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Hi… remember me? Yep, Miss Sparkler is alive. Hard to believe, I know. I’m sure you thought I’d been swept away into a black hole of wedding insanity since I’ve been horribly MIA these past few days.
Ahhhh! Sparkler black hole! (Space image via ZME Science)
I guess (in a way) I really did get swept away into wedding planning. All of a sudden, things have to be done NOW. As in, “Maybe we should have done this yesterday.” It’s pretty stressful, but I’m surviving it because of one amazing decision I made a looooong time ago. Back when wedding planning consisted of matching pretty colors together in my mind. What decision could be big enough that it’s single-handedly keeping me from going crazy?
Hi hive! Today we’re retweeting your favorite real weddings out there on the web! Follow @weddingbee on Twitter and tweet us a link to your all-time favorite wedding, along with a link to it and the hashtag #realwedding and we’ll retweet everyone’s faves throughout the day!
The only stipulation is that you can’t choose your own wedding as your favorite. 
Looking forward to checking out all your favorite weddings!
Remember my save-the-date hankies? Well, this is how I decided to send them! I bought the assorted-card-stock package at Hobby Lobby, which was really convenient.
Image via Hobby Lobby
*I wrote this post before the wedding, but held off on publishing it until now.*
Shopping for wedding dresses and realizing I had just found THE DRESS
When we last chatted about my wedding dress I mentioned that I had the teeny tiny problem that it didn’t zip up. Somehow my chest had inflated 2 inches in the last few months when I wasn’t looking? After that I watched what I ate, hit my bikini boot camp classes in the rain when no one else (save for one other lady) showed up, and it was paying off. A few pounds lost and half an inch from my chest. But it was too late. I tried my dress on again a month away from the wedding and the zipper was still a good 1.5 inches away at the top.
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All-Inclusion Invitation Suites
“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
I always knew I wanted to do photo save the dates. I liked receiving these types in the past and hanging them on my fridge.
Because we didn’t get our engagement pictures taken until May, it was already pushing the six-month mark by the time we settled on a design, finalized the guest list, and sent them on their way. I wish I had planned a little better and was able to spend more time on adding special touches to these, but I had to let it go. They still turned out great! Wanna see???
In case you missed The First Reveal…
When I got the call that my dress had arrived (2 months early) I was so excited I couldn’t wait to go pick it up. When I got to the store they handed me the dress in a bag and sent me to try it on. I was finally going to get to see MY dress in white. As I carefully removed the dress from the bag I could feel tears welling up in my eyes and I fought to hold them back. I hated it! I did NOT like this dress in white. It had lost all of its vintage appeal and it did not look good on me. I stepped out of the dressing room fighting back tears and Mama Ticket excitedly exclaimed, “It’s beautiful!” The seamstress noted that I appeared to fit fine in the dress and needed nothing altered and with that I stepped back into the dressing room and changed.
As we were walking out of the store with my dress I lost it.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Hi all! It’s been a while since our last #weddingadvice marathon day on Twitter! Our last few, #weddingmistake, #weddingdayadvice and #marriageadvice were a hit! We’ll do it again tomorrow—but we don’t have a topic yet!
Let us know what kind of advice you’d like to hear, and we’ll choose a topic to run tomorrow, with advice from YOU—all our hive members on Twitter! And, as always, follow @weddingbee
Congratulations to our winner, LisaSm!
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Minted recently launched their line of unique business cards and to celebrate, they’re giving away 25 business cards to everyone, just for registering on their site via this link! If you’re a bride, these cards are perfect for giving out your contact info to your vendors. Minted’s wish is to enable small and side businesses with their line of business cards—whether you’re an event planner, photographer, or even a blogger! Create calling cards with your contact information and be prepared to put your name out there whenever you’re out in the world talking about your blog or biz. And if you love all-things-mini, they make really cute, tiny save-the-dates!
Love the cards you’ve created for yourself? Minted carries stationery that matches their business cards, so you can have consistent brand identity through all of your paper goods.
To celebrate their launch, in addition to giving away 25 free business cards to anyone that registers via this link, Minted is giving away a $100 gift card towards any of their products to one lucky Weddingbee reader!
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Being without a photographer is not a fun place to be. I worried big time about this and mostly kept my concerns to myself; I knew bringing it up every time I had the thought pass through my mind would only stress and annoy the mister. Sure, we talked about it but it always came back to: “We can’t afford what you want, Miss Honey.” Hrmph. Somehow, though, I just had this feeling that it would be okay. We had a couple leads from other And then the answer came in the form of a Facebook status update, which I very well could have ’liked’ one million times.
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| Image via The Atlanta Journalism-Constitution |
A friend of mine from college, was just starting in the wedding photography business and was looking for couples to take a risk with him and allow him to shoot their wedding and use the pictures in his portfolio. With risk, comes reward, and our reward for taking a chance with a new wedding photographer was the price. Ready for this? It starts with ’n’ and ends with ’a’…or starts with ’z’ and ends with ’h’. Give up? Nada, Zilch…Free!
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If you missed it, we introduced our latest generation last night during the Post a Thon on the boards, so all of the participants of the ’Thon got the first look!
I’m so excited to introduce this generation—it was a blast working with Irene to get these icons just right. After all, only Irene could make a mole look totally adorable! And of course, we added the warbler for our resident Gleek, Mrs. Mouse! (On that note, did anyone watch The Glee Project? I had the serious hots for Cameron Mitchell! Oh man. I’m in love.)
If I had to pick a favorite, I’d go with the porcupine, but as with all generations, choosing a favorite is close to impossible. Which is your fave?
If you’re interested in becoming a blogger bee, check out our application guidelines, in addition to our very own blogging bee series “A Bee’s Life” where the bloggers give insight into the application process and what it’s like being a bee. We’re currently accepting applications for bloggers getting married through May 2012! We’d love to have you join us!
When we left off last time, we were heading to my house for a slumber party!
Awesome table decorations provided by the bridesmaids
The detail that is making my heart flutter today is head gear…or head wear. Whatever. Veils and such. After stumbling upon an amazing video over at Style Me Pretty, I really started to think what I wanted to do with my hair. I naturally just thought I would wear a veil and be done with it, but after seeing so many wonderful options, I don’t know how I will pick.
The first look I love is the Bohemian look. I think I would be able to pull this off simply because our wedding is on the beach and will probably be a little less formal that a ballroom wedding.
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A long, long time ago, I put “make wedding shadow boxes” on my post-wedding to do list.
Well, better late than never I guess, because I finally got around to it!
Earlier this summer I had purchased some cheap shadow box frames, which I had a location for on a specific wall, but nothing to put in them. It was the perfect opportunity to find some mementos from our wedding that I had stashed away last year.
So I dug through my old boxes of wedding stuff, and printed out some photos to make a collage for the shadow boxes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find my husband’s dried boutonnière, but I’m sure it will turn up eventually. I distinctly remember hiding it in some kind of little box or something, somewhere “safe” where it wouldn’t get damaged in our cross country move, but I guess it was such a good hiding place that now I can’t remember where I put it!
Want to see the finished (but not yet hung) shadow boxes?
(Tip: After you figure out how you want to display your shadow box items, take a photo of the layout before you glue/tape everything into place. It makes a good reference, and is a lot easier than trying to remember the exact layout you liked after picking things up to apply the glue and tape.)
I heard this Train song on the drive to Miss Pamela’s. It must have been fate.
Video via YouTube.com
When we arrived at the shop, they handed me a large book with pictures of all of the dresses available to try on. While they didn’t have any of the dresses I had pictures of, I didn’t have any problems finding styles I liked. MOB saw a dress on a mannequin the minute we walked in that she fell in love with. It wasn’t a style or look I was really going for, but there was no question that I’d try it on to make her happy!
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