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Now that you’ve seen how we’re kicking off our Wedding Weekend on Friday night, it’s time for Part 2: Saturday night!
On Saturday night we will have a dinner party for our out of town guests and family members. I have to say, this was surprisingly one of the more difficult tasks that I tackled. After our venue search turned out to be so easy, I thought simply finding a restaurant in midtown for Saturday night would be easy enough. I was so wrong! Anything close to the hotels that we booked turned out to be extremely expensive (like, rivaled the cost of food for the wedding itself) and we were stuck for a while. Then, I decided just to contact one of our favorite Manhattan joints, Campo, and see what their pricing was. Not only did they give us a great price, but they were so great to work with and happy to host our event! Even though this restaurant was in a totally different neighborhood, and we decided to get a bus for our guests, the price per person was still less than if we had chosen a restaurant near the hotels.
Campo Outside
After Mama Seashell e-mailed me the photos from her dress shopping trip with my sister, she called me to say that there was a clear winner:
Dress 2!
She said it was the most flattering, and Sister Seashell liked it best. I’ll admit I preferred dress #1 from when I had seen it in the shop, but since I was letting the girls pick their dresses I realized this was part of the deal. Additionally, I figured we could add a fun sash to this dress to spice it up a bit.
I searched Etsy for inspiration.
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Is there ever such a thing as too much dessert? I hope not, because if there is, I think we’ve crossed that line. Yes, I’m throwing it out there.
Here’s a summary of the Hamster sweetstravaganza:
1. Half of our guests will get this:
Chocolate and Passion Fruit Dome served with Passion Fruit Coulis, Raspberry Coulis
2. While half of our guests will eat this:
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I hear that a lot of people have a hard time picking out a color scheme for their wedding and often go back and forth on this difficult decision. That was not the case with us. It was rather easy, actually. Choosing our colors was probably the first thing that Mr. S and I agreed on after we got engaged.
We knew that we wanted GREEN for sure because it is such a clean, bright and lively color. And it just so happens to be Mr. S’s favorite color. I think it has to do with the fact that he is mostly Irish and he feels he always needs to represent. St. Patty’s Day is like his second birthday and you will never catch him without his green on. No pinches for Mr. S! (Exceptions made only on Talk Like a Pirate Day.)
Arrrrrr! That’s the finest pirate booty I’ve ever laid eyes on.
PINK has always been a favorite color of mine.
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After the money dance was over, Mom BF informed me that we should change into our “going away” outfits since our reception was almost over, time wise. So, I went in the back and Mom BF helped me change into my going away dress. I got my dress at JCPenney’s for about $30. Ironically, it sort of matched our favor boxes’ pattern.
After that was done, Mr. BF went in the room to change. In the meantime, I tried to help Mom BF load my luggage in Mr. BF’s car, while people were still dancing around. Then I heard it: the beginning of the second line!
Instinctively, I ran back in there to see what was going on! The second line dance is notoriously the last dance where the bride/groom lead the line of guests around the dance floor. Bride/groom wave fancy umbrellas, guests wave napkins. It’s fun. There are tons of videos on YouTube if you’re curious to see one in action.
So, I go inside, and Mr. BF is still changing. I start freaking out.
After admitting that I’d booked our venue and photographer before we were engaged, it should be of no shock to you that I’d swung by a bridal shop (or two, or three) pre-ring as well. OK, it gets worse - I had a fake ring I’d sport to these occasions. These confessions keep getting better, don’t they?
You are about to witness photographs from my first documented bridal dress shopping experience as a legitimately engaged woman. It was a proud moment. This event occurred during my pre-blogging days, so excuse the lack of detailed information on the dresses (i.e. designers, style number, etc).
Below are dresses that I tried on during a shopping trip with my FMIL and Mr. Seashell’s Goddaughter. It was made clear that we were not going to buy that day as there were two important factors to be considered: 1) my mother wasn’t present 2) there was a dress in RI that I had my eye on already…
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Now that we have less than two months remaining until our wedding, it’s time for me to stop brainstorming and start focusing on what we already have planned. In our initial planning stages, I made quite a few inspiration boards of what I thought I wanted our wedding to look like. But recently, I had a revelation!
I had been feeling particularly overwhelmed with all of the items that still needed to be crossed off my to-do list and DIY details I still have yet to accomplish. One night, I showed my inspiration boards to Mr. Turtle and asked him, “How on earth am I going to make our wedding look like this?” He stared at them for a while and responded, “I don’t get it. What do all of these pictures have to do with our wedding?”
Umm, reality check! There are a lot of beautiful weddings that have come before ours, ones that totally inspire me. But it’s totally unrealistic for me to try and make our wedding live up to weddings with completely different venues, budgets, and styles. Why set such unattainable goals? So Mr. Turtle and I sat down together and made a brand new inspiration board. We made an effort to only include details that will absolutely be a part of our wedding. We even added some of our own photos, like what the wedding party will be wearing, my veil, our venue, and the cake stand my mom bought me.
So here it is, in all its glory! Meet our final inspiration board, for real this time:
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Have you found your wedding twin? That wedding you see that is everything you’re imagining for your own nuptials? I just did. Get ready to drool.
When I first thought about bridesmaids’ dresses I came up with an idea that I never shared… with anyone. I guess I just thought that everyone would think I was a sandwich short of a picnic. I just love that phrase. Ahem, anyway. It was one of those things that seemed too different from what friends and relatives had done in the past that I had a feeling it would be difficult to convince people that it could actually look good. Soooo I wrote it off as crazy bride brain and moved on (we’ll revisit so hang tight).
I’m pretty classic in my taste so I knew I wanted the girls to wear a dress in a color that they could get use out of in the future and a color that would look great on everyone. With our colors being gray, lavender and blue, I chose gray for the bridesmaids’ dresses and I was met with a happy response. I decided to go the J.Crew route. After searching, I narrowed it down to:
I think that there are a lot of romances that revolve around food. People have a similar palate, bond over love of certain restaurants, and know exactly what foods they want to serve at their wedding.
We are not those people.
I think that saying food is a bit contentious would be stretching it a little bit, but Fancee and I definitely do not have the same edible loves. When we had our first (and only) meeting with a caterer, it went something like this:
Him: So, what kinds of foods do you like? Spices, flavors?
Fancee: Well, I would love there to be some meat…
Me: …and I’m a vegetarian. But I do eat fish, and I love salmon, so it would be great to have some smoked salmon or something like that.
Him: Great! So we’ll start with some seafood as the main dish.
Fancee: Well, I don’t eat seafood.
And it goes on. My favorite foods include salmon (she hates it), avocados (she tried it once to satisfy my curiosity, and, yup, she hates it), and cilantro (she’ll take it or leave it). She likes Indian food (I finally agreed to eat some a year and a half into our relationship – not as bad as I though it would be) and red meat (haven’t touched it in 13 years). I think that I’m less picky than Fancee is, but she doesn’t like many foods that I really love. I’m sure that the process of picking foods is really fun and exciting for a couple that shares food interests, but for us it’s been a bit of a stumbling block.
Until…
Way back when my dress was in a ton of unsewn little pieces, Mr. Sew made a little promise to help motivate me to get started. Something to do with another project I was seriously considering.
Well, we finished the dress, Mr. Sew gave me the green light to make a big purchase, it came in the mail… and then he laid claim to it!
I thought it was my present, Mr. Sew?
There’s just no separating the boy from a shiny new piece of heavy-duty machinery.
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The first DIY project the Pin Cushions undertook was our Save The Date cards. (Not) coincidentally, this was also the first project in which I became totally overwhelmed by the internet (well, the first wedding project at least; I’ve been overwhelmed by the interwebs plenty of times before [it’s like a the blob people, it just keeps growing]). I was so inundated with the brilliant ideas of other people that I became physically unable to think for myself. It was a very serious condition. The doctors are still puzzled.
I didn’t want to directly copy anyone’s ideas, but my own creativity seemed to have been sapped by my computer. I had to take an internet hiatus and take a few days to do my own brainstorming. If only I had kept looking a bit more, I might have stumbled upon my dreamboat Save the Dates (which I would totally have stolen 100% [and felt no shame]):
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While MOH-S and BM-Noe did the dirty work and made phone calls when we found out that makeup artist was canceling on the day of my wedding, the hair stylist arrived. After chiding me for not calling her sooner so that she could bring her makeup and help me out (I have no idea why I didn’t think of that), she got to work making me look pretty.
I wasn’t sure exactly what I had wanted my hair to look like, so I brought this picture of Emmy Rossum during our earlier trial and told her, “like this, but lower on top and curlier on bottom.”
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I’m just going to come right out and say it: I’m totally in love with our florist! Wait, correction… BOTH Mommy Buttons and I are in love!
After I won $500 in flowers from another florist, I was feeling a little pressured to book them for the wedding day. However, something just wasn’t clicking completely, and I couldn’t figure out what it was (well, that and the fact that the store reneged on their $500 prize because I wanted to purchase bulk flowers and arrange them myself… ugh, but that is another story for another day). So, I decided to at least look into a few other options before I made my final decision. I found The Bride’s Bouquet on Carlouel’s preferred vendor list, and I gave them a call. Thankfully, they were still available for our wedding date, so I set up a meeting. Mommy Buttons and I met up with Debbie and we talked flowers for an hour or two. She was SO nice, very knowledgeable, and had a ton of ideas to help with my vision. She really “got” the vision/theme that I am hoping to achieve for the wedding.
And… do you want to know my absolute FAVORITE thing about Debbie?
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I have mentioned before that our wedding will include a weekend full of events, and now that we are officially booked, I thought I would tell you about them.
And so… Part 1: Friday night
In Judaism, the Sabbath day begins on Friday night at sundown and continues until Saturday night at sundown, and it is called Shabbat (the Hebrew word for Sabbath). Friday nights have become incredibly important to Mr. Hermit Crab and me, as we make sure that Friday night dinners are always at home, often with lots of company, and of course, with copious amounts of delicious food. Also, one of the first things we did together when we started dating was attend Friday night services and dinner together at our Hillel, the Bronfman Center. I am happy to say that we will be spending the Friday night of our wedding weekend once again at the Bronfman Center.
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