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Some of you may remember my recent Cricut purchase, and the save-the-date mockup that I made as my first cutting project. Well, it’s been two months since I’ve acquired my favorite new toy and I’ve definitely been using it enough to get my money’s worth! So far, completing our save-the-dates has been my Cricut’s biggest project. With only six months left on our countdown, marking this project off our to-do list couldn’t have come soon enough!
I’m thrilled with how they turned out! But, before I reveal them completely, I need to fill you all in:
Do you remember my mock-up? Cute (if I do say so myself), but there was a big empty space on top that needed filling!
Okay. So I’m not going to start this post with another apology for my absence. I know I’ve been a slacking blogger. But, even worse, I’ve been a slacking bride.
As you all well know, we’re more than halfway through the month of November. Wait, what? NOVEMBER?!? Our wedding is six months away and I’ve not accomplished very much.
Where in the world has the time gone?
I will admit that adjusting to my new life with Mr. Doxie has been a bit distracting, but man! Time really does fly.
Despite our lack of a Hallowedding, we did throw a small Halloween party. We couldn’t let our invitations go to waste! We used it as an excuse to celebrate Mr. Dachshund’s arrival and to spend time with our family and friends.
Mr. Doxie and I went as (a very last-minute) Frankenstein’s Monster and his bride. We couldn’t get the bolts to stick to his neck with the safe-for-skin glue, and after he rejected Super Glue suggestion, I decided to just draw them in for effect. 
You can see the Halloween-fabric bunting I made hanging in the background.
After our Friday night Halloween festivities, Mr. D and I headed down to Los Angeles to continue our celebrations.
Hey guys! I suppose another apology is in order; I’ve been the worst blogger lately, and for that I feel terrible! But things have finally settled down, and I don’t foresee any more extended absences in the near future.
Anyway, a lot has happened since you’ve seen me last. Mr. Doxie is in California for good, thank goodness, and we got married!
Well, technically anyway.
There was a slight change in plans, though: Our legal ceremony wasn’t quite the affair that we had planned. So that we could include Mr. Doxie’s parents, who would only be here for the weekend before Halloween, we decided to do a courthouse ceremony. Though it wasn’t at all what we had planned, I’m glad we decided to do it that way. Our legal ceremony was intimate and special shared only with our parents.
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From the moment I had my mind set on collecting fabrics to make our dinner napkins, I’ve been trying to find other ways to incorporate the fabrics to make our day seem more cohesive. So far, I’ve come up with ways to incorporate different fabrics into our centerpieces as flowers, on our attendants as boutonnieres (an idea I’m totally, uh, borrowing from Miss Moonbeam!), as a part of our favors, and into the invitations. Thankfully, the internet is full many, many creative and like-minded brides… I’m finding inspiration all over the place!
A few weeks ago, I saw a real wedding featured on 100layercake that made my jaw drop. Seriously. It was like wedding porn created just for me. I squealed, wished that I was as talented as the bride, and then saved the link into my favorites.
Although every DIY detail was the-cutest-thing-I’ve-ever-seen, one image stood out above all others:
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I feel like I’ve been such a bad blogger; it’s been nearly a week since I’ve written anything! I hope you accept my apologies… things have been pretty crazy around the Doxie household what with everything that’s going on this month.
That said, I’m excited to share our engagement party with you! Mr. Doxie’s parents are so incredibly sweet; they flew me to Canada this weekend to spend Thanksgiving with them. They also threw us an engagement party for about forty of their nearest and dearest. I was absolutely blown away by how warmly I was welcomed into the family. It makes me that much more excited to be Mrs. Doxie in May!
I had never been to an engagement party before, and I’ll be the first to admit that I was a liiittle nervous to meet everyone. I’m a pretty shy girl. But everything was positively perfect! The party exceeded my expectations, by far.
The decorations were appropriate!
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To say that October is a busy month for us is somewhat of an understatement. Not only do we have our impending Hallowedding quickly approaching, but I’ll be heading to Vancouver this weekend to spend Canadian thanksgiving with Mr. Doxie and his family, Saturday night is our engagement party (our first wedding-related event), and then I’ll have to scramble to get my house future-in-law ready for Mr. D’s arrival with his family. As in, deep cleaning everything and finishing all of my half-painted walls.
I’ll let you in on little secret: I have a tendency to procrastinate. (If Mama Doxie’s reading this, she’s probably thinking that that’s the understatement of the century!) Having put every other task off until the last minute, I knew that my Hallowedding craft projects needed to be quick and simple. And preferably cheap.
Have you ever had one of those moments where you wonder to yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that sooner!?”
I had that exact revelation just a few days ago when I decided to attempt to make some plain-jane, glass candlestick holders black.
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Have you ever been forced to wait for something for so long and with such anticipation that once it rolls around it catches you completely off-guard? Well. I’d been going quietly about my day today, entering the piles of paperwork that have been covering my desk for the past month, while my mind was off in the clouds—nervous about meeting every single member of Mr. Dachshund’s extended family this weekend.
Then it hit me.
Mr. Dachshund will be here soon. In-two-weeks soon.
For.
Good.
Please don’t misunderstand; I am absolutely excited and thrilled that Mr. D and I get to start our life together, for realz. However. I’m also anxious, nervous, overwhelmed and, well, just a tiny bit terrified.
I’ve lived by myself for quite a long time. While Mr. D prooobably won’t mind my habit of walking around in my underwear, I’m sure he won’t appreciate my pants lying on the floor on the exact spot in which they were removed… a habit I’ll soon have try to break. I’ll let you guys in on a little secret: I suffer from an aversion to housework.
It’s not just the superficial things I’m nervous about.
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I didn’t have a traditional proposal. I wasn’t surprised with a ring and Mr. Dachshund never went down on one knee. Really, our engagement began with the decision to finally start our fiance visa paperwork.
To be honest, I’m alright with that. In fact, because we did it that way, I was able to choose my own engagement ring. I love Mr. D with all of my heart and I’m sure he would have chosen a lovely ring, but I am quite particular when it comes to the jewelry that I wear. So, a few weeks after Mr. Doxie and I made it official, I chose my engagement ring online. It was shipped directly to me, and I had it for about a month before Mr. D saw it in person. It is absolutely my dream ring and it was well within our (very small) budget. It’s been on my finger for a little over two months now and I still can’t help but stare at it.
A few days ago I finally tried to take a few pictures of it that weren’t blurry and out of focus. Eventually I’d like to get a DSLR, but for now I’m stuck with a little Casio point-and-shoot. I think the pictures came out pretty decently, though!
When imagining my engagement ring, I always dreamed that it would have timeless, vintage details. The carving on the side of the ring was what won me over!
On my way home from work last night I was thinking about all of the alternative floral options about which I’ve recently blogged, and I realized that I had the materials in my house to make most of them. Or, at least make a mock-up of most of them!
My first attempt at our prospective DIY flowers was a slight variation of these:
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If you follow the “source” link, you’ll find a tutorial. However, being the stubborn girl that I am, I attempted to make them without reading it.
I really appreciated all of your responses when I asked you to help us choose our Hallowedding invitations! After taking all of your thoughts into consideration, I decided that I liked the idea of the boxed candy invitations best. So, I began my search for 5×7 mailer boxes. Unfortunately, I put the task of making my invitations off for too long. I needed to get the invites in the mail this week; not only would it take too long for the boxes to arrive, but the shipping costs put them just over my budget.
I was a bit disappointed in myself because I think the boxed invitations would have turned out great. But I came up with a new design that I hope you’ll like just as much! They’re a lot simpler than the boxed invitations would have been, but I think they turned out pretty well!
I designed the invitations in Adobe Illustrator and had them printed at Kinko’s. I know that Kinko’s isn’t the greatest for print quality, but they turned out better than they would have on my home printer.
A few weeks ago, reader Mrsv2bee posted a link to her photographer’s blog on the boards, which led to absolutely gorgeous pictures of her wedding. Though they were all amazing, one photo of her hubby and his perfectly styled groomsmen caught my eye:
Don’t they all look so handsome and modern in their light-colored suits and mismatched sneakers?
I’ve known all along that I don’t want our guys to wear traditional tuxes. I’ve always pictured light gray suits, stylish ties and classic Vans or Converse. Fortunately, Mr. Dachshund is on board with this vision.
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Living in a small town definitely has its perks. So the nearest IKEA or Crate and Barrel might be 200 miles away, but we are getting a Macy’s, and our freeways will never look like this:
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Sure, I have to drive two hours to find a Korean BBQ restaurant, but we have plenty of delicious (and authentic!) taco stands just around the corner!
Anyway, it’s taken me a while to embrace my town after moving from Los Angeles. I spent so much time focusing on what would no longer be available to me that I forgot to notice how much charm small towns have!
Then, as soon as I started planning our wedding, my attitude immediately reverted.
As a sequel to my previous post, in which I wrote about paper flowers and shared inspiration, I’ll continue to share my ideas for alternative, DIY flowers… focusing today on flowers made of fabric!
I’m not sure where it was that I saw my first fabric flowers. Etsy, maybe. Those little organza flower hairpins have been popular for quite some time, after all. Anyway, I love the whimsical, DIY feel of colorful fabric flowers!
These colorful blooms made with patterned quilting fabric have so much character! Only a few flowers make a big statement. The sweet little vases play a large part in the role; but with eight months to go, thrifting/eBaying/antiquing them would be easy peasy.
The taller arrangement would be lovely on our guestbook table, and I think the smaller vases would make very pretty centerpieces. These would be great projects for any fabric leftover from our napkins.
MOH Erin is visiting this week after her return from a month-long European vacation (jealous? So am I!). I haven’t seen her in over a year due to crazy schedules in both of our lives and a 200 mile stretch of freeway between us. Although I am beyond excited to see her, her upcoming visit has really turned up the pressure to get all of my wedding thoughts and ideas organized. I want to make the most out of her few days here because I’m not sure when we’ll be able to get together next. Our first order of business was figuring out the bridesmaids’ dress situation.
Just the phrase, “bridesmaid’s dress” is off-putting, isn’t it? I didn’t want to put my bridesmaids through that. After all, they’re my nearest and dearest! I want them to love me after the wedding’s over!
So, I began my search. I found this first dress back in April, right after Mr. Doxie and I got engaged:
It’s by Charsa, whose website no longer works. (Have they gone out of business? Does anyone know?)
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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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