Mrs. Panther, Atlanta GA/Westport CT
Age and Occupation: 24, Web Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Music Recording Engineer
Engagement Date: March 13, 2010
Wedding Date: July 2011
Venue: The Inn at Longshore
About Me: I'm a total goofball who goes through life at a breakneck pace, trying not to knock anything over. I tend to fall in love with everything I encounter, but more than anything, I love my two little kitties, Bela and Josie, and my big kitty, Mr. Panther! As a wannabe crafter, I'm still waiting for my artistic talents to emerge. (Any day now, really.) In the meantime, I spend my days eating anything put in front of me, buying every pair of shoes I see and absorbing wedding inspiration from every inch of my surroundings. Mr. Panther and I are hardcore New Englanders planning Connecticut nuptials from our new home in the Dirty South, and can't wait to mix our newfound love of classic Southern charm with some modern city touches.
Our custom “thank you” stamp from JLMould on Etsy finally came today, so I made some thank you cards for engagement gifts. Woohoo! Actual wedding stationery, sort of!
This thank you card was a long time coming. I’m not going to lie to you guys—I basically totally copied Mrs. Ladybug’s cards. Thanks for the inspiration, Mrs. Ladybug! Please don’t kill me!
Anywho, I got the same peony stamps that she used from Stampworx2000 and ordered a stamp that says “thank you” in Feel Script, my current font obsession. I also used Envelopperinc.com A2 notecards, lavender card stock from cards & pockets, antique gold envelopes from envelopemall.com, and my favorite Cuttlebug embossing folder, in case anyone cares.
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Ms. Potato Chips, Boston/Narragansett RI
Age and Occupation: 29, PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Personal Trainer/Business Owner/Physical Therapy Assistant
Engagement Date: January 1, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: The Narragansett Towers
About Me: A semi-professional bookworm, if I could be a literary character I’d be a cross between Jo March and Jane Eyre, only better accessorized and much lazier. My hobbies include sleeping in, seasonal brews, running, Trader Joe’s, and watching Unwrapped and Good Eats with Mr. Potato Chips. I harbor an irrational fear of tulle, crafts, things that are fussy, and overuse of the phrase "Your Special Day". After a year or seven together, down the aisle we go, slouching toward adulthood and planning a Rhodie party with equal parts whimsy, cheer, and pizza.
In between the karaoke, we danced!
We did our father/daughter, mother/son dance simultaneously, to Rascal Flatt’s “My Wish.” I think we had one other slow song that evening…the rest of the night, it was ON! Our DJs were fantastic, playing a solid mix of top 40s + old school classics.
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Miss Candy Corn, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 27, Freelance Writer, Photographer and Illustrator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Front End Web Developer
Blogging Since: May 6, 2008
Engagement Date: November 10, 2011
Wedding Date: September 2012
Venue: Our backyard!
About Me: I’m a 27-year-old photographer, writer and illustrator who enjoys shooting weddings, catching typos in magazines, geeking out with Google Reader, watching Wonder Years marathons with my fiancé, and hanging out with our menagerie of pets. I’m an encore bride planning an intimate, offbeat backyard wedding with my fiancé (known around these parts as “The Ginger”), as we explore our adventures of homeownership.
It’s hard for me to come up with posts for Weddingbee, as I am the only bee that I know of who has documented her divorce process after blogging for well over a year about wedding plans. Several bees have also sadly gone through divorce, but are now writing about their “encore” weddings (high five to them!). As the lone bee who has opened up about a failed marriage after blogging about all things wedding-related, it can be a bit strange to try and figure out where I fit in here.
I am now in a healthy and happy relationship with Pete and we are already almost coming up on our one year anniversary. I can’t even begin to explain how nice it is to be in a relationship that is free of emotional abuse. I’ve read a lot of posts on the boards that make divorce out to be terrifying and something you should only do if you’ve been physically abused, and certainly not if you haven’t even been married for at least a year. No one is a fan of divorce, but to stay in an unhealthy relationship with no hope rather than admit that things have failed, is not good for either parties.
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Mrs. Labrador Retriever, Athens/Savannah
Age and Occupation: 24, Student/Sports Reporter
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Physical Therapy Assistant Student/Future Dr. of PT
Engagement Date: December 31, 2008
Wedding Date: November 2009
Venue: Whitfield Square/Savannah Station
About Me: I'm working on my second degree from UGA (Go Dawgs!). I'm a self-proclaimed attention-w****. If it involves a camera, I'm in front of it! You'll never meet a girlier tomboy than me. I can go toe to toe with any guy on the subject of college football, and lift more than any girl in my gym, all without chipping a nail. I hope to someday be the only person you want delivering your sports news. My FI and I are the loving parents of three Labrador Retrievers (one of each color) and are planning a "Southern Romantic Charm" wedding in the beautiful, historic city of Savannah. I'm not extreme in anything except moderation... and wedding planning.
They may not be celebrities, but to us they’re stars. So, we made sure to set aside some time to dance with the two ladies that mean the world to us: our moms!
I lost my dad when I was a kid but still wanted to have that special dance at my wedding. So, my mom filled in and we took the dance floor first.
We originally planned to dance to “Brown Eyed Girl” but made the decision less than a month out to switch to “Somebody’s Hero”.
Needless to say, I had to pull some major “try not to cry” faces to avoid the “ugly cry” face.
I failed.
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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 love my wedding dress. LOVE it (yes, I’m mean and haven’t shown it to you). However, I’m a bit concerned about wearing it for a whole day. I like comfortable clothes. I almost never wear heels, I don’t like things that are restrictive or corset like, and pretty much the second I come home I change into something pajama-like. I may have even once hosted a brunch in my PJs. Okay, they were cute cupcake PJs that I’d never slept in and the brunch was for 3 of my closest friends, but still, they were PJs.
The PJs in question:
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Mrs. Plaid, Austin
Age and Occupation: 26, Pastry Chef
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 34, Cabinetry Carpenter
Engagement Date: August 8, 2009
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Kindred Oaks, Georgetown
About Me: I am a Jersey girl born and raised but have since migrated to Texas and embraced its twang and Tex-Mex. I could probably eat chips and queso every day but instead I eat popcorn. I use the word “awesome” way too much but I just can’t seem to stop myself. I am addicted to all things DIY and am planning what I call a Texas-Chic wedding. I love snuggling with my two adorable dogs and of course, my adorable fiance. I can’t wait 'til I can call him my husband some day! October 2010, here we come!
Hey Ladies! I’m baaaaaaccckkk! Look what greeted us when we pulled up to our house on Sunday afternoon returning from our honeymoon:
taken by moi
How cute are our friends? Love them!
I missed y’all over the last couple weeks. I’m so happy to be back.
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Mrs. Lamb, Norfolk
Age and Occupation: 25, Homeland Security Consultant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Graduate Student
Engagement Date: January 2009
Wedding Date: January 2010
Venue: Trinity Presbyterian Church/Harrison Opera House
About Me: I’m a Homeland Security Consultant with a tendency towards pulling office pranks, taking lunch breaks, and drinking Wawa shakes. I’m also an English major with a serious obsession with alliteration and rhymes. While I’m not keeping America safe, I’m training for half marathons and the Escape from Alcatraz swim. Or moving for the third time this year. Or baking. Or wedding crafting. Or crying about wedding planning. All the while, I’m getting myself into Lucille Ball-esque scrapes and making Jim Carey-esque faces. Our big fat Czech/Baptist/Jewish/Italian wedding is a combination of vintage eclectic, DIY, and little spoonful of sugar from our Event Coordinator. It’s going to be a Norfolk flavored wedding with the verve of an only-daughter-blow-out bash!
Hey y’all! My southern lingo is improving, and now it’s time for me to show off my Southern hospitality as we welcome the Colas to the area! Mr. and Mrs. Cola are visiting this Saturday and we’ll be meeting them at Tobacco Road in downtown Durham to show off our fun city, ball park and local brewskies! Join us for lunch and bring the SO!
Tobacco Road Sports Cafe
280 South Magnum Street
Durham, NC
(919) 937-9909
Saturday, November 6, 12:30 PM
Mrs. Prairie Dog, Cincinnati
Age and Occupation: 24, Program Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, PhD/Biomedical Engineer
Engagement Date: December 18, 2009
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Glendale Lyceum
About Me: I'm a pilgrim soul of a girl with a house full of books and a coffee addiction that could slay Juan Valdez. My life is a whirl of grammar correction, good music, glue-gunning, and two pets named Hazel and Winston Churchill. I'm marrying my high school boyfriend in a formal-ish spring affair, roughly themed: "Elizabeth Bennet crashes a party co-hosted by Jay Gatsby and Cath Kidston, and loves it."
We had agreed to exchange one “small” present before traveling to our hometown for holiday break. I gave him a few pairs of boxers. He gave me a diamond ring. Underwear vs. Jewels…it’s hard to say who came out victorious.
“The ring isn’t the present!” he told me after we calmed down a little. “The ring is independent of Christmas. THIS is the small present.”
A weighty, rectangular package revealed the most recent issues of The Knot and The Knot: Ohio. What can I say? The guy knows his audience.
Then we drank the bottle of champagne he had hidden in the refrigerator. We danced and giggled and took pictures and started to talk about wedding stuff. I laughed about how I had given him underwear, which he had feigned enthusiasm for—not letting on that he was going to propose minutes later.
“I wasn’t faking!” he insisted. “I like them a lot. They’re my fiance boxers!”
(Double chin/fiance boxers + crazed happiness/gratuitous ring flash…at least we have fun.)
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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!
Sorry for the hiatus. Life has been busy and I have struggled to find a nice block of time to sit down and blog. I am stealing time away from something right now so I can tell you all about our wedding ceremony.
Mr. Lace and I actually put a lot of thought into each aspect of our wedding ceremony. It took us several months to choose the songs involved in our ceremony. We spent an entire day on our ceremony schedule. Most importantly, we spent hours upon excruciating hours writing personal vows.
Let’s focus today on music.
We hired a great DJ named Eugene Ng through Zuno Productions. He met with us several times to find out about our musical tastes, to get a feel for our wedding crowd and answered all my emails in a timely fashion. I was really annoying because our wedding site didn’t have ANY sound equipment so I’d email him once to see if he had 2 microphones for our wedding musicians and pastor, another time to find out if he had music stands, another time to see if he could be in charge of our slideshow, and about a billion times in between.
With our DJ in place, Mr. Lace and I sat down on a Saturday to choose all of the music, from the processional to the bouquet toss.
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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.
Let me tell you about the bane of my existence.
I’ve got a large birthmark on the side of my face. On a good day, it looks like a huge cluster of freckles from the corner of my eye down to my jawline. On a bad day, it looks like a giant smudge of dirt.
I can’t believe I’m going to show it to you because I spend a great deal of my life trying to conceal it, but here it is.
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Mrs. Elephant, Dallas, TX
Age and Occupation: 27, Financial Operations Analyst
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, IT Student/Store Manager
Engagement Date: March 29, 2009
Wedding Date: April 2011
Venue: The Tribute Golf Club
About Me: I'm a Philly native creating roots deep in the heart of Texas. I might be a little obsessed capturing those Kodak moments of anything and everything (mainly on vacations). I've become more of a gamer thanks to Mr. Elephant, who I met online and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with. We are planning a wedding based on our favorite colors, blue and green, with a travel theme for 150 of our closest friends and family. Hopefully our long (2-year) engagement won't kill me!
Remember my guestbook idea? It’s OK if you don’t, I won’t hold it against you. 
Well, more pieces of the puzzle have arrived, and it’s time for a mock up!
Here’s a refresher of the box I painted to hold some postcards:
I ordered this mailbox (in white) from Walmart.com for $15. I was very pleased with how fast it came in:
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Mrs. Cola, Mountain View, CA
Age and Occupation: 27, Product Communications and Promotions
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Managing Partner and Senior Designer
Engagement Date: March 5, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: The Mountain Terrace, Woodside, CA
About Me: I’m a Washington State native, enjoying life in Silicon Valley California with my fiancé, our three kitties and one leopard gecko. I like reading wedding blogs, Photoshopping wedding design mock ups, making lists, and planning, planning, planning! I’m a bit of an anomaly, on one side I’m a very girlie girl, I collect shoes, I lay out my outfits 4-6 weeks in advance, and I’d never leave the house without my hair curled and makeup on. But on the other side, I’m a total tomboy, I love to go camping and hiking, play drinking games (hey, I’m Irish!) and most of my closest friends are guys. My fiancé and I are planning a DIY-focused wedding with a balance between easygoing (what he wants) and chic and stylish (what I want), and are tying it all together with elements in lavender, sage, butter cream and chocolate.
Immediately after the bouquet and garter tosses, it was time for CUPCAKES!
Our wedding cupcakes deserve their very own recap post, since Mr. Cola and I worked so hard to design and build the stand together, choose the flavors and frosting designs, and specify the precise layout of the cupcakes on our stand.
And here is our over-6-foot-tall beauty, in all it’s yummy glory, on our wedding day!
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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!
We’re thrilled to announce a very requested and very delicious next generation of bees: the Brunch Generation! It was tough to narrow them down because there were SO many yummy possibilities!
If you’re interested in becoming a bee, check out our application guidelines! We’re currently accepting applications from bloggers getting married through May 2011. And if you’re looking for some guidance about what it takes to be a bee and what it’s like to be one, check out the bees’ advice for blogging… they’re the experts! Which icon is your fave?
Mrs. Argyle, St. Louis
Age and Occupation: 24, Project Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Pilot
Engagement Date: February 15, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Jewel Box in Forest Park and Windows on Washington
About Me: I'm a true Midwestern girl (born and raised), lover of red wine, reality TV and the entire J.Crew catalog. I love to dance regardless of who is watching, and enjoy a good laugh with my girls. I have a soft spot in my heart for planet Earth, my two dogs and my fiance. Fall is my favorite season (which is why we are marrying in September), but I love a warm summer day and the Colorado mountains in the winter. We are planning a modern soiree downtown, with lots of bold colors, and fun, eco-friendly elements.
Oh, hello there! Remember me? I sure hope so.
In case you’re wondering, life does not slow down after the wedding (and if it did for you, kudos). Things have been “go go go” since the second we landed back in the States.
BUT, let me tell you. Married life is wonderful. Although, very much the same as it was before we got married, there is just something different and exciting about actually being married.
So, how was everything, you ask? Wonderful. And, perfect. And, beautiful. And, while I wait on all of our pro pics from our wonderful and fabulous photographer, Lisa Hessel, I have an array of honeymoon photos to sort through and share. Because, I seriously got camera happy. So, honeymoon recaps will start soon.
In the meantime, here are a few teaser pics from our wedding thanks to Lisa (with a final reveal of my wedding dress).
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Mrs. Octopus, Boston, MA/Pittsburgh, PA
Age and Occupation: 25, Grad Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Graphics Operator for TV News
Engagement Date: May 6th, 2009
Wedding Date: September 2010
Venue: Heinz Chapel Ceremony, Museum Reception
About Me: When my best friend dragged me to a toga party in our freshmen year of college, I was not expecting to meet my future husband; but seven years later, here we are. I'm a crazy-organized planner at heart, and I am a great lover of random trivia, books, chocolate, blogs, new and exciting adventures, mockumentary-style television, and anything heavily flavored with bright orange fake cheese powder. We're planning a festive and fun mini-destination wedding in the place where we met: fabulous Pittsburgh, PA! I can't wait to marry the man I love!
Today, when I got the mail, I found the usual pile of junk. I also found a thick envelope from my aunt, from whom I had not been expecting anything. Guess what? When I tore it open, I found The Greatest Thing Ever.
My aunt, Margie, is the mom of my ten-year-old cousin C (whose full name I’m not using because I think it might be weird to identify a ten-year-old on the Internet). C is an awesome kid whose interests tend to run toward science, completely withdrawing into his own head to read for hours (VERY much like his cousin Octo here), figuring out math concepts, and sharing little-known facts. Based on his usual hobbies, likes, and dislikes, he would not have been my first guess as to which of our kid attendees was going to celebrate the wedding with the most abandon.
I was wrong, though. In fact, at one point during our wedding reception, Bridesmaid/Cousin Katie observed, “I think C is having an out-of-body experience. His soul has left his body and the spirit of Michael Jackson has taken its place.”
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