Mrs. Veggie, Raglan, New Zealand/Scranton, PA
Age and Occupation: 27, Director of Small Non-Profit
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 42, PhD Student & Farmer
Engagement Date: June 13, 2009
Wedding Date: August 2010
Venue: Indian Head Camp, Honesdale Pennsylvania
About Me: I am a tree-huggin' farmer turned enthusiastic wedding-planner. I live in a house truck and wear flip-flops more often than shoes. In my old life I was a high school Spanish teacher in love with a crazy guy who lived off-the grid on a farm in New Hampshire. But, we decided to mix things up a bit, quit our jobs and move to New Zealand. My southern hemisphere lifestyle involves growing veggies, teaching, running our small non-profit, and surfing. I love laughing, singing, playing, and the inspirational Mr. Veggie (of course!). For our wedding, I am committed to throwing a killer party that celebrates our values without breaking the bank. Look forward to an eco-thrifty summer-campy weekend-long extravaganza.
This is how I am keeping myself sane while I wait for my dress to get here. (The dress that supposedly arrived in New Zealand 8 days ago, but has yet to make it to my PO Box…)
The two most frequently asked questions I’ve gotten on the ’bee are, “Can you explain your housetruck?” and “How do you make your inspiration boards?”
So I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone and do a little inspiration board tutorial using our cozy little housetruck as subject matter.
So, I’m no graphic designer, and I don’t have any fancy programs.
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Wedding Bios
Feature Launched: September 12, 2008
About: Wedding bios of real brides.
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Mrs. Mouse, Austin
Age and Occupation: 25, Weddingbee Editor/Attorney
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Civil Engineer
Engagement Date: December 19, 2007
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: Barr Mansion
About Me: I just graduated from law school and will be taking the bar, getting married, going on a honeymoon with my guy, and then trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. I was born and raised in a small East Texas town, but I'm no country girl! I'm obsessed with British accents, fantasy (including Harry Potter, of course), and classic rock. My fiance and I consider ourselves both music and beer snobs--but every once in awhile we love to hear a crappy band and drink a cheap brew or two. We're planning an eco-friendly, casual, English garden affair for the end of summer, and we can't wait for it to get here!
If you guys hadn’t noticed, I’ve been putting off my last official Weddingbee post. I’m not quite ready for my time here as a blogger to end! But I guess it’s better to finish my recaps while a few of you still remember me, so here it goes.
When I left off, everyone was having a great time at the reception: there was drinking, dancing, toasting, and faux-tobooth mayhem! We didn’t want the party to end, but we had to leave our venue, so I got over my fear of public speaking to make an announcement about our after party.
Pretty soon it was time for us to make our grand exit!
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Mrs. Trail Mix, New York
Age and Occupation: 26, PE Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, MBA Student
Engagement Date: March 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: Tannery Pond at the Darrow School
About Me: I'm a country girl who somehow found herself living in the Big Apple and loving every minute of it. I'm planning a rustic, country-chic wedding in my hometown in upstate New York and it's going to be a Party with a capital P. White wine, flea markets and running keep me happy and my friends, family and fiance are my world. I'm a little bit crafty, a little bit crazy but mostly just crazy in love.
A while ago, I was reading the ever-sensible and down-to-earth A Practical Wedding blog and came across a post about choices. In essence, the entry argued that everything regarding the wedding was a choice, not a necessity. You don’t need to have (insert any number of wedding-related items here), but most of us want them and therefore have to choose what to incorporate. Great advice, if I ever heard it, and I’ve kept it in my head since.
I’ve been thinking about this advice with the recent arrival and departure of our invitations. I’ll admit, my invitations were not in any way a DIY project nor were they particularly cost-effective (I got a great deal on them but they were well over the usual cost per invite of a handmade one). I love them to death but the cost left little room for extras.
Which is why I chose to not have calligraphy addresses or even faux-lligraphy addresses. Nope, instead I grabbed a pretty, light blue Gel ink sparkly pen and wrote everything out by hand, adding a few flourishes here and there, but nothing super-intense. Although there was a big part of me that was convinced that the outside of the envelopes had to be as beautiful as the insides, the budget has been steadily increasing as the wedding approaches and we all know the feeling of panic that tends to accompany that phenomenon.
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Mrs. Hot Wings, Chicago/San Diego
Age and Occupation: 28, Professor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, Instructor
Engagement Date: December 20, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2010
Venue: Ocean View Villas/Jasmine Seafood Restaurant
About Me: I am a psychology grad student living in Chicago and planning my wedding to a fellow psych grad student. I am a Sunny So-Cal bred gal who trudged across the country to follow her love of psychology and ended up finding a partner in the process. I am overly passionate about anything I involve myself with. I am an activist, a foodie, a reality TV watching junkie, an over-analyzer, a photography obsesser, and am utterly cheesy to the core. This is a story of what happens when a boy and a girl meet, fall in love over academic dorkiness, and a shared love for life. We (mostly I) are planning our semi-destination wedding in my hometown of San Diego. We are excited to bring our families and friends together from across our lifespans to celebrate our future in a grand 400+ person culturally blended affair!
We are having 2 signature cocktails at our reception: a blue margarita and a Midori sour—blue and a green to match our Coastal Chic Theme (Yup, I changed the theme name again). Below is a mock set-up. I’ll put a sign (to be created) with some votives on white linens.
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Classifieds
Feature Launched: April 30, 2008
About: A roundup of the best Weddingbee Classified listings.
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Mrs. Beagle, Austin
Age and Occupation: 26, Electrical Engineer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Finance
Engagement Date: July 12, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2009
Venue: Church Ceremony/Reception at The Waterford House
About Me: I am a true, but rare, Austinite---I was born, raised, and continue to live in this great city! Although
I am an engineer by day, I feed my inner creative side through crafting, sewing, and obsessing over Martha Stewart. I love coffee, my mister, NPR, and exploring all the nooks and crannies of Austin.
I can't wait to share my adventures in DIY and wedding planning with all of you!
After our excursions to Cabo San Lucas and Santa Maria, we spent the next few days exploring the city closest to where we were staying: San Jose del Cabo. In this small town, resides a beautiful mission, which is the foundation of the city.
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Mrs. Frozen Yogurt, Dallas
Age and Occupation: 28, Special Projects Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Equity Trader
Engagement Date: March 19, 2009
Wedding Date: April 2010
Venue: Marie Gabrielle, Dallas
About Me: I was born and raised in Texas, and have lived in several of the cities across the state, but I currently reside in Austin. I went to college in Boston and have a special place in my heart for the Northeast. I love reading, shopping, wine, reuniting with college friends that are scattered across the country, reality TV, trying out new recipes, and attempting all the DIY projects that come along with wedding planning. I'm a "bleeding heart, save the world type" and thankfully my job allows me to work on legislation and policy to help out those in need. I met Mr. Frozen Yogurt in a bar, though he doesn't even drink! And now we are planning a modern yet vintage wedding in Dallas while dealing with the trials and tribulations of first time homeownership.
I wanted to try to fit an Eminem song into one of my titles, so this was my attempt. But the real reason for this post is to talk about the entrance to the reception. See, as I’ve mentioned before, we both hate to be the center of attention. I’m a little more open to the idea, but Mr. Fro Yo is adamantly opposed. In fact, when I ask him if he’s nervous about getting married, he’ll say that the thing that worries him the most is that everyone will be looking at him during the ceremony. Aww.
So how the hell are two scaredy cats supposed to have an entrance into the reception?
A lot of couples come in like with the bouquet raised while holding hands:
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Mrs. Octopus, Boston, MA/Pittsburgh, PA
Age and Occupation: 25, Grad Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Graphics Operator for TV News
Engagement Date: May 6th, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Heinz Chapel Ceremony, Museum Reception
About Me: When my best friend dragged me to a toga party in our freshmen year of college, I was not expecting to meet my future husband; but seven years later, here we are. I'm a crazy-organized planner at heart, and I am a great lover of random trivia, books, chocolate, blogs, new and exciting adventures, mockumentary-style television, and anything heavily flavored with bright orange fake cheese powder. We're planning a festive and fun mini-destination wedding in the place where we met: fabulous Pittsburgh, PA! I can't wait to marry the man I love!
As Pitt alums, Mr. Octopus and I never had a doubt in our minds where our ceremony would be: Heinz Chapel, the chapel affiliated with the University.
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Mrs. Dolphin, Gainesville, FL
Age and Occupation: 24, Graduate Architecture Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Interactive Interface Developer
Engagement Date: February 14, 2008
Wedding Date: May 2010
Venue: Plantation Bay Country Club
About Me: I’m currently a Graduate Student at the University of Florida studying Architecture. I enjoy playing Scrabble with my Fiance, rooting for the Florida Gators, making any drink that involves a blender, cleaning (yes... I’m crazy), design... GOOD design that is, the new Pepsi with natural sugar, taking pictures, discovering new places in the U.S., and obsessing over doing (and designing) everything myself for our upcoming wedding!
At first, I really didn’t want to reveal any gifts I would be giving my beautiful bridesmaids. But, they are just so incredibly beautiful. I only had them in my hot little hands for 5 minutes and here I am writing a post about them! So here is my story on how these little babies got to be in my Dolphin bride hands…
After choosing (and my bridesmaids purchasing) an aqua colored bridesmaid dress, I decided that, without a doubt, they would need a hair flower to grace their lovely locks. It would help complete the look of Mr. Dolphin and my romantic/garden wedding. The search for a bridesmaid dress was long and discouraging at times, but I will save that story for another day. When searching for a hair flower I immediately got on Etsy and found the store of the seller JMGJewelDesign. I loved her flower hair piece called ’beach wedding’ but had a difficult time with paying $36 a piece one for my bridesmaids. I’m a budget bride—this was WAY out of my budget. So I messaged her to see if she could make them in a smaller version for me (and since I would be ordering so many, if a discount could happen as well). She quickly responded that she could make me a smaller version for $14 a pop. SCORE!
They are made of hand-trimmed ivory silk, ivory and powder almond Swarovski pearls, aqua tulle and felt petals. Check them out:
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Mrs. Nachos, Chicago/St. Thomas
Age and Occupation: 33, Commercial Real Estate & Hairstylist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 36, Radio Producer
Engagement Date: May 22, 2009
Wedding Date: April 2010
Venue: Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort, St. Thomas
About Me: I'm a happy, laid back city girl that can find the silver lining in any situation. An optimist at heart, my motto is to turn your "what ifs?" into "so whats!". My fiance is a radio producer and the biggest Cubs fan you'll meet - our apartment decor definitely shows it. He and I grew up next door to each other and because of it, we have the best home videos and easiest holiday dinners. We are planning an intimate wedding in the Virgin Islands and a cocktail party in June for 150 of our closest friends.
Now that we’re in the home stretch and I’ve recovered from by bachelorette party, I figured what better way to spend all my free time (ha!) than come up with another DIY project? So I present to you our water bottle labels for the OOT bags.
I started playing around in MS Word and tweaking with Photoshop and came up with this…
Oh, but wait, who’s that in the corner? It’s us in PowerPoint form!
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Mrs. Swan, New York City
Age and Occupation: 31, Legislative Representative
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Finance Guy
Engagement Date: August 9, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: Battery Gardens
About Me: I am an un-crafty but resourceful, Caribbean-born but New York-raised woman who's been known to analyze "Dancing with the Stars" and “So You Think You Can Dance”, buy stinky cheese, and use way too many parentheses. I keep lists for fun, am constantly daydreaming of my next international travel adventure (four continents down, three to go), debating sports (let’s Got Mets/Giants!) and dancing around my apartment to stay sane. I am excited to share our wedding planning journey as I hope to plan a streamlined, personal, and fun wedding with the greatest life partner I could ever imagine, Mr. Swan.
So there’s the saying, “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride,” but what if you’re like me? I’ve never been a bridesmaid!!! Yes, that’s right. I’ve never gotten the chance to look like this:
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Katherine Heigl, you look maaaarvelous, daahling… just not in this.
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Ms. Stripes, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 29, Costume Designer/Stylist
Fiancee's Age and Occupation: 29, Chef
Engagement Date: June 23, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Heritage Square Museum
About Me: I’m a type A creative with a messy streak, a loud mouth, and an uncanny knack for combining clashing patterns. I can usually be found with my nose in a book, my feet (or at least my toes) on the ground, my head in the clouds, and my arm around the prettiest girl you ever saw- aka
Fiancee Stripes. Together we’re planning a FUN vintage/modern French carnival wedding extravaganza and rockin’ dance party on a dime. (Say that three times fast!) Good coffee, long lists, Uniball pens, and my iPhone keep me sane, and making art, making trouble, and making out keep me happy! I love urban adventures, bike rides that end with afternoon drinks, breakfast for dinner, beautiful light, photography, travel, my furry family, and of course, my beautiful fiancee! I’m super excited to be here and can’t wait to share all our adventures as we craft a joyful, budget-friendly, design-savvy and all-around AWESOME wedding!
What do ten awesome friends, one baby, two dogs, many bottles of wine and an afternoon in the sunshine add up to?
Seven measly wedding cranes. Four crane fails. A bit of a hangover. And a wonderful reminder of just how easy it is to throw a great party when surrounded by people you love. Awesome food, beautiful flowers and free-flowing wine don’t hurt either! I’m just sayin’…
So while Easter wasn’t exactly the crane-making extravaganza I was (secretly) hoping for, it sure was a hell of a lot of fun! We had the opportunity to host our first dinner party in our new home and I’m talking about a super fantastic with a dollop of awesome sauce fun-fest. We don’t mess around.
AND just wait ‘til you see all the top secret wedding details we managed to squeeze in and test drive on our unsuspecting guests! What can I say, I’m a theater kid at heart and I love me a good dress rehearsal!
** WARNING: This post is chock a block full of awesome photos kinda like a freshfromthefarmer’smarket heirloom tomato that just bursts in your mouth. Or Pop Rocks. Maybe Pop Rocks are a better example. Anyway, get ready for the explosion.
All the pretty things:
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Mrs. Oyster, Dallas
Age and Occupation: 30, Music Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 46, Art Teacher
Engagement Date: January 9, 2009
Wedding Date: July 2010
Venue: The Tower Club
About Me: I'm a Texa-Californian with a penchant for sparkly things and a tendency to think a lot. I've been known to sing random songs or dance when there is no music on. My fiance and I love world culture, we love to travel, and we have an incredibly eclectic taste in music. We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to celebrate our marriage with our family & closest friends. We're planning an “urban black-tie” wedding and hope to incorporate our personalities and some of our own interests. We look forward to a life of love, laughter, good music, beautiful art, and to creating our home together with our four (!) cats.
A year ago this winter, I was getting ready to go back to work after winter break, and my boyfriend and I had just come home from seeing Rachel Getting Married. At this time in our relationship, I was starting to feel like I knew he was “the one”, and I was wondering what that would mean for us. I had an idea that he’d felt the same way, as he’d been hinting at it, but I wasn’t sure.
Rachel Getting Married isn’t really a story about a wedding, at least not on its surface. But it does feature several sincere and heartwarming wedding-related scenes, and by the end of the film, I couldn’t help but wonder if this wonderful boyfriend of mine would be with me for our own, real-life wedding scenes. I wanted to know where we were going, but I was afraid to say anything, because I didn’t want to risk being disappointed if we weren’t on the same page. Actually, I was terrified. But I was doubly inspired because the movie is also about overcoming personal issues & fears. So, later that night, I decided to talk to Mr. Oyster about how I’d been feeling, and it ended up being perhaps the most memorable night of my life.
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Mrs. Starfish, Boston/Newport
Age and Occupation: 25, Operations Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Sales
Engagement Date: October 8, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: The Atlantic Beach Club
About Me: I'm a perfectionist who is a planner at heart. I don't do well with surprises. I love planning, crafting, Newport RI, family and friends, and most importantly, Mr. Starfish---all of which will be big components in our October wedding in our favorite little city by the sea.
When we first registered, it was 22 months before our wedding. Our friends were throwing us an engagement party and we were told to set up a registry with a few options. We decided to start out with Crate and Barrel. At that point we had no home, and weren’t sure what we actually needed or wanted. We liked the idea of adding a few small ticket decorative and entertaining items.
So, why Crate and Barrel? It seemed like a good starting point. They have great “price points” for an engagement party. This was kind of our “starter registry”, before really having to think about the important things. This was a registry of wants, as the second registry would be filling the needs and would be much more practical.
Our Crate registry ended up with about 10 items on it for our engagement party. It’s been over a year since we created it, and it’s up to about 20 items and I’m pretty sure it will stay that way.
My favorite decorative item is Crate’s Hutton Table Lamp. I think it will go perfect with our future bed set.
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