Weddingbee Blog

I have been too upset to blog about this but disaster struck yesterday.

5 days from my wedding, the Sheraton hotel calls to say they have a “little problem.”

Apparently renovations caused extensive flooding and they can no longer honor any of our group’s rooms.

OMG~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The makeup artists, hair stylists, flowers and limos have all been arranged to arrive at the hotel the morning of. The rehearsal dinner is at a restaurant steps away for the night before.

They are suggesting that I move everyone to the motel down the road. They want me to stay at a motel on the wedding night.

NO OTHER COMPENSATION.

OMG.

My blissful morning shower was abruptly interrupted when Mr. Spider came bursting through the door in the following scene:

Him: BABE, I accidentally shaved my eyebrow!!!

Me: WHAT?!?! Why the heck were you shaving your eyebrows??!!

Him: I shaved it accidentally…

Me: Why the heck was the shaver around your eyebrows?

Him: (No Response)

This is when I step out and take a look and sure enough a huge chunk of Stinky’s left brow is missing.

Me: OMG. How did this happen?

Him: (No Response)

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We need to choose two photos for our 20″x30″ enlargements by the end of TODAY. Which picture is your favorite? Thanks~!

Water

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My coworkers just threw me a surprise shower. It was awesome. Gifts galore and champagne. Of course I had three glasses. Not.a.good.idea. I’m pink as a monkey’s ass. Hmmm… yikes.

EDIT: No camera to take pictures. Plus, erm, I probably couldn’t hold a camera straight right now.

Bridal Shower: Apple-licious

Beautiful paper pom poms all over.

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12 days until the wedding bells chime and I couldn’t be busier at work. It’s so unfair. Also, I have more wedding projects going than time to blog about them. So sorry. Please bear with me. My mom is coming over every night this week to help so it should get better. Maybe I will teach her how to blog so she can ghost post for me haha.

You will not be disappointed, I promise. Martha Stewart ain’t got nothin’ on me…

Addendum - One thing I forgot to mention: I did my own make up for the engagement session.

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A lot of you have asked for more information regarding the photography and itinerary so here goes:

Wedding Group One

Package Details:

• Main photographer, second photographer;
• Videographer;
• 10 hours with minimum of 600 proofs;
• Separate casual, studio and outdoor session;
• 1 SOHO album with leather cover - 100 images;
• 1 Fine art album with leather cover and name printing - 100 images;
• 2 parent SOHO albums with leather cover;
• Premium edit DVD with leather case and 2 jewel cases;
• Unedited raw footgage;
• High resolution proofs;
• 2 20×30 display enlargements; and
• $250 worth of enlargements.

Our photographer was Sean.

We started the day at the salon where I got my hair done and Mr. Spider got his nails done. Since I posted about my first hair trial, I’ve had a change of heart. Frankly, I thought Gary was charging too much. I think he played on my fit of nostalgia and tried to gouge me. Seriously, the $300 travel fee was just too much, so I am going with my regular hairstylist instead.

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Since y’all are so hungry for more and I aim to please:

I know, I know, I’m supposed to be blogging about the bazillion things I promised to blog about, but when you’re so busy getting things done - you find you have little time to blog at all.

On top of our down-to-the-wire wedding planning, my parents moved out of their house. Tomorrow morning they will hand the keys to the new owners and my mom said when they locked the doors for the last time she felt a little pang of regret. Because I have been home all day working on this, that and the other, I didn’t drive over to say good bye to the house I grew up in. And for that, I feel a big ass pang of regret. Sigh, alas I have but my memories…

Despite having only slept 2 hours (mom, not me), we went dress shopping and my mom finally found a dress at none other than Lotus Bridal! Since their seamstress was there and had time open, my mom donned the gown and got fitted for alterations. After the dress got cut and pinned they drew up the bill and OMIGOD we both lost our breaths. Of course, I recovered first and reassured my mom that it was worth it and not to worry, but LORDY lord it costs a pretty SHINY penny. It was quite the splurge so have mercy and tell me it’s GORGEOUS. Haha, no but seriously, mama looked smokin~!

Jovani Style#: 213245285

The combination of a heavy work week and my firm’s new stricter internet usage policy has resulted in zero posts this week. This is not to say that I do not have anything to blog about. I have TONS to blog about. So please cross your fingers that I will not have to work late for the remainder of this week so I can run my little ass home and blog in my pjs.

Here are some sneak peaks:

It SHOWERED on Saturday.

The girls got down and DIRTY at Atlantic City.

We made our final menu selections (including cake).

And the best part: WE TOOK OUR ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS~!!! (entry to include this awesome hair comb I bought for dirt cheap AND my second hair trial).

I know, I know, I am just as excited as you are. Just gotta wait a teensy tiny bit longer.

Every bride needs to bookmark this website: VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP (best with sound)

It is like popping away every little ANNOYING thing in my life right now. Click on MANIC MODE if you are REALLY stressed out.

[via: LIWeddings.com]

I’ve been in limo limbo now for months. Mr. Spider had a problem with how the wedding party will get home, and I had a problem with us sitting in the same limo en route to getting married. So what happened? Well, we got over it. The wedding party will just have to carpool or ask their dates to drive. And Mr. Spider and I will just have to sit at opposite ends of the limo. Maybe we’ll blindfold him, could be kinda cool haha.

The drive from our hotel to the reception hall takes less than half an hour. Since we are going straight from Point A to Point B, we need the limo, at most, an hour. Try telling that to the limo companies who try to sell you fancy frou-frou packages the moment you mention the word “wedding”. It’s like their pupils turn into dollar signs. Of course I can’t actually see them through the phone, but I can hear them. Yeah, it makes a loud ass “CHA-CHING” sound.

So I’ve been trying to skirt the fact that yes, we will be needing these limos for a wedding, but it’s kinda hard to avoid it when Point A is a hotel and Point B is a reception hall. No, I’m not gonna have them drop us off at the corner. Nor am I gonna try to pretend to be guests trying to show up at a wedding in style. Imagine the driver pulls up and is like “No, this can’t be the right party. My boss didn’t say nothing about a bride.”

So what do you do? Well, you bang your fist on the table real loud and say listen, I just need your stinking limo for one hour. No one will be drinking your champagne at 9am, no one will be needing any special carpets, red or otherwise, and no one will care if your driver shows up wearing bermuda shorts and flip flops. Well okay, if the driver shows up wearing flip flops, he better not have hairy toes cuz that’s a definite deal breaker.

All my fist banging and hairless toe requesting has gotten me down to two vendors:

Serenity Limousines (recommended by brides on the LIWeddings forum)

18 Passenger Hummer SUV: $425 for one hour

Royal Luxury Limousines (recommended by users of Limos.com)

20 Passenger Escalade SUV: $400 for one hour

Now the final dilemma, which actually is two-fold:

Am I naive to think one hour will be enough? I know brides complain about limos being late all the time, but consider that my pick up time is 9am. If 3-hour minimum “wedding” packages are only $2-300 more, should I just get them in case some crackhead bridesmaid really does want to drink champagne at 9am in the morning?

Last weekend we left Mens Wearhouse with a pretty good idea of the kind of tuxedo we wanted to get. At least, I did. Once we got home, Mr. Spider continued his pining (read: whining) for the “british” tuxedo he has said he’s wanted since the giddy up. I was a bit adverse to the idea because I thought the look might be too formal for our day wedding. It turns out that I was mistaken.

As per Mens Wearhouse:

What is a cutaway coat? When do I wear a cutaway coat?
Cutaway coats, also commonly referred to as “morning coats,” are worn during the day and are not to be worn after sundown. These coats do not have satin lapels and are available in black and gray.

The gray coat is worn with gray striped slacks and is the traditional attire for morning weddings. The black coat is worn with black tuxedo slacks and is acceptable attire for any part of the day.

Once we learned that it was not only acceptable but appropriate for the men to don James Bond-esque attire, everything fell into place quickly. Our sale person was superb and the service we got from her and the rest of the team at the Bayside, Queens (Bay Terrace Mall) location was amazing. They broke everything down, offered just the right amount of input, supported our choices, joked with us, asked about our wedding and honeymoon and even told Mr. Spider he had “an athletic build.”

Here is a preview of what the boys will look like:

Mr. Spider will wear a gray tux with striped pants and an ascot. The rest of the wedding party will wear vest and ties, of the same pattern, in different colors.

The groomsmen will wear black tuxes with pink vest/ties.

The dads will wear black tuxes with gray vest/ties.

My brother will wear a black tux with silver vest/tie.

Now for the best part. Amazingly the cutaway tuxes are only $89.99 to begin with, so we had a good number to work with. We used the $20 off each rental coupon I printed from their website but since the grooms tux is always free, we decided to pass along the discount of the free tux to the gang as well. But wait, Mr. Spider decided to pay for all the tuxes first to make things easier so he got a $50 coupon for spending more than $500 and the cow jumped over the moon, yeah I know. Let’s look at it this way:

Tuxedo: $89.99

Coupon 1: $20.00

Free Grooms Tux: $10.00 (a savings of $89.99 distributed among 9 people)

Coupon 2: $5.55 ($50 coupon distributed among 9 people)

Total plus tax and deposit: approx. $65 a person

TOTAL DEAL if you ask me. We were so happy with the price and with the service, I wanted to hug everyone in the store. We left with the biggest smiles on our faces.