Wedding Blog

The printer I am using for our fauxtobooth is a Canon Selphy ES2. My parents bought it last spring to use at my grandmother’s 90th birthday party for a photo guestbook. Soon after the party, I claimed it so I could figure out the best way to make it work for our fauxtobooth.

Source: Canon USA

The printer is fairly intuitive to use. There’s a menu where…

One of the things I would really like to fit into the budget is a photobooth. Yes, it’s trendy. But I don’t care. It’s an awesome idea. And also a budget-buster.

Source: Party Booths

So for more than $1000 less, we are having a fauxtobooth. This is, essentially, a fake photobooth. People come up, dress up in whatever silly props they want, pose in front of the…

Cake is my favorite food, so you can imagine how giddy I was at the idea of a cake tasting. Last May, we started our hunt for the perfect cake designer. We went to a few tastings over a couple weeks (and I swear I meant to get pictures but got so excited about eating cake that I forgot my camera). Scheduling cake tastings was…

I’ve been married before. I was 20 years old. We did the whole wedding thing, and we were separated a little over a year later. So, when Mr. Fondue and I started talking marriage, I originally wanted to elope. I wanted to be married under a waterfall in Hawaii. Just us. No one else.

The problem was that Mr. Fondue hadn’t been married before and wanted…

Although we had originally decided to have a full open bar we are now leaning toward beer, wine, and one signature drink, for budget reasons.

Mr. Fondue was a bartender for several years, so I naturally turned to him for recommendations on what our drink should be. We decided it should be a red drink, since that’s our accent color. Mr. Fondue said he thought a…

Note to Mr. Fondue: Dress pictures ahead! Stay away!

I’ve shown you our urban shots, so now it’s time for some fun! All of these were taken at the Tennessee State Fair.

We changed into some more casual outfits, and I pulled my hair into pigtails. My make-up was still holding up (i.e., I hadn’t rubbed my eyebrows off yet).

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Hmm…I’ve already told you about my eyebrow issues and my cosplay hobby. You must be wondering, “How much weirder can Miss Fondue get?”

Let’s talk irrational fears.

Irrational Fear #1: Eyes
Specifically anything not normal about eyes. This includes touching them, seeing other people touch them, contact lenses that make eyes look unnatural, and, oh yeah, those people who can make their eyeballs pop out of their head.…

When we decided where we wanted to have our engagement photos taken, we knew we wanted somewhere fun. We love amusement parks, but there aren’t really any that close to here now that Opryland has turned into a shopping mall, so we decided to schedule our session during the state fair. However, I always loved the textures of urban shots, so one afternoon in September,…

Coming soon… our engagement photos!

Photo by Kate Crafton for Studio 5 Photographic Artists.

Note to Mr. Fondue: If you are on Weddingbee, please avert your eyes to another post lest you spoil my surprise!

I love buying gifts for Mr. Fondue. In 2004, when we started dating, I had bought his Christmas present by July. Of course, I couldn’t wait until December for him to have it, so I ended up giving it to him in October. Then I…

With the holidays approaching, we are starting to hear the questions we get every year. “Are you coming here for Thanksgiving?” “Whose turn is it for Christmas Eve?” “Where will you be Christmas Day?”

Mr. Fondue and I have been splitting holidays between our families since our second holiday season together. Typically, we go to one family for Thanksgiving and Christmas Day and the other gets…

Last time, I discussed the basics of tying a chair sash. This time, I’m going to show you how to do a more complicated tie (although it’s still fairly easy). This is the Obi on BBJ Linen’s website.

The Obi

First, as with the others, find the center of the sash and center it with the front of the chair back. For this one, then adjust it…

Note to Mr. Fondue: This contains photos of my half of the cake topper, so please look elsewhere if you happen to see this post.

One of the most exciting purchases for our wedding has been our cake topper. We were thrilled when we learned we could get a custom cake topper based off of our Mii avatars from our Nintendo Wii. A few different people…

One of my first wedding-related purchases was my garter. I bought a cute black and white set from Sheer Satin and Lace on eBay.

Here is the tossing garter. Look closely and you can see the double heart charm.

I liked the double hearts, but I thought the guys would like something a little more… Nintendo.