Weddingbee
There was quite a swarm of bees this weekend in the Philadelphia area! We met at a pretty cozy hive (Marathon Grill on 10th and Walnut Street), and it was a fantastic time getting to chat with local bees and readers over Sunday brunch.
One of our readers MagPie518 came up with a brilliant idea: why not have a meet-up with all the Bees and readers in the Philadelphia area? So with the help of everyone in the hive, we reserved an ideal location for brunch on July 27th at the Marathon Grill on 10th & Walnut Street.
This is a great opportunity to meet brides-to-bee and married brides in the Philly area. So let’s meet up and share advice, ideas, vendor recommendations, and experiences from our weddings with other each other! Read more…
Has it already been one year since our wedding? I can’t believe how time flies and imagine how life was so different back in my wedding planning days. Reflecting back I can’t imagine the countless hours I spent planning out all the details for one of the most special day of our lives. I’m quite grateful our wedding day was awesome, thanks to the support of my family, friends, and of course all the weddingbee readers!
I checked my call schedule for this month and realized that I’m on-call on Valentine’s Day! Blah. 
I guess I wasn’t too disappointed about having to miss out on Valentine’s Day because we decided to celebrate a little earlier over this weekend by staying home and cooking some of our favorite dishes together.
I was thinking about investing in a jewelry cleaner but I discovered a few supplies at home could also do the trick.
Our photographer Nicole Polk called me a few days before Christmas with some really great news: our wedding photo albums were ready to picked up! I was so excited because they arrived just in time - I was planning to visit my parents in Chicago and wanted to present one as a gift to my mom. We met up with Nicole and she surprised us with the beautifully wrapped gift boxes. She added her Polka Dots Portraits logo by designing stickers and gift tags for each present.
We met the Snow Peas earlier in September when Mrs. Snow Pea invited us for dinner at their house. Since then we have become quite good friends with the Snow Peas. This year to pay them back for all their kindness, we decided to invite them over for a holiday dinner at our place. It was quite a challenge for me to create this dinner since I rarely cook more than one dish for Mr. Bell Pepper. I decided to prepare all of my favorite holiday dishes for this year, and here’s a recap:
On our honeymoon in Paris, I took a ton of photos during our sightseeing adventures into the city of love. We wanted to create a large hardcover photo album of all the memories we captured during our honeymoon, so I created one through Blurb Books. They have an excellent holiday promotion going on - I got $10 off my very first book design!
We still have a few thank you cards to send out to relatives who live overseas and couldn’t make it to our wedding. Rather than send them a few 4 x 6 photos from our wedding, I wanted to create a keepsake holiday card that would highlight some of our favorite photos.
My first Gocco tutorial
After our wedding, I was exhausted and didn’t want to do with anything related to paper or DIYing. I think you could call it post-wedding burnout or papercrafting intoxication; it was pretty bad that I threw away most of my paper supplies to relieve the stress. I was fine for a few days… then after a few weeks I started developing withdrawal symptoms where I wanted to create something. My hands were restless, trembling, and I felt the sweat pouring… And that’s when I bought a freakin’ Gocco machine on Etsy. I gotta thank the weddingbees Mrs. Bee, Mrs. Lemon and Miss Penguin for making me fall for this obsession. 
Mrs. Bell Pepper
Mrs. Bell Pepper, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 28, Resident Physician
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Resident Physician
Engagement Date: May 30, 2006
Wedding Date: June 2007
Venue: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
About Me: I love whimsical details and design, everything that *sparkles*, sipping on hazelnut lattes, pugs, shopping for antiques and second-hand goods, scenic photography, delicate flowers, and checking out new restaurants in the city with my fianc??. We are planning our wedding at a unique city venue for about 75 close family members and friends. I have a lot of DIY ideas and I like to blog about ways to save money on your wedding.
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