I love my friends with a ferocity usually contained to lion prides. I’ve been through the best and worst times of my life with an amazing array of people, and there is an instinct in me to protect them from everything— from their snarky coworkers to jealous ex-girlfriends to their own mother-in-laws. They are the people who have carried me through my own hurt, so I can’t stand to see them hurt, you know?
So what would happen if one of them is going to marry the wrong person? Awhile back, an acquaintance of mine was talking to me about a wedding she was dreading the following weekend. It was the wedding of one of her childhood best friends, of a close group of a dozen or so people, and he was marrying his college girlfriend.
…who every single person knew was totally wrong for him.
“They’ll wind up divorced,” she said. The comment was so nonchalant, so certain, that I was rendered speechless.
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Big happy sigh. These are some of my favorite photos from the day. I’ve already shared one of them, and now it’s time to show you a few more from our sunset session.
After we finished eating, Mr. Husky led me toward the hills for our “couple” photos. Our window of opportunity was quickly closing, and we were down to the last half-hour of useable daylight.
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A little unexpected something or other occurred that’s really kind of, well, a giant pain in the ass. So, in true Zebra fashion, I want you to learn from this mistake, because garsh darnit, changing your email address three months before your wedding sucks ass.
You see, it’s my fault really. I’ve been begging my parents to get accustomed to computers for quite some time now. With the creation of my blog, my mom started to use the internet on her dinosaur of a PC to keep up with my wedding ramblings. Then the telephone calls started…
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“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
There’s nothing like the realization that you’re only 6 months out from the wedding day and that if you want to send out save the dates you need to send them like RIGHT NOW or else really what’s the point because all of your guests will be getting the invitation soon enough anyway. And of course, while we got these babies done and sent out to most of our guest list, there were still some addresses that we didn’t have, which means that not everyone on our guest list actually received one. Sigh. Hopefully we’ll have their addresses by the time the invitations go out. But I do want to share our STDs, and I’m pretty sure that anyone reading this already got one. If not, hey look, here they are! Now, save the date!
I decided that we should use a postcard for two reasons. No, really it was just one. Postcards are cheaper than magnets, and postage would be way cheaper for mailing postcards then to figure out how I wanted to package the magnet and mail it. And this way, people can use all of their other STD magnets to hold up ours on their fridge! Really, it’s a win-win here.
The other reason that I liked the idea of postcards was that I wanted to use two designs.
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I pulled out all the wedding stuff from behind the couch the other day (ACK!) and had a bit of an organize. I put out all my cake/pie stands on the coffee table to see what they look like together. I posted about my vintage ones recently; here is what they look like with everything I have!
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On the day of our wedding, Mr. Rainbow and I woke up around 7:30. We both lazed in bed for an hour or so, just smiling at each other like idiots and trying to wrap our minds around the fact that it was finally happening. Today was our wedding day. Crazy.
Against my dear mother’s wishes, we spent the night together on New Year’s Eve, woke up together on New Year’s Day, and got ready together at our apartment. She said it was something about bad luck, but I didn’t care. I was finally marrying the man of my dreams, and according to me, there was no such thing as bad anything.
When 10 o’clock rolled around, I went to my regular nail salon and got a mani/pedi. It may be a little odd to get your nails done on the day of your wedding, but let me tell you, having that relaxing few hours was exactly what I needed for the start of a sure-to-be-hectic day. If you’re having a late afternoon wedding, I highly recommend doing this.
Immediately afterward, we went to the reception restaurant and dropped off the flowers, menus, and cake. By the time we got back home around 1 o’clock, it was officially go time!
While I was busy doing my makeup…
The Bacon engagement wasn’t really a surprise. We had been talking about getting married since 2009. It was really just a matter of me finally accepting that I am “old enough” to be wearing a diamond ring. We’d been talking about it so long that once I decided the time was alright to be engaged, I felt compelled to let Mr. Bacon know that simply discussing getting engaged and actually being engaged are two very different things. In fact, I demanded a proposal. My exact words were something along the lines of, “I don’t want to suddenly be wearing a diamond ring and for everyone to ask me the engagement story and have nothing better to say than ’he didn’t specifically propose, we just decided. ” I was such a brat, but looking back, I’m SO glad I have this story to tell!
I brought up the idea of a possible engagement to Mama Bacon when I was home for someone else’s wedding and tried to slyly ask who the mister should call to get permission. She’s a bit old fashioned, so the idea of a simple phone call permission did not fly.
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Bridesmaid Jewelry Pouches by Sady Jane
We had a photo booth out on the balcony where cocktail hour was held, courtesy of Red Cheese Photo Booth Rentals. It ran for about four hours, starting around when toasts were wrapping up, and it held court at the epicenter of fun for the rest of the event. Some 150 sets of photos were taken, and most guests participated. I gravitate immediately toward these things at bars and events that have them, so my excitement was hard to contain when we nabbed one for wedding day.
The photo booth printed two 4×6 copies per session. Each pic had a custom event banner, modeled after our save the date filmstrip and designed by the same gal. So, we got favors, entertainment, and a still-makes-me-laugh guestbook in one fell swoop. People mostly signed the book as they came in, and we had instructions so people knew why an empty photo album was sitting out there.
Pics by Ashley Forrette and Gem Photo unless otherwise noted.
I was thinking about something the other day when Mama Oatmeal and I were watching Four Weddings on TLC. A bride started crying while saying her vows. That’s not uncommon, but for some reason this was the first time I actually gave some thought to what a problem this is going to be for me.
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We’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading real Weddingbee brides’ experiences with their vendors via the Weddingbee Vendors section! A while back, we launched Featured Reviews from the Hive, a new feature that allows you to share your favorite vendors right here on the front page! We’ve loved all of the great vendor reviews coming at us.
Currently, we’re regularly featuring your favorite vendor reviews that you write and submit to us. Every Friday we’ll randomly select a featured reviewer that week to win a prize from our Weddingbee Favors Shop!
This week’s winner of the “Knotted Couture” Monogrammed Quilted Tote Bag is Loribeth for her review of her photographer, Dream Weaver Photos in Georgia!
Stay tuned on Monday for next week’s prize announcement!
If you’re a recent bride and you’d like to participate for a chance to win every week, simply review your favorite vendors on Weddingbee and follow the easy instructions to submit your review here. We look forward to seeing your wedding pictures featured on the blog! 
Being stranded at home all week from 5″ of snow (the New Englander in me is HORRIFIED), I’ve been tackling a lot of wedding tasks. I’ve been collecting centerpiece containers for months, and I’d like to kind of finish that up and put it aside. But why, why, WHY can’t I find the footed bowls that I want?!
To be more specific, this is what I’m looking for:
I guess its about time I share something that I’m pretty sure I have never mentioned before: I knew one hundred percent, absolutely, NOTHING about the music that was going to be played during our wedding reception. Shocking, considering I am fully aware that I have a tendency to be a bit of a control freak. But Mr. Cloud has been DJing as both a hobby and professionally for years so the music aspect of the day was extremely important to him. Then one night, early on in the planning, my type A, always in control of the details self, decided he would be in charge of the music all together with no opinions from me. Then I must have just kept on drinking because then I decided I didn’t want him to tell me anything. Craaaazzy I tell you.
I won’t bore you will the awkward pictures of everyone walking into the main ballroom; let’s just get to the good music. Hubs did not disappoint with his first few quirky picks. First came our parents and the bridal party to The Jacksons’ Can You Feel It.
I was laughing uncontrollably by the time our entrance music came on, Dropkick Murphy’s I’m Shipping Up to Boston.
Ms. Butterscotch is selling her princess ball gown. She’s asking $500 for the size-16 dress.
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