Wedding Blog

Today we leave for the wedding!! We are driving up to Old Orchard Beach this afternoon (assuming all goes well), setting up tonight (which is AWWWWESOME because they don’t have a Friday wedding), and then the festivities begin for our thunderstormy wedding tomorrow!!

Thank you all for your help in this process! I always know I can turn to the hive for the toughest questions!! I’ll…

GASP! I think I’m getting married soon!! And I thouggght there was something we needed to do first… OH YEAH, GET LICENSED.

Well, luckily we did. Since we’re both living in NH, we got to take our pick of Maine town halls - so we hopped the border into Kittery (home of the wonderful Kittery Outlets) and got ourselves semi-hitched!

And we even photo-documented:

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How do I know it’s getting close? Because the OOT bags are ready to go!! This was a long time coming, since those tote bags had been sitting here since December. And now I get to share the process!!

Step 1: Ordering totes. There were a few routes I was considering:

I thought these were super cute, and they’re only $2/piece for the large size. However, the “large”…

Hello hive! I apologize for my recent silence - it’s not that I’ve ceased to exist, but well, my wedding is in NINE DAYS and I am fah-REAKING out. I’m sure everyone experiences the irony where work is slow for 8 months and then BAM it picks up like CRAZY the two weeks before the wedding? Well, I’m in the midst of it now, but…

With only a little over three weeks left until the wedding, I have uttered my share of swear words. But none, in my mind, is so vile, so awful, so MEAN as this one:

Bridezilla.

*shudder*

It makes me cringe. Thus far, I have been called a bridezilla twice, and both instances with forever be ingrained in my memory.

On the first occasion, I was on the phone with…

…It’s terrible. I am officially a TDB (Two Dress Bride).

Basically, the more I tried on my dress, the more I started to feel uncomfortable about it. I guess there’s this general sense that brides are supposed to look pretty, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought I just didn’t look pretty in my dress. I think I have partially overcome this,…

This past weekend, my fabulous FMIL (et al) threw me a SUPER FUN bridal shower, which Mr. BG astutely dubbed “Becca day.” All the lady-folk from Mr. BG’s side of the family gathered to shower me with gifts (pun intended), clothe me in tissue paper, and ply me with baked goods – all the while enforcing my belief that I am just ridiculously fortunate to…

For some crazy reason, getting RSVP’s back in the mail has been RIDICULOUSly fun - so much so that Mr. BG and I frequently argue over who gets to open them - if it’s post-marked in Vermont, he gets it. Massachusetts and California are mine. And there is nothing more disappointing than having zero little green envelopes in the mailbox.

I think the appeal here lies in the…

Ah, crud. I haven’t blogged since, like, March. I feel like a jerk. But I sweeeear I’ve been busy - making escort cards, bathroom baskets, favor boxes, programs, THE WORKS! So as some of that winds down, I suppose it’s time to share! Here’s the status on the escort cards I had started oh-so-long ago…

Last time we met to discuss this crucial issue, I still wasn’t…

I just have to say: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to reader Kyluvr - for pointing out this site:

• http://www.taaz.com/

You may or may not remember the fun I had playing with my hair - Well, as Kyluvr pointed out to me, at this site, not only can you change your hair - but also you can change your makeup!!!

GASP! This has made my day. And it’s…

I usually can’t get through a day without Mr. BG quoting Anchorman by saying, “I love lamp.” For some reason, on this particular day, it got me thinking about one’s love for lamps and how this might translate into centerpieces (one-track mind lately, or what?). I know that candle centerpieces are popular and beautiful, so why not a beautiful lamp? And, depending on how you do it,…

There really is nothing like a great shoe:

And, as we all know, the greatest shoes often hurt the most. So, after about 10 minutes of dancing, don’t you just want to kick them off?? But then what, oh what, will you put on your feet? Well, Martha Stewart told me to give them slippers, so, garsh darnit, that’s what I’ll do!

God, that title was so lame. I apologize.

I have a couple of dress decisions to make, so I thought I’d put them to a vote.

The first is the sash. For the months that I ogled my dress here,

I pictured it with the sash. And I even bought that exact sash. But once I got it home, I started to get nervous that the sash would…

Oh, weddingbee community, have I told you lately that I love you? That you are the SMARTEST group of people on this earth? And, uh, the prettiest??

I’ll just get right to it: I need help! My wedding is in TWO MONTHS *gasp*!!! And I have two questions that I know weddingbee can solve. Pretty pretty please??

Question #1: Can I open my presents??

The other day, I got…

Step 1: DIY Pocketfolds 
Step 2: The Main Invitation
Step 3: Invitation Sashes
Step 4: Inserts!

Our invitations are DONE! W00t! And before sending them out, we had one final step: inserts. I had originally planned on having three inserts: directions, travel & accommodations, and the rsvp (which, as always, was a design stolen from Mrs. Lemon). However, at the last minute, I realized that we kept mentioning our…