Mrs. Tartlet, Rochester, MI
Age and Occupation: Age & Occupation: 27, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Medical Student
Engagement Date: May 2, 2009
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: The Royal Park Hotel
About Me: I'm an exuberant gal from the Midwest with a penchant for Neuroscience and anything sparkly. I'm not afraid to poke fun at myself, and I'm a believer that given the right pair of shoes, a girl can conquer the world. While an interest in the sciences threw Mr. Tartlet and me together (again, and again, until it finally stuck), we share a love for many things---food, video games, car dancing, food, bad puns, travel, did I mention food?---that ultimately led us to where we are now, less than five months from becoming Mr. and Mrs. We're planning a laid-back, romantic, garden-inspired affair with organic and quirky touches that reflect our love for the unexpected!
After years of watching romantic comedies and daydreaming about my future nuptials, I fell victim to the common misconception that I ought to be a euphoric bride-to-be from start to finish. Can I let you in on a secret, Hive?
…While being engaged and planning a wedding has been wondrous, it’s been equally terrifying, and there have been many times when I felt like I was going crazy.
One of my first pangs of isolation came while chatting with a previously good friend of mine. I had a number of school-related deadlines coming up and I expressed that I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all. The flippant response that shocked me to the core? “Why? You’re engaged. You have nothing to be unhappy about.” Tartlet Mistake #1: Believing this person (and others) who expressed similar sentiments. I thought something was terribly wrong with me because I wasn’t always living in the in the world of sunshine and rainbows.
Although, wouldn’t it be great if everything was this delightful?
Since you’re here reading Weddingbee, chances are you’re somewhere in the waiting/planning/married spectrum. Chances are you read other blogs that are chock-full with gorgeous inspirational photos, picture-perfect brides, and to die for decor.
Tartlet Mistake #2:
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Mrs. Hermit Crab, New York, NY
Age and Occupation: 24, Youth Director soon to be Grad Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Medical Student - soon to be Surgery Resident
Engagement Date: October 11, 2008
Wedding Date: June 2010
Venue: New York Botanical Garden
About Me: I love all things food, books, our furbaby, Rashi, and adventures with my amazing fiance (oh, and saving the world!). This summer I will not only be a bride, but a bridesmaid, officiant, and attendee as well---it's all about weddings in my life right now, full of so many exciting moments and projects. We're planning a fab New York City wedding weekend full of family, love and lots of color!
Before we leave the dressing room completely, I thought I would give you a close up of some of the little details that completed my look.
My gown, just waiting for me to put her on
For the record, if anyone is considering a Henry Roth dress, please go for it—he was wonderful to work with, the dress fit perfectly, and I wish I could wear it again!
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Mrs. Starfish, Boston/Newport
Age and Occupation: 25, Operations Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Sales
Engagement Date: October 8, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: The Atlantic Beach Club
About Me: I'm a perfectionist who is a planner at heart. I don't do well with surprises. I love planning, crafting, Newport RI, family and friends, and most importantly, Mr. Starfish---all of which will be big components in our October wedding in our favorite little city by the sea.
I never thought I’d feel differently after marriage. Mr. Starfish and I felt like we had been married for quite some time. People nicknamed me “the wife” before we officially started dating. On our wedding day we had dated for seven years, and we’d lived together for five of them.
When people asked Mr. Starfish if he felt any different post-wedding, he’d respond along the lines that there was no difference; we just had a big party to make it official. When people asked me if I felt any different, I’d respond with our length of relationship above and say it’s all the same.
You’d be surprised at how often people ask if you feel different. It’s the wedding question that replaces the “where’s your honeymoon?” during the engagement period.
So, having felt this way for quite some time, I was surprised to realize that marriage did, in fact, change me. I didn’t notice it right away. It wasn’t until a few months after the wedding when someone asked about our postponed honeymoon.
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Mrs. Biscuit, Morgantown, WV
Age and Occupation: 24, Dental Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Chemist at a pharmaceutical company
Engagement Date: April 2010
Wedding Date: July 2011
Venue: Catholic Church, Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa
About Me: I'm an engineer who decided to trek back to my hometown three years ago to become skilled in the arts of drilling and filling. I'm engaged to a pretty awesome guy who tests your assorted benzodiazepines by day and home brews by night. Together we have two fur children, Tsali and Tobias N. Fünkat. I'm a lazy perfectionist and eternal sorority girl who enjoys running, crafting, string cheese, good beer, and bad reality TV. We are planning a Big Fat Italian/Sicilian/Polish wedding filled with DIY details and are expecting 300 +/- 50 guests. Our whimsical summer affair is themed "Alice attends the Mad Hatter Vintage Garden Tea Party in a Ballroom. She Thinks That The Venue is Odd for a Vintage Garden Party, but is Tripping on LSD, so She Doesn't Really Care." Yes, I am the Dickens of themes.
This morning, while perusing the blog that inevitably makes my wedding feel inadequate, I started thinking about flowers. I’ll be honest, after my not so great meeting with my florist, after which I considered having NO flowers, I hadn’t given this aspect of my wedding much thought. Flowers are pretty and everything; they’re just not my thing. To be honest, Mr. Biscuit is more the flower child/gardener of the relationship.
Notice that I drew our thumbs in proportion to our bodies.
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Mrs. Eggs Benedict, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 29, Attorney
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Attorney
Engagement Date: December 5, 2009
Wedding Date: February 2011
Venue: IslandWood
About Me: I'm a Northwest girl who spends my time goofing around with Mr. Eggs Benedict and our dog, hiking, traveling, drinking wine and planning a wedding that will showcase the best of what the Pacific Northwest has to offer. I also love photography, beating Mr. Eggs Bene at Mario Kart, and watching the most ridiculous natural disaster flicks you can think of (seriously, how can you deny the awesomeness that is The Core or 2012?? That's right, you can't). We are planning our weekend wedding adventure at an environmental educational center, and I can't wait for the fun to begin!
One of the things that I had been looking forward to, but also kinda dreading, was creating our registry. I’m pretty sure this is something that you’re supposed to do before you get to the less-than-one-hundred-days mark, but apparently we like to leave things until a little later in the process. (And yeah—I now know how much time we have until the wedding because both of our registries have a huge countdown on the front page. Yikes!)
At first I thought that we’d just create an Amazon registry since they have the universal-registry option and we could add anything that we wanted to it. But then we realized that there are some people who prefer going to an actual store to pick something out. So we created registries at Macy’s and Crate and Barrel along with our Amazon registry.
We started at Macy’s and had entirely too much fun with the scanning gun. Or at least Mr. EB did—he’s a big fan of getting to play with any kind of toy. Of course, since we were having so much fun, this is the only picture I ended up getting of the process:
This is Mr. EB’s way of telling me to put the camera down already.
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Mrs. Lox, Baltimore
Age and Occupation: 33, Government Worker
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35. IT Consultant
Engagement Date: May 8, 2010
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Vandiver Inn
About Me: I’m an East Coast gal born and bred and a suburban brat turned city rat for the last year. Now Mr. Lox and I enjoy walking all kinds of places, having the coolest things around in our backyard, and especially our garage parking. I love gadgets, toys, Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby ice cream, monkeys, and our insane cats. I’m a blonde by birth and a redhead by choice. I’m that girl in the cubicle farm with all the cool toys and the file cabinet covered in magnetic poetry. I still use smiley faces in my emails, whether people like it or not. This is not the first rodeo for Mr. Lox nor me. And together, we are planning an intimate afternoon wedding on a budget we can afford by ourselves.
January 30th, 2011 @ 11:10 am by Mrs. Lox
Today I thought we might talk about my wedding ensemble some more. We have discussed my shoes and my dress. And today I thought perhaps we could talk about my jewelry. This was like an epic journey for me. I’d love to show you pictures of all of the contenders, but frankly I don’t think any of us have the patience for that many links. So instead I’ll show you what I got.
I would like to say that my task was a bit harder than I imagined. There are pretty sparkly things all over the Interwebs. However, most of them have a silver tone to them. Because of the rich shade of ivory my dress will be, that just wasn’t workable. I had to have gold. And I hunted for a long time before finally settling on this really unique set. (Yes, set. Yes, I’m matchy. No, I’m not interested in a 12-step program. I kinda like it this way.)
The jewelry I ended up buying came from Etsy (of course) seller Jurgita Handmade.
Necklace and earrings
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Mrs. Bacon, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 26, Digital Advertising Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, IT Client Services
Engagement Date: June 17, 2010
Wedding Date: September 2011
Venue: Ravenswood Billboard Factory
About Me: I'm a Midwestern girl that can't seem to commit to staying in one place for too long and is constantly daydreaming about my next adventure. I am an aspiring foodie with a weak spot for the unusual and I love semi-reality food television. My other loves easily include laughing as a form of exercise, a book that I can't put down, summer baseball games, espresso with whipped cream, couch potato days and nights with the ridiculous Mr. Bacon, and our two kitties, Lincoln and Sawyer. We're planning a faux-destination wedding for 150 of our closest friends and family in the city we've both adopted as home that has a modern, yet whimsical twist and as many personal touches as we can manage.
I love shoes. I love trying them on. I love buying them. I love that moment when you take them out of the box for the first time. I love unwrapping the paper and taking out the stuffing that keeps the shape during shipping. I love trying them on with every possible outfit in my closet to make sure that I can wear those babies as much as possible. So what am I wearing for the big day?
I have dreamed of a pair of red-heeled beauties for years. You know the ones: the sky high, red-carpet regulars: Christian Louboutins. The wedding is actually the best excuse I can come up with to drop some serious change on a pair of heels like these:
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Miss Oatmeal, Fresno, CA
Age and Occupation: 25, Medical Device Sales Representative
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Police Officer/Captain in the US Army
Engagement Date: February 16, 2010
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Private Residence, Fresno
About Me: I am a toast-loving, list-making, occasionally crazy California girl getting dangerously close to marrying her crime-fighting, patient, man's man fiancé. I’ve never left our hometown of Clovis, CA, I love Anthropologie so much it almost hurts, appreciate promptness, love that our 4lb. Chihuahua, Murphy, smells like Fritos, am irritated by windshield wipers that move too fast for the amount of rain, love me some cold weather, have an unhealthy obsession with boots, and wholeheartedly think that my family is everything. Mr. Oatmeal is, oddly enough, my brother's best friend. He's also the best thing that's ever happened to me, and together we are planning a vintage chic, backyard, spring wedding with a few nontraditional touches while trying to keep up with our crazy lives.
I’ve noticed a major downside to having a fairly lengthy engagement, and that is, you make many decisions early on in the engagement, thinking you’re being original. Then as the months go by and you continue to obsess over wedding blogs on a daily basis, you find that so many of these details are popping up in dozens and dozens of other weddings.
I’m not, however, going to let this discourage me from using the ideas I originally dreamed up. Not to say I made them up, of course. I was simply inspired before they made it to the big time.
So what’s a prime example of this? The gorgeous and wonderfully “unique” wedding tree.
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Mrs. Jam, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 25, Writer/Associate Wedding Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Structural Engineer
Engagement Date: December 23, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2011
Venue: Hunter’s Ridge, Princeton, IL
About Me: I’m a penny-pinching cat lady getting ready to marry the frugal dog lover of my dreams. Our ideal Saturday morning includes rummaging around people’s junk at garage and estate sales followed by an afternoon date to our favorite café, where we only eat sandwiches that include the word “salad.” We actually love it so much, it’s sort of our unofficial wedding theme: Look at our delicious finds, eat homemade ham salad, and celebrate our love…barndance style. When we’re not obsessing over our love-fest shindig, we’re planning themed parties for our best friends and jamming to '90s music.
January 29th, 2011 @ 1:30 pm by Mrs. Jam
We can all agree that a candy bar at a wedding is pretty darn sweet, right? Case in point (and an excuse to shove some more happy wedding inspiration in your faces today!):
Source, via Pinterest.
Hello, I love you and now I want a peach ring.
Anyhoodle, that’s out of our budget and in a big way, and trust me, because we checked with so many candy distributors and stores my sweet tooth aches just thinking about it. But we did find a way to give guests something extra sweet and delightfully delicious to nom on in between the dinner and all their drinkin’. What could it be, you ask? (If you guessed personalized M&Ms, you are sadly incorrect.)
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Ms. Cheetah, Los Angeles/Palm Springs
Age and Occupation: 31, Artist, Educator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, TV Finance
Engagement Date: April 2010
Wedding Date: March 2011
Venue: The Viceroy
About Me: I’m a silly, sassy lady with a compulsion to create. I love to sing and dance, despite the fact that I lack any talent doing either. I somehow manage to be messy and organized at the same time. I like to spend my days road tripping, watching '80s movies, reading true crime books, buying things on sale, sending postcards, playing board games, dining at food trucks, snuggling, and drinking ginger ale. I have a weak spot for all things sweet, especially Mr. Cheetah! I’m a Chicago girl and he’s a Nor Cal boy but we love living in the City of Angels. After 10 years as a couple we are planning a fun-filled semi-destination wedding in Palm Springs. Hope you enjoy the ride!
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Mrs. Jaguar, Sydney
Age and Occupation: 27, Primary School Teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, IT Consultant
Engagement Date: August 8, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2011
Venue: Curzon Hall
About Me: I'm an Australian girl who is a self-proclaimed nerd, loves all things stationery and would be lost without books, music and the internet. Mr. Jaguar and I have been together for the past eight years and he finally popped the question last August. Hurrah! We currently live in Sydney, Australia with our adorable cat who thinks he's a person. We're a couple who likes to multi-task: we've been planning a wedding abroad, a permanent move from London to Sydney, and preparing to build our own home all at the same time. Travelling makes me giddy...as does Mr. Jaguar, of course!
There’s something you should know about me: I’m not cosmetics girl. I was blessed with clear skin growing up and never bothered to learn how to wear it—meaning that twenty-six year old me has absolutely no idea where to even start with makeup. Imagine a child finger-painting on cardboard: well, that’s me attempting to make myself up.
Unfortunately my skin revolted in recent years—mostly thanks to PCOS & some crazy, crazy hormones. Getting acne when you’re well out of your teenage years is just plain mean. So what does all of that mean for me? Well, it means that my face is now in dire need of a whole lot of concealer. My morning regime is usually as far as covering up the spots & scars under my chin & neck, and then throwing some brown mascara on, in the hopes of making my fair eyelashes actually look like they have some length.
Suffice it to say that I was both exhilarated and terrified of having my makeup done for the wedding. Exhilarated because…makeup! Being prettified! Looking all smooth and made up on the wedding day, and showing off a more glam side of myself for the wedding. But terrified because…makeup! Looking like a clown! Unnatural! Not covering enough!
I had to invest in a professional.
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Feature Launched: October 8, 2008
About: The best DIY projects from Bees and brides around the web.
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Mrs. Eggs Benedict, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 29, Attorney
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Attorney
Engagement Date: December 5, 2009
Wedding Date: February 2011
Venue: IslandWood
About Me: I'm a Northwest girl who spends my time goofing around with Mr. Eggs Benedict and our dog, hiking, traveling, drinking wine and planning a wedding that will showcase the best of what the Pacific Northwest has to offer. I also love photography, beating Mr. Eggs Bene at Mario Kart, and watching the most ridiculous natural disaster flicks you can think of (seriously, how can you deny the awesomeness that is The Core or 2012?? That's right, you can't). We are planning our weekend wedding adventure at an environmental educational center, and I can't wait for the fun to begin!
I’ve talked before about how I want my hair to be on our wedding day—some sort of low chignon so that my hair is pulled back and out of my face all day. While I love when my hair is down, I know that for a day like our wedding I’m not going to want to have to deal with it at all once it’s done. This is still one of my favorite hair-spiration pictures:
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