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So, you may not know this about me, but I am highly competitive. One of the reasons I applied here as a blogger is to challenge myself as writer. I often channel this competitive streak into athletics. I race my bike, swim or roller derby my way into a socially acceptable person that doesn’t have to “win” at everything in everyday life.
However, I have noticed in the past few months that, while my workout routine has not completely vanished, it has slowed to a trickle. On top of that, I have not been to a race (or bout in the case of derby) in a looooonnnnggg time. I was really missing the all out effort followed by a win (or is some cases all out effort followed my a non-win followed by more effort).
As much as I want to get it in gear and be a general badass, I feel like there is only enough energy there for marginal bad-ass-ness. And that’s when it hit me.
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So you know how you look through recaps and think—wow, their wedding was clearly perfect. Yeah…I’m about to blow that thought right out of the water.
And to be fully honest, I’ve been dreading this part. It’s the one moment during our wedding that made me sad…and humiliated…and a lot of other emotions that I’m not sure I have the words for.
Okay, like a Band-Aid.
So after we enjoyed our delicious mini-pies, it was time for our first dance. As I’m sure all of you know, this is the point when typically the DJ introduces the couple under their new married name and invites everyone to watch as they have their moment on the dance floor. This is the time when everyone stops what they are doing, turns toward us and listens as the DJ begins to speak.
To make sure everyone is up-to-speed, my name is Melanie (as seen on our pie flags…I’m not worried about you all knowing my name). 
Please keep in mind my name when reading the next part.
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LiloDesigns is selling rhinestone pendant earrings. They’re asking $10 per pair.
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Awhile ago I stumbled upon this photo of these awesome personalized cocktail napkins and LOVED the idea!
Image via Style Unveiled / Photo by Fancy Fin Photography
They are so witty and adorable! With phrases like “Thanks for being quiet during the ceremony. You look great by the way,” who wouldn’t want to giggle a little reading these while standing in line for a cocktail, enjoying finger foods?
While I thought they were adorable, I didn’t really think I could waste a bunch of money on having them made for me, and so I gave up on the idea…until I saw this old post by Mrs. Cupcake, who used her Gocco to add fun facts to plain cocktail napkins, tutorial provided. If you remember, I bought a Gocco on a (terrible) whim one day, and have been searching for new projects to use it for so as to not feel like I wasted my $200. So you see, this project was a true win-win situation; I got to use my Gocco again and I got my adorable napkins.
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All-Inclusion Invitation Suites
“Make an elegant invitation statement without the fuss. Stylish invitation sets with matching envelopes, reception and response cards included.”
I love when a meeting with a vendor goes well. Our cake tasting with Creative Cakes went so well that we decided to sign the contract that day. Having that additional large, huge, big deal checked off the list lifted a weight from my shoulders I hadn’t fully realized was there. Also, their cakes are really beautiful. Want to see some? Sure you do.
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Wedding-dress shopping is kind of a big deal. (Hello, there are even television shows dedicated to the process!) And although I usually L.O.V.E. most shopping trips, the prospect of finding “the dress” totally turned me off. Besides watching other brides find their dresses on TV, there really wasn’t anything appealing about it. As various people found out I was getting married, many of them excitedly asked, “Have you found your dress yet?!” I became accustomed to my go-to response of, “No, net yet. And I’m really not looking forward to it.” (This was typically returned with the you-have-three-heads look.) I guess dress shopping is a part of the wedding process that many brides look back fondly upon, but I thought it was going to be a disaster.
I’m a pretty averaged-sized girl who takes care of herself with exercise and healthy eating most of the time and, like most women, I wanted to look exceptionally beautiful on my wedding day. Through reading many magazines and articles, I had learned that wedding-dress sizing did not correspond with street-clothes sizing. In fact, wedding dresses could be a whole one to two sizes smaller. Since it would be impractical for most dress shops to have a sample in every size, they only kept certain sizes on hand. To me this translated as a warning cry. “Prepare yourself! Nothing will fit!” I, like any bride, wanted to enjoy the shopping experience, but I had fun-house-style images in my head. Although the label size never bothered me, I pictured literally nothing fitting. Even though I really enjoyed them, I don’t think all of the dress shows really helped to ease my fears either. The episodes all captured so much drama! (Tears, broken budgets, and family squabbles, oh my!) And even though more recently they have started featuring brides of all sizes, most of the shows I watched featured itty-bitty girls. (And model-thin, I was not.)
A not-so-happy Minnie pin via Okey Dokey Goodies
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I think, at least. We left our wedding without signing the marriage license, so we’re going to get working on that soon. But we’ve been declared husband and wife by a practicing member of the clergy, so I’m calling it. I’m officially Mizzus Skunk.
The past two weeks have been a whirlwind. We are so happy to be home, though. First thing we’re doing is cookin’ up some collards, bacon, and fried eggs for breakfast and settling in with all the Walking Dead and Survivor (don’t laugh) that we’ve missed. I’ll get down to the nitty gritty here soon, but for now, here are two teasers.
When I first got engaged, I fully planned on waiting a month or so to revel in newly engaged bliss before doing any wedding planning. I needed to make the engagement Facebook official. I needed to schedule blocks of time for gazing adoringly at my new bling. I needed to practice calling Mr. Unicycle my fiancé in a nasally French accent (as in “Dahling, look at this gorgeous ring my fian-say gave me!”). I needed to milk the post-engagement-excitement-induced appetite loss for all it was worth because I’m a stress eater.
Image via She Knows Living
I’m engaged!!! (and surfing the net!!)
But here’s how every conversation went down when I told my nearest and dearest about the impending nuptials:
How did I find Weddingbee?
I actually found Weddingbee back in 2007 when I was engaged to Mr. D the first time around. I was googling something wedding related when Google sent me to a post by the wonderful, Mrs. Strawberry and I was immediately in love the with the hive. However, our engagement never actually went towards wedding planning, so to save myself from going crazy I stopped coming to Weddingbee. Then we got engaged the second time around. I waited for about six months, when the wedding planning actually began before actually signing up and becoming a poster on the boards. I was so excited to come back to the hive though—it was such a loving and supportive community and I couldn’t wait to be a part of it!
My Application Story
I’ve always been a writer of sorts. I was an editor of my high school and college newspapers and I specialized in editorial writing. When I realized that it was starting to get close to when I could apply, I started up my blog and starting hounding the ladies I had come to know so well on the night chats in the hive to read my blog and give me feedback. The ladies were so kind and so supportive. They were always right there to read my stuff and give me feedback (Mrs. Teacup, before she was Mrs. Teacup, was an invaluable help! She would always comment on my blog and encourage me to keep going!). I blogged for about three weeks, and sent my application in as soon as Pengy announced they were accepting for March 2012.
Once that application left my outbox, I was nervous.
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A little music to help set the mood…
A few of my girlfriends and I had a hot date to rush to after dinner. It just so happened that New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys were playing in Vancouver the night before I was getting married. It was like fate!!
Orchids and David Austin roses filled out Verachka’s white bouquet
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In other words, the two biggest disagreement points between future Foxy and me. Keyword: future.
The topics of God and guns have come up several times, since the two of us don’t necessarily see eye to eye on either one. Where it gets tricky is when we talk about our future kiddos; sure, it’s a (long) ways away, but it’s something that we’re trying to decide on now. Duke it out ahead of time and such.
Here goes:
1. God
Image via Set A Mark
I’ve already mentioned several times that I grew up Lutheran and Foxy is atheist.
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As you saw from my last single girl post, I woke up bright and early on the morning of our wedding. My mum, Bridesmaid M, and I headed down for a nice stroll to the beach in the crisp morning air (Maid of Honour A is definitely not a morning person!). We also had another friend join us for the walk: my parents’ next door neighbour’s dog, Lawson. He loves going for walks, especially when he has a few friends to join him. It still didn’t feel like our wedding day; it was starting to feel a little like my birthday or Christmas though…we were getting there!
I was all over the place when it came to table numbers. I never knew that I even cared about table numbers until I started stalking all of Etsy and Pinterest. Then, suddenly I had a deep concern for a perfect set of table numbers. Gosh darn you Etsy and Pinterest.
I was not even about to consider shelling out over $100 for a set of table numbers though, no sirree. A few weeks back I was constantly emailing my mom photos of table numbers that I liked, then whining about how much they cost. I finally proclaimed I was going to DIY; I didn’t even care if they turned out bad. I simply refused to spend so much money on nice table numbers when I could do them myself.
Little did I know it was going to take me weeks to perfect this project.
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One day, a girl and her fiance went to run some errands. While driving out of the shopping center, the girl saw something out of the corner of her eye that made her squeal with delight. A bridal salon she had never before noticed! She quickly called and made an appointment for later that week (AKA the next day).
When she walked into the bridal salon for her appointment, though, she became disappointed. There were only 20 or so bridal dresses in the entire store, and none of them looked anything like the style this girl was looking for. While all of her instincts said to leave, the girl felt bad and so she talked to the consultant. She explained that she wanted a fitted dress, preferably one with lace, tulle, petals, flowers, etc. The consultant said she knew just the dress but it was already in a fitting room. She took it out and it was just a plain lace dress, limply dangling on its hanger with odd straps. The girl was disappointed. She didn’t really like it very much, but decided she would be polite and try it on.
Once the dress was on, the girl looked up into the mirror and…SPARKS FLEW! The girl did not want to take off the dress! She looked at it from every angle, confused. This was not what the girl had wanted—there were no ruffles, no petals, no rosettes, none of the features of the girl’s dream dress. But the girl quickly realized all of the dresses she had tried before that had had those details never seemed right. They were all too childish or too trendy or too overbearing and, simply put, too much. This dress, though, was simple, understated, elegant, and classic. The girl realized that the other dresses she loved so much on models she would have looked back in five years and wondered, “What was I thinking?” but this dress, even if it became outdated, would always be stylish.
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