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Dear Wedding Santa,
I’ve been a good engaged bride-to-be. I took careful time picking our venue, flowers, and dress and even stayed in budget. I haven’t yelled (a lot) at my fiance and I haven’t (yet) been called a bridezilla. So when you check you nice list twice, I should be there. Here’s my invitation wish list:
1. calligraphed envelopes
I’ve had the problem of my wedding shoes slipping on carpet, and since there is tons of carpet at the Country Club where we are having our reception, I knew I was going to have issues. I hadn’t really began the search for a remedy when I came across Mrs. Fro Yo’s post that mentioned these lovely little heart shaped shoe grippers. I was smitten! I immediately ordered these and are now waiting patiently for them to come in the mail.
source drugstore.com
As I’ve mentioned, I adore paper. I love, love, love it. The process of selecting wedding invitations has simultaneously been overwhelmingly fun, and just plain overwhelming. It has also consumed more of my time than I care to quantify, but in the end I’m confident it will be overwhelmingly worth it!
Laly is selling this beautiful ceremony canopy/huppah. She’s asking $980 or best offer.
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Spring Wedding Favors
“Embrace the season with wedding favors that are perfectly suited for spring! Adorable AND affordable.”
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On a daily basis, I don’t wear perfume. I just don’t. Don’t get me wrong, I used to wear it religiously, but in the past two years I only break it out for special occasions. Why is this? Well, I’m usually covered in any variety of solvents, paint, pastel dust, sweaty work-with-my-hands-goodness, and other magical chemicals. Why am I going to put on a load of fancy perfume?
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We decided that a pretty invitation deserves a nice presentation, so, since we came in under budget for the invites, we had them calligraphed.
When initial calligrapher recommendations were out of our budget, I took to the internet and found Nicole of The Left Handed Calligrapher. She’s very nice and super personable, and does an amazing job. As it turns out, Nicole has been featured in SMP and D Weddings, but when I booked her I hadn’t heard of her work yet.
Mr. Oyster-the-artist was excited about this. When we went and picked up the finished envelopes, he said, “They’re like little pieces of art!” Very cute.
So, check them out! The “font” we chose was Copperplate. I actually liked Spencerian better, but I really wanted the envelopes to be “mailable”. I took pictures of this particular set so that I could show them off without revealing where a family or friend lives. Do you know this person?
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Am I the only bride-to-be who has crazy fears floating around in her head about things that could go wrong on the wedding day? I’m not talking about fears that would be reasonable to have—what if people don’t have fun, what if a vendor screws us over, and so on—I’m talking about totally bizarre, paranoid, no-reason-to-believe-that-would-ever-happen fears.
Mine is that either my groom or I will come down with the stomach flu, or food poisoning, the night before/day of the wedding.
Charlotte and Harry demonstrate my nightmare.
There is no logical basis for this fear.
On my morning commute the other day, I was reading the Boston Metro and came across an article titled Take your husband’s name—and lose money. It was just a quick article, which warns that taking your husband’s name will “harm your career”.
The article goes on to state that women who take their husband’s last name are judged as “more dependent and less ambitious” and “less intelligent and competent” than women who keep their maiden names.
It quotes a statistic from a study in the current issue of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, stating women who take their husband’s last name earn nearly $1,500.00 less per month. I wonder what types of women were polled in this survey which came up with these statistics. I feel it is more common in certain industries to keep your maiden name.
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Yes, I did… I just used the most trendy word of the English language right now… green. But really, there’s so much more than just trends when it comes to caring about the environment. I will admit that there is always more I can be doing to reduce my carbon footprint and in that effort… here are some ways to go green which will inevitably save you some green (so you can afford that killer band or that hot little pair of Manolos).
One recent find is Earth Aid. This nifty little site helps you calculate your energy usage, gives you tips on how to reduce that usage (which in turn will lower your bills) and then even provides opportunities to earn rewards based on your energy savings!
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Mr. Sunbeam and I had taken a lot of photos before our ceremony. We did a first look, pictures at our old high school, and pictures at my parents’ house, but I still needed a few pictures of everyone at the altar post-ceremony! Those are the sort of photos I remember from my grandparents’ wedding and my parents’ wedding. The classic just-married-and-posing-at-the-altar-with-your-family portraits.
My family in law
Check out these great projects hive members have uploaded to Weddingbee’s DIY section! Click on the title of each project for tutorials!
Wooden Frame Table Numbers by VagabondGurl
What are pomanders? Well, when Mr. Dolphin and I jumped on this crazy ride called our wedding, we had no idea. I simply dubbed them daisy balls ’til I could properly pronounce their official name (thanks to some help from Seminole Bridesmaid, aka, the wedding guru).
image from Weddingbee Classifieds
After seeing these daisy pomanders in the Weddingbee Classifieds section for $75 for 10 of them (not including shipping or shepherds hooks to hang them on), I figured I could tackle these myself (and since the listing quickly sold, I had no choice but to make them myself). So, on I went to Walmart to purchase 6 green floral foam balls (only 6, not 10, because we are on quite the budget), yellow ribbon, and several bunches of daisies.
These beautiful daisy pomanders are super easy (and really quite fun to put together).
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You know how it goes: you have a general idea of what you’re looking for, do some research, make some calls, look at a bunch of options. Next, you agonize over the pros and cons and eventually embrace your decision. That was pretty much how we came to choose our wedding venue. If Mr. Seashell is reading, he’s rolling his eyes right now. More on that later.
Going with the tradition of celebrating the wedding where the bride is from, we had come to embrace a Rhode Island wedding. From there, selecting the season was an easy choice: spring is far too unpredictable and rainy, summer is too hot and sticky, winter is a crap-shoot between snowy perfection and gloom, and fall is… well, fall is when New England is at its most gorgeous. The rich, golden, colorful leaves, warm days and cool nights, apple cider, pumpkin picking, sweatshirts and shorts at the beach, and grabbing one last meal of clam cakes and chowder before winter arrives, makes fall my absolute favorite season. Thus, in a venue, we wanted something that felt uniquely New England.
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We left off with me and Mr. Perfume delivering the welcome bags and assembling the macaron favors. It’s still Friday and our tea ceremony (I’ll generically call it just a tea ceremony, as it was more confusion than a real Vietnamese dam hoi) was on for 3:00PM. A dam hoi is an ’asking’ or engagement ceremony. This is less a story about the ceremony and more about the give and take (and miscommunication) that comes with a mother’s involvement in wedding planning.
I don’t know where to start with this. Many of you won’t be able to identify with this tradition, but just as many will know what I’m talking about when I say my mother was totally frustrating! First, it was her strong desire to have something to honor this part of our heritage. That’s fine. But somewhere along the way, she just thought it would happen. On its own. Or that I’d figure it out—me, who barely speaks Vietnamese and is embarrassingly estranged from the culture (judge me not). Anyway, I didn’t want anything elaborate. I had asked my mother several times to explain how it works. Mind you, she is NOT good at explaining. ANYTHING. God love her, she is a great mom and a sweet woman, but hell, she cannot explain her way out of a bag! Anyway, I had asked her many times: Please tell me step-by-step what we need to do, what things we need to organize, what we need to purchase. I always got some meandering story and little bits of inconsistent details. Actually, I’m not even sure she really even knew what goes into it.
Original Title: Uh-Ohs And Party Rentals
Don’t you hate it when you write a blog post a week in advance, and then all your plans get ruined? OK, maybe this hasn’t happened to you (lucky), but that’s exactly what happened to me! I just found out our second party rental company has been lying to us for weeks about their availability, and now we’re at a loss as to what to do!
But first, I’ll let you read what I wrote last week, so you know the back story. I need your help, hive! And sorry in advance, this is a long post!
A word of caution for other brides to be: if you have your heart set on something from a party rental company, make sure you’ve also found that something at another company as a backup.
I’m speaking from firsthand knowledge!
Early on in our wedding planning, around the time I was envisioning tablescapes and centerpiece designs, I got it stuck in my mind that we needed to have purple charger plates on the tables. I felt it was really important with a buffet dinner to have a place holder, since the dinner plates wouldn’t be set up on the tables ahead of time. And I really loved that they added color to our tables.
Something like these Photoshop mock ups I did ages ago:
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