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Hello! Once upon a time I was a wedding blogger called Mrs. Lemonade. I told the story of a lovely April afternoon that occurred not-so long ago. If you’ll kindly indulge me I’d like to finish telling my tale…
Ah, the first dance. This little wedding rite of passage gave me a decent amount of anxiety leading up to W day. The mister and I chose not to take any sort of dance lessons and not once did we practice our middle school sway. What can I say, we’re naturals.
Zeb and I always said we wanted a wedding in the dead of winter. What an odd time (put your puzzled face away!) you might say, to have a wedding.
I am really anxious to get to a florist. I don’t know why, but I can’t stop obsessing about flowers! I can’t stop thinking about what kind of flowers we should have. I walked into the grocery store Monday night and stopped right by the bouquets of flowers. I started taking pictures with my camera, and ever since then, I haven’t been able to get my brain off of flowers!
I just can’t wait to sit down with a florist and say, let’s try some hydrangeas with some roses! Or do you have anything that’s green or pale pink? What flowers are in season during the spring? It’s a good thing I don’t know any florists because I would probably be stalking them asking a thousand questions at this point!
I am clearly going to have to schedule an appointment with one soon. Of course, I have to get my girls on board for this. I know I’m going to need a few second opinions! Even if we don’t pick the flowers or the bouquets that we’ll have for the wedding, I think looking at flowers will really help us envision the day.
What do you think about these?
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A few posts ago I shared with you my new-found love for paper garlands and hinted that I may be tempting my fate at them. Well, this past weekend Mr. L and I worked together and within a few hours of time we created our own heart garland. I started the project off by using my Hotmarks tool (boy, this thing is handy!) to burn-cut hearts out of an old romance novel (donated by Momma L).
What does burn-cut mean?
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We are having a thrilling day today.
First, I could not find the keys anywhere for a pet sitting job, so 2 hours went to searching for them. Yup, two hours, just searching for keys. Did I mention that this is not my week? Also, my check engine light came on. See, again: not my week.
But right now—right now, folks, I am sitting on the couch while my lovely fiancee flits around setting things up for the big event: trying on wedding dresses.
“What?” you say. “Didn’t you already do this?” you wonder. Oh, silly you, just because we already bought one dress (each) doesn’t exclude the option of buying another. Or four others, if you are Fancee.
We got our dresses all altered up and Fancee does not like her dress. If she can’t find something else then she’s stuck with it, and that’s the deal we’ve worked out. In the meantime, some giant J.Crew boxes showed up at our house today, and Fancee washed her hands and feet so that she didn’t dirty the dresses. Once her appendages had been thoroughly cleaned, we began the process: she with the opening and on-trying, and I with the bemused watching and faithful documenting.
Open the box! Out will pour hope and glory!
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Since we are having a destination wedding and we have friends all over the US, we (OK, who are we kidding here, I) thought it would be a good idea to create a brochure. I scoured the Internet for ideas on formatting and ran across VistaPrint. I use them for work related marketing and always get emails for free offers, so I thought I would try it out.
I was looking for something with our color scheme (black and white) but they all seemed so dull to me. So, I started looking at the tropical themes. Besides, our guests are using this as their vacation, so I might as well play up the Caribbean theme. 
I played around with different fonts and colors and came up with this.
This is the outside of the brochure:
And here is what they see when they open it up:
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King Hippo and I have been engaged for over a year, but it seems like just yesterday that he was down on both knees (yes, both) asking me to marry him. So without further ado, here’s the story of our engagement…
After more than two years of dating and a cross-country move to be together, I was anxious for King Hippo to pop the question. I had a feeling that it was coming soon because we had been in Chicago a few weeks earlier for Sister Hippo’s wedding, and King Hippo had spent some alone time with Mama Hippo. I was convinced that he had asked her permission, but he was giving no clues.
Two weeks later, we headed to the Bahamas for a much-needed vacation. We landed, got through the long line at customs, and waited for our bags—one small suitcase for King Hippo, one ginormous suitcase for me.
Waiting in line at customs in the Bahamas
We are back from our post-courthouse, pre-ceremony mini-moon to Thailand! We stayed two nights in Bangkok and one night on the island of Koh Samet.
We landed at Suva…Suvarna…whatever, Bangkok Airport late Tuesday night and immediately got on a bus to our hostel. We were tired but excited to see the city—unfortunately, a heavy storm made it hard to see!
We stayed for the first two nights in Bangkok at a hostel called Lub d. I stay at hostels all the time, and here is my trick for picking a good one: look at the reviews at hostelworld.com, hostelz.com, and tripadvisor. I know it seems like a lot of work, but seriously, look at ALL the reviews to find the best one. Compare, compare, compare. I’ve only ever had one bad experience using this technique (in Amsterdam), and we picked a real winner this time, too. Lub d is located in the Silom area, and we ponied up for a double private room—it was about $90 for two nights. The double room had a private shower, bathroom, queen bed, and TV with Western channels. Score! It had a nice design and was comfortable and rather large for Asia.
Did you ever think a hostel could look like this?
Pinkpeonies weds her husband under a spray of cherry blossoms.
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I was born a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. Even during the worst of times (which, let’s face it, have been plentiful), I’ve cheered, yelled and cursed at the TV during as many games as I have been able to watch. Mr. Husky, on the other hand, was raised in a state without a professional football team. So, the NFL never had a place in his Sunday plans, until I came along. Now look:
(personal photo)
That would be me and Mr. Husky in New Orleans, fully decked out in Dallas Cowboys jerseys, during a late-season game against the Saints last year. The best part about converting someone to the wonderful world of football?
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Our programs are done! One of the first things I wanted to take care of this past weekend was cutting and gluing the program fans. I started with some kraft paper that we cut in half, and then just printed out my program design on some cardstock I had laying around. It was gray, and while at first it sort of bugged me, I decided to just let it go. Our STDs were printed on cream, invites on white, so I figured, why not just throw another color in the mix? The only time you’d ever notice would be if they were all laid out next to each other. So, it’s whatevs.
When meeting with our planner to sign our contract, she asked a ton of questions to get a better idea of what we wanted in a wedding. Two questions that stuck out to me were: “If you had to rank the different aspects of your wedding, what would be the top three? And what would be the bottom three?” Without hesitation, I said that the most important thing was photography and the least important was flowers. (It did take me a little while, with help from Mr. E, to come up with the rest of the top three and bottom three.) I’ve already mentioned our amazing photographer, so let’s talk about the floral aspect.
I was never a huge flower person, which is funny because Mama Elephant LOVES to have fresh flowers and plants around her house. I always tried to get out of watering those things! When I started dating Mr. E and we reached one of our first special occasions (my birthday), I told him I didn’t want any flowers. Honestly, I think they can be pretty and smell great, but they always die so quickly and therefore seem like a waste of money to me. The only times that Mr. E has sent me flowers were for Valentine’s Day (each one that we’ve spent together), and I did feel special when they arrived at my office. Those stargazer lilies lasted a good couple of weeks! (Which I have no doubt had to do with the company that Mr. E ordered them from, since they come pre-bloom.)
After the DJ was hired, we continued our wedding planning with the Great Venue Hunt.
After we had listened to our readings and our officiant’s charge to us as a couple, it was time to say our vows!
Mr. Guinea Pig and I both wrote our own vows—we had shared iterations of them before the wedding to make sure they were similar in length and style, but the final vows were a surprise for the day of. We both wrote them on pieces of paper to read at the ceremony despite their short length, knowing that the nerves of the day would prevent (me at least) a recitation from memory.
Mr. GP’s vows were sweet, sentimental, and funny—just like him! 
He made me laugh (left photo), and then he made me cry (happy tears, of course). On the right you can see me desperately trying not to burst into tears. As Mrs. French Fries said, this is my “I’m trying not to cry” face.
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