Weddingbee Blog

Truth be told our wedding week was not without a dilemma or two (or three or four), but we managed to hold our chins up and truck on through. Because wedding planning isn’t always about the good I want to share some of the bad and how a bad thing can turn into something wonderful. So, here are some of our dilemmas and how we conquered them with dignity.

The Bad: My back-up hairdresser never got back to me.

Boy oh boy was I stressed…I had a week and a half to go before the wedding and had no plan.

The Good: Mr. L is awesome and saved the day.

He knew I was stressing and put in the effort at his pre-wedding haircut appointment. He was able to talk the salon manager into stepping in with such short notice and was even able to convince her to squeeze in a trial.

The trial results put me at ease:

And, on the night of the wedding my hair was still in place during our last dance:

Photo Courtesy of Anna Simonak

The Bad: We couldn’t get in touch with our flower people.

After a few months of corresponding back and forth we had planned to purchase 2 buckets of mixed flowers from Plenty of Posies at $70/ bucket (a steal by all means). Unfortunately, P.o.P are hard to get in touch with unless you meet them at the weekly farmer’s market (a hard thing to do when every weekend morning has been filled with something wedding for the past 2 months). Needless to say, nerves were flying high when I hadn’t heard back from them and couldn’t get someone on the phone during the week before the wedding.

The Good: Over the past year I’ve purchased many odds and ends (aka fakies).

Since, I’ve become engaged I’ve stocked up at every Michaels post seasonal sale; whenever I saw something that I liked and that fit into our random scheme of things I snatched it up and at a good price, to boot! We ended up saving $140 and were able to use all my impulse buys for our centerpieces. The second best part was that we were able to set this up a couple of days beforehand, eliminating some wedding day stress.

And, here they are all packed up:

And, again on our wedding day:

Photo Courtesy of Anna Simonak

The Bad: Mr. L broke my Canon Rebel

He bought a new CF card to use on our honeymoon and was eager to put the SD card in and could not wait for me to show it to him. Well, manly man Locket kept jamming it in there and broke pins on the card reader, rendering my camera/wedding gift useless.

The Good: I cried for 30 minutes.

Okay, I know crying for 30 minutes doesn’t seem good, but 1) I think I needed it as a release and 2) my trial makeup lasted all the way through it, even my false lashes! Mr. L redeemed himself by borrowing a friend’s dSLR for the trip even though ours is still out of commission and may not make a return, since repair costs are ridiculous.

Believe it or not, our dilemmas don’t end there. We have a few more in store to share with you in Making “Dilemmonade”: Part II. Then, I promise recaps are en route!