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One of the first questions anyone asks (other than ‘have you set a date yet’?) after they hear I am engaged is, ‘What are your wedding colors?’

That is a good question. Mr. Corn and I don’t actually have wedding colors that I am aware of; more, our wedding has a defined ’style’. We are going for a rustic (yet elegant) New England coastal feel. This is decidedly not the same as a beach themed wedding. Translation: lots of natural coastal elements; sea grasses, hydrangeas, sand, water, etc.

If we had to pick a color, I guess it would be blue. My favorite blue of course; the blue the water is in New England around 3:00pm on a bright, sunny day. It is a shimmery, deep blue. Believe it or not, I found the exact shade in a paper from Paper Source. I paired the stardream paper with a cream paper that has dark chocolate brown text for the save-the-dates, the invitations, the response cards, the table seat cards and the thank you notes. The invitations also have a natural colored, fibrous paper wrap that is tied with a dark chocolate brown satin ribbon.

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Mr Corn’s younger brother got engaged a few months before we did and he married his wife this past December 30. Since we didn’t want any of our plans to interfere or overshadow their wedding, we kind of laid low while we were making all of our preliminary plans for our wedding.

Considering our guest list (of which not a single person is from Rhode Island), with the fact that the wedding was going to take place during ’season’, we realized we would need to get out our save-the-dates as soon as possible. It was all I could do not to just hand them out at Mr Corn’s brother’s reception!! (I mean, how much harm could it have been? Half of those people were invited to our wedding too!!) Below is a scan of our official save-the-date that went out in the mail the second weekend in January 2007.

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…plan your entire wedding now. Ok, maybe you don’t need to plan the WHOLE thing, but at least get familiar with your options.

I have always followed a self-made, arbitrary rule that I could not purchase a bridal magazine or go on a wedding website until I was engaged. Sure, I could look at other’s magazines if they were around, but I was not allowed to actively go and purchase something that so blatantly indicated that I was engaged when I clearly wasn’t.

Fast forward to when I did get engaged…even though we had 11 months to plan, I frequently found myself disappointed that several of my decisions were made not knowing the wealth of options available.

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Hey there fellow Weddingbee friends. I can hardly express how excited I am to be a part of the hive. I have been an avid reader of Weddingbee for about three months; ever since stumbling upon the blog while Googling wedding planning software and then reading the entire backlog in a two day sitting, so I truly am honored to bee a bee.

My Fiancĩ, Mr. Corn, and I are from Boston and we are having both our ceremony and our reception in Newport, RI on the North Lawn of Fort Adams State Park. My sister is an ordained Presbyterian minister and she will be conducting the ceremony. For our reception, we are hosting a traditional New England Clambake.

When we started planning the wedding, Mr Corn and I both knew we wanted to do something really fun for our guests, most of which live outside of New England. We decided pretty early on that it would be great fun to have a traditional New England Clambake. However, that entails digging a hole in the ground which is not something most wedding sites in greater downtown Boston are pleased as punch to offer.

While we knew we wouldn’t be in the city, we were a bit lost when it came to deciding whether to try looking on the North Shore or the South Shore of Massachusetts. Eventually, I decided to research and find a caterer that specialized in traditional clambakes and then ask them for direction on where we could actually host one.

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