Weddingbee Blog

Mr. TM and I threw a little holiday shindig this weekend. In an effort to mimic Martha Stewart’s homemade hospitality, I spent the entire Friday night beforehand baking, crafting, wrapping, cooking, bedazzling, hanging, cleaning and making things by hand.

HA! That’s a joke, my friends. Instead, I went to Duane Reade to pick up a few bags of holiday candy to serve as snacks. (Oh stop, I had other food too. In fact, I actually did bake peanut butter cookies, so boo-yah!)

I made my way to the special “holiday candy” aisle (which is separate from the regular candy aisle…and yes, I know this because I make frequent candy runs to Duane Reade, don’t judge me), found the holiday candy aisle, and picked out holiday-themed Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, holiday-themed Hershey’s Kisses and what I thought were holiday-themed M&M’s…

Side note: How come all the candy is Christmas colors? Where’s the blue and white M&M’s for Hannukah? Or um, whatever colors represent Kwanzaa?

Well, it wasn’t until I got home and busted into all my candy (I had to test it for our guests to make sure it wasn’t poison!) that I realized that Duane Reade had sneakily snuck (you see what I did there?) FALL-themed M&M’s in with their holiday candy, complete with a scarecrow and bats on the packaging (but in my defense, the main color of the bag was green! Hence my mistake…).

So, instead of red and green peanut M and M’s to match my red and green kisses and cups, I found orange, brown and red M&M’s!

Not cool, Duane Reade, not cool at all. My type-A-Martha-Stewart complex had a heart attack for about 10 seconds before I remembered that all M&M’s taste the same, regardless of their color. Then I promptly popped 5 (or 25) in my mouth. Mmmmmm…

Oh yeah, and the party was still a raging success, in spite of the mis-matched, autumnal chocolate treats. Go figure.

P.S. Just to prove to you that I’m not a total failure at life, here are my two “decorations” for the party, which I thought were actually (miraculously?) somewhat pretty (plus they both include wedding things, and we all know how much I like to talk about my wedding *winks).

I bought a bunch of holly from the bodega on 72nd St, plus a bunch of white mums.

Paper snowflake decorations strung above our ketubah (plus the dried roses from when he proposed! And a mason jar from the centerpieces!).

P.P.S. Play “Spot The Puppy!”

How are you displaying the remnants from your wedding into your home decor? Are any of your wedding items/left overs making their way into your holiday parties this year?