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We’re jumping on the increasingly popular, Southern-inspired homemade jars of jam bandwagon! Can I get a Yeeeeeehaw? Just kidding!
This was a really easy decision for us. We didn’t spend a lot of time debating it like we did with other details. We just saw it, liked it, and said, done! It happened so easily and I couldn’t argue with a quick decision ’cause we hardly come by those!
One night when I was flipping through real weddings on one of my favorite wedding blogs, a certain something caught Mr. B’s attention (he was watching television). He must have seen it out of the corner of his eye, because I had no idea he was paying any attention, but he leaned over and said, “Oh that’s nice!”
It was a cutesy backyard, woodsy type of wedding and I guess because he had never heard or seen the jars of jam favors before, he jumped all over the idea.
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In addition to a dress look for our engagement pictures (thanks for the input, hive!), I want to have a more casual look with jeans. I started brainstorming ways we could make our casual look unique and thought accessories were the way to go. More specifically, hats!
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The length of an engagement is a very interesting concept to me. It varies so much by couple, and it’s such an individual choice. We talked about our wedding date (well, roughly…more like our wedding season) before we even got engaged. Once I had Spring of 2011 stuck in my head, it didn’t matter when we got engaged. I have a friend who had similar thoughts, though her thinking landed her with a very different engagement length. She and her now-fiance planned to get married in August of 2010. They made this decision well before August, but when the proposal didn’t come until April, they ended up with only a 4-month engagement.
Now, I would not have been able to handle a 4-month engagement. She, on the other hand, can’t imagine having an engagement as long as ours. Having a long engagement has had several advantages for us. First of all, we’re on a pretty tight budget. The fact that we’ve had plenty of time to shop around and find the best deals has definitely been helpful. Also, it’s allowed us to focus more on everything else that’s going on in our lives right now (not much really, just graduating, taking the bar/boards, and starting our careers). We still have plenty of time for wedding planning, without forcing everything else to be put on the back burner.
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The benefit of having been together for 8 years is that we have a ton of pictures. We even have—wait for it—engaged to be engaged pictures! My Aunt Cindy takes amazing pictures of people in natural landscapes. When everyone in my high school class was getting their gelled backgrounds ready for their senior pictures, Zeb and I headed on over to Aunt Cindy’s log cabin for a senior picture/couple photography session. Who cares? We want pictures! Okay! Okay! Sheesh! Here it goes…
OHHHH sexy teenagers!
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Our engagement began with a rendezvous. Not between Mr. Meerkat and I but between Mr. Meerkat and MOH Meerkat. Now, wait before you start thinking this is a Days of Our Lives episode; let me explain.
It started one day in June while I was at lunch with the guys I work with. I had been telling them that Mr. Meerkat was planning a surprise weekend away and how excited I was. During lunch, Mr. Meerkat called. As we were talking I realized he was driving while he should have been at work. So, I asked him the obvious question: where was he going? He was honest and told me that he had taken the day off and was meeting MOH Meerkat in the town where I work (one hour from where we live) for lunch and shopping (he didn’t bother to tell me that their shopping was actually going to happen two more hours north). As you can guess, I was kind of hurt. My boyfriend and best friend were getting together and didn’t invite me.
When I got off the phone ,my co-workers could see I was kind of bummed and asked what was wrong.
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Thankfully, my dad arrived just in time to give me a hug, and walk me down the aisle just a few minutes after our scheduled start time.
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As we left Tokyo on the shinkansen that Saturday morning, we traveled back in time to a more traditional, more historical Japan: Kyoto.
I cannot say enough about how awesome the Capsule Ryokan we stayed at was. The owner greeted us at the door (in very good English, I might add), and showed us how our room worked. Yes, the room required explanation. It even came with a binder of instructions! Every Sew’s dream room!
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I have showed you the pearl studs Mr E gave me for my second set of ear piercings, and I showed you my hair pin in my hair and makeup trial post yesterday.
So, how about even more jewellery porn, people? When it comes to jewellery, I’m definitely a silver girl. I think the only gold things I own are my engagement and promise rings. But you can usually predict I will have something silver in my ears. 
Last year for Christmas my parents gave me this gorgeous pair of Balinese silver earrings.
(I just had to take the photo with them dangling from my fav mug, ’cause I’m cool like that.)
When it comes to the lovely ladies that will be standing up for me on my big day, the only thing I knew I wanted in their dresses was that the girls felt beautiful. I tried to narrow it down into brands/designers and a length and then they could pick the dress that best fits their body type. Since I had some extra time on my hands, I made a PowerPoint with the pictures of the different dresses and the prices I could find online.
The first set of dresses are J Crew, Silk Chiffon in Vintage Blue. I think these can be wore again easily, but may not be dressy enough for the wedding.
Pictures from J Crew Weddings
When I look through the photos from after the ceremony, Mr. Guinea Pig and I have huge smiles on our faces in all of them. I love it, and I think it speaks to just how happy we were right then. 
In our post-ceremony high after walking down the aisle as Mr. and Mrs., we hugged our beaming and/or crying parents:
Before I launch into this post, I just want to say…HOLY MOLY WE’RE ONE MONTH AWAY TODAY!! ONE MONTH!
Anyway, last night I finally had Mr. Socks try on his whole wedding ensemble!! In case you don’t remember, we put his suit choice to a vote, and the Hugo Boss was the obvious winner, so that’s what we went with!
First up…what Mr. Socks is wearing:
The recaps are coming, I promise! Still have some pre-wedding (or, like this one, post-wedding) posts I want to share with the hive, though. (Feel free to help sway me in the comments by letting me know if you prefer recaps interspersed with background posts, or uninterrupted recaps!)
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Okay, here’s the background: Since closing on our “First & Forever” home at the end of July, my mind drifts easily to house-related projects. As we were preparing for settlement, Sister and BIL Bruschetta—who are expecting in mid-November—began preparing their first place for sale. And while Sister and BIL Bruschetta started searching for their new home, Mama Bru and I mailed the baby shower invitations—which included a small blurb encouraging guests to wrap their presents to reflect their “gender guess.”
New home, with potential rooms needing painting (especially the nursery!), plus new baby, with an upcoming pink-and-blue-themed shower to celebrate? The super cute DIY bows Jessica created over on How About Orange popped into my head, with one home-improvement-themed stand-in for the magazine pages: paint swatches.
A few days ago, I shared that Mr. B and I wanted to make our invitations and provided some examples of invitations we found inspiring when we were planning a fall wedding. Obviously, choosing to get married in a different season changes a thing or two, including the design and colors of the invitations, so that’s why I have twice as much inspiration as the next bride.
That, and I also have this theory that, kind of like falling in love with her wedding gown, a bride has to have a connection to her invitations. A few people I know (some that aren’t even engaged yet) know exactly what kind of invitations they want, but something like that would never happen to me. I mull over decisions. I’m very indecisive. I fall in love with something, quickly fall out of love, and then fall in love with something else. Nevertheless, I think I’ll connect with the invitations. Is that crazy? To think paper will speak to me? Haha! I guess so.
My indecisiveness is pretty tiring for Mr. B because he never waivers when it comes to figuring out what he wants. He just knows it when he sees it, but it’s not that simple for me. That’s another reason I have so much inspiration.
So although it may not seem like it with our jumping from fall to spring motifs and DIY to designer, we are getting closer each day to finding and crafting our perfect invitation. For instance, I know that I want romantic. I want our invitations to be timeless and have some fancy script.
I also like soft colors, and I wouldn’t mind a picture of flowers as a part of the design, or even a butterfly. All of which would be fitting for our “garden theme.” Of course, the color green has to be in there somewhere, and I want a package deal, too. We don’t want our guests sorting through unorganized pieces. We want an open-and-close doohickey, where the guests receive a pocket with all of the various pieces organized nice and neat.
Here’s the invitation I liked way before we got engaged. I’m not crazy about it now. It’s just too modern. I like the flowers, and we will most definitely have daisies at our wedding, but the connection just isn’t there anymore.
OMG! I’m back!! I waited for what felt like an eternity for my pro pics to come in, and they’re still not totally here (proofs, no CD), but I’m tired of waiting and SO ready to share them with you. I bet you guys thought I wasn’t going to do my recaps, didn’t you? That’s okay. It has been nearly 5 months since we said I do, even though it feels like it just happened.
Anyhoo, where should we begin? With us getting ready, perhaps? So, our getting ready process was basically a day-Long affair, and I’m not kidding. The hair and makeup girl, Amy, showed up at 9:30 to start the process for each of us. But it was all worth it; she did such a great job. Perhaps you’d like to see?
Me and my nieces
When my mother returned to work, 11-week-old me was walked next door to my Gramma Rosie’s house. Gramma was the kind of grandma people dream about having. I was her little angel, and she was my big angel. We’d start every morning with some scrambled eggs. I’d nap while she watched Matlock and Murder She Wrote, and she’d nap while I watched Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. She supported her family by working in the Fall River Sewing Mills, and she is the one who taught me how to hand stitch. The tooth fairy would visit my house, Gram’s house, and Aunt Millie’s house. Hey, I may be spoiled, but I’m not bratty!
Unfortunately, Gramma passed away when I was 11. The entire family was away at a wedding, but Aunt Millie, her husband Lance, and I stayed behind because they knew she was failing. Kids weren’t invited to this wedding, and I will forever be thankful for that. It was a tough weekend to say the least, but after she died, Aunt Millie assumed the role of my grandmother. My aunt and grandmother were the kindest, give-you-the-shirt-off-their-back, buy-you-an-ice-cream-with-the-last-dollar-they-had people, and they were both very talented seamstresses. I strive to be the kind of aunt to my nephews that my Aunt Millie was to me.
My dream was to pursue law school, up until one fateful summer day when I was 16. I got up from my chair in a daze, grabbed a pen and piece of lined paper, and sketched out a dress design. It was an out of body experience. Want to see? Don’t judge me; my drawing skills were zilch at this time.
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