Weddingbee Blog

Hi, hive! Remember me? Sorry I’ve been MIA recently…the Honeys attended BM Scoot’s wedding this past weekend and I had the special honor of being a bridesmaid, so I got to spend an incredible five full days with some of my favorite girls. BM Scoot’s wedding is the ninth wedding we have attended since we began dating in 2010…and it was the last wedding we will be attending as an engaged couple. That means the next one is OURS!

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I thank Bob Marley for my title, for one of the best songs ever, and for our budget mantra. The budget is a very sticky situation for the Honeys, as it is for most couples planning/buying/saving for their wedding. We have set a rough budget that we don’t want to go over, which is about a quarter less than the average wedding cost in our area. While we are I am comfortable with that number, I typically say we don’t have a budget. Is our budget limitless? The exact opposite, actually. We don’t have a budget because we simply don’t have the money. It’s like we are constantly adding to the account, breaking it, and then fixing it and starting all over. 

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We have three parties contributing to our big day; my parents, Mr. Honey’s dad, and us. We all contribute when we can, but it’s that ’when we can’ part that gets tough. My parents work their butts off to pay their bills each month and unfortunately sometimes there isn’t excess.
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Our guests rock, we want to rock with them, and we will be rockin’ in each others’ arms all.night.long. How do we plan on remembering just who celebrated with us ten, twenty, and fifty years from now? In case you didn’t catch all my cheesy hints…we are having a rock guest book!

I think this idea actually spurred from a picture I saw early on of signed seashells, but then I came across this picture and I was sold:

Image via Polka Dot Bride/Photo by Ira Lippke Studios

We’ve been collecting little stones for the last year, and my favorite part is that Best Man Cruise has taken this wedding project so seriously.
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In preparation for creating our dream dessert buffet, I began collecting pieces from garage sales and thrift stores. I didn’t really know what I was going for, so at first the pieces seemed pretty random. A few glass things here, a ceramic piece there. My Papa also gave me a beautiful glass cake plate that my Nana adored. The jumbled collection kept growing without a clear vision, until I saw these two pictures on Pinterest:

Cake Stands from Centsational Girl & Bottles from Tip Junkie via Beach House in the City

The cake stand picture is a tutorial on how to create your own cake plates out of just about anything from the thrift store.
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Mmm sweets. I’ve got a big sweet tooth so it’s no surprise that I’ve put just quite a bit of thought into what kind of sweetness we will have at our wedding. I love that we aren’t pinned into the cake corner anymore and that nowadays we have many more options as to what smackerels to serve our guests to appease their own sweet tooths. Cakes are the standard, but beautiful choice…I’m drawn to ruffly and ombre colored cakes that double as works of art:

Image via Style Me Pretty/Photo by Millie Holloman

Knowing that the artsy detailed cake would not fit into our budget, I did what I do best: turned to Google for other options. And oh, the options. I was dead set on the cupcake tower last fall. I love the over-the-top look of the display and the ability to provide multiple flavors:
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It was out with the glamorous heels and in with the cowboy boots, as I divulged in my last post. I already owned a pair of cowboy boots, which made my wedding day shoe decision rather effortless. I am by no means a girl who wears cowboy boots for the functionality of them, I fully admit to wearing them purely as an accessory. I am, however, a big time country music lover, and there was a time in my life where I could be found every Friday night at the country bar two-stepping my heart out. At that time my mom gifted me with a pair of nice, for-real cowboy boots. If you have ever owned a pair of cowboy boots, you will know that right off the rack, they aren’t the most comfortable shoe known to woman. A pair of cowboy boots is best after being used, you know like roping cattle and feeding the horses. Since I don’t do that real stuff, and my two-stepping has slowed down since I met Mr. H, I haven’t fully broken in my boots. I have worn them a handful of times, but they still look brand-spankin’ new:
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I used to have a spending problem; a spending-money-on-shoes-I-never-wear problem. I used to wear heels nearly every day and I loved buying heels. But I was a cheap shoe buyer. I always wanted to drop a couple Benjamins on a pair of shoes, but I just never could whip out the credit card for a pair. As a result, my closet was filled with cheap heels. A couple years back BM Hogan had a shoe intervention of sorts; she made me realize that the majority of my shoes had never.been.worn. Since then, I have slowly gotten rid of shoes and I’m down to a shoe rack with twelve pairs; okay this doesn’t include my flip flops, tennis shoes and boots, but I did reduce my collection to about a quarter of it’s original glory. My shoe habits have since changed pretty drastically.

Four out of the five days at work, I wear my stand by super small wedge and if it’s not that wedge, it’s a pair of kitten heels…and on the weekend? I’m either in flip flops or UGGs, depending on the season. Now, when I wear a normal heel, it kills my feet. Like aching in five minutes, get these damn things off me now! It makes me beyond sad that the muscles that used to allow me to rock heels everyday, are gone. Why am I telling you all of this? Obviously it relates to my wedding day shoes and the fact that I will not be wearing these, or anything remotely similar:
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Being without a photographer is not a fun place to be. I worried big time about this and mostly kept my concerns to myself; I knew bringing it up every time I had the thought pass through my mind would only stress and annoy the mister. Sure, we talked about it but it always came back to: “We can’t afford what you want, Miss Honey.” Hrmph. Somehow, though, I just had this feeling that it would be okay. We had a couple leads from other And then the answer came in the form of a Facebook status update, which I very well could have ’liked’ one million times.

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A friend of mine from college, was just starting in the wedding photography business and was looking for couples to take a risk with him and allow him to shoot their wedding and use the pictures in his portfolio. With risk, comes reward, and our reward for taking a chance with a new wedding photographer was the price. Ready for this? It starts with ’n’ and ends with ’a’…or starts with ’z’ and ends with ’h’. Give up? Nada, Zilch…Free!
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We are down to the five month countdown and I feel like I am finally making moves in the wedding planning arena. We have been engaged for just over a year now, and there have been plenty of times that I didn’t feel like I was doing a good job as a bride-in-planning. I felt sub-par with my capabilities, even though I had the vision, I couldn’t jump start the actual process. It didn’t help that I was a devoted reader of Weddingbee, and read the chronicles of brides executing and finalizing all their details. But me? I didn’t want to think about food or lodging or linens. I spent all my wedding brain on getting inspired but never acting on that inspiration. How in the h-e double hockey sticks was I going to get this thing put together? Well last week the wedding planning dam broke loose and I began checking things off the list at an insanely fast pace. Who would have guessed that one little purchase would be such a monumental event?

The well received culprit, a purchase from Zulily:

Personal Picture…Sneak Peek of Flower Girl Attire!

Then I started this Pom Pom crafting project, which I’m now slightly addicted to:
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I told you all about how Mr. Honey proposed to me and how he put the beautiful sparkly on my left hand finger. I still catch myself staring at it and admiring the reflection from the multitude of diamonds while cruising in my car, it’s distracting at times.

Hanging on a Wildflower

There’s more to our story, though.

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A balanced wedding party used to be the standard—an equal number of guys and girls standing up on behalf of the bride and groom. Nowadays, we brides-to-be get to be more creative with our wedding party. A Man of Honor? Heck yeah. A best gal friend? Absolutely. More ’maids than ’men? Go for it, and that’s what we’ve got goin’ on.

I’ve thrown out my number a couple of times but for good measure I will remind you that I have eight bridesmaids. Our wedding party will be a total of thirteen, not including the troop of lil’ ones. Simple math tells me this can only mean one thing: we have an uneven number of bridesmaids and groomsmen. Me with eight, Mr. Honey with five. An unbalanced wedding party.

Just like Miss Candy Apple and Mrs. Fro Yo, among others, I have embraced that our wedding party is not going to be symmetrical. The majority of our groomsmen will be escorting not only one, but two bridesmaids up and down the aisle. Two girls to one guy; those lucky boys:
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I showed off our urban inspired engagement pictures and I hinted that our next shoot would be more “Colorado” inspired. They turned out beautiful and we were once again reminded how lucky we are to have such a talented friend. After being kicked out of the first spot we attempted to shoot at*, we headed to a stunning location in Hermosa Valley right along the Animas River. BM Candace had a vision for this engagement shoot and I think she did an amazing job executing it.

We hauled some props to the field, including pillows and a down comforter, and set up our own little sanctuary in the middle of this beautiful setting:

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I recently talked about our trial run with the yarn spheres. A few weekends ago Mama Honey and I met in my kitchen for round two. We stuck to pretty much the same tutorial from my last post, but we changed one thing: we didn’t use cornstarch. This made the process much cleaner. We weren’t covered in head to toe with the sticky mixture, which also made everything easier and quicker. We set up, and of course, the Honey kittens were more than excited about something new and noisy on the floor:

Plastic Table Cloths are SO fun!

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I’m not the biggest fan of my hair and have hair envy of girls with curlier hair and girls with straighter hair. I’m also pretty awful at styling my hair and my hair has no style of its own, which makes my lack of styling abilities even worse. I have weird cowlicks that cause my hair to grow funny. If I don’t style my hair, one side curls under while the other side flips out—I refer to it as my hair wave.

In high school I had long, straight hair…I would dye it occasionally but nothing too extreme. It wasn’t until college that I really started experimenting. I chopped it off bit by bit and tried darker colors and highlights until I finally found the style I loved. The structured bob, that sits just below my chin, colored a medium shade of brown…and sometimes reddish highlights.

Personal picture circa 2009

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We are all too familiar with the mile-long to-do list that we as engaged ladies face. My checklist on The Knot is 150 items overdue; needless to say, I don’t use this tool like I should. I get overwhelmed easily with the amount of tasks a wedding requires, so I tend to avoid the lists like the plague. This is more my style:

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songs that, no matter what, conjure up images of a bride and the aisle. But I love hearing the alternative songs that are chosen for a bride to make her trek down the aisle. Now I anticipate this moment at weddings. The most recent wedding we attended, the bride chose to walk down to “Sweet Pea” by Amos Lee, and now that song gives me chills thinking about her walk down the aisle.

Since this aspect of the wedding was not given much thought prior to being engaged, it’s funny that choosing the song to walk down the aisle to occurred within the first couple of months of being engaged. I had never heard the song prior to my ah-ha moment; it popped up on Pandora one day and that was it—I had found my processional song: “Everybody” by Ingrid Michaelson. Go ahead and push play; I’ll wait while you listen and envision this Honey in full bridal attire.

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The lighthearted chords and soft tone of Ingrid’s voice just make my heart pitter patter. I love the lyrics—they encompass such a peaceful thought of love. The beat is slow enough to hopefully prevent me from charging down the aisle, but has enough of a tempo to not be boring. The song makes me smile and I love that. It makes me want to walk down the aisle, like, yesterday.

What does Ingrid’s song have to do with motivation? I envision myself walking down the aisle to this song so strongly that when I’m far from motivated in the wedding-planning department, I push play on this song and it reminds me that all of the hard work done now will put me at the top of the aisle, walking to become a wife. *chills*

Do you have a song that helps motivate you when you are feeling unmotivated? Did anyone else find their processional song in an unexpected and random time?