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Remember the yukata Mr. Sew’s family sent over from Japan? Remember that they sent them to California so we’d have time to practice with them before we left for Hawaii? Well, that never happened. We never practiced.
So there we were, day-of, trying to tie the ridiculously hard obi.
At least we had instructions, which we tried our best to look at from Mr. Sew’s iTouch.
But we got it all done, somehow, and headed out the door for the Byodo-in Temple in Kaneohe. You might recognize it as the place where Mrs. Sushi got married.
It’s a beautiful place, that’s for sure!
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The closer it gets to our wedding day, the less time I’m willing to spend researching options for the list of things I still need to get for the big day. So, thank goodness for Weddingbee, where I can find my solutions right on my homepage (yes, Weddingbee is my browser homepage, both at home and at work!).
Recently, Miss Pencils posted about some beautiful pearl accessories, and low and behold, she found the perfect hair pins for me! Her post forced me—no, twisted my arm and basically held me at gun point—to buy these hair pins, and cross one more thing off my never ending “to get” list! Could I have made something like this myself, like Miss Paisley did? Sure! But with the clock ticking down, I don’t have time to add any more DIY projects to my list (OK, OK, I did add one more this morning… but my mom is going to help and it will totally be worth it!).
Here are the beautiful pins, which will look much better than the cheapie ones I got for my trial from Claire’s. I opted for the ivory pearls with violet crystals.
Leelee’s beautiful birdcage veil and fascinator was an enviable etsy purchase.
Keep on loading your inspirational wedding pics to the gallery to see them featured here on the blog! Remember, your images must be under 1MB in size, or they won’t load.
Congratulations to our winner, verosara!
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“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
I think the title says it all.
When we had originally planned to get married in May, I thought, ‘Oh fabulous, right in the middle of spring! I can have any flower I want!’ Yeah, apparently I was wrong. Granted, our original date was smack dab in the middle of peony season. Great right? I mean, what bride doesn’t love peonies? So fluffily and ruffily and beautiful.
Just months ago, Mr. Parfait and I figured we would pass up on the whole wedding registry thing. We weren’t sure if our old-school Korean/Serbian families even knew about registries, and we didn’t have a place of our own to furnish anyway. Well, friends, all that has drastically changed.
I am a registry machine!
Heehee. You see, after being hounded by our relatives (who have apparently been to enough American-style weddings to know all about this stuff) and settling into our lovely-but-empty condo, we decided to set up registries at Macy’s and Crate and Barrel. It was slow-going at first, but after being in a few locations of each store and checking out the online process, I got totally hooked! Look how much fun we had at Macy’s recently:
We attended one of their registry event nights, so they had snacks and drinks prepared for us.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
I’ve been avoiding some pretty important wedding details like reception timeline logistics, and the renting of chairs and dinnerware (almost have that on lock-down!). I guess Mr. Paisley’s and my recent troubles in paradise have sucked a lot of the joy out of wedding planning.
After several weeks of ignoring wedding planning, I’ve decided to dive back into it, taking on the more unglamorous wedding details. I guess I’m trying to save the fun stuff and details for a time when Mr. Paisley and I are on sturdier ground relationship-wise and I can enjoy them more.
First up, how to build a band’s stage area in front of a homely little guest house, which we affectionately refer to as “The Shed” in the Paisley family.
The band will be either on the porch of The Shed, on the right of this picture in the foreground:
Photo by Peter Wilson (brother Paisley)
Had I been planning our wedding ten years ago when I was in my early 20s this post would be very different. Let’s just say that the planning process would have been painful, with a fair amount of demand making from both sides, unsolicited advice and more than likely, yelling and tears. Thankfully, Mr Pretzel and I are getting married now and not then.
In the past 6 years I have cultivated a very special relationship with my Mom. It started when she became my roommate. Yes you read that correctly. My Mom moved from the East Coast and into my guest bedroom. We learned a lot about each other and have developed a mutual respect outside of our mother daughter relationship. She’s probably been the best roommate I’ve ever had and I will be a little sad when I move into Mr Pretzel and my townhouse this summer.
Let me tell you a little about Momma Pretzel. She and I look an awful lot alike (you don’t say, Pretzel) but we have very different personalities.
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While I don’t 100% agree with that statement (although maybe I 99% agree; I have an extreme love for the mountains of Colorado), I must agree that these are great totes.
Mr. Sprinkle and I practiced our first dance routine for weeks. We hired a local dance instructor to come to our tiny house and choreograph something simple for us, and it was such a good decision. I never would have done a first dance if we hadn’t had lessons! Picking our song was really easy, as it is one of our favorites. We used lyrics from this song on our invitations and programs and everywhere. The lyrics mean so much to me, I can’t even describe it. I’ll post them for you instead:
I’ll be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don’t know
I’ll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you’re home
When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you’re twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
’Cause I see you
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…I must have lost a few brain cells.
Remember the hairstyle I wanted?
(Mrs. Coconut)
Remember my hair trial? Here was the finished product.
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Brandiwine610 is selling her DIY card “cake.” Have your guests drop off their cards in this whimsical take on the traditional card box. She’s asking $30 plus shipping.
Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee classifieds and you might see it featured on the blog!
Other great items for sale:
SOOO in the first Dress Saga installment, I told you how I’m totally OCD about color. I can’t have a brown dress because the girls are wearing brown cowboy boots of their choosing. What if they don’t go together?
Anyway, after finding those SUPER cute dresses at Ruche, I googled and came across Anna Elyse and this little gem:
It’s called the “Short Jackie-O” and comes in all these different necklines. It comes in a rainbow of colors and a few different fabrics! It also comes with a hefty price tag that’s WAY over my self-imposed budget of $100(ish). Bummer.
If you’re not already following along with the creation of my centerpieces… first I accumulated my vases, then I went through a trial run with the baby’s breath.
Next, I assembled a few samples!
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Mr. Spaniel and I both spend a lot of time on the go, and that means that we’re pretty hooked on our Google Calendars. I would have missed a lot of appointments if I didn’t have a web-based calendar that I could access just about anywhere.
As we are becoming more of a social “unit”, it’s become harder to make plans without knowing each other’s schedules. We already have a fully-shared calendar for our mutual commitments, but to further combat the problem—to make mutual appointments without waiting for a response on when the other is free—Mr. Spaniel shared his calendars with me a few days ago. We both use multiple calendars so that we can color-code them on our own accounts; he gave me full views of all of his (of course he left his work calendar more private so that I could see when he was busy, but not exactly what he was doing or who he was meeting with) and suggested I do the same.
The downside of sharing calendars: I feel even busier than ever!
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