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We have a great giveaway today! Shabby Apple is an online dress boutique with dresses for all body types. Shabby Apple is a company for women by women, and part of their proceeds go to a charity for women! In April, they’ll launch their very own bridesmaid line, and to celebrate, they’re giving away their Penelope & Odysseus dress in your choice of Pink Sapphire, Kunzite or Green Tourmaline, as well as their White Rabbit’s Timekeeper necklace to one lucky Weddingbee reader!
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I’m going to start out disclaimer-style and let you all now that I’m 100% aware of how ridiculous this post is. I mean, seriously, I am out of control here. After you finish reading this, we don’t have to mention it ever again. (Please don’t mention it ever again?)
You see…I have dish envy.
Yes, it’s true. I had a wonderfully amazing shower recently (that I still have to share with you!) and I received so many awesome gifts. I was totally overwhelmed with generosity and I can’t believe that people spent so much money on things for Lil’ Ol’ Me…oh yeah, and the Mister, too.
Mr. G and I were lucky enough to receive all the dishes we asked for. Due to Mr. G having 8 Giraffes in his immediate family, and me having 4, we wanted enough dishes so that we could have everyone over at the same time.
Long story short, we registered for four 16 piece place settings and received them all. That’s enough for 16 people! Woah.
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Because I didn’t want anyone to see my dress before the wedding, I didn’t post any pictures of it here. However, now that the wedding is over, I wanted to interrupt my recaps to do a post about my dress!
I am really really proud of my dress and the fact that I found it. That’s perhaps a weird way to feel about your dress, but there you go. I had initially been a bit worried about dress shopping because it was really necessary for me to find an inexpensive dress. This was partly due to finances and partly due to the fact that for me, personally, I couldn’t justify spending a major amount on a dress.
I’ve written about my accidental dress finding experience before, but to recap, I found my ideal dress by accident a full two months before I even planned to start looking. Why was it ideal?
It had cap sleeves and was lacy:
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What was your relationship with your in-laws like before you got married? What is it like now? What were specific things that lead to an improvement/degradation of your relationship with your in-laws? Do you have any tips for people struggling with relationships with their in-laws?
When we first started dating, I really wanted my in-laws to like me. They were welcoming and nice from the beginning, but they show love differently than my family does. My family constantly shows affection and from the beginning had said multiple times how much they loved Mr. Starfish. Because I was used to an overly affectionate family, and Mr. Starfish’s is different, I wasn’t sure how they felt. As our relationship went on I learned that Mr. S’s family just worked different than mine. They show their love in different ways.
This happened long before marriage, but I think my best advice regarding in-laws is to understand that everyone is different. I’ve been very fortunate to have supportive, caring, loving in-laws who have been a wonderful part of my life. It just took me some time to understand that people show these things in different ways.
I feel that wedding planning only helped our relationship. My MIL and I started emailing a lot during the planning phase and have continued to do so after marriage. I think the engagement period strengthened our relationship.
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terrbear401’s custom cake topper stole the show!
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Get it? DecorUM? Because British folks are so proper? O-kayyyyyy…
Quick side story about England and decorum: Living in North Carolina, I am really not used to mass transportation and prefer the personal space of my car. Mass transit makes me nervous, and I usually do something stupid while I’m on a bus, train, plane, metro, etc. One time I was in London on a bus with BM Bunny and another friend of ours. The bus stopped, and I let go of the pole I was holding on to briefly. Then the bus abruptly started and I went flying down the aisle, and the only way to stop myself was to grab onto something, and what I grabbed onto happened to be an older woman’s boob. #lackofdecorum
Anyway, I know you are dying to know how we decorated for this Britsh shower. Luckily, I have a coworker who lived in England for a while. She donated most of the decor, and it was awesome. She had books, records, stuffed animals, and British cars…see?
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Two weekends ago, my closest girlfriends whisked me away to Vegas for some girl time. We did the usual wine tasting, shopping, visiting Hoover Dam, and of course, catching a Cirque De Soleil show.
Mr. French Toast, you can stop reading here now.
Whew. Now that he’s outta here, did you really believe we did the above? (I’m sure he doesn’t either). Because the TSA certainly didn’t find a pecker pops while going through my BM’s luggage for nothing!
That incident spiked one the most fun and memorable trips I’ve ever had. We started off Friday night at Venetian’s TAO nightclub in Vegas. The name has a special significance to me so the BM Maggie specifically reserved a table for the 12 of us.
I love dessert. Given the choice between a gourmet dinner and dessert, my choice would be dessert every time. That being said, it may surprise you to know that our wedding cake ranks pretty low on our list of wedding priorities. Don’t get me wrong—I adore a beautiful wedding cake, but unfortunately our budget is stretched to its max and there is no room for us to go over budget on our cake.
The title of this post is a direct quote from one of the owners at Laney’s where we bought our wedding bands. I had no idea what I wanted at first, but when we looked at their selection, I found two very dainty bands that looked great with my ring.
Do you remember when the car sites first came out with the “Build Your Own” sites? I used to LOVE them and let me tell you, I built some pretty fierce automobiles in my time. I literally could spend an hour at a site building out all the different features and colors to price cars that I’d never buy. From time to time, I do the same thing with travel sites planning made up trips to Vegas, Cabo and miscellaneous cities in Europe. It’s like online test driving!
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| Oooh! Look, I’m building a convertible! |
When I came across Minted, I was immediately hooked. I could test drive invitations! This was totally my kind of site. I could play with wording, change fonts and colors, then I could save them for later. Soon I learned that Wedding Paper Divas let me do the same thing, and I was slowly sucked into spending hours each week building potential invitations. Then I realized something: I still had over a year before the wedding and at least 6 months before I even needed to order. It was time to step away from the computer until at least the end of February.
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I’ll admit it: before that night in Germany when Mr. Carousel proposed, I never pictured myself wearing an engagement ring. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure if I wanted one.
Before you start thinking I’m so above it all, that all changed about five minutes after the proposal when Mr. Carousel asked me, “Shall we pick a ring together?” and I answered “Yes—tomorrow!” Suddenly I could hardly wait to have a ring on my finger. (My transformation into a wedding-obsessed bride-to-be was starting…)
During our crazy drive to Amsterdam to get ourselves an engagement ring, Mr. Carousel and I discussed my ring preferences. All I knew was that I wanted something elegant with a diamond, but I reassured Mr. Carousel that there would be no need to break the bank! We agreed that we would start by looking for something equal to half or less of Mr. Carousel’s monthly salary.
We started at the Diamond Museum (neither of us knew anything about diamonds, so we figured it was a good place to begin), and that’s where we found the perfect ring: elegant, classy, sweet, beautiful, and…modest.
Please excuse the clumsiness of the pics. We’re totally amateurs.
Now that you’ve harvested your bottles for the wine-bottle centerpieces, we’re ready for the second step in winemaking: crushing/de-stemming, AKA cutting the bottles.
Let me begin by saying there are many ways to do this, ranging from “so simple I must be missing something” to crazy dangerous…like an alcohol-soaked string that is then lit on fire.
Like I said. Crazy. Dangerous. (source)
Ticker tape-style confetti.
I’ve become obsessed with having a confetti toss as Sparks and I walk back down the aisle. It would definitely have to be biodegradable tissue confetti. In our wedding colors. No big deal. They make a lot of that stuff, right? Well, until I can find some, feast your eyes on some confetti porn. Sigh.
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When Mr. S and I hired a month-of coordinator, our goal was to get someone reliable and dependable to execute the details of the wedding so that we could relax and have a good time. We were paying for peace of mind.
Unfortunately, recent events have shown me that we might have made a mistake. We might not get that peace of mind. And guys? I don’t know what to do.
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