Weddingbee Blog

Knowing that scent is tied to memory, and also knowing that I can still remember the perfume I was wearing when I went on my first date with Mr. French Fries (Juicy Couture, for those interested), I’ve been keeping my eye out for a wedding day perfume for quite some time now.

I’ve stopped at the perfume counter on a few shopping trips, and originally thought that I would go with Marc Jacobs new scent, Lola. I currently wear Daisy, so when they described this as the “older, more grown up sister to Daisy” I was sure I would love it.

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Hello, bees! I know, I know… it’s been kind of quiet on the French Fry front lately, and for that I am sorry. But! I do not come to you with just a sorry apology — oh, no. I come to you with a post full of pictures. Not just any kind of pictures… pictures of our invitations!

Yep, the wedding paper porn is here, my friends. (Go ahead and scroll down to look at them before reading the rest of this…you know you want to.) I wanted to wait until our invitations were mailed before posting them on the ‘bee. To say that I love our invitations is just a bit of an understatement. I pink puffy heart them — and yes, a pink puffy heart is apropos, considering that if you don’t like the color pink, you’ll most likely hate my invitations. OK, “hate” is a rather strong word… but you’ll probably dislike them heartily, because well… they’re Pink. With a capital P.

The absolutely lovely and wonderfully talented Mrs. Gloss of Fourth & Folded designed our invitation suite from start to finish — and she’s currently working on some other paper products for us! She’s seriously amazing — and I never, in a million years, could have hoped our invitations would look this good. So a huge thank you goes out to Mrs. Gloss!

Enough words — you’re here for the pictures.

(Note: all pictures in this post were taken by yours truly.)
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Watching reality TV with your FI, eating ice cream sundaes > Working out, multi-tasking, and crossing things off your “to do” list

Caring about wedding details that some might consider “ridiculous” > Apathy

Hiring someone to finish a project for you > Feeling overwhelmed at taking too many DIY projects on

Starting dance lessons with your FI (stepped on toes and all!) > Doing the awkward middle-school-sway

Wearing a pair of super comfortable shoes that are cute > Wearing ridiculously fabulous shoes that kill your feet and crush your soul

Doing something you’ve seen 1,000 times on wedding blogs because it fits your personality > Doing something “different” that doesn’t fit your personality whatsoever
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You may recall that recently I was struggling with what dress to wear for our engagement pictures. The day that post went up, I ordered what I thought would be the perfect fun, flirty e-pics dress — a sure hit! I anxiously awaited its arrival at our humble abode. When it arrived, I raced home to try it on. I should have known when I opened the package and saw that it was from the store’s “petites” section that it had FAIL written all over it. If you know me, you know that my long torso and giraffe legs do not spell petite.

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A few weeks back I was organizing all of the glass candy jars that I had collected for our centerpieces. I patted myself on the back for being so organized, and for having things done so far ahead of time. I had about 12 jars total, and was in the process of determining which candy would go into which jars. I was sitting on my couch, working hard on the task at hand (…I was also watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians re-runs) when all of a sudden, our 40 pound ”puppy” Braeden jumped up onto the couch next to me.

Trust me, usually he’s flying around the house like the Road Runner.

The motion of him jumping up on the couch sent two of the jar lids crashing down to the floor…shattering three of my glass candy jars.
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There are certain things that I’ve determined that I will never wear. Contained on this list?

1. Crocs. I know, they’re “super comfortable!” But, I just can’t.
2. Rompers/Jumpsuits that American Apparel is desperately trying to sell. They look like adult onesies to me.
3. Empire waist tops/dresses/etc. They’re flattering on many women, but I just look like I’ve had one too many quesadillas.
4. Harem Pants. I’m sorry, these should have been left in the early ’90s, along with MC Hammer.
5. A Bluetooth headset and/or my cell phone clipped to my pants. No. Just… no. I’m not in the CIA.
6. Acid washed anything. ‘Nuff said.

If you would have asked me, aprés wedding, if hoop skirts were on this list, I would have channeled Napoleon Dynamite and responded with a resounding ”heck yes!” After all, what do I look like, Scarlett O’Hara? But, the unthinkable has happened. Kids…I’m wearing a hoop skirt. You can call me Scarlett.

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It seems as though, when planning a wedding, once you cross one item off of your list, five more crop up in its place. One of my newest items to figure out? What the heck to wear for our engagement pictures.

Yes, ’tis true — we’ve been engaged for 18 months and we haven’t had our engagement pictures taken yet. Well, actually my sister took one set right when we were first engaged, and they turned out fabulously. Want to see a couple?

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Many moons ago (OK, more like a few months ago) I blogged about how I was going to make fabric napkins for all of the guests at our wedding. I even had grand plans to fashion them into a quilt post-wedding. Remember this inspiration picture?

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Ahh, yes. Well, then I blogged about how we might change our linens and that the fabric napkin plan might clash with the linens we were going to rent, and that we might not do them after all. And… that was the last I said about this little project.
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I’ve already discussed how excited Mr. French Fries and I are about the spread of food at our reception. But what you might not know is we’re so excited that we’re jumping in with both feet to the reception — we’re not having a cocktail hour.

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Mr. FF and I were talking about it, and we’re not really the biggest fans of the “wedding cocktail hour” concept. The cocktail hour at most of the weddings we have been to have been sort of mildly organized chaos. There’s some food, but most of the time it’s picked over and there’s nothing left before we can even grab a plate. People are milling around and talking, which is all fine and good, but it makes it hard to accomplish all of the tasks to be done: signing the guest book, figuring out where the escort card display is, figuring out if you’ve been put at a table with the rest of your friends. Oh, and then there’s the whole “okay, so is it open bar for the cocktail hour? Just beer wine and soda? Or… some other permutation that we haven’t even thought of yet?” Perhaps we’ve just had some confusing or otherwise unfavorable experiences, but we’ve decided to forgo this at our wedding.

So, what will we be doing instead?
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Mr. FF and I attended our venue’s food tasting over the weekend, and it was a pretty huge event. We were excited to taste all of the dishes that are available from our venue, but sadly… some of the food that we’re planning on having at our reception wasn’t available to taste. Why, you ask? Well, the tasting covered most of the typical “sit-down” or “buffet” type of dishes that receptions typically have, and Mr. FF aren’t exactly going for a “typical” reception.

When discussing what we wanted for the reception, we wanted something laid-back, fun, and with great food. And, well… something with a lot of food. And something with a lot of options (I’m somewhat very picky). So, when I casually mentioned the idea of food stations to Mr. FF over dinner one evening (and by “casually mentioned” I mean highly researched and presented to him complete with hypothetical menu selections), he was totally on board with the idea. He loved it! So, the sit-down dinner we had been planning was nixed, and the food station idea was in.

We’ve decided on a total of four stations: one carving station, one Italian station, one Mexican station, and a Dessert buffet station (hello, have you met us? we love sugar). So, like I said, at the tasting this weekend we got to sample some of the items on our menu. Even though we weren’t able to try every last thing, we still left with an overall sense of the style of service and the quality of food that our venue provides, and both were great.

So, are you ready for the unveiling of the (tentative) French Fry reception menu? It is as follows:
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It seems like we went for our cake tastings a long, long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away). In reality, it was almost 6 months ago. We have narrowed down our bakery choices and made our final selection — our cake flavors will be:

• Genoise cake with vanilla mousse and fresh strawberries covered with white chocolate ganache
• Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse covered with white chocolate ganache
• Signature cheesecake with raspberry filling, covered with chocolate ganache

Basically, the first one is like really, really good strawberry shortcake. The second is a chocolate on chocolate cake (obviously my pick). The third is the best cheesecake in our city, hands down. So! Now all we need to decide is how we want our cake decorated. A relatively simple task at first blush; I posted about how I originally wanted a super simple cake, with just one single flower or a cluster of flowers for decoration.

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Like many other bees, we are foregoing the tuxedo rental and going with suits for Mr. French Fries and the men in our wedding party. Remember my love affair with Barney Stinson and Chuck Bass? Need a refresher?

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Ahhh yes. Thank you, Gossip Girl. So, it had been decided: the fry guys would be wearing suits. When we originally made this decision, however, it was a tad too early to start looking for said suits. But a few weeks ago I got an email saying that Men’s Wearhouse was having a 50% off sale, so we decided to strike while the iron was hot.

What did we end up with?

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Now that we’re less than 4 months away from w-day, I find myself getting things done left and right! Ceremony music selected? You betcha. Candy for our centerpieces selected? Dunzo. Mr. FF’s wedding suit picked out? Yep! Invitations? Printed and cut! Side note: more on the invites later, but in the meantime check out Mr. FF wielding the corner-rounder like a pro:

While it feels good to be getting so much done, I was thinking today about how it feels to be staring down the barrel of the gigantic “to-do list” at the beginning of planning.
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Mr. FF and I have a rather large wedding party, by pretty much anyone’s standards. You see, I have 6 girls on my side — a fair amount, I’m sure you’ll agree. Mr. French Fries? Welp… he has more groomsmen than I do bridesmaids. He has 9 groomsmen. Nine! He’s been in a *ton* of weddings, and has been a best man more than a few times. It’s sort of like 27 Dresses, but with tuxedo rentals. Note: yes, this means that we’re going to have “uneven” sides for our wedding party. Gasp! The shock! The horror! … Uhmm, not really. This isn’t prom court. It’s a wedding. I have bigger fish to fry than to worry that our sides are “uneven”.

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Sooo, when my sister got married 4 years ago, my mom purchased a card box for her wedding. She was happy with it, and it served its purpose quite well. I mean… it’s not like it had to do a lot of heavy lifting or anything. It was a box. With a slot in the top. Um, yeah. Pretty simple. This box has since been handed down to me for my wedding (which is nice, because it’s one less thing to buy). The only problem? Well… it didn’t really fit in with what I had envisioned for our card box. I mean, like I said… it’s a card box, it’s not anything too earth-shattering, but every time I saw it, a little pirate-esque voice in my head would say “Arrrr, matey! I be yer card box for yer wedding!” Perhaps a picture of said card box would help? I’ll have to do an image search, since I’ve already started dismantling it and didn’t take pictures beforehand.

Okay… search: “treasure chest card box”. Oh! WELL! Would you lookey there? It’s the first image that shows up. Coincidence? I think not.

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As you can see… it’s a little bit like a wedding treasure chest.
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