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I got a chance to stop by at the second annual Martha Stewart Holiday Craft Sale. I had the best of times last year collecting unique holiday gifts, so I made sure to block it out on my calendar again this year!
The sale takes place at Martha Stewart headquarters in Chelsea, New York. Many of the editors from the staff get to be vendors selling items they make in their spare time. It’s a great way to catch a behind-the-scenes glimpse and also purchase some of these beautiful items for your very own. If you’re not in the market for holiday gifts, it’s a great way to collect items for a wedding (accessories, bridesmaids gifts, stationery). It’s also an excellent way to source unique vendors or see one of your favorite blogger-vendor’s work in person.
Upon entering, you can stock up on some much-needed Martha Stewart craft goodies for the holidays.
Yup, it’s another post about invitations! And I can’t promise it will be the last. What can I say, I have invitations on the brain. Today I’m loving the idea of shaped invitations. Rectangles and squares can be awesome, but I’m digging the unexpected wow factor of some uncommon invitation shapes.
I heart this heart-shaped invite.
Last we left off, it was noon and we had just finished our rehearsal, but our welcome dinner wasn’t until 5:30 p.m. We didn’t want our out-of-town bridal party to have to sit around in their hotel rooms with nothing to do, so we planned a casual rehearsal BBQ/pool party at Mr. Jelly’s parents’ house for the in-between time. But first, Mr. Jelly handed out his bridal-party gifts: personalized Rawlings baseball bats. Each bat had the guy’s name and title and our wedding date. The guys loved them (and even got to use them later that night)!
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Aaahhh! I love this series! I was fully in the throes of my obsessive Weddingbee readership the first time this series ran, and I’m super excited to participate now as a bee! So, Octopus quirks and secrets, here goes…
I have a really weird hang-up about plates and cups. More specifically, I find it revolting to eat or drink things out of the “wrong” vessel. Like, sometimes Mr. Octo eats cereal or soup out of a large mug. I truly find this disgusting, because to my mind, cereal and soup go in bowls, PERIOD. I also can’t drink coffee out of a clear glass mug, because it looks too much like a juice glass, and it’s GROSS to drink coffee out of a juice glass.
Over the summer, Mr. Octo and I decided to try to save money by making iced lattes at home with our stovetop espresso maker rather than dropping over six dollars a day at Starbucks. Smart, right? Except there was a problem.
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I love this post for sentimental reasons. It still brings tears to my eyes when I read it and I remember how I felt wearing my old and borrowed items on my wedding day. I loved looking at my jewelry throughout the day and remembering the ladies in my family who wore them before me.
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This past weekend, I traveled to Fredericksburg with my father and sister to visit my Opa and Oma (German for grandfather and grandmother). Although the main purpose of the visit was to celebrate Opa’s birthday, I secretly had other intentions.
Before my mom passed away, we had talked about what kind of jewelry I would wear with my dress. We talked about me wearing the same jewelry she wore on her wedding day. One of the items she wore was a bracelet, which she borrowed from her FMIL, the Oma I visited this weekend. So, as we sat outside Sunday afternoon, I asked Oma if she still had the bracelet that my mom wore a little over thirty-two years ago. She did, and she was happy to let me borrow it for the wedding. She told me it was originally her mother’s bracelet, but she wasn’t sure how her mother came into possession of it. She even had the original box it came in. I love the picture that was shown on the inside of the box top:
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I love hearing about how people found Weddingbee. Here is my story!
How did I find Weddingbee?
I found the ’Bee in the fall of 2007, almost a year before I was engaged (*blushes*). I think I’ve mentioned like 100 times that I hated the first two years of med school and started planning my (future) wedding as a sort of fun distraction. It was a running joke among my med school friends, and we often took long breaks from studying to browse my latest wedding inspiration. I had always wanted a Penn State wedding, but at one point I realized that I needed a backup plan in case it didn’t work out. I googled “Pittsburgh Wedding Venues” and I found this post by Mrs. Lollipop. I was intrigued by this cute wedding planning site, and started milling around, which is how I found Mrs. Bell Pepper and became a dedicated follower of the blog (3 years ago, my goodness!). I don’t know if it was because she was a physician or because her color scheme was similar to what I had in mind, but I was instantly hooked!
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Picking my favorite post I’ve even written is a tough job. I’ve loved writing for the ‘Bee, but generally speaking, I don’t think my strength in my contribution to this site has been in the emotional arena. Nope, my pride and joy has been writing tutorials on our many DIY projects that we incorporated into our wedding. What can I say, I come from a more journalistic writing background, relaying a “here’s what happened and how” is just what comes more naturally to me.
And one of my favorite projects that I wrote about was our 6+ foot tall cupcake tower. This was by far our biggest wedding project, and a really special one to me, because Mr. Cola and I worked hand in hand to complete it together. With my vision, his engineering and construction skills, and a lot of sweat, sanding and painting, we created one of the highlights of our wedding, together.
It’s not just the fact that this display for our wedding dessert blew our guests away, and was a huge conversation piece all night long that makes this a special project to me. No, it was really all about how we joined forces and came together to create something great with our own two hands. We’ve collaborated on many things in the past, deciding where to move, making budgets, and many life choices. But this was really our first opportunity to create something tangible together, working side by side, giving and taking, and just making it work.
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I would like to start this post out by letting it be known that Mr. Moonbeam did enjoy himself, see proof below. He may “hate” dancing, but that smile on his face makes me think otherwise.
Miss Vino’s rockin’ groom’s cake!
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High school wasn’t too long ago for me, but in some ways it feels like it was because my life is so different now than it was then. From the ages of 10 - 17 I was a student at the National Ballet School training for a career as a professional ballet dancer.
Me at 14:
My days were basically divided between commuting to Toronto from Brampton, taking academic classes, and doing a lot of ballet.
Here a typical day for me:
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A quick refresher of our wedding colours: dark teal, light teal/aqua, apple green, book print.
Once we had our colours, it was time to figure out who would wear what colour.
I, of course, will be a vision in ivory. 
I’d always imagined (and by ‘always’ I mean since we got engaged—I was never one of those wedding-scrapbook little girls) my bridesmaids in a nice cocktail-length teal dress. I personally love that apple green colour, and own shirts that shade already:
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There are so many things to manage when you are planning a wedding. After you’ve nailed down all the big things like venues and vendors, you have a million little details to take care of. And if you’re like me, you were involved in every little detail whether it mattered or not. I styled and DIY’ed my own wedding, as many of you are doing. It meant I had to search for ideas, find the best deals, and craft everything on my own. But, being a type-A, detail-oriented kinda gal, you can imagine how much FUN I had doing all of this…at first. Do you know what I’m talking about? I’d be super excited when I was inspired with a new idea, but as I started getting into the thick of the project, I’d want to hurry up and finish it. And of course, you never have one project at a time whilst wedding planning. There are always seventy things going on at once. There were many times where I felt like abandoning projects, but let me encourage you—if you are in the thick of wedding planning, hang in there! It’ll all be worth it in the end!
So after I nailed down my vision, a vintage-juxtaposed-with-modern, simple, school-themed reception (hmm when do I have “too much” theme going on?), I began looking for vintage-y decor and designing my own paper goods. Everything had a simple, clean look.
So, let me show and explain all of our reception details. Ready?
This was our guest sign-in table. I made these programs on my computer and printed them out on my printer. Fancy, I know.
I know y’all have been seeing a lot of us old bees but I hope you have room for another bee’s humble story. I’m coming out of the drawer (get it? ’cause I’m a pencil!?!? ok, lame, I know) to share with you the story of how I came to be sharpened (someone, stop me!)
How I found Weddingbee and all of YOU amazing people:
When I first got engaged in July 2008, an amazing friend mentioned in passing this strange website where lots of different engaged girls blogged about their weddings and they took on different monikers, like bugs and flowers and food. I was interested but not enough to go home and try to find this strange blog about “weddings” and “bees.”
A year later, I was in the thick of actually planning my May 2010 wedding, and I was searching for inspiration. I remembered this blog I had heard of and googled, quite literally, “wedding” and “bee.” Of course, I found this illustrious wedding site and was enticed by these amazing women planning these beautiful weddings. Bloggers like Mrs. Lab and Mrs. Cowboy Boot immediately drew me in and I slowly realized all of the brides-to-be had a unique voice and wonderful wedding story to tell.
As October rolled around, I realized I wanted to join these women. I created a blog and promptly sat on it for nearly two months.
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I was very diligent about perfecting the technique for the “Save the Date Assembly Night.” A prototype was put together before I even sent the design to the printers so I was sure it wouldn’t fail.
Prototype on thin, cheap cardstock
I even decided to go with the good quality, heavy card stock in order for them to be sturdier. My supplies were carefully packed into separate Ziploc baggies and I had worked out the exact order of assembly for maximum efficiency. This was going to be a fail-proof breeze and we were gonna knock them out in no time flat. Go team! Right?
Wrong.
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