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Our cake came from Sumi’s Oven. We had four square rotating layers. It had buttercream frosting. I was over the top with how the cake looked, especially since I changed my mind on the design at the last minute. When Sumi dropped off our rehearsal dinner cake the night before the wedding, I handed her two spools of that gold ribbon to put around the cake bases. I really liked the swirl pattern in the ribbon.
I had to go back and make sure I hadn’t posted about this already, because I’ve been meaning to for a while. We finally got Mr. Cannon a suit a few weeks ago! It was an arduous task, not only because we were having a hard time finding what we were looking for in the right size, but also because Cherry Bomb was very on edge throughout our search. She doesn’t usually nap, but on that particular day, she had gotten up early and was a complete wreck by the time we were shopping. There was a tantrum in nearly every store in the mall until I lulled her into a nap while bouncing to the dance music in Express. While I was glad she was finally asleep instead of yelling, it left me carrying around twenty-some pounds of toddler dead-weight for the rest of the afternoon since I hadn’t bothered to bring in her stroller. In other words, buying this suit was not my favorite shopping trip.
Luckily, by the time Cherry Bomb passed out, we had found what we were going to get, and it was just a matter of going back and buying it. We were looking for a grey suit, pink shirt and black tie. Mr. Cannon got his shirt and tie at Express, and got his suit at Macy’s. The suit was on sale for a good price, and we are very happy with it. The pants definitely need some hemming and the jacket could use some alterations, but I think it’s a pretty good look!
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How can we resist Tammie11’s Meant to “Bee” DIY honey favors?
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Of course, I’m talking about the Post-Wedding Chop! I’ve had long hair my whole life…well, that’s not entirely true. I chopped it off to my shoulders when I graduated from college. I thought it would make me look more grown up and, therefore, more like a graduate student. Instead, it just flipped out all funky at the ends and never did what I wanted it to do. I simply couldn’t pull it off. I also had shorter hair when I was little, but I’m pretty sure I could pull anything off then.
The bottom line is that I never saw myself hopping on the PWC bandwagon because I loved my hair long.
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In general, I don’t think I’m a very emotional person. My default is pretty happy, and my departures from this status quo are usually fairly brief and relatively infrequent. As a result, any considerable display of emotion is a marked departure from my norm. Which is exactly why the day after the wedding has been far more difficult than I ever could have imagined.
When discussing the emotions swirling around weddings, you generally discuss whether or not you’ll cry during the walk down the aisle, or during the vows, or during the toasts. No one discusses whether you’ll cry on the day after the wedding. And most definitely no one discusses whether you’ll cry more than a decent amount on the day after the wedding. But I’m here to tell you that it can happen, because it did to the Snow Cones.
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I’m a bit ashamed to admit that I am a silk-flower snob. While I have seen plenty of weddings with exquisite silk-flower arrangements where half the guests didn’t even know they were fake, I simply hate silk flowers. This is not solely a wedding hatred—Mama Ticket LOVES silk flowers. They are all over the house in cute little vases and baskets adding pops of color everywhere. It’s not so much that I think they are all ugly. I just don’t like the feel of them and I hate that they seem to be magnets for dust. When I pick up a bouquet of flowers, I want to take a giant whiff and breathe in that glorious fresh-flower smell. Call me crazy, but even on a tight budget I knew I needed real flowers for the wedding.
But I certainly was not expecting the gloriousness that is our florist. WC set us up and, while I had heard good things about her, nothing could have prepared me for the awesomeness that was about to ensue.
I had a modest budget for flowers (and by modest I mean WC cringed in despair when she saw our numbers), and even that was set just for our personals. So when I walked into her shop and we started talking flowers, I figured we would just talk bouquets, boutonnieres, and a couple corsages and call it a day. But I was very very wrong. I went in with what I considered to be pretty solid numbers of what things were going to cost (WC had warned me in advance this florist was not the cheapest but certainly did great work), and I was comfortable with paying as much for her services. She nearly cut my numbers in half! Even working with my one and only flower demand: GERBERA DAISIES!
Image via The Knot / Photographed by Hinkley Photo / Bouquet by The Flowersmiths, Plymouth
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For all of the fuzzy haze I was surrounded in on the wedding day, our wedding ceremony stands out in my mind in perfect clarity.
I remember standing at the entrance to our church, thinking that it had a much longer aisle than I remembered and suddenly getting nervous.
I remember watching my first bridesmaid head off down the aisle at the speed of light and wondering whether Father Christopher would be cranky about it.
I saw all these things online, including on Weddingbee, about brides who had designed their own save the dates. There were the picture-booth STDs, the refrigerator-magnet STDs, the personal-photo STDs. And then there were STDs that were some lovely combination of the three.
I thought, “I could do that! I work 12-hour shifts sitting in front of a computer. I can knock those out with my occasional free time in a couple of shifts!” So I headed over to Vistaprint to see what I could come up with.
I quickly learned the easier thing to do was to design something myself about the right size on my beloved Microsoft Word and upload it as my own design. Making it the size of a postcard was waaaaay cheaper than paying $7.99 for every 10 invites of a different size.
Wedding Planning Tip #5: If you have a large guest list, don’t order anything that only comes in sets of 10, except party favors.
I got to work designing the invitations. I used that first color that we came up with. The one that’s on the thank you wreath. I felt pretty proud of my design. I was feeling confident that I could easily design our wedding invitations as well since this had been so painless.
Personal image: Original STD design
We’ll be ringing in 2012 with our newest bee getting married on New Year’s Eve! Join me in welcoming Miss Sunhat to the hive!
Miss Sunhat, Dyer, IN
Age & Occupation: 32, Tax Accountant
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 35, Landscape Foreman
Engagement Date: September 25, 2010
Wedding Date: December 2011
Venues: St. Andrew the Apostle, Fiesta Palace
About Me: I’m a Midwest girl who grew up in the country and now works in the big city! I love cooking, entertaining, reading (addicted to my Kindle) and going to the movies. I don’t miss an episode of Hoarders and I start cleaning every time I watch! My profession doesn’t call for much creativity so wedding planning has been a great outlet. Mr. Sunhat and I met online three years ago, cheer for rival MLB teams and share a home with our dog, Wrigley. We are planning a traditional, Polish, Catholic wedding with lots of DIY elements and some fun surprises. I’m so excited to be married on New Year’s Eve and we can’t wait to ring in the new year as husband and wife!
It was almost the end of the reception. My feet were KILLING me.
I never planned to be a two-shoe gal. If I’m rocking heels, I’ll always wear them—or go barefoot—until the bitter, blistered end. Luckily our DOC had planned ahead, and she let me borrow some flip flops for the last 30 minutes of the party!
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A bridal shower, that is! Several posts back, I told you what little I knew about the bridal shower Sister Parasol was planning for me. You may also remember that I said I was feeling nervous about my shower. To be perfectly honest, a lot of my fears were completely irrational. For instance, I was worried that no one would come, and I would feel like a total loser. Yeah, I have no idea where that fear came from because I have the most awesome family and friends ever. For real. They made me feel so incredibly loved, and I am immensely grateful to have each and every one of them in my life.
Here’s a peek at the day’s festivities:
Personal Photo
With not much on the social calendar this past weekend, Mr. High Wire and I decided to knock out our wedding programs.
I had come across this link ages ago, and had it stored in my little special area of wedding projects I wanted to complete before the wedding. While the weather should be significantly cooler by the end of September, we still wanted to have these fans handy in case the temps are still somewhat sweltering.
Here’s what you’ll need:
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The guys had quite a bit of time to kill the morning of the wedding while I got ready. They enjoyed it, too, and got a lot of great group shots!
Photo by Meredith Perdue & Graham Terhune
What handsome fellas!
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Once the rings make their way through the crowd and after the wedding party processes in, we’re finally ready to begin. Since the Baconator’s uncle is marrying us, we won’t have a homily, but he’ll do a welcome and maybe a opening prayer. We are sending him Union by Robert Fulghum in case he wants to include it. I love the way that it is so frank about what marriage might be, but the Baconator wants his uncle to have the freedom to put something of his own together for the ceremony.
Union by Robert Fulghum
You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes, to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making commitments in an informal way. All of those conversations that were held in a car, or over a meal, or during long walks - all those conversations that began with, “When we’re married,” and continued with “I will” and “you will” and “we will” - all those late night talks that included “someday” and “somehow” and “maybe” - and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding. The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, “You know all those things that we’ve promised, and hoped, and dreamed - well, I meant it all, every word.” Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this moment you have been many things to one another - acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, even teacher, for you have learned much from one another these past few years. Shortly you shall say a few words that will take you across a threshold of life, and things between you will never quite be the same. For after today you shall say to the world - This is my husband. This is my wife.
After the welcome-slash-introduction-slash-description of marriage is over, one of our usherettes will be coming forward to read Corinthians.
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On Saturday morning, we woke up a little fuzzy from our stag and hen dos, but were soooooo very excited to skip over to Captain Toes’ and MOH Sweet Pea’s house for our waffle bar rehearsal brunch!
We arrived to the smells of bacon frying and waffles being cooked on their irons! Yummmmmm!
Magic Alie, MOH Sweet Pea and my other amazing friends had created such a wonderful set-up for our brunching and rehearsing! If you look closely, you can see how they used our save the dates and other wedding related invites in the decor. So clever!
They had a mimosa and bloody mary bar…
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