2011 February | Weddingbee

Mrs. Buttons, Clearwater, FL Age and Occupation: 24, "Working on it" Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Financial Services Engagement Date: June 13, 2009 Wedding Date: May 2010 Venue: Carlouel Yacht Club About Me: I'm a self proclaimed perfectionist and a professional nomad (seriously, I've lived in TX, WI, MI, FL, NC, and now VA!). I love wine, cooking, curling up with a good book (nerd alert!), spoiling the furbaby, and of course, the wonderful Mr. Buttons! We are planning a lighthearted and whimsical wedding (with a good deal of DIY projects) in Clearwater, Florida, but from a distance of 800 miles away! We are looking forward to sharing our day with our family and friends, and most importantly, starting our lives together as husband and wife!

Lovely Tonight: The Photo Booth

February 1st, 2011 @ 8:33 am by Mrs. Buttons

There was another installation involved in our cocktail hour that I haven’t mentioned yet: the photo booth!

In the weeks before the wedding, I started to realize that some of the projects I had intended to complete were just not going to happen. I had a list about a mile long of things I wanted to accomplish, but realistically I wouldn’t be able to pull them all off. So, what did I do?

I made a list.

I took out a piece of paper and listed each and every wedding-related task that I still needed to complete. Then, I re-wrote it in order of importance, with the most important tasks at the top…all the way down to the least pertinent items. High on my list was completing the wish tree guest book and painting the mailbox that served as our card box. Our photo booth landed about 3/4 of the way down the list. I really wanted to have one, but I came to the realization that if it didn’t get set up it wouldn’t be the end of the world. Our guests would probably have thought nothing of it if a photo booth wasn’t set up somewhere at our venue…it would just be something that I would miss. So…it sat on the list…and wasn’t completed.

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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.

Let Them Eat…Styrofoam?

February 1st, 2011 @ 8:15 am by Mrs. Biscuit

In September, I decided to brave the swarms of North Central West Virginia brides and attend my venue’s semi-annual bridal show. I went with the intention of finding a vendor for my cake. It took me awhile to get to the cakes, though. Why? Those sneaky bridal-show folks gave us brides a little booklet we had to get signed by EVERY vendor. If we had it all filled out, we turned it in and were eligible for drawings. Since I’m always up for free things, I engaged in many an awkward conversation with competitors of vendors I had already booked. Yes, I have no shame.