait, look closely. Only after I had assembled all of my cards did I realize that my cards had a huge error.
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In my possession are all the engagement photos we took! *claps hands excitedly* However, Sewing-Mom was a little stressed out at the idea of me posting her unedited pictures up on the internet. Now, I don’t really want to wait for her to go through and fix them all (as we all know, this can take a while!), so I asked if I could fix them up instead.
“Sure… just make sure you said that you did the editing, not me.”
Of course Mom, I wouldn’t want to taint your image. 
So since photo editing is a relatively unexplored, new territory for me, I thought we could go through it together. Today we’ll go through some of the basics. (There are many, many more complicated and professional methods, but the following will be good to start off with, I hope!)
First, open up your photo (in this case one of my e-pic teasers) in Photoshop.
Mortallll Kommmbaaattt!
I’m not sure about the rest of you, but having a complete strange assess your… assets isn’t exactly my activity of choice. However, for wedding-day purposes, I was willing to make the sacrifice. I’m talking about professionals of course, and the task at hand? Getting the perfect undergarments. Like several other bees out there, I made a bee-line for Bra*Tenders.
Just one corner of the store - look at all those boulder-holders! (or in my case, pebble-holders)
The store is tucked away in an office building, and you must make an appointment. The consultants there are experts - one look at me and my consultant (Cristal) found the perfect everyday bra for me - it turns out I needed to go a number size down and a cup size up. Bra-vissimo - much better fit!
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Now that we’re less than 4 months away from w-day, I find myself getting things done left and right! Ceremony music selected? You betcha. Candy for our centerpieces selected? Dunzo. Mr. FF’s wedding suit picked out? Yep! Invitations? Printed and cut! Side note: more on the invites later, but in the meantime check out Mr. FF wielding the corner-rounder like a pro:
While it feels good to be getting so much done, I was thinking today about how it feels to be staring down the barrel of the gigantic “to-do list” at the beginning of planning.
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Some women loathe lingerie. They think it’s a pointless waste of money. It can take forever to put on, and in their case, it only stays on for about 30 seconds.
Other women love lingerie. They think it’s vital to any special occasion—birthday, Valentine’s Day, Saturday, any day. This lingerie generally doesn’t come off, but rather it… ahem… enhances the “experience”, if you will. 
I’ve found that, unless the woman is a die-hard lingerie fan (or foe), her take on lingerie is generally dictated by the man she’s with. What’s the fun of lingerie if your SO isn’t into it? It’s just another pain in the ass layer to remove as far as he’s concerned. And when your SO loves lingerie? Well, you’re much more apt to play into it. Hell, why not? It’s pretty gratifying to see the man you love stumbling over his words at the sight of you, am I right?
Considering this is a post about lingerie, I think it’s obvious enough what side of the lingerie line the Rainbows are on. Yes, my friends, we are on the pro-lingerie train. We are fans, big fans. Then again, if Mr. Rainbow wasn’t into it, I’d tell him too damn bad, because I am one of those die-hard lingerie fans. So there!
Now, the way I see it, there are two types of lingerie—naughty and nice. Of course, there’s lingerie of the very naughty variety as well, but I’m talking strictly sassy sexy vs. sweet sexy, vixen vs. virginal.
One of the compromises we had to make to keep our wedding somewhere in the neighborhood of the budget was to get only six hours with our photographer (instead of the full day or the duration of our eight hour event). That doesn’t seem like a whole lot of time, so we expect that we’ll have to focus on portraits and the major events of the evening (although maybe if everyone gets on the dance floor, we’ll get all of them there!). There are a lot of guests who probably won’t turn up much in our professional wedding pictures, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want good pictures of them!
For a minute we thought of putting disposable cameras on the tables à la Miss Cola, but the quality of those photos never seems to be that great and we figured we’d spend a lot of money on developing 20 rolls for maybe six useful pictures, if we were lucky. We also thought about renting a photobooth (or setting up a fauxtobooth!), but financial and time restrictions sort of precluded both. Then, finally, it hit me: put the guests to work!
Hopefully not (source)
No, this post is not about my shoes (I’m on a shoe-posting hiatus for obvious reasons). And, it’s not about the lovely Argyle BM Kate, although, I do love her!
This post is about these lovely dishes, err… I mean china.
Mr. Argyle and I are not planning on registering for formal china. But, I cannot help myself because I love this china.
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