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As I stated in my last post, last weekend was a whirlwind of wedding git-’r-done-ness. Me managed to nail down our menu, get pictures of the venue and select/taste cake and get on the bakery’s calendar. It was a little like we were just going from one meal to the other but it was totally worth it!
We started off by heading to Arcadia. There we ordered close to every (OK only about half) appetizer they offered. After much dipping, tasting and discussing we decided on these three for cocktail hour:
My approach to makeup (and many other things, now that you mention it) is to just try random things and see if they work. I have no idea how to actually put on mascara, though I wear it every day. I literally don’t know the difference between powder, concealer, foundation, and anything else beige-y that you put on your skin. So my “Makeup Ideas” pinboard on Pinterest, despite being created months ago, only has two pins on it:
Image via Glamour / Barrettes from Ban.do
I’ve mentioned once or twice how large our wedding party is. Part of the reason it’s so large is that we’re counting everyone, including our two officiants. They are two men who each like a member of either mine or Mr. Kettle’s family. They are our pastors.
They both do pre-marital counseling for couples they marry. Mr. Kettle and I couldn’t decide which one we wanted to do our counseling, so we committed to doing it with both. Now, we didn’t think about how busy our schedules are. It’s been a very long time since we made that commitment, and we are just now going to our counseling sessions.
There are some similarities between the two sessions. We left each one feeling pretty good about our plan to get married. There isn’t much that was brought up (at least so far) that we haven’t already discussed in detail.
Also, Mr. Kettle and I are pretty well matched in a couple ways. For one, we’re both apparently teenagers when it comes to certain subjects. You know what I mean. We took a look at our counseling workbook, saw the word sex, and broke into giggles.
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On a regular day my makeup routine consists of concealer and eyeliner, if I have made it out of bed with enough time to do even that much! So why would I decide to DIY makeup for my wedding day, you might ask? Well…it’s pretty simple. I don’t really trust other people to do it better than I can. You see, I have really deep-set eyes, which give the illusion of dark circles very regularly. I feel that most makeup artists on the wedding circuit like to use dark eyeshadow to give that smokey eye, and that is exactly what I do not want. That makes me look like I haven’t slept in days, and so I decided to see what I could whip up for a wedding-day look on my own!
My inspiration: Lucy Hale. Love the dark defined lash line contrasted with the very light eyeshadow! Also love the pink lips with minimal blush.
Image via DJMick
*All remaining photos are personal
Step #1: Coverup and foundation. I use Covermark concealer on my eyes, since they are so deep set and therefore dark. I use Almay Smartshade foundation—goes on very smooth. Here you can see makeup on the left side of the photo and no makeup on the right side of the photo.
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The verdict of the hair trial: success.
I went to the salon that my future MIL goes to out in Pennsylvania. Considering I don’t know a damn thing about salons in the area, I figured it makes the most sense to go with a salon someone knows something about. The kicker is, the hairstylist I am using has done Mr. P’s hair since he was a kid (before he moved to good ol’ NYC). The same stylist now also does a lot of Mr. P’s family’s hair. Keeping it in the family…
Here I am before in my non-makeup glory (okay, I lie, I am wearing a little cover-up stick and pressed powder:
And, here I am after…
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Like most brides I grew out my hair in anticipation of the wedding. It had been ages since I’ve really grown my hair out. Post-wedding I hung on to the length as I was curious to see just how long I could get my hair. Well…how long it would get before it started to drive me nuts!
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Bear with me. Our decision on this needs a little background…
Back when I was in grad school in Boston, I had a fairly elaborate plan for my career. I had a list of places I decided (at 22 years old) I was going to work. During my first step in that plan, someone I admired started working for a start-up. Start-ups don’t really happen in my field these days. He encouraged me to interview for a position reporting to him. It was risky. It was a total deviation from my plan. I took the leap and joined a team of people who worked at a place that didn’t exist.
My years at that start-up were amazing, stressful, enlightening, challenging, and so much more. The experience made me very comfortable with throwing away “the plan.” That philosophy is what led me to Charlottesville (not part of the original plan). It made me willing to experiment and allowed me to be comfortable with things that lack a track record but have great potential.
That experience is why I was comfortable signing on with a venue that looked like this when we visited:
Photo by Miss Mink
Recently we ventured back on over to Williamsburg for our actual tasting/open house with the caterer. (I say actual because of my bridal scatterbrain-induced date mix-up the previous weekend.) This was our first opportunity to try some of the tasting offerings from our caterer. Every quarter, the Catering Co. typically holds open-house tastings along with a couple of other local vendors to showcase their work. Since it was being held at William and Mary’s Alumni House, I knew that it was going to be a nice event, but I wasn’t prepared for what we walked into. The entire main floor was pretty much set up for a reception. There was an extensive appetizer display with fresh fruits, cheese and dips, a lemonade bar, and several food stations all styled. Additionally there were several set tables all featuring individual themes with complementary floral arrangements and unique china settings. There was even a bar set up to try cocktails, wine, and beer. (If you can’t tell, I was quite impressed!)
I’m thankful that after two years of marriage, a miscarriage, and a career change (mine!), the Dude still wholeheartedly wants to spend the rest of his life with me, and I with him. I’m so lucky!
I’m thankful for family and friends (including those that live in the internet). For my health, which as I’m nearing 30 I’m trying not to take for granted. For the fact that I get to do what I love (editing) for a living!
Is it wrong to say I’m thankful for television? Because I totally am.
I am thankful for my kick-ass hubby and the amazing wedding and honeymoon we had.
I am thankful for Los Angeles, a city that thinks 50 degrees is freezing and offers me yummy cuisine from all around the world. I am thankful for cute glasses, homemade smoothies, and free shipping. I am thankful for family, friends, and Weddingbee!
Most of all I am thankful that I still feel like the best is yet to come.
Happy Thanksgiving Hive!
Unlike a certain “celebrity” who chose to wear three different dresses on her wedding day, (only to file for divorce 72 days later), I will NOT be wearing more than one gown. However, I will be wearing three different shoes. Yes, good people of the hive, I am a three shoe bride.
Aside from the first step of admitting I may have a problem, this wasn’t something I planned out. You have already stuck with me through three posts on my ceremony shoes - One, Two, and Three, and a post or two on my sparkly Ugg boots. So what in the world would entice me to look for a third pair?
Dancing. That’s right—gettin’ down, shakin’ your groove thang, show me what you’re workin’ with—dancing. I love to dance and plan on bustin’ a move with the best of them at my reception.
As I was going through the timeline of our day last week, I realized we needed to pull together an amazing song list for our DJ that would keep the dance floor jumping all night. That got me thinking that maybe the Uggs weren’t the best choice for moving freely about the dance floor. While they will keep my tootsies toasty warm commuting to and from locations and will look amazing in some outdoor pictures, I think they may hinder my running man skills on the dance floor.
Zappos is my go to place when I get the shoe shopping urge. Their 365 day return policy just can’t be beat. I ordered the Astrella flats by Romantic Soles in pewter.
Image via Zappos.com
As an incredibly generous wedding present, Mr. Mole’s parents will be giving us 5,000 Euros for our honeymoon. Mr. Mole’s older sister and her husband took the money after their wedding and ran off to Spain on a fabulous vacation. I feel serious trip envy when I look through their pictures and hear their stories of fabulous hotels, dinners, and sightseeing adventures. So I immediately started dreaming about spending our honeymoon drinking great beer in Brussels or eating paella in Madrid or riding ferries around the islands in Greece.
Image via Fodor’s Europe Travel Guide
However, there was one major roadblock to these European dreams: time.
Mr. Mole just started his job in July, so we have to be careful about how many vacation days that he takes in the first quarter of 2012. We are already having to take four days off in January between our destination wedding and hometown party. We can probably get another five days off in February for our honeymoon. If we leave on a Sunday, the day after our hometown reception, as planned, we are probably looking at a max of a seven-night vacation.
…It says you + me = us. It also says sin (pi/2) = 1. I know, technically, that’s trigonometry, and the first equation is just basic addition. But what the devil am I talking about anyway? Table numbers!
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I’ve mentioned before how Mr. Unicycle and I fell in love over a physics textbook and how I have a thing for nerds, so when it came time for us to come up with a ridiculously clever table-number idea that no one had yet seen, of course we turned to mathematics. It was actually Mr. Unicycle’s idea to use math instead of plain ol’ numbers, and I heart it. The basic idea was that we’d number the tables from 1–20, but label them with mathematical expressions that could be evaluated to the numbers 1–20. (Note: NO, we are not going to make our guests do math in order to find their table. Pretty much everyone who’s heard our idea has started having math-induced panic attacks at the thought. They are merely matching what’s on their escort cards to what’s on the table numbers.) This means that we wouldn’t use an equation like “x + y = 10″ because who the hell knows what x and y are? Instead, we used things like trig functions, series, and, my favorite, the factorial:
This is not the first year that I won’t be home for Thanksgiving. I went to college 2,000 miles away from my family, and I always was too broke to fly home for the holiday. So one year was Thai food in the dorms, another was a takeout meal from Boston Market, a third was turkey sandwiches in Vegas. I stayed in Chicago a couple of years when I either volunteered at or ran in various Turkey Trots.
However, this is the first year that I will away from home for Thanksgiving because I am at someone else’s home. This year, Mr. Mole and I are going to Vegas to celebrate the holiday with his parents.
FMIL and FFIL in Vegas last Christmas
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