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No one likes looking like a deer in headlights or like they’re scared shitless as they walk down the aisle. That said, I’m incredibly jittery about my walk down the aisle in a few days (OMG). I’d love to keep my eye on my prized Mr. Taco and stare straight ahead with a huge, not-weird smile on my face. But I’m concerned that I’ll look more like I’m about to get run over by a truck coming straight at me. That, or like I’m uncomfortable or bummed.
At May Bride S’s wedding, I smiled for a bit and then, I think, smirked the rest of the way through due to nervousness. At least that’s how it appeared in a pic or two. Kinda like this, but this is the good version:
Pic by Lalit Lakshmanan
There’s a lot to keep track of, isn’t there?
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Camrie added gold pen to her candy buffet banner to give it a little sparkle.
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Last week, our vases I ordered from Katom Restaurant Supply arrived! I was so excited to get them after waiting about 3 weeks for their arrival.
Apparently I suck at reading and understanding dimensions (bag-zilla, anyone?) and when put against the IKEA vases I thought they’d be the same size as…
Well. You get the idea.
I guess my poor little fried bride brain got WAY too excited over the fact that they were white and 89 cents that I didn’t realize they weren’t the right size. 3.75 inches tall should have tipped me off.
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The bridal party was fully united about an hour before the ceremony start time so we could take the requisite posed pictures. Bridesmaid T had made it back safely and properly coiffed from the salon, so we hustled back to Ballantine Hall. Our photographers jazzed up the session with a bike they found, which was, again, extremely cool.
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to say “I love you” on our wedding day. I really want it to be special, but I’m nervous I won’t be able to get what I feel across in words. Let alone the fact that I may flub it all up with tears. Stupid tears…ugh! (I know Mama Plaid will be crying in the audience…I doubt I’ll be able to hold it together. My emotions are going to be running high that day.)
We’ve basically got two options. We can just say traditional vows. You know, the whole:
I, Miss Plaid, take you, Mr. Plaid, to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.
But I just don’t know if I’m feeling that. I like the idea of just having to repeat after the officiant, but it seems so devoid of emotion and personality. We may both be quiet people, but trust me, we’ve got tons of personality. We might be what some would classify as weird. (It keeps it interesting, I promise. Besides, everyone’s got a little weird in them.)
So then we come to option two: Writing our own vows. Oh man, does this option make me nervous. Creative writing has never really been my forte. However, I’ve seen this done in different ways.
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Smellies, ya know—flowers, the smelly things.
Going into this whole wedding planning extravaganza, I kept telling myself I don’t want flowers in my decor. Yes for my bouquet and my girls’ bouquets, but not my reception or ceremony decor. Being a frugal bride, I couldn’t justify spending oodles of hard earned moolah on something that wasn’t going to last. Yes, flowers are beautiful, they smell wonderful, and who doesn’t like looking at them, but they’re not very budget friendly. Also, Mr. Handy has very bad allergies, to everything; flowers, grass, trees, pollen, dust, and probably even me. 
He has them so bad his eyes get really dark circles under them, and he gets miserable. So I was desperate to find cute alternatives.
I had these pics stored away for inspiration…
In a couple of weeks I will be having my hair and makeup trial. Which means, apparently, that I have to have an idea of what sort of hairstyle I want by then. I haven’t worn my hair all the way up since I was 10, so I know for sure I don’t want a complete up-do. But I don’t want my hair completely down either, so the half up-do it is. The trouble is: what sort of half-up do I want? I’m a bit all over the place when it comes to that.
My hair is naturally curly, mid length (a couple inches below my shoulders but you often cant tell because of the curls) and quite thin (annoyingly thin). I will be wearing a silver filigree floral headpiece (to be revealed!) and a simple finger-length veil for at least the ceremony.
So, with all that in mind, here are the pics that are my current inspiration for my ‘do.
I love these “vintage-esque” styles, but I dont know if I can pull them off:
Our first round of e-pics makes me happy; we’ll get tons of use out of them because of our cherry blossom theme. We started the day off at Shinjuku Gyoen, a massive “park” in an urban area. It’s filled with cherry blossom trees, although they weren’t particularly out at this time. Nevertheless, we picked a tree that was about 80% in bloom and posed under it. I was nervous about having my picture taken professionally, but I think they turned out pretty great!
Miss Lobster here!
A couple weekends ago my bridesmaids threw me a bridal shower. It was on the exact anniversary of Mr. Lobster’s and my engagement. So while I was being showered with gifts and treats, Mr. Lobster was living it up Austin for his bachelor party shenanigans. Hm, it was quite different than the day he proposed. There were so many lovely details, I’ll let the party planners (my sisters / Maids of Honor) do the talking:
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My sister and I planned Lobster’s bridal shower on the anniversary of their engagement. While it just happened that way, I took it as a sign from the bridal shower fairies. 
We wanted the bridal shower to be P-E-R-F-E-C-T, but with a bit of a late start, we needed to catch up fast. Lobster had sent us a link from Amy Adams for inspiration for a shower theme - love birds peppered with red and pink polka dots. It was lovely.
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We arrived at our rehearsal to find that we were the only ones that had showed up! I quickly found out that traffic to our church was terrible, and that everyone was at least en route and doing their best to get there. I told our priest that we should have everyone assembled in about 10 minutes, but I could tell that he was antsy to get things started. I managed to cool his jets for about 5 minutes, at which point he decided we were going to start without the missing wedding party members. Um… okay. Not that they need to know where to go or anything…
Eventually 99% of our bridal party had arrived, and I began to arrange the guys in the order they should stand in:
Where’s Waldo?
Seriously, it was kind of like herding cats, which is why I’m a blur in this picture.
Having met in college, we knew we wanted to include some alma mater love. We don’t want to have a college wedding theme, so we’ve been trying to think of subtle ways to include our favorite place. I’ve been amazed at all the fun and unique ideas I’ve found to show some college love. You can put a college spin on pretty much every element of the wedding.
Venue - Say “I do” at your alma mater. See if they have a house of worship, or a location on campus that they allow alumni to use for ceremonies and or receptions. Many colleges and universities have gorgeous chapels. I love the photos from the recently featured “Real Wedding” of Hilary and John at The Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. The photos at the Harvard church are stunning.
Videography - Ask your videographer to do separate interviews. One with the bride and one with the groom, each re-telling the story of how you met or a favorite college memory.
The Wednesday afternoon before our wedding, after leaving the freshly purchased wedding flowers prep to my family, Mr. Cola and I, along with three members of our wedding party grabbed lunch, and then loaded all of this into our U-Haul truck and the trunks of our two cars.
At this point I was beginning to feel like a zombie again, since I’d only had about 8 total hours of sleep in the past 72 hours, so I went and tried to take a nap, while the guys went to the store to stock up on drinks for that night. They were going to hang out at our house and play pool, while my BM Heather had a night out planned for the two of us.
This is what was already going on when I woke up from my short nap. They’d apparently gotten an early start!
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Ever since we got engaged 18 months ago, the song “Lucky” by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat has been on my short list for our first dance. I’ve loved Jason Mraz since I saw him in concert back in 2002, when he was just starting to get big. Mr. Jelly and I both love duets, and Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat’s voices sound so beautiful together. And the lyrics—oh the lyrics!—they are just too perfect:
“I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I’m lucky we’re in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday”
Let’s see here… Mr. Jelly and I are best friends… Mr. Jelly is gone a lot due to his military career… we consider ourselves lucky each time he returns from a deployment safe and sound… we’ve been together 7 years… I’d pretty much say those lyrics sum it up perfectly! So why wasn’t it a no-brainer?
This is going to sound silly but…
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I finally got the monograms that I ordered on Etsy. Totally cute, but not exactly what I was looking for. However, they did inspire me to try to create some on my own. The only problem with that is that I have become slightly neurotic about it. Arranging and rearranging all the elements to create the perfect piece has now taken up two whole days. Like I think someone will actually look at it and think, “Wow, Barrettes should have moved that ’B’ a 1/4 millimeter to the right.”
When someone else creates something for you, you just accept it, love it or hate it. But when creating it yourself, it’s hard to accept it unless its perfect…but what is perfect?! Ahhhh! So anyway, I took a break from looking at them for a few days.
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