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Something special is headed my way! While I’ll leave the wining and dining to seemingly possessed dinnerware (or at least the caterer), someone had to make a guest book.
I tried the new customized pathway through Shutterfly and it worked wonderfully! I have always been happy with projects I’ve ordered through them, and I do not expect this one to be any different. Only having to pay shipping through a special offer was the best part.
The majority of our wedding guests were from outside of Vancouver. I really hoped that everyone who traveled to our wedding would be able to enjoy some of the great things the city had to offer. For those who were up for a bit of a challenge I organized a group hike on Thursday morning up the Grouse Grind—one of my favourite things to do in Vancouver!
Eight intrepid explorers set out to hike the Grind on a day where the clouds hung low over the mountains.
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OK, so…I have not had a bridal shower yet, and I am not planning one for anyone (at this time)… However, I made this cake this weekend and thought is was SO girly and delicious that I had to share it with you, and, since this is a wedding blog, I figured I had to make it wedding-ish somehow so…TADA! Shower cake*.
Super easy-peasy just this side of totally box cake.
Step one: buy and bake a box of Funfetti cake according to directions on the box for the two nine inch round pans.
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I guess you can use some other white or yellow cake mix, but really, why would you? Also I should note, I really like to use butter instead of spray non-stick…it just works better.
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As of two weeks ago, here was my thought on suits for the guys: eh, we will deal with it around two months before the wedding. Well that all changed when Mr. Buck was a groomsman in a wedding last week. While we were at the tux shop getting him fitted I was casually chatting with the lady working there. She mentioned to me that if we order the suits for our wedding by the end of this year, we will ensure this year’s prices and not have to pay when prices go up in January. Say what? That changed everything for me, plus, I am not one to shy away from planning ahead and booking early. Now all of a sudden I have to make a decision on what kind of suit the guys should wear. They have no interest in choosing; if I left it to them this is what they would all show up in:
{Image via Bright Colored Tuxes}
Not going to happen. I have a super powerful title called Bride which means I am allowed to say no to these types of things. We did compromise though, and decided the guys can all wear camouflage socks.
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I am going to interrupt this planning journey to take a stroll back in time (over a year ago, holy cow!) to tell you the story of how the Porcupines got engaged. I apparently blacked out for a moment when I was telling you about how we met and how Mr. Porcupine got the ring. I just stopped there, and went right into our planning journey, without even telling you the story of how the engagement went down.
Well, for starters, it was my 25th birthday (never saw that one coming). I always thought it would be a more low-key engagement. Wrong! My birthday fell on a Sunday and we had gone out the night before with our friends. Here’s an idea of how the night went.
So, yeahhhh, it was a bacon, egg, and cheese/pure grease down my gullet kind of morning.
Mr. Porcupine had let me know he had plans to take me out to a nice restaurant in the city on Sunday (my actual birthday). He wouldn’t tell me where it was though. Only that I should dress up. I had a dress and everything. AND pearls. I was feeling fancy.
I don’t remember what I did that day.
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Or…are you for reals my wedding heels?!
First and foremost, before we get to the good stuff, I LOVE ZAPPOS. If you haven’t used them yet, find a reason to! Sure, they have a huge selection of shoes. Sure, they have free shipping. Sure, they have a 365 day return policy.
They also sent me two pairs of shoes within 24 hours of ordering them. I didn’t even ask them to…I was perfectly happy waiting 3-5 days for their standard free shipping when I ordered a few pairs one morning back in April. When I got an email early afternoon on the same day saying that they were already being shipped, I thought, “sweet!” Then, when Mr. Foxy texted me around 1PM the day after to tell me that they were just delivered?
My jaw hit the floor. Amazing. And perfect, because I’m probably one of the most impatient people you’ll meet.
As I mentioned, I made this purchase back in April—with spring and Easter season starting up, there were lots of pretty colored shoes out there that weren’t available a few months prior. And one of those colors was fortunately turquoise.
Now remember when I said that my wedding shoes should ideally be closed toed and under 4″?
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
It almost doesn’t seem real that it’s been two whole years since I donned the most beautiful dress of my life:
Married the man who stole my heart:
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Alternate Title: There are a Boatload of People Coming to Our Wedding.
Alternate Title #2: The One Thing I Would Change About This Wedding Process.
We invited approximately 177 people to our wedding. I say approximately because there were a couple of last minute add ons coughbytheMisterandhisfamilynotmecough that I don’t think ever officially got on the list-list. They got an invite, but maybe weren’t actually added to the Google doc that holds all the relevant guest info. Whatevs. Not my problem.
Anyway, I was a little nervous. I was initially hoping for 100 people, and then I decided that was unrealistic and bumped that number up to 120, maybe 130. I may have been that bride that opens up the RSVPs and wishes “Please, be a no!” But it turns out, people like us a freaking lot.
Sally Field’s “You Really Like Me” Speech / Image via Nina Spencer
Sorry for the light posting as of late. While I still haven’t managed to track down my half-way decent camera I figured a few cell phone pictures were better than nothing for a couple of posts, so here goes nothing.
Mr. Ticket asked for very few things throughout this wedding process. He doesn’t tend to get overly-excited about the details. He did like the food/cake tastings and I know he’s pretty stoked about the cookie table. Then, every once in a while, he throws me a curve ball…
We will be stocking our own wedding bar and hiring a bartender to save some $$$. First we asked our caterer what it would cost to rent glasses from them (our catering contract includes all dishes/server ware rentals) and when he informed us it would cost upwards of $0.75 per glass for rentals we decided to just pick up a few packs of plastic cups from Sam’s Club. Then one day I stumbled upon…
Image via Ruffled / Photographed by Wildflowers Photography
We were so lucky to have my talented MIL Betty bake our wedding cake. She asked us what flavors we liked and the look we were going for, and we could have not been happier because it was not only delicious, but it was also so cute! We loved it so much. 
We use one of the 8 tree stumps my FIL worked on to be used as trays for the sweets as the cake stand. My MIL kept the cake on a tray so the cake would not directly touch the coated wood, just in case.
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To recap, we had struck out with our initial venue search, but I then discovered an appreciation for all-inclusive packages that opened up a few more options for us.
Among these options was a little place called Historic Cedarwood.
Image via Cedarwood Weddings / Photo by Left Turn Photo
How did I feel when we found Cedarwood? This sums it up pretty well:
“You know the feeling when it’s the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded, and you know the next one’s coming right down the middle. And then, you just connect…and for an instant, you know that it’s going over the fence and out of the park…and further than you could ever imagine.” - Steve Guttenberg, It Takes Two
My entire life could probably be retraced and pieced together through a series of shopping and to-do lists. Honestly: If I kept them all, they’d probably serve as a pretty robust basis for my day-in-the-life biography. Which somebody’s totally going to write about me when I die. Duh.
Lately, I’ve been fairly obsessed with the cruise packing list. For those of you catching up, we’re embarking on a 7-day cruise after the wedding, through the Eastern Caribbean, stopping at Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Grand Turk, and St. Thomas. Neither of us have ever been. I’m simultaneously a packs-too-much traveler and a forgets-the-essentials traveler. So I like to turn to handy Google for advice. Today, it was “Cruise Packing List.” Naturally, I found some super long and scary-specific lists. Like this one from Cruise Direct. (Which makes me wonder, what are people doing on their cruises? Krazy Glue? Walkman? DUCT TAPE?)
So, by narrowing out the things we always pack for any trip—meds, toiletries, underwear—I’ve arrived at what I think is a pretty comfortable packing list for the impending honeymoon cruise.
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Cake toppers are probably some of the most adorable things ever created.
Lovebirds made by Etsy seller Red Light Studio
I saw these Kokeshi doll toppers and thought it was pretty awesome that they could be customized to look like the bride and groom. They’re something I could imagine not just keeping, but keeping on display forever.
This is a post I have been waffling back and forth on for quite some time. I was not sure how, or if, to write it, and even now I am a little nervous about it going up. That being said, I think it is an important part of Mr. Aardvark’s and my story, and it really wouldn’t be fair to you if we left it out. I also understand that this is a very personal subject and that many people have many different opinions on it. I welcome all of your thoughts, but please remember, as I just stated, it was a very personal decision and what’s right for me may not be what’s right for you.
As the title implies, Mr. A and I are living together. We have been living together since the end of our LDR. Initially, this was not the plan. I had a very clear thought in my head that I didn’t want to live together until we were at least engaged and ideally, if we could time it right, married.
Well, hive, as the months of our LDR dragged on and on, that thought began to evolve. You see, more than anything I wanted Mr. Aardvark to come out to Wisconsin, and we even began to discuss him doing so without a job. Now the tricky thing about not having a job is that it is darn near impossible to get approved for a lease. We briefly discussed having me co-sign his lease but ultimately decided that was not worth the extra time, money, or hassle since one of us would inevitably be spending the night at the other’s apartment every night.
amie_mcmahan’s wedding cake was pink perfection!
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