Wedding Blog

One month ago, today (eek, sorry for the delay!), Mr. Bear Cub and I stood on a cliff overlooking the ocean, surrounded by our loving family and friends, and solidified our love in marriage.

It was wonderful, beautiful, and (honestly!) everything I had ever wished it to be.

By the time you’re reading this, I’ll probably be on a plane... TO WEDDING LAND!!! :D

So as I leave my adoptive country for my month-o-bliss, I’d like to give special thanks to my friends in La Serena - the ones Mr. Bear Cub and I live with (in a fishbowl of expats!), the ones we work with (in the same fishbowl...), and the ones who care about us enough to throw us a surprise wedding shower!!!

Hi Hive!

Meet Miss Bear Cub: Amateur Meteorologist!

The forecast for the Pacific Northwest US over the next few weeks is:

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I don’t know. :)

But I do have a few tricks up my sleeve!

Bear Cubs are a bit shy - this little Bear Cub doesn’t know the first thing about lingerie!

It doesn’t help that certain other Bear Cubs also don’t know a thing about lingerie - a Ms Bear Cub, in particular, needs to find "sexay" bum-cover-uppers STAT!

Remember way back when? When I had lofty plans for re-creating Lauren Alane’s cutie-patootie felted birds cake topper?

Consider this project DONE, suckah!

Wow, that was stupid.

Mr. Bear Cub and I were out on our weekly super-long Saturday marathon training run (you don’t want to know how many miles), and Mr. Sunshine (not to be confused with Mr. Sunbeam!) decided to peek his little head out of the clouds.

Ladies, we have two weeks until our wedding. I now look like a raccoon.

Our invites were sent out almost a full month ago, but I only got to see them in real life for the first time a little over a week ago! While I was in California for my MOH’s wedding, I had my mom mail me my own copy of our wedding invite. Ladies, it’s a wonderful thing to hold your wedding invitation in your hands.

I…

Um… I’m the worst decision-maker ever. I still don’t know what necklace I’m going to wear with my wedding dress!

Remember my wedding dress? Good.

I know this is obviously not the most important part of the wedding. Why am I not spending more of my time on silly things like venue insurance and lighting? But you ladies like jewelry & style, right? Can’t go wrong with the…

I’m not really a daddy’s girl. When I need advice about life, I turn to my mother - she has truly been my rock growing up. To be painfully honest, I don’t even really have much of a relationship with my dad. I love him, and he loves me, but we’re two very different people, and we know it. Thankfully, the relationship that we do have…

Mr. Bear Cub was the easy one to outfit. Typically, when someone’s a groom, I guess what they do is send measurements to Men’s Wearhouse for a tuxedo, and then pick it up a few days before the wedding, right? Well... Mr. BC isn’t going to wear a tux, so having his dudes wear tuxes would be a little odd. ;)

If you recall what Mr. BC is going to wear, I think the groomsdudes would look nice in lighter brown sport coats like this:

Over the past few weeks, I’ve gained a new skill. Marketing reps should be quite proud of me; I now have plenty experience with cold calling friends, family, and strangers about our wedding.

Our invites were sent out a few weeks ago, and the RSVP date was this past weekend (I promise I’ll share the details on our invites soon!). Out of the 175 people we invited, only 25 have actually RSVPed, be it yes or no. The calling game has begun, and it’s not fun.

Mr. Bear Cub isn’t exactly a tuxedo kind of man. And that’s OK - I love him for it! I want him to be comfortable on his wedding day; I want him to take pride in what he wears. You know, just so long as it’s nice. He usually wears whatever he grabs first out of his drawer (of crumpled t-shirts), and usually the clothes…

One of the things Mr. Bear Cub absolutely wanted at our wedding was a live band. Mr. BC plays guitar, has many friends that have been signed to labels, and always loved going to the Northwest Folklife festival while in college at UW. For him, our event wouldn’t be the same without a live band, namely a great folk band.

I really don’t know how you’re…

Hi hive!

Remember me? Lil’ Miss Bear Cub? I feel awful for being so MIA recently. It’s amazing how much gets piled on your plate at one and a half months out!

The primary reason I’ve been gone for so long is because this past weekend, I went to my best friend’s wedding. I didn’t date my best friend (à la Julia Roberts), but I did date…

I saw this earlier, and thought, 'WOW... ...BEAUTIFUL!'

Maybe it just looks like a bunch of yarn to you, but to me, that looks like soft, supple, delectably cozy wedding-wear to me! So I did what any bride drunk off the crazy juice does. I spent time thinking about it.

Bad idea. I like it. It’s pretty. Here, this might help you visualize -