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Sunday I went up to my friend Sharon’s house for some foiling/hair cutting fun… we took care of each others’ atrocious roots (don’t judge the lazy stylists) to make sure we’re in tip-top shape for next week, and at the same time I was able to drop off our OOT bags. Ah, there’s room in my closet again! Sharon is truly my hero – she’s taking the bags down there for us in the same bag we plan to stuff full of wedding dress for her return flight home. Yep, she’s taking that off my hands, too. I figured I’d see if she could also stuff these bad boys into said bag to which she happily obliged…
Best post title ever, no? My brain is so incredibly fried from invitation-overload, and thankfully we’re at the point where there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Take a gander at all that has gone down…
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After narrowing down a few ideas for the bridesmaids’ dresses, I decided I was in love with the simplicity of the Alfred Sung D446 on the Dessy website, which is the dress on the right.
I called up every store in MA and RI that carries Alfred Sung. At the time, the spring collection just came out and I could only find one store that carried the D446. So I booked an appointment at Flair Bridesmaids.
Well, apparently I know nothing about fabrics.
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Mr. Hot Dog is a very casual guy. I mean very. Jeans and t-shirt are what fills his closet, hiding a few hardly-worn button downs and 2 pairs of slacks. Knowing this, there was no way I would ask my hunny to wear a full-on tuxedo on our big day. Not to mention, it wouldn’t really go with the feel or aesthetic. And he’s a huge dude! 230 pounds-huge! So even finding a tux or suit to rent would be a huge chore!
This was also the only thing that he had a real opinion on. He wanted to choose his attire. But, knowing him and taking all these factors into consideration, I think I have a pretty good idea of what he’ll choose.
I showed Mr. HD this photo and he thought it was great, minus the flip flops. He has this weird thing about feet… so he’d probably swap them for some brown boots.
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A few months before the wedding I had the best bachelorette party I could have ever asked for. So when Mr. Cloud’s Best Man started making plans for his bachelor party I was really excited for him to have a great experience, too! I did lay down some rules though when it came to their planning. No, no, it’s not what you are thinking! I trust Mr. Cloud to use good judgment if he were to end up in any compromising situations (such as those that might include ladies being paid to take their clothes off). I did not, however, trust him or his boys to not bring me home a very drunken groom! I also wanted to be sure my cousins, who grew up more like brothers to me, were also able to attend. So my “rules” were simple: the party was NOT to be held the night before the wedding, but it must be held at a time that would make it possible for ALL the guys in our life to attend if they wanted. Not too bad, right?
The Thursday before the wedding the boys were set for some fun. I never expected to see pictures, but Facebook came through and I present you with a small glimpse into Mr. Cloud’s last night of freedom!
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I have a little confession: every time I see a post on the boards about wedding to-do lists or countdowns, I feel physically ill. My heart starts racing, I feel woozy and light-headed, and I look for a happier, less stressful post. I am in denial about our wedding date, people.
I have to-do lists scattered throughout my email inbox. Do I look at them anymore? No. I can’t handle the reality of this impending date, where so many different variables have to come together—very expensive variables, I might add.
I’m not in freak-out territory yet.
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AAlmeyda and her hubby-to-be take a moment on the stairs at Georgia Tech.
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When I left off, I was getting myself worked up into a tizzy over the way our wedding would look. I was getting so hung up on the idea of needing to have a distinct motif on which to base all my choices that it was making me feel stressed and pressured.
So I said, “this is for the birds!” and decided to scrap the idea of a theme entirely. It was making me feel unnecessarily flipped out, so I gave up on having some kind of narrative which I could use to precisely match all the different elements of our wedding. Now, I’m just using some basic guidelines to make our decisions.
The colors are jewel tones of red and purple, with accents of gold.
I did the calligraphy myself and I just want to encourage other brides with very bad handwriting that it’s possible to do!
I actually have a form of dyslexia, and one of my unique disabilities is impaired handwriting. My hand cramps up after writing a few sentences, and my handwriting looks like that of a serial killer’s. Plus, it changes all the time. Weird, I know. It’s probably because of all the attempts over the years to try to achieve better-looking handwriting. It’s really, really bad and I’m ashamed of it. I hold my pencil incorrectly, like a left-handed person but in my right hand. Really, it’s a miracle that I got through college writing all those essay test questions, because I write much, much slower than the average person.
I’m going to spare you pictures of my hideous handwriting and show you my calligraphy. For some reason, if I put my mind to it, I can do calligraphy, sort of. I have middling artistic talent, so when I want to write pretty, I try to look at it as drawing rather than writing. But I’m still slow at it. And I still usually can’t achieve straight lines.
Here’s a tutorial for bad-handwriting-ladies to achieve DIY calligraphy:
Step 1:
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I’m so excited that our pictures from our Blue Springs photo shoot with Lindsey of Pure Photography are up! I only stalked her blog like every day since the shoot. 
If you didn’t know, we actually won this shoot with the amazing Lindsey. A Gainesville invitation designer, Unique Designs, was having a free photography session giveaway with Lindsey in celebration of their new blog and website…. and WE WON! Crazy, I know. I feel seriously lucky.
When we won, Mr. Dolphin and I knew we wanted to do something totally different. So, Lindsey suggested we head over to Blue Springs in High Springs, FL for some cool/blue/crystal clear/watery fun! Bring some balloons into the mix and you have a pretty sweet photo shoot.
This is probably one of my favorites (so far) from the shoot. Love!
Our beautiful invitations have arrived! Having picked these out nearly a year ago, I am happy to present them (in slightly altered form, sorry):
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They are beautiful to me now, but when I picked them up I was a little disappointed with the accent color, a neutral-ish shade of pink that was a little different from how it appeared in the store sample book. Also, it was a bit of a struggle to get these invitations designed in quite the right way (multiple proofs), and this probably added to the underwhelming-ness of seeing them for the first time.
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After I showed off my crazy (klutzy) dance skills, it was time to dance with my dad. I was a little nervous here, because I hadn’t danced with my dad before either! However, my dad is a crazy, hilarious guy, and he made sure to make light of this situation.
In the planning days, I asked my Dad for music preferences. He didn’t seem to care, and it was hard to find something that perfectly fit our relationship. We aren’t don’t exactly fit the mushy father/daughter roles. Rather, it was more like the kind of relationship where he’d pitch a softball to me in the backyard for hours after school and would take me fishing on random Saturdays, where we ate lunch at random camps along the swamps, dodging bees away from the Kool-Aid.
Since I couldn’t find the perfect song, I just kind of Googled “top father/daughter songs” and chose “Daughter” by Loudon Wainwright. Looking back, I have to laugh at myself for this choice. It was too dang sentimental. I remember Dad laughing out loud when he heard the lyrics, “that’s my daughter in the water,” and him screaming (yes, screaming) “Oh man, this song is SILLY!” After that, I couldn’t stop smiling and laughing. I love my Dad… haha!
At this point I wanted nothing more to do with the ring / proposal process. (Yes I don’t like surprises, but I wanted to keep some tradition.) We had met Nagi our jeweler and I told him what I wanted. Mr. Lobster was responsible for everything else. It turns out he needed an axe.
Because we live in the city, Mr. Lobster could only see Nagi on the weekends. On the Sunday he picked up the ring, the store was closed so Nagi invited him over to his house. When Mr. L arrived, Nagi displayed his hospitality with an unexpected surprise - a full spread Lebanese lunch. Mr. Lobster loooves to eat (as do I, we’re happy eaters) and dug in. Then Nagi asked a question that Mr. Lobster’s never been asked…
After the tea party, all the girls ran back to my SIL’s house to sort through the mess of wedding supplies. I still had DIY projects that needed to be finished, so we split the group up to make the most of our time before the rehearsal later that night.
Half of the girls ran last-minute errands (store runs, dropping off OOT bags, etc.) while the other half transported as many things as they could to our reception site. I really (and I mean REALLY) lucked out because our wedding was the only one that weekend at Savannah Station, so the site coordinator let us go ahead and set up and assemble whatever we could. I left photos of what I wanted each table to look like for the coordinator and made a separate storage pile of all the ceremony decor for easy access the following morning.
When we finally finished, it was nearly time for the rehearsal! First, we had to check into our fabulous hotel to get ready for the rehearsal.
But, we hit a snag.
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You may have noticed that I’ve been totally mum when it comes to music, or maybe you remember that I mentioned that the big M is F Stripes’ domain.
Well, everyone, I have a confession to make. I’m kind of a control freak. And so even though music is totally F Stripes’ world (she worked at music mecca Amoeba in her pre-chef days) I have more opinions than a Crayola box has crayons. Sigh. See, I never know the names of artists (even if I LOVE their songs) so I kinda figured that I wouldn’t have (much of) an opinion about our music. Logical yes? Um, not really.
Since we LOVE a good dance party, F Stripes decided to start with our first dance song. She hit the computer, made lists and threw out song titles. There was a lot of head scratching (on my part) and a lot of Googling (on her part) and a lot of fantastic, beautiful, dare-I-say wedding classics suggested that left me feeling, well, unimpressed. My fantastic and inexcusable inability to remember artists names aside, I just can’t help myself—I want something uber personal, ya know? I want our song. If only we had a song…
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