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Hi hive! Mrs. Penguin here! I’ve heard from many brides how delighted they’ve been to have a roomful of dancing guests, and how sad others have been that no one took the dance floor. I’ve heard many DJs say that a lot goes into fostering a comfortable environment for guests to dance—it doesn’t always just depend on the crowd itself. So, we’ve asked Hey Mister DJ Lee Dyson out of LA to give us some tips on how he makes sure dance floors are always packed at events he spins!
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One of the most overlooked areas in the floor plan of an event is how to setup the dance floor so it is an inviting and comfortable place to be. Size, location in relation to the room, and proper lighting all can dramatically affect how busy the dance floor becomes after dinner. Every event has some (if not many) guests that are uncomfortable being watched or dancing in public, so it’s important to create an environment that helps ease this anxiety and loosen people up.
The aesthetics of the room can have a large impact on the DJ’s ability to do their job.
If a room isn’t comfortable, then sometimes it doesn’t matter how perfect the DJ is at selecting songs. People can be far less likely to dance, as room layout, room temperature, and lighting levels can all affect the emotional and physical comfort level of your guests.
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So today on my lunch break, I did a little stalking, err…dreaming…a little registry dreaming. Since we moved into our house a whopping four days prior to our engagement, we’ve got everything we need. Everything is new, but I’m really sick of scrubbing Martha’s stainless steel pans and I would like a cookie sheet or two. We are totally devoid of serving plates and other hosting gadgets. I’m as fancy as our Pampered Chef chopper, which I only use when I feel like cleaning the sucker. We’re doing a honeymoon registry and hoping most people take us up on that, seeing as how we can afford a road trip to New Bedford right now.
Okay. Are you ready to see exactly what our guests found after they recovered from swooning* over the skin (envelopes/calligraphy/liners) of our invitations?
First, a little reminder:
After ripping into these bad boys (swoons & smelling salts aside, of course) our guests were greeted with a translucent vellum envelope:
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Lemilie’s anemone inspired cake is simple and stunning.
image by Namnguyen Photography
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I scream…You scream…We all scream for ice cream (and candy)!
Mr. Brooch and I both have a sweet tooth. A meal is not complete until we have something sweet to finish it off. We both love ice cream and we both have a favorite candy. Aaron’s favorite ice cream is Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Bean and mine is Häagen-Dazs Chocolate (weird, right?). His favorite candy is Snickers and mine is Hershey’s dark chocolate!
Mmmmm…
We’re so in love with sweets that we thought it would be fun and appropriate to share our sweet taste with our wedding guests. As many of you know, candy/dessert bars are a growing trend at weddings (and for wedding favors), and we’re ready to jump on the bandwagon!
We have a favor in mind (not candy bags), but we’d like candy to be a part of our dessert bar. We want to add a little twist to this idea, though, and have a Häagen-Dazs bar, too!!! We might be getting a little carried away (ya think?), but these are truly some of our favorite things, and that’s what it’s all about, right?
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For our table numbers, we wanted to do something that would hopefully encourage our guests to get up and walk to other tables and mingle. After seeing “through the years” table numbers on various wedding blogs, I was sold. Each table shows us at the age that corresponds to the table numbers. Since we have 23 tables, this means ages 1-23.
The most time-consuming part of making these was finding, selecting and scanning all our childhood photos. Luckily, I had the help of Mama Jelly on this one. She spent most of the summer going through old photo albums and scanning all my photos (as well as Mr. Jelly’s). Then, Mr. Jelly and I selected our favorite photo for each age and I got them printed at Costco. Once I had the photos, I mounted them onto ivory cardstock so that they would have a nice border around them. I enlisted Bridesmaid Amy’s graphic design help for the actual number part of our table numbers, which was based on a design I’d seen online. After she sent me the files, I printed them out and painstakingly cut out 23 circles. Then Mr. Jelly, Best Man #1 and I sat down and glued all the photos and numbers to burgundy cardstock. Are you ready to see our table numbers?
Tables 1-6:
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King Hippo and I registered for gifts recently, and I have to say, picking out things you want other people to buy you wasn’t nearly as fun as I imagined. First of all, we live in an apartment in New York City, which means our space is very, very limited. The days of buying things and never wearing them, or keeping things for years “just in case” you happen to need them someday just don’t exist for us since moving to the Big Apple. We even have a one-for-one rule for our closets—you buy a new article of clothing, you get rid of one—just because space is at such a premium. So registering for things like roasting pans, a full set of China, or adorable little individual gravy boats for the Thanksgiving dinner we MIGHT host someday just seemed impractical. Where the heck would we put the stuff?
I was in Minnesota last month and went with my MIL to get manicures, and the manicurist asked me if I wanted to pay $10 extra dollars for a UV gel manicure. I had no idea what she was talking about, but she convinced me that the manicure would last at least 2 weeks (a normal manicure lasts 2 days on me before it starts chipping, and then is usually a disaster by day 5). I was skeptical but also, a total sucker for an up-sell, so I agreed. (At least it would be a blogable experience, right?)
I got the manicure on Friday August 20. Here’s what it looked like the next day:
Here’s what it looks like 13 days later on September 1st:
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I may have mentioned once or twice that the theme for our wedding is travel. We don’t want to go “overboard” (haha) with the theme; we just want enough to tie the reception together. Guests will get their first taste of the travel theme with the travel tag on our save-the-date cards.
Another way to tie in the theme is to display some pictures from the places Mr. E and I were lucky enough to travel to together. I thought the best way to incorporate these pictures would be in the table names. I was inspired by some pictures of table numbers online and got to work on a mock-up for our tables.
The tables are all named after places that Mr. E and I have vacationed to (or lived in) and will be constructed out of blue and green scrapbook paper; they will include my favorite picture from the trip. The first round of mock-ups was sloppy quick and a little too big for my liking. I decided that less would be more and started in on round two.
The first quick mock-up
In the first part of our adventure, the Glasses explored Bangkok and found it to be interesting and amazing but were becoming tired of the city. The next day, we packed up our bags and headed to…
(Okay, I know that’s the lamest post title EVER. Sorry. My brain is not working today, forgive me.)
So, I don’t know if y’all have noticed this yet, but I love my dogs.
Like, a lot.
I love that every day when I come home, they come dashing to see me, and yes, I even love that Ranger gets so excited to see me that he jumps up on me and almost knocks me over with his huge self. And I love that Cullen likes to find the most awkward possible spot to cuddle with me (like directly on my pillow when I’m trying to sleep, pushing my head off of the pillow. Or, you know, on top of my head).
I love how insanely cute they are. (Inserting obligatory adorable photos here)
Cullen, giving his trademark “I’m the cutest dog ever” face.
Miss Crack Pipe is selling her bubble veil by Velvet Owl. She’s asking $50.
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Dressing Mr. Knitting and the men of the wedding party was ridiculously easy. Mr. Knitting isn’t in love with the look of a tux, so he’ll be wearing his suit with my grandfather’s tie.
Here’s a look at the suit (I still have no clue what the tie looks like):
As for Mr. K’s two groomsmen, Mr K refused to contact them to let them know what he’d (I’d) like them to wear because he thought that sounded crazy and bossy. Yeah, he doesn’t know a lot about weddings.
Anyway, I was concerned that if we didn’t tell them what to wear, there was the possibility that they might show up looking like this:
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I am proud to say that we have braved a few projects with our Cricut! (Honestly, the thing still scares me a little, but we’re slowly becoming friends. Notice who’s operating it in the photo below.) Most recently, we have begun creating our escort cards. Here’s how our process works: I am the visionary, Mr. Seashell is the engineer. I do the organizational work, and then Mr. Seashell executes the details involving patience and precision. Yay teamwork!
The Idea:
Create golden leaves with our guests’ names and table numbers printed on them.
The Problem:
How to get printed information on a cut-out shape?
The Solution:
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Many moons ago, I promised an update on when/if I ever put a wedding album together. Well, I did it and I love the result!
Our wedding photos were shot in film by the wonderful Leah McCormick. While Leah gave me DVDs with the digital images, they weren’t the best resolution and the black & white images just didn’t scan right. I had always assumed that I’d need to get a “traditional” album. My sister’s photographer had gone through Cypress and the album was stunning, but it cost more than $5,000 and is so, so delicate. It seemed like a great idea 4 years ago after getting married, but not so much after 2 kids with sticky fingers and expenses up the…
For 4 years—during which many family, birthday party, and vacation albums were put together—I ignored the issue. Then, this past spring, a work colleague shamed me.
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