Weddingbee Blog

Hello WB readers! It’s been a couple of years since my last entry and I never finished my recaps, but there was always one tip I always wanted to share…it’s treating your vendors well. I’ve helped out at a couple weddings after mine where I’ve told my bride friends to make sure to make goodie bags, not only for their wedding party, but also for vendors. I’ve recently coordinated a girlfriend’s wedding and had a sit down with the vendors afterwards…and wouldn’t you know it, it makes a world of a difference.

I made some the night before our wedding because I wanted EVERYONE that helped out for our wedding to know that we appreciated them and their hard work. A little goodie bag goes a long way to make sure that they are taken care of during the day, especially since our wedding was two days long.
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You have got to check out this FREE, yes FREE, workshop that Paper Source offers once a year. Check out the one I visited last year!

Complimentary Creative Wedding Demos
February 21, 2009

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We invite you to join us for an afternoon of complimentary demos, make-and-takes and inspiration for your big day!

11:30 am - Announcing the Big Day
12:45 pm - Inspired Invitations
2:00 pm - Tasteful Tabletop Décor

No matter what your style or budget, Paper Source can help you achieve a wedding invitation & stationery suite that reflects your sense of beauty, creativity and personal expression.

Whether you’re looking for classic whites, elegance with a twist, romantic flourishes, or a fresh modern look, we’ve got the materials and inspiration to help you do something creative for your big day!
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Can I get a B - E - S ?! Can I get a B - E - S ?!?! What does that spell?

Boiled Eggs Studios!!!!!!!
(Dude, it’s missing the T at the end, for B-E-S-T, because simply they just are!)

You are just about to experience just a small glimpse of why the hubby and I love this trio so very much! As part of our custom package, we were lucky to get a hosted 3 month short film glimpse into our wedding day to show family and friends. (It ends Nov. 21 but I will try to upload somewhere else so you guys can see their absolute amazing work!)

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Cause they be having a sale, yo!

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20 what? 20 pounds lost, that’s what!!!

Was it easy? Oh heck naw!

That’s me back in November, when the Bay Area bees came together for a meet. Just check the facial roundness.
 
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I was nervous about getting my girlfriends these because I wasn’t sure who might have a pair of pearl earrings or a solitaire pearl pendant in their jewelry collection already. Most of my girls didn’t. I left the decision to them about wearing it the day of either of our receptions.

As another thank you to my girls for the shower and getaway they treated me to, I treated them to manis and pedis. The dress and hair/makeup were always a given that we’d provide for our party because, after all, they were doing us the honor of being a part of our wedding. Read more…

Since the pouring of the shower and the two amazing weddings, we’ve accumulated a massive amount of well wishes from friends and family. We haven’t had a moment of free time to go through them because our honeymoon followed right after our wedding, so it was a super sweet treat to have something to look forward to reading together when we returned.

This is only half of our pile…I still have some from our shower in another bag.

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My fabulouso BMs that threw me that spectacular shower took me on a suh-weet trip!!! They kept me so much in the dark that I didn’t know we were flying to L.A.!

Here we’re waiting for the rental car with all of our luggage. I am so proud of myself, it was the first time I had ever packed that light. So light, that inside my roll-away, there was actually a duffle bag. I didn’t know we were flying, so I tried my best to keep it really light, then ran home to pick up my roll-away for airline check-in purposes.

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Vegas of course….

Here we are blasting off on a Friday afternoon flying Virgin America, where they set the mood with purple and red lights. The attendants were young and hip and wearing disco balls. It was a plane full of people headed for a weekend of debauchery. The best part of the landing was when they said “Welcome to Sin City… remember, we went to Cincinnati.” Hilarious! Read more…

I’ve never been more awestruck in my life. These girls are simply DIY creative geniuses. Every ounce of detail was covered and no corner was left undecorated or spruced. I learned just about a million gazillion things from my gfs through the bridal shower they threw for me, and I want to share it with you (finally!). Gotta tell you, out of 350+ pics, I’ve narrowed down just a bear-with-me-few (and very embarassing ones at that) to demonstrate how amazing this shower was, BEST EVER! Thanks to my girls, I love you gals so much! I was left in the dark to the happenings until I was brought to my destination….

It all started with this amazing invitation that guests received. It drove me nuts when people would ask if I knew anything and kept raving about the invitation they got and I didn’t get to see.

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We just celebrated our one month weddedblissaversary!

The hubs and I have been really busy with work, catching up with friends, and moving between both family households, that we’re still living out of hampers surrounded by appliance boxes. I really wanted to do something special just to mark this little milestone by cooking dinner. I’ll take any reason to do a little something sweet for the hubs. So to mark our one month, I fired up the stove and fed him.

Prepping the goodness …

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It’s been an awesome week for me…. I just celebrated my birthday with the hubs and friends, and then (quite patiently) photog stalker mode came on and I discovered these awwwwwesome photos on Bandele Zuberi’s website.

Scott Robert has such a great team of photogs, that he brought two to our wedding! And I just discovered these amazing shots that Bandele posted. I shrieked with pure excitement last night and Mr. CB had to force me to sleep, literally. But first thing in the morning, I was emailing Bandele to let him know the pure joy he gave me and the lack of sleep it caused since I could only lay there smiling. It’s only some teasers but still… WOW.

I had to wait to ask permission for screen shotting his website but here’s a few he put up - what an honour it is to be showcased! WOWEE!

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I almost couldn’t….

Since last night, this is all I’ve been doing - staring at photos of us. I’m beyond… speechless and shutting me up good is hard to do. I love me a lot of Scott Robert but his teasers just about made me piss my pants and cry at the same time. Seriously, I cannot put in words how lucky we were to work with him, Bandele Zuberi, and Liz Song. These guys and super hot gal, went above and beyond anything we could ever dreamed or asked for. They have this amazing passion for their work that they make working with them easy because we felt as though we were hanging out with friends who happened to have 5 million cameras and lens strapped to them.

Let’s begin, shall we?

Here are a couple teases from our quick photo session from our 2nd day reception - hence the different hair and make up …

*** Love how the dude is smoking in the back and checking us out… seemingly thinking “Good stuff. GOOOd SHIET!”
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Nothing fancy schmancy but we needed table numbers for the Chinese banquet and wanted one that could give us space to write each guest’s name at each table, stood on its own, and showed the number. But I couldn’t find a simple tri-fold template online that I could use and make easily, so I created my own and it’s shared here for you all!!

I kept mine really really simple but you can use the template and dress it up in so many different ways! Here’s how it looked prior to printing it on Staples Cover Letter stock paper.

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into some old projects that I want to share …

Some of you have asked about the favor tags, so here goes. I created the template in Powerpoint by creating 1.5″ circles and spacing them evenly top to bottom and left to right, so that when I printed the backside of the circle, it’d line up exactly. A good trick to know if the circles on the two separate pages are lined up is if you are tabbing between page 1 (front side) and page 2 (back side), you don’t see the page blink or change much other than the text.
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