Weddingbee

This installment of my ‘Looking Back’ series* focuses on one of the details about my big day that I wish I had done differently: I should have taken a moment to focus.

So this one is a small thing, but I hope it’s meaningful that I have made it my goal to share it with every bride I ever encounter…

When you think about it; your wedding day is just. one. day. The hours and the minutes of your wedding day are divided up the same as any other day of your life. The ceremony, for most people, is 30 - 60 minutes of one day of your whole life. And the time it takes to walk down the aisle is mere seconds.

And you don’t ever get to do it again.

Cherish. that. moment.
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This installment of my ‘Looking Back’ series* focuses on one of the details about my big day that I am very, very grateful for:I was able to work out a way for my dad to participate.

My father is a wonderful, amazing man. I am so incredibly fortunate to be loved by someone with such a big heart. As ridiculously sentimental as this sounds, two of the things I was most looking forward to the day of our wedding were 1) walking down the aisle with my dad and 2) dancing with him at the reception.

As many of you know, my father is handicapped; he walks with a walker and can handle a cane, but only for short bouts and definitely only if the ground is flat. The walk from the fort (where I was hiding out) to the top of the aisle was 105 yards over a field. There was no way my dad could walk all of that.

So we arranged for me to be escorted to the top of the aisle where my dad met me and we walked the rest of the way together.

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This installment of my ‘Looking Back’ series* focuses on one of the details about my big day that I wish I had done differently:I wish I had had someone test out our directions to the venue prior to sending out our map.

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This installment of my ‘Looking Back’ series* focuses on one of the details about my big day that I am incredibly thankful for:I am so very, very happy that I planned to have all of my planning done the weekend before our wedding.

If you recall, I had quite a lot of DIY elements to my wedding:

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This installment of my ‘Looking Back’ series * focuses on one of the details about my big day that I wish I had done differently.

Basically, every single wedding I have ever attended, has started late. Apparently this is not uncommon, as every time I mentioned to anyone-who-would-listen that our wedding would NOT start late, people just started hysterically laughing at me.

So, I made sure that throughout the planning process, my amazing DOC (Colleen with Classic Weddings) knew that if there was one thing that I wanted to happen, I wanted to start walking down the aisle at 5:00pm sharp. There was no way I was going to be the-girl-who-stood-on-a-soapbox-about-weddings-starting-late, who then started her own wedding late.

And just as I requested, on the actual day of our wedding the string trio started playing and we started processing at 5:00pm on. the. dot.
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How many times have you caught yourself saying that exact phrase about some wonderful thing that has caught your eye?

Well, I just found a lovely little Custom Designed Paper Purse maker who has named her company, “How Cute is This?” and I can tell you the name does not lie.

Each of these gems below are hand made by Iris Adams from the most beautiful papers. Every purse is unique, although you could certainly order matching bags for all your lovely bridesmaids!

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…Mrs Corn here, reporting the final installment of our visit to Paper-Source this weekend for their wedding event. Earlier installments include:

Defending oneself from Miss Toucan brandishing a hot embossing torch
and
Satiating our appetites for both yummy sweets and delectably calligraphic writing

By far, the most exciting thing that happened during our visit to the store was that we (or rather, our Weddingbee shirts) were recognised by Hayley Hoffman, the East Coast Area Manager of Paper-Source. She had read Mrs Raspberry’s post last year about the paper-wedding dress that was on display in Alexandria.

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…from the wedding event at Paper-Source.

We were all exhausted from our crafting-gone-wild experiment, making our lovely, embossed take-out boxes. Luckily, I can smell wedding cake from a mile away and I was able to focus our energies on getting to the other side of the store where there was a cake tasting!
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Miss Canary came to Boston this weekend for a visit and included a stop at the Paper-Source in Brookline in her itinerary. The store was holding their annual wedding workshop complete with demonstrations and refreshments.

Miss Toucan and I, never ones to miss an opportunity for free cake (not to mention the opportunity to meet Miss Canary in person), took it upon ourselves to meet up at the store as well.

The event was very well organized and we all had a great time. In fact, there were so many great things to share about this event that I am breaking this into three posts. I also took lots of pictures for all of you out there who could not attend. Enjoy!

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It has been forever since our wedding but I never got around to sharing with you all what about the day I would do again, and what about the day I would do over.

I’m going to start with the former for this post.

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