Ms. Sloth, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 35, Account Manager and Fashion Blogger
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Design Admin
Engagement Date: December 25, 2009
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Bartram's Garden
About Me: I'm an internet junkie and music snob with a good eye for a bargain. I couldn't live without thrift store shopping, cheeseburgers, sushi, Coke Zero, websites devoted to silly photos of baby animals, Photoshop, and Mr. Sloth. Speaking of which, he and I are a pair of goofball homebody nerds who love our beagle (the most ridiculously adorable dog EVER) to an embarrassing degree. We're planning a low-key and intimate yet festive and quirky outdoor wedding with DIY details and deeply personal touches, and it's all taking place in the city where we fell in love and call home: Philadelphia.
It’s funny—when people ask me how the wedding planning is going, it’s obvious who hasn’t been through it before. They say “How’s wedding planning? Are you having so much fun?”
Those who have been through it usually say something like, “Ugh, wedding planning. You hanging in there?” They get it. Wedding planning is stressful.
I’m surprised that more brides-to-be don’t lose their freakin’ minds! I mean, here we are, spending thousands of dollars on one day—one day on which we will be heavily scrutinized and judged. Is the dress pretty enough? Is the food good enough? The reception fun enough? Will anyone be offended by our guest list? Our ceremony? Our seating charts? And why are we even GETTING stressed about all of that stuff when all that should matter is that we’re marring our beloved?
The stress isn’t going away. But there are ways that we can deal with it. Everyone has their own methods of stress relief, and I’m going to share some of mine.
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Wedding Bios
Feature Launched: September 12, 2008
About: Wedding bios of real brides.
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Mrs. Cupcake, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 27, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Construction Project Manager
Engagement Date: February 10, 2007
Wedding Date: September, 2008
Blogging Since: December 7, 2007
Venue: The Desmond Hotel in Malvern, PA
About Me: Mr. Cupcake and I hit it off at a Halloween party and immediately began a long-distance relationship. After two years, he moved to my neck of the woods, and a year and a half after that, he proposed at the “place we fell in love.” I am a true perfectionist who enjoys designing and creating more work for myself, so wedding planning is my perfect outlet. Mr. Cupcake and I are both old souls, and we hope to weave that aspect of our personalities into our wedding day.
It was almost three years ago that I started blogging here, and with the honor of being a bee came friendships, career changes, and general awesomeness that has changed my life for the better. As silly as I used to think blogging was, it has become something I really love, and I have Weddingbee to thank for the introduction to blog-land in the first place.
I’ve been fairly quiet over the last year or so since, you know, I’m no longer planning a wedding and all; while I still hang around the hive from time-to-time, I thought that it is high time I bid a proper adieu to Weddingbee. Mr. Cupcake and I recently celebrated our second wedding anniversary in September, and it struck us both that the last two years have flown by so quickly, it’s difficult to grasp the concept that we’re not quite newlyweds anymore—we are now full-fledged marrieds. Who’d have thunk it!
at a family wedding the weekend after our second anniversary
The last two years have brought both unwelcome and welcome changes to our relationship and our new life together.
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Mrs. Penguin, Northern California
Age and Occupation: 27, Weddingbee Editor in Chief
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Doctor of Physical Therapy
Engagement Date: January 29, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: September 14, 2007
Venue: Winery in the Gold Country
About Me: I love the Spice Girls, dogs with underbites, bean burritos, making messes, high fives, avoiding showers, crossword puzzles, blogs, weddings, and blogs about weddings!
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Featured Product: Laura Ashley Delicate Damask Invitation
Ms. Stripes, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 29, Costume Designer/Stylist
Fiancee's Age and Occupation: 29, Chef
Engagement Date: June 23, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Heritage Square Museum
About Me: I’m a type A creative with a messy streak, a loud mouth, and an uncanny knack for combining clashing patterns. I can usually be found with my nose in a book, my feet (or at least my toes) on the ground, my head in the clouds, and my arm around the prettiest girl you ever saw- aka
Fiancee Stripes. Together we’re planning a FUN vintage/modern French carnival wedding extravaganza and rockin’ dance party on a dime. (Say that three times fast!) Good coffee, long lists, Uniball pens, and my iPhone keep me sane, and making art, making trouble, and making out keep me happy! I love urban adventures, bike rides that end with afternoon drinks, breakfast for dinner, beautiful light, photography, travel, my furry family, and of course, my beautiful fiancee! I’m super excited to be here and can’t wait to share all our adventures as we craft a joyful, budget-friendly, design-savvy and all-around AWESOME wedding!
Back when we were planning I would often wax poetic about everything else I could do once the wedding was over and I had all this glorious free time. So it’s pretty funny that I’m still seeing wedding inspiration everywhere! Wouldn’t this dress be awfully sweet for a little winter wedding?
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Mrs. Cardigan, Austin
Age and Occupation: 21, Student/Soon-to-be Special Education Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 20, Student/Soon-to-be Accounting Systems Analyst
Engagement Date: August 16, 2009
Wedding Date: January 2011
Venue: Vintage Villas
About Me: I'm a native Austinite who was raised as a die-hard Aggie. Luckily, I'm a pretty persuasive girl because I managed to convince my high school boyfriend (now fiance!), Mr. Cardigan, to ditch his hardcore Longhorn ways and join me up at A&M, where we currently reside with our adorable dogs, Cullen & Ranger. We're currently planning a bright, cheery wedding with a ridiculous amount of DIY projects that I can't wait to tackle! I love crafting in any form, reading, and margaritas (I think I love them the most!). Organization is what keeps me sane and I love helping others, which is probably why I ended up as an education major. It gets a little chaotic sometimes when you're planning a wedding among all of the papers, projects, finals, and certification exams, but we're having the time of our lives and we can't wait to get started on our journey as husband and wife - and we're so excited to share our wedding with the hive!
Y’all, something kind of weird happened today.
I was at school, doing my student teaching, and my mentor teacher was telling me about her son’s wedding that she went to last week. And all of the sudden, it hit me.
I’m getting married.
I know, I know. You think I’m crazy. I’ve been blogging for a wedding website for like 5 months now and I’m constantly talking about my wedding. You’d think I’d know I was getting married.
But seriously?
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Mrs. Sand Dollar, Houston
Age and Occupation: 24, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 22, Electrical Technician
Engagement Date: January 8, 2010
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: MacLean Park
About Me: I'm a domestic diva down to the core. I heart cooking, sewing, baking, decorating and making sure we have a hand-crafted home. The best part about the wedding is I get to incorporate it all! I make sure I put my art degree to good use by screen printing, craft knife cutting, and a whole lotta graphic design. We're having a big-time party on a small-time budget, and I promise to show you a boot-scootin', barbecue-eatin', finger-lickin' good time! Mr. Sand Dollar and I spend most of our time on DIY projects or traipsing around the outdoors with our two pooches Rory and Juno. I'm looking forward to sharing our journey with all of you!
While stumbling around on some wedding blogs, I came across the cutest image. It was a framed wedding invitation, but there was something new added to it. The invite was matted, and written on the mat were words used from the ceremony. I was so inspired, I had to do it myself the week I got back from our honeymoon!
I headed straight over to Hobby Lobby to take advantage of their half price frames, and found a couple of mats (I needed to do one for myself and one as a gift to Bridesmaid Stacie, whose invites I designed and then spent a harrowing weekend making and assembling pocket folds with her) and bought a handful of colored pens. Here’s my result:
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Mrs. Lace, Pasadena, CA
Age and Occupation: 29, Elementary school teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Engineer
Engagement Date: September 6, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: Orange County Performing Arts Center
About Me: Born and raised in Southern California, my fiance and I are marrying in Orange County. We're planning a vintage wedding with a modern twist. I am an elementary school teacher by day and a wedding planner by night. I love reading, blogging, scrapbooking, trying out new DIY projects, buying awesome finds at incredible deals and spending time with friends and family. Trying new restaurants, traveling and shopping also top my hobby list. I'm anxious to share my wedding ideas and planning with the hive!
We put a lot of time and energy into planning our wedding, but we knew that the most important part for us was our wedding ceremony. Hive, it’s time to share the most important part of our wedding day with you. Since this post was kind of picture heavy, I took some of the photos and put them together as little collages so you wouldn’t have to scroll through fifty pictures. Now you only have to scroll through forty. Just kiddin’.
All photos are courtesy of the wonderful Hanssie Trainor.
My husband-to-be walking in with the pastor and groomsmen.
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Beehive
Feature Launched: Aug 31, 2006
About: A forum for readers to post questions and get feedback from the hive, aka the weddingbee community.
November 3rd, 2010 @ 5:09 pm by Beehive
Dress your winter wedding in style with our favorite picks for dressing your winter wedding table!
Have your place cards do double duty as ornament favors:
We love these adorable flocked snowflake favor boxes:
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Mrs. Pashmina, NYC/Catalina Island, CA
Age and Occupation: 28, Arts Education
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 34, IT Administrator
Engagement Date: April 26th, 2009
Wedding Date: July 2010
Venue: Catalina Country Club, Catalina Island, California
About Me: I'm a laid-back Cali girl who moved to NYC for school, and ended up staying for love. My fiance is a quick-witted Jersey boy, a self-proclaimed Foodie and the funniest man I've ever met. Together we love exploring the city streets embarking on our next misadventure---and yes, this often involves eating off food carts and trying "the next big thing". I'm the girl in the sundress, snapping photos and collecting trinkets of memorabilia along the way. As a girly girl at heart, I am excited about our romantic natural island wedding incorporating our American & Filipino traditions.
Anthropologie, image via The Anthropologiest
After news of Anthropologie launching its own bridal line \last year, for some reason I keep on searching to see if anything has come out yet! I know I am married. I know that they said it was going to be Spring 2011. But for some reason I have searched “Anthropologie wedding dresses” twice this month. Am I anxious or something?
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Mrs. Buttons, Clearwater, FL
Age and Occupation: 24, "Working on it"
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Financial Services
Engagement Date: June 13, 2009
Wedding Date: May 2010
Venue: Carlouel Yacht Club
About Me: I'm a self proclaimed perfectionist and a professional nomad (seriously, I've lived in TX, WI, MI, FL, NC, and now VA!). I love wine, cooking, curling up with a good book (nerd alert!), spoiling the furbaby, and of course, the wonderful Mr. Buttons! We are planning a lighthearted and whimsical wedding (with a good deal of DIY projects) in Clearwater, Florida, but from a distance of 800 miles away! We are looking forward to sharing our day with our family and friends, and most importantly, starting our lives together as husband and wife!
OK hive, I promise that this will be the only depressing post in my recaps. Promise!
I am a big big big fan of first looks. I love that they have become popular in the past few years. For me, they can be some of my favorite photos that I’ve seen from other weddings. Having that “first look” moment between bride and groom was something I valued highly, and is precisely why we scheduled over 2 hours of time for the first look and bridal party photos, as well as additional time at our venue before the ceremony to take family portraits.
Needless to say, as I rode down the hotel elevator after putting on my dress, I was excited about our first look. Our photographer was aware that we were doing a first look, but aside from that I hadn’t been explicit on the details. In retrospect, I probably should have laid it out very specifically. On the wedding day, I was so pumped full of excitement and energy that I kind of switched to a “go with the flow” attitude and wasn’t able to react properly when things weren’t set up in the way I had hoped.
I’ll lay it out for you. As the elevator doors opened, I walked into the hotel lobby. I was concerned about Mr. Buttons’ location; I was hoping that our 2nd photographer had him set up and ready for our first look. Instead, this is what was waiting for me…
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Mrs. Knitting, Toronto
Age and Occupation: 24, Student Recruitment Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Neuroscience PhD Candidate
Engagement Date: October 2009
Wedding Date: December 2010
Venue: University of Toronto Faculty Club
About Me: I'm a pearl wearing, etiquette book reading Toronto girl who loves cooking and baking, museums, charm bracelets, and collecting books on Jackie Kennedy (a lot). I've been known to spend Sunday mornings at the antique market, Wednesday evenings at sister sushi dinners, and any bit of spare time reading. After six and a half years of many late night walks, watching DVDs together in bed, travelling to places like New York, and Tobermory, doing Sudokus together on the couch, lots of Indian food, the occasional yoga class, moving in together and so much more, Mr. Knitting and I are planning a cozy Christmasy (it's a word!), vintage wedding in Toronto complete with many DIY projects (eek!) and lots of help from our amazing group of family and friends.
I really love jewellery and own quite a few pieces I love quite a bit. This normally isn’t a problem. It’s normally a very good thing. The problem is that I feel like I need to wear my absolute favourite pieces on my wedding day and I’m having trouble determining what these are. It’s really hard to narrow it down.
The 3 pieces that I will definitely be wearing are my ring, my wedding charm bracelet, and my back necklace. Everything else is up for discussion.
I wrote about my locket here and I’m 99% sure I’m still going to wear it. I love this locket and it absolutely cannot be beat in terms of sentiment, but I am also ridiculously in love with this necklace:
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Mrs. Trail Mix, New York
Age and Occupation: 26, PE Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, MBA Student
Engagement Date: March 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: Tannery Pond at the Darrow School
About Me: I'm a country girl who somehow found herself living in the Big Apple and loving every minute of it. I'm planning a rustic, country-chic wedding in my hometown in upstate New York and it's going to be a Party with a capital P. White wine, flea markets and running keep me happy and my friends, family and fiance are my world. I'm a little bit crafty, a little bit crazy but mostly just crazy in love.
It’s time for what I think is going to be my favorite recaps of the bunch: the ceremony. We had numerous “Not a dry eye in the house”-type comments from our guests and I like to think it’s because the whole thing was genuinely a reflection of the two of us.
While the ceremony was Jewish, we incorporated other elements that spoke to us and together with our rabbi, crafted the most memorable 30 minutes of my life. I know I’m not alone when I speak of prior worries about being “present” for the ceremony and now, from the other side, I can safely say that for me, those fears were completely unfounded.
I was there. Of all the moments from our wedding, the ones that I feel the most deeply are those from the ceremony. I can see so clearly every single second of it in my mind’s eye and can vividly remember the intense emotions throughout. And now, I’m going to attempt to tell you guys about it.
So, here we go…
With everyone seated and waiting, it was time to get this show on the road.
Closed Circle Photography
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Ms. Sloth, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 35, Account Manager and Fashion Blogger
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Design Admin
Engagement Date: December 25, 2009
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Bartram's Garden
About Me: I'm an internet junkie and music snob with a good eye for a bargain. I couldn't live without thrift store shopping, cheeseburgers, sushi, Coke Zero, websites devoted to silly photos of baby animals, Photoshop, and Mr. Sloth. Speaking of which, he and I are a pair of goofball homebody nerds who love our beagle (the most ridiculously adorable dog EVER) to an embarrassing degree. We're planning a low-key and intimate yet festive and quirky outdoor wedding with DIY details and deeply personal touches, and it's all taking place in the city where we fell in love and call home: Philadelphia.
I read it all the time on forums dedicated to women “waiting” for a proposal from their boyfriends: “Why does he get all the power in this situation?”
In my opinion, the short answer is that he doesn’t. Tired of waiting for a proposal? Propose to him. Don’t want to continue the relationship if a proposal isn’t in the near future? Then you need to decide if you want to stick around or end the relationship. These options may not be ideal, but they are there. Women do have some power.
But it’s true that in a traditional proposal scenario, women are in the passive role. We wait for our man to be ready to propose, we wait for him to save up for a ring, we wait for him to buy it, and we wait for him to create the perfect moment in which to present the ring and ask for our hand in marriage.
That didn’t work for me. I am not the passive one in our relationship. If anything, I’m the dominant one, not because I’m bossy, but because I have stronger opinions on just about everything, while Mr. S is more of a “go with the flow” type of dude. He goes with the flow so much, in fact, that if I hadn’t taken a role in the engagement process, who knows when we’d have gotten engaged?
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Weddingbee Gallery
Feature Launched: April 10, 2009
About: A collection of inspirational wedding pictures from readers and bees.
brooklynbride1984 and her fiance had a 1950s inspired engagement photo shoot.
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