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Several months back, I mentioned a little something about making a mini-manga to stick in our programs. I know many of you had voted for ninjas, but in the end I chose to go with Mr. Sew’s request that I keep it as true-to-life as possible.

And since neither you nor I want to read about the ridiculously long process it took me to reach the end, I’m just going to reveal the finished pages!

We’ll start with the cover, which will be a two-page spread. On it you can see all our anime convention costumes of the past, and the location in the back is the San Jose Convention Center as seen from Google Maps.

Sorry for the small blog-picture sizes, hopefully some of it is still readable!
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Over the course of the past few months, I slowly built up a folder of images that I had stumbled upon. Seriously, for those of you with “medium” length straight hair, it can be daunting. I was constantly bombarded with images of gorgeous brides with low, loose, curly buns… messy yet beautiful hairstyles that I drooled over. The thing is, I LOVE my straight hair… from day to day. However, this is the ONE time in my life that I was wishing my hair had some texture! Alas…

Although the pictures were hard to come by, I managed to gather a small collection of feasible and achievable hairstyle inspirations to bring with me to the salon for my hair trial…

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A mini banner save the date? Perhaps? I think it would be precccccccious!! Available from Etsy seller: French Toast Friday.

Fabulous? Oh, yes.

Found Via: Cafe Cartolina

This is the final installment in my three-part, New Zealand honeymoon posts. So far, we’d been to Christchurch, Kaikoura, Marlborough, Marahau, Nelson, and had started our drive down the west coast to the high-mountain town of Franz Josef.

Once in Franz Josef, we checked into our hotel, Te Waonui. Our room had a wall-size window that looked into a full-on rainforest. It was gorgeous. Moss, intermingling tree branches, ferns, and dampness were framed by this window. I could’ve sat there and stared at it all day. But instead, we woke up the next morning to hike the Franz Josef glacier.

That’s the glacier behind us. From where we’re standing in this picture, it was about a 40-minute walk to get to the base of the glacier. And it was raining, no less.

Here’s a shot of the glacier once we arrived at the base:
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For you creative and DIY brides out there, here is a great site where you can scan in your own handwriting (or that of a friend/family member that you like) and they can turn it into a font!

You’ll have to download the template and print it out. Once you do that, you just need to fill in all of the necessary information on the form by following the instructions. The next step is to scan it into your computer as a PNG or JPEG format and upload it to the website.

The last step is to wait for it to upload. You’ll get to preview it to make sure you like it first, and then you can download it to your Mac or PC.

I tried it out for myself before I encouraged you all to use it, and it’s pretty spot on (and easy)! Check it out for yourself.
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*personal photo*

This past weekend, Mr. Hot Wings decided we would have a Chicago date day! We started the day with some ice skating at Chicago’s Millennium Park. The city puts in a temporary ice rink each winter that is free for public use. You just pay for skate rentals. Since we have our own skates, it’s a free activity.

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I’m baaaaack! I firmly believe that I have loved doing my recap posts so much, I have stretched them out for as long as I possibly could. No, seriously. My time on Weddingbee is rapidly winding down, as I think I’ve shown you almost everything there is to be shown.::tear::

But, I just had to show you some live action from our reception. We didn’t opt to hire a videographer, but we had many friends who used their digital cameras to take footage of the day.

As I watch these video snippets, as low quality as they are, sometimes it makes me wish that we had shelled out the extra bucks for some professional video. On the other hand, I wouldn’t change a thing. Some of these clips captured the most random moments of the day and offbeat snippets of conversation that I doubt a professional would have captured/kept.

Beyond the special dances and other details that I won’t bore you with, here are some highlights from the day.
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Msmonicka and her future husband brave the cold temperatures for a photo shoot by the lake.

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So, remember when I was searching for my dream cake stand? Well, the hive came through in a BIG way. Bakerella offered to go to a store in Canada, Mrs. Ramen offered to go to a store in California, and Miss Stripes got on the phone to call several Potluck Studios retailers. Well, all of that paid off because a wonderful store called Pine Cone Hill in Massachusetts had the last flirt ruffle cake stand left. I was so excited I could hardly contain myself. It was all a blur. I’m pretty sure I gave my credit card number and address, but that’s all I really remember.

Then, it arrived:

I ripped open the packaging and pulled out my cake stand. Only, there was one major problem:
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For our engagement party we decided to have a signature drink. The weekend before the party, a few of my girlfriends came over for a drink tasting. I should have done more research beforehand. I had mostly chocolatey drinks, as the party is black and white themed, but they didn’t taste very good. We rated each drink on a scale of 0-5.

These are the coasters purchased through For Your Party.

My mom was originally planning on throwing a large engagement party, but it ended up small and being thrown by friends. This left us with excess coasters and a few other supplies, which helped me decorate for the tasting!
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I swoon for Manolos, even though I’m a die hard, never-spend-more-than-100-bucks shoe buyer.

During my winter days of wedding planning, and wondering what shoes I should buy, it was all too easy to drive the five minutes over to Fashion Island, and play dress up in the Neiman Marcus shoe salon.

So, after figuring out my correct size in the store, and deciding I much preferred a closed-toe shoe (merely because they’re more comfy to me), I began to scour eBay for some Manolos. Of course, keeping in mind authenticity is not guaranteed on eBay, I mainly looked for shoes with plenty of pictures, an authentic box and dust bag, and with store receipts.

Not long after I launched my search, the perfect pair popped up. After a few convos with the seller, she assured me I would *not* be happy with these shoes, as they were in worn condition with a few stains. But they looked good to me in the pictures, and at under $100, they were the perfect price.

I was certain I wouldn’t win them, but by some small miracle, my bid, at $104, won! Yippee!
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Just in case you are one of those people on the fence about whether or not to invite children to your wedding, I hope this post helps sway you (one way or the other…)!

I had a great time planning out the fun stuff for all the kids who would be at our wedding. From crafting activity kits for each individual child, to making sure they had plenty to eat and drink.
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My favorite part about Germanic languages is the ability to squish as many nouns as possible into one mega word. Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft translates to “Association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services”. Wut? My favorite was always “Geschirrspülmaschine,” meaning dishwasher. Isn’t it fun to say? My stepdad’s favorite joke to tell, (and he tells it often), is: How do you say ’bra’ in German? Itkeepsemfromfloppen. Get it?

Um, but I digress. The point of this post is to talk about something with which I’m sure most of you are familiar: Hair flowers. Or fascinators, as they are one-in-the-same. I think. According to Wikipedia, fascinators have only recently come back into style. Maybe Carrie Bradshaw had something to do with the come-back?

Anyway, I never thought I was going to embrace the wedding flower/fascinator trend. I don’t know if I thought it to be too “fashion forward”? (LOL?) Or if it had anything to do with the fact that I know my mom would laugh at it, but I just never felt that I’d want to wear one, especially on a day where all eyes will be on me. *gulp*

But, really, they’re EVERYWHERE.

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Just like Miss Nachos I’ve turned to thrift stores to help piece together our centerpieces. In order to pull off our milk glass and lantern centerpieces I calculate that I will need 30 tall milk glass bud vases and 30 short vases for the Seattle reception and 45 tall and 60 short for the Midwest reception. Milk glass seems to be plentiful at thrift stores such as St Vincent De Paul, Goodwill, and the Salvation Army. I’ve been able to walk out with various patterns in 9 inch and 6 inch vases for less than $1.50 per vase. But I quickly noticed that there are a couple very common milk glass patterns. These patterns are plentiful and threaten my vision of mismatched vases.

The offending common milk glass patterns

After purchasing 4-6 pieces in each these common patterns I decided to put them on the “banned” list.

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