Weddingbee Blog

Thanks to my super lovely artistic friend, I’ll be having beautiful pew decorations! She made a variety and sent me some pictures of them hanging on our church pews. (Sorry for the bad quality pics- they were taken with her camera phone.)

Now for the hard part… which do I choose? And who best to ask than the weddingbee community! Don’t mind the random colors she chose or the varying fullness of the baby’s breaths. What I have to get back to her with is: what SHAPE I want them, paper COLOR, and ribbon COLOR and THICKNESS. So yeah, what combo do you like best? Or feel free to make up your own! Keep in mind my wedding colors are sage green and white with a accents of peachy pink!

Random in a row:

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I dunno if it’s the weather or the side effects of my BC pills, but I’ve been feeling a bit BLEH these days. I think wedding planning is wearing me out. I am tired. Planning just seems neverending… and the little details I thought I’d love to think about are turning into big headaches. Part of it has to do with finances. So many times, I can’t help but think, if only I had more money, I wouldn’t have to take ALL this time to research various options or find ways to cut corners but not sacrifice too much on quality. And then I start to think that all these little details don’t really matter much anyways. Very few people are going to notice if their place card is “cute” or how the petals along the aisle were the “right” color. Most people judge how great a wedding was but how much “fun” they had, right? So I begin to think, who cares about this and that, and then I start feeling ambivalent towards little details of the wedding.

But then I’m torn. Part of me feels more at peace if I don’t get so stressed and caught up in the little details, but then another part of me wonders if I’ll regret it. If I’ll look back and wish I did spend the extra effort to get certain details right. Unique. Special. I can’t help but notice how some other brides seem to be doing so much for every little detail, so I wonder, why can’t I be like that? And then it comes back to finances. And time. And I’m so tired…

Anyhooooo yeahhhh… anybody else feel this way?

Hmmm cnn had an interesting article on a new auction site that allows people to sells ring after breakups.

I dunno how I feel about that. On one hand, I can see that both the seller and buyer are getting a really good deal. On the other hand, I would feel a little weird buying or receiving a ring that was being sold because of an unhappy ending of another relationship… What do you think?

Rain, rain go away! Come back on another day! This is the song I’ll be singing on my wedding day. Today I’m working from home because of the icy road conditions here in the NE. And it got me thinking about the weather and how one of my biggest worries on my wedding day is rain and/or snow (although end of march in Atlanta it is very unlikely to snow. *knock on wood*).

But you know how they say, rain on your wedding day is good luck? See, when I heard that I was pretty convinced that someone just made up that saying to make brides feel better for having rain on her wedding day. I tried to do some research on-line but unfortunately could not find any explanation of where this saying came from. Anybody know?

In anycase, it looks like it really is good luck for it to rain on your wedding day if you’ve purchased your rings from Elyse Jewelers in Massachusettes! If it rains more than half an inch in Boston on the afternoon of your wedding, they offer full refunds for your wedding rings!

So far I’ve had two bad dreams about my wedding. I know with all the wedding planning stress this is not uncommon for brides, but both my dreams have been about the same thing: Me forgetting my veil! And then driving like a maniac to go get it. Since I’ve only dreamed about it twice, I don’t know if I can call it a reccuring dream… but I just find it weird that in both dreams I forgot my veil! Wonder if it means anything…

Anyone wanna take a stab at dream interpretation? haha

Have you had any recurring nightmares about the wedding?

Question yall! Are you censoring certain songs for your reception music? Sometimes I think a song is a song… so as long as it has a good beat, I personally don’t pay too much attention to the lyrics except the chorus (because that’s what I remember. haha)

But when I listen to some of the music carefully and/or look up the lyrics, I am often shocked by the plethora of curse words and vulgarity in these songs. Now, if I were at a club, I wouldn’t mind as much, but I wonder if the many “clubbing” songs I enjoy dancing to will be considered inappropriate for a wedding reception.

Take for example: Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me - This song is about this guy cheating on his girlfind. I think this is a fun song with a good beat, but I probably won’t have this playing at my wedding.

Another example, one of my favorite songs: Jay Z’s Can I Get A. Now there is a clean version, Can I Get A What What, but upon looking at the lyrics I was still surprised! Two line sample:

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Soooo to get myself ready, I just recently started taking birth control pills. It’s been about 4 days and so far I haven’t experienced any of the side effects, so that’s been good. A problem, however, has been that I have a hard time remembering to take it! Especially at the same time every day.

I decided I’d take mine at noon everyday, since 5 out of 7 days a week I’m always eyeing the clock at work for lunch time. I thought that it’d be easy to remember that way. But it’s actually been quite difficult! On the second day, we were going out for someone’s birthday and I almost left my pill at my desk. I had to run upstairs and take it before I went out. And then today! Today, I had a conference call (during my lunch hour!) and I didn’t remember until later, about 2pm. Gahhhhh, if I take it 2 hours late, is it really that big of a deal?

Anyhow yeah… I’m starting to get worried about future mishaps, especially when it will matter most! Maybe I should keep a string tied around my finger as a reminder…

Has anyone else have problems remembering to take the pill? Any tricks on how to remember better?

I can’t figure out if I want my hair and veil placed high, middle, or low on my head. Here are some of my top fave for hairstyles. Oh yeah, I apologize for not knowing who to give credit to for all of these pictures. >_< High - I like the elegant look of this style

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Darlin’, darlin’, stand by me-e, stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me …

Mr. Peach and I attended our first pre-marital counseling session with our pastor last week. It was great! In the first session, it was mostly just sharing how our relationship started, and how we’ve made it this far. We also shared some of our family background and how we grew up, because he said this will definitely play out in our marriage. The best part of it all, was he gave some great advice here and there. I can’t wait for our next session! ^_^

One piece of advice he gave to Mr. Peach was that since we are going to become married, it was his duty to stand up for me and to protect me at all times. My pastor told Mr. Peach that sometimes he would even have to put his foot down and stand up to his parents for me (which is quite challenging in Asian culture).

Well, well, well! Mr. Peach has already put to use what he has learned. But maybe not exactly in the way that I hoped. Sooo we’ve been looking to book our tickets back to NJ from our wedding (we’re honeymoon-ing two months after our wedding), and were wondering what time we should leave on Sunday. My parents already told me that it’s okay if we say our goodbye’s Saturday night and that there’s no need to greet them on Sunday before we leave. We knew his parents would be a different story¢¢â€š¬¦

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I’ve been thinking about whether or not I’m going to keep my veil on during my reception. Mrs. Snail said she kept her veil on because she didn’t really like her hair. (Hopefully this will not be the reason that determines whether or not I’ll be keeping my veil on. haha)

But yeah, I was curious… Did/will you keep your veil on after the ceremony and during your reception? Or will you take it off? Is there a reason why?

Remember this?

Tht was our lovely invite designed by Sandy.

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BM dresses arrived awhile ago from Netbride. Their service was great, and all my girls got their dresses with no mishaps in a timely fashion. Including shipping and such, their prices were the best too!

As modeled by my MOH, twas a bit big for her and everyone else:

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Alrighty folks. I am confused. So I’ve always heard that getting married will most likely lower your car insurance, but I was never sure why. I thought it was because the people who plug and chug your stats into a formula assume that if you’re married, you’re more responsible, less likely to drive crazy, and thus get into less accidents.

Sooooo if this is all true, I would want to let Geico know that I’m getting married in March, right? But then, I was thinking… is it considered “cheaper” because most people combine their policies and get a marriage discount of some sort. For example it’s cheaper once you get married combining policies than having two separate policies or is it cheaper period even if I wasn’t combining policies.

Why I ask is because Mr. Peach currently doesn’t own a car (he commutes into NYC via good ole public transportation), and therefore doesn’t have car insurance. So for me to let Geico know that I’m getting married, does that just raise my car insurance because we’ll now be living in the same household, and it adds an additional person to the insurance (even if he’ll rarely be driving the car)? And then there’s the law. Someone said it’s not about choice but that the law might require you to report a change in life (ie. getting married) to insurance policies within 30 days of the event.

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This past Saturday, Mr. Peach and I celebrated our 1 year engagement anniversary. Since we’re getting married in about 2 months, we had actually agreed way before that we weren’t gonna celebrate our engagement anniversary… but I decided to surprise Mr. Peach and take him out since he did so much work last year. haha~

Looking back, I realized I never shared with weddingbee how Mr. Peach proposed to me… so here’s our story:

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During the winter holidays when I was at home, I went veil shopping. I only had time to visit two places: David’s Bridal and Sarah’s Bridal (where I bought my dress). Although the veils at Sarah’s Bridal were pretty, they barely had any 1 layer veils- what I was looking for. David’s Bridal had more variety and I ended up falling in love with this one:

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