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Before I went into hiding, an extremely important (and wonderful) delivery was made to the venue. The cake. Oh, the cake. Now, I realize that I am not the first bee to get insanely excited about her cake…cough cough…Mrs. Hamster…cough cough…but I seriously almost lost it when our cake baker arrived with my three tiers of gorgeousness…
Almost every other bride I’ve ever known has kept a giant wedding binder full of receipts, clippings, schedules, contracts, etc. Well, I decided right off the bat that I didn’t want to do that. I know myself, and I’m way too unorganized to keep track of a giant bundle of paper.
Instead, I used digital tools to stay as organized as possible. And so far, I’ve got to say, it’s going really well! I haven’t found one tool that I like for all purposes, but I’ve found a handful of applications that have worked together to be better than any binder, in my opinion.
Here are some of the tools I’ve been using.
1. Delicious.com
Delicious is basically a bookmarking site. I use this whenever I’m surfing the web and see an interesting blog post, DIY, inspiration photo, or anything else that I’d like to keep. Just bookmark it to your Delicious profile, and then it’s there at your fingertips. Sure, you could always just bookmark the page in your browser, but with Delicious, you can access your bookmarks from any computer or mobile device, not just your home system.
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Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive! Exciting news right here that I just HAVE to randomly blog about: I just found my wedding dress!
So, really, this post is kind of lame when you think about it. I’m a blogger, posting on a wedding blog (an awesome wedding blog at that!), and I’m excited about the most ridiculously obvious of events—I mean, buying a dress is pretty inevitable. But if you’ve gathered anything about me from my posting, it’s that I’m the most ridiculously indecisive person around. I over think everything, I’ve always been petrified of not finding the right dress for my bigger body shape, and I’m the queen of putting things off until the last possible second.
And here I am, midway through our pre-wedding-moon in gorgeous, gorgeous (and freezing cold) Canada—and I found my wedding dress. I FOUND MY WEDDING DRESS. And it’s nothing, nothing, like what I had ever pictured I would wear. And, of course, I’m in love with it and think it’s fabulous. Squee!
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After being married for over two years, looking back at our wedding day, I have to say that apart from the “I dos,” my favorite moment was when my daddy said his speech, followed by the father/daughter dance. I still get emotional to this day when I re-read his speech. It was definitely one of the highlights of our wedding.
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After we finished our first dance, we made our way to our seats and heard a little “ching ching”. I looked around and saw my father standing up, sweating bullets and trying to keep his cool. I knew from that nervous smile of his, it was time… he was ready to give his speech.
“I want my speech to be perfect,” he had told me earlier that week. “Perfect, because you deserve no less.”
I started tearing up. Who wouldn’t after those heartfelt words?
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“Add a memorable touch to your wedding with unique favors that match your theme.”
My mama, like so many mamas, loves antique shopping. And since the South is a great place for a bargain, we did some antiquing while she was visiting.
We still haven’t nailed down a true centerpiece theme (mercury glass? antique silver? birdcages? hurricane lanterns? wood branches?), but I think we’re just going to combine all those, really. Yes, I know that sounds like it’ll be too much, but dude, we’ll figure it out. I’m not worried. If it looks “eclectic,” so be it. We’re eclectic human beings, Mr. Panther and I.
With that in mind, check out all the stuff we got!
Can you tell I’m excited?
The hardest part of planning this wedding, or as my dad referred to it the other day “that little party you’re organizing,” is the guest list.
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One of my biggest pet peeves, in wedding planning and life, is the One-Upper. When you mention something in casual conversation, and they have to take it a step further. It’s worst when it’s a fellow bride. She asks about your invitations, and you mention that you’re doing them yourself.
So she says, “You’re designing your own invitations? Oh, I did too. I have a PhD in graphic design, and I’ve been featured in MSW seventeen times. My invitations are being letterpressed by Oprah, with calligraphy by the guy who did Angelina Jolie’s tattoos. We’re putting confetti inside the invites, only it’s not confetti—it’s real gold shavings.”
The only thing worse than a Penelope is person who says: “Oh, I wish I had time for that.”
It’s always said in the most patronizing way possible. You know—the type of girl who always has so much going on. “OMG, I’m so swamped with work right now, and I’m volunteering, and I’m blahblahblah. What’s that? You’re designing your own invitations? Oh, I wish I had time for that.”
Last time I checked, everyone on the planet has the exact same amount of time.
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(Note: please don’t open this post if you have an aversion to decorated, whole roast pigs.)
All right. We had a great wedding, and I can’t complain. But if I can, just for a minute, serve as a warning to other planning brides—do not trust your vendors when they say they can provide signs for the buffet food. If you haven’t seen the sign, just don’t trust it.
Mr Meerkat and I LOVE living in Michigan (minus when we get huge snow storms) and to be able to share it with you… *squeal* Yea, I am that excited. I promise to try my best to keep each category to my top three choices otherwise this could get really long, really quickly.
Things to see
The Air Zoo is #1 on my list of things to do in Kalamazoo. Basically it’s a interactive museum that has AMAZING displays of transportation from the first hot air balloon to present day. It has some old hot air balloons and bi-planes:
A few weeks ago I went to an antique store called Uncommon Objects on South Congress here in Austin. Oh, bees…not a good idea. I found and fell in love with an antique blue mason jar full of vintage buttons only to discover that they had many more of them hidden in nooks and crannies around the store. I behaved myself and only bought one, thank you, but I may have to go back for more.
I also found this little gem…
And what is this little gem?
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If you read through my posts (which I am *so* sure you will do immediately after reading this post), you’ll see that I am the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being a wedding blogger. I am neither crafty nor DIY inclined, but worse yet, my posts don’t even have a ton of inspiration or research for you. Practically useless! However, the biggest kick I got out of blogging was being random and sharing some humor during the often hand-wringing process of wedding planning. While my earlier posts started on the straightforward and narrow, at some point I veered sharply into attempting to be funny and entertaining. Whether I succeeded is questionable, although I sure got a giggle out of the whole thing. Wow…where am I going with this. Anyway, this is one of my favorite posts because it’s perfectly random—it doesn’t share anything useful with readers, doesn’t reveal anything interesting about my wedding, but I love it anyway because I think I’m so damn funny.
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Get it? Get it? Today I’m talking about trains!
Betcha thought this was about me getting a yummy pair of Jimmy Choos, huh? Well no. Although perhaps that would have been a way cooler post.*
Back to choo-choo. I didn’t think much about the train in purchasing a wedding dress, but then I found so many lovely photos you can get with a train. And guess what I realized? Your train can be pretty demanding. It refuses to be left out, and bulldozes its way into every phase of the wedding. Needy, needy train, about to bore down with frightening might and speed on your wedding.
The train getting ready, *without you*. I mean, the TRAIN has its own getting ready pic?
[train speaking:] Bow to me. ’Nuff said. And someone get me a steamer. Bitches.
Pantroni is selling a pair of Rachel Simpson peep toe heels in the style “Coco.” She is asking $55 for the (Euro) size-40 shoes.
Have a wedding item for sale? Post it with pictures in the Weddingbee Classifieds, and you might see it featured on the blog!
Other great items for sale:
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I’ve never been good at describing myself, so I’ll just share a wedding-related story from back in the day and some photos. 
When it came time for senior prom, instead of choosing a fun bright-colored prom dress like my classmates, I chose a big white ball gown. Which cost me more than I’d like to share. Sister Starfish told me I was crazy. At the time I justified it by telling her I was going to wear it when I got married. She wanted to place a bet on it, which luckily, we didn’t do. I worked every weekend so I could afford my dream dress, and I would have worn it as my wedding dress if it still fit. It’s funny how so much has changed in seven years, but some things are still the same.
One of my favorite comments I’ve gotten on a post was something along the lines of, “Wow—three posts about STDs, and you haven’t made a decision yet. If you don’t make one soon, you’ll never be ready by May!” It made me laugh because it’s so true, but it also made me smile because, I swear, Mr. G says something along those lines to me every single time we’re talking about wedding projects.
But, yes, it’s true, I’ve talked a lot about STDs. Invite- and STD-inspiration posts are some of my favorites to read and follow (and I’m sure there are others like me) so, in the words of Mr. Mathers, I ain’t quite finished yet.
Our actual save the dates aren’t quite ready for their Weddingbee debut, but today I wanted to share an STD that didn’t quite make the cut. Our wedding guests won’t get to see it, but I wanted to share because this little guy grew on me for a little while. (That, and I love following people’s design processes).
I designed this at the point where I didn’t want a magnet and I was obsessed with the 9″ x 4″ size—and I was obsessed with that size for a good couple of weeks.
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I chose this post as my favorite because of the sense of community I experienced in the responses. Truthfully, I thought the reactions would be lukewarm, at best, and expected a fairly low number of comments. Instead, all you incredible hive members made me feel like a rock star. I read the comments with tears streaming down my face and have never felt so supported like I did at that moment. When I joined Weddingbee in June of 2009, I never expected to feel so welcomed and a part of something, not only in my wedding plans but in my life as well. The spirit of support within readers is something that has touched all of the blogger bees in various moments, and for me, this was my moment when all I could think was, “Wow. These people are amazing.” Because you guys really, truly are. Thank you for helping me push myself to run my fastest marathon yet!
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26.2 miles were run on Monday in Beantown. It wasn’t pretty but it’s done, and damn, if it wasn’t crazy-fun yet totally torturous all at the same time.
Words are failing me at the moment so some picture narratives will have to do instead:
Finally, I am the proud owner of the highly-prestigious/much-coveted (fine, only in the running world but still…) BAA marathon jacket. Seriously, every time I’ve seen someone wearing one of these while running in the park, I had a major case of the envies. Until now.
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