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Before this whole marriage thing, I was Miss S, and now after considering whether or not to change my name, I decided that I wanted to take Mr. Fro Yo’s last name. So now I’m Mrs. L.
I know this is a very personal issue and I can see reasons for each side (change vs. not change vs. hyphenated). Had I decided to go the hyphenated way, my entire name would have been 36 letters long. Yikes!
However, changing my name is taking some getting used to.
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“Oczepiny” or “The Unveiling” is one of the oldest Polish wedding traditions. It usually happens at the reception around midnight, and officially marks the first day of the bride’s life as a mature woman and wife. The ceremony begins with the unveiling of the bride (hence the name, duh). The maid of honour is put in charge of taking off the bride’s veil, which you can imagine is no easy task!
About 8 months out from the wedding, we decided to order and send the save the dates. We had chosen a date and booked the venue, and we wanted to make sure that our guests marked it down on their calendars! I thought for sure that I wanted to send an adorable save the date magnet from VistaPrint like the one below:
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I even went so far as to actually design and fill out the whole save the date. I was a day away from ordering. And then… I found Mrs. Bear Cub right here on Weddingbee and her amazing invitations. I just fell in love with the sustainability and the creativity that she used on her invitations.
What to do when you’re living in the land of bridal bliss while you’ve got a good friend going through a break up, divorce, or a slump of singledom?
I’ve been there. Three years ago I was going through a nasty breakup while a best friend was planning her wedding. I was her Maid of Honor, and she had no bridesmaids (just a maid of honor and a best man). I was seriously down in the dumps—happy for my friend, but truly heartbroken for myself. (It was also one of those times where it seemed like everyone around me was getting engaged, and I was just praying I’d have someone to bring as my date.)
When she’d call me to vent about her FMIL being nutty about the guest list, or the invitations getting jammed in the printer, sometimes all that went through my mind was, ‘If only my life were so horrible. It must just be a nightmare to have a wonderful man who wants to love and cherish you all the days of his life AND a printer that’s really acting up.’ It was a tough time, and I definitely pushed myself to be truly selfless. Being genuinely happy for someone in spite of your own heartbreak is a challenging thing.
MOH Me, Groom Andrew, Bride Carrie (now my BM), and Best Man Tyras
But that’s life. Not everyone is happy at the same time, and it’s likely that you’ve got a friend or bridesmaid going through a tough time while you’re debating wedding china patterns. So, what’s a bride to do?
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So before I share our venue choice and the final roller coaster loop, I figured this might be a good opportunity for some fun eye candy of our chosen destination. Frogger and I have had so many wonderful years of memories there and I can’t help but show some more of our favorite moments… sorry to make you wait on our venue choice but it’s my post and I make the rules. 
This is the view we have from the house…it’s the first thing we see when we wake up and this picture always says VACATION to me
Hola hive! The lovely ladies at Inspired By This asked me to write a guest post about what inspires me! Here’s a tidbit from the front end:
I’ll be completely blunt: reading and editing countless wedding posts a day for Weddingbee (about 8,300 posts a year, to be more precise), it’s hard to be truly inspired by fresh ideas. New brides enter the wedding world every day, and what’s new and fresh to some is old and recycled to others. Blogs have the power to push trends to the extreme—and to tire them out quickly. I totally love that, though—it pushes us all to bring unique and fresh ideas to market at a rapid pace.
However, one element of weddings never ceases to inspire me or go out of style in my eyes…
… Check out the rest here, including mentions of Mrs. Hot Cocoa and Miss Jellyfish!
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Mr Pretzel and I love to eat. Catering tastings? Sign us up! We had such a great time tasting all the yummy food for our reception that I can’t figure out how we let a tasting with our rehearsal dinner catering slip our minds. We booked Lake Street Catering months ago, but it wasn’t until last week that I remembered that they had offered to do a tasting dinner for us.
That’s right “tasting dinner”, and not just for us—Lynn suggested that we invite friends over. SWEET! When I called last week to schedule something Lynn had an even better idea. “Is your mom local?” she asked, immediately followed by, “do you have plans for Mother’s day?” Yes and no. Lynn and Craig offered to do a miniature seafood boil for myself, Mr Pretzel, Momma Pretzel and two of our dearest friends.
I invited Bridesmaid H and her fiance T over. Momma Pretzel thinks of Bridesmaid H as a second daughter so it was special for them to celebrate with us. Lynn and Craig brought everything—the seafood boil, salad, dessert, plates and utensils—we just relaxed as they prepared what they told us was the smallest seafood boil they have ever done.
H and T chill while the food cooks
As I shared earlier on in our planning, I had a hard time with boutonnieres because Mr. Poodle told me over the phone that he didn’t want flowers at all.
So, I researched for inspiration and found some cute clover ideas (He asked me to incorporate clovers into our wedding to honor to his Irish background). After a while I was sold on the idea of making fabric clovers for the guys, so I got all my supplies and before I got to work I told Mr. Poodle how hard find inspiration for bouts that didn’t have any flowers. He laughed and told me he was just kidding and he would wear whatever I wanted! — What? Umm, Yeah I guess it was harder for me to figure out when he was teasing me over the phone. 
So here they are: The Poodles’ non-floral boutonnieres. To make them I used green satin fabric, a few sticks and some tiny pine cones that one of my MIL’s friends found while walking around the lake.
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Hello fellow bees!
I am SO excited to be here! I’ve been reading Weddingbee for a little over a year now and mused at some point that it might be nice to join you all—and now here I am!
I’m marrying the most wonderful woman (yes, woman!) in just about four months—I suppose we’re really hitting crunch time! She says to tell you all, “I’m here, I’m queer, and I’m totally getting married!”
A little about us: we met at work almost three years ago, didn’t talk at all for the first couple of months of coworker-dom, and then finally broke the ice when I overheard her talking about roller derby and told her she should come to the roller derby prom with me. In true awkward first-date fashion, I followed up with this email:
“Will you go to prom with me? Check one: Yes__ No__ Maybe__.” She said yes. It was her first prom!
That’s me with the Mohawk and her with the flower. Isn’t she pretty?
And things got better from there!
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Over the course of the last few months, and during the entire duration of our 80-degree honeymoon, I wanted my hair GONE. In fact, I totally almost pulled a Mascara and got my hair cut at our resort’s spa! You see, I get hot very easily, and when I am hot, I am crabby. And long hair = hot Cheeseburger. 
Not to mention the fact that my long hair added about 35 minutes onto my daily getting ready routine!
So you see where this is going. The Post Wedding Chop. The week after our honeymoon, I called and got the earliest appointment available. I arrived with zero inspiration photos. All I said was: cut it off and layer it, just above my shoulders. She was hesitant, but understood. Then, she suggested something that made it all worthwhile - Locks of Love!
She quickly put my hair in a ponytail, measured the obligate 10 inches, and 5 seconds later, my hair was gone:
(not my nails - I know they are crazy!)
Ecm4787 and her hubby-to-be can’t resist the romance of autumn.
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Remember how I had all of those really adorable cake toppers picked out? And I was having trouble deciding between them all? Spirit animals and all that?
True to form, I scrapped them all, and we’re doing something different. Two cranes. Cranes will be our wedding spirit animals—God knows we have about eleventy billion of them. Maybe we’ll throw a heart in there too. Cheap, easy, and works with our stuff.
Initially, I thought about having them sit directly on the top of the cake, but feared that the dye from paper would run into the icing. Big messy ew. Scrappity scrap scrap that. I’ve made the executive decisions that they will “float” with the help of some rods stuck up the center. If that’s not romantic, I don’t know what is.
Without further ado and blah-blah, here are some mock-ups. First up is the set of forward-facing cranes. Miss Ribbons thinks that they look judgmental, and I see American Gothic. Weird birds.
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Previously, I told you about how Mr. Lobster and I worked together for my engagement ring and how he proposed on the water in our neighborhood. But I was mean and never showed you the actual ring. Mostly it was because I was lazy and lazy bees don’t get the honey.
Please don’t mock the amateur photography / lack of creative placements. Gracias.
On some dorky finance book Mr. Lobster read once (meaning he read 10 pages). He likes to pretend to be intellectual.
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In Barnes and Noble recently, I was reminiscing with Mr. Hermit Crab about one of the first few days after we had gotten engaged and returned home from Ottawa. I had gone to Barnes and Noble and stood in front of the Bridal shelves for about 20 minutes, occasionally leafing through one book or another, but mostly was totally overwhelmed. I left with a wedding magazine in hand (I can’t remember which one at this point, but I’ve had them all - reviews to come), and a mission. I was going to create my own wedding planner. If you would like to purchase a pre-made one instead of make your own, Miss Pencils has written a great post about her research!
I went to an office supply store next to pick up my supplies.
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So, guests found their tables. And hopefully they looked at their menus. What were they waiting for? Us! I don’t remember what happened because we had not planned on doing a “grand” entrance, but we had one anyway.
We were introduced by none other than my brother in law, who did a fabulous fabulous job as the emcee for the evening…
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