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Here I am, almost seven months after our wedding day, and I am still making wedding-related decisions. But, the things to be decided now are all fun things because they have to do with our wedding album design!
While I sent our photographer, Ticia Mangino, a list of our favorite photos from the day to include on the inside of the album, I didn’t realize that I had so many options for what would be on the outside.
Ticia uses Finao for creating wedding albums for her clients. Lucky me!
I believe wedding inspiration can be found anywhere and at any time. The Christmas season is no exception, no matter what time of year you are getting married. There are so many unique and colorful ornament styles that could be translated into wedding goodness!
To start off this series, I searched the internet for an ornament that was interesting, colorful and featured some sort of pattern. I kind of wanted to stay away from the typical seasonal colors of red white and green. When a Google image search resulted in finding this ornament, I couldn’t help but think how the colors and flower patterns would make for a great summer wedding theme.
From there, I began to find images to build my inspiration board on Polyvore. I’ve never used Polyvore before, but was surprised at how easy it was to gather photos and put them together to make a decent looking inspiration board.
Based on my ornament, here is the wedding inspiration board I came up with:
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Wow! It’s been a while since I posted! I’m still waiting to get my pro pictures on a CD so I can start my recaps, but I found some forgotten pictures on my iPhone for a couple of projects I worked on the week of the wedding. First up: Personalized Matchboxes!
This was just one little detail that was completely unnecessary, but done because I knew there would be quite a few cigar smokers in attendance at the wedding.
I purchased my plain, white matchboxes from efavormart.com.
To decorate them, I started by cutting paper rectangles to a size slightly smaller than the top surface. The dimension of the matchbox is 2” X 1 1/2 “, so I made mine just smaller in order to have a white border. I used the leftover green paper from when I made belly bands for our invites.
Once I cut out the rectangles, I stamped a small circle with black ink on to each. The stamps used in this project were from a $1 bin at Michaels.
So, you want to know how it all started with Mrs. Deviled Egg, huh? Well, here goes:
How I found Weddingbee:
I discovered Weddingbee almost a year before Mr. DE and I were engaged. However, weddings weren’t even on my radar at that point. I was searching the ‘net for cute gift wrap for Christmas presents and stumbled upon PaperSource. Being a scrapbooker and general fan of all things crafty, I explored their entire site and found the paper flower kits. They were too cute, and I convinced myself that I needed them. Usually when I shop online, I’m hesitant to buy without seeing the product in person. With no PaperSource store close, I did some Google Image searches to get an idea of how big they were and to see how people used them. Of course, Weddingbee showed up in my search, because a few of the bees had used them in their weddings.
So, what was this Weddingbee site? It looked like lots of crafty girls and lots of crafty ideas! Even though it was wedding related, I stuck around for a few minutes to skim through some of the archives and liked what I saw. I really liked how real people were sharing their real ideas and inspiration. I bookmarked some posts and, well, forgot about the ‘bee.
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You may remember my post about booking our honeymoon cruise with Cozumel on the itinerary and then almost as fast as you could say “Swine Flu” the planned stop was canceled. Well, to our delight, about a week before our departure, Royal Caribbean (and some other cruise lines) decided to reinstate all ports of call for Eastern Mexico. And wouldn’t you know that our cruise ship, The Enchantment of the Seas, was the first one to arrive in Mexico following the Swine Flu outbreak.
My choice of favorite color changes all the time. Right before I was engaged, I was all about the pink and brown combo. Before that, I was into oranges and yellows. With wedding planning, I became obsessed with the perfect shade of green. Now, I’ve moved on to the ever-popular Martha Stewart blue and red combo.
When I picked out our wedding color palette, I started with the green shade and looked at several options for accent colors. The easiest way for me to pick them out was by going to the home improvement store and snatching up paint chips. I love paint chips!
You may remember my swatch card, where I utilized the paint chips by placing them on a small card I could tote around in my purse. I can’t tell you how many times I referred to this little card when I was out shopping for wedding supplies, or even when I was browsing through a random store and saw something I thought might work for wedding decor.
Just today, I found an iPhone app that is the high-tech version of my little swatch card. It helps with choosing color palettes by allowing you to snap a picture of something that’s a color you like, and then it gives you two complementary colors as accents. Bonus: It’s FREE!
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
On day two of our honeymoon cruise we woke up with the boat already docked in Key West, FL. (I think waking up in a different place is one of the coolest things about cruising!)
The ship’s stay was only until 2:00 PM, so we decided to hit up the breakfast buffet in the Windjammer Cafe before disembarking and checking out the area.
Before I get into our Key West adventure, let me just say that breakfast on board was THE BEST!
As Mr. Deviled Egg and I move through the home purchasing process, it’s a given that I am getting increasingly excited about owning a place we will call our home. I think most of my excitement comes from finally having a place where I… er, we… can do whatever we want as far as painting and decorating. We can really make this place ours!
I’m also excited over the little things that come with home ownership. One little thing is that we will have an address. No, having an address isn’t anything new to me and no, I haven’t been living out of my car for a few years. I’m excited that we will have a permanent address. All through college my address changed yearly. My mom would buy me cute address labels only to have most of them go to waste at the end of the year when I got new address in the fall. When our wedding was up and coming, our living situation was up in the air, leaving us with no permanent address to be found.
Now, as we embark on this new adventure in a new home, I’m excited that I get to order something like this:
A custom address stamp, like this one from Etsy seller lovetocreatestamps.
As I told you before the wedding, we booked a honeymoon cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas. Because we booked about a month before departure, we got an amazing deal on our 6-day, 5-night stay aboard the ship.
Our wedding was on a Sunday and the ship set sail the following Monday from Fort Lauderdale, FL. As you can imagine, we had to get up pretty early in the morning to catch our 6:44 AM flight. Thankfully, we decided to spend our wedding night at the Pittsburgh Airport Hyatt Regency Hotel, which is on the airport property and walking-distance from the terminals. We woke up at about 5:00 AM to ensure we’d get ready, get checked-in and get through the security checkpoint with a nice cushion of time to spare.
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Thank you notes. They have to be the most dreaded post-wedding task. (I hear you moaning and groaning right along with me.) I confess that I even gave some thought during the honeymoon in regards to how unappealing the job seemed. Even with the wedding a month behind us, I feel like I just finished writing thank you notes for the shower. Looking at the calendar, I had those finished over seven weeks ago, but, as I stare at the list of names on my wedding thank you list, it seems like it was just yesterday when I was writing notes to most of them in appreciation for the wonderful kitchen tools, bedding, towels and other gifts I was grateful to receive. And now, I have close to 100 notes to write, and I just have no motivation to check this task off of my to-do list.
Regardless, I need to get my butt in gear and get these hand-written messages of gratitude to the people who shared our day with us and/or were thoughtful enough to give us a gift. I really am thankful for all of the generosity, but just not so thrilled about the process of expressing all of that on paper.
Unfortunately for me, Mr. DE has the worst handwriting. I think he could probably do a better job if he put the pen in is toes and tried to write that way.
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Where I last left off, the girls and I were leaving the Matrix because we learned that there was karaoke going on at another club in Station Square. Dancing was fun, but the place was getting crowded and we were all ready to move on.
We ended up at the Green Room, a venue that usually houses comedians and open-mic nights. We quickly snatched up some song books and put in our requests.
While waiting, a girl got up on stage and noticed I was in my bachelorette garb. She called me up on stage with her, and I obliged. Little did I know, the next five minutes would be the worst, most awkward five minutes of the evening. If I could erase anything from the evening, what happened next would be it.
Disclaimer: While this post doesn’t contain as many questionable pictures as Pt. 1, please note that the following photos may not be suitable for viewing while at work.
The weekend before our wedding, Mr. Deviled Egg and I were roped into having bachelor and bachelorette parties. Mr. DE joined the guys at Dave & Buster’s for dinner and games followed by a trip to a couple of places where photography was prohibited. I, on the other hand, was able to capture most of my evening, in all of its embarrassing glory, in photos.
First up, we (my bridesmaids, a college friend, my FSIL and my mom) met up at a hotel in downtown Pittsburgh to prep for the evening. I was gifted with a few accessories and then we all piled into the hotel’s courtesy shuttle for a ride to the Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square for dinner.
While waiting for our food, I was given some more gifts.
A nice light-up sash and big bling ring to accompany my hot pink boa and plastic tiara
Disclaimer: The following pictures may not be suitable for viewing at work. View at your own risk.
I feel completely awful for not blogging about my bridal shower sooner. My bridesmaids completely spoiled me with an amazing one about a month before the wedding and I have to give them all credit for such a fantastic job! I know they put a lot of time and effort into planning and executing the great food, fun games, super-cute decor and just making the whole event wonderful.
And I was also very spoiled by the plethora of gifts bestowed upon me by my very gracious shower attendees.
Our ceremony room was a little bit of a decorating challenge. Its maroon carpet and lack of lighting really made the place seem dark and more suited for a fall or winter wedding. To help spring-ify the place, I put together some floral arrangements to display in the front.
Just like I did for our unity candle and door wreaths, I used silk flowers purchased at clearance prices last summer. I also snatched up two matching urn-style containers at Michaels for just under $5 each.
I started by placing floral foam into each container and making sure it was in secure by using hot glue and smaller wedges of floral foam. From there, I divided up my floral stems so the arrangements would be identical and just started placing each stem in the foam, cutting them to specific heights as desired.
Here is a photo of one of the finished arrangements:
We had a wonderful day and it feels so amazing to be married to Mr. Deviled Egg!
After returning from our amazing honeymoon cruise, look what I found on my photographer’s blog:
Gosh, I love how that car looks in the photo! I can’t wait to see the rest of the pictures from Ticia! I think it will be about three weeks or so until we get all of our pro pictures and I can start tackling recaps.
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Mrs. Deviled Egg, Pittsburgh Age and Occupation: 27, Public Relations Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Accounting Engagement Date: December 24, 2007 Wedding Date: May, 2009 Blogging Since: October 21, 2008 Venue: Historic auditorium and meeting hall in one of Pittsburgh's commuter cities About Me: I am obsessed with all things crafty, especially scrapbooking, knitting, jewelry-making & cake decorating. I also love being an aunt, wrapping presents, watching football (Go Steelers!), shopping at yard sales and consignment stores, procrastinating, singing and learning to play the guitar. When it comes to wedding planning, I'm excited about working on DIY projects and finding creative ways to stay under budget. Of course, nothing is more exciting to me than knowing that the wonderful Mr. Deviled Egg will be my husband.
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