Weddingbee Blog

But not for long! I woke up early this morning, and the excitement is really starting to get here, because Mr. H and I are getting married TOMORROW!!! We are headed to the hotel today to start organizing, primping and rehearsing for this big day, that has been a long time in the making.

Before I pack up my bag, load the car and head out on the road, I just wanted to say a special thank you to everyone here at the hive. Without this outlet, I don’t know how I would have made it through the past fourteen months.

To my fellow Bees - you have been an incredible source of support, knowledge and creativity, without which, our wedding just wouldn’t be the same. You have supported me, brought me back to earth when I got a little carried away, and entertained me throughout the entire process.

To the readers - it amazes me how a group of people who I have never met in person can become like my good friends. Your thoughts, opinions and ideas are what kept me, and I’m sure a lot of the other Bees, going.
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Following in the footsteps of Miss Sundae, we bought our OOT bags from cheaptotes.com. The first totes that I ordered were entirely too small (math = not Miss Hydrangea’s strong suit). So they happily exchanged them for another type of bag and we opted to get these black and white reusable grocery tote bags:

They were a little pricier then the others, coming in at $1.29 a piece, but we have very few OOT bags to create, so we only purchased 25. Luckily, they came in handy for my bridesmaids gifts, and I still have some leftover so I can have cute totes for when I go grocery shopping—yay for no more plastic bags!
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I decided to put together some simple bathroom baskets for our guests at the reception. Using the boxes that I found at Hobby Lobby, we stuffed them with items that I found at my local Dollar Tree.

I started off by filling the bottom of the baskets with white tissue paper to help with the height. Then, I placed some of the black, crumpled paper in to hide the bright white paper.

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But this time, the presents aren’t for us! The presents are for my girls—the four special ladies that will stand by my side on Saturday.

Before I go any further, I have to tell the girls not to read any further…

And I mean it…

Bridesmaids, stay away!
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With the wedding only days away, Mr. H and I are feeling a bit of the blues. We chalk it up to the fact that for the past 14 months, our lives have consisted of work, family, and wedding! While we are so excited for Saturday to come, we are sad to think that our wedding planning days are almost over.

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When I woke up last Sunday morning to beautiful weather after a rainy Saturday (thanks to Hurricane Ike), I did a few things around the house and then hunkered down for a day of wedding projects. First up was the signage for the food stations and favor table.

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Last weekend, after spending the whole rainy day (thanks Ike) running wedding errands with Mom H, I came home ready to hang out on the couch and watch some sports with Mr. H. What actually happened was much different.

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I check weather.com religiously, but not so much for our wedding day as I do just to see what my week in traffic will be like due to the weather. Today, with the fear that Hurricane Ike will be hitting the Texas Gulf Coast, I have been checking the weather a little more often to stay up to date.

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This week we had the unpleasant experience of finding out two weeks before our wedding that one of our vendors is booked for another event on the same day. It wouldn’t normally bother me so much, except for the fact that I need them to arrive at our hotel one hour earlier then we previously agreed upon, and the vendor threw a fit. It also bothered me a little due to the fact that we weren’t made aware prior that the vendor would be elsewhere before coming to see us.

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This past weekend, after my second shower, Mom H and one of my bridesmaids came over to help me with the (not so exciting) task of cutting ribbon, xyroning ribbon and labels, and, finally, wrapping and attaching them to over 200 3″ cube vases for our favors.

Originally, we wanted these vases to be the escort cards for our guests. But after determining the layout of the room and the size of the vases, we opted instead to make them favors that our coordinators will place on the escort card table once all the cards have been taken by guests, and everyone is in the reception room.

The labels and ribbon after being xyroned!

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Last Saturday afternoon, FMIL Hydrangea and FSILs Hydrangea threw me a cute shower at a local hotel in our hometown. This shower was mainly for family members of Mr. H (he has a ginormous family) and a few of their close friends.

Mom H and BM H attended with me, and we all had a great time! I was a little nervous for my mother as she had not been to one of Mr. H’s family events before. Many of the women speak little English, and instead speak mainly Spanish. While I’m still a little shy to speak it, I pretty much understand just about everything they are saying and it still catches them off guard at times when I answer their Spanish in English.

We started off by eating, and man was it good! I forgot to take pics of the main spread, but it included ceviche, shrimp cocktail, fruits, veggies… yum yum yum! FMIL H also remembered my favorite cake and she bought a tres leches cake from this amazing Mexican bakery for us all to eat after we stuffed ourselves with seafood.

YUM - Tres Leches!

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I’m starting to feel nervous!

Today was the first day that I really started to get nervous about the wedding. I’m not nervous to be marrying Mr. H (because I’m sure I want to marry Mr. H!), but I’m just nervous in general. When I browse through my Google reader and see all of the wedding images, I get butterflies and a tingle. It’s a strange sensation because it feels like a combination of the butterflies and the tingle that I got when Mr. H and I started dating, but now there are also some nerves thrown in there, too. I think it’s just the culmination of having had over a year to plan this event, and now it’s THISCLOSE to being here!

The sensations I’m feeling are definitely not bad, they are just so strong.
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We did it! Yesterday morning, bright and early, Mr. H and I set off to get our marriage license! In Texas, it doesn’t matter which county you receive your license in so long as you get married in the state of Texas. We are getting married in Dallas county but, to avoid any long lines or a wait, we went to the county clerk’s office in our hometown (outside of Dallas county). We got there at about 8:15 a.m. and by 8:35 a.m. we were out of there!

Twenty minutes and $72 later, we were posing for a pic by the county seal.

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Talk about lovely timing. When we decided to create our wedding website with Wedorama, the highest increment of time you could purchase a site for was one year. We’ve been engaged for well over a year now, so we assumed that when the site was up for renewal, we’d receive some sort of a notice. Today, when I went online to check our site, I found this:

“The website you requested is not active at this time…”

What a surprise only 25 days out from the wedding!
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We spent so much time arguing, compromising and finalizing our guest list that I really never took into consideration the size of the room, once we had the stage, dance floor, food etc. I guess I just always figured that a lot of people wouldn’t be able to attend the wedding, and that the room was a lot larger then it actually is. I was wrong.

Here sits our stack of returned RSVPs*. As of now, here’s the count:

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