Weddingbee

The second part of my gift for the BMs was a photobook. I looked at many different sites to see which one gave me the best options, but then I stumbled across the Martha Stewart Collection at Kodak. Their adorable covers were too hard to resist, and I knew that I didn’t want a huge book, just a small photobook that the girls could keep. Here is what I chose: Read more…

Through one of my many random Google searches, I came across this awesome site for those of you crafty Bees out there.

Montessori By Hand was started by Meg McElwee, a Montessori school teacher. The site, and her awesome sewing patterns, combine her two loves of sewing and child development. What caught my eye about this site was this particular pattern:

If you sewed a backside on this sucker, I’d totally wear it as a dress, but how darn cute is this apron! Her messenger bag and baby carrier are also C U T E!

Check it out, and if any of you try one of her patterns, please let me know cause I want to see what the difficulty level would be for a beginner like me!

Unfortunately, Texas weather is completely unpredictable. Saturday was on and off rain and, even though our photographer hung in there with us waiting on the weather all day, we ended up calling off the photo session. My hair was done, makeup too, but it wasn’t meant to be. We rescheduled for this coming Saturday, so everyone do a little no rain dance for us (our photographer said he’d already started)!

Oh yeah, and if you are wondering what umbrella we ended up choosing, it was this one:

Bubble Umbrella by Totes.

Simple, clear and cheap. Even though the session was called off, I’m keeping the umbrella. Gotta love Target!

And this is why.

They occasionally put up photos of their adorable goddaughters on their blog, but on Valentines they posted this great video:

By the way, this video was made entirely of photos. Over 1000 of them according to the blog. How freakin awesome is that!

So, after my post yesterday regarding the forecasted weather for Saturday, I was inspired by all of your suggestions to not postpone the pictures and have some fun in the rain (albeit cold rain). After reading your comments, I e-mailed our photographer, Cesar, and asked him his thoughts on a rainy photo shoot. I had a feeling he’d be up for it because he likes to try new things and get some cool shots, and, of course, he was. Barring floods and torrential downpour, our photo shoot is still on for Saturday.

To top it off, he is so awesome that he is going to give us another session at no charge when the weather is nicer! Since Mr. H and I were planning on a costume change (one outfit just wasn’t enough for me), we are going to wear our casual clothes for the rain session and then get a little more spiffy for the nice weather pictures.

Now…I can’t just have a photo shoot in the rain without a cute accessory, so I’ve been searching for a great umbrella. I immediately e-mailed my bridesmaid who is a fashion stylist in L.A. to ask her her thoughts. She had some great ones, and I found a couple other options online. I’d like to keep this relatively inexpensive since I don’t use umbrellas all that often.

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Just like Miss Canary, I received one of the wonderful ring holders from Paloma’s Nest on Valentines Day. If you remember from my previous post, we have asked Mr. H’s aunt and uncle to be our padrinos for the anillos (rings) and part of their duty is to bring the rings up to the altar.

Caroline at Paloma’s Nest was so awesome. Apparently she and her husband are Hispanic as well, so she was great at helping me come up with ideas for what to put on our ring holder. I knew that I wanted to have something in Spanish since it will be a part of the Spanish custom when the Padrinos bring the rings to us. I also knew, after looking through all of her items on Etsy, that I wanted to have it stamped with the Milagro Heart. I have always loved this icon and Mr. H and I have a beautiful cross that we bought on our first trip to Mexico together with the same icon on it.

So here it is!

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Saturday we are taking our engagement pictures and I’m REALLY excited. I have a hair appointment, makeup appointment and a couple of super cute outfits (one of which is inspired by our own Miss Tulip). So, what, do you ask, is the problem?

THIS:

In case you can’t see it right, Saturday is 42 degrees (cold by TX standards) and RAIN/THUNDER! Last weekend we were originally supposed to have the pictures, but because another couple really needed them done, we rescheduled our time. Last weekend was sunny and 75. Let’s hope there is a weather miracle and we won’t have to reschedule!

Has anyone else had to reschedule their photos due to the weather?

When Mr. H and I began discussing our honeymoon, I figured we’d both be on the same page. Exotic, tropical and somewhere we’d never been. Boy was I wrong. Mr. H wanted to go somewhere that was exotic, tropical and familiar. His reasoning was that he wanted to relax on our vacation, and not spend the entire week being tourists.

I’ve always been a traveler, Mr. H not so much. It was hard for me to see his side of things until one night we made a mutual decision that warmed my feelings towards going to a familiar destination. We both decided that for the last few days of our trip, we would like our friends to join us to finish off our wedding celebration!

So, while I had only thought of new and foreign lands, I let Mr. H tell me where he would prefer to go for our honeymoon. Cabo San Lucas!

My parents have a timeshare in Cabo and I have been fortunate enough to go there for several week-long vacations. This past May, Mom H, Brother H, Mr. H and some of my other family went there for vacation. Mr. H loved it. Mojitos by the pool, cruises in the ocean, day trips and yummy food. So it wasn’t a huge shocker that Mr. H had decided this was where he’d like to spend our first week as newlyweds.

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While reading my other daily addiction besides WB and Daily Candy, I came across a perfect idea for a hostess gift. I know that my mom’s best friends will most likely throw me a shower, as they do for all the daughters in their group of friends, so in the back of my mind I’ve been thinking of a neat gift to get them.

Today, Daily Candy Dallas introduced me to the Dayna Decker candle collection, particularly the Couture Candle. What got me so excited was the packaging. It is so modern and sophisticated… and black! Since our wedding is black and white, I thought this would be an awesome hostess gift:

After further looking into the candle, its pricetag comes in at a hefty $65. I’m not sure this will fit into my budget, but man would it be great. I would really love to get something nice for the hostess’ homes when I start to look for their gifts.

Are you doing anything nice for the hostesses throwing you a shower?

At the wedding.

Ah the controversial topic of whether or not to have children at the wedding. Let me preface this by saying that each couple has a different idea of what they want at their wedding. I’m all for kids being there, and I’m all for kids not being there.

For our wedding, it will be the latter.

When we began planning our wedding, I told Mr. H how I really wanted a more intimate wedding. The only problem with this is that Mr. H has a gigantic family and we already had to cut a large chunk of his adult family off the list before we even began thinking about the kiddos.

We settled on 200 being our final count: 75 for his family, 75 for my family and 50 for us. As of right now, my parents have 75, his parents list has over 100 people and ours is 50 (mainly because we’ve added some of his family to our list). That’s not including kids… even kids under 21. We are still working on this list.

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