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Everyone, please don’t take my girly-girl membership card away for the admission I’m about to make, but—I am not a shoe girl. I can appreciate the aesthetics of a really beautiful pair, but I don’t know, they just aren’t my first (or second, or third, or fourth) passion, as far as indulgences go. My lukewarm feelings toward shoes may also have something to do with the fact that I am absolutely incapable of walking prettily in a steep pair of heels. No kidding, I strap on anything over 3 inches—okay, let’s get real, 2.5 inches—and I’m lurching and staggering around like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Not. Cute.
So, my total klutzhood is one main reason why I will not be sporting anything along these adorable lines on my wedding day:
One of the upsides to having a sister get married the year before you is learning lessons through her experiences and some of your own. I learned some things that will be helpful when dealing with my own bridal shower, wedding, and some things that will help if I’m asked to be in another bridal party.
1. People do appreciate details. Especially the bride. Make sure you put thought into her shower and make it special. She will appreciate it.
Here I present the most awkward moments from our Blue Springs photo shoot! This is proof that we aren’t as photogenic as we were made out to be. Trust me on this: I have tons of non-professional awkward photos of Mr. Dolphin and I that I’m too scared/embarrassed to post. Here are the best of the awkward faces we made that day. Enjoy!
Easily my all time favorite from the compilation above is Mr. Dolphin’s face in the bottom row, third from the left. Hilarious. {I kind of want an 8 x 10 of this face}
*The slimy squishy floor of the springs facilitated this incredibly awesome awkward face
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Mr. Peng and I have distinctly different ideas of what “clean” is. To me, it’s the absence of germs and dust. To him, it’s more being “tidy”—the floor and tables being free of clutter.
I am a self admitted clutter monster. I’m guilty of just spreading my stuff OUT. I don’t love germs or things that have been sitting out for long… and that means a new dish every time I eat something new, a new glass every time I reach for a new drink, new undies every time my undies have been off of my butt for more than 5 mins. (Strange. True. I like new undies. What can I say?)
Often we’ll lie in bed and tease each other about this and that. It’s part of the way we communicate. But often our “teasing” about cleaning ends in me being in a huff. The mister will tease about how I’m so incredibly messy, how I never take the dirty coffee pot to the sink or how my clothes are strewn all over the chairs, and I fire back, asking him what magical fairy princess dragon slayer he thinks comes in and sanitizes the bathroom, mops the floors, sweeps the stairs, scrubs the sink and the stove with baking soda and vinegar, dusts the house top to bottom, washes the sheets, follows the dog around with plastic baggies every morning and is a living, breathing shit receptacle for the dog. Oh, yeah. I work too. Magical princess, indeed.
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DISCLAIMER: These tips are based on my personal experience. Obviously not everyone is the same and some things may work for you that didn’t work for me, and vice versa.
I was talking to a friend the other day about how I think when you’re first engaged, you shouldn’t be allowed to make any wedding purchases/decisions for the first 2 months. Sure, you could research your little heart out, but no deposits, no purchases, nothing permanent! Looking back, I made some decisions and purchases for our wedding before I had a clear idea of what I wanted, and I came to regret them. My first dress is an example of this, so I wrote this post with the hope that it may help someone else avoid becoming a two-dress bride/regret buying the “wrong” dress.
It goes without saying that you can avoid becoming a two dress bride by… um… not buying two dresses? Duh. This is pretty obvious. However, I believe there are some things you can do ahead of time, before you even buy your dress, that will help ensure that you won’t come to regret it later.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Miss Callalilly and her fiance chose to shoot their engagement photos on her parents’ property after a forest fire destroyed it. The shots are beautiful.
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Even though you will not see these projects in our wedding recaps, I thought I should mention them because we did spend LOTS of time on them.
First: the lost project. Sometimes when prepping for your wedding you lose track of some of the details, especially if you do a ton of DIY. So the day after our wedding I found this in a bag:
[ A very cute purple pomander! ]
We packed it with our flowers and one of our friends transported them to the ranch. But at some point it got lost, so our flower girl only had her little basket.
Many bees have blogged about different pomanders, but I though I should still show off how this detail was special to me:
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Friday confessions:
Sometimes, when I’m writing papers at my desk, I put on my wedding shoes just for fun. They class up my pajama pants.
And sometimes I wear them while cooking. And I feel pretty sassy. And I tap-dance around my kitchen. Sometimes. If the mood strikes.
After we got our dance on and mingled, our coordinator told us it was cake time. Uhm, there is no need to tell me twice. I walked as swiftly as I could to the table as the DJ announced the names of the single ladies who were going to do the cake pull. 
Now for those of you who are like, “cake pull, what the heck?” It’s a southern tradition that is widely used in New Orleans weddings, and of course, there were a few ways I wanted to bring New Orleans traditions to our wedding. Every wedding I’ve been to has the traditional cake pulls, so I thought it would be fun to do them as well! Of course, I had to Ballet Flat-ify them. I wasn’t going to buy a traditional kit somewhere locally. So, I bought fun New Orleans-y charms and made them myself! Easiest peasiest DIY project evah!
The bakery actually called me after my MOH dropped the cake pulls off for me, and asked if they should use white ribbon instead. They thought it would be more traditional. Hrm… I guess they didn’t realize I made these myself for a reason! They matched the fleur de lis on the cakes fairly closely too, don’t you think?
So, after rounding up the ladies from their groovin’, it was time to cheese it for the camera and grab that ribbon…
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Before I show you the plentiful results of my shopping trips, who wants to hear my lessons learned?
1) Research and mull it over. Tastes change. Your vision of your wedding will change. Be open to different styles but dog ear the ones you like.
2) Put together a slide show. OK, so maybe you don’t have to do that. *I* did because I’m a nerd. At least print out pictures of the dresses you like. When you shop you and your sales consultant will have them as a reference of your likes and dislikes even if you can’t verbalize them.
As you may have noticed, I went from posting twice a day to being a little scarce around here. Don’t worry, my enthusiasm about Weddingbee has most definitely not wavered. I’ve just been totally overwhelmed with school and work craziness, running on caffeine and adrenaline, and feeling very far removed from the wonderful world of wedding planning. But I promise I’m coming out of my shell now! (You know, my shell, since I’m a turtle…get it?!) I have so many wedding details I can’t wait to share with you next week, but today I’m got another little collection of inspiration photos to show off.
An aspect of our wedding that I’ve barely given a thought to is how I’m going to wear my hair. I know I want it down, but that’s about it. When I hit the three month countdown the other day, it really hit me that it’s time to start figuring this stuff out! Honestly, looking through wedding magazines for hairstyles has left me feeling a little uninspired. A lot of beautiful updos, but not many brides with their hair down, and nothing that really sticks out as my style. Then it occurred to me to look to one of my very favorite places: the fashion industry!
Right now I’m just loving, like love love loving the hair and makeup looks from the Dior Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear show. Retro waves, side part, totally glamorous…
Welcome to Part 2 of Mr. Dolphin’s and my 3 part Blue Springs SAGA. Hooray for SAGAS!
Mr. Dolphin is the first to take the plunge into the cold waters of the springs… and boy were they cold!
OK, so my shower was completely amazing, wonderful, awesome, incredible, etc. Make no mistake about that. But I have to confess that it did end on a slightly negative note. Mr Trail Mix had been asked to stop by about half an hour before it was supposed to end. We made sure to finish up all the games and presents a bit early in order to have time to spend with him and take a few pictures and so forth. Well, at 1:40 we were still waiting for him. 10 minutes later, still waiting. Finally, with literally 3 minutes left before we had to leave, he made it.
I. WAS. PISSED, to put it bluntly. I had been looking forward to him coming the entire time and I wanted him to have a chance to be fussed over by all my aunts and cousins and get a chance to take some pictures of us together. When he finally arrived, I was, how shall I say? Not exactly nice to him. We actually got in a bit of a spat over it, although luckily I don’t think anyone else noticed since everyone was too busy moving the massive amounts of presents downstairs and collecting everything.
However, turns out he did leave with (barely) enough time to get there when he had been asked to arrive but he stopped to buy me flowers, in which took almost 20 minutes for the florist to make a bouquet. Once he told me this, I instantly felt like a complete and total ass. He apologized for being so late and missing the end of the shower, I apologized for over-reacting and being a mega-biotch.
But I’m still kind of mad at myself for getting so upset the last 30 minutes of the shower. My mom and aunt kept telling me to let it go and brush it aside but I just couldn’t.
So, I want to be the mature child and learn a lesson from my overreaction.
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Like most brides planning out-of-town weddings, I have learned to seize opportunities in which I can accomplish big chunks of tasks. As Mom Octopus is an elementary school teacher, MOH/Sister Lauren is a college student, and I am a graduate student, we all had two weeks off for the December holidays. I gleefully pounced on and claimed several days of their time off, and scheduled us all for another jam-packed road trip to Pittsburgh!
One of the major tasks for this trip was finding dresses for my glorious bridesmaids! I have known for a long time that I wanted everyone to choose their own dresses, as I have six ladies, all with different taste. They also vary widely in height and figure, and the thought of picking out one dress that would flatter them all equally and make everyone comfortable and happy gave me the cold sweats. Popular opinion was that we should stick to one major retailer and have everyone pick a dress in the same shade. Also, as three of my bridesmaids are college students and one is a mother who is paying a mortgage, I wanted to be as cost-conscious as possible. With those criteria in mind, MOH Lauren, Bridesmaid Clara, Bridesmaid Erica, Mom Octopus and I all rolled out to Alfred Angelo and David’s Bridal.
At Alfred Angelo, the girls tried on a whole heap of different dresses.
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