Mrs. Jaguar, SydneyAge and Occupation: 27, Primary School TeacherFiance's Age and Occupation: 29, IT ConsultantEngagement Date: August 8, 2009Wedding Date: June 2011Venue: Curzon HallAbout Me: I'm an Australian girl who is a self-proclaimed nerd, loves all things stationery and would be lost without books, music and the internet. Mr. Jaguar and I have been together for the past eight years and he finally popped the question last August. Hurrah! We currently live in Sydney, Australia with our adorable cat who thinks he's a person. We're a couple who likes to multi-task: we've been planning a wedding abroad, a permanent move from London to Sydney, and preparing to build our own home all at the same time. Travelling makes me giddy...as does Mr. Jaguar, of course!
Please tell me I’m not the only one who used to imagine all sorts of wedding day mishaps that could potentially go down on their wedding day? Falling down while walking up the aisle. Having a dress related mishap. Falling into a random pool, aka this couple. You name it, I’d thought of it. I even had the crazy wedding nightmares before the big day.
Well, before I say anything else, I think it’s appropriate I start this post off with a lovely memento I have from our wedding day. What do you reckon: blow it up on a canvas?
Oh yes. THAT happened.
Special mentions to a) my boobs practically exploding out of my dress, and b) my brand new husband who thought this was the most hilarious thing he had ever seen.
So… you want to know how I ended up down on the floor in a puff of ivory lace?
Mrs. Skunk, AtlantaAge and Occupation: 23, Post baccalaureate studentFiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Mechanical DesignerEngagement Date: February 13, 2011Wedding Date: November 2011Venue: Neverland Farms About Me: I’m a Georgia peach born and raised in the dirty dirty. I love reading, baking lots of sweets and forcing them on my friends, and most of all, rock climbing. I am in the process of applying to graduate school in physical therapy and I work at farmers’ markets around town selling bread for a local bakery. The mister and I met while rock climbing just over two years ago and have been inseparable ever since. Our climbing friends mean the world to us and have played an integral role in our relationship. We’re planning a barnyard shindig filled with good food, good friends, and lots of love.
So Mr. Skunk is out of state on a work trip. When we got notice, we were right at 10 weeks out and knew it was about time to pick out menswear. My groom knows he wants to wear a vest, but I want him to look different from the rest of the guys…a little mo’ special. I know I definitely want it to look pretty casual, so sleeves rolled up will be a must.
Mrs. High Wire, DallasAge and Occupation: 23, Legal AssistantFiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Director of CommunicationsEngagement Date: October 9, 2010Wedding Date: September 2011Venue: Clark GardensAbout Me: My loves include yoga, anything spicy, our eccentric cat, our rambunctious dog, and Mr. High Wire, of course! Like the steadiness act of the tightrope walker, this gal is busy balancing life while planning a wedding to the man of her dreams. We’re hosting a laid-back, vintage-inspired, bird themed wedding with heavy doses of love, good eats (did someone say tacos and margaritas?), and endless Texas charm. Mr. High Wire and I are so happy to have you along for the walk across the tight rope.
Miss Ticket, Riverside, CAAge and Occupation: 25, Executive AssistantFiance's Age and Occupation: 24, HVAC TechnicianEngagement Date: November 14, 2010Wedding Date: October 2011Venue: Crestmore ManorAbout Me: I'm a lifelong So Cal gal, a chocoholic, a closet gamer, and a television enthusiast (love me some Vampire Diaries!) who adores playing in the kitchen and lives in flip flops. Mr. Ticket and I are best known for singing and dancing in the car, our World of Warcraft addiction, adoring food, crane game playing, and our general homebody ways. Oh, and GO STEELERS!
You may have noticed by now that Mr. Ticket and I have been very fortunate when it comes to wedding vendors. Early on I told you how we booked our venue and photographers the first week we were engaged. Within a month of getting engaged we booked our DJ and caterer. Another month after that and we had our linens and flowers in place. We were truly blessed with how easy the process of hiring vendors was. With everything going so smoothly, I found early on in the engagement/wedding-planning process that I was running out of things to do.
Mrs. Honey, Durango, COAge and Occupation: 28, Financial AssistantFiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Lab Tech/PhlebotomistEngagement Date: August 1, 2010Wedding Date: January 2012Venue: Vallecito LakeAbout Me: I am a Colorado girl through and through, marrying an adrenaline-fueled Alabama boy. We love the outdoors just about as much as we love spoiling our dog and three cats. On any given weekend you can find us being adventurous, doing anything from rafting to snowboarding, and everything in between. We live in an outdoor mecca and truly believe in "Work Hard, Play Harder." I'm an optimist to the core, a crafter wannabe, a Southern food cook-in-training and a big time believer in girls nights. We met, fell in love and got engaged in eight short months and are now knee-deep in planning what we hope to be a super-fun, very us wedding celebration. Join us as we plan a rustic meets whimsical, Colorado winter wedding with loads of personal touches and good food!
I thank Bob Marley for my title, for one of the best songs ever, and for our budget mantra. The budget is a very sticky situation for the Honeys, as it is for most couples planning/buying/saving for their wedding. We have set a rough budget that we don’t want to go over, which is about a quarter less than the average wedding cost in our area. While we are I am comfortable with that number, I typically say we don’t have a budget. Is our budget limitless? The exact opposite, actually. We don’t have a budget because we simply don’t have the money. It’s like we are constantly adding to the account, breaking it, and then fixing it and starting all over.
We have three parties contributing to our big day; my parents, Mr. Honey’s dad, and us. We all contribute when we can, but it’s that ’when we can’ part that gets tough. My parents work their butts off to pay their bills each month and unfortunately sometimes there isn’t excess. Read more…
Mrs. Cucumber Sandwich, Washington, DC/Cape May, NJAge and Occupation: 28, School CounselorFiance's Age and Occupation: 40, Collegiate AthleticsEngagement Date: March 27, 2010Wedding Date: October 2011Venue: Congress Hall HotelAbout Me: I am a school counselor who spends my day wrangling children and my nights attempting to be creative with wedding projects. My enthusiasm for each of these activities far surpasses my skill. Thank goodness Mr. Cucumber Sandwich is there to pick up the pieces and be the voice of reason about my DIY tries. I have an obsession with terrible romantic comedies (‘From Justin to Kelly’ anyone?, anyone?!?), competitive Scrabble play, and hot dogs. I could eat astronaut ice cream for every meal and can’t seem to resist buying more shoes. Our wedding is going to be a true hodge podge of semi-destination, tradition, Yuengling, New England charm, with just a dash of ‘Jersey Shore’ thrown in. It has been six years in the making and I can’t wait to marry my best friend.
When the lovely Sammie Sisters said they wanted to throw me a shower, they asked if I had any ideas. Well that is a silly question…of course I have ideas! I casually threw out suggestions of various places around Philly that I thought would provide a fun atmosphere. Subtly was my middle name.
I immediately sent an email titled “shower locations’. Subtly was out the window. On my short list was a cooking class at the Viking Cooking School or Clean Your Plate, perhaps a party in the Please Touch Museum, or a delightful tea in the Morris Arboretum. Unfortunately my best idea was yet to come. Would you like a hint?
What could that be in the background? Need a bigger hint? Read more…
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Miss Warbler, Long Beach/MalibuAge and Occupation: 24, Quality Assurance EditorFiance's Age and Occupation: 32, Handheld AdministratorEngagement Date: December 7, 2010Wedding Date: April 2012Venue: Calamigos Ranch MalibuAbout Me: I’m a Korean BBQ loving, cheesecake enthusiast bride living in the LBC! By day I write and edit for an online search engine marketing company. By night I am a volunteer food taster of all that is delicious. I am fortunate to be marrying an amazing man who loves me and my quirky ways. I love food, books, indie music, and Harry Potter. We are planning a small, intimate wedding up in the Malibu Hills with our closest family and friends. With the help of my wonderful fiance, our loved ones, and red velvet cheesecake, our wedding will be glorious!
A few weeks ago, Mr. Warbs, MOH J5, and I suited up in our sweat pants to taste some cakes! Let me tell you, I was super excited about this. The bakery had come highly recommended from our florist and is in the same neighborhood as our venue. When I called them up for a consultation, they informed me that they were in the middle of moving to a new location (even closer to our venue) and should be open the weekend of August 20th. At that point, that was three weeks away. I happily confirmed the appointment and regularly checked in via emails and phone calls. Cake is serious business.
The day finally arrived, and we scooted off to Thousand Oaks, which was about an hour drive. I personally blame the Kardashians for all the traffic; Kim K. was getting married and I think that’s her hood. When we pulled up in front of the address, we were faced with…an empty store. Ahhhh! At first I was afraid they had gone out of business, but Mr. Warbs reminded me that they had just moved. We were at the old address. D’oh! All the time I spent drooling over cake, I had forgotten to get the new address. This time cake brain won out over bridal brain.
A quick phone call and Mr. Warbs’s scout-like senses, and we arrived at the new location, which looked like…an empty store. Deja vu? A glitch in the Matrix? You bet! While the store wasn’t empty, they were not completely open to the public, a fact the baker left out in our email string. We were told that we couldn’t go into the store and had to sit outside at a patio table. Red flag number one. After about 20 minutes of looking over photos and magazines, the baker brought out the cakes. I had expected to be presented with a nice assortment, kind of like these:
Mrs. Lioness, AtlantaAge and Occupation: 25, Physical TherapistFiance's Age and Occupation: 25, AttorneyEngagement Date: August 29, 2009Wedding Date: April 2011Venue: Anthony’s Fine DiningAbout Me: I’m a Southern girl with New England roots. I say "wicked" and "y’all" in the same sentence and I like to drink sweet tea with my lobster. Mr. Lion and I are both former Floridians now living in Atlanta, which fortunately is still SEC country...Go Gators! We both love baseball, coffee, traveling, cooking, and playing Words with Friends with each other on our iPhones all day long. I’m very passionate about the things and the people I love, and I tend to plan things with all of my heart...our wedding, of course, is no different! Oh, and also Mr. Lion is a first generation American of Cuban descent. I may look more like Lucy than Ricky, but I’m doing my best to incorporate some Latin elements into our vintage-garden-Southern wedding!
Now that the girls were ready, our photographer/friend ventured over to the boys’ room to see what they were up to. Mr. Lion was putting on the finishing touches, as he was getting pinned with his fiddlehead fern boutonnière.
Fortunately, the weather was gorgeous. So, the boys headed outside for a photo shoot. Read more…
Miss Porcupine, NYC/Lancaster, PAAge and Occupation: 26, Sales Coordinator/PublishingFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Assistant Manager/SalesEngagement Date: August 8, 2010Wedding Date: March 2012Venue: Riverdale ManorAbout Me: I'm a born and bred New Yorker with a love/hate relationship for the city I have always called home. Although I may seem quiet from afar, I have a loud personality once you get to know me. I am a book nerd at heart, but love a night out in the city with good friends. I have a serious addiction to all things cheese, chocolate, cardigans, Mexican food, and reality TV. The future hubs and I met in college, settled in New York, and decided to go with a rustic/peacock infused wedding in Lancaster, PA, right near his hometown. Come the big day, we will be together 5 years, and we're looking forward to making it official!
The road to our engagement was not particularly interesting or story-worthy. Neither was the decision of what kind of engagement ring to get, but the journey Mr. Porcupine took to get the ring was pretty funny and fitting of him.
We were together for three and a half years when he proposed. We didn’t have a soap-opera-worthy road to the altar. We did hit a few snares—like his nine-month-long unemployment that put the engagement on hold for some time. We knew we wanted to get married, but for a while the timing just wasn’t right. Along with that, we’d lived together for two years by the time the engagement talk came around (feeling pretty married-ish already), which meant if he was going to get a ring without me suspecting anything he would have to be diabolically sneaky.
Miss Doily, Cedar Rapids, IowaAge and Occupation: 25, Autism Paraeducator/ StudentFiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Freelance Writer/ PublisherEngagement Date: August 27th, 2010Wedding Date: March 2012Venue: Father’s Vineyard Church/ A Touch of Class Banquet CenterAbout Me: I’m an Iowan girl with a deep love of Harry Potter, classic movies, cardigans, and Post-Its. My type-A Virgo tendencies often cause me to drive my laid-back college sweetheart fiance batty with lists and PowerPoint presentations. I love to be crafty and do things myself, which explains why my two crazy kittens often will prance around the house covered in glitter and ribbons. When I am not bogged down with work, school, or wedding planning, I like to travel to visit my expansive family and have wild adventures with my best friends. After a rollercoaster ride of a love story, I’m ready to take that final plunge, marry the love of my life, and become a Mrs.!
I know that traditionally, you are supposed to do your big exit following the reception. As much as I would like to do an amazing sparkler exit like Mrs. Elephant did, it’s just not practical for us. Though I am so sad and disappointed that I don’t get to have this wonderful sight:
As much as I would like to do this, there just is no guarantee that the guests will be sticking around long enough (or, let’s be hones,t be in any condition because of our open bar) to do a proper send off. So I gave up my dreams of doing a big, sparkly exit and decided to expand my horizon on exits. Read more…
Mrs. Skunk, AtlantaAge and Occupation: 23, Post baccalaureate studentFiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Mechanical DesignerEngagement Date: February 13, 2011Wedding Date: November 2011Venue: Neverland Farms About Me: I’m a Georgia peach born and raised in the dirty dirty. I love reading, baking lots of sweets and forcing them on my friends, and most of all, rock climbing. I am in the process of applying to graduate school in physical therapy and I work at farmers’ markets around town selling bread for a local bakery. The mister and I met while rock climbing just over two years ago and have been inseparable ever since. Our climbing friends mean the world to us and have played an integral role in our relationship. We’re planning a barnyard shindig filled with good food, good friends, and lots of love.
I can’t use the abbreviation for save the dates. I’m seriously a 12-year-old boy at heart and would just giggle through this whole post, so for seriousness’s sake, we’re going to talk about save the dates.
I ripped the idea for our save the dates from another bride. A former roommate was sent a save the date, and I fell in love and knew we had to use it. Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “Originality is the art of concealing your sources.” So when friends ask, I just pretend I’m super creative.
So with this idea in mind, I got one of my photog friends to bring his gear to the gym one night. We got BM C. Koala to do the writing/makeup, and her hubby GM J. Wasp held the flash and lighting. Together with our crew, we ended up getting a whole file of great shots.
We ended up choosing the black and white version. We decided to save some money by getting them printed on postcards, added some text to the back, and six months to the day they were out the door.
Mrs. Parasol, San Ramon, CaliforniaAge and Occupation: 25, Non-profit writer, editor, and bloggerFiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Law school studentEngagement Date: December 19th, 2010Wedding Date: September 2011Venue: Bent Creek Winery (Livermore, California); Reception: Family Residence (San Ramon, California) About Me: I am a California girl at heart. I love the outdoors, sunny days at the beach, and hiking in the woods and mountains. I also love good books and am fresh from completing my Master's degree in English and Comparative Literature in New York City. Living in NYC was an amazing experience, and while I'm glad to be back on the West Coast, I'm also thankful that my two years back East gave me an opportunity to explore new places, make new friends, and indulge my passion for Broadway shows. Oh, and I received a pretty awesome proposal from Mr. Parasol in Central Park. Above all else, Mr. Parasol is my biggest cheerleader and my best friend. But even though I'm thrilled to be marrying him, I wasn't always totally on board with this whole wedding thing and at first, I wanted to run off and elope. I've finally been convinced to throw the wedding I never thought I wanted, and so now I'm busy planning an intimate September wedding filled with DIY details. Along the way, I'm slowly learning to appreciate, perhaps even love the wedding planning process.
So I’m sure I’m not the only one who has those weird out-of-body experiences where you don’t recognize yourself. Usually you’re looking into the mirror and all of a sudden you think, “Wait, is that me? Is that really what I look like?” All of a sudden, the face and body you’ve known for years becomes almost unrecognizable, and it’s difficult to wrap your mind around the fact that this body is, in fact, yours.
Every once in a while, I have those experiences. They’re weird enough, and I wish I could say that it only happens with myself. But sometimes, it happens with Mr. Parasol. A few times, when we’re doing something boring like sitting on the couch and watching TV, I’ll look over at him and blurt out, “Woah, are you really my boyfriend? Really?” It’s a strange feeling, looking over at the person you’ve spent years of your life with and feeling like you don’t even recognize him. What was once familiar is now completely foreign, and everything just feels so out of sync. Mr. Parasol always has a good laugh and teases me, and thankfully, the feeling of disconnect usually quickly passes.
But I’ve discovered that these feelings of dissociation have also started to rear their ugly heads at another particular moment: Read more…
Mrs. Ladyfingers, Saint Petersburg, FLAge and Occupation: 30, Marketing ManagerFiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Sports WriterEngagement Date: December 24, 2010Wedding Date: November 2011Venue: Palma Sola Botanical ParkAbout Me: I hail from Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Long Island. Fate brought us together, and now we live in a cute little rental house with our nutty dog, and our aloof cat. We both love to read, watch movies, explore our town, and laugh like hyenas. When I’m not obsessively wedding crafting, I enjoy stalking style and decorating blogs, making collages and painting, napping, thrifting, rearranging our bookshelves, and being a total weirdo with my friends. Hi!
Now that we’re at the under-60-day mark, we’re checking off a tremendous number of purchases, and starting to pack things up to cart to the caterer the week of!
Then, I picked up our thank-you notes at Target. I originally coveted several designs on Etsy before realizing the last thing I wanted to spend $150 on was thank-you notes, regardless of how adorable they are. Cue Target, with 100 thank-you notes for about $20. They’re not exactly in our colors, but black is basically gray, and I like the design, and I love how they fold out for a different kind of note. Read more…
Miss Ticket, Riverside, CAAge and Occupation: 25, Executive AssistantFiance's Age and Occupation: 24, HVAC TechnicianEngagement Date: November 14, 2010Wedding Date: October 2011Venue: Crestmore ManorAbout Me: I'm a lifelong So Cal gal, a chocoholic, a closet gamer, and a television enthusiast (love me some Vampire Diaries!) who adores playing in the kitchen and lives in flip flops. Mr. Ticket and I are best known for singing and dancing in the car, our World of Warcraft addiction, adoring food, crane game playing, and our general homebody ways. Oh, and GO STEELERS!
1. When I play video games I require that my inventory be organized and I frequently log onto Mr. Ticket’s World of Warcraft account to reorganize his bags (I think I might be a tiny bit type A…)
2. When I was 11 years old I was deeply in love with Zac Hanson (as in love as a person can be at age 11 having never met the other person). Read more…
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