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Just when we were feeling a little down in the dumps about music and had started surveying our friends for who would be good manning an iPod, our luck changed.
Image via Gizmodo / Credit iPopmyphoto
Don’t get me wrong—I had warmed up to the iPod idea. Our friends that will be there who are interested in dancing boogie down to an iPod every weekend. On top of that, I kind of liked the idea that I could pick every song. It was the lady from our reception venue that said the iPod weddings there before didn’t work out well. The sound was off and not loud enough. Also, your playlist is your playlist, and it can’t be adjusted easily to play more of what the dancing people want to hear. There are a lot of pros and cons out there.
We knew early on in our wedding planning that we wanted to have a first look. Not only did our first look give us tons of time to take pics with our family, wedding party, and each other, but it was also a wonderful moment for the two of us to share.
Before our first look I was so giddy and excited to finally see Mr. CC—to hug him and share the moments leading up to our wedding ceremony together. When I saw him on the lawn of the city library, all I wanted to do was bum rush him and wrap him up in a big bear hug! Thankfully I listened to our photog Heidi and took it slow as a means to give her enough time to capture some of my favorite moments of our whole wedding day.
Doesn’t he look so handsome? LOVE this man!
As with all well-laid plans, our dress-shopping adventure did not go exactly as intended. You see, our New York City shopping itinerary turned out to go to waste because…wait for it…I bought my dress in Nashville!
Because I am cruel, you are going to have to wait a bit longer to see my dress, BUT because I am not that cruel, I will share another aspect of my wedding-day look: my shoes!
I was apparently on a decision-making roll after purchasing my dress, because while we were in New York (not shopping for wedding dresses) I bought my shoes! I felt a little silly buying them nearly 11 months before the wedding, but I could not resist! I’m pretty sure neither my foot size nor my love for these shoes will be changing anytime soon.
This past weekend I flew back to Georgia to spend a weekend with my mom, brothers, and my grandparents. In all the crazy hustle and bustle of last-minute wedding planning (24 days and counting, gah!), it was nice to get away from the stress for a bit and reconnect with family.
While I was home there was a lot of wedding talk of course, which spurred my mom to pull out some of her own wedding stuff. As soon as I saw her veil and headpiece in the dress box, I couldn’t resist trying it on.
Here’s my beautiful mother wearing her veil over thirty years ago.
And here I am—proving that this look was much better on her than it is on me.
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I know I told you that the arrival of our wholesale flowers would be up next, but first I’d like to finish up our first few days of exploring…
While our ceremony took place in Aspen, we all actually stayed in a nearby beautiful little town called Snowmass Village. The hotels were less pricey than staying right in Aspen, and the town was a little more peaceful than the hustle and bustle of the busy streets of Aspen. We got such a great deal on our hotel and having never been there, I was scared that it might be a “you get what you pay for” scenario. I was very happy and relieved when we pulled up to the hotel that turned out to be an adorable place full of Colorado charm. If we ever go back, I’ll definitely be staying there again!
Congrats to our winner, Anna Driver-Bishop!
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Claremont Collection is a line of delightfully distinctive letterpress wedding invitations and stationery from Curious & Co., co-owned by our own Mrs. Cupcake. To celebrate the redesign of the Claremont Collection website (as well as some brand spanking new invitation suites), Curious & Co. is offering one lucky winner a $300 gift card towards a customized letterpress order!
(photos by Trevor Dixon)
Claremont Collection features twelve designs, each touting her own distinctive personality and customizable with your choice of 30+ ink colors to uniquely set the tone for your big day. Coordinating pieces available include response sets, save-the-dates, celebration cards, detail cards, thank you notes, menus, place cards and favor tags. You can also see the Rachel ikat design featured in the fall 2011 issue of Martha Stewart Weddings.
You have two chances to enter this contest!
To enter to win the $300 gift card, please visit the Claremont Collection website, then comment below with your favorite design and tell us what ink colors you’d choose to customize your design. For a second chance to win, follow @curiousandco on Twitter and retweet this contest by clicking here! Then come back here and let us know that you followed/retweeted. You have until Wednesday October 19th at 11:59PM PST to enter. Good luck!
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Our wedding day view
Okay, I confess, I’m into details. I’m a perfectionist, I’m detail-oriented and I pay attention to all those little things that most people overlook. I’m that guy girl. So that’s right, you’re getting not one but TWO details posts (does that remind you of an infomercial? Me too—if you send me $19.95, I’ll throw in a BONUS day-after shoot recap…ooo aah).
Prepare for reception detailed goodness:
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Do you find that your family and friends roll their eyes when you talk about your wedding?
Do you wait for someone else to mention it so you can go into detail about floral arrangements and the difference between Freebooter Script and Albemarle Swash fonts?
Have you resorted to telling your pets about your wedding plans?
Do you live in the Los Angeles area?
Then get your booty moving to La Grande Orange (LGO) in Pasadena this Saturday October 22nd at noon for an LA Meet-Up! We will be sharing laughs, brunch and yes, wedding plans! This is opened to all hive members! If you want to come, please reply to the thread located here, so we can count you in for the reservation.
I hope a few of you can make it! See you Saturday!
Hello! It’s so very nice to meet you all!
Poking out to say hello and show off my manicure!
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I’m Miss Mole, the newest Weddingbee blogger. I currently work as an instructor for a large test-prep company. Specifically, I teach the GRE. I ended up in this field after leaving a PhD program in English and, later, a high school teaching job. So if you want to talk about medieval literature or Oxford commas, I’m in. (As you can imagine, I am also interested in talking about weddings!) In my free time, I enjoy reading my Kindle, going to step aerobics, and watching A&E’s Intervention. In addition, I love to run. I have done a variety of races and distances, including some half-marathons and marathons. I am just getting over an injury and starting the process of getting back in shape.
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StephyD214 and her husband shot engagement pictures in the woods
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We’ve already established that I’m officially THE MOST indecisive person ever.
Yes, I’m referring to our save the dates. Again.
When we last left off, I thought I came up with something that could definitely work.
Then I changed my mind. And I changed it again.
And again.
I was left with a new set of options, all of which I created based on examples I had seen around the interwebs. Foxy was about ready to kill me and my waffle-y behavior. I mean, who’s really going to care about these besides me? Here I am, wanting it to be fun and spunky and different, when really? A nice postcard would do. And I needed to accept that.
But on to the goods. The newer set of STD options.
Option 1
So what did we decide to use as our sendoff something?
It’s a little bit like if you combined Spiderman and a kid’s birthday party.
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Image via Gizmodo / Image via Life123
Crepe paper is the answer!
I agonized over favors! First, there were none. Then, there were many. After writing this post and getting plenty of feedback on my options, I settled upon the one that would require the most effort, but the least amount of money: Homemade fudge.
Let me clarify: By “effort,” I mean melting chocolate, pouring it into a pan, and sticking it in the fridge. Yeah. Sooooo hard.
I used my mom’s fudge recipe, since it was the only fudge I can ever remember liking. I had it so much growing up that any other fudge just tastes too sugary, or too “off” to me.
The recipe:
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Prior to our perfectly scheduled New York trip, my mom came down to Nashville for a few days so we could take care of some wedding-related business (she hadn’t even seen our venue in person yet!) and some non-wedding-related business (apartment hunting for Sister K who was moving to Nashville). Since I had never tried on wedding dresses before, we figured we should do a little warm-up before the New York extravaganza. We called and made day-of appointments at a couple of local salons.
It was fun to go shopping where I live because I actually got to go into the stores that I have driven by so many times and stared longingly into their windows. Note to Nashville drivers: keep your distance when passing a bridal salon, because I am not paying attention to the road—sorry!
Distracted Driving! Image via InsideLine.com / Photo from Subaru America Inc.
When we ran into the first store (we ran in part because I could not contain myself and in part because it was pouring outside), I was practically shaking with excitement. The salesgirl was very sweet and let us browse through their entire selection. Between the many episodes of Say Yes to the Dress I have watched and the one shopping excursion I went on with my sister, I always assumed they brought dresses to you. I was very pleasantly surprised when this was not the case. I loved being able to admire all of the dresses in person, even those that I knew right off the bat wouldn’t work for me. That being said, it was even more fun to admire dresses that I thought might work for me! The first to make this list was an A-line with a detailed bodice. (I apologize that I don’t remember the designer or style—I think it is Paloma Blanca, but don’t hold me to that!)
I just said my goodbyes last month, but I felt the need to come back and say hi. Oh, and to gloat a little bit.
Back in February, I posted about wedding dress inspiration from Fall Fashion Week 2011. And I made a little prediction:
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