Mrs. Lovebird, New York/Cancun
Age and Occupation: 25, Attorney
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Medical Student
Engagement Date: September 22, 2006
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Venue: Dreams Cancun Resort & Spa
About Me: Born and raised New Yorker planning a destination wedding in Cancun, Mexico and a traditional Chinese banquet in New York City. Got proposed to in Cancun, so it’s only fitting we are going back to get married. I love trivia, board games, bargain shopping, asian dramas and eating yummy food!
Do I Smell a Weddingbee Meet-up in the Making?
October 10th, 2008 @ 3:46 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
At the end of last year, I blogged about this interesting movie in the works called Bride Wars. Time really flies because it’s coming out soon!
Who’s excited to see this movie? I know I am!
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Wedding Day Part IV: Bridal Portraits
October 7th, 2008 @ 3:37 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
Wedding Day Part I: The Girls Getting Ready
Wedding Day Part II: The Boys Getting Ready
Wedding Day Part III: The Guests Getting Ready
Since I got a call from our wedding coordinator that they weren’t ready for me yet, Vincent and I snuck off to my balcony to take some bridal portraits.
My Wedding is When?
October 2nd, 2008 @ 5:40 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
So I got the most interesting call last week from Mommy Lovebird. She calls and says, “I have Daddy Lovebird on the line.” (Daddy Lovebird is in China, by the way.) So Daddy Lovebird goes, “Hi honey, how are you? We planned your wedding banquet for the 3rd.” I’m like, “What?” ::
:: Daddy Lovebird repeats himself, “We planned your wedding banquet for the 3rd… your Mom is going to fly back for it.” Then it slowly begins to hit me… “Oh… okay?”
When I first started planning our wedding, I thought I was going to have three “weddings”. My destination wedding in Cancun with my friends and family, my New York reception which would include those people who couldn’t make it to Cancun, and the sea of people that were the “friends” of my parents and family. People I probably met at one point or another in my life, but surely don’t remember the name of, and people I was sure to be meeting for the first time. You see, in Chinese culture, the wedding banquet isn’t just about the bride and groom, it’s also about the family, parents, traditions and joining of families.
When my parents were speaking to my grandparents of picking an “auspicious” date for the NY wedding banquet, Grandma Lovebird was like, “you can’t have three wedding receptions!”
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Two Years Ago Today
September 22nd, 2008 @ 4:50 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
Mr. Lovebird and I got engaged exactly two years ago today in Cancun. Wow…. that seems like a whole lifetime ago. It was two years ago today that Mr. Lovebird and I took the “plunge” and started a new chapter in our lives. And I sit here today, in awe of how much our life has changed since then… literally in awe… the excitement, the tragedy, the obstacles and triumphs…. basically all the joys and crap life likes to throw our way sometimes. And 11 weeks ago, THAT day finally came…
Wedding Day Part III: The Guests Getting Ready
September 17th, 2008 @ 11:25 am by Mrs. Lovebird
Wedding Day Part I: The Girls Getting Ready
Wedding Day Part II: The Boys Getting Ready
It turns out it wasn’t just the wedding party who was busy getting ready.
I remember looking out at the ceremony site at about 5PM and it was empty.
Wedding Day Part II: The Boys Getting Ready
September 12th, 2008 @ 3:10 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
Wedding Day Part I: The Girls Getting Ready
Please accept my apologies as I’ve been a bad little birdie! The very day after I posted the first recap, we closed and moved into the “Love(bird) Nest” and I’ve pretty much been running around with my head chopped off the last couple of weeks. What do you say, hive, do you forgive the little lovebird? As a token of my sincerity, I offer to you the pro-pics of the boys getting ready the day of the wedding. I believe most of these pictures were taken by our second shooter, Christian of del Sol Photography. Keep in mind I’ve known all these fellas since we were in high school, so I will take every liberty to embarrass them while I can.
DIY Table Numbers
August 21st, 2008 @ 3:45 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
It was all because of Weddingbee that I caught the DIY bug. I must give it up to my fellow bees as they have countlessly inspired and motivated me to add a personal touch to as many wedding projects as time and my abilities allowed.
After seeing so many amazing photo table numbers on Weddingbee, such as those of Mrs. Emerald, Mrs. Lovebug, and Mrs. Tiramisu to name a few, and since I had so many amazing pictures from Scott Robert’s workshop, I tried my hand at making my own table numbers.
Don’t you love how DIY projects evolve as you do them? I actually ended up not using the ribbon and paper flowers because I thought it distracted from the images.
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Dressing Up the Party Bubbles
August 20th, 2008 @ 10:31 am by Mrs. Lovebird
I didn’t put too much thought into what our guests should throw at us after we walked down the aisle for the first time as man and wife. I was actually going to do nothing at all. Being on a cliff by the ocean, I did know that if we were to do something, we would take our surroundings into consideration. That being said, bubbles were the perfect solution!
While Mr. Lovebird and I were browsing Michael’s for some last minute DIY craft supplies, on pure impulse, I picked up a box of party bubbles and a bottle of paper flowers. I wasn’t a fan of the bottles with the novelty tops and decided I would spruce up the plain bottles myself. When I got home, I grabbed leftover ribbon in our wedding colors and my box of glue dots and got to work.
Wedding Day Part I: The Girls Getting Ready
August 7th, 2008 @ 1:57 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
Because I’m uber excited about the NYC Weddingbee Meetup tonight, I’m going to give you readers a special treat even though I was planning on posting about the DIY projects leading up to the wedding before posting any pro-pics. Enjoy and I’ll hopefully see some of you tonight! 
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To go along with the laid back attitude of a destination wedding, never did I consider the idea of making up and writing down a timeline for the day. My mental timeline was this: 2pm - hair and makeup at the Dreams Cancun Spa and 5pm - showtime aka when the wedding ceremony was supposed to start. Looking back, a timeline would have helped!
OOT Bags
August 6th, 2008 @ 3:25 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
Considering all of our 90+ guests were all flying to Cancun for our wedding, we knew our OOT bags were not going to be an easy task.
First off, we had to decide on how big we actually wanted to make these babies, keeping in mind that we would have to transport them all the way down to Mexico. Initially, I was all about the canvas totes; then I realized we would have a hard time trying to fill them all considering we are staying at an all-inclusive resort. Bottles of water and anything your heart desires to drink is provided for at the resort. Not to mention there was no way in hell I was transporting bottles of water to Mexico! The resort is also all you can eat, so there was no need to load them with too many snacks. The hotel also provided all the toiletries you could ever need, including sunblock so we were left with only a few options.
I must have spent weeks deciding on which bags to buy. I eventually settled on these 7 1/4″ x 2″ x 7″ foam bags from Oriental Trading. I was expecting something more, but they served their purpose. There was no way we were bringing 90+ bags to Cancun, so I decided on getting 3 dozen bags. It came out to about one per family/room.
