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Happy Friday hive!
Many hive members have suggested that we update our registration parameters to allow non-engaged users to bypass having to add a wedding date. Since we have so many different users—brides, bridesmaids, wedding enthusiasts, married, and yet to be engaged members—we’ve updated registration page with a drop-down menu that allows you to bypass having to enter a wedding date, should you not have one!
If you’ve registered in the past with a “fake” wedding date (because you don’t have one), feel free to edit your profile to reflect your status if you’d like! We know that there were a lot of members that were itching for this update, and we’re glad to deliver. 
If you have an idea that you’d like to see implemented on Weddingbee, head over to the Ideas Board and make a suggestion! And be sure to vote on and comment on your favorite ideas so we can better understand what hive members want the most.
Knowing that scent is tied to memory, and also knowing that I can still remember the perfume I was wearing when I went on my first date with Mr. French Fries (Juicy Couture, for those interested), I’ve been keeping my eye out for a wedding day perfume for quite some time now.
I’ve stopped at the perfume counter on a few shopping trips, and originally thought that I would go with Marc Jacobs new scent, Lola. I currently wear Daisy, so when they described this as the “older, more grown up sister to Daisy” I was sure I would love it.
My wedding shoes are loud. Our venue has hardwood floors. We’re not having an aisle runner.
Before we get to the gist, let’s have a look at these fabulous shoes again because, goddamn, I love ‘em:
So, you can probably see where this is going.
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Please read this post while playing the following video:
I’m coming out! I want the world to know. Got to let it show.
I may not have the furry, sparkly ensemble that she’s sporting but it is white—I feel like we connect on that level. Sing it Diana.
As I began blogging, I’d been a bit guarded in terms of personal photos, stories, etc. I honestly can’t give you a solid reason why I chose this route but I will say that after support from both Frogger and my bitchin’ bridesmaids, I’ve decided to let it all hang out. Here goes!
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Here’s the second installment of the Bees’ Trash the Dress shoots in Vegas!
Ms Fondue headed down to Red Rock Canyon with Mrs. Mouse and Miss Cola. They braved hiking down to the bottom of one side of the canyon for these fantastic shots!
The Pug family (me, Mr. Pug and two pugs) flew from NYC to San Francisco on the Tuesday night before the wedding to finish preparations and spend quality time with the families.
My awesome sister and her husband had taken care of making many of the paper details (i.e. programs and menus, which I will post about later), but we had to make the OOT bags and take care of the crapload of other stuff that pops up before a wedding.
Like getting our marriage license on Thursday from San Francisco City Hall…
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So, hive, now that you’ve gotten to know me a little bit, I want to share with you something that Mr. O and I have been working our way through that has impacted our lives in an enormous way, in the hopes that some of you can relate, and maybe we can all support each other.
Just slightly less than eight months away from our wedding, Mr. Octopus and I experienced a catastrophic and tragic turn of events. On a completely normal Tuesday night, while he was cooking dinner and I was doing homework, his father called. Mr. O’s mother—with whom he had an incredibly close, deeply loving relationship—had experienced a very sudden, massive heart attack and passed away. The hours, days, and weeks that followed were surreal in their horribleness, but amidst the shock, grief, and loss, and the many other decisions that had to be made following her death, we realized a question had to be addressed: what are we going to do about the wedding?
I’ll be honest, we gave some real consideration to toning our plans down or postponing our marriage for sometime later in the future. However, after discussion with each other and our families, and time for reflecting, we’ve chosen not to do either of those. Our wedding is continuing on—same plans, same day—as we had imagined it before my future mother-in-law’s passing.
There are a few reasons why we made that choice.
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A few months ago we decided to try and tackle the Priest (sorry for the football pun) and the tuxes. We have an extensive checklist that we made (which is taped to the wall in our dining room) and have been slowly checking off all the items. One very important item on the list was tuxes for the groom and groomsmen.
We went to Men’s Warehouse and picked out the tuxes for Mr. Dolphin and his groomsmen. Mr. Dolphin was so sweet and modeled the two combinations for me (since I’m a very visual person).
(Personal Photo)
OK, maybe I’m not quite here yet! (This was taken when I was getting my hair done for one of my BM’s weddings in May 2009). My hair trials won’t start until sometime in June. In the meantime I am collecting lots of ideas, of course! Below are just a few of many…
I know there’s a ton of discussion on postage here on the ’Bee! I was so paranoid about the constant rise of postage costs that for our RSVP return envelopes I went with the simple “Forever” bell stamps. My paranoia trumped my desire for coordinating stamps.
So, if you’re in the mindset that “stamps are just stamps” like I was, maybe you’ll consider these for your wedding. I just heard about a new set of stamps coming out on April 30th, and they make my pet-loving heart melt. The “Adopt a Shelter Pet” 44-cent stamp arrives soon (currently available for pre-order—I just pre-ordered myself 160 stamps!).
In celebration of the stamps, the Postal Service, together with Ellen DeGeneres and Halo: Purely for Pets, is donating 1 million meals to shelter pets (ONE MILLION!) around the country.
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I’ll get this out of the way: it is really sad that there was a volcanic eruption and ash it bad for the lungs and not good for air travel. No one is happy that there is ash-air abound. I am sorry if you are stuck in ash-land. No, not Ashland, Oregon where the Shakespeare Festival is held (thanks, elementary school!), but ash-land. Note hyphen.
So, back to being selfish.
Ash is stopping flights and that’s making it hard to get certain flowers. Why do I know this? It’s because I’m still going through post-wedding-depression and keep up with this stuff even after over 2 years of being married. Mr. GB forgives me, or rather, doesn’t know I’m still doing this and would probably be horrified if he knew. Thankfully, he doesn’t read my blog because he says I’m horribly cryptic and when I was traveling Europe with my landlord before we were dating, he read it and felt miserable. I’m glad I cut that off early. This is also why I can tell you really embarrassing stories about him. Because he doesn’t know.
When I build my time machine, I’m going to go back in time and take this bouquet from Mrs. Cowboy Boot and then go further back in time to my wedding. It’s a complicated plan, but it just might work…
So what do you do when your dream flowers are unavailable?
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A long time ago in a Hyatt far, far away… I went to a bridal show. In and for the County of Monterey, actually. I don’t really recall why I went, as I’m not getting married in Monterey, but I think it had something to do with the “free gift” they were handing out to attendees. I have a serious penchant for free things, it seems.
Well, luckily for me, the free gift was a garter!
Score, much? And I do highly recommend the Monterey bridal show for any central coast brides. They hold it twice a year, and the cake and food samples were delicious.
Anyway, let’s make this freebie a little more Sewing-esque, shall we?
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OK. It is time to speak the truth. I don’t care who you are, but SOME part of your overall wedding day happiness will involve your appearance. Whether you are hitting the salon for a fancy updo and makeup or doing it yourself, every bride wants to feel beautiful on her wedding day. I know that this is true for me. And… part of this wedding day beauty for me involves not only my face and hair, but how my body looks as well. I know, I sound like a broken record of pretty much any bride out there, but I want to look HOT! So sue me. No wait… don’t sue me—that is the opposite of the point I’m trying to make (The Office, anyone?)!
Annnnyway… when I started thinking about how to achieve the physique I desire for my wedding day, inevitably one thing had to come into play: what I eat.
Ugh. How I wish that candy and french fries were considered “healthy” foods.
Now, I don’t necessarily consider my eating plan a diet… I see it more as a series of healthy substitutions. I don’t particularly like to decrease the amount of food that I eat, because that is no fun, and I LOVE food. Plus, starving yourself is just not healthy! However, if I make smart choices most of the time, it makes me feel good, I look good, and I am still able to partake in some delicious treats now and then.
So… what do I eat? Come on along and I’ll show you…
If the folks over at Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma were keeping a close watch on our registry item list, they might think I was, well, a lil’ bit crazy.
Let me explain: I keep going back and forth regarding how I feel about our registry. Way way back in the beginning (of time?) we were not going to have a registry. No, we said, we’d love to get creative, thoughtful presents that our guests took the time to really think through and that would reflect us as a couple.
But with an engagement party looming, FMIL Trail Mix received several inquiries to our registry whereabouts and we feared the dreaded “kitschy” presents that might come our way without a registry, so we caved to the pressure. Fine, we said, we’ll do a limited registry with just a few things we really need. With our limited space in our miniscule studio, we have no room for extra “stuff”.
But then we went to the these stores, got that handy-dandy scanner gun and, folks, it was game over (or game on, depending on how you look at it).
We definitely had some fun registering for lots of things that somehow were absolutely “necessary”. Like an ice cream maker. Which we actually got and which, by the way, totally freakin’ rocks. But a kitchen staple? Not so much.
However, once the engagement party was over (from which we received lots of lovely gifts off the registry!) I kind of went a little bit psycho about the whole thing.
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OH SHOES. I love all my shoes. But, I really wanted to keep my shoes simple for the wedding day. Mostly because 1) No one will see them under my tulle skirt, and 2) Standing 18 hours in heels is very uncomfortable.
But then I kept reading Weddingbee and saw posts like this and this and this. Gaaah. It ignited the fire. I want pretty shoes for my wedding day so I can be as cute as this bride:
After all, I suffer in my shoes through other peoples’ weddings, why wouldn’t I do the same for my own? What do you think of these lovely ladies?
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