Mrs. Hippo, New York City/Dallas, TX
Age and Occupation: 34, Event Planner for a Non-Profit
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Finance IT
Engagement Date: August 8, 2009
Wedding Date: March 2011
Venue: Samuel Lynne Galleries and Marc Events
About Me: I’m a thirty-something bride living in New York City and planning a modern-ish wedding in Dallas, Texas. I love trashy reality television (Jersey Shore, anyone?), online shopping, Sunday brunch, Central Park, and random celebrity spottings on the streets of Manhattan. While I love NYC, I miss good Tex-Mex, my college friends, central A/C, and being in close proximity to a Target. I’m thrilled to finally be planning an event that’s not work-related and to be marrying my best friend in what I hope will be a unique and personal ceremony followed by a reception with plenty of good food, good drinks, and dancing (regardless if it’s good or not).
I am in need of a DJ, and according to my friend (and enemy) Martha Stewart, this is something that should have been done a month ago. But, Martha, to be fair, it’s not like I haven’t been TRYING to book a DJ! I’ve done a lot of Internet research to find a reputable DJ that won’t break the bank, and the last time I was in Dallas, Mama Hippo and I met with two DJs, both of whom were recommended to me by other vendors. Let’s just say the appointments were less than successful. Actually, they were a huge fail.
So, I’m going to sound like the most superficial person ever, HOWEVER, the first DJ showed up looking completely disheveled. He was sweating and couldn’t seem to stop sweating. O.k., so it may have been June in Texas, but we were meeting indoors, with central air conditioning…I think at some point he should have stopped sweating, no?! I think he would have been completely fine at the job of playing music and making announcements, but the sweating…not o.k.
The second DJ rubbed me the wrong way immediately. He had his canned “this is how a wedding works” PowerPoint presentation and mentioned something about giving out the centerpieces during the reception…What??! Like a raffle??!? Ummm…no. He was over-the-top cheesy, although he kept telling us how he hated cheesy DJs. Ummmm…Glass houses? Stones?
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Mrs. Pin Cushion, Oakland, CA
Age and Occupation: 25, Nurse
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, PhD Student
Engagement Date: November 23, 2008
Wedding Date: July 2010
Venue: Radonich Ranch, Los Gatos
About Me: I'm the 3 Cs: crafty, creative and quirky (oh, that's not a C? Close enough!). I'm also a recycling fanatic, fluent in bad accents and I have the loudest laughter this side of the Mississippi. I have not just one sweet tooth, but a whole mouth full of sweet teeth. I cry at 97.4% of all movies I see, but my fiance's always there to hand me a tissue. My geek-chic fiance and I are planning a wedding full of color, cookies and handmade goodness and I can't wait to spill the beans on all of our crazy ideas!
The faux-to booth posts live on! Due to overwhelming demand (hundreds of requests [or perhaps just a few commenters] on the last how-to post), I’m back to explain a bit more about how we set up the DIY photo booth.
Our best man, Virat, can hardly contain his excitement about the faux-to booth!
Total cost: about $46.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
In Japanese, the word gift is almost always “PURESENTO.” So GIFT + PRESENT = PIFT. Bless his six-year-old heart. I gave him a gold star for the excellent coloring!
We have two wedding registries. Let’s not pussyfoot around the subject—we need the stuff. We are coming back to America with nothing. Nada. Zero. All of our furniture here is rented through our apartment agency, and we are leaving all our furniture and crap behind. We absolutely need all the help we can get in replenishing our household goods.
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Mrs. Knitting, Toronto
Age and Occupation: 24, Student Recruitment Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Neuroscience PhD Candidate
Engagement Date: October 2009
Wedding Date: December 2010
Venue: University of Toronto Faculty Club
About Me: I'm a pearl wearing, etiquette book reading Toronto girl who loves cooking and baking, museums, charm bracelets, and collecting books on Jackie Kennedy (a lot). I've been known to spend Sunday mornings at the antique market, Wednesday evenings at sister sushi dinners, and any bit of spare time reading. After six and a half years of many late night walks, watching DVDs together in bed, travelling to places like New York, and Tobermory, doing Sudokus together on the couch, lots of Indian food, the occasional yoga class, moving in together and so much more, Mr. Knitting and I are planning a cozy Christmasy (it's a word!), vintage wedding in Toronto complete with many DIY projects (eek!) and lots of help from our amazing group of family and friends.
This is part two of my comfort food series and today I’d like to talk about hot chocolate. As you might recall, one of our main goals for the wedding is to make it as cozy as possible, and what could be more cozy than offering our guests hot chocolate?
Look how yummy:
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Mrs. Plaid, Austin
Age and Occupation: 26, Pastry Chef
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 34, Cabinetry Carpenter
Engagement Date: August 8, 2009
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Kindred Oaks, Georgetown
About Me: I am a Jersey girl born and raised but have since migrated to Texas and embraced its twang and Tex-Mex. I could probably eat chips and queso every day but instead I eat popcorn. I use the word “awesome” way too much but I just can’t seem to stop myself. I am addicted to all things DIY and am planning what I call a Texas-Chic wedding. I love snuggling with my two adorable dogs and of course, my adorable fiance. I can’t wait 'til I can call him my husband some day! October 2010, here we come!
I surely do love me some pictures.
As y’all know by now, we’ve got an amazing photographer, Nathan Russell, booked to shoot our wedding day. However, he’s only one man, and he simply can’t be everywhere all at the same time that night. I’m hoping that all my camera-happy friends (you know who you are) will be there to get lots of candids of the reception and ceremony.
Now comes the question: how do I collect said photos from my many “photographers”? The last couple weddings I’ve attended, the couples have had little cards sitting out for guests to take telling them where to find the wedding pictures online. These cards I’ve seen have only pertained to the pro shots, but I want mine to include all pictures.
Enter, good ole Shutterfly. You can create a little website/share site where people can upload and order photos from a specific event. It’s perfect! I jumped right in and created a simple page for guests to use.
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Mrs. Lightning, Cape Town
Age and Occupation: 22, Journalist and Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Computer Scientist
Engagement Date: December 27, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: Hout Bay Manor
About Me: I'm a young American living abroad in the beautiful city of Cape Town with a wonderful South African fiance and our crazy kitty Zeus. We're young, driven and madly in love. Together we're pursuing our wildest dreams including our biggest undertaking yet, a vintage retrospective wedding filled to the brim with DIY madness. I have an unnatural attraction to cake, a passion for blogging and a love of good design. While I might be an overly obsessive creative with too many ideas and nowhere to put them, Mr Lightning is my biggest fan and I can't wait to make my true love mine.
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As I mentioned a little while ago, Mr Lightning and I have been a little MIA thanks to a VERY large project… the building of our first home!
While it’s all fully functioning, it is quite literally a blank canvas.
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Mrs. Earrings, Fresno, CA/ Nelson, New Zealand
Age and Occupation: 20, Student, Wannabe Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 19, Photography Student
Engagement Date: February 14, 2010
Wedding Date: January 2011
Venue: Gardens of the World
About Me: I'm a girl from down under who grew up in Indonesia and I'm marrying a California boy. I'm addicted to all things sweet, have never met a chocolate silk pie than can get the better of me, and have dreams of one day being a fulltime novelist. I go weak in the knees for lace, tea cups, and a beautifully crafted sentence. When I get excited about something (whether it is historical linguistics or the Beatles) I tend to go overboard in research, and planning this wedding is no different. Mr. Earrings is my high school sweetheart, my best friend, and somehow we combine all our quirks into one big happy mess.
It must be Murphy’s Law or something. I enjoyed the majority of my adolescence blemish-free, then I turned 20, and boom! Zits popped up out of nowhere.
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My main problem areas are my chin and forehead. Understandably, this is not the kind of issue I want to deal with on our wedding day. So… it’s time to bring out the arsenal.
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Weddingbee Gallery
Feature Launched: April 10, 2009
About: A collection of inspirational wedding pictures from readers and bees.
Moderndaisy’s chapel length veil blows in the breeze.
Keep on loading your inspirational wedding pics to the Weddingbee Gallery to see them featured here on the blog! Remember, your images must be under 1MB in size, or they won’t load.
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Mrs. Zebra, Providence, RI
Age and Occupation: 24 Marketing/Costume Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26 Management/Firefighter
Engagement Date: December 12, 2008
Wedding Date: March 2011
Venue: The Providence Biltmore
About Me: I'm a small town New England girl with an affinity for procrastination, crossing the proverbial line, and putting her foot in her mouth. I'm a lover of history, all seasons, sewing and Incubus. I design costumes on the side for my old high school's theatre department, which is where I met my sexy man. Our motto for our Big Fat Lebanese/Portuguese/Irish near-300 person wedding is "the more the merrier"! We are marrying in a Catholic ceremony and are hammering out the details of our Victorian-inspired reception.
Holy crapola Batman! Here I was procrastinating (as usual) by downloading the Brandon Boyd CD while checking my email, and BAM! I see the email, THE email y’all. I’m a BEE! I can’t tell you how perfect of a moment it was to combine my two favorite things, Incubus and the hive!
So, hello! I’m wicked (hehe I had to!) honored, excited, flattered, and did I say excited to be able to share my journey with you, and vice versa! I am so excited to get to know all of you as well.
Why Zebra, you ask? Well, I have a soft spot in my heart for all things Zebra print. What can I say? I’m a fashion victim and slave. Mr Zebra hereby know as Zeb, because his name is equally awesome/old fashioned, and he is the crumpet to my tea. We met in high school and he proposed, on his birthday, in the exact spot where we had our first conversation.
The Zebras take on the food chain. Next up, the wedding!
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Mrs. Cola, Mountain View, CA
Age and Occupation: 27, Product Communications and Promotions
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Managing Partner and Senior Designer
Engagement Date: March 5, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: The Mountain Terrace, Woodside, CA
About Me: I’m a Washington State native, enjoying life in Silicon Valley California with my fiancé, our three kitties and one leopard gecko. I like reading wedding blogs, Photoshopping wedding design mock ups, making lists, and planning, planning, planning! I’m a bit of an anomaly, on one side I’m a very girlie girl, I collect shoes, I lay out my outfits 4-6 weeks in advance, and I’d never leave the house without my hair curled and makeup on. But on the other side, I’m a total tomboy, I love to go camping and hiking, play drinking games (hey, I’m Irish!) and most of my closest friends are guys. My fiancé and I are planning a DIY-focused wedding with a balance between easygoing (what he wants) and chic and stylish (what I want), and are tying it all together with elements in lavender, sage, butter cream and chocolate.
On the Friday morning before our wedding, Mr. Cola slept in while I got ready for the day. I was too excited to sleep in, after all, we were only one day away from our wedding day!
We met two members of our wedding party for an early lunch at the hotel’s restaurant, and then met up with the rest of our wedding party and Mr. Cola’s parents in our suite at about 1 in the afternoon. I passed out driving directions to our venue, and we all carpooled to the rehearsal, to meet my parents and our DOC.
When we got to our venue, they were just starting to set up for another wedding that was taking place that evening. While I touched base with the site coordinator (who I’m not sure if was new or not, because I’d never met her before; I’d worked with two other contacts the past year) and handed over our hefty final payment check, Sara, our DOC, coordinated with a few of our groomsmen to put our DIY napkin rings on the rented napkins. It was one less thing that needed to be done the next day, and it only took them about 5 minutes to finish them.
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Mrs. Seashell, Chicago, IL / Providence, RI
Age and Occupation: 28, Marriage and Family Therapist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Electrical Engineer
Engagement Date: September 3, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: The Glen Manor House
About Me: Fonts and fashion, stationery and Sundays, photography and french toast... the beauty is in the details for this fun-loving Chicagoan who loves to plan plan plan! The soon-to-be hubs plays "Mr. Fix-It" in our new condo while I swoon over beautiful, personalized stationery and choose shades of aubergine for my bridesmaids' dresses... and thus begins my new fairy tale! Skirting to the East Coast for our September nuptials where my home state of Rhode Island awaits with fall foliage, I'm just a few dress fittings and bachelorette party away from saying "I Do" to a very happy ending!
For the past year, I’ve been working to perfect my wedding hair. The main goals: length and color. Achieving the right length hasn’t been a terribly hard process—I mean, growing your hair out involves doing nothing at all. The biggest part is the time investment. I have definitely noticed an increase in the amount of time it takes to wash, style and blow-dry in the morning. All in the name of bridal beauty, right?
{my 2000 watt best friend}
Overall, Step One was the most dramatic: going from blonde-ish to a rich brown.
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Mrs. Octopus, Boston, MA/Pittsburgh, PA
Age and Occupation: 25, Grad Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Graphics Operator for TV News
Engagement Date: May 6th, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Heinz Chapel Ceremony, Museum Reception
About Me: When my best friend dragged me to a toga party in our freshmen year of college, I was not expecting to meet my future husband; but seven years later, here we are. I'm a crazy-organized planner at heart, and I am a great lover of random trivia, books, chocolate, blogs, new and exciting adventures, mockumentary-style television, and anything heavily flavored with bright orange fake cheese powder. We're planning a festive and fun mini-destination wedding in the place where we met: fabulous Pittsburgh, PA! I can't wait to marry the man I love!
There is one (ONLY one!) thing I don’t love about Heinz Chapel: our ceremony site. Would you like a few gratuitous shots of how pretty it is to refresh your memory first?
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Classifieds
Feature Launched: April 30, 2008
About: A roundup of the best Weddingbee Classified listings.
xsushix is selling 16 table number picture frames. She is asking $10 + shipping for the white plastic frames.
Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with a picture in the Weddingbee Classifieds, and you might see it featured on the blog!
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Mrs. Starfish, Boston/Newport
Age and Occupation: 25, Operations Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Sales
Engagement Date: October 8, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: The Atlantic Beach Club
About Me: I'm a perfectionist who is a planner at heart. I don't do well with surprises. I love planning, crafting, Newport RI, family and friends, and most importantly, Mr. Starfish---all of which will be big components in our October wedding in our favorite little city by the sea.
I have an irrational fear that it is going to rain on our wedding day. If it ends up being sunny and beautiful, I’ll be ecstatic, but until the wedding day comes, I’m certain it will be gloomy and rainy.
There is some thought behind this. Back in 2002 when I went to visit Salve for the first time, it rained. When I went back for my second time before accepting, it rained. When I went to freshman orientation, it rained. Then Mr. Starfish and I lived there for four years—some days it rained, some days it didn’t. Flash forward to 2008, when Mr. Starfish and I headed to Newport and Mr. Starfish proposed. It rained while we were there. I’ve had many rainy experiences in Newport.
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Mrs. Cardigan, Austin
Age and Occupation: 21, Student/Soon-to-be Special Education Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 20, Student/Soon-to-be Accounting Systems Analyst
Engagement Date: August 16, 2009
Wedding Date: January 2011
Venue: Vintage Villas
About Me: I'm a native Austinite who was raised as a die-hard Aggie. Luckily, I'm a pretty persuasive girl because I managed to convince my high school boyfriend (now fiance!), Mr. Cardigan, to ditch his hardcore Longhorn ways and join me up at A&M, where we currently reside with our adorable dogs, Cullen & Ranger. We're currently planning a bright, cheery wedding with a ridiculous amount of DIY projects that I can't wait to tackle! I love crafting in any form, reading, and margaritas (I think I love them the most!). Organization is what keeps me sane and I love helping others, which is probably why I ended up as an education major. It gets a little chaotic sometimes when you're planning a wedding among all of the papers, projects, finals, and certification exams, but we're having the time of our lives and we can't wait to get started on our journey as husband and wife - and we're so excited to share our wedding with the hive!
I’ve talked again and again about how Mr. Cardigan and I want to make our wedding meaningful and personal. However, most of the things that I’ve talked about so far have more to do with decorations and traditions than the actual ceremony itself. Lest you think that we don’t care about the ceremony, I figure it’s about time to tell you how we’re going to make the ceremony as special and unique to us as we possibly can.
One of my favorite personal touches we’re adding to the ceremony is our reading. Originally, I never planned on having any readings during our ceremony at all—I hadn’t ever seen one I really liked, and most of the ones I had heard were very stuffy and formal, and just not us at all. But then, I heard this poem. And before I share it, I want to say that I know it’s not the most unique choice out there—this poem has really blown up in the wedding world over the past year or so. But it’s so incredibly fitting for us.
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In Japanese, the word gift is almost always “PURESENTO.” So GIFT + PRESENT = PIFT. Bless his six-year-old heart. I gave him a gold star for the excellent coloring!
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