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I know that there’s always the traditional option for unity candles. This one is particularly pretty and fancy:
But what fun is that? At this point, Mr. Crepe is saying to me, “Everything you do has to be quirky.” Well, deal with it. I’m sure you knew that’s what you’re signing up for. And this thing is $40, which I guess isn’t a ton of money but if we can save a bit AND be quirky, all the better, right?
I came across this cute little rustic candle holder on Etsy: Read more…
I recently paid a visit to my beloved dress, eager to see it on and try to find a veil that would help to make me look and feel more bridal. I knew I wanted to wear a veil, but nothing had captured my heart so far. Everything I looked at seemed…OK, and everything that I had tried on while dress shopping had seemed…OK. Nothing special, really. But, I knew a veil was in my future, so the hunt began.
Our opening prayer sung, we found ourselves standing awkwardly far apart amidst our friends and loved ones. The good baby juju hung heavy in the air and our officiant, Stephanie, continued:
Tabitha and Cynthia were at my wedding and blessed my commitment and love to my husband. They were both there in spirit when my daughter was born, and I swear Cynthia was so excited, it was like she just had a baby. Cynthia has a love for babies.
I have had the privilege of knowing Tabitha since 2001, when we met in San Francisco. Of course our paths would cross, we were both in the fashion industry, and adored anything creative. Sometimes we were like little girls playing dress up. Literally. Once for a project of mine during graduate school, I dressed Tabitha up and took Polaroids of her. We were giggling with tears running down our faces all day. In moments like that, I knew that Tabitha would be a dear friend for life.
It is also a moment that reminds me of why Cynthia and Tabitha are together. I have known Cynthia since the beginning of their relationship, and I know that they share in that fun, loving, child-like manner. You can see their playfulness and loving intention.
This is what a marriage is.
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To enter to win the 75 Sketchy Bloom Save the Dates, head on over to Momental Designs’ website and browse their beautiful wedding collection. Then come back here and let us know what your favorite invitation collection is. For a second chance to win, follow Weddingbee on Twitter and retweet this contest (if you’re already a follower, simply retweet by clicking here)! Then come back here and let us know that you followed/retweeted. You have until Friday, May 6, 2011 at 11:59 PM PST to enter. Good luck!
And don’t forget to follow along with what Kristy is up to on Twitter and on her blog, Rice Ink!
This is Bridesmaid A on her wedding day in 2009. Isn’t she beautiful?
Photo by Bridesmaid J
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Fabric Bridal Bouquet by rachelmarie220
Yes y’all, I’m talking about what the groom/groomsmen are going to wear. I’ll be honest, at first, this was something I didn’t care about at all. Mr. Biscuit could wear tails, a tuxedo, a suit, boxers and a cowboy hat as far as I cared.
But then, I saw this really pretty wedding on Snippet & Ink and fell in love with the use of teacups and the adorable outfit of the groom:
“It has to be fun. Whimsy and wonder are important. Keeping things light makes it easier for people to look at them.” - Heather Kent
Vitrocolor via yoliouiya.com
Like many a bride, I, too, have a penchant for pretty bottles. This is my favorite inspiration photo, right up here.
Whimsical, but not too vintagey. And a whimsical wedding? That was what me and Mr. O were all about for our wedding day. 
And then one day, in my early days of my wedding planning, Gilt had a sale that was too good to pass up— and gave me THE inspiration for our reception table decor:
I’ve meant to write parts of this down for a while now because I want to remember it when I’m old and gray and the details have gotten foggy in my head. Mr. Funnel Cake and I had a very lucky way of finding one another, you see…because we did not grow up in the same neighbourhood or even on the same continent.
Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, USA, at some point I found myself finishing up a visual communication design degree. Thanks to the wonderful contacts my university’s design professors had for studying abroad, about 10 out of the 22 designers in our small department had the opportunity to spend their last autumn quarter in 2007 studying in Brazil, South Korea, Switzerland, the Netherlands, or Germany. I was deciding between Korea, which I had no opposition to choosing, and Zürich. Ultimately I decided Zürich was a “mecca of awesome design,” and I set my heart on Switzerland. Or maybe I just enjoyed my Swiss professor’s eyebrows that much? We’ll never know.
After threatening the rest of my class with the fact that I would hurt them if they tried to take the only Zürich spot from me, I was enrolled at the local design school, ZHdk. Luckily enough, though, my Swiss design professor let me know of a design internship ($$!), which I applied for and accepted. So off I went to Swiss land for the first time without a single language class in preparation. We all know the Swiss speak four languages and have their own versions at that, and only planning to spend three months there…I figured I didn’t need to bother and learn anything. Can you see me eating my words some time later?
At the same time, my classmate Laura was planning on attending a design school in Berlin. Laura is important in this story. Without Laura, there would be no Mr. Funnel Cake in my life.
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I wrote the first half of this post when I was about one month in to my boot camp.
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Losing weight has been this all-consuming cloud that’s weighing over my life right now. It’s not necessarily a bad thing but I think about all the people I know that constantly count calories and are tortured by food and how annoying that is from an outsider’s perspective. And now, I just hate what I’ve become. (Yes, those same people are also skinny and fit and beautiful. Sooooo, cost/benefit.)
We decided that based on my basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories I expend while at rest in a day…so say, if I laid in bed all day for one day) plus the amount of activity I have in a typical day (I’m pretty sedentary), I burn about 1800 calories. This is if I don’t work out. So, from that, I set a goal for myself to consume 1200 calories per day, with one cheat day of 1800 calories per week.
I love counting calories; it’s the best “diet” I’ve ever been on. I (sort of) eat whatever I want…I just have to make better choices and really watch my portion sizes. It’s time consuming (calculating meals that will fit into my daily diet, logging everything in my Lose It calorie counter) but I haven’t really felt deprived and I’ve been going strong for a month living this way. Results are happening (obviously) and combined with rigorous workouts 4 times a week, it’s happening quite rapidly.
Sounds so easy right? Count calories. Work out. Lose weight.
Not so much. The psychology behind it all is really what’s torturing me through this whole process. Right now, I’m the person I loathe. Weekdays are easy—in my little controlled environment of my house where I choose and cook what we eat. The weekends though. The weekends.
A friend calls, want’s to go to dinner. I ask where we’re going. I look at the menu. It’s all devastating—Charcuterie. Cheese Boards. Flat breads. Hello? Nary a freakin’ salad in the house? My blood boils. I complain to my husband that the menu is ridiculous. I don’t want to go. I’d rather stay home.
And then I step back, horrified of what I’ve become. Salami is MY LIFE! Go eat some salami. Who cares if you don’t lose any weight this week.
I EFFING CARE. I worked out 4 days a week this week. I slaved over making sure that I stuck to 1200 calories a day. Sure, I’ve “allowed” myself a cheat day, but I really don’t feel like having a cheat day if it means that I can lose 2 pounds this week instead of one.
Then I think about my life before dieting. I didn’t even CARE that I was fat. I still don’t. But now—there’s just too much effort being put into this journey to just blow it off. Hours and hours of meal planning, working out…and let’s be honest…it’s EXPENSIVE. Nutrition classes. Trainer. Gas to get there.
Low calories in, dedication to rigorous 1 hour workouts 5 days a week. Down 6 pounds. Losing weight is easy.
I might lose all my friends. I hate going out to eat. All I can talk about is calories and what I’ve eaten today and how many calories I have left to consume in the day. I beat myself up over what goes in my mouth when I’m not in my house. Losing weight is hard.
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This was probably my most intense DIY yet but because I had already decided to do it long before any other amount of planning took place, I started super early. An acquaintance of mine, who is also a jewelry designer, had embroidered her table numbers and said this one thing that stuck in my head—if there are details that are important to you, it’s absolutely possible to do them as long as you start early. I kept her advice in mind and was able to get most of it done at this point (about 3 weeks before the wedding).
My suggestion to any of you who have a really ambitious project that seems almost impossible to tackle is: cut corners where you can without sacrificing the project and then work on it a bit every week. For me, it was about an hour a week for these numbers, 10 to 30 minutes at a time. Basically the length of a TV show or until I didn’t feel like doing it anymore.
If you’re familiar with hand sewing, it actually goes by quite quickly! I didn’t use anything I didn’t learn in 8th grade home ec class.
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Catch up on the entire After “I Do” series here! And if you have a burning question you’d like to see discussed, submit it here!
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What do you call your mother in law? Is it the same thing you called her before you were married, or did you make a switch?
Before we were married I avoided calling my MIL anything because I wasn’t sure what to call her. I would just stare in her general direction and hope that she would look up so that we could talk. Mature, I know. But, now that we are married (and even before we were married if my stare trick didn’t work) I call her by her first name. It’s how she introduced herself to me, and avoiding calling her anything (especially when I need to call her on the phone) just doesn’t work.
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One of the best wedding cards we received was actually made from our own invitation (hence why I would think it was the best? How narcissistic).
But really, I think it was a really clever way of re-purposing our invite!
And since I just so happen to have my cousin’s wedding to attend, I thought I’d do something similar with her invitation. Read more…
So as I’ve mentioned a few times before, there will, in fact, be children at our wedding. We could go over tons of reasons why and why not to have children at a wedding. I don’t think there’s a right or wrong answer or decision there. We decided to let them be there because I simply hated the idea that someone we love would miss our wedding because they couldn’t find a babysitter. So there it is. Children will be there.
That doesn’t mean I like the idea of bored kids running around, making noise at inappropriate times, or photobombing us. I do like the idea of kids dancing, having fun, and not being bored so their parents have to leave early. So, dear hive, what is the best way to keep children from getting bored? Give them something to do! This was the one project Mr. Lox has wanted since we first started wedding planning. And since he really hasn’t asked for much throughout this process, he was always destined to get his way here. So I started dreaming up ideas for activities for the children.
And we came up with this…
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