Weddingbee

Mr. Avocado agreed to take dancing lessons. Great!

Miss Avocado decided to move home for 2 1/2 months right before the wedding. Boo.

The Avocados do not plan on seeing each other for the entire 2 1/2 months. Double Boo.

Mr. Avocado and Miss Avocado have taken 2 lessons and practiced one time, and naively think they will be able to show off some sweet moves despite having had very little time dancing together beforehand.

Look at the intense manner in which Mr. Avocado is focusing on the next move!

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I have a fear. It’s not of bugs, heights, or death. It’s of missing teeth.

When I was in 4th grade, a kid named Cody knocked his hard head into my mouth and knocked my front tooth out. My dental assistant mother knew enough to soak it in milk until they could get me to the doctor to have it glued back on the next day. Later, I was playing tag around my house with a little boy who just came up to my nose, when he decided to switch directions as we were running and ran straight into me, knocking it out again (more glue please!). The next time it happened I was playing with one of those kick boards that float, and I was having fun pulling it under the water as far as I could and watching it shoot back out again. I leaned over a little too far and watched it come up and knock me in the mouth. If you can believe it, we found the little trooper tooth again and glued it on once more.

Fast forward 5 or 6 years to a snowboarding trip my senior year of high school. I couldn’t get my glove off my frozen fingers, so I bit down hard and pulled, and felt a weird sensation in my mouth. I rescued the little tooth once again, but the dentist decided it was time for a crown. I had a root canal, and spent about 2 months with a loose tooth cover that popped off to reveal this:

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A tented reception the week after the wedding. Doesn’t sound hard does it? Just get a tent, throw some chairs, tables and food inside and it’s a party. At least, that is what I thought. And then I realized that I live in the middle of nowhere.

That cute little crown marks the approximate spot where I live. A tiny little town of 3,000, if you count every single person (and possibly a few pigs and cows) living in a 25 mile radius. It’s a 3 hour drive one way into Seattle, and the closest mall is 1.5 hours one way to Tri-Cities.

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This weekend we received our first wedding gift. In our family, Great-Grandma N makes every grandchild (and now great-grandchild) a quilt when they get married. My sister sleeps with one quilt that my mom received from our grandma, and I sleep with another. Now I’ll be able to take one of these quilts with us no matter where we live.

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I’ll be picking my dress up in 2 weeks, and so I think it is probably time to start thinking about what Suavocado will be wearing underneath that hot suit of his.

Here is a reminder of what my dress looks like:

If I pair up a white shirt under all of the suits with my pretty dress am I going to be suffering from the dreaded “dirty dress” phenomenon?
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I love Marilyn Monroe. I collect calendars, clothes, watches, and even perfume branded with her name and image. I love her confidence, her curves, and her clothes. My mom’s mom is also named Marilyn, and has apparently been hiding away her 1950’s wedding dress in the back of one of her closets all of these years. She pulled it out and I fell in love. It looks exactly like the Marilyn Monroe style that I have always swooned over, and I was thrilled to have the chance to put it on this weekend (and that it zipped up!).

My little sister and MOH might have been a little annoyed at my insistence that the bride should be the one to try the dress on and prance around in it.

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While researching Polish traditions that we could potentially incorporate into the wedding, I stumbled across a fascinating book in the folklore section of my university library. I was pumped to see it had an entire section devoted to Polish wedding traditions. The excerpt I share below is definitely ancient and I have been assured by a few different Poles that no one does this anymore, but it’s so hilarious that I couldn’t resist sharing it with all of you.

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Pokładziny- The Bedding Down:
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You probably want the wedding whirlwind recap to be over as much as I wanted the day to be over while it was happening. I was exhausted by this point, and not interested in the least in the idea of dragging myself over to Paper Source. You see, I’m what you might call a paper virgin.

Paper Source does know how to cater to an audience. This paper and ribbon wedding dress on display perked me up a little bit.

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After the Hotel 1000 tasting came cake tasting time. I don’t think I realized how much I love cake until this experience. I, sadly, ended up throwing a lot of this cake away because I was attempting to finish all the cake on my own as I live in a household full of gluten/dairy/egg free people and I could NOT use the rule of moderation when it came to this stuff. From left to right, chocolate white chocolate, strawberry white chocolate, and chocolate fudge cake.

Simply Desserts in Seattle gave me a list of flavors and I am overwhelmed by the 17 options I have to choose from. So you choose 8 flavors for us.
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After wholesaling and antiquing came my favorite part of the day, menu tasting. We chose four appetizers, two soups, and three entrees to sample. I also brought along a sister who is allergic to gluten/dairy/egg (you know, basically everything), and a mother who is allergic to dairy. This meant a lot of extras left over for me.

Poached lobster with avocado mousse on cucumber rounds, and miniature baked brie with fruit compote.

I wish I could build a menu completely out of appetizers. Not only do I like when food is served in teensy tiny portions, but you are able to get so many flavors in your mouth before you start to feel full. The baked brie rounds were a little hard to eat, so the chef is going to make them even smaller for us. Won’t they look cute?

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