Mrs. Candy Apple, Princeton Junction, NJ/ Seattle, WA
Age and Occupation: 26, Project Editor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Attorney
Engagement Date: May 9, 2010
Wedding Date: August 2011
Venue: St. Joseph's Parish, Seattle Tennis Club
About Me: I am a Pacific Northwesterner, born and bred. I have lived in many cities---Santa Clara, Durham (England); Florence; Boston; Princeton Junction---but my heart will always be nestled up near the Cascades and Olympics, which is why we are holding our wedding there. I am a bookworm and a History nerd: I love that my life consists of books, books, and more books, since I work in Publishing! Recently, all waking time not consumed by work and my daily commute has been overtaken by wedding planning. Well, that, and watching Premier-League soccer. There is nothing I love more than a good Tana French mystery, traveling to new places, Anthropologie shopping sprees, Iittala dishware, Kate Spade shoes, impeccable typefaces (think: Archer), and a nice English ale (hellooo, Old Speckled Hen!). Oh, and did I mention my obsession with wedding blogs? Yeah, there’s that too. Join Mr. Candy Apple and me as we prep for our wedding, and, more importantly, our marriage!
I have always loved stationery and, well, correspondence in general. I loved signing up for pen pals in school and always wrote thank you cards, birthday cards, letters, etc. to family members and friends. In my mind, nothing can compare to a good old-fashioned letter (even if my handwriting sucks). So, the stationery aspects of our wedding hold a special little nook in my heart. Who knows—maybe that’s why they’re proving so difficult/annoying for me? More on that later, I suppose.
Anyway, since I have become a bride-to-be, I catch myself starting to over-analyze the teensy, weensy things that normal people (i.e., guests) will never in a million years notice. Let’s just call it the bridal crazies. So, naturally, one of the first wedding purchases I made was a customized return-address stamp. Damn you, Martha Stewart, for planting the idea in my brain (but just kidding, I love you—please don’t stop posting “good things”).
{From Martha Stewart Weddings}
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Mrs. Seal, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 25, Personal Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Sales and Support Specialist
Engagement Date: December 12, 2009
Wedding Date: November 2011
Venue: Sts Peter and Paul Church/The Bently Reserve
About Me: I am a goofy, wannabe crafty, well-intentioned Renaissance Woman (OK, perhaps "aimless wanderer" is a more aptly suited term for me, but hopefully you get the point)—basically I dabble in just about everything and pride myself in such. Without warning, I occasionally breakout into soulful improvised songs and interpretive dances and there's just no stopping me! As so many others before me, planning our wedding has unearthed a deep, intense passion for all things bridal and I secretly fear the day it will come to an end. Mr. Seal and I are quite the pair and life with him by my side is extremely rewarding—I am so thankful to have found him. Together we are planning a black-tie San Francisco affair for 250—light on the stuffiness and with lots of extra Seal-y flair.
Warning: For the purpose of telling a story, this particular blog contains a bunch of pictures of me. I personally found it pretty unnerving to see my face over ten times on a single page, so I thought I’d save you the shock and give you all a head’s up.
My “weight-loss journey” has been a long one. I wasn’t always overweight. Though I was over nine pounds when I was born, as a child I was pretty skinny (or at least average if nothing else).
Little newborn me
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Feature Launched: April 10, 2009
About: A collection of inspirational wedding pictures from readers and bees.
Could malpacki have looked more happy on her wedding day?
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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.
If you’ve been following along, you’ve seen the harvest, crush, and the fermentation. To complete the final stages, our wine bottles will be aged in their cases waiting for our wedding day, where they’ll make their bottling debut. Are you ready to see the fruits of our labor??
Just a tease through the looking glass…
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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!
We are getting married at the end of October, near Halloween, and Halloween in Chapel Hill is a big freakin’ deal. The town of Chapel Hill has been promoting a “Homegrown Halloween” and trying to tone it down from the 80,000 folks who attended in years past. Since Chapel Hill only has about 55,000 people in it, that’s a lot of extra people running around in costumes on Franklin Street.
See? (Image via Dr. Tom’s HipHappy Times)
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Mrs. Hyena, College Station, TX
Age and Occupation: 23, Marketing Specialist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Aerospace Engineering Grad Student
Engagement Date: January 8, 2010
Wedding Date: May 2011
Venue: Downtown 202
About Me: I'm a Texas girl who met my future hubby in high school, then headed up to Oklahoma for a college education (BOOMER SOONER!) before moving back to the Lone Star State to be with him. I love reading and recycling, Photoshop and reality TV, making lame jokes and then laughing at them, quoting movies, and Mr. Hyena most of all. I'm perpetually early and I like to get things accomplished. When my cat meows at me, I meow back. We're planning a laid-back, unintentionally DIY wedding with a cocktail-party vibe, and can't wait to celebrate our nuptials with our nearest and dearest!
I recently had a major meltdown. We were trying to figure out who we needed to invite to the rehearsal dinner. While we’d love to invite everyone coming from out of town, about three-fourths of our guests are coming from at least two hours away, and we unfortunately can’t accommodate everyone. The rehearsal dinner was not the reason for the meltdown, but rather the breaking point.
My bridesmaids are all really far away, and I feel like I’m doing the bulk of planning on my own. I think I’m doing all right so far, and everyone keeps commenting on how on top of things I am. But because I’m alone in planning today, I’m assuming—incorrectly—that I’ll be alone the day of. We’re not going to have a day-of coordinator other than the one provided at the church. For the reception, we’re on our own.
People! I’m only going to say this once! (Image via Up North Live)
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Mrs. Knitting, Toronto
Age and Occupation: 24, Student Recruitment Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Neuroscience PhD Candidate
Engagement Date: October 2009
Wedding Date: December 2010
Venue: University of Toronto Faculty Club
About Me: I'm a pearl wearing, etiquette book reading Toronto girl who loves cooking and baking, museums, charm bracelets, and collecting books on Jackie Kennedy (a lot). I've been known to spend Sunday mornings at the antique market, Wednesday evenings at sister sushi dinners, and any bit of spare time reading. After six and a half years of many late night walks, watching DVDs together in bed, travelling to places like New York, and Tobermory, doing Sudokus together on the couch, lots of Indian food, the occasional yoga class, moving in together and so much more, Mr. Knitting and I are planning a cozy Christmasy (it's a word!), vintage wedding in Toronto complete with many DIY projects (eek!) and lots of help from our amazing group of family and friends.
As we put the finishing touches on all of the wedding details, the guests began to arrive.
My flower girls added some last minute desserts to our beautiful table:
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Mrs. Seal, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 25, Personal Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Sales and Support Specialist
Engagement Date: December 12, 2009
Wedding Date: November 2011
Venue: Sts Peter and Paul Church/The Bently Reserve
About Me: I am a goofy, wannabe crafty, well-intentioned Renaissance Woman (OK, perhaps "aimless wanderer" is a more aptly suited term for me, but hopefully you get the point)—basically I dabble in just about everything and pride myself in such. Without warning, I occasionally breakout into soulful improvised songs and interpretive dances and there's just no stopping me! As so many others before me, planning our wedding has unearthed a deep, intense passion for all things bridal and I secretly fear the day it will come to an end. Mr. Seal and I are quite the pair and life with him by my side is extremely rewarding—I am so thankful to have found him. Together we are planning a black-tie San Francisco affair for 250—light on the stuffiness and with lots of extra Seal-y flair.
When it came time to decide what kind of ceremony we would have, the decision was not without thought. For a short breath we considered doing a “room flip” and having the reception and ceremony at the same locale, but it seemed like too much work, and extra work means extra room for error! (Extra room for error means extra anxiety for Miss Seal.) Plus, Mr. S and I were both baptized Catholic, and the traditional side of me really wanted to have a big church wedding like my parents had.
My parents’ San Francisco wedding:
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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!
Once we had made the decision to forgo traditional favours and donate to a charity instead, the question arose: how would we let guests know this? I didn’t want to clutter the tables with loads of different pieces of information—there’s already going to be enough on each one, what with cutlery, dinner-sets, glassware, centrepieces, and table numbers/menus taking up space!
Then, it hit me: what if I incorporated the message into something else that would already be on each table? I’ve been trying to avoid using traditional folded name-tags on our wedding tables, only because I’ve seen them at every wedding I’ve ever been to—and I’ve been searching for alternatives ever since. Remember when I’d decided to do scripted doily place cards to sit over the plates at the table? That didn’t work out, since our venue doesn’t have plates set up on the tables until food is served. Instead, I thought back to how the tables would look on the day, as you can see in this {slightly blurry} picture I took during a recent visit.
If you squint, you can see the favours for this particular wedding—each guest had a boxed candle and a jar of green rock candies.
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Miss Carousel, Dusseldorf, Germany/Garda, Italy
Age and Occupation: 29, International Product Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Front End Developer
Engagement Date: May 29, 2010
Wedding Date: September 2011
Venue: I’m an American-Italian girl living in Germany with my Belgian fiancé, planning a wedding in Italy. I can’t wait to show our guests the wonderful Lake Garda, Verona, and want our wedding to be a fun filled, charming, day in the life of “La dolce vita.” Mr. C and I love spending time together, and have added wedding related activities to our cooking nights, dance lessons, and road trips. We love sampling restaurants, could listen to Sinatra all day, and are just a tad geeky and into technology. As we want all of our passions to be part of our marriage, what better way to start than by incorporating them in our wedding day?
In my previous post I explained the reasons why we decided to create a wedding wedsite and how reaching a successful final result helped us feel more confident in our potential as a team.
Step 1: Privacy settings
It is very important to decide how much information you want to make public on the web. Personal details on you and your FI (dates, ages, wedding date, locations) could easily be used by the wrong people to gain access to your identity, accounts and home. For this reason Mr. Caro and I have decided to install password protection to the site and to make it non indexed by search engines. This means that the site can only be accessed via a password and that it will never turn up on a search result list from a search engine.
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Step 2: Time availability
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Mrs. Cinnamon Bun, Calgary, Alberta
Age and Occupation: 26, Stage Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Theatre Technician
Engagement Date: June 22, 2010
Wedding Date: June 2011
Venue: Calgary Opera Centre
About Me: I'm a life-long crafter and bookworm living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. Some of my loves include Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes, knitting, opera, musicals, Etsy, baking, and of course, Mr. Cinnamon Buns. We're keeping our wedding close to home---the venue isn't very far from our house, and we live within walking distance of 6 bridal salons. I'm using the wedding as an excuse to try out every craft project I possibly can, with the endless help and support of my fiance.
We didn’t spend much time looking in stores around here for Cinnamon Buns’ suit. Being from a province where everyone brags about our beef and where it seems like 80% of restaurants call themselves steak houses, well, let’s just say that there are a lot of ‘Big & Tall’ suit shops around. Cinnamon Buns is not big, and both of us would be laughed out of any shop that has ‘tall’ in the name. So we were looking for a nice black suit (with vest!) that would come in the right size, with a price we could afford.
Enter Indochino. Indochino is a website that sells custom-made suits! You put in your measurements, pick your suit, click through the customizing steps and BOOM. Suit tailored to you delivered to your door in a few weeks. Three weeks, in our case! We ordered their “tailor’s kit” first, to get a feel for the suit fabrics. With the cheap suit prices, I was expecting cheap, unacceptable, shiny fabric, but they were really nice good quality wool. We picked this one, the Black Day At The Office suit:
Photo (and suit) from Indochino
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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.
Last week, our DOC was getting started on our timeline, so she had some questions. And one of those was, are we having a final send off? Now, let me tell you something here. We are getting pretty close to the one month mark. So, like the good type-A bride I am, there are very few questions I can’t answer. In fact, I’ve got details, ideas, and other minutia coming out of my ears. And yet, this one stumped me. So I asked Mr. Lox… are we?
Let’s pause for a moment to remember some details about our wedding. We are having an afternoon affair that will begin and end in broad daylight. So sparkler send-offs are right out. Also, our venue has outlawed anything with glitter or confetti. Basically, the only thing we’re allowed to throw around are real flower petals. That was never an option for us since it gets kind of pricey and we are still on a budget.
Okay, back to the story at hand. Now, early in our wedding planning I found the hive. And you guys taught me about little flags and ribbon wands.
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Mrs. Ostrich, San Francisco/Hawaii
Age and Occupation: 30, Fashion Buyer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 38, Copywriter
Engagement Date: October 4, 2009
Wedding Date: April 2011
Venue: Sweet ceremony by the sea and sunset celebration on the North Shore of Hawaii
About Me: Born in the city of angels and residing in the city by the bay, I’m a fearless fashion buyer by day, a passionate blog author by night and a dreamy bride-to-be in between. I thank my lucky stars to live in such a stunning city that gives me gifts like organic honey lavender ice cream, movie nights in the park, tucked away beaches, legendary record stores, '80s dance parties, awesome sports teams, stellar flea markets, and vintage bookshops. Oh, and I love to dance! We always find every excuse to escape to the beach, and decided a little seaside wedding in Hawaii is our idea of bliss. Full of our favorite people, music, food and sparkly lights, this is one sunset celebration we will always remember.
4-6 weeks.
After breathlessly pleading with the Honolulu post office to reroute our wedding boxes, they said “Of course!” (they really are the nicest people ever), typed in our gabillion tracking numbers in their system, made a confused scrunchy face and said:
“You mailed your boxes parcel post??? That can take up to 4-6 weeks. According to our system, your boxes are still in San Francisco.”
UMMMMM. WHAAAAAAAAAAT?
Due to the rising fuel costs, our Parcel Post shipped boxes (the slowest, cheapest shipping option in the land) would take anywhere from 4-6 weeks to arrive to Hawaii…not 2-3 weeks as promised by my shipping dude. If the shipping container filled up quick = 4 weeks. If it didn’t fill up quick = 6 weeks.
And our boxes were…after almost 2 weeks…still in my city?!?!?!
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Mrs. Earrings, Fresno, CA/ Nelson, New Zealand
Age and Occupation: 20, Student, Wannabe Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 19, Photography Student
Engagement Date: February 14, 2010
Wedding Date: January 2011
Venue: Gardens of the World
About Me: I'm a girl from down under who grew up in Indonesia and I'm marrying a California boy. I'm addicted to all things sweet, have never met a chocolate silk pie than can get the better of me, and have dreams of one day being a fulltime novelist. I go weak in the knees for lace, tea cups, and a beautifully crafted sentence. When I get excited about something (whether it is historical linguistics or the Beatles) I tend to go overboard in research, and planning this wedding is no different. Mr. Earrings is my high school sweetheart, my best friend, and somehow we combine all our quirks into one big happy mess.
Welcome to you all as we gather to share in the marriage of Miss E and Mr E.
Once we were all ready up front, my uncle smoothly went straight into the ceremony. It was a hot, hot, hot day. I hadn’t intended to hold my parasol during the ceremony, but in the end, when I wasn’t holding my reading or my vows, I was very grateful to use it to protect my pasty white shoulders! The bridesmaids found them essential, too.
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