Weddingbee

So, I’m asking the great Weddingbee readers out there to comment with their shoe suggestions! I definitely want to wear flats (the only reason I was considering the wedge was because of the adorable bunny goodness), but I’m pretty much open to suggestions on color & styles. Just to refresh your memory, our colors are blues & browns, so it would probably make sense if I got a pair in that realm (or an ivory).

If I could afford them, I would totally splurge on Marc Jacob’s mouse shoes, because I’m 9-years-old at heart:

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But alas, I am more of a Target kinda girl, so I’ll have to keep dreaming.To give you an idea of my sense of style, here are some shoes that I’ve been drooling over, but simply can’t afford (I’d like to spend under $100 for the shoesies):

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(These totally don’t match but I still can’t resist their cuteness)

Thanks in advance for your help and don’t judge me too harshly for my poor taste in bunny footwear!

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Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing by The Magnetic Fields - Our first dance

Daughter by Loudon Wainwright III - Father/Daughter dance

Love You Madly by Cake - The cake-cutting song (A JAM video)

Mr. Candy Corn still needs to pick a Mother/Son dance. Any fun suggestions? He and his mom are super close and he totally inherited her smart ass gene, so something with some humor might suit them best.
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Chris will play slightly more Latin and Spanish guitar music for the cocktail hour. The total fee for the wedding ceremony plus the cocktail hour is $450.00, plus guests will get to look at this handsome stud strumming (hehe):

Photo courtesy of www.chrisdunnguitar.com

Is anyone else choosing non-traditional music to go down the aisle?

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“Each film is edited like a fingerprint–unique to the spirit of your special day.”-Well Spun Weddings

Photo courtesy Oh Joy!

Click here to go to another (gorgeous!!) video by Well Spun Weddings.The testimonial videos on the website get me all choked up because in a few months, we’re going to be one of those happy couples with nothing but praise for WSW. I know it can be easy to say “eh, we’ll just have Uncle ____ shoot the wedding” if videography isn’t in your budget, but for us, we decided to save in other areas (*cough* my dress *cough*) so we could make room for our own Wonder Years moments.

*Note: I promise I’m not being bribed by Well Spun Weddings to write a super duper nice post about them…I’m just totally smitten.
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Our only other “decorations” we have in mind for the Chinese Rotunda (where our ceremony is), is our light blue & chocolate brown aisle runner:

The aisle runner we’re renting from partymosaic.com ($75)

Should we plan to have more decorations, or will the space itself be enough as it is? We can’t afford anything chuppah-esque or fancy lighting or flowers, so we had just planned to stand at the end of the aisle with our officiant, plain and simple (with a small table to the side for the sand ceremony).

Here’s a reminder of what our space looks like:

Thanks in advance for any suggestions! You guys come up with the greatest ideas EVAH!

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I know it’s easy to be cynical, but it wouldn’t hurt to simply tell a girl “congrats!” Anyway, I guess I should quit my bitching and go to the kitchen and make that damn hubby-to-be a sammich! Then we can fertilize my eggs and hold hands while watching Dr. Phil talk smack on Britney.

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Does anyone else get tired of hearing snarky remarks about marriage from acquaintances?

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I know that some people take Pepto Bismol to avoid ARF (Asian Red Face) while drinking, but I doubt that it would have the same effect on me since my hardcore blushing is caused by shyness, not alcohol. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to load up on some good ol’ Pepto. Any suggestions on how I can avoid looking like this (see photo below) on our wedding day?

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We are renting a photo booth from www.rentphotobooths.com, where it is costing us about $755 to have them set it up at 6pm, and open it up to our guests from 8-10pm.

Our fridge and proof of my love affair with photo booths:

Does anyone know where I can find unique & affordable photo booth albums/guestbooks? I’ve only ever seen the black guestbooks where the guests write in it with gel pens (for photo booth photos).

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We ordered a case of each of these (12 bottles per case, 108 soda bottles total):

The only thing I’m not sure about is how to present these to our guests. Should we have one at each place setting beforehand or should we sit them all out on one table, arranged by flavor, for guests to fight over? Normally I’d say we could use them as place cards, but I already have place card holders and an idea for those. I want to avoid mayhem as much as possible, so does anyone have any recommendations?

I don’t mind if someone ends up with bubble gum at their plate and swaps with their neighbor for green apple. I just don’t know if we should have an initial stampede to the tables of sodas where guests can fight for their right to party with fufu berry. Or should we just randomly place them on tables beforehand, which I’d imagine would cause a lot of “What flavor do you have? Wanna switch?” whispers during the best man speech.

Photo courtesy thepalmtrees on Flickr

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And yes, I’m storing nine cases of Jones soda in my cramped apartment because I’ve been checking up on their flavors monthly and they finally have flavors that are droolworthy (Turkey + Gravy flavored soda? Seriously?).

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After dinner, we took family photos by the fountain.

My brother’s wifey, my brother, my parents, Mr. Candy Corn and I!

Mr. Candy Corn and me being all red-eyed.

Once we were done saying cheese, we told our parents that we wanted to take more photos on the balcony, which we said was down the hallway. The truth was, we had gotten them a hotel room and set it up with rose petals, red votive candles, a framed photo of them on their wedding day and a drawer full of their overnight necessities. I had put an “anniversary mix” together and played their wedding song on a loop, so when we walked by their room (which was on the way to the “balcony,” which we totally made up), we figured they would hear their song and realize the room was for them.

Not so much. My dad and mom peeked into the dimly-lit room and after a bit of coaxing, finally made the connection that it was their wedding song playing (I made the mistake of downloading the Bobby Darin cover, as opposed to the Andy Williams original). Even after that, they wanted to keep walking down the hall because they didn’t want to get in trouble for looking into someone else’s room (they thought it was just a coincidence that their wedding song was playing in an open hotel room…haha). After a few minutes of us trying to get them to realize it was THEIR room, we just had to say “Happy Anniversary!” which resulted in a lot of crying and hugging on their end.

A very verklempt Mama Candy Corn.

Shiny, happy parents.

I get so excited at the thought of celebrating our first wedding anniversary together, I can’t even imagine the big 4-0. I can’t believe there are only five months until our wedding! I guess time really does fly.

Have you guys put any thought in how you’d like to celebrate your first wedding anniversary? We’ll probably just whip out some really stale wedding cake and watch our wedding DVD like total goobers.
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