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Originally published on February 23, 2010
Mrs. Socks nominated Mrs. Sewing’s photo editing tutorial as a post that really helped her. She says, “It came at just the right time for me and encouraged me to continue playing around with Photoshop.”
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In my possession are all the engagement photos we took! *claps hands excitedly* However, Sewing-Mom was a little stressed out at the idea of me posting her unedited pictures up on the internet. Now, I don’t really want to wait for her to go through and fix them all (as we all know, this can take a while!), so I asked if I could fix them up instead.
“Sure… just make sure you said that you did the editing, not me.”
Of course Mom, I wouldn’t want to taint your image. 
So since photo editing is a relatively unexplored, new territory for me, I thought we could go through it together. Today we’ll go through some of the basics. (There are many, many more complicated and professional methods, but the following will be good to start off with, I hope!)
First, open up your photo (in this case one of my e-pic teasers) in Photoshop.
Mortallll Kommmbaaattt!
Now let’s play! Open the Layers window by pressing F7
(or Windows -> Layers)
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Sheesh—I can’t believe it’s been over two weeks since my last post. So much for coming back “regularly,” huh? Sorry about that. As it turns out, returning from one’s honeymoon right as the holiday season is getting into full swing is perhaps even more crazy-making than wedding planning.
During this time each year, Mr. FW and I typically make a special shopping trip to buy a few new ornaments for our tree, but this year when we looked around at a house full of wedding decorations and honeymoon souvenirs, we just couldn’t imagine trying to cram more stuff into our space. So, what did we do? We re-purposed.
You remember our string balls, right?
Well, after putting in some hard time as our lovely wedding centerpieces (and I can’t wait to show you just how lovely they were!!), some of these lucky balls are once again bringing a little cheer to our lives…
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abenyo’s wedding party consisted entirely of SUPERHEROES!
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As I have mentioned in the past, Mr. Buck and I have been together for going on ten years. I think anyone that knows us will say that we are very private people. We aren’t ones to be mushy and lovey dovey in front of people. We have an extremely close relationship, but the details do not get shared with friends, family, coworkers, or —gasp—Facebook. That’s just how we are and how we prefer to stay. Despite the fact that I’m a Weddingbee blogger, I write about details of our wedding, not our relationship.
All this to say that originally, the two of us were freaked out at writing and saying our own vows in front of over 100 people. We would both get super nervous, awkward, and probably end up something like Doug from King of Queens:
{Video via You Tube}
I want the vows between us to be natural. I am confident if we try and do anything other than traditional vows, both of us are going to end up in the awkward zone. We don’t want that, but we still want something personal. So, how do we have our cake and eat it too?
If you missed anything, here are links to Part I, Part II, and Part III.
As you saw, we had five top choices from our engagement session for the photo on our save the date…so which one did we choose?
They’re HEREEEEEE. Seriously, when I picked up this bag I was giddy with excitement.
In the bag was the final product. Drum roll, please…
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
On Friday, I emailed our ceremony text and readings to our officiant in Las Vegas. This email was a pretty big deal for Mr. Mole and me. We spent a lot of time choosing how to structure the ceremony, what tone to set, which traditions to incorporate. I was feeling pretty darn accomplished until I reread this section:
[Mr] and [Miss], please turn to each other and share the vows that you have written.
[Mr vows]
[Miss vows]
Oh, that’s right. We still need to write our vows. That’s not exactly an insignificant portion of the ceremony, is it? Fortunately, we do have some parts of the task accomplished. We picked out a fairly traditional set of vows for the ring exchange:
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Besides the whole “who gets the ring?” question, a lot of people have been interested in who our bridal party will be and what the people in it will be called. We had a very well-meaning vendor ask us if we’d be having “groomsmen.” Not quite.
Image via Klobb’s Posterous
Since we’re going to be having a smaller wedding, we didn’t want to have a humongous bridal party. I think its lovely when a couple has so many close friends and relatives that they love so much, that they end up with a huge bridal party. But, we wanted to deliberately keep it small because of our smaller sized guest list and because we wanted to keep the pre-wedding fuss (showers, bachelorettes, dress shopping, etc.) to a minimum.
Hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season, hive! It’s time to reveal the results of this year’s Weddingbee holiday card swap! Check out the great creativity of some of our amazing hive members below!
CarolinaCola included a handmade bee ornament in her cards:
Cara:
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My new favorite wedding-attire trend is statement necklaces. They are so chic and they are all over the red carpet right now. I feel like this is one trend that won’t outdate your photos 20 years down the road (unlike puffy sleeves and headband veils…oh the ’80s).
Image via Hershey Weddings by The Knot / Necklace from Neiman Marcus
A while back, I mentioned how our initial choice in officiant, Pastor Tom, didn’t work out because he already had another wedding scheduled. He was an ideal choice for several reasons—I’ve known him and his family since I was a baby, he’s a Lutheran pastor, he has a great sense of humor, he did my mom’s wedding last year, etc.—but alas, it was not meant to be.
I briefly panicked until my mom mentioned that her lifelong friend, Pastor Liz, could be another viable officiant candidate. While I don’t know her nearly as well as Pastor Tom, I was open to asking her to do our ceremony—at the time, having a pastor (who was willing to go light on or completely forgo the God speak) was important to me. Well, I thought it was. There was definitely a bit of fuzz between what I wanted and what I thought I wanted because of what I thought my parents wanted. Figure that one out, Sherlock.
So Pastor Liz and I emailed back and forth a bunch. She said she would be open to officiating the ceremony, and we even had a phone call (while Foxy was at work) that kick-started my mind to think about what I/we truly wanted our ceremony to be and what it would ultimately entail. While this was all very helpful and seemed to fit all my previous requirements, something still didn’t feel right. I thought I wanted a pastor, but…maybe I didn’t? Maybe a Justice of the Peace would be just fine…better, even.
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junice is selling a blush pink framed chalkboard. She’s asking $25.
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Originally published on November 12, 2009
Mrs. Spaniel nominated Mrs. Rainbow’s name change post. Mrs. Spaniel says, “I know that everyone has a post about name changing, but the one that really impacted me was Mrs. Rainbow’s post, where she told us that both she and her fiance decided to take both of their names. I’m not joking; it sparked the conversation where Mr. Spaniel and I actually decided to each take my birth name as a second middle name.
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Let me just start of by saying that I am so lucky to be marrying such an understanding, compassionate, and laid back man.
I say this because I initially had absolutely no desire to change my name, ever. Even as a little girl, I couldn’t imagine having anyone else’s last name but my own. I quite like my last name, it meshes well with my identity. It’s a strong—yet pretty and proper sounding—British name. It’s one of those names that goes well with everything, but isn’t super common, like Smith or Jones.
To be honest, I was a bit nervous about telling Mr. Rainbow that I was planning on keeping my last name. Most men (like my dad, for example) are so against the idea of their wife not having the same last name. When I broke the news to Mr. Rainbow, his response was something to the tune of: “Really? Okay, if that’s what you want sweetie, whatever makes you happy.” Gosh, I love that man. What potentially could have caused a huge fight between many other couples, was not even a ripple on our radar.
Fast-forward a few weeks later and the gears in my brain started spinning: “What if we decide to have kids? Whose name will they have? I don’t want to be the only one in the family with a different last name!”
Before we started wedding planning, I had two speeds when it came to DIY projects: full speed or full stop. I almost never chipped away at a project slowly. I did it all or I didn’t do it. When it came to making our table numbers, I went full speed and got them done…three different times.
I mentioned my first project when I talked about my table number inspiration pictures. I made clay plaques to use as numbers and I didn’t like them. The second round was with IKEA Tolsby frames, which seem to have become a staple of wedding DIYers. I liked the frames, but they didn’t really go with our wedding’s style. Finally, I decided to use this Style Me Pretty picture as inspiration for my third and final attempt at table numbers:
From Style Me Pretty / Photo by Shannon Lee Images
I’m pretty in the middle about the bouquet/garter toss. It’s fun when the couple does decide to do it, but if they don’t, I certainly don’t miss it. One thing that bugs me about the toss is trying to get people on the floor; having to yell and convince people to get up there. Singling out the singles. There are the shy and single ones that just don’t want to participate and then remain in the back of the crowd (you need to make the catch!), there are the engaged folks who don’t need to participate but are persuaded somehow (you aren’t married yet!), and of course, there’s usually one or two that are actually dying to catch the bouquet or garter (just throw it directly at me!).
Here’s proof, from BM Scoot’s wedding a couple months ago. I was happily sitting with Mr. Honey when I got called out from across the room to join in with the toss, I declined more than once, but eventually made my way up and tried to stand in the back…then got pushed to the front of the crowd (because hey, “you are the next to get married, so you might as well catch the bouquet”) and was forced to compete with the one girl who really wanted and deserved the bouquet! And you see those 4 ladies behind me? They are all single, too. I felt bad that the bouquet got thrown at me, when I didn’t need it. I will admit, it’s a pretty funny action shot:
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| Image from BM Scoot’s wedding/Photo by Newell Jones & Jones Photography |
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