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The famous Vegas tourism slogan is, of course: “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” This saying may very well be true for a lot of trips to Sin City. (Enough trips, at least, so that entire movie series are based on this premise.) However, given the money that I am spending on a professional photographer and our penchant for taking lots and lots of pictures, I can’t imagine a scenario where we don’t return home after our wedding with a lot of photographic evidence of exactly what occurred.
We even take pictures of us taking pictures.
So our new wedding-related Vegas slogan: “What happens in Vegas will be so much more awesome if you come too.” The trick was luring everyone there. We decided that the best way to do so was to send out some STDs.***
As soon as we decided that we were going to get married in Vegas, we realized that we could have some fun with the STDs. We also wanted to do something pretty awesome for them, especially since we were asking people to pony up for flight tickets (or gas) and hotel rooms just to see us get married. After all, this is a destination wedding for everyone, except Mr. Mole’s parents. We wanted to pay it back somehow.
We brainstormed a lot of different options for our Vegas STDs.
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Maggie Sottero’s Bernadette is the one for Nicoley1985!
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And by things, I mean me.
I looked in the mirror today and what I saw looked like the product of a wild night between Bert, Hyde from That 70’s Show, and a billy goat.
OK, OK, so it wasn’t really that bad, but still. Something had to be done. I’m busy and too much of a pain weenie to sit down with a pair of tweezers, so while I was out running errands I had my face threaded.
Only not really.
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but I was sure that once the wedding got closer, it would no longer be relevant. That hasn’t happened, so here goes.
We’re less than two weeks out to the wedding. In addition to schlepping bread to farmers’markets five days a week, babysitting three, and helping out another pastry chef as needed, I’m also supposed to be getting bride brain. Or so I’ve heard. When I do have a few moments that aren’t devoted to sleep or sneaking in a quick sesh at the climbing gym, I’ve shopped for two awesome Halloween costumes. And last night I carved a pumpkin.
(personal photo)
Actually, Mr. Skunk carved (word up y’all, if you want your mister to join you in cheesy holiday traditions, get power tools involved) while I looked on giggling in excitement.
I keep getting asked if I’m stressed or nervous.
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“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
I do deeply apologize for the Spongebob reference in the title. I don’t even like that show. Truth be told I should have come up with a prettier title for this post, because it is about something that I think is really…well…beautiful.
Wedding fragrance.
A few years ago I was at a Mary Kay party with a friend who was engaged. The consultant gave her a tidbit of advice so amazing I knew I needed to tuck it away for future use. She said that sent is the sense most strongly tied to memory and emotion. As such, the bride should wear a fragrance on her wedding day that she has never worn before and then, forever after it will become her “wedding fragrance” and every time she (or more importantly the groom) gets a whiff of it they will be magically transported back to that beautiful day.
It did not take me long to realize this was, of course, totally true! For me, the smell of solvent, and rubber takes me back to my childhood in my dad’s bicycle shop, the smell of garlic bread and old books is my grandma’s house, and Victoria’s Secret Love Spell is totally the girls’ high school locker room.
I knew I wanted to find something that was different from my daily fragrance, which is Amazing Grace by Philosophy.
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For months I sewed fabric flowers at work every day and my colleagues had started asking, “When’s the wedding again?” or “Do you think you’ll get them done in time?” or the ever-popular, “How many flowers left now?” which I never had an answer for.
I was never stressed about getting this project done, though. I started in June and our wedding is in October. (Cough… next week…) So I took my sweet time sewing those flowers as slowly as I wanted to. I sewed them while talking to friends at lunch and did not worry about working on them in the evening or on weekends if I had better things to do. It took so long to get them done because I did this project about as slow as one possibly can.
But you can bet I was happy when I finished these babies and marched them to the post office!
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
If you know what the title is referencing as far as its format, give yourselves a pat on the back. If you don’t, I’ll give you a hint: wizards, HP, owls, and wands. Got it?
Another hint:
Well, the discussion today is not about Harry Potter. It is actually wedding related, and it’s something that I have been thinking a lot about lately. I’ve noticed more and more posts about it on the boards, and I wanted to give my take on it and see what everyone else thinks about it. So what is this topic that I am rambling on and on about?
It’s about the use of the word “tacky.”
When our grandparents (and to a certain extent, our parents) were getting married, there was some rules that we expected to be followed to a “t.” Weddings, for the most part, were really similar and predictable. This is not the environment that we face now.
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Oh how I hate the word “bridesmaids.” I mean…maid?? Really? I prefer brideslady. So brideslady it is! (I know that’s really not much better, but I call all my lovely friends “lady,” so it makes sense in my mind.)
I realize that I haven’t written much…or anything…about said bridesladies yet, even though I have been looking for their dresses since about a month into our engagement. I also chose and asked all my ladies to be in the wedding the very night I got engaged.
Lesson number 23 in wedding planning: if you have a 26-month engagement, do not pick out your bridesladies the night you get engaged. (I very much love all my ladies, but more on this at another time.)
Back to what’s at hand: brideslady dresses! From the start, I knew I wanted them to be some shade of turquoise and some version of chiffon fabric.
Thank you, DB, for your super-fun dress your wedding feature.
A while back, I mentioned briefly the types of flowers and colors I might like to have at our wedding. In this post, I will show you the flowers we actually had. I love flowers in general (in fact, even as a single girl I’d regularly come home from the store with my own flowers, just because they brightened up the place so much), and the floral design was very close to my heart.
The flowers I loved most were the ones for the ceremony. The florist did an amazing job here, and I think every single person who saw the ceremony space said, “wow” out loud. They were that great.
The thing I liked about our florist is that he does a “floral + decor” type of setup, so I never had to buy a single decorative element. So, all the candles, vases, and decorative elements you see (except for those personal items we mentioned, like the table photos) were provided by him. We were surprised to find that it was actually cheaper this way!
Our photographers took a ton of great shots, which I’ll show you in a minute, but I also love this one taken by my husband’s iPhone, taken as he was walking around getting ready. It’s fuzzy and a bit underexposed, but it captures the ceremony room kind of dark and chandelier-y, just like I remember it.
I know I’ve been avoiding writing this post because I hate to say goodbye, but the time has come. Even though I knew it would be a “see you later,” because I love the hive way too much, it’s still sad to officially finish the Handmade Amor recaps. But don’t worry I will be showing my face every time I can. 
Right now I am in Chile enjoying some beautiful spring weather while on vacation with my family, and it’s a little touching to be sitting in the exact same chair as when I wrote my very first post back in 2009, mostly because, since the wedding, I’ve only been here twice.
Hi, my name is Miss Dalmatian and I am a total homebody. Come Saturday night you will not find me out on the town. You will find me snuggled on the couch with the mister and the pup, eating a hot-and-ready pizza from Little Caesars and watching Hulu. Don’t get me wrong—I do occasionally go out, and I have a lot of fun when I do.
Yes, that is me. Yes, I am waving a penis straw. Yes, I did that the entire night. Yes, it is embarrassing. Yes, it was ridiculously fun.
However, the slightly extremely tipsy, dancing-on-the-bar, penis-straw-waving girl is definitely the exception as opposed to the rule. The rule tends to involve less beads and more sweatpants.
A couple of years ago, I went to the eye doctor to pick out new frames. (Like the mole, I am blind without corrective lenses!) I ended up finding a unisex pair by Ted Baker: thick, brown, and rectangular. I loved them. I modeled them for the sales assistant, and she said, “Well, those certainly aren’t pretty. Are you sure you want them?” I did. I bought them immediately.
Not-pretty glasses, not-short hair
Hello all! Since all of our the save the dates that will be mailed are out, I thought I’d share!
We still have a few to hand deliver and then a few more to electronically deliver. These are for our friends we were unable track down addresses for. It’s true, but it’s also code for “we ran out.”
ms. rice crispy treat is selling an Allure wedding gown. Make an offer on this altered size-10 dress.
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Yesterday was our first bridal shower so I thought it would be the perfect time to have a hair trial. Not only would I be testing out a wedding day look, but my hair would look great for the shower!
Mr. Ball Cap’s cousin, L, has been doing my hair since I moved to Dyer. She recently had a baby and now works out of her home. I take every chance I can to get over there for a baby fix!
At my last appointment with her, I gave her a print out of looks I had found online. I was drawn to a similar style over and over again.
Image via TheKnot.com
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