Weddingbee
I know it’s been a while, and I promised you guys I’d share a few more of my projects. I’ve just recently (in the past month or so) been able to start reading about weddings again without getting all misty-eyed and, since this would have been our wedding weekend, I thought I would share one of the first projects that I did: our wedding website.
I actually started on our wedding website before the proposal (shh…), mainly because I wanted to make sure our domain name was available.
The main page of the site gave our guests some basic things that they could do. This included giving them instructions on where they could learn “Thriller” or what hotel to book rooms at.
I hope you all will forgive my absence, but it has been a rather emotional and stressful month. However, you readers have been so great to me that I feel you deserve some sort of explanation.
Soon after the New Year, Mr. Fondue expressed some concerns with our relationship. He had been acting moody, which I thought was due to holiday stress at his job plus quitting smoking, but, as it turns out, was mostly due to wondering if we were doing the right thing by getting married.
I don’t want to bore you with all the details, but we had a long, drawn out, emotional talk until 4:00 AM one night. He felt our relationship was stagnant and predictable; he said he grows more bored with it every day and misses the excitement of dating. He feels that, while he loves me and doesn’t want to hurt me, he would eventually end up cheating on me. You can imagine my shock and heartbreak—being told by your fiance that he’s not sure he wants to marry you because he knows you too well and doesn’t feel he is mature enough—is not something I would want anyone to go through.
I immediately made an appointment for counseling.
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I hope everyone had a great holiday season!
I have several cool things to share with you in the coming weeks, including bridesmaid dress shopping (although I’m still waiting on some photos Mama Fondue took) and my fauxtobooth epiphany. However, I’m still recovering from New Year’s Eve, so all you’re getting today is some photos of my New Year’s party decor. 
Most of it was based on designs from the Hostess with the Mostess site, so I won’t take credit for it. I went with a red and silver color scheme to match my house (which is mostly decorated in red, black, and white–can you tell these are our favorite colors?). I always decorate my Christmas tree with red and silver, as well, so it gives the added bonus of being able to reuse a lot of the stuff for next Christmas.
You can see here that I did some of the Martha Stewart pom-poms above the bar, although I used less tissue paper so they are a little flatter. I was also in a major hurry when I was trying to do all of this stuff.
Unfortunately, I don’t yet have a macro lens (I do have a wedding to pay for…), so I had to make do with the kit lens. I’m sure I’ll get better over time, but I didn’t think these were too bad for my first try with the camera.
This one is probably the best shot of the ring itself.
You play as Quinn, a top wedding planner. She is competing to have the honor of planning a very exclusive wedding. She travels to many different places to plan weddings for each leg of the competition.
She first receives a letter from the bride and groom. This letter will give some brief ideas of the theme of the wedding.
We used Blurb to make the books. This was the second time I have used them — the first being a wedding gift to my bridesmaid Becka and her husband of photos I took at their wedding after their photographer flaked out on them back in spring 2007. This time I used a couple of Blurb’s newest options: their thicker paper and the ImageWrap hardcover.
I was really happy with the way the books came out. Here is the front (on the right) and back (on the left) of the book. The back was just a mirror image of the picture on the front.
Many brides, at some point during their engagement period, will have a dream (or nightmare, usually) about their wedding day. I am no exception.
Shortly after becoming engaged, I had a dream that my parents decided to hold the wedding at this itty-bitty church in the middle of nowhere, and I didn’t know about it until the night of the rehearsal. The majority of dream was spent trying to frantically decorate the place to make it look presentable.
The only other major dream I have had about the wedding so far took place in the atrium of a hotel, where our wedding was being held. I somehow fell asleep at the table during the reception. No one bothered to wake me, so I woke up the next morning and there were all these strange people at the tables eating breakfast. My photographer was still there for some reason, and she offered to give me a 53% refund (I know, it’s a random number) since I fell asleep. I said okay, and asked where Mr. Fondue was. She gave me some general information about the direction he had gone in. I finally tracked him down (after going through a maze) and he told me he wanted the marriage annulled! Then I woke up.
Mr. Fondue told me the other day that he, too, had had a bad wedding dream.
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Before I even went dress shopping, I knew I wanted to wear red shoes under my gown. This, in part, is fueled by pictures like this one from our photographer, Kate Crafton:
My other criteria involved having a 2-3″ heel (I’m 5’1″ and need all the help I can get) but for the shoes to not be ridiculously uncomfortable. I had the hardest time narrowing down what I wanted them to actually look like, however. All of these were contenders:
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Back in September, my bridesmaid Becka (you may remember her from the day I went gown shopping) was in Knoxville visiting family. She and her husband moved to South Carolina a year or so ago, and we rarely get to see them. So Mr. Fondue and I headed over to East Tennessee to hang out with them. (Too bad I didn’t know Miss Cheese then!)
Over the weekend, Becka and I headed out to David’s Bridal so she could get a good idea of what necklines looked best on her. My girls will be wearing tea-length black dresses of their choosing since they are all different sizes, and I want something that they will feel comfortable in. David’s didn’t have most of the options she tried on in stock in black, hence the variety of colors you see here. It’s amazing the difference a neckline can make!
She went in thinking she might want a halter, so she tried on a few of those.
About five months after Mr. Fondue and I started dating, we went to Six Flags Over Georgia with my bridesmaid Frances and her husband Joe for Fright Fest. I have many, many fond memories of this trip.
The Fondues with Frances on the Superman coaster.
Six Flags normally plays their theme song and some other things over their speakers, but for Fright Fest, they were playing Halloween-type music (and sound clips of creepy children laughing). One of the songs they played was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. As Mr. Fondue and I were standing by the entrance of the park, waiting for the rest of our entourage, we started trying to do the dance. But, neither of us knew it.
When we were discussing what songs we wanted to hear at our reception, “Thriller” came up. I (half-jokingly) said it would be awesome if we could get a group of people to learn the dance.
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Miss Fondue
Miss Fondue, Nashville
Age and Occupation: 27, Technical Analyst
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Network Admin Student/Senior Game Advisor
Engagement Date: December 25, 2007
Wedding Date: May 2009
Blogging Since: September 14, 2008
Venue: Ravenwood Golf Club
About Me: I’m your average computer geek marrying a gaming geek and trying to find a good balance of elegance and geek chic in our wedding. I adore The Sims, Nintendo, cosplay, (good) music, TiVo, theme parks, and our two crazy felines.
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