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If you’re anything like me, you were excited to find Project Runway’s new season starting up a few weeks ago. Bridesmaid Rifle and MOH Bombshell share my love for the show, and especially for mentor Tim Gunn.
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I used that picture because Tim is doing his, “I’m concerned” face, and I’m pretty sure that’s the one he’d be giving me if he were looking over my wedding plans about now.
“Miss Cannon,” he would say, “I really think this could be amazing, but you don’t have much time left.” Then he would point to my closet full of half completed projects and say, “This concerns me.” I would give him a half worried, half hopeful look, then he would give me a squeeze on the shoulder and an encouraging smile. “Make it work!”
So, in an attempt to take advice from my favorite man (other than Mr. Cannon, of course), I have been trying to make it work the past few weeks by having Rifle over on Thursday nights for wedding crafting, beer, snacks, and of course, watching the new season of Project Runway.
Before I get to the very end of the night, I wanted to post just a few of our little details. You can see a lot of our details in previous posts, but here are some that I didn’t include already.
My dress on my DIY hanger.
Hive, I have a confession. I’m crafty, but my intentions are not pure. When I first discovered Weddingbee, the blogger in me was dying to become a part. I wanted to be a bee blogger so bad.
Knowing how Weddingbee is so full of DIY projects, I figured I’d have to do a couple and get them on my blog so when I applied I would be a more appealing candidate. The benefit of these first couple of projects to my actual wedding was very very secondary. Whew! I feel good for getting that out.
I saw, on the lovely world wide web, lots o’ DIY projects of handmade things for the bride and groom to hold while posing for pictures. Some say “thank you” and then are used for special-order thank you cards for after the wedding.
I loved this idea and thought I could incorporate it into something fun as one of my first DIY projects. I wanted to make a banner for our STDs (hehe, still funny even though bee after bee has immaturity moments with this).
Bunting seemed like the easiest thing to do, so I went with it. A trip to Michaels secured all the supplies. And a large dining room table courtesy of Mema Kettle supplied the work area. I went to Michaels to pick up supplies for this and my other DIY project (a “thank you” wreath).
When I got back to the house, I set to work. It was a lot of steps and, because I was working on both projects at once, it took all day. Plus I ran out of ribbon and had to take FNIL Tiny (’cause she’s tiny) with me to Wal-Mart to find more. But FSIL Hon helped out tremendously. When I told her I was taking pictures in hopes of blogging about it in the future, she refused to let more than her hand be photographed, but I will get more shots the next time she’s back stateside.
That’s FNIL Tiny. She’s waaaay high up in the tree in front of Mema Kettle and Kettle Dad’s house. She’s very helpful and she’s going to make a great junior bridesmaid!
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When our invitations arrived from the printer and we finally had all the components to put them together, it pained me not to show the hive. But at the same time, Mr. Funnel Cake was flipping out a lil bit to get the Brazilian and Swiss invites out… so we slapped these Swiss babies together and sent the suckers out one day after getting them.
Now, with all invites out in the mail, it’s time to show these off to the hive!
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Going dress shopping with Mama Ticket was quite the experience. I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you that it was in fact the most painful wedding task we have conquered to date. That being said, it did not start out this way. We did things a little unconventionally with the Ticket wedding. Mama Ticket insisted that FMIL Ticket could pick her dress first and then she would find one to match. (Mama Ticket wanted to wait as long as possible to find a dress while trying to lose weight, and she didn’t want FMIL to have to wait on her.) I was perfectly fine with this arrangement.
And thus FMIL Ticket went out and found (in my opinion) a very beautiful and perfect-for-the-wedding dress. She will be wearing this beauty (minus the one awkward sleeve):
Image via Wedding Shoppe Inc. / Dress by Jasmine Bridal
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Hello there, Hive! I have missed posting here regularly, but I have been popping around the boards just to make sure I don’t miss anything. I wanted to jump in with a post about a Jewish tradition that I haven’t yet talked about here, and one that I think many people will like.
Every year on the Jewish calendar, is a relatively unknown holiday called “Tu B’Av,” or the 15th of the Hebrew month Av. It occurs in the summertime, usually in August. This year, it falls on the eve of the 14th and until sundown on the 15th of August (and the dates almost never line up like this!). Historically, the holiday was known as a day of matchmaking, when women would dress all in white, and dance outside the city walls, and choose who they wanted to marry. It has been said that “There were no better (i.e. happier) days for the people of Israel than the Fifteenth of Av…since on these days the daughters of Israel/Jerusalem go out dressed in white and dance in the vineyards. What were they saying: Young man, consider whom you choose (to be your wife).”
Today, it something like Valentine’s Day in the Jewish community—a day to celebrate love and relationships, and the magnitude of choosing your partner, and may include dancing and singing together into the night.
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After the first dance, everyone sat down to eat. I hope you all like pictures of food, because that’s basically all you’re gonna get in this post!
Our bartender poured with such a heavy hand. Not surprisingly, there were no complaints!
Our menu.
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After Papa Hot Wings gave his opening speech, we ate a little and got dancing. Papa Hot Wings and I danced to “Gracie” by Ben Folds. He literally picked this song because of the first two lines.
“You can’t fool me, I saw you when you came out
You got your momma’s taste but you got my mouth”
My mom loved these two lines as well. They think it really represents what happened to me. I like my chic style like Mama. Papa can be a slob. And I am pretty radical in my thinking and debate politics with my family a lot like Papa does. Mama isn’t into the debating so much.
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I first off want to apologize for being MIA on the blogging front this week. But I promise, promise, promise you it was for a good reason! I would never let the hive hang without there being a huge, life-changing, reason behind the neglect. This week I was doing a little of this:
Image via HMS Moving Services Inc.
and a little of this:
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I have become one of those women. You know the ones—they cry when they watch the dog-food commercial on TV, they cry when they hear their wedding song, they cry when the jeweller’s wife tells them they are going to make a beautiful bride, they cry when it rains and their Ugg boots get wet, and they cry when they don’t cut the onions quite straight. (OK, so that last one I’m going to blame on the onions.)
How on earth am I going to make it through our wedding day?
Why, after all these years of never crying, am I all of a sudden so emotional? Is it a sign of getting old? Is it possible that all those years of not crying are all of a sudden bubbling over when insignificant events happen, like Dumbledore dying or getting to the end of Marley & Me and knowing what was going to happen and “skipping over” that part?
So, in an effort to not be a bubbling mess on our wedding day and avoid a number of pictures with me and my ugly-cry face, I have decided to make a conscious effort to embrace the emotion in me and not turn up with an ugly-cry face a la Dawson:
Image via Slyde’s Blog
With all of my organization, I thought we were beyond prepared for our wedding. Everything was packed, labeled and ready to go. The one thing that I forgot was probably one of the most important things of the night our marriage license.
Lynn’s 3rd photographer Audrey was a lifesaver and took my keys to go back to our apartment to get it. I later found out that she had to make two trips since no one listened to me when I said she would have to go through the garage because the front door was double locked.
I gave Audrey a huge hug when she got back
With the marriage license in hand, we headed to the pub to have it signed by Revered Rosset.
Bees, I went bridesmaid dress shopping this weekend, and I learned things. Lots of things. Like organza is not the same as chiffon. Beading = expensive. Proper lining is important.
I also learned that I can’t take these people anywhere:
This is Goober and Wrigley-T. They’re crazy for fashion.
Thank you, David’s Bridal, your patience knows no bounds.
Alternatively titled, “Things I Stole From Other Bees”
Things have been busy over here at studio Seal, hive. We’ve reached double digits and kicked into DIY high gear! I mentioned a couple posts ago that I am navigating my way through wedding planning/blogging time management in favor of spending more time with my groom-to-be, and I feel like I’m doing a pretty dandy job so far.
Anyhow, onto the good stuffs.
First up is our lace-wrapped votive candles. I borrowed this project from the ever-so-lovely Miss Macarons and I couldn’t be happier with the results. Not only was it easy as pie and quick to boot, it was affordable too! I followed Miss Macs tutorial to the “T” and purchased my candles from QuickCandles and my lace trim off of eBay. Between the candles and the lace, I spent about $100 for 144 candles (about five per table).
I think the hint of gold in the lace will tie together nicely with our table numbers.
While my makeup was getting finished up, obviously other things were happening too. Vendors were showing up on the scene and doing their thing… most notably my fantastic photographers. The snuck out of the room with my dress and me calling after them “Just don’t get it wet!” You see, there was a 70% chance of severe thunderstorms on our wedding day. So while you may think that is a random declaration, I assure you it made sense at the time.
They laughed and went off to get fantastic pictures like these.
All pictures by Chad Lippiatt Photo.
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