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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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After much discussion, budget crunching, and back and forth, we have decided not to hire a videographer. You may remember that we were debating it, but we just couldn’t work the company we wanted into our budget and didn’t want to settle for less. (For you Nashville area brides, we were considering FocalPoint Cinematic, so check them out if you are looking for a videographer.)
Unless it was free, of course.
We were back to our original plan, but I was determined to put some more thought into it. I’ve asked everyone I know who owns a camcorder to please bring it (I’ve gotten about 7-8 people to agree so far). We will provide tapes and ask that everyone return them to us at the end of the night. We’re also rounding up as many tripods as we can.
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Like most everything having to do with the wedding, I wanted to have them match our theme. I purchased some cheap wooden trays at the craft store and spray-painted them white.
I then used my damask stamp and some acrylic paint to stamp our damask pattern on them and adorned them with ribbon.
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I think Mr. Fondue has narrowed down which buddies from work to invite, but I am stuck. There are about 30 people that work in my office. Obviously, I can’t invite them all, as that would add 60 or more people to our guest list (which we are trying to keep around 150, as that’s about the max that will fit in our reception hall).
One person is a definite. Mr. Fondue and I hang out with him and his wife outside of work on occasion and consider them friends. We also attended their wedding last year. (For those that are curious: He did a group invitation to the entire office, but their wedding was out of state, so, naturally, that weeded out most people for them.) We work in the same department.
There’s only one other person in our department, our boss. I’ve never hung out with her outside of work functions, but I have talked about the wedding to her (with both of her employees engaged at the same time, there was quite a bit of wedding talk in our department meetings), so she’s currently on the guest list. However, there’s a possibility she may be moving out of state before next May.
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Like several Bees before me, I will be making cards for our guests with instructions on where to go to upload their digital photos after our wedding. I have also included a handy link to it on our wedding website.
I had originally been working on integrating a photo gallery on our wedding website. Guests would be able to view photos, comment on them, upload their own, and download photos others had uploaded. In fact, I was pretty much done coding it, except for allowing multiple uploads at once, when I came across Shutterfly’s Share Sites. It allows you to create a custom website for this very purpose, and included all the things I had been writing myself, but in a more user-friendly fashion. I decided not to reinvent the wheel and save myself some time.
Back in high school, my best friend Sabrina (now my maid of honor) and I sat down to plan how we wanted our future weddings to look. We scoured the Internet for photos that represented what items we would choose if we were getting married. Of course, the web was much younger then and wasn’t overflowing in wedding inspiration, but we were able to scrape some things together.
I don’t remember where I imagined my wedding taking place, though I believe, even then, I wanted an outdoor affair. The file where we saved our plans is long gone, but miraculously, I had also uploaded all the photos I had chosen to my website. Even more miraculously, that website still exists and I still remember my password to log in and grab the files. So, I present to you, the wedding of Miss Fondue, as imagined at the tender age of 16. Read more…
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A few months ago, I was reading an article or blog that suggested wearing your mom’s wedding dress to your rehearsal. This got me thinking. My parents eloped in the summer of 1974. Mama Fondue didn’t have a traditional wedding dress, but did purchase a new outfit for the occasion, as shown in the one and only picture taken on their wedding day:
Sure, I could call all our guests or even email them to get them to cough up where they live. But then I’m stuck with having addresses scattered throughout my email inbox or, worse, scattered on random sheets of paper throughout my house, until I one day decide to get organized and enter them into a spreadsheet. By that point in time, I’ve probably misplaced 10% of them.
However, thanks to the ever-useful Google Documents, there is a fairly quick and easy way to get addresses all in one place. If you’ve ever used Google Spreadsheets, you might have noticed the “Form” menu. Here you can click on “Create a Form” and in minutes have a basic form you can send out to your guests to get their address information. You can even choose which fields are required and which are optional, to make sure no one skips the important stuff.
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When we started planning, Mr. Fondue said he wanted two things: eight best men and a full bar. We’ve compromised a little on the bar due to budget constraints, but he definitely got his eight best men.
But he’s also had lots of input besides these two items. You may recall that he picked the flowers. He’s had lots of opinions on traditions. There was a lot of back and forth with our table names. He was involved in our music choices. He’s been in charge of contacting our venue (he’s spoken with them many times, I have only twice). And I think he’s more worried about having glassware than I am.
He gives me an honest opinion on every DIY project I come up with. He’s insanely proud of our invitations and shows them off to everyone. He thinks the coasters are silly. He completely vetoed the idea of personalized “Do Not Disturb” signs to put in our hotel welcome bags.
Some brides might find this annoying. Some might want to just be able to do whatever they want to carry out their dream wedding.
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Confession: Mr. Fondue and I are both music snobs. One of the reasons we actually started talking and dating was because we had a love for similar bands. What we consider our first date was a concert (A Perfect Circle). That’s not to say we agree on all music, however, which can produce some mild bickering in the Fondue household (like, he’s not allowed to listen to Dave Matthews if I can’t listen to Jewel), but, for the most part, our tastes run pretty close.
So one of the things we were really looking forward to was picking songs for our reception play list. We knew our do-not-play list would be extensive, so we made sure to find a DJ we trusted to follow it. We are also giving him a list of bands/artists that are definitely okay to play, and hopefully between the two, he’ll be able to discern our tastes.
Unfortunately, a lot of our favorite bands are not wedding/dance friendly (sorry, Trent, Maynard, Thom, and Roger). We also like a lot of electronic music, but didn’t want to alienate our non-techno-loving guests. However, we did manage to come up with a decently sized list of songs that we thought would be good to hear at some point during the night and that the majority of our guests would enjoy. So, without further ado, our reception play lists:
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Okay, maybe not quite like that! Of course, I’m referring to the technique to tie a chair sash, as shown on BBJ Linen’s website.
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Everyone in the family pitched in to help. Mr. Fondue helped with usher duties. Their other brother was the DJ/MC at the reception. And me? I was photographer/day-of-coordinator.
I will preface this by saying I am, in no way, a photographer. I am an admirer of photography, but that’s it. I’ve had no formal training, and I don’t even own anything other than a little Canon point-and-shoot. So, when they asked me to be their photographer, I was more than a little apprehensive. Especially since it was to be in a church, and churches are notorious for bad lighting. I was freaking out up until the wedding, though Mr. Fondue did his best to calm me down by reminding me that no one else in the family even owned a camera, so without me, they wouldn’t have any pictures. (No pressure.)
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I’m referring to the new addition to our venue at the entrance to our ceremony area that appeared after we booked. This thing:
Source: Kate Crafton
One would think that it would be the perfect thing to decorate with bunches and bunches of flowers. Except I’m not a flower person. At all.
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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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