Weddingbee Blog

Waking up on the morning of your wedding day is pretty surreal. The idea that you are actually getting married, that after the months and months of planning, the day has finally arrived…it’s just incredibly emotional—in the best possible way.

Hello lovely! PS - did you see the cameo of my DIY hanger?

Being that everyone was visiting from out of town, we had rented houses and condos for everyone to stay in. To start my day, I headed over to my mom’s house so my aunt (also known as the hair miracle worker) could do my ’do. The woman has a way with hair and considering it’s her career, I felt extremely confident (and very lucky) having her tackle my tresses…even though we didn’t do any sort of trial-run. Now THAT my friends, is trust.
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Choosing to throw a rehearsal party was one of the best decisions we made. Not only was it mega-fun…it gave us an opportunity to spend as much time as possible with our guests—guests that had traveled very far to be there in support of us.
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It’s true—your eyes are not playing tricks on you…I’m back! As much as I wish time hadn’t passed as much as it has since I was posting and prepping for recaps, it has completely flown by. I’ll definitely fill you in on my adventures but first I owe you all an apology. In order to not make you suffer any further, I’ll forgo a video of myself singing this and allow a professional to take the lead—you can thank me later. Sing it Brenda Lee!

So dear hive, please accept my apology. I’ll do my absolute best to stay close moving forward and deliver the best damn recaps I possibly can!

Before I begin filling you in on the details of my favorite day ever—I’ll give you a brief run down of what I’ve been up to while I’ve been away.

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So as of my last post, it looks like most of you are leaning toward covering the wedding lovefest first. Before I can get to that, it’s only right that I share with you the details of how Mama Frog and I were able to personalize my dress for the big day (and by Mama Frog and I, I mean Mama Frog - she’s got skillz).

From here on out, I hand over the reigns and let her take you through the steps of how to make a silk sash and chiffon ribbon flower…go for it, Mom!

Hello hive - I’m thrilled to be here! I hope you enjoy the tutorial as much as I enjoyed creating it for you.

To make the silk sash:
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Yes, I’m alive. Call off the search party and tell the neighbors to stop looking in our windows.

Wouldn’t it be so impressive if I had this incredible excuse for my absence? Like, I was cast in a big budget movie and haven’t had a moment away from the cameras…or…I won the lottery and have been very busy deciding what to do with my new-found fortune? Yeah, it would be great if that were the case.

What I can tell you is that I have gotten lost in domestic bliss - sorting through the mountains of crap we need to give away, sell at a garage sale or just plain throw out, trying out new recipes with all of the fun registry gifts we received from our loved ones, starting to write thank you cards and not finishing even one because we are lazy (incredibly grateful…but lazy), discussing how to split our time with family during the holidays…oh…and…
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Tap… tap… is this thing on?

Hey friends – sorry to be a bit MIA—married life has been blissful so I took a couple of weeks to enjoy. And can you believe it, yesterday was exactly one month since Frogger and I got hitched?! In that time, there’s been a flurry of activity in our happy lives:

We spent a few days enjoying time on the lake as a sort of mini-moon after the wedding.

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So I know what you’re thinking… I totally left you hanging. And you’re right. I’m sorry friends, I had to wait until after the wedding to post the details on my dress—too many of our guests were reading the blog and I really wanted them to be surprised. Forgive me?

(source)

Last we left off, I told you about my shopping trip to NYC and my brushes with fame!
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While I patiently wait for the pro pics (Hi Stephanie!), I wanted to share with you one of the most special gifts we have received since the wedding.

I longed to have the budget to include a videographer for our big day but it just wasn’t in the cards. I knew that many family members would be videotaping various parts of the ceremony and reception and decided that would just have to be good enough.

Enter Cousin J.

Cousin J and I are just one year apart and are more siblings than cousins. He’s one of my best friends and as a groomsman in our wedding, I was thrilled he was able to make the trip up from Texas - add to that the fact that he was the best man in a friend’s wedding the following weekend in Michigan. He was a total jet setter for a good two weeks.

When he arrived, he had the new iPhone 4.
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Since I’m obsessively checking every 5 minutes waiting patiently for my pro pics, this is a great time to revisit some of the last minute projects I tackled just days before the wedding… and in some cases, literally at the eleventh hour.

Thanks to the genius that is Mrs. Lemon, I discovered iRave and knew I had to add it to my never-ending list of projects. In the early morning hours before our flight to Seattle, I quickly laid out the little photo cards in Photoshop. Because I’m extremely creative (read: brain-dead from lack of sleep and too many last minute wedding projects), I blatantly copied Mrs. Lemon’s fab little directions for using the site. I tried my best to create a design the tied to our theme, it’s sad, but it was the best I could manage on 3 hours of sleep.

I also decided in my sleep deprived state that creating cute little Mr. and Mrs. signs for our chairs would be a nice touch… luckily those were very simple to do:
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So I got so carried away with the preparation of the day that my final Miss post got lost in the moments that went flashing by! I can’t tell you how much the hive has meant to me and how incredible the experience of being a bee has been.

I married my best friend on Saturday. It was the best day of my life. Frogger, you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. Thank you for making me complete. Forever has never sounded so good.

Thank you to the hive for your support throughout this journey to the altar - it wouldn’t have been the same without all of the readers, comments, ideas and unconditional support.

I cannot wait to share the day with you… until then - the only photo I have, a teaser from my wonderful cousin who snapped this just after our first look!
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A while back I shared some of the RSVPs we received back from our guests. After waiting for all of the stragglers, I have a second installment for your viewing pleasure. I have to say, this might be one of my favorite ideas - it’s been highly entertaining!

Oh and before I get to the RSVPs, did I mention we received a letter back from The White House? That was very fun!

Now, without further ado…
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We don’t have a lot of kids coming to the wedding but it was important to us to recognize our pint-sized family members in at least a small way.

A while back I came across a posting on Martha Stewart Weddings where they had created a version of I Spy as a conversation starter for a wedding. I just loved the idea so I decided to create my own version for the kids.

Martha’s version

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Way back when, I shared our dirty, little secret - we don’t like cake. After going through all of our options, the most logical choice was pies made fresh with all of the local berries and fruit that are available in Washington in the summer. We found this adorable little bakery called, get this, Sure To Rise - how cute is that?

We settled on 3 large pies and 80 mini pies in varying flavors (blueberry, strawberry rhubarb, apple, peach and triple berry). Because I wanted the pies to be displayed sporadically on the pie table, I knew I needed a way to identify the flavors for our guests. Enter pie flags.

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Hello friends. I’m so sorry to have been absent for a bit. I found out just a couple of weeks ago (nearly a month before my wedding) that I was being laid off from my job. It was a very big surprise as the company had not informed us that they were in any sort of trouble. Sparing you of the many details, I will say that I needed that couple of weeks to sort out my job situation and find a solution. I promise to fill you in on some of the exciting developments that are happening but first, I need to get back on track - there’s so much to tell you all about!!

Now that we are getting so close to the wedding, I am pulling together the last few bits of the gifts I’ve created for my ‘maids.

These five girls have celebrated Frogger and I as a couple, supported me, kept me sane and there’s no way I would have been able to survive all of the wedding planning ups and downs without them.

Girls - you know you shouldn’t be reading this… so get lost. Kisses.

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Thanks to the local Phoenix bees that decided to arrange a quaint bee meet up through the local boards. Clearly I’m slacking on my bee duties!

We had a great time at Kokopelli Wine Bistro in Chandler—we enjoyed some tasty appetizers, delicious wine and great company.

lemondrop, az2wa, azwinelover and moi

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