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Like many brides before me, I’ve decided to let my bridesmaids pick their own dresses (within parameters, of course! I’m way too type-A to just let dress selection happen freely). I really wanted my girls to love what they will be wearing ’cause we all know that when you look like crap, it’s really hard to have a good time. I’m willing to bet that these ladies were pretty miserable this day:
kittykim75’s sweet cake sits atop a perfectly set table.
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I really didn’t care about having a card box. I was totally convinced that it was acceptable to collect the gifts and cards when we visited tables as most Vietnamese American weddings do. Mama Hot Wings pushed all the other “norms.” I purposely saved the DIY card box to be one of my last projects. Look at its size! It would be ridiculous to make it in advance and mail it or travel with it back to San Diego. But it’s even more ridiculous to wait until the last minute and think you’ll just put something like a big ol’ card box together with scraps and such, right? Well, ridiculous? Yes. Happy ending? Also yes.
See?
*photo by friend Sally*
Before the happy ending, there was definitely a lot of head scratching.
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I’ve been obsessed with wedding invitations lately. I know, I know. What else is new?
It’s crazy. I feel like a German shepherd looking for a missing child. Seriously, that’s how I feel. Whenever I see invitations, my ears perk up, my sense of smell improves, and my eyes pop out a little. I feel like I need to find them. Like I should have found them yesterday.
I know it’s going to take me aaawwwhhiillleee to decide on our invites. It takes me aaawwwhhhiiilllleee to decide on pretty much everything, so the invitations (being one of the most important elements of our wedding) are hardly an exception. I worry that if I don’t find them and the time comes when we have to order something, I’m going to be a ball of tears crying, “But, but, I don’t know what I want!”
Like many of you, my search began on the Internet. I searched thousands of stationery websites—thousands, I tell ya! Who knew stationery was such a booming buisness?
I even ordered samples! I’ve ordered about a dozen, hoping each time those would be the ones. I only really like one of the samples I ordered, and it’s from Wedding Paper Divas:
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One of the easiest ways this budget bride has saved money is by recruiting help wherever possible. Fortunately, I happen to have some pretty talented friends! I love the concept of a “friendor” because I feel that it makes a wedding more personal and intimate. On our wedding day, we’re most looking forward to being surrounded by the people we love. Why not have that feeling extend to our vendors, too?
The first friend we hired was Sister Lioness. Though Sister Lioness is currently studying “Teaching ASL as a Foreign Language” at Columbia (bee tee dubs, their mascot is a lion…woot!), she does some pretty sweet graphic design on the side. It’s more of a hobby for her, but she kind of rocks at it. I don’t know much about graphic design, but I do know that I’m a sucker for fonts. Choosing fonts happens to be Sister Lioness’s favorite part of graphic design, so it’s been great to have her artistic eye around! She’s designed our invitation suite, and I plan to collaborate with her for other paper projects like programs and menus. Here’s a sample of her work, a little ditty she came up with to give to family and friends when she moved from Gainesville to NYC:
Ugh. So sorry I had to censor that!
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Today, I’m getting legally married. It’s a very odd feeling because we’re not at the finish line quite yet…we still have three weeks until the day that we’ll consider our “real” wedding, but there is still a significance to the step we’re taking today.
I’m excited, I’m nervous about everything going smoothly, and I also feel very peaceful that what Mr. Socks and I have will be very very real from this day forward.
Mr. Socks told me to make extra space in my head for all of the details today, which I will try my best to do. I’ll leave to get my hair and makeup done in a few minutes and I won’t see Mr. Socks again until we meet at the altar.
I’ll give you a few teasers to tide you over:
I’m not a crier.
There are very, very few things in this world that make me cry, and generally if I feel the need to cry I am able to hold it together long enough to get to a place where I can be alone. I hate letting other people see me cry, and I avoid it at all costs.
But this wedding is doing crazy things to my hormones. I can’t even tell you how many times I have cried over something wedding related throughout the past 13 months.
Poor me! (Source)
Rehearsal dinner searching is stressing me out? Cry. My favorite venue coordinator quits and I have to get a new one that I don’t like nearly as much? Cry. Napkins cause problems for me? Sob. People are causing drama over my choice of ceremony officiant? Bawl my eyes out for two hours.
In the past two days, I have cried to two different people on the phone, and one person over instant messenger.
Seriously, y’all, I don’t even know who I am anymore!
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Phewwww. Hive, it’s been some week. Everyone always says that the week before your wedding is so crazy, and I did not exactly know what that meant. If I can be totally honest, I also secretly believed that it would not apply to me. I’m super-organized, I don’t have a ton of projects to keep track of, and I am nearly always cool as a cucumber in high-pressure situations. I’m usually a pretty unflappable person, but this week, I’ve been…flapped.
It’s a combination of a lot of things, really. I am constantly worrying that I’m forgetting something, or that I’m going to forget something. I’ve been having crazy wedding dreams almost every night (most recently, it was that I woke up the morning after and could not remember anything about the wedding, except that it was “only okay.” I was so pissed that I had spent so much time and money preparing and couldn’t remember a single thing about the entire day!). Our entire house is a mess because we’ve both been so busy that we haven’t had time for anything more than a surface picking-up, and our living room currently looks like a jewel-toned bomb explosion as I wrap up all the last little projects.
To top it all off, we had to spend an unexpected $200 at the vet this morning when (skip the rest of this sentence if you’re squeamish!) Daffodil suddenly started showing symptoms of what turned out to be a severe urinary tract infection, and those symptoms were kind of gruesome, and, um, bloody. So THAT was a bit rattling.
Oh, and also, I’ve been counting Weight Watchers points like a demon to prepare for that white dress of mine, and it’s making me really cranky. I want a mothereffing breakfast burrito and a cupcake, you know what I’m saying?
So, yeah.
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Garden Rose & Gold Pear Centerpieces in Mint Julep Cups by camrie
*Warning – pic heavy post ahead!*
I’ve talked before about our decision not to have a first look. As many of you pointed out, this is a photographer’s nightmare. This means a photographer has only a short, precious time pocket to capture the pages-long list of must-have shots: Bride with Mother, Bride with Father, Bride & Groom with Mother, Bride with Sister, etc. I get it. But worry not—I have a plan.
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We’re not taking posed family portraits. There is no “must-have” list of photos. We don’t want them.
Here’s the thing:
I am usually not one of those people who is interested in shoes. Of the three pairs of shoes I own, two of them are flip flops. I am all about the comfort. Since getting engaged, I have paid more attention to shoes than I ever have in the past. Specifically, the colored-shoe trend:
There was absolutely no doubt in my mind that we would do a first look before the ceremony. I am a complete type-A planner after all, so not doing one seemed like a logistical nightmare and more of a hassle than it was worth. The idea of having to rush through pictures before the reception kind of gives me hives. And what if I cry during the ceremony? My makeup will look like crap and my eyes will be all puffy in pictures that are supposed to last for the rest of our lives. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
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The first look seemed like the best way to accomplish getting most, if not all, of our pictures out of the way while we were looking our best, and it would be great to spend more time with our guests! Well…that was the plan…or I should say my plan. Until….
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In other trending news, boudoir photographs are all the rage nowadays. I may or may not have booked my photographer because I was flattered that she wanted me to do a shoot with her. Hehe, we’re all a bit vain, no? All you have to do is Google boudoir photography, and millions of women, some in veils, are showing off their most precious and beautiful assets.
Many women are gifting their brandy-new husbands with sensual photographs. I find them to be quite beautiful. I also think it might be nice to do a 30-year anniversary shoot, too. You know, an “I’ve still got it, honey” kind of thing.
Anywho, I was all set to do mine with my photographer until I came across Providence Pinup. Seriously, look at how beautiful these women are! The photos are a bit eccentric, mega vintage, and totally fab-tab-ulous! Oh yeah, and, they are sex-ay. Like super-duper, leave-a-bit-to-the-imagination sex-ay.
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