Weddingbee Blog

Confession: LOTS has been going on in life lately outside of wedding planning.

Shocker, I know.

Work has been getting busier, I technically started a second job, I’ll (hopefully) start dancing with a local company in the next few weeks, and…minor detail…we moved!

With our moving buddies on the right…excuse my wonky arm. Foxy kept tickling me, which I DO NOT LIKE.

For the past few years, the man and I have been living in a wonderful little one-bedroom apartment in the heart of our little town that we just loved. Problem is, we grew out of it. We “fit” for about eight months, and then life just…expanded. We bought things, improved things, settled into living together—and soon realized that our one bedroom was about three rooms too small. Since we weren’t in a place to buy just yet (going to school, buying a car, and planning a wedding have the annoying tendency to use up lots of money), we decided to search for houses and/or townhouses up for rent within a few miles of our current place. Awesomely enough, our search was super easy—Foxy found a posting for a house up for rent at his job, and we met with the owners and signed the lease papers a week or so later. The story is that the owners are taking jobs overseas for two years, so while there is definitely an expiration date on our lease…it’s still our home for the next two years—our “first house,” if you will!

One awesome thing about living in a house, especially one with a big backyard?? We were also able to get a puppy!!

Cue collective awwwws! She’s a five-month-old lab/shepherd mix that we named Juno—a handful, but a cute one!

The only bad (AKA extremely fantabulous) thing about living in a house four times the size of our previous apartment is that there’s just so much space. On the one hand, we no longer have to store our pots, pans, and Margaritaville mixer on the living-room bookshelves. On the other hand, we just don’t have enough furniture or gadgets to fill all the empty spaces. Not gonna lie, it kinda looks like we got robbed. By about 50 hooligans. And the stuff that we do have? Is just so old and so far down the hand-me-down list that we would need to pay people to take it off our hands.

Items on our current want/need list: a couch, a dining-room table and chairs, new plates, new silverware, a fancy coffee pot that just knows to make coffee for you every morning, a pasta attachment for our KitchenAid mixer, matching bath towels, and a metal spatula, among other things. All totally necessary.

Lo and behold, wouldn’t you know it that we’re getting married and can put a lot of this on our registry?? Which we can totally start creating soon! While the giddy five year old in me is aching for this stuff nownowNOW, it’s kind of fun to internet-window-shop for all the essential and pretty goods to pimp out our house.

Right now, the only given is Bed Bath & Beyond; 99% of their inventory is definitely involved in our idea of a perfectly decorated house.

Wallverbs Frame Set via BB&B

Laura Ceramic Dinnerware via BB&B

Ravenscroft Crystal Amphora Decanter via BB&B

Aside from that…who knows. I would say Target, but it seems silly to register somewhere that we can easily just get things from by driving a mile down the street. Plus I’m not as big-puffy-hearts in love with it as I am with BB&B. Perhaps Macy’s or JCPenney…somewhere with a good option of pretty plates and things, for sure. Alas, if only Ikea had a registry option…

What other fun/useless/amazing/necessary items do you think we should plan to fill our new digs with?!