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Satin ribbon tied these floating orchid centerpieces to queeniffy’s wedding color scheme!
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I’ve been thinking of all of the tips and tricks that I have picked up from wedding magazines and blogs (including the Weddingbee blog and boards) along our nine-month engagement. I learned from Mrs. Cola how to pee on your wedding day without taking half of your guests into the stall with you. I learned from christi how to alter a wedding dress to fix potential problem areas. I learned from Mrs. Hamster the importance of numbering your RSVP cards.
Now, I have to admit that I didn’t fully appreciate Mrs. Hamster’s advice in the beginning. Mr. Mole and I even got into a small debate about numbering all of our RSVP postcards. He thought it was a good idea; I thought it was a good waste of time. “Seriously, I don’t know how ANYONE could forget to put their name on a postcard,” I huffed while penciling in little numbers in the corner of each card.
Then, yesterday, we got this in the mail.
Poor RSVP: nameless and slightly disfigured
The shoe saga has come to an end, dear hive. Way back when I went in for my first dress fitting, I brought along three pairs of shoes with me:
rsvp Lovely | Pour la Victoire Cristella 2 | rsvp Jaceline
Images via Zappos
I figured I would try each pair with the dress, and would hopefully “just know” if one of them was the right pair. Lucky for me this strategy worked, as I did indeed have my very own magical Cinderella shoe moment. I tried on all three, and one just.. matched. It was a far more perfect pairing than I would have imagined.
Ready for the reveal? Drum roll please…
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Gold Escort Cards with Bird Cutout and Message Inside by 78h2o
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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.”
Since I’m the first one out of my friends and cousins to get married, I honestly did not know what a save the date was before diving headfirst into wedding blogs. “Save the date?” What were these wedding blogs talking about?! I always loved all things paper, but I thought wedding invitations and thank you cards were the only paper products we’d purchase for our wedding.
Boy was I wrong! As soon as I figured out that these wedding blogs weren’t talking about those kind of STDs, I was on board. Save the dates, we would have! And gosh darn it, we were going to have the prettiest STDs our friends and family would ever receive (and…enter stage left: my OCD and competitiveness).
First, I started eyeing up a classic favourite, letterpress:
Image via Small Printer
I was pretty convinced, and still am, that letterpress printing is an amazing choice not only for wedding stationery, but also for day-to-day personal stationery like birthday cards and thank you cards. It is such a beautiful medium that can’t be replicated with modern digital and offset printing. But…the cost. It is so.darn.costly. The paper is expensive, the machines are expensive, the process is time-intensive (also known as…expensive!). Everything about letterpress is expensive.
I couldn’t justify the costs of letterpress for the STDs. (But I’m saving my letterpress dreams for invitations and other goodies.)
Our flower girl has quite the important role in our ceremony. Not only is she the keeper of the flower petals, but she is bringing in some fun family history. You see, my dad comes from a family of ten kids. The youngest was only five years old when my mom and dad got married. Naturally, she was their flower girl.
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Having an image of a wedding gown on a special hanger seems to be a staple for wedding photography these days. Wedding blogs are full of beautiful pictures of wedding gowns hanging in quiet elegance, waiting for their owners to put them on. No matter how many of those images I see, I love them. A photographer I know likes the pictures so much that she brings a nice hanger to every wedding just in case the bride doesn’t have one for her dress shots.
I decided to step things up a notch and make hangers for my dress and my bridesmaids’ dresses. I dabbled in jewelry making a while back and thought I had the tools needed to bend some wire. After looking at different Etsy listings for inspiration, I realized that there is tremendous potential for these things turn out poorly. I decided that I might not be skilled enough to make this and have them be as beautiful as the ones I have seen in pictures.
From United With Love blog / Photo by Elisa Bricker of Elisa B Photography
I decided to do a hybrid DIY project.
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I can’t believe I am saying hello to THE hive right now. I opened the email inviting me to become a bee in the middle of a really tough day at my job as an after-school teacher…needless to say I squealed, jumped up and down (terrifying the kids that were sitting in my office), and totally finished my day off grinning from ear to ear. I had to let the shock wear off a little bit before I could sit down and write this post. Needless to say, it still hasn’t totally set in just yet!
I’ve been poking around on Weddingbee for years, long before there was an engagement ring in sight. What can I say? The hive is a pretty incredible place! I am so humbled to bee (sorry, it’s obligatory!) blogging among such an intelligent, creative, beautiful, and inspiring group of women.
So who are the Opossums? We’re ridiculously fun Floridians who have been dating since we were 16 years old…Mr. Opossum is the one thing I took with me from my high school biology class. Our last names just so happen to be close to each other in the alphabet, which meant we were forced to sit next to each other. He immediately started making goofy jokes, so of course I developed a girly little crush…one that has lasted for seven whole years! We’ve survived three high school proms, four years of long-distance commuting while in college, and four months on different continents while I was studying abroad in Italy. We’re finally back in one place and could not be more ready or excited to tie the knot!
I’m working toward becoming an interior architect, which means I’m putting together a design portfolio and applying to grad school while planning this wedding. I love being creative in pretty much every aspect of my life, so planning this wedding is just another great opportunity for me to flex my design muscle! I really enjoy traveling, trying new foods, running, hanging out with kids at my job, and forcing Mr. Opossum to take me on long drives.
FTo is selling a pair of Badgley Mischka heels with rhinestone ankle straps. She’s asking $100 for the size 7.5 shoes.
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Hello hivesters! It’s pretty swell to be back gracing the pages of the Weddingbee, and I hope everyone is having a fantastic holiday season!
I began blogging for Weddingbee in January of 2010, and was married May 1st. I loved writing my recaps (perhaps most of all!) and wrote all of them over the course of July 2010, and said goodbye at the end of my last recap.
I loved the process of being assigned ten random photos from the amazing day of our wedding, and it was no small thing, given that our talented photographer, B. Scott, gave us over 1100 photos from the day!
Number 343: The first random photo chosen is moments after our first kiss as husband and wife, right after we turned to face our family and friends. we’re still right in the middle of that “holy crap, we just got MARRIED” feeling. We’re also letting our recessional song, I Believe in a Thing Called Love hit its stride before we strut down the aisle.
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…to register.
I’m sure it is not a shock to many of you ladies that I had to beg and plead Mr. Turkey to help put together our registry. The conversation* went something like this:
Miss Turkey: I’m thinking we should probably register.
Mr. Turkey: OK.
Miss Turkey: I’m thinking we should probably have between two and three registries.
Mr. Turkey: OK.
Miss Turkey: I’m thinking we could go next weekend.
Mr. Turkey: WE???
I’ll save you the rest of the conversation, but basically I had to “reward him” for each of the three places we registered.
To make the registration process as painless as possible, I did a couple things before involving Mr. Turkey in the details. In terms of registry locations, I netted out with Macy’s, Pottery Barn, and Williams-Sonoma based on what we needed and our personal tastes (e.g., Crate&Barrel was a bit too “minimalist” for us).
Our wedding invitations are done!! They were mailed out last week, and I’m quite certain everyone has received them. Well, everyone except my cousin who live in Mexico. Hers was returned to my parents’ house.
There were some hiccups on the way to getting these invitations all done and ready to be sent out, but this is a celebration, so we’re going to focus on the positive. A group effort between me, Momma Kettle, Daddy Kettle, and a couple family friends got the job done.
The invitations were designed by an amazing photographer/graphic designer who’s dating one of Mr. Kettle’s friends. She did amazing work and I’m super excited about how they turned out. They perfectly fit our vision of the wedding of being a quirky twist on a classic. So enough talking; on to the pictures and captions!
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| Personal Image: I took this without the flash, so you could see the more ivory cream color of the outer envelope |
Originally published on July 19, 2010
Mrs. Bunny and Mrs. Zebra both nominated Mrs. Cola’s tutorial for…ahem…successfully relieving yourself while wearing a big poofy white dress. Mrs. Bunny says, “The most helpful post to me has been Mrs. Cola’s post about how to pee in a wedding dress. I pass this along to almost every bride I work with and they are all very impressed with my knowledge and also (after using the method) thank me and tell me I’m brilliant. I always cite my source, of course. ;)”
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Alright, it’s time to lay down some wedding day wisdom regarding peeing!
I know this is something we’ve all thought about, or will have to think about. How the heck do you use the restroom in a wedding dress? It’s not easy, no matter how you look at it, that’s for sure. Especially if you have a dress with lots of material and poof, like an A-line or ball gown.
After purchasing my dress back in October, I looked on the Weddingbee boards and Googled for advice on how exactly to go about doing this. There was no way I was gonna hold it all night, and the ridonk rumor about bridal diapers wasn’t something I’d ever consider! But I basically found the same advice over and over, to get help from one of your bridesmaids.
Would you like to see a little illustration on the recommended way of peeing in a wedding gown, and the different way I found that works better? I thought so!
(And yeah, even though I’m a pretty dedicated blogger, I didn’t have someone take pictures of me in the bathroom so I could blog about it. You’ll have to make do with my lame line drawings. Apparently I’m pretty good at Photoshop, but not so much when it comes to actually drawing something in Illustrator!)
First, grab your MOH and enter the handicapped stall in the bathroom together.
The one annoying thing about planning a wedding that will take place 3 hours away is figuring out when to meet up with vendors. Since we’ve had a long engagement we were able to space out a few trips to get this done. We also made really good choices from our research, so we didn’t have to go back and forth a bunch of times to find people we wanted to work with. One trip per vendor worked for us to find the right people to work with.
The one thing that has proved more difficult is scheduling a meeting with our Rabbi. Since we don’t belong to a temple in New York, we easily decided on using the Rabbi at Mr. Porcupine’s parents’ temple in Pennsylvania. He marked our date off, we met with him briefly early on into our planning, and he told us we wouldn’t need to meet again until much closer to the big day. But, after two more short trips down to Pennsylvania without being able to coordinate schedules, our Rabbi suggested we have a meeting via Skype.
So, we downloaded Skype and used it for the first time to talk with our Rabbi. For some reason I find this hilarious.
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So how does it feel planning a same-sex wedding in Alberta? It can feel a little strange at times! Alberta is known as the “Texas of the North,” and we Albertans really do live up to that reputation. We’re very conservative, we hunt, we drill oil, and we have cowboys. When we visit Fiancée Eagle’s dad, he regularly serves us homemade deer and elk stew…from the last weekend’s hunting trip. We’re a little country.
Image via Unique Cake Toppers
So how have the reactions been to our same-sex wedding? As I said in my last post, our venue was awesome and supportive upfront, there were no issues.
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