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Check out these great projects hive members have uploaded to Weddingbee’s DIY section! Click on the title of each project for tutorials.

Seed Packet Save the Dates by idoityourself

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Yesterday, Miss Thimble and I attended the Tiffany & Co. New Collections 2010 preview. At this event, Tiffany debuted its newest pieces of jewelry - it was so much fun to be *this* close to so much beautiful bling and even try a few on! Some of my favorite pieces included:

I was just in love with these color-stone rings, and I’m a bit partial to the halo style, being a halo e-ring gal myself! Here’s the whole collection:

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Have you ever seen movies where people share their wedding day? OK, maybe that isn’t exactly how I want to share our special day. Many people are taught “Sharing is Caring”, but during wedding planning that doesn’t always come through. Sure, we share with our partner and with our family. However, the notorious bridezilla image invokes the me-me-me and more me sentiment.
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I have had this project on my radar for a long time now. I think it may even be on the original inspiration board I made about a year ago. So, with 5 weeks until the wedding, I guess it’s time to get going, which means it’s time to decide what shape I want to make the garland. Want to help?

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I will be making our garland out of salvaged cardboard boxes and vintage sheets my sister has gathered from Salvation Army and Value Village.
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We’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading real Weddingbee brides’ experiences with their vendors via the Weddingbee Vendors section! A while back, we launched Featured Reviews from the Hive, a new feature that allows you to share your favorite vendors right here on the front page! We’ve loved all of the great vendor reviews coming at us, so today we’re launching a weekly giveaway from Zazzle for those of you who create and submit vendor reviews to be featured right here on the blog.

Currently, we’re regularly featuring your favorite vendor reviews that you write and submit to us. Every Friday we’ll randomly select a featured reviewer that week to win a custom Avery binder on Zazzle.com!

Last week we only featured one review, so she’s the obvious winner! Congratulations to kaybee for her review of her venue, the Oklahoma City Farmers Public Market!

This week’s winner jrl03 for her review of her photographer, Pix of Life Photography in Los Angeles, CA!

After the wedding there may be a lot of little odds and ends that you’d like to retain as keepsakes (Wedding dress receipts? Bridesmaid dress color swatches? Sweet RSVP response cards?), and these binders make the perfect place to store it all. Keep the memories alive with a custom Avery binder on Zazzle.com, the world’s leading platform for quality custom products.

If you’re a recent bride and you’d like to participate for a chance to win every week, simply review your favorite vendors on Weddingbee and follow the easy instructions to submit your review here. We look forward to seeing your wedding pictures featured on the blog!

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Well, today we booked our honeymoon! We’ll spend one week aboard the lovely Carnival Conquest for the Western Caribbean cruise. We’ll snorkel, ride horses, zipline, and most importantly, eat to our hearts’ content! I’ve never been on a cruise myself, but Mr. SD has, and assures me it’s loads of fun. I cannot wait to go. We’ll stop at Grand Cayman, Cozumel, and Montego Bay. I’m hoping we get to see some Mayan ruins and do a bit of shopping along the way.
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We don’t have a ring bearer, due to lack of cute little children or fuzzy pets. Mr. Sew’s brother will simply carry them in his pocket.

And trivial as it may be, I wasn’t satisfied with the box our rings came in.

It’s grey and boring, but more substantially - it’s really big. I didn’t think it would fit comfortably in Mr. Sew’s bro’s pocket.
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Okay, I’m just going to warn you right here and now: This post is about dessert, and it’s totally going to make you hungry. And not for an apple. You’ve been warned!

Recently, we had a meeting with our baker, Be My Cupcake. It’s an adorable little cupcake shop that I actually discovered a few years ago when it was located in our mall! It randomly opened one day right next to the movie theater, and I had to try it out – I was instantly in LOVE. Y’all, their cupcakes are so moist and amazing… and the frosting? Don’t even get me started.

So, of course, I was devastated when about a year after they opened there, they were gone! Disappeared, just as quickly as they had opened. Seriously, I can’t even exaggerate how upset my sister and I were. There may have been tears. BUT it only took us another couple of months (what? we’re slow) to discover that they hadn’t closed… they just moved! Score! So when it became time to start thinking about cake, they were my first thought. Because who doesn’t love cupcakes?
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lshaffer43 is selling five ivory rose boutonnieres. She’s asking $3 each.

Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee classifieds and you might see it featured on the blog!

Other great items for sale:

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Hiya hive! I’d both anticipated and dreaded the day I opened my email to find a response to my Weddingbee application. It is such a privilege to be welcomed into the hive of so many creative, enthusiastic and supportive bees! As Mr. Husky said to his dad earlier this afternoon, I am just *buzzing* with excitement! While I know I’m not the first bee to use that phrase, I probably come from the one of the only families that regularly uses it.

(Above Box Canon Falls, minutes before he proposed)

A bit about us:
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I’ve toyed with talking about how I met Mr. Penguin for some time, but always feel somewhat embarrassed retelling the story. A “normal” love story often consists of 2 people mutually falling in love because they are clearly attracted to each other and want to give each other a spin. I don’t know if it’s my lack of self confidence, or over confidence in setting my mind to something and making it happen, or something in between (clearly it is something in between, because who considers him/herself both lacking confidence and being over confident?), but I would consider our love story to have begun with more of a “poaching of prey” than “two people falling madly in love”.

I don’t have a lot of patience for crap, and dating was one thing I considered TOTAL crap. So, around the ripe age of 19, I decided to poach me a husband.

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I knew I wanted to marry my husband from the minute I met him. But not for all those fuzzy lovey normal reasons people claim love at first sight for—I feel like I evaluated my husband’s traits and tendencies for exactly what they are, figured that they were compatible with the life I wanted to live, and decided that, at whatever cost, we WOULD get together and I WOULD make him eventually marry me—love be damned.
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Nexus-6’s showstopping hot pink shoes inspired her color scheme.

Keep on loading your inspirational wedding pics to the gallery to see them featured here on the blog! Remember, your images must be under 1MB in size, or they won’t load.

In my last post I gave you a run through of the inspiration behind the bridesmaid dresses. With everything I looked at, none of them convinced me, and I felt snowed under by the choices and trying to get everyone to agree. They all wanted to be matching as well, so I couldn’t just let them run wild and choose a purple dress of their choice (which was very appealing at the time).

In came Mr. E to the rescue. Without meaning to. He and I were walking through the shopping mall one day when we passed Principals, an NZ clothing store known to have cute dresses and whatnot. As we were passing, Mr E said, “hey look, there’s a purple dress. Aren’t you looking for purple dresses?” I stopped in my tracks, dragged him into the store, and pawed over the dress he spotted. Sure enough, it was purple (an amethyst-y kind of purple) and perfect. It was short and flirty, strapless, had a pencil skirt and a sweetheart neckline, and tied in the back with a sash (I go weak for sashes and bows). The clincher? It had POCKETS *swoon*.

They only had one in store and it was the wrong size, so I got the style number, and as soon as I was home I quickly looked it up online.
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Remember how I was finally getting over not having our wedding at our alma mater? Well, not so much.

I recently saw some photos on the Snap! photography blog that showed the second wedding held at the new Chapel at our alma mater. The chapel is gorgeous.

When we first started planning our wedding, there was no talk of a new chapel. We looked into getting married at Ochre Court, but it was too small to hold our friends and family. So, we moved on and found our current church.
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When we last left off, I had shared with you the first installment of our e-pics. They were the more “formal” set, taken at the lighthouse where Mr. FF proposed.

For our 2nd location (and an outfit change!) we grabbed our puppies and headed to a local park. These, by far, are my favorites. They’re casual, relaxed, and just very “us”. We liked these so much, we decided to frame two different shots and give them to our parents at our rehearsal dinner! First, we played around a bit with our wedding’s candy theme, and had a lot of fun with it! Then, we got some glamour shots with our puppies (in some gorgeous evening light).

As always, we worked with the wonderful Molly of MThree Studio, and all of these images are hers. Up first: the candy shots!

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