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It’s official, the Paisleys’ have received their very first wedding present, in gorgeous gold wrapping paper, courtesy of Mother-in-Law Paisley. Thank you to MIL P! It was really fun and exciting!
Mr. Paisley was a silly Paisley-locks whilst opening this beautiful gift.
First, he came bearing the present with glee on his face.
He gave it a lil’ shake, trying to tell what was inside.
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* Learning to be a team for Halloween 2007 *
OK that picture is just silly. We Hot Wings dressed as Ninjas to fight GM Wingman B dressed as a pirate. It’s the best I could come with for this post. 
Anyways, I’ve mentioned how much Mr. Hot Wings and I believe in working on our relationship. We actually began officially “working” on it years ago. After being together for almost 2 years, we hit our first big rough patch in our relationship. We considered going to couple’s counseling then decided against it because some of our problems at the time had to do with our inter-cultural and inter-racial relationship. Instead, we decided to DIY our own couple’s counseling.
Warning: DIYing couple’s counseling is not a decision to be made lightly.
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A lot of my ideas for our City Hall wedding are inspired by my parents’ civil wedding (in fact, the whole idea of having a civil wedding before the wedding is inspired by them!). One of the traditions I’ve always loved when looking at their photos is the carnation arch:
I’m not sure how this tradition started but it seems to be pretty typical at city hall weddings in Romania. The family and friends of the bride and groom form an arch out of carnations and the bride and groom walk beneath it and get a photo taken.
I decided early on that I wanted to do the same thing at our ceremony.
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Magenta’s fiance just bought her this stunning ruby ring.
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Proposal: couch in our apartment, one Saturday night
Mr. Lobster: “Will you marry me?”
Me: “Right now???”
Mr. Lobster: “No, you know. Later.”
Me: (awkward pause) “Sure…but only if you keep giving me good foot rubs.”
OK, that’s not really what happened. The conversation DID happen but he wasn’t proposing. Let’s be clear: I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is happening, when, where, and what to wear. Mr. Lobster knows this and so his “pre-proposal” was his way to make sure we were on the same page.
When I was finally ready to be engaged, I wanted to pick out my ring. Little did he know, as any engagement-dreamy girl would do, I had already done my research (research = online pictures, ring stalking).
My dream ring looked like this:
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I’m always clicking random links on so many different blogs that I honestly can not say how I came across this beauty. These Orange and Blue details are absolutely fabulous… and that cake… seriously sweet and very Gator! Check out these beautiful details from Sunday Supper:
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You know how, when you read lists of tips on how to stick to your wedding budget, they often suggest that you prioritize the few elements that are most important to you, allocate “splurge” money for those, and be willing to compromise on other aspects? Mr. Octopus and I did that, and the elements of our wedding that were “big ticket” items were these: Heinz Chapel, the Children’s Museum, and catering.
You know what that leaves out of the “splurge” category? Photography.
I know a lot of people’s feelings are basically that pictures are the only real, tangible thing to take with you after a wedding is over, and the memories they preserve put them into the “worth a big investment” category. I can totally get behind that sentiment. On the other hand, as I’m sure everyone is aware, photography can get just mind-blowingly expensive. Photography really is important to both my groom and I, and we really did want beautiful pictures, but sticking to a budget also means making some very tough choices. My initial favorite photographers, many of whom were most definitely in “big splurge” territory, were out.
So, I initially set a budget of $1500 for a photographer. I’ll spare you all the gory details, but after a month and a half of devoted research, the results were grim.
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Some people like quick engagements, some go for the typical year, but me and Mr. Starfish… well, we wanted to enjoy the “honeymoon” period. I’ve called him my boyfriend for 5 years pre-proposal, I’ll call him fiance for 2, and then I get a lifetime to call him my husband. We chose a long engagement for a few reasons. I understand the short engagements if you don’t want to wait, but we’re planning a whole life together so we decided two years in the grand scheme of things wasn’t that bad, and honestly, the time is flying by.
So why wait? Here’s a few perks to a longer engagement:
1. Top choice of vendors. At two years out we still didn’t get our first choice date at our venue, but we did get one in our top 5. For every other vendor so far, we have been able to get our number one choices, like our photographer, David Bibeault.
My mother always said (why does so much of my wedding-related writing include references to my mother?) that your foundation garments are more important than any clothes you put on top.
She would be astonishingly embarrassed to find out that for the past several months I’ve been wearing a bra that barely fits. It doesn’t lift, separate, or support, and it looks awful and worn out. I’ve been trying to order new bras for months, both for everyday wear and for the wedding, and I haven’t had any success.
Photo from barenecessities.com
But Thursday, when my most recent shipment arrived only to not fit properly (again!), I got mad and frustrated.
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After taking our portraits we met up with our bridal party and got ready to enter the reception.
The countdown is on! In one week, Mrs. Penguin will be traveling to DC to join the wonderful bridal bloggers that make up The B-List, a consortium of the top wedding bloggers across the country! If you’re a wedding vendor, you’re officially invited to attend the meet + greet cocktail reception being held on Friday, April 16th at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia from 7 - 10 PM. The event is a great opportunity to meet and chat with all your favorite wedding bloggers in one place. For more information on registering to attend please click here: http://theblist.eventbrite.com/.
There are a limited number of spaces left for the event, so if you know you can attend, sign up ASAP! We hope to see you there!
Check out these great projects hive members have uploaded to Weddingbee’s DIY section! Click on the title of each project for tutorials!
Bridesmaids’ Frame Clutches by jyam
I was planning on splitting the invitation reveal up into multiple posts, hence my previous two, but with just over a month left to the wedding I just don’t have time. I’m a huge ball of stress because I have so many things left to do. Blogging gets pushed to my lunch hours at work, and most of the time I forget to upload my photos. Anyway, here goes nothing. I’ll keep the commentary to a minimum!
Presenting our invitations, which were truly a labor of love and frustration.
I didn’t feel like editing the pictures for privacy. Oh wells, don’t stalk me guys, K? The tags were somewhat of an afterthought. I cut them out with my Cricut and Goccoed the design on the front.
Mr. Peng and I were eating breakfast on Saturday and we started talking about the new baseball season. He was considering ordering the MLB Extra Innings cable package this year, so he could catch all the Twins games, which was going to cost around $180. He started to justify his potential purchase, saying he had an upcoming weekend training that his company was paying him for, and he was going to use that money to purchase the package.
I kind of laughed, and he asked me why I was laughing. I told him, “Honestly honey, if I wanted something like this, I’d never ask you if I could have it, nor would I justify my purchase to you by telling you I was going to use “this money” or “that money” to buy it. If you want the package, buy it. I know it’s important to you to catch as many Twins’ games as possible.”
He was kind of caught off guard for this comment. I think he thought I was going to give him resistance on his purchase, which explained whole spiel he prepared about where he was going to get the money to pay for it. But honestly, I just don’t care. And seriously—if I want something badly enough, there is really no way I’d try to run it by Mr. Peng. I’m an adult. I make my own money.
Sure, we spend WAY too much money on food, but as far as extraneous purchases, neither of us really make any. My hobby is blogging; and of course we don’t consider the internet as an extraneous expense. Mr. Peng’s hobby is watching sports, which rarely comes with a big price tag, aside from the occasional ticket purchase to catch a ballgame Neither of us really spends money purely on ourselves; we’re typically “wasting” money on things we do together, which, while not exactly fiscally responsible, counts toward us being happy and building memories and all that emotional crap.
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