Mrs. Locket, Ithaca, NY
Age and Occupation: 25, Research Technician
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, former Banker hoping to become an Officer of the Law
Engagement Date: June 15, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Heron Hill Winery
About Me: I am a little bit of everything all rolled into one: A girly gal with rough edges---I love to get dolled up just as much as I enjoy throwing on some sneaks to toss a ball with Mr. Locket. My love for crafting and creating is quite apparent and I've been referred to as a Wonder Woman/Martha Stewart/Stepford Wife hybrid (yup, I'll take that as a compliment). I adore sewing, photography, sculpture, good eats (mmm tapas), baking, snugging and oh, pretty much everything in between (there's not much I dislike). I am super excited to be planning our vineyard wedding and couldn't be happier to be marrying Mr. Locket. We are a quirky, fun-loving couple residing in our college town with our two pups Maple and Molly. We love to go on hikes, visit our local dog park and to bask in the beauty of many of the local falls and gorges. We are an indecisive pair, but together we somehow manage to make up our minds (it's the easy stuff that's tricky).
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EEEEEEE! I am so excited about getting my very snazzy and pretty darn awesome wedding present. Nope, it’s not a fancy necklace or a pretty ring—it’s even better! Mr. Locket has had a plan in place for a while to purchase me a fancy new camera as my wedding gift.
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Mrs. Gloss, Boston/Maine
Age and Occupation: 24, Designer/soon-to-be Architect
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Systems Engineer
Engagement Date: May 23, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: SS Katahdin/Lakeside Tent
About Me: I don't like nickels or the skin that forms on pudding when it's in the fridge for too long. I couldn't live without Pantone markers, fountain soda (3/4 diet, ¼ regular Coke), run-on sentences, or ridiculously oversized sunglasses. I will try to DIY almost anything and am just OCD enough to make most of it work. I am truly excited about having all my family and friends together, becoming Mrs. Gloss, and having amazing photos to prove it!
I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since our wedding; I promised myself I would finish my recaps before our first anniversary, so let’s wrap it up!
Last time we spoke (I know it was a long time ago) I left you with all our reception details and mentioned that we were patiently waiting outside the tent to be introduced as husband and wife.
Our parents and fabulous bridal party entered first. The music playing was the instrumental beginning to Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure.
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Classifieds
Feature Launched: April 30, 2008
About: A roundup of the best Weddingbee Classified listings.
Mrs. Trail Mix is selling a ton of leftover goodies from her wedding. She is asking $100 for a lot of 23 vintage blue Mason Jars. She is also selling a lot of other rustic blue and yellow items.
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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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 honestly haven’t given wedding bands too much thought. Well I guess that’s only true if your definition of “not much thought” is searching high and low on the internet for the perfect ring on at least ten separate occasions. But you know, I’m just saying…
What are the chances that Mr. Plaid pretty much knows what he wants and I don’t have a clue? I guess pretty big in my case, so without further ado, here’s what he’s thinking:
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Featured Product: Laura Ashley Delicate Damask Invitation
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!
Did you know that Nordstrom does off-the-rack bridal dresses? J. Crew has been a great resource for brides who are looking to buy dresses outside of the traditional stores, but their dresses are still too pricey for me. Look at these great dresses I’ve been browsing on the Nordstrom website!
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BCBGMAXAZRIA, $298
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Mrs. Argyle, St. Louis
Age and Occupation: 24, Project Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Pilot
Engagement Date: February 15, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Jewel Box in Forest Park and Windows on Washington
About Me: I'm a true Midwestern girl (born and raised), lover of red wine, reality TV and the entire J.Crew catalog. I love to dance regardless of who is watching, and enjoy a good laugh with my girls. I have a soft spot in my heart for planet Earth, my two dogs and my fiance. Fall is my favorite season (which is why we are marrying in September), but I love a warm summer day and the Colorado mountains in the winter. We are planning a modern soiree downtown, with lots of bold colors, and fun, eco-friendly elements.
Our invitations were one serious labor of love. I redesigned them multiple times, a little more satisfied with the design with each revision. And, with a welcomed epiphany earlier this year, we settled on a final design, one that was art deco enough for us both, but still minimalist.
We took somewhat of a different approach with our invites, opting to go a tad less formal with the wording. I love the formality of a wedding, but our wedding is no black-tie affair. For one, my parents like to go by their first names, and for the most part, Mr. A’s do as well. There are no “Mr. and Mrs. Argyles” in this family. And, because both parents so generously split the cost of the wedding, we made sure to include them both. And, my favorite part? They are red. A bold and gorgeous shade of red.
In sticking with our eco-friendly goal, we printed front and back.
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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!
For our honeymoon we decided that we want to go somewhere cold. Yes, cold. Snowy, frozen-eared, runny-nose cold. We live in Guam where it is 86 and sunny every day, so the thought of going somewhere else tropical isn’t all that appealing. I want to drink hot toddies and wear mittens and watch my new hubby carve it up on the slopes.
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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!
Well, we’re all moved in and settled! Last week I was going crazy with an insanely messy apartment, and this week I’m feeling nice and at home in my beautiful (CLEAN) new duplex!
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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!
With our photographer! I did two things the week after I got engaged. I booked MacLean Park, and put down the deposit for our photographer. You’d think by my quick action I had done a lot of research, but no sir. We found them and hired them pretty much on the same day. So who did we choose?
The Pros! I searched all over Google to find someone within our price range, which was under a thousand bucks. It’s really hard, you know. I didn’t want to get stuck with an uber traditional style, or someone who would take horrible photos of my shindig. Most got knocked out due to price alone. Then finally, the heavens parted and I found these.
(Photos by Scott V. of the Pros.com)
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Beehive
Feature Launched: Aug 31, 2006
About: A forum for readers to post questions and get feedback from the hive, aka the weddingbee community.
August 9th, 2010 @ 1:16 pm by Beehive
To be eligible to win a Avery/Zazzle Wedding Organizer, review your favorite wedding vendors in the Weddingbee Vendors section and submit them to us here to be featured on the blog! Check out this post for more info on our great weekly prizes!
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Today’s review comes from 2dBride of her officiant, Rabbi Rim Meirowitz in Massachusetts!
Rabbi Rim was originally recommended to us as a rabbi in Massachusetts who was willing to perform weddings even if one of us was not Jewish. We checked out his site, and liked what we saw. He doesn’t take himself too seriously. At the same time, he seemed quite thoughtful and intelligent. When we contacted him, our initial favorable impressions were confirmed. He is very supportive of same-sex marriage, as his own stepdaughter was recently married to another woman. He is flexible on arrangements.
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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. :)
Remember the ongoing saga of who is walking me down the isle? Brothers or Momma Handy?
After talking with my amazing momma, she told me that she wouldn’t feel comfortable walking me down. She isn’t the type of gal who likes attention and doesn’t want to feel like all eyes are on her. (Again, I have no idea where I came from! Haha.) She said that nothing would make her prouder than to see her three babies walking down the aisle. As much as I wanted her to walk with me, I knew that she wouldn’t feel OK with it…
So after pondering the thought of my handsome brothers walking me down in their amazing uniforms, looking sharp, and being proud of their only sister, it brought tears to my eyes. (What! I’m emotional!) So I called Big Brother Handy, and of course he said yes…
Then I e-mailed Lil Brother Handy and asked him… and his reply was…
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Mrs. Socks, Southern NJ/Philadelphia, PA
Age and Occupation: 23, Web Developer/Marketing Specialist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Systems Engineer
Engagement Date: September 7, 2009
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Ladder 15 Restaurant
About Me: I am originally from the Midwest, but I love being an East Coast transplant! Mr. Socks and I are foodies and winos to the core---give us a hunk of cheese, some charcuterie and a glass of wine and we could die happy. We have two mischievous Wire Fox Terriers with completely opposite personalities but with a shared love of uprooting anything in our garden. Our backyard garden includes everything from tomatoes and peppers to a fig tree, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries! I love cooking, indie music, and spending time in our wedding city of choice---Philly!
I don’t know about any of you, but some of my favorite engagement shoot series are from couples who use props and themes! When thinking of what to do for our engagement shoot, Mr. Socks and I were concerned about them looking a little too, “Look at the camera. Look at each other. Kiss. Look at each other. Kiss again” and on and on and on.
So in order to add visual interest to our photos, I started looking at inspiration and found that I was drawn to vineyard photos and picnic photos. So, what’s better than a picnic in a vineyard?
(The answer to that question is “nothing” in case you weren’t sure.)
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Mrs. Locket, Ithaca, NY
Age and Occupation: 25, Research Technician
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, former Banker hoping to become an Officer of the Law
Engagement Date: June 15, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Heron Hill Winery
About Me: I am a little bit of everything all rolled into one: A girly gal with rough edges---I love to get dolled up just as much as I enjoy throwing on some sneaks to toss a ball with Mr. Locket. My love for crafting and creating is quite apparent and I've been referred to as a Wonder Woman/Martha Stewart/Stepford Wife hybrid (yup, I'll take that as a compliment). I adore sewing, photography, sculpture, good eats (mmm tapas), baking, snugging and oh, pretty much everything in between (there's not much I dislike). I am super excited to be planning our vineyard wedding and couldn't be happier to be marrying Mr. Locket. We are a quirky, fun-loving couple residing in our college town with our two pups Maple and Molly. We love to go on hikes, visit our local dog park and to bask in the beauty of many of the local falls and gorges. We are an indecisive pair, but together we somehow manage to make up our minds (it's the easy stuff that's tricky).
**Mr. Locket stay out! This post contains a photo of me in my dress!
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After some talk on the hive boards about whether or not Mama Locket’s MOB dress would be a major faux pas, I was nervous and very worried that maybe we had made a very big mistake in picking her dress.
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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.
As you may recall, Mr. Knitting and I struggled about what to do in terms of a wedding ring for him since he has huge knuckles and doesn’t like rings. As I learned from Weddingbee readers, the huge knuckle problem could have been easily overcome with a hinged ring. However, while Mr. K would have agreed to wear a wedding ring if I insisted, I wasn’t really comfortable with the idea that this symbol of our marriage would be something he didn’t really like and would be wearing only to please me. I also knew that I wouldn’t feel like he would be any less committed to our marriage if he’s not wearing a ring.
With all that in mind, we eventually decided on a wedding watch. Mr. K has never really owned a really nice watch and is always eyeing watches while we’re shopping, so it seemed like the perfect time to head over to Birks and buy him one.
Here it is:
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Weddingbee Gallery
Feature Launched: April 10, 2009
About: A collection of inspirational wedding pictures from readers and bees.
Mrs.Cayemitte displayed simple and unique centerpieces at her wedding.
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.
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