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It seems like with everything that goes into planning a wedding, sometimes the ceremony is overlooked. Just me? Fine! I’ve put most of my energy into picking the right photographer, food and minutiae that I forgot all about the ceremony. Like, seriously. Whoops!
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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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How do you balance your career with your SO’s career? If one of you has been offered a position that required significant sacrifice on behalf of the other partner in the relationship, how have you handled it, emotionally/physically?
When I graduated college, I knew Mr. Hyena was going to be continuing his education, and our options were: a) I get a job wherever and we continue our long-distance relationship, or b) I move to College Station to be with him. We’d already been long-distance for four years, and I felt like if we can’t live in the same city now, then WHEN? So I moved, and I’ll be totally honest—there aren’t many opportunities for my career here, and I can’t wait to move. Mr. Hyena is hoping to get his Ph.D and be done with school forever within the next three years, and then we intend to move to a bigger city. We’re not sure what the game plan will be — whoever gets a job first, that’s where we’ll go? We go where I get a job because it’s my turn to have a career? Whoever gets a better job? — but we both know we’ll have to re-evaluate our situation when the time comes.
Yes, I made the big sacrifice to move to a place where I knew I wouldn’t find my dream job. I don’t know for sure that I won’t have to make another sacrifice when we eventually move. Was it worth it? Will it be worth it in the long run? I’d like to say yes, but I have to figure out how to deal with it all over again, since I was recently laid off from my job. I don’t know what the future holds, but I’m optimistic.
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How did I find Weddingbee?
Google. Isn’t that how everyone finds everything these days? The day Mr. Ticket proposed I was already on the web searching “wedding.” I spent a couple days exhausting every photograph on TheKnot and WeddingChannel for inspiration. Then I found Weddingbee. When I first stumbled upon the site I found Mrs. Hamster; I’m not even sure how that happened since she finished her last post prior to Mr. Ticket’s proposal. But I LOVED reading her backlog of blogs. I read through her entire story in one night and then I moved on to other current bees. I was totally hooked. I had no idea how women came to write for this site. After a few weeks of regularly checking in on newly posted blogs I finally saw the little “Apply to Blog” option on the side of the page. I was stoked. I had never really blogged before but I loved hive so much that I desperately wanted to write for it.
My Application Story
Pre-Application:
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My current obsession is not so much wedding planning (that’s a lie—yes it is) but creating and re-creating my wedding-planning binder. I am an organization freak, often too much so, with so many things filed in so many places that I confuse myself. I initially went to Barnes and Noble and bought myself a nice little wedding binder that claimed to come with everything I needed, was a pretty color, and seemed like a good fit.
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lizzie chandler is selling a Rosa Clara wedding gown. She’s asking $1,200 for the size-6 gown, and it comes with bustle, belt, and veil.
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So now that you know us, how we met, how we became engaged to be married, and how we made our save-the-date cards, it’s time to tell you about something a little less rosy. Something that was painful and hard, but in the end made us who we are as a couple. The LDR. That’s right. The Long Distance Relationship.
As I mentioned earlier, we lived an hour (56 minutes) apart for the first year of dating. While this was a bit of a haul, it was in no way as long as it would eventually get. It was actually a nice way for a mildly obsessive person like me to start off a real “grownup” relationship. There was no smothering on either end. We had plenty of time to ourselves but also got to see each other a few times a week. Win win.
However, as fall turned to winter and then slowly to spring, I was faced with a dilemma. You see, I was a student, 20 at the time and approaching the end of my junior year. In the program I was in this meant an internship. I should also mention that I was studying apparel merchandising, and while the program was great, the eastern South Dakota area is not exactly a fashion hub (shocking!).
Now, Mr. Aardvark was a real live grownup at 28 (more on the age gap later) with a real live job, and he had been out of school and working for some time. He was well established in his job, and I was not about to ask him to pick up and move for my summer internship. I was not sure what I was about to ask…
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I love all things paper. When I was a kid I was always way too into my back-to-school supply shopping; I love roaming around the stationery/journal section of bookstores; and I still prefer a paper list to a digital one—but paper products can be pricey! When it comes to the wedding I have been looking a lot into chalkboards. They go perfectly with the rustic feel of our venue.
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The shopping list for an impending wedding sure does grow in the final weeks, doesn’t it? Or… maybe that’s just mine. At any rate, I’ve been wracked with anxiety for some time now about how our serving staff should hand out bells at the end of the evening – the farewell bells that guests will use to signal our exit from the reception and our trek back to our wedding-night hotel.
I browsed Target’s site for a bit, but only came up with melamine, wooden and leather trays that were just too pricey for our needs — about 5 trays/baskets/boxes to hold the bells as they’re being handed out. I don’t want to have them just freely sitting out for guests to take themselves — for one, we’re low on surfaces in the reception area, I’m afraid they’d be too out of the way for guests to notice, and frankly, I don’t want bells ringing the whole live long night. I’d like the handing out to be more controlled. Therefore, I’m really looking for something with handles, or easily manageable by the staff.
So I jaunted over to IKEA, and found a few options that just might work.
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Early in September, my wonderful aunt hosted a family shower at her house. We seriously couldn’t have asked for a better day. We started out with a little bit of grub. Hamburgers, anyone?
Stuffed faces!
(Apologies in advance for the manifesto-like nature of this post. After reading hundreds of my own vendor emails and talking to other people about their vendor experiences, this post is a distillation of all the things I’ve learned about what makes for successful, and not so successful, communication between vendors and clients.)
Dear Vendors,
When it comes to communication with your clients or potential clients, I have two words for you: tone matters. The only thing worse than receiving a blah, upsetting, cold, confusing email from a potential vendor is to receive that type of email from you once you’re MY vendor and I’ve given you a significant chunk of my money to document our special day. Talk about maddening!
To clarify what I mean by tone, my sense is that tone is comprised of two different types or areas of communication. Type one I’m going to call the rules of professional and courteous communication. Type two I’ll call the feel of those communications, an obviously more nuanced topic that has to do with your ability to convey who you are and how you feel about working with your clients.
The Rules
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Check out these great projects hive members have uploaded to Weddingbee’s DIY section! Click on the title of each project for tutorials.
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Terrarium Centerpieces by Nellene
One of the greatest parts of your wedding day is getting to notice all the little details. We had dropped everything off at the venue the night before, left specific instructions, and hoped for the best. After working so hard on something, it’s simply amazing to see it all come together. Since I hadn’t actually set it up myself, it was like finding a little surprise on every corner.
I found our goofy picture table numbers:
Sister Lioness’ invitation suite that I was so proud of:
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While we wait for our professional shots to come back from the photographer, there are still a few details that I would like to share with you that I didn’t have the chance to do before the wedding.
Our wedding bands! So, you saw my inspiration. Now we are finally sporting these little beauties every day. Although Mr Teaspoon did have to hide mine until our wedding day, because I just wanted to wear it!
They are exactly what we wanted—a simple band for Mr Teaspoon and a blingy ring for me. Of course, I had to break out the camera and give them a little photo shoot!
You may have noticed some orange envelopes in my invitation post. Well, they were our rehearsal invitations, of course! I know they aren’t absolutely necessary, but I also knew they would help avoid confusion since more than half of our bridal party are from out of town. Plus, I really wanted an excuse to order these…
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Aren’t they awesome?! They are so similar to my original inspiration picture and the best part is…
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