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There is something about the word mooning that makes me chuckle. Even the word “honey” in front of it cannot erase this image from my mind:
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OK, maybe not that exact image, but one similar. However, I am going to (attempt) to put my third grade sense of humor aside to tell you about the very exciting honeymoon Mr. Aardvark has planned!
First let my say a HUMONGOUS thank you to my soon-to-be Aardvarks-in-law.
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When I was told that we’d be running a new bee feature here on Weddingbee where we’d share random pictures from our weddings that y’all might not normally see, I knew I wanted to participate. I was really surprised by how ten randomly chosen photos could really tell the story of our wedding. I just finished up my recaps this past summer, but there are definitely some photos in here I didn’t share with y’all. And in case you don’t remember, Mr. Plaid and I got married in October 2010 in Austin and celebrated with a very casual affair.
This first picture is one of the small favors I made for guests. Wildflowers are huge in Austin so I crafted these seed matchbooks I found from Martha Stewart.
We chose to include a handfasting ceremony in which we “tied the knot” with the help of our moms.
Here’s another chance to impart my wedding-guest “wisdom.”
As a bridesmaid in a recent wedding, I took on the job of making water-bottle labels for the bachelorette weekend (gotta hydrate after days at the beach and nights on the town!).
I know this is very much “in vogue” right now, so I figured it couldn’t be that hard. I started with some Googling.
Can anyone tell me what a water bottle lanyard is?
Though I expect to be wrong more often than right when judging the simplicity of DIY projects, this time I was correct. Now, a lot of the credit is owed to the site I used to purchase labels, which was OnlineLabels.com. This tutorial is going to focus mainly on using their tools and services, but I’ve also listed specifics that might help if you use a different site for purchasing.
debaby01 shows off her dazzling display of wedding cupcakes!
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If you haven’t seen me since I got engaged, you probably won’t recognize the monster I’ve become. Just kidding. Sort of. Wedding planning has changed me in a number of surprising ways, in addition to my sappiness. I didn’t think being engaged would make much of a difference since I was already pretty wedding crazy before, but it turns out that making it all a reality instead of a hypothetical fantasy makes a big difference.
1. In addition to crying like a friggin’ baby at heartfelt commercials and Kim Kardashian, I’ve also become oddly obsessed with being an adult, a grownup, a “real person.” Red wine at dinner? Fill ’er up! 401Ks? Tell me more! Cheesy Hallmark movies about idyllic families creating lasting memories? Can’t get enough. Falling asleep at 10 PM? It happens to the best of us.
Image via XKCD
2. I joke a lot about how much I fear babies, and I love nothing more than pointing and laughing at ugly ones. (Poor taste? Whatever, that’s what they get for pooping on everything.) But now that I’m getting closer to being someone’s wife, I don’t mind the idea of also being someone’s mom quite so much. Those cheesy Hallmark movies are getting to me. All I want is to create lasting memories with my well-behaved children! Is that too much to ask?
After our first dance, we were whisked away to our sweetheart table and presented with this gorgeous salad.
First things first however—our Priest Friend blessed our meal and our marriage.
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When I first started blogging, I was aware of wedding blogs, but wasn’t too interested in them. The wedding blogs started making their way into my blog reader about a year and a half ago, and I quickly noticed a trend: the wedding mustache.
From Something’s Hiding in Here / Photos by Angelica Glass
I did a little research out of curiosity, and it seems as though the wedding mustache started showing up on the blogs in 2008. By 2010, I don’t think a day went by that I didn’t see an image of someone holding a mustache on a stick on one of the wedding blogs. They felt very hip at first…
As you may know, we are having two wedding-related celebrations: a reception in Vegas and a party in Milwaukee. This means that I need (or, at the very least, really want) to come up with two sets of unique and fun favors for our guests. I know that favors aren’t necessary, but I think that they can add a nice touch to the event.
Luckily for us, it was pretty easy to come up with favor ideas for Las Vegas. We could give our guests personalized playing cards. We could give them dice embossed with our wedding date. We could give them slot-machine keychains. We could give them poker chips made out of chocolate.
Mr. Mole and I eventually decided on poker chips — but we decided to go for the real deal. Our guests will get $5 chips to play at the Venetian casino. (Or, if they are like me, to cash in at the cage to get money to play the video poker games; for all of the times that I have been in Vegas, I have never played any games at a table. I am too chicken to bet more than a dollar at a time!) We figure that it will allow our guests to have a few more minutes of fun after our reception concludes. Maybe someone will even turn it into a huge profit on the blackjack tables.
Our favors, waiting to be played
The next thing to figure out was how we were going to display these chips at everyone’s seats. I found my solution in a blog post on Weddingbee!
This weekend we finally ticked off another major task on the to-do list: our registry. I’ll be honest with y’all. Registering was on the bottom of my priority list. I knew it was something that had to be taken care of at some point in time, but I was kind of dreading it. In a lot of ways I was thinking it was going to be a pointless exercise. I mean, Mr. Hawk and I have been living together for over a year now. What could we really need? When we decided to rent a home together, we both brought a good amount of things into our home: pots and pans, plates, silverware…or so I thought. Being little miss type-A, I printed several suggestion lists—Real Simple, Macy’s, and Crate&Barrel—and reviewed them thoroughly. When it came time to take a good solid inventory, I realized that we were definitely lacking. I’m embarrassed to admit that in a lot of ways we’ve been living like college kids (at 26 and 30, no less)!
The majority of our cups (I can’t even call it glassware) are emblazoned with either Green Leafe logos (one of my favorite college bars) or sports logos. We have a collection of mismatched wine glasses we’ve collected at our various wine-tasting outings, and our serving platters are all Tar-jay plastics. I was incredibly surprised that I only was able to eliminate a handful of items from the registry lists! Apparently this registry thing was something we needed more than I originally thought.
With my notated lists in hand, we went to Macy’s. We decided to take care of a lot of big-ticket items there such as our china, silverware, and small appliances. At first I regretted bringing Mr. H when it came to china patterns. He thought china was pointless, yet was somehow very opinionated when it came to decision-making. (Sigh.) In the end we were able to agree on a great pattern.
Then after a Starbucks visit (and venti-sized coffees in hand—did I mention the exhaustion?), we were on to Crate&Barrel. C&B was the place I was most looking forward to after our in-home inventory. I knew that we were in desperate need of everyday items. We found some great glassware (plastic cups, begone!) and grown-up serving platters. One of my favorite items we found was the lightly green-tinted Miguel pitcher and glasses.
Alternate post title: He went to Jared! Again!
I love my engagement ring, and I’ve never regretted the choice for such a unique ring. There’s only one issue: I want to wear my engagement ring and wedding band on the same finger, and I didn’t want a gap between the rings.
Ms. Fox wrote a post that perfectly describes my problem. And to show my version of these issues, some ring porn.
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| Personal image: My ring hanging out with my new natural long nails! |
Before I knew it (like seriously, time was going so dang fast! I still can’t believe how fast everything went), it was already the wedding day.
The week before the wedding, I asked all the girls to bring their yoga mats if they had one, because we were going to doing a little optional yoga class the morning of the wedding. During wedding planning, anytime we would visit the guest house I couldn’t shake the feeling that the front porch would make for a perfect spot to do a little yoga.
I knew it would really center me for the day and start everything off on a high note. One of my lovely bridesmaids brought her teaching skills to the table and taught the class.
It was a little chilly at first, but things warmed up rather quickly. (It wound up topping out at 97 degrees that day!)
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And it just barely fits. Why was I even trying on my dress six months before the wedding (besides the obvious answer—because I finally could!)? Well it all started while dress shopping. I don’t know how this happened, but my body is pretty much the perfect size for almost all sample wedding gowns. It was an amazing (and quite unusual) feeling to put dress after dress on and have them fit as if I had already had them altered. When I found my dress, the sample also fit pretty much perfectly. I was pumped and ready to order.
The consultant came in to measure me and informed me that I should order a 12. Ummmmm no. The sample 10 fit me, and I was not going to order a size up just to spend a bajillion dollars altering it down to a 10. So against the advice of the consultant, and with a signature on my contract accepting responsibility if the dress didn’t fit I ordered the 10.
But that was eight months ago, and despite the fact that I promised myself I’d restart Weight Watchers and hire a personal trainer the second I got engaged, I have been pretty much HORRIBLE with regards to healthy eating and exercising, and have probably gained a couple pounds since I ordered the dress. Oh, and I forgot that samples are typically stretched out from being tried on a trillion times a day. So I figured I better go try it on now, hope it fits, and if it doesn’t let this be the point at which I focus on being healthy and losing weight.
For children who are lucky enough, a visit to Disney World is an amazing experience. You find yourself in “The Happiest Place on Earth,” surrounded by more stimuli than you could possibly handle.
If you’re a princess lover, you have Cinderella’s Castle and all the Disney heroines from your favorite films. A pirate at heart? Swashbuckler Johnny Depp is not too far away. For the thrill seekers, Space Mountain takes you on a ride in the dark. I could go on, but you get my point.
And I haven’t even acknowledged all the opportunities that exist to open your wallet once you pass through the turnstiles—silly hats (see below), any stuffed animal you could dream of, and treats ranging from huge (no, really huge) turkey legs to popcorn to ice cream in the shape of the park’s iconic mouse.
My first trip to Disney. And my first silly hat.
I should know. I have probably eaten five times my weight in Mickey on a stick (ice cream), could pay for a full year of college by selling my old stuffed animals on eBay, and have hats ranging from Goofy to Daisy Duck. And that’s just me…I have a brother, too. I have been to Disney more times than years I’ve been alive. Personally, I believe this puts me in the running for luckiest (twentysomething) kid on the planet. However, the best part of each visit isn’t just the chance to act like the sum of my age digits but rather the chance to spend time with my family and soak up the positive energy and “happiness” that exists at Disney World.
I know what you’re thinking…this is a wedding blog—why wax poetic about Mickey Mouse?
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You know what they say, the best laid plans often go awry. I already told you about the time we planned a trip to NYC, only to buy my dress beforehand in Nashville. I also told you about the time I bought a mailbox at the flea market…
That’s right, my great find is no longer going to be featured in our big day. Is it because I decided I didn’t like the idea of mailbox as a card box? Of course not! I still love this. It is because I found another mailbox that I simply had to have.
I was up in Chicago for Thanksgiving, and Mama Dalmatian and I had a day to ourselves before my other family members arrived. We decided to go antiquing together because my obsession with this activity stems directly from my mom. We were at a big antique barn and already having way too much luck when I spotted something in the next booth. I’m pretty sure I literally gasped. Granted, I am pretty easily excitable—but this was seriously a kick-butt find.
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Shoes are important. You literally can’t leave the house without them. If I’m going to listen to Coco Chanel and take one accessory off before leaving the house, shoes can’t be that one thing. Shoes make women feel sexy, even if they otherwise wouldn’t. Shoes fit whether you eat that last cookie or not. Shoes help make me taller so I can reach that top shelf. (All right, fine—that middle shelf. I’ll never quite reach the top.) I wrote an entire short story in college examining the social constructs surrounding high-heel-shod women—sexual repercussions, metaphors, isn’t it ironic, mumbo jumbo, BS, etc.—that seemed very deep and intellectually stimulating to my post-adolescent, idealistic brain. But no one rhapsodized about shoes better than Kelly.
When wedding planning was new and exciting, I pinned a bunch of shoe ideas that appealed to me, even though the pics I pinned were not actually shoes you could buy. Like these:
Image via Oh Happy Day
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