Weddingbee Blog

Hi again! I’ve accidentally (and temporarily) turned into a Weddingbee reader instead of a blogger lately but I’m sure you all haven’t noticed because there have been an influx of SERIOUSLY amazing new bees.

Here is why: soon after we got married, Mr. Crepe landed a great job in San Francisco! We are incredibly grateful for this one, especially with the economy the way it is and starting our lives together with a bit of stability is wonderful. There have been a few rough years in the past, career wise, for both of us, and that had contributed to our extended long distance relationship. It is so gratifying for me to see the mister going to a job he loves, with super cool coworkers who he respects and who respect him. Go Mr. Crepe!

So on top of the transition of getting married and living together for the first time, we have also been dealing with the task of moving cross country.  It’s been a monster. (For those of you who have to do this too, I do have a GREAT car shipping company to recommend! A whole lot of research and breath holding went into this, believe you me.) This has plunged us back into long distance but after 6 years of it, 2 months is totally small beans.

One of the reasons why I stayed behind was to attend a few close friends’ weddings. I wanted to share a detail from one of the weddings here; it was so simple but absolutely beautiful.

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When Mr. Crepe and I were starting to plan our wedding, I had thought that it wasn’t necessary to have a cake topper, especially since we weren’t going to have a traditional cake. But I realized that this was the perfect project for the mister because he has always liked sculpting characters out of clay and had done this a few times while we were in art school.

When I brought up the idea, he was pretty excited about this responsibility! He came up with the idea that he would make old people versions of us, which I thought was a very sweet and cute concept. So months later, we were on video chat and he showed me what he had worked on so far:

Yes.. I realize this is a decapitated head.
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You don’t really realize how much a part of your life Weddingbee becomes until you throw around terms like “post wedding chop” and realize that people don’t know what you’re talking about.

But you all do.

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So…the last time I cut my hair was in 2007.
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Unlike most couples, our engagement shoot was more of an afterthought. It was also a bit tricky on the practical front, since I was in New York and Mr. Crepe was in Nashville. Our wonderful photographers had gifted us a couple hours of shooting as a signing incentive—a note to all the wedding photogs out there, this is a great idea, especially for your clients who aren’t planning on getting an engagement package. It’s a wonderful way for everyone to get comfortable with each other. We weren’t planning on doing this since it wasn’t in the budget for us and we couldn’t see what we’d do with the photos since we had already sent out our save the dates. But I am definitely happy that we ended up doing it since I LOVE our photos!

Originally, we wanted to use those hours to shoot our rehearsal dinner because it would have been a great way to capture our family and friends who were involved in the wedding. In retrospect, I’m glad that didn’t work out. We had been setting up our reception area all day and since there wasn’t enough time to get a shower in there, we showed up exhausted and sweaty at the dinner.

There were also quite a few key players who weren’t able to make it to the rehearsal dinner so we decided to use it on an engagement shoot after all.

We ended up finally scheduling something for the week before our wedding and I’m so glad we did because I was NERVOUS.
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Last I left off talking about our favors, they were a bit unfinished. Although I loved how clean and neat they looked without tags, I thought some might need a few hints as to what the pink granules were.

I printed these on brown kraft paper that I had purchased from Envelopemall using a laser printer. Since they were pretty small and I was starting to feel the time pressure, I just cut them up freehand with scissors. I had a pair of scalloped scissors that I had gotten at an art store years ago to add a little bit of detail. (I found another pair here at a great price, although temporarily sold out at the moment.)

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There are still quite a few little projects and finishing touches that I wanted to show you while I’m waiting on the pro photos! I was dying to show you all the gifts that I gave my girls for all their hard work, but I wanted to wait until after they had received them. It’s hard enough to keep secrets from my besties, especially fun secrets like presents!

Since I make jewelry as a profession, I definitely wanted to make them some special bling that they could also wear afterwards. They were both going to wear short, strapless cocktail dresses that suited their own tastes so I felt like it was important to create similarly styled jewelry to set them apart from all the guests. I thought a long, layered necklace would work best for both girls and unlike a huge statement necklace (which could also work with their dress styles), they could wear again much more easily.

My maid of honor was going to wear a shimmery beige number so I wanted to add a bit more color to her piece. Her style runs more on the feminine side so I took the liberty of adding lots of fun, sparkly pink topaz and huge amethysts.

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All of this grown up business of “budgeting” and SAVING because suddenly I am a grown up married lady is a real party pooper, so says my closet. In the meantime, I have found that nail polish is an easy way to satisfy the need to shop for new wearables.

Base Colo is Brucci in Outrageous Orange. Topped with Art Club’s Gold Glitter.

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I get that this is pretty much beating a dead horse at this point…but I thought I’d share the individual photos of each table number, in the off chance that you wanted to do this yourselves and wanted to see a reference!

If you’re on the fence AT ALL about this, here’s my obvious answer:
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In a previous post, I talked about swapping the embellishments on the dress I bought at David’s Bridal. I wish I took more step by steps to show you but I was so nervous doing this that there were many moments where I was just completely focused on not ruining the dress!

To begin, I looked really closely at the original applique and noticed that it actually was not attached very securely and was easy to remove—most of it was on there with some kind of light adhesive and a small amount of thread. I didn’t want to remove all of it completely though because combining the two metal tones softened the look a bit. In this close up photo, you can see where I left some of the silver appliques and layered the champagne beading on top of it.

My original plan was to add more flowers but it was tough to find fabric that matched exactly so I left the flower as is. In this next photo, you’ll see the two types of beaded trim more clearly—one of them was a flower shape to create more organic style and the other had swarovski rhinestones in it.
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Folks, I completely underestimated how overwhelming planning your own wedding could be (not that there weren’t enough warnings, I apparently did not heed any of that advice at all!) and have only in the last couple of days been able to sit down and think about how I’m going to be telling you all about it. To be fair, our at home NY banquet reception was last Saturday, so we really are just now resurfacing.

In the meantime, I’ll keep writing about the projects and things that we worked on in the weeks leading up to the big day, as well as our road trip honeymoon. I hope you’re all still out there!

As I mentioned in this previous post about the table numbers, I wasn’t sure how I was going to end up displaying them. Mini easels were one solution but a bit on the pricey side at about $4 a piece at Hobby Lobby.

At this point, Mr. Crepe decided that he was going to get crafty! He was convinced that he could come up with a much more attractive and budget friendly solution so we stopped by Loews to get brainstorming. After wandering around a bit, we found ourselves in the lumber section where we selected a piece of cheapy pine. A very nice man cut it down to 4-5 inch squares and we bought those plus a few 1/2″ thick dowels.

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I knew there were tons of little things to get done as soon as I was in town, so as soon as the plane touched down, I started fluffing those tissue poms. I would have loved to have fabric napkins (there are so many cute options!) but we were getting to the point where the budget was getting pushed closer and closer to the limit every day and paper napkins meant one more thing we could take off the checklist. We picked up a couple packs of royal blue dinner napkins from Party City and started tying the tissue poms on quickly.

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Last Tuesday, I got on the plane and made my final wedding trip to Nashville.

It was the longest trip I’ve taken to get here (not just figuratively either, between all the delays at LGA and Baltimore before finally arriving in Tennessee) but I finally made it.
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Pop culture has made being the 10 letter “b” word so commonplace that you forget that it’s not like a switch gets turned on the moment you have a ring on your finger. I was so sure that I wouldn’t be that horrible word because I was raised to be considerate (to a fault) of other people’s feelings. It almost pains me to make a decision that’s just about me. This causes all kinds of guilt on a normal everyday basis but when it came to planning the wedding, the guilt that sort of buzzes in my ear regularly turned crushing.

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Before the guilt though, came fear—am I allowed to ask for what I want? If I do, will I be called the “b” word? And when we were making the big decisions, like location, that fear ran through me hardcore. Will people think badly of me because I’m not having it in my own hometown? Will my family members think I’m not standing up for myself and letting the future in laws have more say? Will the important people in my life be there?
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I know that there’s always the traditional option for unity candles. This one is particularly pretty and fancy:

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But what fun is that? At this point, Mr. Crepe is saying to me, “Everything you do has to be quirky.” Well, deal with it. I’m sure you knew that’s what you’re signing up for. And this thing is $40, which I guess isn’t a ton of money but if we can save a bit AND be quirky, all the better, right?

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