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joezhm’s elegant DIY programs were sewn together with blue and teal thread
Mark Schlanser Photography
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After a quick sprint to the end of our last minute wedding crafts, we packed it in, dressed it up, and re-grouped at the Thimble-In-Law’s house for our improvised rehearsal in the backyard. The most stressful and most rewarding part of planning our wedding was putting together our interfaith ceremony. Part of that stress: The priest thought the rabbi would run the rehearsal and the rabbi told me they don’t rehearse. Huh.
Reading blog after blog of beautiful brides with beautiful weddings and documented rehearsals, and coming from a Catholic perspective where weddings are always rehearsed, I was disappointed and scared. I did not want to wonder what’s coming next while trying to take in and enjoy every moment during our ceremony. We were also among the first in our group of friends and the first of our siblings to get married, which meant that most of our wedding party had never gone down the aisle before. So I enlisted a newlywed friend and called upon my theatre training and led us in a very basic blocking and run-through rehearsal so we could all feel a little more confident. To make the event feel more official and attune to my expectations, I created an e-vite using Paperless Post:
Mr. Ball Cap’s brother was married in September of 2010. We are very close to his brother and sister-in-law, and their daughter is our Jr. Bridesmaid. With their wedding not far behind us, they still have many of their supplies on hand. Future Sister-In-Law let me know early on that I was more than welcome to use anything they had left over. It was a sweet offer, but one that I sort of forgot about once I got into the heavy planning stages.
Fast forward a month or so ago, and we needed to make a decision on the card box. This wasn’t something that was a high priority for me or anything I wanted to spend a lot of time or resources on. I just wanted it to blend in with the overall look of the wedding and be practical and useful.
My first thought was to follow the movie “Up” inspired mailbox trend. I find this idea beyond adorable and love the personalized touch.
Image via DisneyWeddingBlog.com / Photo by Wildflowers Photography
(Super cute “Up” inspired engagement shoot.)
The biggest concern about using this type of card box is that the cards could easily disappear.
No, not you DJ Tanner.
Image via Buddy TV
I’m kind of in shock that I haven’t mentioned anything specific about our DJ Frank yet. After the venue, he was the first vendor we booked! (What can I say, we like music.) It’s actually kind of awesome because our new buddy Frank apparently works with our venue quite often, so he already knows the space, layout, and general flow of things on the big day. He came highly recommended by our DOC, and the fact that someone else was trying to book him for their wedding on the same day as ours almost two years in advance? Yea, I’d say he’s good at what he does. We’d hit that.
Mr. Foxy and I first met with Frank in July of 2010 and had an instant connection.
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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.”
A long time ago I fell in love with these escort cards that Mrs. Brooch blogged about:
Image via Mrs. Brooch
Unfortunately, they are no longer available on Etsy. I really want to recreate this look and feel for the wedding, so another trip to Michaels it was! I found decorative paper in varying patterns and got to work.
It all started with a few months ago with shipment from Steve
It was certainly a scorching Texas summer eve,
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
We took our pre-ceremony wedding photos in a park very near our house. This park is Central Memorial Park, and every year there is a Remembrance Day ceremony there.
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Finding the perfect reception space was definitely not a walk in the park. It wasn’t nearly as easy a decision as securing the ceremony location. (And, to be honest, after being snapped back into reality with our budget constraints, I wasn’t feeling as confident about the ease of booking a reception space.) Since Williamsburg is such a small town, there wasn’t an adbundance of information about weddings online. I began a search by visiting a number of photography blogs to view pictures of real weddings in the area. It was a great way to gather ideas about new locations and have a more candid view of the spaces.
I initially found Wessex Hall at Williamsburg Winery. As a senior in college, I had made a trip with fellow sorority sisters to the winery and had fond memories. A reception at a winery would be fitting, as Mr. Hawk and I enjoyed attending the occasional wine tasting, and the rustic look of Wessex Hall with wood beams and metal chandeliers was perfect (and felt very Williamsburg). It was around $1,000 less than the Alumni House, which was a plus, but when I contacted them our date was booked. (Ugh. Woulda been too easy, right?) They only had availability on Labor Day weekend, and I wasn’t willing to change our date (and go back on the college’s waiting list for Wren) so I moved on.
Photo via Williamsburg Winery
Next, I considered several of the hotels in the area. There was the Hospitality House, where I was planning on reserving a room block, the Williamsburg Lodge, and Williamsburg Inn. The Lodge was booked, the Inn wanted something like a minimum of $20,000 in food and beverage, and the look of the Hospitality House’s ballroom wasn’t exactly the look I was going for. (NEXT!)
Hi there! Remember that time I started telling you about my dress shopping adventures and then totally left you high and dry without a drop of info about my final purchase? My bad! In case you missed the beginning of the story (or in case you need a refresher since it has been so long), I fawned over some inspiration dresses, planned a trip to NYC, and did a little bit of shopping here in Nashville with Mama Dalmatian.
Now, first things first:
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| Image via The Daily Puppy |
Okay, now second things second: I have a very important warning for those of you who have not yet embarked on wedding dress shopping:
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Dear Hive, it’s fitting I stopped where I did. Because right after the waiting, everything seemed to zoom into fast forward for me. As if it weren’t going fast enough already. In the next few moments, I wanted desperately to slow everything down and hit pause. Not because I didn’t want to proceed, but because I wanted to hold on to every moment of what was about to happen. Apparently I hit pause in my recaps to compensate. Sorry about that.
And so, with your permission (and my apologies) I’d like to hit play on the proceedings.
You see, eventually the waiting ended. Those few precious moments with my girls were over. The event coordinator came to pick me up and walked me to the main house where I met up with our very small processional party. There were hugs and tears. Mr. Lox’s father said something unbearably sweet. And in just another moment, we were lined up and ready to proceed. Everyone was waiting and one final song played for them before the processional.
When we accepted Miss Unicycle as our latest bee, she mentioned she couldn’t believe this adorable icon hadn’t been snapped up already…me either! Please join me this Monday in welcoming our newest bee to the hive!
Miss Unicycle, Chicago, IL
Age & Occupation: 23, Editor for a Web Publishing Company
Fiance’s Age & Occupation: 23, MD/PhD Student
Engagement Date: March 26, 2011
Wedding Date: June 2012
Venue: Bridges of Poplar Creek
About Me: I’m a writer by trade who likes analyzing pop culture, making fun of celebrities, and laughing until I cry. I’m the queen of half-assed crafts, and there’s nothing I won’t try to DIY. You can usually find me reading blogs on my laptop in front of a good Lifetime movie, wine in hand. I’m planning a polka-dotted summertime wedding to my physics geek college sweetheart, and when I’m not making stupid puns I’m freaking out about my wedding timeline.
mamoon poses as a new bride!
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Alternative title: Impending Doom
I had a pretty scary dream last night. Even scarier than my regular nightmares which are usually one of the following: I’m being chased in slow motion by Freddy Krueger from the movie Nightmare on Elm Street or I’m one of the people from the movie The Human Centipede. I’ve never even seen that last movie, but after hearing the plot described I began having recurring nightmares. If you’ve never seen it either, do yourself a favor. DO NOT look up the plot or photos online. You’ve been warned.
Last night’s dream was about our wedding. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. In the dream we were all running around trying to get ready for the big event and all of our vendors were MIA. Our photographers, florist, makeup artist and hair stylist abandoned me. A bride’s worst nightmare, right? Well, that was just the tip of the iceberg. The dream got weirder. My MOH disappeared, and by disappeared I mean he vanished right before my eyes while I was talking to him. Mr. Warbs and I got separated by a huge shrub maze that materialized right in the middle of our venue. It took us forever to find each other again and when we did, I discovered that a handful of my teeth had fallen out. At that moment I looked down at my watch to see that we only had half an hour before the ceremony was supposed to start. No way was I walking down the aisle with no MOH, no flowers, no makeup and half my teeth missing!
Now, I’ve been known to have some strange dreams, but that freaked me out the most. I’ve had the teeth falling out dream enough times to know that it’s supposed to mean I’m afraid/I feel like I’m losing control.
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One of my favorite things about planning our wedding is all of the fun mail that we receive. This week alone, we received a roll of baker’s twine, our invitations and RSVP cards, and Mr. Mole’s new suit. (More on some of those items later!) The last item was undoubtedly the most exciting for me. After all, I love a man in a nice suit—especially if the man wearing that nice suit is going to be my husband!
Early on in the planning process, we decided that Mr. Mole should buy a new suit for our wedding. It only seemed fair. If I were going to spend hundreds of dollars (or more) on a dress that I could wear only once or twice, he should get to spend an equal amount on a suit that he can wear several times per year.
We toyed with the idea of getting a suit custom made, like some of his friends in Chicago have done, but we ultimately purchased it at J.Crew. We found that the suits there are nice quality—and I get a 15% teacher discount for shopping there. Sold! J.Crew doesn’t carry the specific style that Mr. Mole wanted in store, so we placed an order through their red phone. (Red phone orders = free shipping!)
This package came about a week later!
A few years ago I stumbled upon a wedding featured on Style Me Pretty that made me gasp out loud. Although this was well over a year before our engagement, the wedding has always stuck with me as one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. It was beyond simple, and some of the photos of the bride and groom were taken in front of a gorgeous old weeping willow:
Image via Style Me Pretty / Photos by Watson Studios
Soon after, pictures of crystal chandeliers dangling from the larger branches of trees started surfacing all over the interwebs, and once again I couldn’t help but swoon! I love the idea of the simplicity of nature starkly contrasted with the formality of a chandelier. I think it helps bring a unique, formal feel to an outdoor space without making it feel too overdone or showy, and I think it makes a gorgeous backdrop for an outdoor ceremony.
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