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At this point in the morning, all we had to take care of was our pre-ceremony portraits. First, I delivered my mom’s bouquet to her, describing how my original plan to replicate her bridal bouquet for her had been substituted with a bouquet charm with her wedding date. She seemed to like the touch of personalization that came with her wedding flowers.
While we hugged, we both got tearful, so we only had one course of action.
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Rewind back to October 2010. I had just come home to Ontario after spending part of spring, all of summer, and a tiny bit of fall in British Columbia, working at a resort. I knew I needed to get a “real” job instead of being a ski bum for life, so I headed to Ottawa, where my sister and father live.
I spent a few weeks there, applying for any and every journalism job I could find. One day, well past midnight, I stumbled across a posting for a newspaper position in Sioux Lookout, where I had once lived for a summer five years prior. My parents worked there for a couple of years, and I actually spent my formative years in nearby Pickle Lake, the most northern community in Ontario with year-round road access.
I fired off a resume and cover letter explaining I had lived there before and enjoyed it, and would love working there professionally. A week or so went by and I didn’t hear anything, so I promptly forgot about it until the day after Thanksgiving when I was awoken by a very early phone call from my future boss, who wanted to do a quick phone interview. He offered me the position later that day and I accepted—it took about five hours for me to start wondering what the heck I had signed on to.
I silently promised myself I would stick it out for a year, at which point I figured I’d be eager to head home. A few weeks of packing, organizing, and trying to locate an apartment flew by, and the next thing I knew I was loading up my car and settling in for a two-day drive.
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As I mentioned here, not only did I have my hair and makeup trial this weekend, I also had a super-amazing-fantastically-fun bridal shower! My two grandmas and MOH MD put it on for me and I was totally blown away. I mean, these ladies know how to put on a party!
After I got all prettied up, Mama Aardvark and I had to make a blitz trip to the mall because both of the outfits she was thinking of wearing were too big! She has been on a pretty hard core fitness kick and is looking fab!
So, after scampering off to get her a dress (seriously, it took like five minutes to find one) we headed down to the parish center. We got there a touch early to find it BEAUTIFULLY decorated!
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| How cute are these tables?! |
It was a pretty sweet spread. Each place setting had these super cute favors that my Grandma and her sister had painted by hand! How cool is that!? So cool. The answer is So.Cool.
CydYoshi’s animal cake topper is too adorable for words!
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Time was not my friend in the planning process. One day, I glanced over at the calendar and realized that if we were going to send out save the dates, we had to get crackin’!
So I turned to the internet for some inspiration and I came across this:
Save-the-date postcards!
Early on in our engagement, I promised Mr. M that we were just going to send out save-the-date postcards, to keep things simple. Oddly, I also felt like it was my stroke of genius…”why design save the date cards? Why not just send out some postcards and slap a date on the back? Easy-peasy!” Don’t you just love when you feel like you’ve concocted some brilliant and original idea just to discover that it’s been done many times over?
A few clicks later, I found another inspiration picture that made me stop in my tracks.
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Otherwise known as engagement photos! One of my awesome bridesmaids hooked us up with her friend who is starting his engagement/wedding photo business here in NYC. Since he is just starting out, he offered to take our photos for free! He was amazing and spent the afternoon with us in Central Park and other various locations around the city. He was a blast to work with and really let us do our own thing, which we appreciated. OK, I’ll stop blabbing and show you the photos!
I like making faces…
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You may remember that I started looking for wedding shoes before I started shopping for my wedding gown. Making appointments at bridal salons seemed like a big step and looking at shoes online seemed like a good way to ease myself into thinking about my bridal “look.” I didn’t mention that at the same time, I was also looking at a lot of jewelry.
I knew that I wouldn’t buy any jewelry until I had my dress, but it didn’t hurt to look at options, right? As I gathered inspiration pictures, I found myself gravitating towards statement necklaces.
Necklace from Dillard’s / From Style Me Pretty / Photo by Aruna B. Photography
Big, beautiful necklaces are so popular right now. I haven’t seen a single one that I don’t love. From the bib necklace to chunky pearls to necklaces with color, I think all statement necklaces on brides look fantastic. This is one trendy item that I don’t think I’ll tire of seeing.
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Last we left off, we had bought an engagement ring after carefully narrowing it down, and then the USPS lost it. What happens next in the Wizard engagement saga?
I cried. A lot. I had been so excited to share the news with my family in person, and now my dream was being crushed before my eyes by the stupid USPS. We would have no way of ordering a ring and having it arrive and get the stone set in time for my graduation. Mr. Wizard and I discussed it and decided that we’d go back to the local jewelry store later that day and buy a ring off the rack, and that we wouldn’t leave the store without a ring in our hands. At that point simply being engaged to each other was more important than finding the perfect ring.
That trip to the jewelry store was one of the most exciting moments of my life. I already knew which ring I was going to pick, and when I tried it on one last time just to make sure, I knew it was the one. It was four sizes too big for me and I wasn’t even sure it would be able to be resized, but it felt so good to have my ring in our possession, with no way for it to get lost.
The next day I brought it to my usual jewelry repair place on the way to work. Miracle workers that they are, they told me it would be no problem to resize to fit my tiny finger, and I left the center stone there to be set too. They called me back the very next day and told me my ring was ready for pickup, and that’s when I knew: my dream was not lost. I’d be engaged before my family arrived. I refused to look at the finished ring or try it on at the jeweler’s, because I wanted it to be a surprise when Mr. Wizard and I saw it together for the first time, when he officially popped the question.
When I got home I found Mr. Wizard in bed with a headache. He already knew that I had the ring and he asked to see it. I told him we didn’t have to do this now, we could wait until he felt better if he wanted to (I didn’t want the moment we became engaged to be remembered by him as “Ugh, I had a terrible headache and felt like crap”), but he insisted. I handed it to him, and he sat up and made a show of opening the box away from me and ooohing and aaahing over it without letting me see it. I wrestled with him and finally he said, “Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you suuuuure you’re ready?”
We have a video! I was going to wait a while to show it to you but I have low impulse control so here it is:
I was a little nervous about using WedIt for our video. I had dreams of beautifully edited and filmed masterpieces and I knew that was not what I was going to get with flip cameras and non-professionals*.
HOWEVER:
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Lover.ly brings images and stories from the top wedding editors and pulls them all in one place, making it easy for you to search for exactly what you’re looking for, easily mark images as your favorites by “loving” them, or storing them in organized “bundles” that you name and dream up:
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I get weepy, but most of the time I don’t go into full blown crying…it is a strange phenomena. I start thinking about something that I am passionate about, I care about, upsets me, makes me happy, you name it…then when I am talking my voice waivers a little and then
Image via Dave Glass Productions
The weepies arrive…
Hello everyone! I’m thrilled to introduce myself to the hive—but don’t worry, I don’t breathe fire in real life.
Photo by Brent Wesley / These are our fake-angry faces!
I’m coming to you from the Great White North, but not Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, or anywhere that most people could name. Nope, I live in northern Ontario; Sioux Lookout, to be exact. Thunder Bay lies about a five-hour drive away in one direction, while the same drive will get you to Winnipeg if you head the other way. The closest large centre is Dryden, which boasts a Walmart, and is an hour away.
Tazaiarae is selling a set of handmade book-page vases. She is asking $250 for the set or $10 each.
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Ah, the ol’ cake tasting. One of those parts of wedding planning that everyone gets PUMPED for, brides and grooms alike. I actually don’t know what’s so exciting about it. You people realize you could just eat cake any day you want, right? We’re all adults here. But for some reason it is exciting, probably because you get to try so many different flavors in one sitting. Or maybe because you get to dream about your wedding whilst stuffing your face, two of my favorite pastimes!
There are a lot of superstitions when it comes to weddings. You can’t see the bride before the ceremony, rain on your wedding day is supposed to be bad luck, and of course the whole “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” Someone once told me that if your mothers cry during your wedding, you will have a rough first year of marriage. That one sounded a little crazy to me—pretty much all mothers are going to cry!
Image via artisanphotography.com / Photography by Artisan Photography
So I was wondering, where did all these superstitions come from? In researching this I came across some superstitions I had never heard of! One has to do with changing your last name. Apparently it is unlucky for the bride to marry a man whose last name begins with the same letter as hers. There is even a rhyme that goes along with this one: “To change the name and not the letter, is to change for the worse and not the better.”
I also read one that says it is good luck for the bride to cry on her wedding day because she will have cried all her tears away, leaving none for the marriage. I’m sure I’m going to cry, and if that means no tears during the marriage, I’m on board. As far as rain on the wedding day, I found more on it being good luck than bad. It is said that rain is a symbol of children in their future. It actually rained on my parents’ wedding day and they ended up having four kids! So maybe there’s some truth to that one.
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