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I’ve been going back and forth for months now on whether we should go with our original topper, Lladro’s The Happiest Day, or purchase the one I found online, below.
The True Romance People Topper reminds me of our engagement, but I’m just so in love with the Lladro piece Starfish Mom gave us for our engagement gift.
It took Mr. Meerkat and I less than 12 hours after we got engaged to decide that we wanted to have a destination wedding. We are travel addicts who love to explore the history and culture of an area.
At first, the choices were overwhelming because there were so many possibilities. We looked at Italy but the costs were just too high. We looked at St John but it just didn’t have that rich culture that we were looking for, and in Mr. Meerkat’s words, “all there is to do there is sit on a beach.”
We looked at Alaska. Ok, I’m not going to lie; we were totally in love with the idea of getting married on a glacier. Then we realized that some of our relatives might not want to hop on a helicopter and ride out onto a floating chunk of ice in the middle of the ocean.
The more research we did the more the locations started to blur together. So, we had to stop and ask ourselves what things were really important:
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I was recently given a wonderful bridal shower, co-hosted by my two lovely aunts:
It was such a fun mix of friends and family - even FMIL Husky was able to come! It was single-handedly the most enjoyable shower experience I’ve ever had. Of course, it’s the only shower experience I’ve ever had in my honor!
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Does this look like a sweetheart top to you? For those of you less inclined on the sewing machine, I’ll answer for you: no, it does not look like a sweetheart top.
I’m sure you are wondering why I am so anti-bridal shop.
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Right after I wrote the post about Mr. Socks’ and his groomsmen’s ties, I realized I’ve never written about what my bridal party is going to wear!!
I have three bridesmaids and Mr. Socks has three groomsmen. I was pretty laid back about what everyone would wear—at first, I had told my bridesmaids to find any dress they liked in a fall color and wear it, but that seemed to overwhelm my ladies, so I narrowed the choices down to a cotton sateen dress at David’s. They could wear any style they liked, and I wanted them to have different colors—truffle, apple, and persimmon.
Like so:
(Please excuse the hasty yellow shoes I slapped on them)
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Some might argue that Save the Dates are unnecessary. After all, the first question folks ask when they find out you’re engaged is, “When’s the big day?” Everyone important in our lives has already saved the date, especially after almost a year of engagement. So, what’s the point? Many would say that it’s just a formality.
I disagree. A Save the Date is your guests’ first impression of your wedding. It’s your announcement to your loved ones that this is really happening. It provides an opportunity to set the tone for your wedding. Guests are clued in to your theme and the entire vibe you’re trying to convey. We thought about doing a photobooth strip magnet, because we’re planning to have a photobooth at the reception. We thought about using some of our engagement pictures (more on that later). But then we decided to take advantage of this opportunity and do something WAY more complicated.
You may recall that we got engaged on a hot air balloon. Balloons are so whimsical, and that’s definitely an element we plan on incorporating into our wedding. I googled “balloon” and “save the date,” and came up with a lot of boring stuff, a lot of expensive stuff, and this:
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After our bridal party portraits, Mr. FF helped me (and all of my dress, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”-style) into the car. The dark, ominous clouds covering the sky during our bridal party pictures suddenly opened and it began to pour. Sheets of rain were falling fast and furious, and I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. This was the only time we had slotted for our pictures, and had a little more than an hour to get them done. I began to laugh at this point, because what good would crying do? It wasn’t going to stop the rain, and we just had to make the best of the situation.
…But it’s definitely a post-wedding change! I’ve been a fake blonde for several years now but honestly, I’m sick of how expensive highlights are to maintain. For real, it’s ridiculous; especially in New York City (like, two hundred bones and up! Ouch!).
So with the onset of autumn and my desire to save some cash, I decided it was time to ditch the highlights and go back to my natural color, which is a sort of medium brown. No more trips to the hair salon for this bee!
Anyways, for fun, here’s my before picture, taken about a month before our wedding:
Yikes, I’m clearly not wearing makeup in the above photo, but that’s par for the course, we know this! 
And here’s how I look now:
Mrs Chasson made her own welcome sign for her reception.
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You know the best thing about being the eldest of 20 grandchildren? My cousins keep me in the loop! The latest “must-have” is Silly Bandz.
They’re like rubber bands, but thicker, and they come in all shapes and colors. Personally the princess set and the sea creatures set are my favorites:
The countdown continues. We have two weeks until W-Day, and I still feel completely frazzled. Our band hasn’t mailed out the check for our returned payment. Our replacement band has a drummer that will be “unavailable” that weekend. I’m not sure where we’ll go from here, so I’ve just decided to take it day-by-day and focus on the things I can nail down. Like signs. We need a few signs to take care of important wedding day messages, so I figured I would whip up a cute design in Illustrator for each one.
We had to go ahead and rent 20 chairs for the ceremony. As much as I fell in love with the hay bale idea, it would cost upwards of $5 per bale, as well as the fuel and inconvenience of driving 30 minutes away to the nearest feed store that sells them.
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Gotta love a productive Saturday!!
Mama Elephant and I headed out to a boutique crawl in old town Lewisville. Since most of our vendors are already signed, we really went for the eats, to try on my dress again and make the appointment for when my wonderful bridesmaids are in town. We did meet a very sweet hair and makeup artist who I may have to check into later.
The drawing for prizes wasn’t until 3 PM, so we killed some time over at DSW and wouldn’t you know it—I found my wedding shoes!! As you may remember, I wanted blue shoes for the wedding so I was happy to find several blue shoes to try on. Here are my beauties!
When we first looked at Philadelphia’s Magic Garden and fell in love with it, I had visions of cobalt blue and teal being our main wedding colors. They are probably my two favorite colors anyway, and they would look perfect with the crazy mosaic backdrop, as the whole place features those colors pretty heavily.
When we looked at Bartram’s Garden and fell even more in love with it, I scrapped the whole blue idea all together. It just looks like a warm-tones type of place and I found myself dreaming of yellows, oranges, and raspberry/magenta/fuchsia/whatever you want to call it.
And then I came across this bright, fabulous wedding online. And although this phrase is already totally overused in the wedding blogosphere, I have to say it anyway.
I DIE.
Seriously, look at this wedding:
When your venue is already gorgeous, there’s no need to over-decorated
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