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Good morning Hive. It’s still dark outside, I’m curled up in our recliner with my robe, and my sister is upstairs sleeping. It’s my wedding day!!
After 15 months of planning, the day has finally arrived. We had a wonderful time at our rehearsal dinner last night and emotions started bubbling over. Even now, just thinking about seeing Mr. Ball Cap for the first time today causes tears to run down my face.
I’m nervous but so excited to begin this day. I want to soak in every minute and enjoy it to the fullest.
Hive, it has been such an honor to be a part of this community and share my journey with you. You have offered amazing support and advice and were always there to lend an ear. You have made this experience all the more special and memorable.
So this is it!
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If you can’t already tell from the pictures I’ve posted of Mr. O and myself, I am slightly vertically challenged. Mr. O isn’t super tall—he’s only about six-foot-one or so—but that’s still almost a full foot over my five-one (and a half!!!) frame.
This picture was taken at my best friend’s wedding rehearsal. I was wearing some sizable platform wedges, and there is still a significant height difference between the two of us.
Personal photo
I mean, we’re no Shaq and Nicole, but you get the idea…
Originally published on October 21, 2008
Miss Dalmatian nominates Ms. Fondue’s tutorial on embossing invitations. Miss D says, “There have been a few excellent embossing tutorials. The one that I bookmarked was this one from Ms Fondue—I plan to use it when embossing our invites!”
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Don’t worry; I won’t keep you guys in suspense!
You’ve previously seen the damask stamp I ordered from Impress Rubber Stamps on projects like our coasters. However, I originally purchased it when I was working on our invitation design last spring.
I showed you all the original designs we considered. But as I was designing all of those, as I mentioned, I decided I wanted something with a little more texture. Now it’s time to reveal the real thing.
Note: If you are invited to our wedding, please do not proceed beyond this point!
Our invitations were created in four stages:
For the first stage, I simply created a Microsoft Word document using the dimensions of my white card stock and printed them all on my home printer.
The second stage was the longest, and so I bring the tutorial I promised in my coasters post! (Would you believe I took these step-by-step photos back in April, just in case I was ever blogging for Weddingbee one day? Ha!)
Supplies:
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AisforAmanda is selling a pair of custom Swarovski-strassed fuchsia heels. She’s asking $400 for the size 9.5 shoes.
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Originally published June 21, 2010
Mrs. Hot Wings nominates Mrs. Hot Cocoa’s post on ways she involved her family and friends in their wedding. Mrs. HW appreciated the perspective the post offered!
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Even though I’m a decrepit old bee, every once in a while a kind reader indulges me by pm-ing me a question. Recently, someone asked me how I went about “honoring relatives” at our wedding. Relatedly, a current post on the Judaism board asks for ways to involve more people in the ceremony. I’m sure many brides and grooms have this question, so I thought it’d be fun to invite the whole Weddingbee community, even those who aren’t Jewish, to share their suggestions.
I’ll kick it off by sharing what we did to involve our friends and family in our crazy Chewish wedding:
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
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Painted Canvas Save the Dates by ms.coffeebean
Today in the office I undertook the very important task of looking up and marking down all of the days in 2012 that the office is closed. (Well, what else is one going to do when the office is a ghost town?) As I was happily shading in my calendar I realized something. Something big.
There is only one work holiday left that I will spend as a Miss. And it’s three days from now on January 2nd.
HOLYCOWOHMYGOODNESS!
To be fair, there is a pretty big holiday drought between New Year and Memorial day, (not sure why they can’t give us Valentine’s day or St. Patrick’s day or Mardi Gras off…) but we are still approaching wedded bliss at a speed that makes this post look like we had all the time in the world!
Despite the growing list of to-dos and crafts that seems to have a life of its own in my Google Docs, it is somehow reassuring to know that the next three-day weekend will be spent as Mr. and Mrs.
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Originally published on August 7, 2008
Mrs. Ribbons nominates Mrs. Daffodil’s comprehensive and detailed wedding timeline packet, available for download! Mrs. Ribbons says, “It had a schedule and then a detailed breakdown of what happened when. The doc was intended to be given to vendors/bridal party/etc, and it was a really wonderful template. I used it but never blogged about it.”
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Edit: Thanks for the enthusiastic response! As promised, here is a sample of our wedding weekend packet, tailored just for the hive!
Daffodil’s Wedding Weekend Packet Template
I wanted to add that after my original post, several people who had helped out with our wedding called me to let me know that, indeed, the packet had been extremely helpful and was really key to our uber smooth wedding day…which made me super happy to hear of course! And above is a pic to prove it! 
So hopefully, this (or something similar) will come in handy on your wedding day too!
Thanks for your patience as I made all the edits. Happy planning!
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One of the things I’m looking forward to the most post-wedding is finally being able to share an address with Mr. Opossum. I can’t wait to start fresh together and be able to organize, decorate, and make decisions about our home together as a team. I’m probably not going to know what to do with all the time I now spend commuting back and forth between our respective homes.
Many other bees have addressed this topic in the past very eloquently (including Mrs. Snow Cone, Miss Aardvark, Miss Porcupine, and Mrs. Dumpling). Before I move forward with this post, I’d like to put it out there that I pass zero judgment on any couples who make a decision to live together before marriage. Every couple is different and what works for some won’t necessarily work for others. Not living together has actually worked out great for us personally for several reasons…some of them being more complicated than others.
The main reason we haven’t lived together is that we haven’t really had the chance to live together. I’m from Tallahassee (home of Florida State University), but I was “traitor” and ended up attending The University of Florida in Gainesville, about a two-and-a-half-hour drive from my parents’ home. Mr. Opossum and I spent four years commuting back and forth. Even though it wasn’t a long drive, it was difficult enough trying to manage jobs and schoolwork while traveling as many weekends as possible. Living together just wasn’t an option.
I know there are computer programs and online services for this, but my low tech technique has been highly successful for us so far! How low tech? I’m talking poster board and book stickies with names written on them. I know my poorly scaled design isn’t beautiful, but it is so, so easy to work with and rearrange.
If you’re kind of lost about where to start, I clumped our attending RSVPs into groups.
Lauramoon’s Australian green sapphire and white gold engagement ring
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Did I mention that we are going to have FOUR of our little nephews in our wedding? We don’t want them to be overly scripted or get too rigid with their roles, so I envision just sending them all down the aisle as a group to do what little boys do: make noise and make people smile.
I wanted to give the boys boutonnieres, but didn’t find the idea of having anything too formal pinned to their outfits. I started to look for a cute alternative. First, I found ribbon badges all over the internet. My favorite came from the Weddingbee boards.
The button in the middle of the ribbon badge from those images was cute, but not cute enough. I wanted something that little boys would like. I also hoped that it would be in some way related to the wedding. That’s when I started looking for little golden retrievers. I was thinking of boutonnieres like these from Fritts Rosenow:
From Love and Lavender / Boutonnières by Fritts Rosenow
Mr. Mink, who I call eagle eye when we shopping, helped me comb the scrapbook and jewelry sections of the craft store one Sunday completely expecting to find some little golden retrievers.
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After my first makeup trial, I decided to be a little more selective in finding the next makeup artist. I pored through countless websites looking for examples, reviews and of course, prices. I was pretty lucky to find a few who were still around during the holidays and had good reviews online. The day after Christmas, I had a trial with a nice woman who was also the most affordable. I was pretty adamant about the amount of coverage I wanted and probably came across as bitchy. Oh well, she did a great job anyway!
From the beginning I felt comfortable because she told me what she was doing every step of the way. I think my bitchiness about coverage might have gotten to her because she used super light coverage. I was happy I didn’t look all crazy, but would have been fine with a tad bit more coverage. I know, I sound like Goldilocks. Hive, weddings make people crazy. She got major points for asking before applying shimmer to my face. I absolutely cannot stand shimmer because I always tend to leave traces of it on everything and everybody. But since she had a light hand, I let her try it out. It actually looked really pretty. You win this one, shimmer. We also tried out some false lashes which I was surprisingly OK with. I’m normally a freak about things going in, around, or near my eyes. But I could barely feel the lashes and I felt like they made me look hot. But, I was scared I wouldn’t be able to take them off by myself so I had her take them off before she left so you won’t see them in the photos. Yup, I’m that girl.
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Originally published on May 14, 2010
Mrs. Bunting nominates Mrs. Cola’s quick and easy post on writing your vows and used this template to write the vows for her own wedding.
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Our vows are something that took Mr. Cola and me a while to decide on.
On one hand, I didn’t really want to do the more traditional vows, where we would just repeat the same thing our officiant said. I wanted something a little more personal and meaningful for us, especially since we pieced together the ceremony wording ourselves.
But on the other hand, Mr. Cola thought that writing our own vows would be a lot of work. And I couldn’t argue with that, because I agreed it would be. And then I read Miss Sewing’s post about vows, and she brought up the very good point that when a bride and groom both write their own vows, and don’t see them in advance, there’s a good chance they could end up being vastly different in length and/or tone.
So Mr. Cola and I came up with a compromise: Vow Libs!
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