Mrs. Hippo, New York City/Dallas, TX
Age and Occupation: 34, Event Planner for a Non-Profit
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Finance IT
Engagement Date: August 8, 2009
Wedding Date: March 2011
Venue: Samuel Lynne Galleries and Marc Events
About Me: I’m a thirty-something bride living in New York City and planning a modern-ish wedding in Dallas, Texas. I love trashy reality television (Jersey Shore, anyone?), online shopping, Sunday brunch, Central Park, and random celebrity spottings on the streets of Manhattan. While I love NYC, I miss good Tex-Mex, my college friends, central A/C, and being in close proximity to a Target. I’m thrilled to finally be planning an event that’s not work-related and to be marrying my best friend in what I hope will be a unique and personal ceremony followed by a reception with plenty of good food, good drinks, and dancing (regardless if it’s good or not).
Even though my wedding is less than three weeks away, I hadn’t had a single dress fitting until last weekend. *gasp!* See, my dress arrived at the dress shop in Dallas in October just days after I returned to New York from a planning trip. And without a trip between October and February, the dress just sat at the shop waiting for me to come back. Of course I made sure to hit the dress shop when I was in D-town last weekend to get my dress altered and bustled. Wanna see?
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Mrs. Crepe, Queens, NY/Nashville, TN
Age and Occupation: 28, Jewelry Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Animation Director
Engagement Date: September 28, 2010
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: A church in downtown Nashville
About Me: I'm a native New Yorker who has always been a DIY kind of girl and loves tackling creative projects while getting the most out of a dollar. I'm marrying my college sweetheart and we love frequenting antique stores, exploring together, and playing with kittens. We're planning a fun, "us" wedding in his hometown---with as many handmade touches as we can pack into a day!
Yes, I did just make a rhyming title. Only for you, my friends.
Can I just say, I LOVED hearing about your favorites from the Zappos tryouts? It was fascinating to see what the crowd favorites were. Here is the breakdown that I promised:
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Mrs. Pain au Chocolat, Wilmington, DE
Age and Occupation: 29, Realtor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 34, Realtor
Engagement Date: November 21, 2009
Wedding Date: June 2011
Venue: Greenville Country Club
About Me: An ENFJ with an artistic streak who loves backgammon, sailing, graphic design, and sleeping in. Travel (near or far), good wine, and tasty food makes my heart sing. I'm a compulsive list-maker who lives to plan and organize. Mr. P and I have lived together for 4 years, all the while renovating our city townhome bit by bit. We're planning a whimsical, Anthropologie-inspired garden wedding in June 2011.
Knowing a DIY photo booth is in our future, it is important (for my sanity) to work out the details of the how as soon as possible. Our annual New Year’s party presented the perfect opportunity to set up a prototype booth. Of course, Mr. P and I had to get the thing working in a matter of days, but those are small details, right? Ha. Once it was up and running, our friends would test it out and find the flaws.
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Mrs. Magic, Chapel Hill, NC
Age and Occupation: 30, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Researcher
Engagement Date: December 1, 2009
Wedding Date: October 2011
Venue: Barn at Valhalla
About Me: I’m a tall drink of water (5’10”!) and a Southern bride with an enormous appetite for Mexican food, good deals, anything French, and all things wedding! By day I am lucky enough to work with individuals with autism and their families. By night, I’m even luckier to be able to spend time hanging out with awesome friends, crafting, shopping, thinking about exercising, and kicking it with Mr. Magic and our two cats. I tend to have sudden, intense cravings that will not be denied (seafood enchiladas! new jeans!) and I’m prone to being a disorganized mess of anxiety and stress. After waiting (and waiting!) to get engaged, I am finally planning the colorful, fun, fabulously awesome Fall wedding of our dreams. In an effort to share the fun and craziness that is wedding planning, I’m gonna blog about it for y’all---the good, the bad, and the pretty!
WOOHOO! Crazy things happen when you start planning a wedding…some are good, and some are bad. But today, a great thing happened!
The ladies over at Download & Print designed an invitation just for ME! I sent them an email and told them my colors (aubergine and burnt orange) and requested branches and floofy flowers, please. I know floofy flowers (think peonies) are not exactly fall, but I love them sooooooo much.
And then they made this just for me.
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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!
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with our relatively long engagement. On the one hand, the extra time has allowed us to carefully consider what’s most important to us for the wedding, and afforded us the luxury of planning when we want to (rather than feeling pressured to). We’ve also been able to save up our money, shop around for the best deals, and take our pick from the massive pool of available vendors.
On the other hand, a big repercussion of our now 22 month engagement is that it’s given me plenty of time to second guess our wedding-related decisions. I’ve gone through the whole spectrum of wedding “mood swings,” from feeling purely content to long periods of time where I’ve been consumed by boredom, wishing that the big day would just get here already. It’s during these times that I ended up getting lost amongst the pages of countless blogs and inspirational websites, which in turn led to me take a tumble down the wedding wishing well. Tell me, will some of my objects of desire be fulfilled at your wedding?
String lights. I have a sentimental attachment to these. On our first “real” date, Mr. Tartlet and I saw the movie Big Fish, and I fell in love with the twinkle of these lights as a direct result of this scene:
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Mrs. Cotton Candy, Riverside, CA
Age and Occupation: 29, Field Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 34, Process Server
Engagement Date: July 5, 2007
Wedding Date: June 2011
Venue: Riverside Art Museum
About Me: I’m a girl in love with her best friend planning a small mid-century modern inspired wedding that’s been a long time coming. I love all things design, sewing, flea markets, and a good book. I’ve been known to swoon over a well-designed chair and often find myself craving a new addition to my chair collection regardless of the lack square footage in our home. I’m Mexican American girl who hates all things spicy but loves her rowdy Mexican family and her Latin roots. My wedding muses may not be your typical wedding superstars, but with a lot of DIY, a dash of offbeat style, and lots of love and laughs, Mr. Cotton and I plan to create a day that is unmistakably us.
Ceremony decor is not high on our priority list. With our tiny decor budget we have to be strategic with our spending, and dropping a wad of cash to spruce up a space our guests will only be occupying for a short amount of time isn’t practical. I want to make sure that whatever we choose to create for our ceremony can be reused in our reception space and is easy for our coordinator to set up, break down, and move. Sounds like a tall order, right? Well, feast your eyes on these.
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Ms. Sloth, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 35, Account Manager and Fashion Blogger
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Design Admin
Engagement Date: December 25, 2009
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Bartram's Garden
About Me: I'm an internet junkie and music snob with a good eye for a bargain. I couldn't live without thrift store shopping, cheeseburgers, sushi, Coke Zero, websites devoted to silly photos of baby animals, Photoshop, and Mr. Sloth. Speaking of which, he and I are a pair of goofball homebody nerds who love our beagle (the most ridiculously adorable dog EVER) to an embarrassing degree. We're planning a low-key and intimate yet festive and quirky outdoor wedding with DIY details and deeply personal touches, and it's all taking place in the city where we fell in love and call home: Philadelphia.
I didn’t just spend my entire weekend in the tattoo artist’s chair. I did some major DIY as well!
My first project was so easy. If you remember way back to October, I posted about my idea to put a bright, patterned fabric square in the middle of each table. On the square, I’ll be putting our mismatched glass vases, some small candles, and our table numbers. Well, I made the squares! Wanna know how? Read my easy DIY instructions:
- Buy lots of pretty fabric (I got mine from Etsy).
- Let fabric sit in a box for four months while you keep putting off cutting and sewing squares due to fear of your sewing machine.
- Finally realize that if you use pinking shears, you don’t have to hem each and every square. Pat yourself on the back—you are a genius!
- Cut squares with pinking shears. Be lazy and don’t even measure them. Just eyeball it, and they will turn out fine, or at least good enough.
- Behold your giant pile of funky fabric squares:
And that’s that. Done and done. Check it off the list!
The next project was a bit more involved.
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Wedding Bios
Feature Launched: September 12, 2008
About: Wedding bios of real brides.
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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 got an email from my dad over the weekend asking me whether Mr. EB and I wanted to join him and my mom for a wine tasting event in a couple of weeks. This is not an abnormal type of email to receive from him, given his love of wine and the fun he has finding new wineries to add to his list of favorites. But at the very end of his email he made an off-hand comment saying, “Mrs. EB I see you’ve changed your name. Cool.”
My reaction to this email was: 1) Heck yes on the wine tasting! and 2) Huh? I haven’t done anything about changing my name yet. What on earth is he talking about?
So I asked him that and he said that in Gmail (which is the email program that we both use) when he typed my name into the address bar it came up as FirstName NewLastName, even though he could see that my email address was still FirstName.OldLastName@Gmail.com.
I have to admit, this one had me stumped.
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Mrs. Giraffe, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 23, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Music Student Teacher
Engagement Date: October 23, 2008
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Trinity Lutheran Church & Idlewild Country Club
About Me: Coming from the suburbs of the Windy City, you'll often find me with my foot in my mouth while laughing for no reason or telling bad knock knock jokes. I've been crafty for as long as I can remember, and will DIY something twice over before I have someone do it for me. I'm a semi-awkward, typeface obsessed, design junkie and have been know to break out my dance moves for no reason as well as try my best to be ridiculous at all times. My love of pop culture, wordplay, and graph paper almost rivals my love of Mr. Giraffe (who is just the bee's knees). After a 2.5 year engagement, we're planning a modern-in-disguise traditional wedding, and cannot wait!
Here’s the thing, hive, I was totally anti-wedding website. I thought they were nice, but I didn’t think people really needed them (unless you’re having a destination wedding)…I was seriously against them. I felt they were really just time (and maybe a little cash) that I didn’t want to spend.
There. End of story.
Except…Except the Ostriches have one. And when she told us about hers, then I had to have one.
Gerbera commented on Miss O’s post that she used Yola to create her wedding site. Gerbera was even nice enough to share her site with me (thanks!). It was like a light bulb going off above my head. See, I all read have a paid Yola account and 1 site through them. Funny story, if you have a (paid) account with them, you can make up to 25 sites. I also never used the credit they give you for a domain name, so I got that for free too!
Whoo!
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Mrs. Elephant, Dallas, TX
Age and Occupation: 27, Financial Operations Analyst
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, IT Student/Store Manager
Engagement Date: March 29, 2009
Wedding Date: April 2011
Venue: The Tribute Golf Club
About Me: I'm a Philly native creating roots deep in the heart of Texas. I might be a little obsessed capturing those Kodak moments of anything and everything (mainly on vacations). I've become more of a gamer thanks to Mr. Elephant, who I met online and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with. We are planning a wedding based on our favorite colors, blue and green, with a travel theme for 150 of our closest friends and family. Hopefully our long (2-year) engagement won't kill me!
BONK! POW! WHAMM!
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Oh, the visual sound effects of the classic Batman comic and the 1960s TV show starring Adam West. Mr. E grew up reading comic books, and has recently renewed that interest. With this collection slowly beginning to take up space in our guest room (we really need a second bookcase), I thought it would be fun to add in a couple of superhero elements into our wedding day.
I’ve been thinking about a garter for a while and when I found out one of Mr. E’s favorite superheroes was Batman, I quickly ordered this set.
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Mrs. Panther, Atlanta GA/Westport CT
Age and Occupation: 24, Web Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Music Recording Engineer
Engagement Date: March 13, 2010
Wedding Date: July 2011
Venue: The Inn at Longshore
About Me: I'm a total goofball who goes through life at a breakneck pace, trying not to knock anything over. I tend to fall in love with everything I encounter, but more than anything, I love my two little kitties, Bela and Josie, and my big kitty, Mr. Panther! As a wannabe crafter, I'm still waiting for my artistic talents to emerge. (Any day now, really.) In the meantime, I spend my days eating anything put in front of me, buying every pair of shoes I see and absorbing wedding inspiration from every inch of my surroundings. Mr. Panther and I are hardcore New Englanders planning Connecticut nuptials from our new home in the Dirty South, and can't wait to mix our newfound love of classic Southern charm with some modern city touches.
Yesterday, hive, the heavens parted, the angels sang, the sun shone … Mr. Panther finally got a wedding suit! Hallelujah!
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Let me back up a moment to explain how we got here. As I explained in my last suit-related post, the store where I got my gown said they could order a slim-fit Hugo Boss tux and give us a discount on it. Unfortunately, the tux they had in their catalog (the “Stars/Glamour“) was slightly different from the Hugo Boss tux that Mr. Panther had tried on and loved (the “Aikin/Hollo“). The manager said she could try to get the Aikin/Hollo and that she’d call us after she’d spoken to Hugo Boss. For the next month, I heard nothing from her.
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Mrs. Hippo, New York City/Dallas, TX
Age and Occupation: 34, Event Planner for a Non-Profit
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Finance IT
Engagement Date: August 8, 2009
Wedding Date: March 2011
Venue: Samuel Lynne Galleries and Marc Events
About Me: I’m a thirty-something bride living in New York City and planning a modern-ish wedding in Dallas, Texas. I love trashy reality television (Jersey Shore, anyone?), online shopping, Sunday brunch, Central Park, and random celebrity spottings on the streets of Manhattan. While I love NYC, I miss good Tex-Mex, my college friends, central A/C, and being in close proximity to a Target. I’m thrilled to finally be planning an event that’s not work-related and to be marrying my best friend in what I hope will be a unique and personal ceremony followed by a reception with plenty of good food, good drinks, and dancing (regardless if it’s good or not).
Dear Hive,
I promise I haven’t completely fallen off the face of the earth! It’s true what they say about the final stretch being busy, but instead of giving you excuses, I figured I’d give you…pictures! I just got back from a trip to Dallas to do a couple of final wedding things, and y’all…this wedding is so happening! This weekend made it all so real, and I am so excited!
The highlight of the weekend was by far the bachelorette party. Now, I had zero idea what my girls had in store for me, but they completely rocked it out! We started the evening by meeting up at House Party E’s, where there was a huge spread of tasty snacks. The girls gifted me a pink boa and “Bride to Be” sash, and the festivities officially began.
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| How is it that all my friends are gorgeous??!? |
The first surprise of the evening… a shower! And not just any shower, a lingerie shower. Bring it!
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Beehive
Feature Launched: Aug 31, 2006
About: A forum for readers to post questions and get feedback from the hive, aka the weddingbee community.
March 1st, 2011 @ 5:11 pm by Beehive
It’s part 2 of our Weddingbee Valentine’s Day Card Swap! See part 1 here. Check out these great handmade cards that the hive made!
Bakerella (our wonderful swap organizer!) - The little flower pot on the card is plantable and should flower a couple weeks after watering. The brownie is homemade (recipe is included in the package) from the cookbook Baked, and was one of Oprah’s Favourite Things in 2005. She also made the little chocolate Bee sucker!
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