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I’m pleased to report that the entire wedding planning process has gone pretty smoothly. Minus a few stressful moments, I feel like things have fallen into place nicely, and usually without too much labor on anyone’s part. We are well on our way to creating the event we’ve always wanted, and that, in and of itself, is a victory. Despite all of our successes, one recent failure has me licking my bridal wounds. I feel stupid complaining that one tiny detail isn’t going our way whenever we’ve nailed down a great photographer, a perfect dress, an awesome bridal party, dashing men’s attire, and the list goes on an on. Nevertheless, hard as I try, I cannot shake this one source of heartache. The culprit? Sparklers.
Simply stated, sparklers were persona non grata in my home growing up. Parents Snow Cone agreed that giving a flaming stick to a child of any age was probably not the best decision in the history of parenting.
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It’s wedding week in the Cotton Candy house! As I type, brother CC and SIL CC are sitting out in our living room cranking out pom poms for our giant pom wreath, I just got the second phone call from our DJ asking for our music list, and my hands are covered in Gocco ink from our favors. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for us but we are sooo ready to get this show on the road and finally be able to call each other husband and wife.
Projects are quickly being completed, and the one project I was so excited to see finished also happened to be the one I had absolutely no control over. Remember way back when I shared with you my love of chairs? Well, I finally figured out how to bring that love into our day. I happened to have two matching Louis-style chairs in my collection, so we decided to have them reupholstered in coordinating fabrics, and voila! Fancy shmancy bride and groom chairs. Our upholsterer delivered the chairs, and they look beautiful.
To finish of the look I threw together matching glitter banners, and our chairs are complete:
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I was half excited and half dreading the next incarnation of the bridesmaids’-dress-shopping trip: excitement about spending time with my ladies and dread over dealing with sales associates. I didn’t really get into it in my first dress post and I don’t want to get into it now, but let’s just say I wasn’t too pleased with some of the service we received the first time out. Since I knew we’d be hitting the same places, I was a bit concerned.
Machine Gun, Rifle, and Shotgun met up at my house around noon. (Everyone was late, but I kind of expected it. I know my ladies!) Cherry Bomb and Mr. Cannon went to Mr. Cannon’s parents’ house for a BBQ, leaving me to a girls’ day out. First, the ladies and I went to the same locally owned bridal shop I went to with Pistol the week before. Once again, it wasn’t too impressive. All the dresses were in the same size (coincidentally, a size that none of my girls wore), and it was difficult to navigate the tiny closet all the short bridesmaids’ dresses were crammed into. We left after a few lackluster attempts at trying things on.
Next, we went to David’s and had a really awesome experience. Everyone was in a silly mood and our consultant just let us do our own thing. It was a ton of fun. First, we wandered around and the girls all picked a bunch of dresses. Once they started trying them on, we reached some favorites relatively quickly. I ran back and forth getting different sizes and, before too long, we were ready to buy the dresses. I decided to buy them as a bridesmaid present, and everyone seemed pretty excited about that. (I told them it would probably mean crappy gifts at the wedding, but they said they preferred to get the dresses for free since they weren’t too enthusiastic about bridal-party gifts anyway.) Works for me if it works for them!
Sexy ladies
A while back I discussed wanting to find a way to incorporate my love of quotes into our wedding. And, after much discussion, the Ponies have decided on a wedding quote!
What is a wedding quote, you wonder? Well, it is a quote that we will incorporate into as many of our wedding details as possible without overdoing it (maybe. hopefully. sometimes I just don’t know when to stop.). I am thinking our wedding quote will be included on our programs, displayed in gobo form at the reception, similar to the one below:
We might stick our quote a few other places here and there throughout the wedding as well, we’ll just have to see where it looks good.
Now, you are probably wondering which quote we chose to represent the ultimate day of our love (aka the Pony wedding or a really bad romance novel—you decide).
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I think I’ve mentioned it once before, but I’m an early riser. I usually get up early to walk Gypsy, but even without her around (like vacations) I still tend to wake up early. I try to go back to sleep, but it hardly ever works. I feel bad for Mr. E who is the typical night owl—early mornings are not for him.
This was no different for the morning of the wedding. I felt like I had a decent night before the wedding sleep (in bed around 11 and up around 4), but MOH Navy and BM Philly were still sleeping so I didn’t want to get up and turn on the TV or anything. I texted Mama E’s phone and surprisingly got a response from my dad. I think I get my early riser tendency from him. 
We texted back and forth for a little bit until I decided to walk over to their hotel. We’ll just say that the knocked out Mama E was surprised to see me climb into bed with them.
As strange as it may seem, laying there talking with my parents was the perfect way to start the wedding day.
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I always had a definite vision when it came to our centerpieces: simple, incorporating white and yellow flowers with something gray, relatively inexpensive, and with a vintage/modern look and feel. But in the beginning, I seemed to be all over the place when it came to actual execution. Starting just a few weeks after we got engaged, I began gathering my glass-vessel collection from area thrift stores—a motley collection of decanters, non-vasey vases, glasses. I already had several jars and bottles on hand that could be used as well. By early February, I’d pulled together enough for about four tables, with six more to go. The original plan was three vessels per table with two smaller vessels to hold candles, or five vessels for flowers if I ultimately decided to omit candles. (I’m still on the fence about candles, by the way.)
But it soon became apparent to me that I didn’t adore the all-clear-glass look. It seemed bland, with not enough color interest to satisfy me. I started collecting photos that I was drawn to, to see if I could sniff out a pattern.
Image via Style Me Pretty / Photos by Hawes Photography and Design
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Hive, I have oodles and mountains of exciting news for you. First and foremost…
I got MARRIED. (Insert screams and maniacal laughter that can be heard ’round the world.)
Our June 11 wedding was beautiful and stressful and chilly (albeit rain-free) and already feels like it was a thousand years ago. Believe everyone when they tell you the day will fly by, but don’t believe them when they tell you how sad you’ll be when it’s over. Between you and me, here’s a little secret: I am SO FREAKING GLAD it’s over. So is my new husband, our families, friends, pets, everyone we’ve ever met, etc.
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If you ask a group of married women whether their husbands helped with their wedding plans, chances are you will get a good number of “no” and “not really” responses. Nearly every married woman I’ve spoken to has reassured me that their husbands didn’t really help in the planning process. So we’re not all that different. Weddings are typically the bride’s domain, right?
Comic by Julia Wertz
Before I even thought about a dream wedding cake, I knew one thing.
There just had to be a vintage wedding cake topper on top.
I envy those brides who use their grandmothers’ cake toppers. You can just imagine your grandma many, many years earlier in your very shoes: a fresh new bride with her one honey on her super-special day—your parents and you just a twinkle in her eye.
Well, I didn’t necessarily have the luxury of using Grandmom Sweet Cream’s cake topper…I don’t even think that she had one in her 1940s wedding…or maybe she did. My super-sweet seasoned grandmom (I have forever promised that I would never tell anyone her age) can’t seem to remember. But she did let me know if she does have one it’s mine!
But I do have access to adopting someone else’s grandmom’s topper…maybe not someone I know…just someone…out there. You may or may not remember that I’m a fool for “antiques.”
Just look at the batch of exquisite, charming bride & groom figures that could grace the top of one of the most special sweets that may ever hit your spot.
Image via Wedding Cake Pictures
Cuppy cakes! I’ve heard stories about kids (and adults) stealing cupcakes off of the table before the bride and groom have a chance to “cut the cake.” Thankfully our guests were quite restrained. I’m not sure how they managed to do it; look at that cupcake goodness.
Rhienn at Look Cupcake! did a fabulous (and yummy) job.
*All photos by Amore Studios unless otherwise noted.
Last Thursday, Sparks and I got to participate in what has been (by FAR) the most exciting wedding planning activity yet. After months of planning, imagining, and decision making, we finally got to see our table and centerpiece mock-ups.
As you might remember, Sparks and I weren’t too big on flowers. We like flowers, we just wanted to go in a more unique direction for our décor. So we eventually decided to use just 2 types of flowers for the reception:
…oh wait:
Please don’t ruin the awesome surprises we have in store for you!
This is kind of a weird post to write, since some of you know that I blogged extensively about my wedding here on Weddingbee. I also ravenously consumed wedding-related content before (and after) my wedding, and obviously weddings are still a part of my daily life as a Weddingbee editor. But sometimes when I look back at the Dude’s and my (admittedly pretty nontraditional) wedding, I regret how much I bought into the Wedding Industrial Complex.
Photo by The Nichols
The one and only Captain, according to the Macarons, will be making an appearance at our reception. No, we’re not inviting him personally, but he will be there in spirit.
I told y’all about the sweet deal my photographer gave us and how he surprised us about a month before the wedding offering to through a photobooth in for free. Some of the best pics of the whole night were taken in this photobooth.
We chose to stick with a simple bright yellow backdrop and between our photographer and us, we provided guests with lots of props: glasses, hats, feather boas, foam fingers, chalkboard signs, burritos, 
and lots more.
When I set up my bridesmaids’-dress meeting, I figured we’d all go together and get dresses knocked out. But the weekend I had set aside for it didn’t work for my sisters, so Bombshell, Pistol, my mom, and I all ended up going the week before I planned on going with everyone else. Bombshell requested we check out a dress shop near my parents’ house, so I drove out there to check it out.
The shop was small but not crowded. All the bridesmaids’ dresses were in the back of the store. Bombshell started digging through dresses and trying on various styles. “What’s that?” you say. “Trying on all kinds of styles?” Yes, my friend—although I haven’t discussed it yet, I decided to let each girl pick whatever dress she wanted as long as it was short and the correct color. Each girl has their own color to fit in with the rainbow theme. Bombshell is green, Pistol is orange, Rifle is yellow, Shotgun is purple, and Machine Gun is blue. So, I was mostly there to approve the color and tell everyone they looked fabulous.
Anyway, Bombshell dug through dresses and Pistol, Ma, and I talked. Pistol didn’t do a lot of looking at this store because they didn’t have much to try on in her size. We had already planned to go a couple other places, so we weren’t too worried about it. Bombshell tried on all kinds of things. Some looked good, some not so much. Just for kicks, my mom picked out a dress the shade of green that I liked for her to try on so we could see how the color looked on her. Honestly, none of us was all that impressed with it on the hanger. But when she came out of the dressing room in it, we were all blown away. It looked great! My mom made Pistol go out to the car to get heels for her to try with it. Even better!
And, since the dress she tried on was in her size and the right color and fit perfectly, she bought it and took it home right then and there. She wants to sew in some spaghetti straps, but I already mentioned she’s an awesome seamstress, so we’re not worried about that. So, one down, four to go (five including Cherry Bomb).
This picture does not do it justice. It looks killer in person (and hopefully will when a pro photographer captures it).
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