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This is the song Mr Piglet’s little brother, J, was supposed to sing as the finale to our reception before the dance floor opened. You can’t resist head bopping, right? I couldn’t. Every time I saw J during the week, I would head bop, snap, sway back and forth, all while singing his song. It’s called See You Soon, music and lyrics all by his awesome self. The girl singing is his friend. He’s a music enthusiast (both of them are, actually), and we were so honored to have him play at our wedding. What can I say, the kid is a rock star. He’s such a cutie.
I recently made my first Etsy purchase and I’m so excited! I’ve heard great things about Etsy for a while now, but had never actually used the site. We just ordered our invitations (more on that later!) and I decided I wanted to get a rubber stamp with our names on it for the return address and RSVP envelopes. Enter Etsy. I searched around for custom rubber stamps and came across SugarLetter’s shop. They make adorable address stamps! Here are some examples:
Sister Pudding has been giving me a lot of attitude about the fact that I haven’t been blogging as regularly as I used to. She’s calling me a “bad bee”, and she’s right; my post counts in the last couple of weeks has been measly compared to what it used to be. The truth is, the closer I come to the wedding, the more thinking about anything wedding related (including blogging) gives me a slight panic attack. I sincerely apologize: I have been a bad bee.
This week, I would like for that to change. So, in order to wean myself back to being a regular blogger, I have decided to do a week-long set of posts on Polish wedding traditions. I have a different tradition for every day, and I am hoping that this pre-determined list of topics will aid me in blogging regularly.
So without further ado, today’s tradition is called “Blogoslawienstwo” or “The Blessing”.
The idea that seeing the bride before the wedding is bad luck does not exist in Polish tradition.
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Pete fell out. Who was left?
{ Tiffany & Co. }
Last October, we thought we had picked out our wedding bands. Fast forward a few months, and I started having major doubts. It is important to us that our rings not be apart of the overall wedding budget—i.e. we each want to personally pay for each others’ rings. My art-hippie-student-self can’t afford to drop $2,000 on a band, and I wasn’t keen on the idea of begging my better half to spend that much on a band if I were only able to afford a quarter of that price. So, it was back to the drawing board.
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When we first talked about our first dance song, we couldn’t figure out what to pick. We never really had a song. With no official song, choosing our first dance song hasn’t been easy.
I started looking up lists of wedding songs for everything from cocktail music to entrance options. While searching for father-daughter options, I came across the Beatles’ In My Life. I had heard it many times before, but as I was reading the lyrics, it didn’t remind me of my father, but it reminded me of Mr. Starfish. It even ends with our favorite phrase, “I love you more.”
This post is one that I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while. See… Frogger and I are big into cruises. We’re talking giant ship, all-you-can-eat, belly flop contest, waking up in a new country each day, make your own schedule vacations.
Initially being the stubborn girl that I am, I resisted the idea of our honeymoon being a cruise. I wanted to do something different than our typical vacation choice but when you add up the dollars and cents, it’s honestly really hard to beat. Although I’m no expert, I know a thing or two, so here is Froggie’s guide to million-dollar-cruising-on-a-mini-budget:
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Sorry, everyone. I’m not feeling very wedding-friendly today. So instead of my usual photo-full post, I’m going to lay it all out there, and I’m going to go photo-less as a sign of my rebellion. I’m overwhelmed. And I’m just plain stressed. I want to stop and smell the fresh spring flowers, but if I stop to breathe, who will finish the invitations? Who will finish making the napkin rings? Who will blah blah this? And who will blah blah that? Do you see what I mean?
It makes me feel even crazier when I start thinking about what would happen if I were to get sick. No one knows all the details or really sees the vision the way that I do. If I stopped planning and working on this wedding, it would end up being something else entirely. I know it would get done, and we would still get married. But honestly, there’s a part of me that resents people for saying things like, “The most important thing is that you’re getting married to Mr. Hot Wings that day.” I call BS. I do!
Here’s the deal. Of course we’re getting married that day. That is not what is stressing me out. What IS stressing me out is the amount of work and planning I have to do to for the wedding. So for people to tell me that I’m stressing over the unimportant stuff feels like a slap in the face; it’s as if all my work doesn’t matter and that it’s going unappreciated.
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I’m so excited to finally share our honeymoon plans; it’s been a work-in-progress since February and waiting until everything was officially confirmed before telling y’all has been torture! But now that all tickets have been purchased, hotel rooms have been confirmed and expeditions (yes, there is an expedition of a pretty wild sort) have been booked, I can spill the beans.
And so, without further ado, ladies and gents, our official honeymoon destination is… (wait for it, wait for it…) … Venezuela!
It is a slightly random (or off-beat) choice for a luna de miel (that’s the Spanish phrase, I love that it is a literal translation of “honey” and “moon”), but that’s how we roll, people.
I posted a long time ago about the options we were considering (Brazil, St John, Galapagos) but none of them really called to us, so we put off making a decision for a bit. Then one day while browsing through the Travel Channel’s website looking for ideas, I noticed a place called Margarita Island that was listed as one of their Top 25 picks for honeymoon destinations. I made a mental note and did a few minutes of preliminary research.
Then I saw that Martha Stewart Weddings mentioned Margarita Island as one of their top picks for “Off The Beaten Path” honeymoon locations and was even more intrigued.
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Let’s recap what’s happened so far:
*I realized that the envelopes were at the mercy of USPS already.
To prolong the detail madness, I added a rubber stamp border in midnight blue from my favorite paper store, Paper Source. Here are some selections from their website:
Now that our guests were busily *not* reading the programs we made, it was onto the ceremony.
I’ve written about the fact that originally we did not want a ceremony. I felt like no one would be interested in watching us stand up for 20 minutes blabbing about our commitment, but as I mentioned our no-ceremony idea to more people, I heard subtle hints like: “Stop. You should have a ceremony.” I was talked out of that resistance, and I have to say I am very happy that I surrendered. And yes, I was wrong. I WAS WRONG. Okay??!
The ceremony provided a meaning and focal point for the day, and set the celebratory yet deeply meaningful tone to the day. Yes, this point is obvious to many—but in case anyone out there is feeling blase about the whole thing, take a lesson from me.
The music started, and our officiant and families walked down the aisle…
If you’ve watched our video trailer, then you know it rained on our wedding day. And, if you’ve been following me, then you know I was supposed to have an outdoor ceremony underneath some gorgeous trees in the midst of a European style garden nestled right in the middle of Uptown Dallas. Well, that didn’t happen.
Let me give you a breakdown of how the day transpired.
In the days leading up to the wedding, I psycho-checked all the normal weather sites: Weather, Accuweather, and Weather Underground. And when I say psycho, I mean it. I talked to my coordinator and she told me that I did not need to stress about the rain until it got to 90% chance of rain. It was hovering between 30 and 60%. So I stopped stressing. Phew! The day of the wedding though, I checked again. And it was 90%. I could feel the tears forming, and I texted bridesmaid Kim with only the words: “It’s 90%.” She texted back to say her super phone (code for iPhone) said it was only 50%, so that’s what we were going to go by. I wiped away my tears and let it go.
Then, we were watching the news and on the radar was this giant, massive, rain storm with the colors red, orange and green all jumbled together. My sister’s boyfriend had the remote and just said, “Well, it looks clear!” and quickly changed the channel. Then, my makeup and hair girl arrived and casually mentioned the word “rain” and she was told that “rain” was not a word we were going to say today.
At this point the rain had held off and I started to think that maybe we could squeak through the day with no rain. My internet was down so I couldn’t check the hour by hour forecast, which maybe was a good thing, and although I noticed the clouds, not a drop of rain had fallen from them. Until we started heading to the venue…
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Mr. Seashell texted me while I was at work one evening that a box from Magnet Street had arrived. I told him to tear it open and send a pic. He asked if I was sure I didn’t want to open the box myself. I told him the suspense was killing me, he asked again if I was sure (because he just loves to drive me crazy) and eventually this popped up on my phone:
(Fresh from the box to the fridge!)
They were perfect!
Like many of you, we knew that we wanted to utilize our engagement photos as much as possible and our Save the Dates was one of the perfect places to do so. I was inspired by the simplicity of this card I found on Wedding Paper Divas:
The Wisconsin bees are meeting up next Saturday!
The plan:
Join the Bees at UW Memorial Union Terrace for beverages (beer?), brats, Babcock ice cream, and hopefully, beautiful weather!
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Our wedding ceremony is in May… in Florida… outside… and in the afternoon. This is quite possibly one of the hottest times of the day (besides noon). Granted, it will be absolutely beautiful being married as the sun sets behind us; our guests may become quite parched. So, we’ve planned to have water bottles in ice at the ceremony to hydrate our thirsty guests.
We ran out to Sam’s Club (with our newly minted Sam’s Club cards, courtesy of Dolphin Mom and Dolphin Dad) and purchased over 192 water bottles (we only need 180… but pre-packaging makes it difficult to get the exact amount needed). We also ordered 180 polyester waterproof labels from Online Labels (specially sized for water bottles!). Then, it was time for me to get designing (my favorite part!!), and this is what I came up with:
I knew I wanted something modern, and a few variations of it (to make it more fun for the guests… or maybe more fun for me to design!).
Missalisa is selling a custom-made Keishi freshwater pearl and Swarovski crystal set. She’s asking $150 for the necklace and earrings.
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