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Am I the only one who dreads walking into a bathroom and seeing an attendant? You know, the chick that is bound to spray you with some foul perfume, try to sell you soap to wash your hands after you do your business, or even provide you that piece of gum or singular cigarette that really, you wouldn’t take even if it was being offered for free. Maybe I’m alone in finding these encounters awkward, I dunno. 
Anywho, I wanted to provide our guests will all of the amenities of an attendant with zero % awkwardness. Enter the ever-popular bathroom basket.
Meet our Man Basket:
When people ask how planning is going, I smile and say, “It’s going great!” To people I know better, I say, “There’s still a lot to do,” but still with a fake smile plastered to my face.
But in reality, I feel like this:
For real… with my head about 10 times larger than my body, ready to explode! I am super stressed out even though I’m sure 3 months is plenty of time to finish everything. It’s just so much!
I’ve had a headache every day this week because of wedding planning. This will pass. I made a plan this weekend for what I am going to do every day for the next few weeks. Mr. Lace and I have a couple of days off and we’ll be hard at work getting that difficult stuff planned.
I’m having anxiety dreams too.
My trip up north to do wedding things went pretty well. The wine barrel drink-bar-constructing was completed, but the grand plans to build a driftwood arbor were laid aside, since I underestimated the time it takes to gather numerous large pieces of wood around the lake. With no motorboat available, I used a kayak and towed the 7-foot hunks o’wood using rope tied to the stern. It’s a good thing wood floats.
I got about half the wood I needed for the arbor in one day. The next day, I was all set to go out for round II of wood gathering when my dad said to me, completely somber, “Oh, keep an eye out for a body. A man drowned in the lake two days ago and they haven’t found him yet.”
My face dropped as I contemplated both the tragedy of somebody drowning in the lake and the possibility of stumbling upon the body, something my own dad had the misfortune of experiencing on Clear Lake some 30 years ago. I did not want to have to see my first dead body while rummaging around the lake shore looking for driftwood for our wedding day arbor.
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It was a little cold after we stood outside in front of randomness, so we took shelter in a subway station, with Shannon from Fromage Photography snapping away.
That was my displeased face. Here’s my happy face. Aw.
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I have a confession to make. I haven’t been that into planning our wedding as of late. Cue Debbie Downer noise:
Maybe it has to do with the fact that we’ve already been engaged for 13 months and I just want to the wedding to be here already, or maybe it’s that finals/graduation are coming up and wedding stuff seems trivial, or maybe it’s because Mr. Jelly just got back from a deployment and I’m realizing that spending time with him is more important.
Or maybe, on top of all that, I’ve just come to the conclusion that wedding planning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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That pretty guestbook I made needs a place to sit. So, after Auntie Flowers fashioned me a little vase of daisies and gerberas, I started throwing everything onto my parents’ coffee table. I added a custom wooden name sign I got from Danielson Designs.
I really like how the sign turned out. I had to blur the names, but you get the point. Pretty, right? The saying is one of our faves! “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to come.” It has been one of our mantras during wedding planning. We want the special people who have helped us become the people we are today to be with us as we start make this commitment to one another. And we hope they’ll stay alongside us for the ride.
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This whole wedding-planning thing involves a pretty steep learning curve, as well as a pretty good poker face. (“Ah, yes, $10,000, then. Thank you, we’ll be in touch if we have additional questions…”) I’m sure I’ll come up with a lot more lessons learned in the next year, but here are some biggies almost three months in.
1) Flexibility isn’t actually the end of the world. I never thought I’d say it. But sometimes, letting your vendors do some of the talking and the planning (and, therefore, the worrying) works out pretty well. Telling poor Amy (our florist) about my feelings on manzanita branches vs. curly willow really doesn’t matter. I gave her my vision and she understood. That’s her job.
2) No one will notice if your burgundy napkins don’t match up exactly with your burgundy dresses and burgundy ribbons. A color palette is exactly that: a palette of unifying visuals.
3) Price isn’t everything. Yeah, your estimate has to come fairly close to the number I have in my head before we can do business, but sometimes, you just have to like who you’re dealing with and respect their talent enough. But, um, refer back to the need for a good poker face before throwing that budget out the window.
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Labrat’s hubby-to-be proposed with his great-grandmother’s stunning engagement ring.
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Just a quick note.
We’re getting married today. I think Mr. Pug is pretty great, and I’m kinda sure he feels the same about me. I’m far from perfect and so is he, so it makes it all the more special that I think he’s pretty great and he feels the same. I’m very lucky, and so is he. Yes he is. Lucky bastard.
A big thank you to all of you for your support, ideas, humor, and whatever other good qualities one truly appreciates with all her heart during wedding planning.
I can’t wait to share all of the last minute planning and wedding details with you!
Sources: Top row (l-r)- The Children’s Place, Autumn Star Designs, Amazon, J. Crew, J. Crew; Middle Row (l-r)- Project Wedding, Velvet and Tweed, City Wendy, Chasing Fireflies, Oncewed; Bottom Row (l-r)- Newsies!, Oncewed, Kyle Hale, Chasing Fireflies
It’s undecided as to how many boy sprouts will make it down the aisle. But either way, they are all getting dressed up, mostly because I can’t resist baby-sized suspenders. Oh my goodness! Paired up with a newsboys cap, a tie, and a vest, and the Little Mr. Veggies will be looking dapper.
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One of the best planning decisions we made was not actually by choice.
We knew we wanted to get married in a Catholic Church because it is important to us, both spiritually and emotionally. We also knew it would make my mom happy since I’m “her only hope” of having a child to have a Catholic wedding. We kind of joke that we’re doing it for her, but in reality, we both want to raise our children in the Catholic faith and hopefully they’ll share in our values and beliefs. We want to start our Catholic traditions and family values right from the start. And I say right from the start, although we already have these values, because I want it to be an important part of our lives as a family—which truly begins on our wedding day.
Having a Catholic wedding wasn’t easy for us, at first. We aren’t actively participating members of a church. When we called churches in Rhode Island, we were told by all of them that our priest would have to sign off. This is not easily done when you don’t have a priest.
At first, I complained and thought it would be impossible, but then we decided to take action.
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One of the earliest decisions I made regarding our wedding was to use some kind of unique, vintage vases for our reception centerpieces. Shortly before we got engaged, I had started to collect hobnail milk glass. (Mr. Turtle even gave me the “wedding jar” piece to add to my collection on the night he proposed.) So between the sentimental value and the fact that it is white, I decided pretty quickly to use milk glass for our wedding! With this in mind, I began adding to my collection whenever I spotted a piece I liked for a good price at an antique store. When my mom heard about my growing collection, she began to scour eBay, randomly surprising me with more pieces! My personal collection still consists of my beloved hobnail pattern (the ones with the little bumps on them!), but in order to expand the collection for the wedding, my mom and I also added a lot of pieces we’ve liked that are not hobnail.
First the collection filled up my hope chest, (the one from the proposal). Eventually it grew to dominate our dining room. Oops! Here it is in all its glory:
Before I talk about the really fun and awesome night Mr Trail Mix surprised me with for our engage-aversary, I have to reveal our dirty little secret… neither one of us can remember the actual date of the proposal! *blush* He thought it was one of two dates while I thought it was a completely different date. So, for anyone out there reading this, I highly recommend making a note somewhere of the damn date you got engaged!
Anyways, like I mentioned before, Mr Trail Mix surprised me by planning a whole evening for us to spend together. I walked into the apartment to flowers and an anniversary card…
He only got me one flower because I’m leaving tomorrow to go on vacation for 10 days. How thoughtful (and cost-effective).
The card may or may not have involved flatulence…
They say that the older you get, the faster time flies. It seems that’s true of engagements, as well! When Mr. Spaniel and I got engaged back in September 2008, March 2010 seemed impossibly far off. And when I became a bee blogger in November 2009, it still felt like I had all the time in the world to share all of the wedding details with the hive!
Then it was 2010, and I started to realize that time was running short. And now it’s the day before our wedding! It hardly feels real; it all happened so fast!
Thank you so much for allowing me the honor of sharing my planning journey with you all. It’s been such an adventure, and you have no idea how much I’m looking forward to sharing the results of all of these months of planning with you!
Until then, yours (for the last time!),
MISS Spaniel
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