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On Saturday, a few LA hive members met up for brunch at Elements Kitchen in Pasadena. We had an amazing turnout of eleven! Thanks again to everyone!
(Left from front to back: Miss Mole, Mrs. Cotton Candy, meowkers, birdredbird, Mrs. Spaniel)
(Right from front to back: Mrs. Barrettes, mrsdooks, Miss Warbler, Miss Ticket, Mrs. Parasol, beignet)
One thing I’ve learned from my time planning a wedding thus far is that no matter how far in advance you plan, things still come up that will stress you out and throw you for a spin.
In an extended effort to keep things real and not just give you all fluff (as wonderful as said fluff may be), I have to briefly delve into a recent stressy and unfortunate situation.
Part of the reason I waited so long to even write a tidbit about my bridesladies is because I wasn’t sure if the original five I asked to be in the wedding…would actually end up being in the wedding. Friendships naturally go through their ups and downs, some people grow apart and some grow closer—and all this absolutely holds true when your engagement is over two years long and you have your party set from day one.
I won’t go into details because it’s really not necessary, but one of my original five is no longer in the wedding party. Things are still fine between us—there was a short guest appearance from the drama llama, who was sent on his merry little way rather quickly—and at the end of the day, after all other situations, my one friend ultimately had to decline from remaining in the wedding due to possible travel and school plans in the future.
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With most wedding decisions, I did research until my head was spinning, contemplated every option that was even in the realm of possibility, and discussed said options with anyone who would listen until I was blue in the face. Picking a DJ, however, was not such a lengthy process, and I don’t really have an explanation as to why. It certainly wasn’t because I did not care about the music, because I think we can all agree that music can play a big role in getting the party started.
That would be Bridesmaid M, me, Mr. Dalmatian, and MOH K busting some moves at MOH A’s wedding. She had a great band that achieved a lively atmosphere and crowded dance floor that I am hoping to replicate at our wedding. Despite her great experience with a band, we decided to go with a DJ, mainly because of the lower price tag (because, let’s be honest, with regard to cutting costs so far my success rate is pretty shameful).
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Our final, final deadline was last Saturday, and we spent a couple of days beyond that tracking down some stragglers (like, oh, our Reverend and his wife). Like many before me, I feel compelled to share our breakdown and how we feel about it.
I love charts, so I spent way too much time this morning composing a few.
First, our out-of-town/in-town guest count.
I cannot tell you how relieved I feel to finally share the story of my dress search! Even still I find myself trying to hide the computer from Mr. Hot Tea so he won’t catch a peek. DOH—we’re married now silly Teacup, it’s okay.
Let’s rewind back a year ago. Just after getting engaged, we chose a date for our ceremony at the Carmel Mission Basilica. I had completed the Catholic catechism and was baptized, confirmed, and received my first communion at that altar during Easter 2009. It only seemed logical to want to get married there, and I needed a dress to stand up to the grandeur.
Photo credit: Karlo M. Leonor
Dutifully following Randy Fenoli’s advice of bridal homework, I pored over thousands of gowns in magazines and on theknot.com. I learned the recommended silhouettes for my body type and paid careful attention to my bookmarked styles. Maybe through process of elimination I’d figure out what I wanted.
Hindsight 20/20, I now know to listen for the little inner self who felt whirly-twirly over a beauty by Priscilla of Boston. She was all wrong for me and the Mission, and yet I still drool when she comes into view. Love!
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We still haven’t chosen a DOC or a florist. But, we are making progress on the solutions Momma and Mima Kettle came up with.
We met with a third DOC on Monday. Mr. Kettle and Momma and Daddy Kettle came with me to this meeting. By this third meeting, we were old pros. We laid out what we had planned so far, and gave her the information she needed. From all three meetings, I’m starting to see that it is the rule of thumb that DOCs get involved before the actual day-of.
They come in anywhere from immediately to 30 days prior to the wedding. They help for a detailed timeline for the day. They try to get to know the wedding party so there’s no confusion as to who’s running the show on the wedding day. They go to the rehearsal, and of course, they’re at the actual wedding.
The DOCs all offered to take care of making sure deliveries are on schedule on the wedding day, making the sure musicians are on time and set up, and taking care of day-of vendor payments. Also, they all seem to have teams they work with (especially for a wedding the size of mine).
So how will we choose between people who seem so similar?
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While the rest of our guests enjoyed their cocktail hour, we posed for photos with our families. Mr. Lion and I each have divorced parents, so there were a lot of separate pictures to take. Fortunately, our photographer was really great about speeding things along efficiently.
First, we posed with Mama Lioness.
BethAnnG took engagement pictures in the sand
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This past Saturday, the Austin and San Antonio bees got together for the first time, meeting halfway in historic Gruene, Texas.
Mrs. Beagle, Miss Petit Four, Mrs. Sand Dollar, Mrs. Waffle, haelmai, Mrs. Mouse
We had lunch at the super-cute Gruene River Grill and talked about everything from wedding planning to work to GLEE!
It was great seeing/meeting all of you ladies! Can’t wait for the next meetup.
It was also great to meet one of Mrs. Sand Dollar’s friends/bridesmaids, who was kind enough to take these photos. Hopefully we’ll see more of you around Weddingbee now!
Image via Westminster Blogs
Y’all I’mma fixin’ to get up on my soapbox. And it might get ugly.
I’ve gone the easy route for everything wedding related so far. Let the girls pick the dresses, casual dress code for the dudes, and scribbled addresses on the invites. So for God’s sakes quit asking me why we haven’t registered at Macy’s.
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I love hearing about the rehearsal dinner! Mr. Raccoon’s family offered to be in charge of ours, and it sounds amazing!
First, I’ll tell you about some of the places that were almost chosen.
Zydeco’s 5:
Images via michellej Flickr / Fun City Finder / Metromix Indianapolis
Foxy and I have been having some really great wedding-related talks lately.
As I’ve mentioned previously, for the past year and few months, I’ve been the one researching, putting together inspiration boards, and getting the basic “skeleton” of the wedding in place. Now that we are about eight months away (OMG), it’s time to implement some of those abstract ideas and sit down and really work out what we want for our big day.
A few nights ago, we talked music—what we could use for the processional, recessional, and first-dance songs. While I’ve been compiling music for months, Foxy kind of opened my eyes to something: these songs need to be US. While we have similar taste in music, some things are definitely much more my taste and some are much more his. Naturally, I was picking things in “my style” of music; I was hellbent on using this one particular song for our first dance, but you know what? Foxy doesn’t even know the band. As perfect as the lyrics and the music may be, it’s not his thing. And we can’t be dancing to a song that will forever be “our song” if he doesn’t like it. So we spent an hour scouring our music collections and came up with some really great, unique possibilities that are so incredibly US.
I have always had very vivid dreams and, unfortunately, very vivid nightmares. It is not an unusual occurrence that poor Mr. Dalmatian gets woken up to me yelling or crying in my sleep. Occassionally, he himself is still mostly asleep and I get an angry, “What are you doing?!” that he doesn’t recall in the morning, but most of the time it wakes him up enough to know what is going on, and he reassures me that it is just a nightmare and everything is OK. The not-so-pleasant dreams are usually correlated to my stress level, and I can usually find a link to something that is going on during my waking hours. So, I was fully prepared for the onset of wedding dreams.
Soon after I got engaged, I had a dream that we were getting married on a mountaintop. All was going well until…a tsunami hit. Yes, that’s right, our wedding was brutally interrupted by a tidal wave that washed us away. Now, I do not have a degree in psychology, but I’m pretty sure what the tsunami was not so subtly representing was being overwhelmed.
Don’t get me wrong—I love wedding planning. I loved it when we first got engaged, and the feeling has not faded over the last five months. But the fact is, while most of the things that need to be done are fun in my book, there are still lots and lots (and lots) of things that need to be done. As my nightmare so eloquently expressed, even positive things can be overwhelming when they come in such large quantities.
Alternative Title #1: To Hell and Back Again
Alternative Title #2: #whitegirlproblems
Last week I realised I had a big first world problem. You see hive, I had been growing my hair out for two weeks in preparation for my first salon waxing experience. Previously limited to home waxing experiences, I had only had the courage to wax my arms and armpits. But I wanted silky smooth legs for the wedding (and so does Mr. FC) so I was planning to have someone wax them. You guys are also concerned about body hair on your big day too, right??
It seems most waxing brides seem to go on Tuesday or Wednesday before a Saturday wedding so that their “sensitive” areas have time to readjust. But I didn’t want to pay the usual exorbitant Swiss prices on Tuesday or chance flying all day on Wednesday with an unhappy hoohah, so I was planning on finding a nice affordable Columbus salon to wax at this Thursday. Maybe it would be cutting it a bit close, but I wasn’t even sure I really wanted to do those “sensitive” parts…
So what’s the problem FC?
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