Weddingbee

I don’t want to turn our wedding into some kind of endorsement for Coca-Cola, but found another brand-name something that I just had to have. It’s a hand-painted and weathered replica of an original Coca-Cola sign… I got it at the Fremont Antique Market a few weeks ago!
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In my last engagement photo post I only shared a few of our favorites. You saw a few more in our engagement photo Save-the-Date Cards. But I love so many of our photos that I just have to share some more.

We started our shoot with Nicole Tavenner of Piknik studios midday at Mr. Cherry Pie’s family cabin on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. The first photos we took to loosen up were on the front porch of the guest cabin. I look so fresh and Mr. CP looks so cautious!

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A while back, I decided to start collecting cans and jars to use as vases and candle holders during the ceremony and reception. Not only will these miscellaneous and mismatched vessels lend a rustic and “country” ambiance to our wedding, they’ll also save us money.

Some of the jars I’ve collected so far are antiques, like these blue-glass mason and assorted canning jars:

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On the 7th of last month, Mr. Cherry Pie and I celebrated eight years together. Eight! EIGHT IS GRRREAT!

Ahem. Sorry ’bout that.

Because it was our last date-a-versary, I wanted to get him something special. I had planned to take him to a very spiffy restaurant near our apartment, but it was closed on Monday evening. I didn’t want to come home empty-handed even though we could just reschedule. So I went hunting about Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood to see what I could find on my lunch break.
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As I mentioned in my post about the remoteness of our wedding, Mr. Cherry Pie and I have decided to rent a few vehicles to to shuttle guests from the hotels to and from the wedding site.
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Check out this sweet box I got at the Fremont antique market a few weeks ago. I think it was used as a rolodex. I would have suspected it was a recipe box if not for the “Mc” tab next to the “M” tab. ( Unfortunately, it’s missing the letters V thru Z. Whoops. )
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I’ve got oodles of design experience, but when it came to making our wedding invitations, I had NO idea where to begin. I asked my friend Kristin, who is making our invites on her very own letterpress, if she had any suggestions. Well, she had more than suggestions… she sent me a series of awesome design mock-ups to use as inspiration!

(She also has her own etsy shop Twin Ravens Press , if you want to see some of her cute card designs!)

We had her do some small revisions to the designs we liked best to help us decide on our favorites. For example, the original batch of mock-ups had a yellow color palette, but we changed to burgundy with chocolate brown and khaki accents to match our wedding colors.

I told Kristin that we liked botanicals that suggested late summer and fall, but we also wanted to keep our design simple and bold. She definitely got what we were looking for. Here are some of our favorites!
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Recently, Mr. Cherry Pie and I swung by Tiffany & Co while running errands in Downtown Seattle. I had a necklace I wanted cleaned and a bracelet I’d received that I wanted to exchange for something more “me.”

Mr. Cherry Pie spotted this beautiful bracelet, which he thought complemented my ring in a way that jewelry rarely does:
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A few of our guests have complained that our wedding is too remote. Well, I guess I can sort of agree with that. The photo above lends some perspective to just where Polebridge is located… and that remote beauty is one of the big reasons we wanted to get married there!
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There won’t be any roses at our wedding. No manicured, meticulously-crafted centerpieces. No pink, no white, no soft and feminine arrangements. No ma’am, I want loads of crazy and colorful flowers just busting out all over the place. Montana’s wide open skies, stately mountains, and rugged fields call for flowers that evoke natural beauty and wildness in a way that almost seems fresh-picked.
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