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Things I Learned From My Sister’s Wedding: #2

When making your honeymoon reservations, make sure you specify what your new, married name (if you choose to change your name) will be.

I think it’s quite common for the bride to really take control of the wedding planning, and this often includes the honeymoon. My sister was no exception. She made the honeymoon reservations in Cancun, used her…

I have mixed feelings about wedding etiquette, to be honest with you. I firmly believe that only brides actually know anything about wediquette, which is why some wedding communities are full of brides complaining about their maid of honors that aren’t throwing amazing bridal showers or parents that aren’t coughing up $30,000 for a wedding. Not to mention the never ending discussions about whether or…

Last summer our local newspaper ran an article about the growing trend of bridal blogs. At the time it was particularly interesting because my family & friends didn’t know the extent of my own bridal blogging. The brides interviewed ranged from women who had created “wed-sites” to women who were letting online readers choose specific details of their weddings via online polls. Honestly, nothing there…

If you’re not willing to spend a bundle on day-of makeup or don’t feel comfortable with the gobs of foundation and powders your make-up artist slapped on during the trial, you absolutely can do it yourself (or at least have a trusted bridesmaid do it for you).

However, I do have a little caveat. If you’re doing it yourself, I’d actually recommend getting it done by…

Just yesterday I wrote about my dress. I ordered it in July (ok July 19th to be exact, and I’m probably going to take my dress out to dinner every year on our anniversary I love it so much). I wasn’t expecting it to be in until December or January, but surprise! It’s in now!

Right now in a little shop in Aurora, Illinois (which is woefully,…

Awhile back, Abby of the amazing blog Style Me Pretty held an Inspiration Board contest. Between all the pics I save to my hard drive on a daily basis and my penchant for Photoshop, I knew I had to participate.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, an inspiration board is a sort of collage that embodies the feeling and tone of your wedding. It is,…

I stumbled across this knot bio a couple months ago, and it really struck a chord with me. I’d been back and forth about colors since we got engaged and when I saw this bio, I thought OMG BLACK WHITE AND YELLOW and haven’t been able to think anything else since, seriously. So then I decided to completely rip off this girls wedding. I’m sorry if you’re…

So I was definitely intending to tell you more about my dress hunt after my last post on the subject, but I got so busy that I forgot! So now I’m back to finally wrap up the saga and show you my dress!

While my mom was still up north we stopped by Wolsfelt’s Victorian Bridal in Aurora, Illinois. We went into the experience thinking we’d…

Since my sister’s wedding, I’ve gotten a few inquiries about my mom’s dress. I’m planning a whole series of tips/tricks/lessons I’ve learned from my sister’s wedding but for now, I’ll tell you about the adventures of shopping for my mom’s dress.

Picking out a dress was one of the things my mom was most worried about prior to the wedding…and the idea that she’d need to…

I’ve been a bad bride-to-be. When I first got engaged I rushed to book so many of our vendors. We had a date, a photographer, a reception venue, and the church before the first month was up. But then….well, I just got busy. You know, that sort of busy-ness when you graduate college and don’t have a job yet and actually don’t have anything to…

Sorry I’ve been a little absent the last week or so, but I’ve been a very busy bee. On Sunday, my big sister became a Mrs. Despite early forecasts of thunderstorms and cold weather, we ended up with a beautiful, but blazing hot day in the Chicago suburbs. In the coming days I’ll fill you in on some of the details of my sister’s big…

Well, it’s T-6 days until my sister’s wedding… and, just in the nick of time, I’ve finished my biggest DIY project for her: the escort cards. As I mentioned before, we had previously bought up the entire stock of Martha Stewart’s evergreen cardstock from Michael’s for the project. However, we hadn’t planned on going green originally.

She had found this picture on the Knot (from the…

At the end of my first dress shopping experience, I decided I wanted to look for dresses with a mermaid or trumpet skirt, but I still didn’t know where I would end up finding a dress like that. Most of the dresses I had seen at Michelle’s were a-line or ball gowns, so that option was out, and I didn’t have much confidence in the…

This Monday a new season of The Bachelor started on ABC. Unfortunately, I’ve got to admit that I watch it every year, despite fully realizing it’s pretty much a wasted hour of every week. I love to see them fall in love…even if it is a short-lived TV sort of love. Also, this weekend, one of Mr. Chickadee and my good friends went on a date set-up…

So I have to admit, I love playing dress up. Always have, probably always will. And getting a wedding dress is pretty much like playing dress up for grown-ups. Needless to say, trying on wedding dresses has pretty much been my very favorite thing in wedding planning so far.

The very first time I went dress shopping was a mere 2 days after getting engaged. I…