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I asked Sister Pug to give a behind-the-scenes detailed look at the creation of our wedding cake cookie towers (WCCT), which served as our escort card favors.
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After extensive taste-testing (mostly by Mr. Pug), we decided upon the lime sugar and lavender sugar cookies. But I wasn’t going to just start kickin’ out WCCTs without some extensive preliminary calculations. Based on the size of the cellophane bags I was provided (read: one of the hundreds of boxes that just appeared on my doorstep, courtesy of some furious internet shopping by the Pug), I calculated the size of the cookies that would fit in the bag, and decided to do a mockup.
Then I figured that if I was going to go through the effort of doing a mockup, I may as well do it as accurately as possible, because can you imagine if at the end of all that they didn’t f’in fit in the bags. So I ‘made’ some out of cardboard and wrapped them in paper to make them more cookie-like.
Linds1769 is selling 60 sage-green paper string lights. There are 40 large and 20 small brand-new lights. Each package includes a light chord. She’s asking $100 for everything.
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No, we do not have a venereal disease, so don’t worry! I assure you that our genitals are perfectly healthy. (TMI?)
But what we do have are Save the Dates! We ordered 4×6 magnets from overnightprints.com and will be sending them out next month. That should give my guests 8 solid months to plan and arrange flights since most of our friends & family are out of town and our wedding also falls on a big holiday weekend.
Choosing the photograph that we wanted to use was not hard. We are so lucky that we have such an amazing photographer because she was able to capture this lovely photo with all that space on the side to fill in our text. So the decision was simple.
The invites for our Boston shower were just sent out!
Technically they were supposed to be a surprise, but while housesitting for Sister and BIL Starfish a while back I came across them and fell in love. I was going to pretend to be surprised, but I’m not a good liar… so I blurted it out that I stumbled across them. Then I proceeded to ask her to have mine addressed with my Weddingbee moniker.
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All-Inclusion Invitation Suites
“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
Or “How We Ended Up with 4 Registries”
I never intended to end up with 4 registries. In my opinion, 3 is the perfect amount – not too few, not too many. We originally registered at Crate & Barrel, Macy’s and Williams-Sonoma. We chose Crate & Barrel mostly due to their fun registry events, their cute entertaining items and our shared love for the modern C&B aesthetic. Macy’s was a must on our list because so many of our older guests love to shop there, as do we! And Williams-Sonoma… well… I’ll chalk that up to the “We can’t really afford to shop there but how cool would it be to get stuff from there!” feeling. We were generally happy with these 3 registries until we started to realize that a lot of the things we had registered for were cheaper at another store that we hadn’t registered at: Bed, Bath & Beyond. Take our china, for example:
This is a quick little project that I actually really wanted to do for my trash the dress shoot in Vegas, but didn’t come up with the idea until a few days before the trip, when it was too late. And it wasn’t really even my idea to begin with, it’s all thanks to the fabulous Mrs. Fro Yo! Check out her amazing frozen yogurt bouquet from her bridal session here.
After seeing that, I of course wanted a Cola bouquet for myself, and I will have a good place to use it: at our wedding rehearsal! Since I’m not having a bridal shower, I won’t have one of the traditional ribbon and bow bouquets to use to rehearse with, but I thought it would be a good idea to have at least something to practice holding.
Enter eBay, where I got 40 bottle caps for only $2 + shipping! I just glued 5 bottle caps onto another bottle cap, and added a rhinestone in the center to create little Cola daisies.
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I’ve reached the point in planning where there is no such luxury as shopping around. There are things on my list and I either buy them or strike them. The garter was something I put off and put off some more for months. We won’t be doing a toss, so it never seemed urgent or required, but recently I just felt it was something I wanted. Being four-ish weeks out from the wedding, I had to make it happen now!
A big shocker here: I got mine from Etsy. I bought from JLWeddings, who makes some very sweet, delicate garters for an affordable price, like mine for instance!
You guys, I freaking love fonts. (”Lots of unusual fonts” is basically the closest we’ve gotten to a wedding theme, after all…). I have a thing about font consistency—I always notice and appreciate it when companies (or websites, or blogs, or obsessive-compulsive brides) use a recognizable series of fonts in their products.
So, “pick wedding fonts” was an item on my to-do list that stared me down for weeks. Yes, really. I finally spent a rabid 36 hours rampaging around on DaFont, and after a few missteps and failed trial combinations, I picked out the fonts I’m going to use all over our DIY paper products. I mean, don’t get it twisted, it’s not like there’s going to be a ton of DIY paper products to behold, but hey. The things here and there that I DO make will have a badass font scheme all over them!
This is one of the fonts that was all over our save-the-dates. It’ll be all up in our invitation suite’s business, too. I love you and your regal little lines, EcuyerDAX.
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It’s arrived. The Bachelorette Party Post. And, trust me, it’s a doozie. Don’t believe me? Well, I met Jon Gosselin. Yep. Let me start at the beginning.
Thursday night before the wedding was the event I was most looking forward to (after the wedding, of course): my bachelorette party! I was so excited to hang out with and be around my favorite girls in the world. They had all flown and driven up early just to take part in this with me, and I was so grateful. After an INCREDIBLY hectic Thursday morning (picking up people at the airport, and an all hands on deck approach to finishing the cookie favors—for which I can’t thank these girls enough), all of us were incredibly ready for a night of fun. I was joined by all my bridesmaids plus Idaho bestie AM and amazing woman ST, whom I had been lucky enough to meet via Bridesmaid PF (goodness, initials!!).
It all started with the matching shirts that Bridesmaid AT made. Matching pinks tanks reading “Katey’s Ladies (my full name is Katey) and a yellow tank with Bride on it. My girls were awesome and sensing that I desperately wanted to wear these yellow heels I had bought, made us matching shirts that could be worn with jeans. The shirts are best viewed here:
Back: AM, AT, PF, Ms. Pencils, ST; Middle: CH, AP; Front: KS
and here:
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Wed0327 dances with her husband for the first time.
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As you get older, you have more and more friends who get married and eventually start families. From those friends, I’ve become familiar with the term “pregnancy brain” – are you all seeing where I’m going with this?
Just like “pregnancy brain”, I believe there is similarly “bride brain”. Some uncontrolled combination of internal and external forces that cause a normally level-headed, fully functioning woman to become forgetful, clumsy and just plain ditzy.
I’m telling you, I’m not a clumsy girl – I don’t trip or fall, I don’t knock things over, I don’t forget things easily… but so help me, since getting engaged, bride brain has completely set in.
As of now, my tally is up to:
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An anonymous wedding question from the world:
Registries – tell us all about them. are people expected to buy from the registry? Is it okay to not buy from the registry?
It’s the part of weddings that confuses me the most. For example, let’s say you had a friend who knows you pretty well and has a sense of your taste, though not necessarily your DP/fiancee’s taste, and let’s say this person was going somewhere cool this summer, like, hypothetically, Africa, and let’s say this person planned to steal a lion cub for you to raise. Would that be a good wedding present? Even though it’s not on the registry?
Would people prefer cash? If so, how much cash is appropriate? And if there’s something you really like, but it isn’t on the registry, will they hate you for getting it? Registries are useful, in that they help you find something that both people like, but what if you find something and really really want to get it but it’s not on the registry?
First of all, I am pretty sure that I would end up suddenly single if I decided a lion cub was joining our family before I have my veterinary degree. But if it’s a small and hide-able lion cub, I totally want it. I just can’t let Fancee see that I registered for it, which is why it’s not on our registry.
Okay, but really.
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When you’re least expecting it!
We had finished registering at Williams Sonoma and Bed, Bath and Beyond, and we had almost given up on finding place settings that we really loved.
One of the great things about Central and Upstate NY in the summer are all the festivals. There are literally festivals in every town, every weekend, covering every interest, from wine and food, to crafts and toys, and somewhere during our festival hopping, we met (and subsequently somewhat stalked) a wonderful potter named Ede Walker.
Ede had a booth at a festival early in the summer very close to our house. We were innocently walking around, enjoying the weather and we stumbled upon this:
I love getting a glimpse of what other couples have done at our wedding venue. It simultaneously gives me a framework of what can be done in the space, and also is just plain fun. Take a peek!
Jennifer and Darren: July 2008
By now, you know what our guests will be eating at the reception; however, I never talked about our cocktail hour munchies! I love cocktail hours - more than once, I’ve stood outside the kitchen exit with Sis Hamster or my bridesmaids, just so we could have prime pickings. Yes, we are “those people”.
We are going with a mix of fancy-pantsy and casual for our hors d’oeuvres selection. First, the fancy-pantsy:
1. Watermelon cube with goat cheese and extra virgin olive oil
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