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!
Everyone knows the saying, “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” right? Am I taking part in that tradition, you ask? Of course. I don’t really know why, but I just feel like I should.
My Something New. (There are lots—but I’ll pick one.)
My beautiful, wonderful dress…how I love thee!
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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!
As I’ve mentioned in the past, our wedding is virtually flowerless, but my mom is a florist and her feelings would be hurt if she wasn’t able to scrounge up a couple of arrangements for us.
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Mrs. Taffy, Ann Arbor
Age and Occupation: 28, Color and Materials Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Automotive Designer
Engagement Date: May 9, 2008
Wedding Date: May 2009
Blogging Since: September 14, 2008
Venue: University of Michigan Union
About Me: I’m a girl who is crazy about Mr. Taffy, sewing, dancing, almost all types of sweets, and our cute pet canaries. I dislike touching fuzzy fabric of any kind, eating somewhat squishy food, and Michigan winters. Mr. Taffy and I are having a blast planning our Ann Arbor wedding, and cannot wait to share our day with friends and family.
Welcome to the final recap of our belated honeymoon / first anniversary trip to Paris! It has been wonderful sharing our trip here with you. 
After eight days in Paris, we finally made it over to the Eiffel Tower…
But I am going to quickly rewind to the day before…
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Mrs. Trail Mix, New York
Age and Occupation: 26, PE Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, MBA Student
Engagement Date: March 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: Tannery Pond at the Darrow School
About Me: I'm a country girl who somehow found herself living in the Big Apple and loving every minute of it. I'm planning a rustic, country-chic wedding in my hometown in upstate New York and it's going to be a Party with a capital P. White wine, flea markets and running keep me happy and my friends, family and fiance are my world. I'm a little bit crafty, a little bit crazy but mostly just crazy in love.
Just a few musings on the day of our two-month wedding anniversary (which, technically, was yesterday but I got confused because I thought yesterday was Wednesday, when it was actually Thursday. Things like paying attention to the day of the week get a little hazy when you’re on summer vacation, forgive me… )
Anyways, first of all, whatthebejeejaholyheckin’ whaaaaaaat? It’s really been two whole months since our wedding? I think back to when I was two months out and feeling like the wedding was still forever away and now these past two months since have flown right by in the blink of an eye (and it ain’t no lie, … Heehee, I’m a poet and I know it).
Craziness, right? But I have to say. I totally thought I would be really sad once the wedding was over and assumed I would have a mild case of post-wedding depression, because I’m an emotional basket case and cry at those Mastercard “Priceless” commercials, so obviously one would think I’d be a complete mess when something as major as my wedding was over.
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Miss Handbag, Smyrna, DE/Jamaica
Age and Occupation: 25, Administration
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Sales
Engagement Date: Christmas Night 2008
Wedding Date: March 2011
Venue: Rosehall Resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica
About Me: I am a Type A, emotional Italian fireball, who on a weekly basis must be brought back to reality by my level headed, calm, cool and collected fiance. We are planning an intimate, all white with hints of black, vintage inspired wedding on the old sugar aqueducts of Jamaica, with 30 of our closest friends and family flying in to witness the occasion. We are not traditional by any means and will be doing things very differently. :)
When we visited the resort and saw the amazing aqueduct we were instantly hooked. When we ate at the Three Palms restaurant, we were drooling at the very thought of our ceremony/reception at this amazing island. Then we read about the tale of Three Palm (where our reception will be)…
No one knows for sure if this is a tale or if this really happened but the locals swear by its truth. I found this article here.
Born in France, Annie Palmer was a petite woman (barely 4 feet tall) who moved to the beautiful island of Jamaica. She was to marry a powerful man who owned Rose Hall and thousands of acres of sugar plantation. Little is known of her early days at Rose Hall. It is said that she pined greatly for the bright lights of Paris, and found life on the island to be a hardship.
Whatever the cause, Annie ruled with an iron fist. She was feared by the slaves who lived on and worked the plantation.
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Mrs. Sand Dollar, Houston
Age and Occupation: 24, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 22, Electrical Technician
Engagement Date: January 8, 2010
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: MacLean Park
About Me: I'm a domestic diva down to the core. I heart cooking, sewing, baking, decorating and making sure we have a hand-crafted home. The best part about the wedding is I get to incorporate it all! I make sure I put my art degree to good use by screen printing, craft knife cutting, and a whole lotta graphic design. We're having a big-time party on a small-time budget, and I promise to show you a boot-scootin', barbecue-eatin', finger-lickin' good time! Mr. Sand Dollar and I spend most of our time on DIY projects or traipsing around the outdoors with our two pooches Rory and Juno. I'm looking forward to sharing our journey with all of you!
It seems that there come times in a relationship where everything becomes a struggle. Nothing works out your way, and normally simple tasks become ten times more difficult. This summer has been one of those times for Mr. SD and me.
Mr. SD has been a student for the past two years. His employer sent him to school to study up on electrical stuff (I have no earthly idea what he does), with the promise that he’ll come back to work with a hefty raise. How awesome is that? Unfortunately, Mr. SD is no financial planner.
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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.
I’ve had a big disappointment. I’m quite sad. It turns out my venue is not on board with DIY cupcakes because they suspect people who have been drinking + icing + exciting toppings = big mess for them. It probably would have been a good idea for me to have checked that before getting all excited.
Sad f
ace:
The new plan is my sister will just make and decorate the cupcakes herself and our (apparently drunk and slobby) guests will just have to manage to not toss them around the room.
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Feature Launched: April 10, 2009
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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 know I’m a traditional girl (as much as you can be while being a liberal), but I never really knew how traditional Mr. Starfish was until we started planning our wedding. We’ve been dating for almost 7 years and he’s always been a go with the flow kind of guy, but when it’s come to our wedding, he’s way more involved than I was expecting. I was thinking he’d say, “whatever you want,” to pretty much everything, but I’ve been surprised to see that he has definite ideas about certain things.
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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!
A couple of days ago, I talked about our centerpieces and how Mr. Cardy and I were so thrilled to be able to have real flowers. Now, I’m excited about the centerpieces and all, but the part of our flower contract that gets me really excited are the ceremony flowers – our bouquets and boutonnieres.
I have this thing for flower bouquets. I love them. Mr. Cardy buys me fresh flowers to keep in the house all the time, and I just love the look of a pretty bunch of flowers. Even though I love bouquets, I had a hard time finding inspiration photos that really fit what I wanted – soft and romantic, but still bright and fun. I found this one, and it fit what I was looking for pretty well:
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And then while I was in the middle of putting together an email to send to our florist about our inspiration, I got an email from a friend who saw a wedding on Snippet & Ink and thought of me. That’s when I found THE bouquet.
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Mrs. Barrettes, Tumon, Guam/Napa, CA
Age and Occupation: 29, Dancer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Licensed Building Contractor
Engagement Date: November 16, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: V. Sattui Winery
About Me: I'm an East Coast girl, living on a tiny little island in the Pacific, twirling, leaping, and shimmy-ing my way through life, and now, wedding planning! I'm equal parts nerdy and cool... okay, mostly nerdy. I love satin bows, red lipstick, black & white graphic anything, the shine of sequins and the sound of a champagne "pop". My favorite books are The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, and Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I can also conjure a pretty good Patronus Charm. I started my appreciation for good red wine while traveling on the high seas, and it's only fitting that my passion for wine drinking led me to my Napa-bred honey. We bonded over bottles of Cabernet on my oceanfront porch and haven't looked back since. We're sealing the deal at a winery in the Napa Valley on a 'perfect ten' of a day!
With our monogram complete, it was time to start putting together our save the dates. I knew I was going to spend a pretty penny on our invitations, so I wanted to make the STDs myself. Postcards are sooo IN these days! I created all my graphics on my MacBook using iWorks 09 Pages.
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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’ve been DIY-ing my butt off lately. (Well not literally. I want my sizable ass to say sizable, thank you very much. Haha!) Anyway, wanna see my most recent project??? Do ya?? Do ya??
Little “Tears of Joy” tissue packets!
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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!
Our save the dates were DIY. Our printer is not our friend. That’s why our STDs took 345985340 hours to finish.
First, we HAND CUT every single one. Homeboy at Kinko’s didn’t do a great job aligning things, so the lines on the back of the card didn’t match up with the picture on the front and there were two images on each A4 sheet that also didn’t align. Thanks, bro.
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Mrs. Taco, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 29, writer/editor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 37, editor
Engagement Date: May 13, 2009
Wedding Date: August 2010
Venue: The Green Room at the War Memorial Veterans Building
About Me: I like laughing and talking with good friends over good food and good drink, be it wine, cocktail, or brew. I write and edit things for fun and profit, but I rarely "write" these days without a keyboard and high-speed internets. Favorites include Mr. Taco, my Boston terrier, San Francisco, getting out of town, and the Roaring ’20s. I was kind-of planning a wedding since roughly 2006, when I discovered "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?" on the WE channel. I ran and didn't look back with a theme I called "urban vintage," and it culminated in the most magical day a taco could ask for.
I know I’m the ten-billionth person to quote this movie, but a) The Princess Bride is a damn fine movie, b) I’m getting mawwied, yo!
I’m getting married tomorrow. To.mor.ow. A slow, never-ending 15 months suddenly sped up like someone flipped a switch. Vague plans in the wedding binder and ideas in my head gradually became more and more real. As time sped up, people really opened up and offered ears, shoulders, and even physical labor and chauffeuring services if we needed them. I’ve sent those messages, too; but I never knew how much they meant until now. I dropped off our wedding booze to the caterer this week (OK, so Mr. Taco was right and it did all fit in the car), and I teared up thinking about all the people, near and far, who took time to check in with us and make our little party happen. Thank you, peeps. We really couldn’t have done it without you. Also, tearing up while driving is a bad idea, but I worked around it. 
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