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Just as Mrs. Bee mentioned, my “secret life” is nowhere near as juicy as Mrs. Penguin’s, so I’m going to follow the queen Bee’s lead and enlighten you with a handful of tidbits that you probably don’t know about me… “Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Mrs. Cupcake,” if you will. 
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Mrs. Cupcake, #1:
In college, my life revolved around my theatre group. Don’t get me wrong — I worked my butt off in my graphic design major and spent more hours in the design studio than in my own house — but being a part of a 100% student run theatre group where I met some of my greatest friends provided me with the most wonderful memories from my four years at the University of Delaware (go Blue Hens!). I am not a very good singer, but I took dance lessons from age 3-18, and somehow I always faked my way through the singing part of musical auditions (and redeemed myself with my dance skills) enough to land roles. Most of the time I was in the ensemble, but that was all I wanted. Being on the stage was always the most amazing feeling for me, and the friendships I came away with were the icing on top. In my senior year at UD I was given the opportunity to co-choreograph a production of “Cabaret.” It was one of the most difficult, challenging, humbling and sometimes frustrating experiences of my life, but it was also one of the greatest.
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Five years ago today — Friday, October 31, 2003 — I met a boy. I thought this boy was cute, despite his mullet wig, but I had no idea that this boy would soon become the love of my life, my husband, and my family.
It is hard to believe all that has happened in five years. We met, we fell in love, and we dated long-distance for two years. He moved away from his parents for the first time ever to be closer to me, got a new job, and changed his life around to make me happy. We moved in together, we went to about a thousand weddings, and we held each other’s hands at a few sad funerals. We learned how to live with each other, he rightfully named my alter-ego “Cranky McCrankerson,” and I acquired several funny stories about the strange conversations we have when he is half asleep. He gave me a sparkly ring, I put my heart and soul into planning the wedding of our dreams, and we shared a tissue in front of all of our guests.
We have a new anniversary now, so we won’t celebrate our “meetiversary” with fancy dinners or gifts anymore… but Halloween will always remind me of the night we met and how very far we’ve come. Sometimes it still surprises me how everything worked out — how two people who weren’t each other’s “type” somehow had this immediate connection and wound up married five years later. Really, who would’ve thunk it??
Happy “meetiversary,” Mr. Cupcake. I know sometimes I have a funny way of showing it, but I love you and I love what we have together. In honor of our love and all the fun we have together, here are a few photos from Halloweens past. May we share many more goofy costumes in our life together.
The Violet Beauregard costume I was wearing the night we met (that’s my Matron of Honor/former roommate as Veruca Salt!)
Rather than hire a professional videographer to capture our wedding day, we opted to instead splurge on our photography and have a family member videotape the key moments of our day (for a generous fee of $0.00). Although I drool along with everyone else over the stunning footage from the likes of StillMotion (Mrs. Milkshake’s amazing epic wedding film, anyone?), for us it truly meant the world to have our day captured by someone who knows and loves us, and we cannot stop watching the beautiful video that was carefully and lovingly edited and delivered to us less than 48 hours after we returned home from our honeymoon.
My mom’s cousin, Bobby, was our fabulous videographer (I think that makes him my second cousin… or is he my first cousin, once removed? Hmm…), and I want to share with you a few snippets from our day that he captured. First up: my oldest friend in the world, Jill, singing during our ceremony (Jill and I grew up across the street from each other and have essentially been friends since birth). She sang Randy Newman’s “Feels Like Home,” which was popularized by Chantal Kreviazuk when her rendition was included on the Dawson’s Creek soundtrack way-back-when. Mr. Cupcake and I share a few tender and heartwarming moments during the song around the time when the first chorus is beginning (and please have a listen—you won’t believe the pipes on this girl!).
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It’s no surprise that most brides want to look their absolute best for their wedding day. In attaining this goal, many of us diet, exercise, obsess and nitpick every part of our bodies. It’s not always healthy, and we’re not always proud to admit that we are depriving ourselves of that piece of bread because we are determined to fit into a dress that is a size smaller than our current shape. A shape that, maybe, is not meant to be any smaller than it is.
I did not want to be one of those brides who was so obsessed with her weight that she was miserable and hungry all the time. I did not want to be so narcissistic to think that I had to strive for perfection or unrealistic goals of beauty for one day. But at the same time, I wanted to have no regrets about how I looked on my wedding day, and I wanted to feel fabulous. Not a size 2 fabulous, but a size healthy fabulous. And back when my dress first came in to The Wedding Touch in February and I tried it on, I did not feel fabulous. I still loved the dress, but I did not love myself in it.
At that time, Mr. Cupcake was a little tired of the extra weight he had put on since we first met, and he started following Weight Watchers to shed a few pounds before the wedding. I jumped on the bandwagon and loosely started following his Points system, and as much as I immediately saw results on the scale, I realized that it wasn’t necessarily the weight that I wanted to lose—it was some tone and muscle that I wanted to gain. But I was never great at pushing myself to get to the gym after a long day at work, especially amidst all the wedding to-dos on my list for each evening, and fuhgeddabout trying to get there before my 8AM workday begins. Mrs. Cupcake is not a morning person. When I did get to the gym, I usually spent some time on the treadmill or elliptical until I got bored, and then wandered aimlessly through the weights without really knowing what to do until I eventually just went home.
Then, at dinner one night with my friend J, she told me about the new business venture she had been putting her heart and soul into.
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It’s teaser time!!
Our fabulous photographers, The Wiebners, captured so many amazing moments on our wedding day, and they have now gone above and beyond, posting over 50 teaser photos from our day on their blog. It will be a bit longer until I have all of the proofs to share with you all, but until then, here are some snippets that I can’t resist sharing. (Click on any photo to enlarge.)
Last weekend was our first weekend at home as newlyweds, but unfortunately we had to go out of town (four hours away) for a funeral. This weekend is the first that Mr. Cupcake and I have been able to chill out as Mr. & Mrs. and do whatever our little hearts desire. So far, this has consisted of:
While watching tv one night last week, we saw something on the Travel Channel about Pat’s vs. Geno’s and we thought, “wouldn’t it be fun to taste-test both places in one day?” We promptly added this adventure to our “after the wedding” list, and had nothing else to do yesterday (an absolutely beautiful October day), so we went for it.
Game faces on. This is serious business.
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Like most brides, I had heard my share of horror stories about figuring out the seating arrangement. The “so-and-so can’t sit anywhere near so-and-so”/too many people and not enough tables/”why do they get to sit near the bride and groom but we have to sit in the corner with the photographers?” type of drama.
Luckily, our families and friends are mostly drama-free, and our parents entrusted us with the seating arrangement duties, so we didn’t have too many opinions overwhelming things. Although mostly all of our wedding details were somehow aided by the use of a computer, this was one thing that we decided to do sans computer, by the recommendation of my Matron of Honor. She said that for her wedding, the easiest way to figure out seating had been to simply write each guest’s name on a piece of paper, lay everything out on a big table, and move things around until we got it right. Well, most of the surfaces of our apartment were covered with wedding paraphernalia at that point, so the floor was our next best option.
In case you didn’t get enough of our honeymoon from my last monstrous post, how about some Antiguan sunsets?
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Well hello there, hive! It has been over a week now since Mr. Cupcake and I returned from our absolutely heavenly honeymoon in Antigua, and we’re still functioning on island time a little bit. Hence my delay in telling you all the wonderfully relaxing details of our journey.
You may remember that we chose the Galley Bay Resort in Antigua for our week of R&R following the wedding. Let me tell you that we made the RIGHT decision!
Photo by me…. I think this looks like a postcard!
TODAY!*It feels so surreal that this day is finally here. My hotel room is currently bustling with excitement as the hair and makeup ladies are beautifying my already beautiful bridesmaids, mom and (almost) mother-in-law. I had the best night of sleep I have had in weeks, I feel completely relaxed, and I am beyond excited for this day that we have been anticipating for so long.
Today, I get to marry my best friend; my favorite person in the whole world who makes me laugh when I need it most, comforts me when I’m feeling sad or disappointed, and who never ceases to amaze me with his love for me. Really, I don’t know how I got so lucky.
The outpouring of love and true excitement from our friends and families over the last several months has been astounding and incredibly humbling. Knowing that they’ll all be there watching as Mr. Cupcake and I exchange vows today kind of takes my breath away. We are so completely fortunate.
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Remember when my mom and I had lofty goals of altering my cousins’ beautiful white lace cocktail dress to wear for our rehearsal dinner? The custom-made dress that both of my cousins wore at their own rehearsal dinners? Well, we tried and tried, and my mom slaved and slaved over the revised corset back, but in the end it just wasn’t working. The corset looked really pretty, but the back of the dress was still not lying flat due to the fact that I am short-waisted and the extra material had nowhere else to go. So, we finally decided to let it go and find something else for me to wear at the rehearsal dinner. Mind you, this was all on Sunday night, and the wedding is THIS Saturday, meaning the rehearsal dinner is THIS Friday. Yes, tomorrow!
Enter one of my favorite stores ever, Anthropologie. I am lucky enough to live in the city where Anthro/Urban Outfitters/Free People have their headquarters, so their retail stores are never hard to find in this area. This can also be a bit dangerous, though, as their clothes and charming housewares aren’t always budget friendly, yet my money still seems to somehow jump out of my wallet and into their cash registers whenever I step foot in there. My office is literally a 5 minute walk from the very first Anthropologie store that ever opened, so after checking online to see what white dresses they are carrying at the moment and immediately finding an adorable contender, my mom and I made a plan to meet there on my lunch hour last Monday.
Um. Hi. Remember me? It’s me, Miss Cupcake. I know I haven’t blogged in, like, ages, and you’ve probably forgotten all about me and Mr. Cupcake and our wedding. But I hope you will forgive me, dear hive. You see, with the wedding fast approaching (nine days, gulp!), things have been a little crazy in the life of this Cupcake. (”Little” being the understatement of the century.)
There are DIY projects, lessons, failures, excitement, frustrations, and surprises to be blogged about…. but until I get around to sitting down and coherently telling you all about those things, I thought I’d tell you about something that is keeping Mr. Cupcake and I going these days. It’s what we call our “After The Wedding” list.
For a while, we thought we’d use gable boxes to hold welcome items for our out-of-town guests. Then, the fabulous Miss Sundae wrote about finding inexpensive canvas tote bags, and we swiftly changed our minds. Giving our guests bags that they could actually reuse sounded like a really cool idea, so we decided to go for it too.
The bags that Miss Sundae found were a little more expensive by the time I got around to buying them, so I found some similar 15″ x 16″ natural cotton tote bags from InGreetings.com for $0.94 a pop (now available for $0.98 each). The material was fairly thin, but overall we were impressed with the quality for the price. There were some slight variations in size from bag to bag, but other than that we didn’t have any problems, and delivery was very prompt.
I set to work trying to create a design for our bags that wouldn’t scream “THIS IS FROM OUR WEDDING” but instead would hopefully be something that people would reuse.
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Music is one aspect of our reception that we are definitely not taking lightly. Mr. Cupcake and I have been revisiting and revising our play list for months, as we’re determined to have music that (almost) everyone can enjoy.
Choosing music has been a challenge, because a lot of the music that we like just won’t work for dancing. Currently, the six-disc rotation in my car consists of She & Him, Justin Timberlake, Regina Spektor, the Broadway soundtrack to Wicked, Ingrid Michaelson, and The Beatles White Album. Aside from Justin and some earlier Beatles songs, nothing is very danceable. We’ve had to get in touch with our inner dancing queens to compile a list that will (hopefully) have our dance floor packed all night with everyone from my 13-year-old cousin to Mr. Cupcake’s 70-something-year-old grandmother.
First, the “important songs”—entrances, first dance, parent dances, etc.:
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Mrs. Cupcake, Philadelphia Age and Occupation: 27, Graphic Designer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Construction Project Manager Engagement Date: February 10, 2007 Wedding Date: September, 2008 Blogging Since: December 7, 2007 Venue: The Desmond Hotel in Malvern, PA About Me: Mr. Cupcake and I hit it off at a Halloween party and immediately began a long-distance relationship. After two years, he moved to my neck of the woods, and a year and a half after that, he proposed at the “place we fell in love.” I am a true perfectionist who enjoys designing and creating more work for myself, so wedding planning is my perfect outlet. Mr. Cupcake and I are both old souls, and we hope to weave that aspect of our personalities into our wedding day.
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