Wedding Blog

I never realized there were so many darn signs that need to be made for a wedding, good grief. Our table numbers I decided to do as simple table tents, but I wanted something cute and raised for the candy buffet, a la Mrs. Bell Pepper’s.

Due to the overwhelming majority vote (and my gut instinct), I’ll be using the L O V E typewriter keys on my my bouquet. So what do I do with all my leftover keys?

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I don’t know when or where she said it, but when Mrs. Bee said that her bathroom baskets were a saving grace to a few of her guests, it lodged firmly in my brain: MUST MAKE BATHROOM BASKETS.

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Since we indulged ourselves with letterpress save-the-dates, invitations, programs AND cards to explain the charity tokens, I wanted to change things up a bit for the menus and do something cute and simple. Mini menu madness, in effect!

You know when you were in school, and you had a “stupid” question you were afraid to ask? Remember how teachers always told us, If you don’t understand something, chances are, someone else doesn’t, either.

Well, that’s the premise behind this quick post. I had a EUREKA! moment the other day, and while chances are there’s a much easier solution to my problem than I realize, I…

I put myself out there a little bit in sharing the group blessing I wrote for our ceremony, so thanks so much for everyone’s enthusiastic reception. And, as promised, here’s the chocolate and wine ritual.

A little while back, I blogged about the struggle of trying to write a beautiful, cohesive, secular ceremony. And a few of you encouraged me to share my efforts. So while it’s still a (quickly solidifying) draft, I thought I’d post one of the less personal sections - the group blessing.

To me, a group blessing is both a beautiful way to acknowledge your friends and…

To take up its post as a menu selection indicator on a placecard, that’s why.

I wish I could say I came up with something wildly original for our escort cards. I didn’t. I copied an idea straight outta Martha (the original photo can be seen on this Snippet and Ink inspiration board):

Attention all federal agents: below please find photos of two versions of a CD I burned for personal use only, as allowable by law, to commemorate my April nuptials. The first is a simple sticker design using one of my engagement photos:

V. small post today - the sign I made to put atop the bar, to promote our “specialty” drinks. Ironically, though, it took me ages to make. I could NOT get the spacing right to save my life.

A few days ago, jhearta and a few others asked if I wouldn’t mind sharing my playlist. I’m happy to - adding the disclaimer that I’m no Spin editor. And I’m too lazy to type up all 92 tracks (5.5 hours), so I’ve posted them as screenshots - hope that’s cool.

I definitely wanted to include some of “my” music. And I did, to a point.…

The readers have spoken. They have said, “Yo, ’Bug. Show us the bling.” Specifically, the lariat I wore to my first fitting. Alors, voila!

What’s funner than fun? Creating a signature drink. What’s funner than that? Going through an entire bottle of Ketel One in order to perfect it.Last night, we headed to a friend’s house, where we tapped the skills of an ex-bartender to put together our “Something Old, Something New…” drink menu (the idea for which I blatantly ripped off of Mrs. Raspberry). First, however, I had…

The best wedding vendor meeting is the one you walk out of feeling LESS stressed than when you walked in. And so it was yesterday, meeting for the first time with DJ Luke Bishop of Satyr Entertainment. From the start, Luke has been pretty darn impressive: super prompt with correspondence, prepared, and helpful (he’s been acting as liason with our venue director to unburden me…