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Hey there, hive! I’ve got a story for you. I don’t really know how to address this issue, since it touches on some feelings that I’ve been harboring since oru wedding. I am slowly coming to terms with this a full NINE months AFTER my wedding. What is troubling me so? My dress.

Honestly, I liked my dress. I liked it a lot… but I can’t help but feel that I lost out on some bridal rite of passage by not buying a brand name/designer dress.

By the way, just in case you forgot, here’s my dress, which is also Mrs. Nachos’ dress. Great minds…

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Like several bees before me, I was enchanted by accordion-fold programs. When I saw a packet of 11″x17″ paper on sale at Paper Presentation, I knew it was meant to be. I purchased some navy cardstock (both glittery and matte), pulled out the trusty Gocco, and got to work on the covers.

I like having options.

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It’s not you, it’s me.

Just kidding. But seriously, you’ve probably noticed some issues in the past couple hours on the site. Without going into too much technical detail, our domain registrar company screwed up and pointed our domain servers to another company’s domain servers. We’re not sure what the root cause was at this point, but they’ve assured us that they’re fixing the problem.

We’re working with our domain registrar to get this fixed for you all as quickly as possible!

It may take several hours for some of you for the site to appear normal again, but rest assured we’re working with our domain registrar to get this fixed as fast as possible.

Let us know if you have questions and we’ll do our best to answer them!

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Update: Everything looks good and back to normal on my end and I’ve been able to work on Weddingbee for a while. If you’re still experiencing problems, clearing your cache will probably do the trick!

I have a wedding dilemma. It is dog-related.

Okay, so here are the basics of the situation. As I’ve mentioned before, we are basically having a mini-destination wedding; neither Mr. Octopus and I, nor almost any of our friends and family live in Pittsburgh. Mr. Octopus and I have complicated travel plans for the week of the wedding: on the Wednesday before, we’re taking a one-way flight from Boston to my hometown in upstate New York, then driving in a big caravan of family down to Pittsburgh. Then, the Monday after, we’re taking another one-way flight from Pittsburgh back to Boston. I’m also expecting that those few days leading up to the wedding will be very busy, filled with lots and lots of errands to run, things to do, and people to see.

So here’s the dilemma: do we bring Daffodil to Pittsburgh with us, or do we put her in a kennel?

There are valid arguments for both sides.
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Many moons ago it seems, I posted about an amazing deal we had found on a wedding band for Mr. Jelly. It was a white gold and platinum band from Macy’s, and it was perfect – or so we thought.

It was actually a half-size too big, and every jeweler we went to said that resizing it would be risky because of the white gold-platinum combination. We briefly toyed with the idea of adding sizing beads to the ring, but decided against it. Ultimately, we didn’t want to take the risk of re-sizing so we returned the ring, and it was back to the drawing board.
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Get it? “T” is for take me? But I’m going to talk about tea? Oh I’m so clever I can hardly stand it, and I’m sure you can’t either.

So, tea. For the past several years I have been an herbal tea addict. You can only drink so many cups of coffee before you get jittery, and herbal tea comes in a nice variety of flavors and doesn’t give you the shakes. Plus it’s a nice warmth when you live somewhere without heat (thanks, Mom, for raising me at a steady temperature of 55 degrees). Anyway, you get the idea – I liked herbal tea. I drank coffee for that whole being awake-thing. I considered myself a coffee person with a healthy appreciation for tea.

And then Fancee ruined everything.
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Last weekend Mr. Sew, Friend-T and myself got to visit the Bay Area Maker Faire for the second year in a row!

If you think a DIY convention is amazing on its own, just try going to one when you’ve got a permanent wedding-brain! It was overwhelming in a good way, full of crafts and projects and interesting ideas.

Plus, I got to meet Cricut, in person!

Sorry for the blur, this was taken half a second before someone from church bumped into Mr. Sew, causing him to try and hide his crafty interests in some sort of crazy embarrassed spasm.

Anyway, there were a lot of really amazing exhibits this year, but I’ll pass on the pictures of the robotic drooling tongue and focus on the crafty stuff!

Provocraft had their Cricut cake cutter out on demo, cutting some gum paste…
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I’ve started an impromptu list—not of DIY projects or wedding day time lines, but things I want to do after the wedding. Part of it is to cope with post-wedding planning blues, but mostly I want a life again.

So I present to you the highlights of my “After the Wedding Resolutions”:

1. Start getting weekly polish changes and monthly pedicures. This is totally selfish and wonderful.
2. See plays, musicals, and ballets more. We went to only one this past year. Fail.
3. Take dance classes.
4. Every other weekend, do a museum or otherwise historic thing in or around DC. I’ve lived here for 2 years and still haven’t done everything. That must change.
5. Buy records.
6. Volunteer.

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As a bride, I get the sense that I’m supposed to care about minutiae. And I do care about some of it. I care about vendors showing up on time, how dark my undereye circles are, and how much pizza I’ll be able to eat in a wedding dress. I care about dancing our first dance to Ingrid Michaelson’s “The Way I Am” and my hair not being frizzy. I care—probably an unhealthy amount—about not inconveniencing anyone; I care about our guests have a rocking time (a good thing to care about).

But some things I can’t bring myself to care about, even if I try. This is a story about one of those things.

This might be a hot-button issue so I’ll prepare myself for nay-sayers. It’s okay. Difference of opinions is one of those things that makes our nation great, and keeps wedding planning interesting.

A couple days ago, Mr. Potato Head and I found ourselves in a men’s clothing store—let’s call it Svenn’s Beerhouse. We were looking for a white French-cuffed shirt for his suit.

“I’m assuming your dress is white,” said the salesman.

“Well, it’s ivory,” was my answer.

<<Record scratch>>
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Thank you for all your suggestions for our next two bee generations! We mentioned that our newest generation was ready to be delivered, and here they are! Meet the accessories! Don’t you want to be Miss Socks? I sure do!

If you’re interested in becoming a bee, check out our application guidelines! We’re currently accepting applications from bloggers getting married through January 2011. And if you’re looking for some guidance about what it takes to be a bee and what it’s like to be one, check out the bees’ advice for blogging… they’re the experts!

Which icon is your fave?

On Saturday we decided to get domestically partnered to celebrate Harvey Milk Day. And, um, because we love each other and stuff. Luckily domestic partnership ain’t marriage so we were able to do this spontaneously on a Saturday in California.

I think the fact that we didn’t need to obtain a license, have witnesses, or have any type of ceremony strongly attests to the fact that even the state doesn’t really consider this domestic partnership business to be equal to marriage. I’m just saying…

So what exactly did we do to become domestically partnered in CA?

First we filled out this form:

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A long, long time ago, when I was still a naive bride-to-be who thought all of my DIY aspirations would come to fruition, I purchased these pillar candlesticks:

At the time, I thought that these might serve as the base for our centerpieces, and I bought the two of them to work on some prototypes. I have since abandoned the idea, opting for a professional to put together our tall centerpieces. I didn’t want these to go to waste though, so I decided to use them to spruce up our guestbook table. I turned those candlesticks into these beautiful arrangements…

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We have our wedding bands!

I have a teeny tiny confession - we actually have had our bands for over a year - it was one of the first things that we could cross off the list relatively early on, so we went back to where Mr. Hermit Crab had gotten my engagement ring, and we picked out rings. We were in and out in 20 minutes, and we got a deal that included engraving in the cost. Thus began the saga!

It took us about a year to decide what we wanted engraved, and we finally forced ourselves to make the decision and took them back to the store.
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Hmm… over three months since my last post. I haven’t really been on my blogging game, have I? I’ve wanted so dearly to share with you our wedding. I’ve composed entire recap posts in my head - the good, the quirky, the unmatched love. But every time I spin the story in my mind’s eye, I find myself saddened by the handful of ways in which our wedding embodied anything but love. The painful memories burn in spite of the overwhelming adoration.

But I have to be real. I could gloss over our wedding with just the pictures, but then where would the soul be? Even the best wedding pictures can only aspire to capture the ecstatic and schizophrenic thoughts coursing through the minds of the bride and groom on the day of their wedding.

To wit: I cried on the morning of our wedding day. Not because I was overcome by the sight of my gown. Not because my groom sent me words of love. I cried on the morning of our wedding day because the previously misplaced decorative lighting had just been found. LIGHTING. I had wanted to create a perfect mood for our wedding dinner, but in its place I had fostered a sour mood over misplaced light bulbs. I cried because I was so immensely grateful that someone came to my rescue, that someone understood my need for… light bulbs.

I am very embarrassed that I let myself care so much about something so insignificant.
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Today’s featured item of the day is cake and cupcake stands!

Sellers: if you have cake or cupcake stands for sale, please post your item to the Weddingbee Classifieds by adding your item, and then return to this post and add the link to the item you’re selling in the comments, along with a quick description. Also pay attention to the comments in this ad to see if any buyers are searching for the item you’re selling by subscribing to the comments.

Buyers: if you’re looking for cupcake stands for sale, you can do a couple things:

• Identify yourself in the comments as LOOKING FOR (type of item you’re looking for, and quantity).
• Subscribe to this thread, so you’re informed of new cake and cupcake stands that are being listed for sale in the Weddingbee Classifieds. ***

Here are some items currently for sale in the Weddingbee Classifieds (see all decor items for sale here):

stephbolt is selling 2 cardboard cupcake stands that have been painted navy blue and trimmed with ivory ribbon. She’s offering $25 plus shipping for both.
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