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This is what comes to mind whenever I see the name of my pretty, precious, glamorous gown, the Vogue Royale (by Maggie Sottero, so I figured what better way to share my first dress fitting than with lyrical undertone?
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! LOVEY PIE, MR. LOCKET, SNUGGYBEAR…OKAY NOW THAT YOU KNOW I AM TALKING TO YOU, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON TO READ FURTHER. THIS IS A DRESS POST AND CONTAINS PHOTOS OF ME IN MY DRESS… IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE DO NOT CONTINUE TO READ THIS. OKAY, I LOVE YOU, BYE.
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I’m thrilled to welcome our newest bee coming to us from Guam! Please join me in welcoming Miss Barrettes to the hive!
Miss Barrettes, Tumon, Guam/Napa, CA
Age & Occupation: 29, Dancer
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 31, Licensed Building Contractor
Engagement Date: November 16, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: V. Sattui Winery, Napa, CA
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!
I decided at the beginning of our wedding planning to not use fresh flowers. I ultimately decided to go with tissue paper carnations in whites and yellows.
I’ve never been a huge fan of carnations, but in a big bunch they’re gorgeous. I used Folding Tree’s tutorial for tissue paper carnations. So without further ado, here are our bouquets:
I seem to have hit a wedding wall. My fizz has lost its bubbles, my bounce has come back to earth—that sort of thing.
Don’t worry, it isn’t like I have lost my enthusiasm and excitement for marriage—that I am very much looking forward to with everything in me. It’s the wedding bits and bobs that are getting me down.
Mr E’s grandmother passed away early this week. She was an amazing, amazing woman who did all she could to make me feel welcomed into his family and she has supported us in so many ways. Mr E was very close to her; she is the reason he could even afford to make the move to NZ to be with me and study. She has been fighting cancer for the last year and a bit, but in the last couple of weeks she went downhill very suddenly.
When faced with something like that, making a decision about whether or not to have rose petals on our aisle doesn’t seem all that important. You get me?
A little more than a year ago (before we were engaged) we were thinking about doing this wedding thing differently. It would have taken place last December or June, and it would have been either in Bali or Yosemite National Park. Only family would have attended.
If we had gone with one of those plans, Mr E’s grandmother could have seen us get married.
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I’ve been debating on what to use for the whole, “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”.
I originally planned to use my engagement ring as my something old,. The diamond is from FMIL Starfish’s engagement ring, so I thought I had my “something old” all set.
After our Eurostar ride, filled with the loving sounds of a crying child, we arrived in Paris. We rode the Metro over to the Marais district and walked around for a bit trying to find our hotel. The Hotel Place des Vosges was a great little place that is currently undergoing renovations, and we were lucky enough to get a renovated room on the top floor. It involved some stairs and the tiniest elevator you can imagine to get up to, but it had great exposed beams, neat little woodwork niches and an awesome bathroom entirely clad in a cool grey stone. We had a skylight and, if you needed them, there were two pull out beds.
After a quick shower we headed out to find dinner in the cool-ish Paris evening.
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It’s time for French Fry wedding recaps!!! 
Before we can get to the wedding day, though, we have to take a look back. My plan was to have everything done ahead 1 week prior to the wedding, so that when the week of the wedding rolled around, I could relax and mentally prepare for everything that was to come. Thus, the week before the week of the wedding, my day planner looked like this:
(I apologize for the crappy iPhone pic)
Yeah, I’m a crazy list-maker.
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When Bridesmaid Carrie got married a few years ago my Grandmother was unable to attend the wedding. Much of the event was outdoors and with all the uneven surfaces, and it just wasn’t ideal for my often unsteady Granny. However, she wanted to catch a glimpse of Carrie and me all dressed up before heading to the church, so she swung by Carrie’s house before we departed and got the chance to ogle over how beautiful we looked. She wished Carrie well and sent us off with lipstick kisses on our cheeks. Then, just as she was pulling away, she rolled down her car window and yelled to Carrie (in her Rhode Island accent), “Where’s your veil?”
Oh, Granny, subtlety isn’t your strong suit. Carrie sweetly explained that not all brides wear veils these days.
This has become a classic Grandma wedding story. Every now and then we just randomly yell, “Where’s your veil?” in a loud Rhode Island accent when referring to Carrie’s wedding. Maybe you had to be there. Anywhoo…
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On the morning of our wedding I woke up around 8 AM. I had set my alarm for 10 AM just in case I decided to pass out and sleep through our wedding, but luckily I woke up with the sun (!! Sun! Not rain!), feeling rested. 
One of the great things about having to drop everything off with the venue Friday morning was that I couldn’t do any more projects after that. So, I went to bed at a semi-reasonable hour on Friday (after hanging out at the bar near our hotel, post rehearsal dinner), and got plenty of sleep. I highly recommend this if you can, because I know personally—and Mr. GP will happily testify to this—I get pretty cranky when low on sleep (or food, especially)!
(Good morning, gorgeous view from my room!*)
jglenn4 is selling her Jennifer Behr crystal headband. She’s asking $125.
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We’re not having a first look.
Whew. It feels good to get that off my chest. First looks have become so incredibly common lately; I get complete shock from people when I tell them that we’re skipping it. When I told our photographer that we don’t want a first look, I could practically see the stress filling her face as I said it—after all, it makes things a bit more complicated for her! We have to squeeze in all of our formal photos after the ceremony, and we’ll only be able to take care of a few of them before. Plus, our ceremony just so happens to be set at sunset, so it’s going to be dark outside after the ceremony—that makes formal portraits a bit difficult, no?
First looks make things very simple—you can take all your portraits before the ceremony, and then you get to enjoy your cocktail hour with all of your guests! Plus, who doesn’t love a first look photo? They are always so touching.
It seems these days most brides are divided into either Team Cupcake or Wedding Cake Camp. Well I’m a double agent because I loooooove both. Mr. Glasses is a big “MEH!” on the whole thing, so I’ve got a decision to make. Ultimately it comes down to prices, but that’s no fun; sweets are wedding porn a-go-go, baby!
Lately I’ve been noticing that our wedding is not very cohesive (more on that later). What better way to tie everything together than to put our cherry blossoms on a cake?
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So… we’ve been married for a total of 2 months (as of last Friday). 2 months=8 weeks=60 days to wear our new wedding bands.
I’ll admit it: in the course of our engagement, I did forget to put my engagement ring on a few times when we left the house. In the past 418 days (yes… I did the math… nerd), I would say it happened more than 3 times, but definitely less than 10. I do happen to be one of those girls who doesn’t wear her rings at all times. When I get home, they are off my hand and in their box/safe place immediately. I don’t wear them to the beach, I don’t wear them in the shower, and I definitely don’t cook with them on. Realistically, I probably spend more time with them off than on. I’m pretty adamant about cleaning my rings regularly (aka at least every other week, depending on how much I wear them) and keeping them in amazing condition.
Anyway, back to Mr. Buttons. Before the wedding, he never wore rings on a regular basis, so I can understand how this “change” in his routine could throw him off a bit.
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From the beginning of this whole planning process, I was determined to make our wedding reflect the unique personalities of Mr. Husky and me. We decided on a DEY (do everything yourself) budget and set out to craft a wonderful day. Hours were spent making buttons to be attached to linen flower petals that were glued to burlap napkin rings. Many evenings were spent at the kitchen table, carefully gluing delicate lace paper to the invitations. Soil was turned, and flower seedlings were nurtured in our garden.
And then it dawned on me: I haven’t done any of the big things! Like rent tables and chairs. Or find a bartender. You know, those things that we actually need for the wedding. After a minor panic attack, Mr. Husky updated my checklist into a weighted priority list. We copied all of the items from my checklist and assigned both a deadline and a priority of 1-5. Items assigned a priority one are non-negotiable requirements for the wedding—such as the marriage license and invitations. Priority fives are items that aren’t really all that important and can fall off the list if we run out of time. The weighted priority list that Mr. Husky created contains a column that multiplies the difference between the current date and the due date (number of months) by the priority level. If the due date has passed, the number will appear negative and red. Approaching deadlines are in yellow:
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Today’s review comes from kjpugs of her jeweler, Shane Co.
I love Shane Co so much I ended up on one of their commercials!
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