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Wow, hive, one month left!
The mister has packed his bags, and tomorrow is his last day at work before he heads to the Swiss military for the remainder of our engagement period. By the time he comes back, we’ll both be packing to head to the US and our honeymoon.
At this point we have most things taken care of and I feel like everything is under control, but the departure of Mr. Funnel Cake still stresses me. For the last couple weeks I’ve been frantically hurrying to get lots of projects, decisions, and tasks done because I know that after this week Mr. Funnel Cake is MIA. If I need his help *coughtrilingualprogramcough* then it would have to be this week.
It was hard, hard work choosing a song for the father-daughter dance. Choosing a dance for Mr. Jaguar and me was easy—but for my dad? I struggled. My one request was that the song wasn’t a country music song, because I’ve heard one at nearly every wedding we’ve ever been to. My suggestions were upbeat, with my two favourites being “My Girl” by the Temptations and “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles. He didn’t have any connections to those songs, and shot them down. After a lot of coming and going, he sent me one option that I quite loved: “Lullaby“ by Billy Joel. And so, it was.
mirandomyoo is selling an Ellen Tracy one-shoulder dress. She’s asking $30 for the dress, or $100 for a set of four dresses.
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The same day that we booked the Monte Verde Inn, there was also a Bridal Expo being held in Sacramento. Our wedding coordinator gave me a fantastic and valuable tip. She told me to create another email account on the way there and give that out instead of my real email account. She said that often times vendors will sell your information to others which will result in excess junk mail. On the drive to Sacramento, I whipped out my iPhone and created another email account. Oh, the joy of modern technology. This is by far among the best tips I have received so far in wedding planning. I’ll tell you why later.
The Bridal Expo was very fun yet not very productive. All of the vendors there passed out a whole lot of pamphlets and information sheets that were not of much use to me. Let’s just say I recycled a lot of paper when I got home. Even though we did not accomplish a ton, we had a blast being surrounded by wedding stuff. In fact the best part of the day was the free photo booth. Check it out—don’t we look hot?
Now back to the email situation.
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(Disclaimer—we do not have any kinky relationship with these Sloths. Continue reading to find out what I really mean.)
So we’d taken our two little summer trips to Portland and Seattle, and it was suddenly time to plan our “real” honeymoon in earnest. In this post, I mentioned that we were gunning for Costa Rica, Oxygen Jungle Villas (like two bees before me), and a trip to the Sloth Sanctuary. Our vision has changed a wee bit, making for the most awesome honeymoon plan ever, I think.
Awesome point #1: We’re going for three weeks! I work on a contract basis, and within my contracts there is NO leeway for time off, but I do have a couple two to three week gaps this year. Mr CB’s job is a little (but not much) easier to get time off from, and luckily a week that he had no work scheduled coincided with one of the weeks in my gaps, and he was able to get two more weeks off. But, three weeks is a long time to spend somewhere—wouldn’t hotel and food costs be crazy for that long a time away from home?
You know what would be nice?
Sharing our engagement story. Since I just kind of went “BAM! Read about our wedding!” and didn’t give you much reason or a chance to say, “awww.” You probably still won’t. But I’ll share it anyway. 
You should know there’s some background to this story, so I’ll start there. If you want the abridged version, just go to the bottom.
Way back when I was a little girl…
KIDDING.
But really.
Back in my senior year in college, all the dance majors (that was me) had to choreograph a piece and present it in a self-produced and -promoted show with about six other dance seniors. My show was in March, with graduation only 2 months after. As a congratulations/graduation gift, Foxy Mama got me a ring that I had been lusting over for years.
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Mr. Skunk and I have had quite the adventure in a matter of two years. Three months into our relationship, we took a spur-of-the-moment trip to visit my cousin in Los Angeles.
(At an overlook on Mulholland Drive)
Rustic elegance surrounded missbiscuit’s wedding
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am in a pickle.
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| Photo via hot dog halloween costume. net |
To be fair, I am fully responsible for putting myself in said pickle.
When we came up with the idea of having the reception at the current location, we were very excited about the prospects of a microbrewery as our reception hall. We talked with the owner saying we were expecting between 100-200 people and gave him our budget. Everything was very informal and a few days later my dad let me know that we had gotten the green light. Everything was rolling…
Fast forward a couple of weeks, and our guest list had ballooned well over 200 (close to 250 with +1s (which had been given to each and every unmarried adult (married couples wer invited together, naturally)) and save the dates have been sent out.
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Apparently the theme of my posts lately is “Ms. FW brags about Mr. FW’s amazingness.” So to continue with that theme, I’d like to tell you about how instrumental Mr. FW was in creating our super-fun rehearsal-dinner invites. It started when we were both standing in line at Michaels (so we could have two separate transactions and thus use two separate 40%-off coupons—obvs) and he wandered over to the one-dollar bargain section, where he picked up the cutest little silverware-set rubber stamp. He suggested that it might be nice to emboss this little knife, fork, and spoon design onto the back of whatever rehearsal-dinner invite we chose. Of course I was all for that, so we snapped up the stamp and then went looking for a coordinating invite.
We fell in love with this design from Invitation Consultants. (FYI…we were really happy with the quality of these invites. The paper has a slight sheen to it that feels very luxe, and they are printed in color on both sides. Also awesome was that we snagged a $10-off coupon from Retail Me Not!)
So, you know that whole thing where you date for a long time before you get married, live together, get to know each other, make sure you’re on the same page before you make the ultimate commitment? Well, what happens when you do all of those things, and you’re as confident as you possibly can be that you and your partner are on the same page, and so you get married—but then you change your mind about something huge?
I’m not saying I’m there. But I might be. Or at least I might be unsure about something that I thought I was sure about before.
Alternative title: “Why We Decided Not to Hire a Day-of Coordinator”
I can almost hear the gasps through the internet. You read that correctly—we are not having a DOC for our wedding day. There are a couple of reasons why not, and I wanted to share them in case anyone else is struggling with this decision too. I am not saying not hiring a DOC is right or wrong, but here is what Mr. CS and I came up with. You should probably take it with a grain of salt, though, because only the wedding day will tell if this was a good decision.
1. Our venue comes with a fantastic wedding coordinator. If I could make the word fantastic 10 times larger I would. She is just that good. Daniella (the wedding coordinator) deals strictly with weddings at our venue. I believe this makes her slightly different than just a regular venue coordinator. Starting from about three months out, she has been at our side the whole way. She has gone over every detail with us and even made some great suggestions of her own. I am fully confident that she understands our vision and the Congress Hall team will execute it to perfection.
What does this have to do with no DOC? For the wedding I am subscribing to the philosophy that too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth. I think if too many people are “in charge” it will just lead to confusion and mismanagement. I think there should be one point person on wedding day, and having a DOC along with Daniella might be dangerous.
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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Has the down economy affected you/your SO and your relationship? How so? How are you weathering the storm?
The economy has been a pretty huge deal to us lately. Because of the economy, thousands of teachers across Texas lost their jobs and it was next to impossible for me to find a job right after we got married. I did manage to find something, but it’s a 45 minute drive from our house, and is an incredibly draining job—it definitely affects our relationship because I’m so tired/grumpy when I get home from work…it feels like we don’t get any “couple time” during the week at all!
Mr. Cardigan has also struggled to find something to do part time until he really gets started in real estate (he’s a real estate agent, but since we just moved to Austin, he doesn’t have many clients yet!). The job market is horrible right now, and that’s put quite a few stresses on our relationship—but we’re in constant communication about how we’re feeling and what we’re stressing about, so we’re always on the same page!
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There are many things that I could talk about today, but the winner is going to be shoes. You see, besides receiving a marriage proposal and an engagement ring for Christmas, Mr. Buck did not want that to be an actual Christmas gift. So, he also got me Christmas presents as well. Generous, right? One of them was a gift card to Nordstrom. I knew immediately what I wanted to buy. SHOES. Long ago in a far away land, I saw a pair of shoes at Nordstrom that were mind blowing. Yes, I am going to exaggerate that much because they were so fantastic. They were sparkly little things, and I said to myself, “Doe, where would you ever wear these shoes?” The only place I could ever think that would need such incredible shoes would be for our wedding. So, sure enough after I was engaged and had a Nordstrom gift card in hand, I went and bought those shoes. It was my first wedding purchase, and I had them even before I got my dress.
{Personal photo}
Well, being that I have a wandering eye for shoes, I began to notice other incredibly beautiful shoes.
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