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I realize that I haven’t blogged about our floral plans. Way back when I still had months and months until the wedding, I had mentioned making fabric flowers. As those months dwindled and turned to weeks, that simply wasn’t going to happen. I had neither the time nor the energy to make fabric flowers. We decided that the best course of action would be to head down to Los Angeles’ Flower District to purchase fresh flowers and arrange them ourselves the Thursday before the wedding.
Step Mom Doxie and I woke up bright and early on the Saturday after my bridal shower. The wedding was in two weeks, and we knew we had to finalize our floral plans so we set out to drive down early, choose and place orders for our flowers, make a quick IKEA run and then head home. With a vague theme of easy, casual, gardeny, throw-them-in-a-vase-and-call-it-a-day, a list of flowers that I loved, and an idea of our budget, we figured we’d have no trouble at all.
This was my first trip to the Flower District, and I have to admit, it was a little bit overwhelming. Though, the fact that it was the day before mother’s day definitely added to the chaos.
Once May rolled around, my life went into super-wedding-overdrive. I remember the waking up the morning of May 1st, realizing that we were quickly approaching the end of a thirteen-month engagement, and that our wedding was just around the corner. It scared the crap out of me. It was at that moment that the wedding butterflies decided to take permanent residence in my stomach. I had so much to do. It was overwhelming, the list was so long. I had people to coordinate, projects to complete, details to finalize; to be honest, I’m not sure how I made it through that month!
But that first weekend in May, albeit full of stress, was also the first time I felt like a bride; it was the weekend of my bridal shower. It was then that I finally understood that other people were excited about our wedding. It wasn’t because of the details that I had slaved over for the past year. No, they were excited because they loved us and genuinely wanted to wish us well in our new life together.
My shower, hosted by my mom, my aunt and my grandma, was perfect. Absolutely perfect. I spent the day with all of my favorite ladies, some of whom I hadn’t seen in a long time, and just soaked it all in.
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Inspired by Mrs. Dolphin’s post about her most unexpected wedding gift, I thought I’d share a gift that we received from my Aunt and Uncle. It’s amazingly unique and sweet, and I figured most of you would be able to appreciate it.
Everything was wrapped up in a pretty travel-themed hat box.
The day Proposition 8 was passed in California was the one time that I truly felt let down by my state; I couldn’t believe that we would allow such a giant step backward. It is equally mind boggling how, a year-and-a-half later, the law is still intact.
The point of this post is not to spark a debate, but to share how, on our wedding day, we brought to light an issue for which both Mr. Doxie and I are passionate. I know that it isn’t uncommon in the wedding world for couples to recognize how unjust laws against same-sex marriages are. It’s a bit of a different story, however, in the conservative area where our wedding was located. We honestly weren’t sure how the gesture would be received among our guest list. We wanted to do something that would be prominent enough for our guests to take notice, but still subtle. As sad as it is to admit it, I know that we had guests in attendance who likely feel as strongly against same-sex marriage as I do in support of it.
In the end, we decided to go the same route as the Sprinkles and make white knots for our guests to wear and take home.
I ordered a small ceramic heart bowl from RedHotPottery on Etsy, MOH Erin cut and tied the ribbon and I made the sign.
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Though the DIY process for our programs was not quite as involved as our invitations, they still caused me a bit of stress. You see, I had a pretty good idea of the way I would have liked our invitations to turn out before I started to make them. This was not the case with the programs. I knew I wanted a booklet, but as far as the design or what to put in them? No idea. In fact, other than the names of the bridal party I really didn’t know what to write for our programs. A timeline of the day? Well, that required me to finalize the ceremony. There was so much involved, and with about a month left until the wedding I figured I should probably get started.
First things first, I gathered my inspiration. I searched Weddingbee for posts on other bees’ programs and fell in love with the sewn booklets made by Mrs. Cream Puff. Seriously, they’re so cute. I tried a few mockups and, while cute, they would’ve just taken way too much time. Not to mention I was worried my sewing machine would have a hard time sewing through two layers of cardstock and multiple layers of printer paper.
After a bit of fiddling around, this is what I came up with.
Professional photo by the fantastic, I-can’t-say-enough-about, so-good-he-deserves-his-own-blog-post, Thomas Delgado.
As a whole, this past week has been absolutely amazing, culminated by a wonderfully perfect day. I’m not saying it was without stress or a few blips, but to see a year’s worth of work come together beautifully, and to have everyone we love gathered in one area to support our love was so magical.
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I haven’t been around much lately, and rather than continually apologizing I’m just gonna lay it out on the line: I’m probably not going to be around much until the wedding is over. At 12 days out, I still have a million things to do and I’m stretched tooo thin. But! That doesn’t mean I can’t sneak a post in every now and again on my lunch hour!
One of our (many) pressing issues right now is our wedding music. We’ve booked our DJ and we’re finally meeting with him tonight to finalize everything… that means we had to make some serious decisions. Choosing our playlists was a pretty daunting task; we both have pretty strong opinions about music and those opinions are complete opposites. I like folksy indie music, while Mr. Doxie tends to like more traditional wedding music. Read: boring. In my opinion, anyway.
It was really bringing me down trying to incorporate all the songs he wanted, because I felt that they didn’t go with the feel of the event that I had spent so many months trying to establish. Finally, after a few arguments, he relinquished all music control to me and things went much smoother. I realize that makes me sound like an insensitive and controlling jerk, but for the record I did incorporate all the songs he really wanted.
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I am seriously crushing on this necklace:
From Etsy seller favorJewelry
Isn’t it beautiful? I’m torn between wearing my grandmother’s pearls, wearing red in my necklace, and wearing this. It’s so pretty and delicate. *Sigh.*
Guys, I have a confession to make. I am sick of DIY projects. I still have a ton, but I am embracing the K.I.S.S. philosophy, for lack of time, if not for my own sanity. The other day I had to order some paper and envelopes from PaperSource, and I figured that I’d go ahead and order a few extra things since I was already paying for shipping.
Ever since I saw this card box, I’ve had my eyes on those cardboard suitcases from Paper Source. I loved the card box idea, and finally decided to order them. One more thing to check off the list, right? Right!
This card box was super easy. I ordered two suitcases, the large and the medium, cut the bottom out of the smaller one with a box cutter, and then traced that hole on the larger one and cut that out too. The holes definitely aren’t perfect, but no one’s going to see the inside! I taped the two suitcases together with a bunch of shipping tape until it was secure.
When I got home from work yesterday afternoon this box just happened to be waiting for me:
I was super anxious, a little nervous, but mostly excited to get into that box and try on my dress for the first time! Was it going to fit? Was I going to like it? What if I didn’t!?! I don’t have much time left for alterations, so I was really crossing my fingers that all would go well.
Well, not completely. I don’t think Mr. Doxie could ever give up video games, and that’s okay. I enjoy them too. However, he did trade in a substantial amount of his games to Amazon.com for credit there. We had planned on doing this a few months ago. He was going to trade in everything that he no longer played, and buy the new games that he wanted. Well, we finally sent them in and he got the credit today. 34 games landed us just under $300.00. It’s a loss, yes, but not too bad if you consider they were just sitting on the shelf!
After a bit of light persuasion on my part, Mr. D agreed that it would be okay to see if Amazon sold anything we might need for the wedding. We still need a lot, and luckily Amazon sells everything! Our video game shelf is a little barer, but we definitely scored:
We finally got our rings!
My RIng and Mr. Doxie’s
The groomsmen got their ties:
I was planning on splitting the invitation reveal up into multiple posts, hence my previous two, but with just over a month left to the wedding I just don’t have time. I’m a huge ball of stress because I have so many things left to do. Blogging gets pushed to my lunch hours at work, and most of the time I forget to upload my photos. Anyway, here goes nothing. I’ll keep the commentary to a minimum! 
Presenting our invitations, which were truly a labor of love and frustration.
I didn’t feel like editing the pictures for privacy. Oh wells, don’t stalk me guys, K? The tags were somewhat of an afterthought. I cut them out with my Cricut and Goccoed the design on the front.
From day one, making the invitations was the part I was most excited about in all of wedding planning. I must have designed 15 different invitation suites before I decided on a design, and still I questioned myself. When there’s an endless amount of amazing wedding invitations on the internet, it was hard to believe that anything I could make would live up to my inspiration.
Anyway, after about eight months of designing, second guessing and redesigning, I came up with a design that I think conveys the feeling of our wedding and our personalities pretty well. They’re not perfect, and if I had more time I would have added a few more details, but they are what they are, and I think the turned out well enough!
So let’s begin with the outside and work our way in. That’s how our guests will experience them, after all!
Some of you may have noticed that my last post was over two weeks ago. I can’t help but feel guilty for my absence, but I have a valid excuse! Our invitations have totally kicked my butt, but I am VERY happy to say that they’re finished.
Our living room looked like this for two weeks…
120 Cricut-cut and Gocco printed sleeves, stitched address labels, fabric backed invites and double sided RSVP postcards later, I’m dooone.
The other day I emailed Mr. Doxie and casually mentioned that it might look nice to use balloons as ceremony decoration. He couldn’t picture what I was talking about, so I responded with this photo so that he could get a feel for what I was imagining:
“Wut?” was his only response.
I laughed, and then sent him genuine inspiration photos.
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Mrs. Dachshund, Fresno, CA Age and Occupation: 24, Legal Office Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Computer Technician Engagement Date: April 18, 2009 Wedding Date: May 2010 Venue: Victorian Gardens of Two Sisters About Me: I’m a 24-year-old Californian bride-to-be who found love in the most unlikely of places - an online video game! I’m a farmer’s daughter living in rural Central California, but will always have a special place in my heart for the city. My future husband is a 27-year-old extraordinarily tall, exceptionally cute, and undoubtedly Canadian boy who was able to sweep me off my feet and take me for his bride. I love color, folksy songs that make me smile, interior design, kettle corn, my one-year-old puppy, Juno, and my fiance, of course! We’re planning a DIY garden wedding with a laundry-list of projects, all while dealing with the bureaucracy that is American Immigration!
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