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Love is in the air at KandJ2010’s fun engagement shoot.
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The benefit of getting married? Among other things, you don’t have to hem and haw over what to get your parents the following holiday season. It’s obvious: A photo album. There are so many websites to go through (like Blurb and Snapfish and Shutterfly), but if you have a Mac, you can also order a book directly through iPhoto.
That’s what we decided to do. I checked out Blurb (because so many bees had given it rave reviews), but I was actually scared away by the design process. Instead, I opted for iPhoto’s super simple drop-and-drag process. You can customize every page to hold up to four photos and even set it to have just one image bleed off the page. Want to see my favorite layouts?
Recently we celebrated our all-official two year anniversary, and it was a really, really good day. Wait ’til you hear about the excitement of our lives… you will be blown away, for sure. Well, if you are like us and your usual version of “celebration” involves playing board games.
So we slept in, meaning I woke up at 7:30, and we had a slow, relaxing morning. Tea, breakfast, a job offer (!). You know, same ol’, same ol’. Then I went to see my wonderful therapist (see: healthy habits) and then our dates began! We decided to go back to the jeweler we had visited a couple of weeks ago, where we had fallen in love with some rings that were way outside our budget and fallen in like with some rings that were closer to our budget. The intention of this visit was to fall in love with the in-like rings and fall out of love with the out-of-our-budget rings. Mission unaccomplished.
the rings we were supposed to love, but failed (source)
Is this really true?! For weeks and weeks I’d check my email inbox looking for an update. And then it arrived, a welcome greeting from Weddingbee! I just couldn’t believe what I was reading! A w-e-l-c-o-m-e greeting! Woo hoo, I was going to become the newest bee! I absolutely love Weddingbee. It is the place I come to when I want to get inspired. It is such a hub of activity. All us girls coming together, focusing on one amazing goal: to give ourselves and our families the best wedding we can. And there are others like us waiting in the wings to give advice, test ideas, and share our experiences with.
So let me take a moment to introduce myself. I’m Miss Pashmina. And it is a pleasure to meet you all!
I was born in sunny Southern California in the sleepy beach town of Santa Barbara. It’s been almost five years since I moved to the East Coast. I thought I would be here just over a year, but then I didn’t know I would find the man of my dreams!
A Few Days Before Our Engagement - In the Philippines
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Sorry I’ve been a bit absent on the blog front lately. It’s T-minus six days until I fly to the U.S. for the summer of wedding-palooza and the past two weeks have been full of pre-transpacific events, some of which included tying up loose ends with my job, seeing friends for the last time as a single lady, and… buying a house - if you can call a gutted 1910s villa with no kitchen and bathroom a house (yay!). And of course there has been heaps going on in wedding world as well. Some stressful, some fun.
One of the fun things has been the chance to test-drive Paperless Post, the medium through which we’ve decided to send our e-invitations. I wanted to play around with it and make sure it really worked before committing to it fully. I also wanted to send our moms something nice to invite them to be our officiants. Skype or email seemed to casual for such an important request, but snail mail was not an option since it would take over 2 weeks to arrive. Not sure whether the timing of it all was a factor there so much as my lack of patience.
Anyhow, I played and played for hours on the PP site and this is what I came up with for the moms.
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Today’s featured item of the day is chargers!
Sellers: if you have chargers 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 chargers for sale, you can do a couple things:
Here are some items currently for sale (see all decor items for sale here):
sylvials is selling 100 silver beaded charger plates. She’s asking $200 for all.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
So I never really considered having wedding programs. They seemed a bit pointless for our wedding and they weren’t something I thought I’d wanted at all. UNTIL…
I FOUND THESE!!!
Soon I want to introduce my dress to you. But first I want to give a little disclaimer/back story/explanation (I’m not exactly sure what to call it; so much for being an English major…).
When I bought my wedding dress it happened fast. Before the actual engagement. We already knew we were going to get married eventually, but he wanted to wait to make it “official” when a) we were living in the same country, and b) he could afford the ring he had his eye on.
Rewind back to early September last year. I was in California visiting Mr. E for 3 weeks for my 20th birthday. One day, out of the blue, he asked me, “You know. There are some wedding dress shops nearby. Wanna go visit one with my mum and me?”
Me: “Yeah alright. We could do that.”
We’re just suave like that. Anyway. The thing is, wedding dresses here in NZ are MEGA expensive.
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Now that our proposal and the ring drama was out of the way, Mr. Socks and I had to figure out what kind of wedding we wanted!
We felt a bit pressured to have a more “traditional” wedding… you know, the wedding with the church and the priest and the banquet hall and such. It’s not that I have something against these kinds of weddings, but I know that it isn’t right for us.
Yes, us. Mr. Socks expressed early on in our wedding discussions that he wasn’t that thrilled by the prospect of having a “wedding” and would rather get married abroad. A destination wedding was not in the cards for me because it is very important to me that my grandparents attend my wedding, which they would not do if it was out of the country.
Guess what? I’m in jury duty today! Yay! And this is my 100th post!
OK, not yay on the jury duty part (heh heh, doody). But yay for having spare time to blog!
This past Sunday, our friend Bex threw a shower for us. I must admit, when I got engaged, I dissed the idea of showers… the one I went to was nice but very adult (not in the sexy way!) and a little boring. I love the bride dearly, but to be fair, it was an office shower so it was full of coworkers, and there’s just no way logistically for an event full of coworkers to be actually fun… at least not where I work, anyway. I specifically told Mr. Chick that I was very glad we are not having any showers because I thought they were awkward.
As months passed, some of my friends got engaged and they had wedding showers. I began to think, why has no one threw a shower for me? Do my friends not love me? POUT. (Of course now that I think about it, it may or may not be because I kept telling everyone how showers are boring. Hmmph.)
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Yup, I said it. I don’t like the band that Mr. Cardigan picked out for me. Originally, I felt terrible saying that, but I’ve come to terms with it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a gorgeous ring. But it looks pretty ridiculous with my engagement ring. Like… I kind of feel like I tilt a little to the left side every time I try it on.
You know what the worst part is about me not liking it? It’s made of heirloom diamonds from Mr. C’s great aunt. Sigh.
I know, I’m a terrible person. Although, in my defense, after Mr. Cardigan showed it to me, he admitted that he didn’t really think I’d like it and he just went for it because they already had the diamonds. To be honest, I really wish he wouldn’t have done that because then I wouldn’t have had to deal with all of the guilt of not being happy with what he gave me. But, it’s over and done with now, and it’s time to figure out a solution!
Here is what my engagement ring looks like on my hand alone:
We were bad newlyweds. Very, very bad! Why, you might ask?
We ate the top of our cake… 11 months early.
The tradition is that you save (by freezing) the top of your wedding cake, so that you can have a slice of it together on your 1 year wedding anniversary. When Mr. Dolphin and I got home from our honeymoon, we couldn’t wait to dig into our wedding cake. At our wedding, we barely got to eat any of its deliciousness, so we were eager to finally get our slice of ’tropical carrot cake’ heaven. Plus, we were given advice from our baker to eat the cake now, not later, as the whole freezing process is no bueno for the cake.
TGIF hive! Our newest bee is planning a cross country wedding on the beautiful Catalina Island! Please join me in welcoming Miss Pashmina to the hive!
Miss Pashmina, NYC/Catalina Island, CA
Age and Occupation: 28, Arts Education
Fiance’s Age and Occupation: 34, IT Administrator
Engagement Date: April 26th, 2009
Wedding Date: July 2010
Venue: Catalina Country Club, Catalina Island, California
About Me: I’m a laid-back Cali girl who moved to NYC for school, and ended up staying for love. My fiance is a quick-witted Jersey boy, a self-proclaimed Foodie and the funniest man I’ve ever met. Together we love exploring the city streets embarking on our next misadventure—and yes, this often involves eating off food carts and trying “the next big thing”. I’m the girl in the sundress, snapping photos and collecting trinkets of memorabilia along the way. As a girly girl at heart, I am excited about our romantic natural island wedding incorporating our American & Filipino traditions.
Hi Blogland.
Here is a thought that I had: The blogs that I most enjoy reading are the ones in which the writer opens up a little, shares enough personal information to be interesting, and is candid about things. So – deep breath – here is some information that is personal, hopefully interesting, and feels candid.
Last month, my parents separated.
This is not a place for me to talk about what happened for them or their reasons or what is happening now between them or even between each of them and me. But this is a place, I think, for me to say that this is something that is happening, and that it is hard.
My senior year of college, I lived with my roommate from freshman year (she’s now in Africa and is bringing me a lion cub as a wedding present, of course) and two friends who had been in a long-distance relationship for two years and were now moving in together – with us. This was a huge adjustment for all of us.
We recently met with our officiant, Mac, to discuss wedding ceremony details. He’s a friend, and this will be his second wedding ceremony. He accompanied Mr. Taco to a bar outing before we were even together, and he was one of the first him-people I met. Dallas-bred Mac sounds a lot like the bully from Bottle Rocket, so, sometimes, his voice alone makes us laugh. (Jump to 0:55 on the YouTube clip.)
It seems fairly common these days for a good friend or family member to perform the ceremony; I did it myself for Bridesmaid A in 2008. When our time came, it made perfect sense to go the same route. We much preferred someone who knows us to do something this important. We’re also not God-fearing people (refer to previous references about living in Satan’s handbasket), so a Reverend Lovejoy-style minister was out of the question.
Still, more people than I thought are surprised by secular weddings.
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