Mrs. Cinnamon Bun, Calgary, Alberta
Age and Occupation: 26, Stage Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Theatre Technician
Engagement Date: June 22, 2010
Wedding Date: June 2011
Venue: Calgary Opera Centre
About Me: I'm a life-long crafter and bookworm living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. Some of my loves include Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes, knitting, opera, musicals, Etsy, baking, and of course, Mr. Cinnamon Buns. We're keeping our wedding close to home---the venue isn't very far from our house, and we live within walking distance of 6 bridal salons. I'm using the wedding as an excuse to try out every craft project I possibly can, with the endless help and support of my fiance.
At one point I wrote a pity-party post about not getting a bachelorette, even though I didn’t want to walk around town at night wearing a penis necklace.
Well, that all changed! My girls treated me to a lovely day just a few days before the wedding that was just right for me. It was the Wednesday before our Saturday wedding, and the day started with all of us driving to my coworker R’s house so I could try on my dress after the alterations! When I ordered the dress I was exactly between waist sizes (the only measurement that would affect my dress—the hips were free and even the smallest bust size available would need taking in), and I went with the larger size because it’s easier to take in than let out. It meant that the whole dress ended up being pretty big on me. Could I have gone with one size smaller? Probably, but I’m glad I didn’t risk it, especially when I have many friends who sew for a living. 
The dress was perfect, apart from the bust still being a little big. R said she’d sew a different pair of cups in to the top and drop it off at my house later that day. Awesome!
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Mrs. Frog, Phoenix, AZ/Chelan, WA
Age and Occupation: 29, Public Relations
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Online Sales
Engagement Date: February 8, 2009
Wedding Date: July 2010
Venue: Amy's Manor
About Me: I'm an opinionated Midwestern girl now living in the Valley of the Sun marrying a laid back Northwestern guy. I'm equal parts sass, silly and sweet. I'm fiercely loyal with a strong devotion to my family and friends. I have a not-so-secret obsession with apple juice, a new obsession with DIY projects and I love a really good cheese plate...with lots of wine. After 7 blissful years of dating, I'm having the time of my life planning the destination wedding of my dreams to my Mr. Frog-turned-Prince Charming.
As I floated up toward my future husband, everything around me disappeared. It really is like people say—all that exists is the two of you.
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Miss Dalmatian, Nashville, TN
Age and Occupation: 23, Pediatric Nurse
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Computer Engineer and Entrepreneur
Engagement Date: April 13, 2011
Wedding Date: May 2012
Venue: Historic Cedarwood
About Me: I am a Northern girl from Chicago who is planning a wedding filled with Southern charm in Nashville, Tennessee. I love dogs, the White Sox, Full House reruns, and anything with ruffles on it. Mr. Dalmatian is my computer-genius problem-solving fiance who is constantly teaching me new things and making me a better person. We live with our adopted pup Echo, who is very excited that his parents are getting married!
When I began pondering the colors, theme, and feel of our wedding, there were a lot of thoughts bouncing around in my head. Let’s start with colors. I considered pink and navy, then pink and teal, then pink and chocolate, then pink and light blue, then pink and green. Notice a pattern? My love for pink gives Elle Woods a run for her money!
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| Personal Photo - My pink room at my parents’ house. |
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Mrs. Cotton Candy, Riverside, CA
Age and Occupation: 29, Field Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 34, Process Server
Engagement Date: July 5, 2007
Wedding Date: June 2011
Venue: Riverside Art Museum
About Me: I’m a girl in love with her best friend planning a small mid-century modern inspired wedding that’s been a long time coming. I love all things design, sewing, flea markets, and a good book. I’ve been known to swoon over a well-designed chair and often find myself craving a new addition to my chair collection regardless of the lack square footage in our home. I’m Mexican American girl who hates all things spicy but loves her rowdy Mexican family and her Latin roots. My wedding muses may not be your typical wedding superstars, but with a lot of DIY, a dash of offbeat style, and lots of love and laughs, Mr. Cotton and I plan to create a day that is unmistakably us.
While us ladies were busy primping, the boys were across town at Mr. CC’s step-dad’s house doing what they do best…
Drinking beer! (J/K) Don’t you just hate how it takes them two minutes to look cute? Seriously, I think it took the groomsmen all of five minutes to get dressed that morning, which left plenty of time for them to indulge in some adult beverages.
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Miss Raccoon, Indianapolis
Age and Occupation: 22, Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Graduate Student
Engagement Date: Christmas 2010
Wedding Date: January 2012
Venue: Catholic Church, Chateau Thomas Winery
About Me: I'm a wholesome Midwestern girl, TV series junkie, professional shower singer, and Anglophile. I love my fiance, crock pot cooking, my cat Heepo, going for the gusto, and all things wedding. Mr. Raccoon is pretty sweet, too! He’s a mad scientist that loves to travel. We met my first night on campus and have been inseparable since.
Sometimes I forget exactly how lucky I am, but this shower was a clear reminder! It was a great day spent with family, future family, good friends, and games. Oh, I love games! I hope everyone there did too, because the hostess planned a lot of them!
We had the classic toilet paper bride. After counting off by threes, five minutes just was not enough time to bring our genius visions to life. Ten minutes was just about right.
Keep Things Spicy had little plastic cups numbered 1-10 each with a different spice inside.
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Miss Aardvark, Beaver Dam, WI
Age and Occupation: 23, Assistant Product Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Business Analyst
Engagement Date: May 28th, 2011
Wedding Date: April 2012
Venue: St. Philip Catholic Church/Arcadia Brewing Co.
About Me: I am a resourceful lady who love surprises and adventure. At the same time, I value traditions, family and friends. I like to make crafty messes, sometimes, clean them up, and do pretty much anything outdoors. The Mister and I are pretty avid cyclists---we have nine bikes in our home right now...and one motorcycle! We both enjoy eating food we can't pronounce (language doesn't really matter) and going places we've never been. We currently reside in rural Wisconsin, enjoying the cheese and beer it has to offer, and getting outside whenever we can!
OK, I may or may not have a problem with my brain running away with thoughts faster than I can sort them into orderly piles. However, I was at work yesterday, in a timeline meeting, and realized it was almost APRIL!!! AHH!! How did that happen!?
What’s that you say? It’s only October, and that is not really April or anywhere near April, for that matter. Well, I think you are mistaken—the whole rest of our engagement can be broken up into pretty small chunks. And everyone knows small chunks go by WAY faster than big chunks of time! Would you like me to prove this? OK:
- Starting this week: Bridesmaid weekend (more on this to come—I am SO stoked. SO so stoked to see all my ladies!)
- The following weekend: Mission Find a Suit for Mr. Aardvark…Also, Mr. Aardvark’s and my three year date-iversary.
- Then, our Pre-Cana class the next weekend, as well as a little thing I like to call MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER, AKA HALLOWEEN.
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Miss Porcupine, NYC/Lancaster, PA
Age and Occupation: 26, Sales Coordinator/Publishing
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Assistant Manager/Sales
Engagement Date: August 8, 2010
Wedding Date: March 2012
Venue: Riverdale Manor
About 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!
I have a problem I need to own up to. I have a serious addiction to all things accessories. My need for accessories can not be quelled. For one, I thought this would be a good organization solution:
Personal photo of my lame closet
It’s now a tangled mess, and that’s just a touch of the mass heap I own.
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Miss Fox, Washington DC/Havre de Grace, MD
Age and Occupation: 26, Massage Therapist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Field Support Engineer
Engagement Date: April 18, 2010
Wedding Date: June 2012
Venue: Vandiver Inn
About Me: I’m a dancer turned massage therapist who was born and raised in New York. Alas, true love has brought me “south” where I still maintain my penchants for pretty shoes, wine, crossword puzzles, cherry blossoms, and the Mets. I own more sunglasses than a normal person should and don’t eat red meat (though I make up for it by eating my weight in sushi). I tend to be a big planner who likes to get things started early, but generally end up being indecisive and procrastinating when it comes down to it. I have a (not so) secret crush on Chris Carrabba, but my loyalty and love ultimately goes to the future hubs, of course! Together, my Foxy man and I love to discuss (read: debate) politics and current events, have Mario Kart and Scrabble duels, and just laugh. A lot. We’re hoping and planning for a laid back, fun, summery, rustic vibe to our June wedding that will be genuinely “us” – that is, if we finally make some decisions. Huzzah!
October 13th, 2011 @ 6:14 am by Miss Fox
Pros: warmth, sunshine (hopefully), it can be outdoors, bright and pretty colors, etc.
This is pretty much exactly what I imagine.
Image via Lovely Little Details
Cons: everyone and their mother gets married then.
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Miss Doe, Northern California
Age and Occupation: 24, Real Estate Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Recycling Manager
Engagement Date: December 25, 2010
Wedding Date: May 2012
Venue: Monte Verde Inn
About Me: I’m a Rat Pack fan and a Christmas nut that loves to read, good wine, cheesy ’80s movies and ’90s sitcoms. My wiener dog with an attitude problem and lazy basset hound are my constant source of entertainment. He's a hunter and I like cooking so it's not rare to see wild game on our dinner menu. Both of us were born and raised in a small historic farming town where our feet are still firmly planted. We have been together for nearly a decade and have shared many life experiences together, including birthdays that are only one day apart. We are two old souls that are creating our long-awaited wedding with loads of tradition that blends our two styles into rustic elegance in the foothills of Northern California.
October 13th, 2011 @ 5:45 am by Miss Doe
I have heard from many of our guests that they received our save the dates, so I think it is time to do the big reveal.
I tell ya what: when you get engaged one of the things you definitely don’t plan on is taking forever to make a decision on how to address the envelopes. It took me nearly a week to decide on whether we should hand write, label, or print on the envelopes. I finally made a pros and cons list to try and figure this out. Ridiculous, but it worked. The final ruling was to print straight on the envelopes, and I think they turned out quite nice. Granted, I had to do them one by one, so it took a few episodes of True Blood and Breaking Bad to finally finish them. I decided to use Monterey BT font, which is the cheaper (as in free) cousin to the very beautiful Feel Script font.
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Miss Ticket, Riverside, CA
Age and Occupation: 25, Executive Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, HVAC Technician
Engagement Date: November 14, 2010
Wedding Date: October 2011
Venue: Crestmore Manor
About 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!
The instant I saw this on wedding blogs I fell in love with it. As I believe I may have mentioned before, my favorite parts of wedding planning are the things you get to keep after the wedding. So the concept of having all your nearest and dearest write notes for you to open on each anniversary is FANTASTIC in my book. While I find the pre-made boxes from Happily Ever AfterWords to be quite lovely, I didn’t particularly want to spend $50 on this little project. So I set to work on how to do it for less. I scoured Etsy for cute little boxes, but found it would cost me just as much if not more to go that route. So I asked Mr. Ticket if he would mind making our box out of scrap wood from work, and he said sure. Score!
Next up was the note cards. This was the fun part. There were SO many amazing options.
Image via Wedding Paper Divas
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Mrs. Parasol, San Ramon, California
Age and Occupation: 25, Non-profit writer, editor, and blogger
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Law school student
Engagement Date: December 19th, 2010
Wedding Date: September 2011
Venue: 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.
Now that I’m on the other side of wedding planning, there are so many things I want to tell brides-to-be. But instead of bombarding you all with my old-married-lady wisdom, I’m going to give you my #1 piece of wedding-day advice:
Get yourself a waterboy (or girl).
Photo via Amazon
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Mrs. Honey, Durango, CO
Age and Occupation: 28, Financial Assistant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Lab Tech/Phlebotomist
Engagement Date: August 1, 2010
Wedding Date: January 2012
Venue: Vallecito Lake
About 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!
No, no, no, I’m not announcing that I’m preggers. Nope, I am instead joining bees before me who have had their monikers made into teeny tiny little charms. I first remember seeing Mrs. PAC posting hers and it stuck, because I was getting close to my eight-month mark of being able to apply to be a bee, and I thought to myself, “In the small chance I’m ever a bee blogger, I will definitely do that.” Well, here I am…a bee with an insanely cute moniker. Then Miss Sunhat posted hers a few short weeks ago, and immediately after I read hers I was on the search for the Etsy seller that could make me a mini honey pot. It didn’t take me long, because I actually turned to the seller that Mrs. Snow Cone mentioned in her post and sent Heather from Sweet & Savory Trinkets a message. Not only was she easy to work with, but I got my charm in my mailbox less than two weeks after I contacted her. Easy, quick, and affordable…that’s what I’m talking about!
Before I show off my lil charm, can I just say that I wish I had more excuses to wear food jewelry? I mean, seriously, the miniature food is so cute that not only do I now want a smothered green burrito for dinner…
Listing by Sweet & Savory Trinkets on Etsy
…but I’m also trying to decide how I can justify buying candy corn bobby pins.
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Miss Doily, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Age and Occupation: 25, Autism Paraeducator/ Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Freelance Writer/ Publisher
Engagement Date: August 27th, 2010
Wedding Date: March 2012
Venue: Father’s Vineyard Church/ A Touch of Class Banquet Center
About 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.!
There has been kind of an elephant in the room when it comes to my wedding planning. Most of the stuff is settled on, it just has to be executed. The bridal party has been properly attired, the reception hall will have its decor, the ceremony has its music. However, there is a huge, huge thing that I have yet to check off of my list. It’s such a huge thing that I feel like a failure of bride for even uttering these words.
Are you ready? I want to make sure that you can handle this before I expose the truth.
OK, hive. Here it goes:
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Mrs. Funnel Cake, Zürich, Switzerland/Columbus, Ohio
Age and Occupation: 24, Visual Communication Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Application Engineer
Engagement Date: May 30, 2010
Wedding Date: October 2011
Venue: Catholic church followed by a botanical conservatory
About Me: I'm an American designer who moved to Switzerland for love after a fairytale beginning at the top of the Eiffel Tower. I love travel, photography, museums, learning German so I can speak with my mother-in-law, cooking (eating), cuddling, and I'm not afraid to try something new even if it terrifies me. My Swiss/Brazilian man and I are both down to earth people planning a traditional Catholic wedding in my hometown with some quirky cultural exceptions to reflect our different backgrounds. We look forward to celebrating with friends and family from all over the world in a classic, sophisticated fusion of heritage and love.
I figured a long while back that we would be doing mass programs. Not all of our guests are Catholic, and programs would help them follow along, or at least know what to expect during the hour-long service. Programs would also be a great way to translate everything happening in English for the guests who speak no (or very little) English.
After we got the trilingual invites done, I knew that when the time came to do these programs they would be even more of a bitch. And for many months I just let that thought fester before it was time to deal with this bear.
How could this pretty program be so nasty?
Well…take a look at the inside:
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