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Calling all crafty brides!! Project Wedding’s 2nd Annual DIY Wedding Challenge is here!

Project Wedding’s DIY Wedding Challenge is a great way to tell the world how crafty you are! Share your best DIY project (or projects if you’re a DIY superstar) with us and you could win a First Prize gift card worth $500, 2nd Place gift card worth $300, or a 3rd place gift card worth $200.

All you have to do is create an article on Project Wedding with the information about your DIY project. Be sure to include as much detail as possible including the name of your project, the steps to create your project and at least one photograph of the finished product. Entries must be titled “DIY Wedding Challenge 2010″ followed by the name of your DIY projects. All types of wedding-related DIY projects are welcome; we just ask that the project is your own work.

The contest ends on May 3rd; entries will only be considered during that time period. The winner will be chosen by the Project Wedding community from the top 10 finalists so be sure to show off your best crafty concoctions!

I loveity-love-love makeup, and always have. Given my super-brokeness, most of the makeup in my current stash is of the $3 easy, breezy, beautiful variety, but I love playing around with it all the same.

(Side note: I think part of being a makeup aficionado is going through some tragic stages. I went through a period during ninth or tenth grade where I wore liquid eyeliner and glitter eyeshadow as part of my regular makeup routine. To school, during the day, every day. Please, somebody out there, console me and tell me I’m not alone!)

Anyway, I was really excited about my makeup trial in Pittsburgh, especially because the artist I was trying had a really nice-looking portfolio. I brought along this photo of my #1 girl crush, Christina Hendricks, who in addition to being a voluptuous bombshell goddess, has coloring pretty similar to mine.

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I went in looking like this…
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In total, I’ve ordered and returned 15 bridesmaid’s dresses for my girls.

I stress over bridesmaid’s dresses more than I did my wedding dress. Why? Because I’m a people pleaser. I want everyone to like me and my choices. I want my bridesmaids to be happy that I was the *one* bride that could find a dress that was flattering on 6 girls with 6 different skin tones and body shapes.

HA! Who am I kidding? I am no magician.

David “Peekaboo” Copperfield, my childhood “celebrity crush”. He walked through the Great Wall of China for Pete’s sake.

I had some criteria for the BM dresses:
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I’m fine.

This is how my sister and I have learned to start conversations on the phone with our mom that might otherwise cause her to freak out and book emergency plane tickets across the country. We’ve both learned this from experience - me, from the time I called her in college, sobbing and incoherent after taking my friend to the hospital, and all I could get out was, “I’m at the hospital.” Let’s just say panic ensued until she realized I personally was not injured or in danger. From then on, I have been instructed to always start a conversation where I am not in danger, but could sound like it, with “I’m fine.”

Earlier this week, I drove to work(/school - same thing for me) at about the same time I usually do, the same route I always take. I was 30 seconds from the parking garage, and needed to make one last left turn from a one-way street to be on the garage street. The left hand turn lane was open in front of me, I flipped on my signal. As I approached the light turned green, so I started to turn.

Then I noticed that the school bus that was in the middle lane (to my right, with no turn signal on) had also decided to turn left. At that moment all I thought was, ‘You have got to be kidding me.’

(Lumbering school bus vs. my regular old car (not my actual car, but the same make/model))

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Congratulations to our winner, Miss Buttons!

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We have a great giveaway from MetroPCS today! After the honeymoon is over, lots of couples will go through the tedious tasks of combining their finances and lives with their newly betrothed, and MetroPCS wants to help ease the pain! They offer affordable and reliable wireless family plans starting at only $40 a month for unlimited talk, text and web. And today they’re giving away 2 Samsung Calibers, complete with one month of service to one lucky Weddingbee reader!

There is no contract required should you win these phones and service. After one month you can choose to continue service or discontinue it at your leisure!

There are 2 ways to enter this contest! For one, you can simply comment below. And, if you’d like to enter again, follow @weddingbee on Twitter and retweet the contest by simply clicking here. From there, comment again here and let us know you retweeted! You have until Wednesday, May 5th at midnight PST to enter. Good luck!

Once upon a time, I decided my teeth weren’t white enough. This was probably around the time marketing agencies began shamelessly marketing teeth whitening products. Crazy, huh? So, I went to my local drug store and bought a box of these:

After 3 days of use, I became a whitening strip drop-out. OUCH! I must have insanely sensitive teeth because these things killed. I gave up. Months later, I made an appointment with my dentist for professional whitening. I figured they would get the job done most efficiently, and I hadn’t heard any horror stories. Um, yeah—I was knocked out for a whole day! Holy horrible pain! Note to self: you have massively sensitive teeth.
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Mr. Dolphin immediately started building us a wedding website the day after we got engaged (a whole 2 years ago). So, at the time, we quickly picked some wedding colors (blue & green) and he got to work. Now that our invitations are out in the mail (eek! I’m jittery with excitement!), we felt we needed to update our wedding website, since we are referring our guests to our website in our invitations, for further details (directions, detailed menu, registry, etc).

Okay… so I have to tell you—Mr. Dolphin and I have been putting off the wedding website redesign for weeks. As I like to say, we were avoiding it like the plague. This past weekend, Mr. Dolphin took matters into his own hands and forced both of us to sit down and redesign the site. I was kicking and screaming the whole time, as I felt watching my recorded shows, Grey’s Anatomy and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, were more fun.

With the redesign (well, it was more of a color change, and landing page change), our new color scheme (aqua & yellow), and our new design palette I developed over winter break, were incorporated.

Before: our old design colors and fonts…
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I just got an invitation in the mail to my good friend Erin’s wedding and I noticed that the little birds she used on her invites were distinctly different.

Whatever could they mean?
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Ten years is a long time. It’s an entire decade. A tenth of a century. The length of the Friends series. And the approximate amount of time needed for a Twinkie to become stale. It also happens to be how long Mr. PC and I have been together.

Let me take you back. It was 2000, and Mr. PC and I were both high school sophomores. We were in the same Spanish class. He thought I was funny. And I thought his accent was muy caliente (though admittedly, his accent probably left something to be desired, but my teenage hormones were clouding my thinking). We talked. I tossed my hair around, which he liked. He tossed around his PSAT scores, which I liked. One thing led to another, and 3 months and one 6 hour phone call later, we were officially dating.

We’ve been through a lot together in the last ten years: prom dramas, college admissions, dorm food, a 3 hour time difference while I lived in DC for 16 months, the dissolution of N*Sync, a family divorce, an episode of micturition syncope, and our own development into full fledged adults (well, maybe just 83% adult, but close enough).

When people hear we’ve been together a decade, they’re shocked. Understandably. 10 years is a long time, and a lot has happened since the Pin-ster and I became an item.
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Starbright333 will be wearing her grandmother’s stunning ring on her wedding day.

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I’m not a cake person. There, I said it.

These days everyone is looking for ways to make their wedding unique and put their own stamp on it—one thing I feel compelled to discuss is my complete obsession with the idea of scrapping the cake altogether and moving to Paris so I can have a croquembouche.

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Is that not the cutest and most delicious thing you’ve ever laid your eyes on? I mean, how can that not be tasty?

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At the end of our most recent Pittsburgh trip, I was in the midst of a floral meeting (which was successful, FINALLY), when the florist asked me if we’d need corsages for our mothers. I replied that we’d need only one, and then felt sort of awkwardly compelled to explain that Mr. Octopus’s mom passed away a few months ago.

The florist, a kind and motherly type of woman, was very sympathetic. I would think that in her line of work, she has to navigate through these types of situations a lot. She gave me some thoughtful recommendations for how to pull off the lighting of the unity candle, and then we moved on to boutonnieres.

But the thought stuck in my mind: Oh, right. The unity candle. Which the two mothers are supposed to light together. Except we won’t have two mothers there now.

And then, later, MOH/Sister Lauren asked me what we were planning to do about the parent-child dances. Oh, right. The father-daughter dance, which I very much want to do. And the mother-son dance, which Mr. O very much wanted to do. I have no idea.
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Yo! Sorry for the silence—I’ve had a long and tired week. You know the type—you hit snooze 14 times and are dreaming about getting back in bed before you’ve even dragged your sorry ass out from under the covers? Yeah, it’s super glamorous here in LaLa land. Anyhoo… the silver lining to my sleepy cloud is called Ambien is that my amazing daisy wedding band is finally in the works! It feels like three years ago that I found the inspiration/awesome jeweler to create this baby and this week the CAD images arrived in my inbox. And I’m in LUUUURVE. And I’ve got a decision to make. And I need your help. So put on your thinking caps and tip ’em all jaunty like. Ready? Set. Go!

The Inspiration:

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The Ring:
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Two weeks ago in Indiana, both of my mom’s best friends threw me a shower at White Hawk Country Club, with help from my bridesmaid M. It was so unexpected and generous.

Everything was so thoughtful. The centerpieces were single pink peony blooms—the exact color of pink peonies I chose for the wedding.

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After the first look and family portraits, we were whisked away on a golf cart (woohoo! speedsters!) courtesy of the hotel for some portraits with our very own personal paparazzo, CK Hwang. I swear I heard him mutter something about being our biggest fan and following us until we loved him, but I can’t be sure.

So there we were, with our big fan base (population: 1, our hired photographer), striking a pose on a bridge…

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