Weddingbee Blog

Once I found myself affianced, I knew I needed to come up with a special way to pop the question. You know, to ask the girls in my life whether they would do me the honour of being in my bridal party!

I decided to get in touch with my crafty side. As a kid I used to be pretty creative. I would write monthly newsletters complete with fancy formatting and clip art and send them to my friends who had moved to other parts of the world. I would create nifty travel journals full of stories, postcards, mementos, and drawings. I loved being creative, but somehow that desire had fallen dormant while in university, as I just never had time for anything but studying. I figured that planning a wedding was the perfect excuse to reawaken that side of me.

The day after getting engaged, Mr. Gazelle and I were going to have dinner with Bro Gazelle and my sister-in-law. We planned to spill the good news in person, and I wanted to ask my sister-in-law to be my matron of honour at this time. We stopped in to Michaels to gather supplies for this question-popping project, except I had no clear idea of what it was that I wanted to do.

Have you ever wandered into Michaels with no clear plan?

With a guy who really has no interest in shopping at Michaels?

I ran up and down the aisles looking for something, hoping that the perfect thing would pop out at me. I knew I wanted card stock, but where on earth was it? I had grabbed a pack of blank cards and some gel pens and headed to the checkout. There to the left, one more row, was the card stock!

I grabbed a couple of purple sheets and a couple of silver sheets plus some sparkly alphabet stickers in addition to the gel pens. I could work with this!

I found a picture of Sister-in-Law T and me and affixed it to the back of the silver card stock, leaving a bit of a border. On the other side I glued a piece of purple card stock that was the same size as the photo and spelled out my question in sparkly letters.

SIL-T said yes, making her MOH-T! I did the same thing for my friend D when I asked her if she would be my BM.

Did you have a special way of asking your girls to be in your bridal party?