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You know that cliche saying “You find out who your true friends are when…” Like, when you were going away to college and some friends stick around while you drift away from others? Unfortunately, I’ve found the same to be true for weddings.
I had a friend—a BEST friend—who flaked on every wedding event leading up to our wedding…I’m talking dress shopping, bachelorette, rehearsal dinner… even the ceremony… and she was supposed to participate IN the ceremony.
After the wedding, said friend could not figure out why I no longer wanted to be friendly towards her. I no longer made an effort to hang out with her, catch up—to be honest, I could not be in the same room with her for very long. My husband suggested I was holding a grudge.
Gasp! Oh no he did not!
Granted, most girlfriends I’ve talked to about bad ex-BFF and her behavior have told me she was completely out of line and messed up. But the fact that my own husband thinks I’m holding a grudge made me think.
Am I being a bridezilla?
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After dinner was served it was time for the toast. Oh, the toasts!
Mr. EB’s best man took charge of organizing the people who wanted to speak, and I highly recommend appointing someone to do this if you haven’t already.
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I have been meaning to write this post for a while now, but have found myself groping for words that truly convey what I am trying to get across. It’s a bit of a heavy topic and I am honestly finding it difficult to calcify my thoughts into a coherent chunk of writing. So, I have been putting off the writing of the post. However, the recent news of Kim Kardashian’s filing for divorce after a mere 72 days of marriage (72!), spurred me into action. 72 days. That’s only four days longer than Mr. CA and I have been married. In our 68 days of marriage, I feel like we have not even scratched the surface of our love, our relationship, our marriage—72 days is just a blip in the radar of life, really.
Reading about K’s plans for divorce, part of a NY Times article really hit me, and at first I wasn’t sure why:
“…the fake reality of television shows that place more importance on a lavish wedding than on a lasting marriage.”
This. Exactly this. How dare she make a mockery of the institution of marriage? How dare she focus so much on the wedding and not on her relationship? How can they even know after 72 days of marriage if they could make things work or not?
I suppose that what has been bothering me about the whole debacle, and why the quote hit me so hard was this: the situation actually reminds me a lot of the wedding planning process these days. It reminds me of my own experience with wedding planning. Why?
Because I think we’re placing too much importance on our weddings.
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Ever feel like your hair was just destined for high-fashion catwalks?
Image via SodaHead
I sure do.
My hair is naturally curly, and it’s a fact about myself that I just started accepting recently. I still enjoy a good ol’ hair straightening for special days. Don’t worry, it’s nothing but a case of the “you always want what you can’t haves.” Here, I’ll let you see what I’m working with.
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According to Martha, “Save-the-date cards create the first impression that your guests will have of the wedding.” No pressure there. Now, as much as I like love worship Martha, I do think you can have whatever kind of wedding you want with whatever kind of save the dates you want (or don’t want, for that matter!). That being said, I have dedicated a solid chunk of time to our save the dates (perhaps more than I initially bargained for, but I enjoyed [almost] every minute of it), and I am pleased with the first impression that our save the dates will express about our wedding.
But what about the first impression of our save the dates? I know that some of you are thinking, “Miss D, you have officially gone of the bridal deep end!” I admit, you just may be right, but I have written this post anyway.
What I am talking about, of course, is the envelopes! I promised myself I would not go too crazy with this, and personally I don’t think I was too bad (although some people may beg to differ). The first decision was the stamps. On a random trip to the post office before I even knew what our save the dates would look like, I saw these beauties and snatched up a handful of sheets. Easy peasy.
Image via Shop.USPS.com
College courses often come along with prerequisites: certain classes or subjects that students have to master (or at least pass with a C) before they can move on to more difficult material. I think that healthy relationships should also have prerequisites. A willingness to share and listen. A generous heart. A well-developed sense of self. A confident spirit. Etc.
I think that the viewing of the following video by Dan Savage (love him!) is also one that should be assigned to everyone who is about to take that plunge into Relationshipville. This video should be watched often; a couple times a year in good times, a few times a week in tougher ones.
Warning, though: NSFW, some language.
When Foxy and I were still living in our little apartment, we had Comcast for cable and internet for the first year or so. For those of you who know about Comcast, I should be hearing one big, collective sigh from you all.
::le sigh:: / Image via Geek Word
OK then. Now for those of you who don’t know Comcast? They suck monkey balls, in both the cost and customer-service departments. See, when our one-year “promo” price of $99 per month for internet and cable expired, it was supposed to jump aaaaall the way up to about $160 per month for the two. Dumb.
Hi, my name is Miss Elk and I am not crafty. There, I said it. For years I have been kidding myself into believing I was crafty, but attempt after attempt has failed to create a worthwhile product. After reading so many wedding blogs and seeing all the wonderful DIY results, I simply have to give it a whirl. I have visions of our guests oohing and ahhing at the marvelous DIY touches that will make our wedding that much more unique and special. Of course, I have a backup plan—Etsy. But for now I plan to share my trials and tribulations with all of you!
So without further ado, I present my first project: ruffle lamps. This idea was born from my love of lamp centerpieces such as this one:
Image via The Knot / Photo by Thorsen Photography
I then found a tutuorial for these bad boys and figured I could combine the two ideas and get a pretty unique little lamp to use on the tables during cocktail hour.
After Zeb and I were finished taking family portraits we sent everyone but our bridal party over to The Biltmore to enjoy a little down time before cocktail hour began. We had a two hour Catholic gap, as most like to call it.
We took a few formal pictures in the church courtyard but as you’ve probably already noticed, we aren’t a formal photo kind of couple. Besides, it was getting pretty windy and we were ready for our next destination.
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Way back when…okay really like ten months ago, I was a regular on the waiting boards. I was speculative about when the big day would be.
For a while, I was sure we were on the same page and that it was going to be a holiday proposal with plenty of time to plan. But then mid January rolled around. Mr. Skunk’s grandfather passed and I felt selfish for even thinking about a possible proposal. I stopped lurking around on Weddingbee and tried to be as supportive as possible to Mr. Skunk. It was a really hard time for all of us.
And then out of the blue, he proposed. It was magical and fantastic and we promptly decided to plan a fall wedding.
And then a couple weeks later, Mr. Skunk lost his job. I honestly think he handled it a lot better than I did. I cried.
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Every wedding I have ever been to, there has been a money dance. For those of you who aren’t aware of what this is, basically your guests slip you some cash in order to dance with you until the next person comes along. While the idea is great because the couple can use the cash on their honeymoon, I have always secretly balked at this idea.
At the last wedding we were at, Mr. Buck and I completely forgot about the money dance. Neither of us had any cash on us. We only had our ATM cards, which of course did us no good. We awkwardly stood around while others were lining up to dance with the bride. Quite frankly, we felt really bad that we forgot to grab cash. (In our defense though, we did bring a pretty sweet gift.)
I made a bold proclamation to Mr. Buck that there will be NO money dance at our wedding. I had good reasoning to back this up, too. People already will be taking time to come to our wedding, possibly with a gift, and I do not want them to feel like they need to give us money to dance with me. I assumed Mr. Buck was on the same page as me…but apparently not. He completely disagreed with me and said that our guests will want to participate in the money dance.
Why do I feel like I am being pimped out by my fiance?
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