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Hey all!

Join me for some fun conversation as I make my Bee TV debut tomorrow evening at 7PM EST!

With a few months of newlywed-dom under my belt, I’ll definitely try to share some insights with you about life after the wedding. Also, I may even whip out some dancing, but I can’t make any promises. I’m excited to “see” you all tomorrow night!

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As I said before, my biggest piece of advice is to make sure that you have fun during your wedding.

I spent a lot of time looking like this during our reception:

You can’t always have great weather, and that was the case this summer in the Northeast. We got so much rain that we didn’t know what to do with it all. That was most definitely the case during our final days in Newport.

So what’s there to do in Newport on a rainy day? Tennis, anyone?

Mr. Swan and I took a trip to the International Tennis…

As you can see from my last post, we spent a lot of time on boats our first couple of days in Newport; however, Newport has other places to experience that don’t require a life vest or cause seasickness. I’ll show you a few that the Mr. and I had a chance to see.

One thing that I failed to mention before was that SIL and…

I thought that while we’re waiting for my pro pics from Dante Williams that I would share our minimoon to Newport, Rhode Island.

As I mentioned before, I was not completely sold on the idea of Newport, but as I researched all that the area had to offer, I was pretty excited to get there. We packed a lot into about five days, and yet it…

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Yesterday I celebrated another birthday as the well as my first month as a newlywed. As one of the older bride bloggers in recent memory on Weddingbee, I figured that I would talk about being a slightly older bride. I’ve definitely appreciated Miss Star’s posts about being a younger bride (here, here, here, and here). Since I’ve got a couple years on her (okay, like,…

Well, my lovely dress is having a rest, and it has been sitting on the futon in our office for the almost four weeks that I have been married. Honestly, I don’t know what to do with it. I know that I need to get it cleaned, but what should my dress’ next life be?

There are obviously quite a few options for what I can do with my dress post-wedding:

When we last left me, your worried heroine, I was NOT at all happy with my hair situation.

I had a rough draft, I was not happy with the real run-through for a variety of reasons, and there I was, practically a week before the wedding, stressing about what to do with my hair. At this point, Mr. Swan stepped in. During the process he had…

Hey everybody!

I am really enjoying this Bee’s Life series, so I thought I would add my perspective.

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Let me say that I have always loved all things wedding. I used to occasionally buy wedding magazines and watched quite a few wedding TV shows like “Who’s Wedding Is It Anyway?”. This was years before meeting Mr. Swan. I didn’t know very much about wedding…

Remember how my first hair trial was more of a rough draft?

Well, I went back for a more formal hair trial that would allow me to see how the style would look on my actual wedding date. That meant that my hair needed to be washed, the roots re-twisted, and then styled. (By the way, I am sure that many of you can’t visualize what…

Okay, it’s actually a major one: my dress!

I decided not to blog about my dress before the wedding because I never know when Mr. Swan is lurking around here.

Since I’ve already shown you some of the other dresses I’ve tried on, I’ll just cut to the chase.

Here it is:

Hey, everybody!!

I am back and married. (By the way, props to anyone who gets the movie reference in the title of the post.)

Getting married is FUN, everyone! If I can give any words of advice to all of you in the latter stages of the planning process, it would be to for you to make sure that you have FUN on your wedding day. Period.…

I’m here writing my last blog post as a single woman, and all I can think about is being thankful. I have so much to be thankful for, and I really appreciate it all so much.

I first want to thank you, Weddingbee. I’ll tell you a secret now: I almost didn’t apply to be a bee. I blogged for months before even applying. I wasn’t…

With the preparations pretty much close to being done and things beginning to move closer towards the wedding, I feel like I’m in a bit of a holding pattern here. I don’t really feel like I can resume life as I know it just yet because I feel like I’ve got to put any extra energy I have towards finalizing the wedding planning. At the…

... but Mr. Swan can!!! :) As you all may notice from my posts I am not the DIY Queen around these parts; however, I discovered that Mr. Swan is pretty darn crafty!

We had this very, very basic thing we needed to get done that would technically require me to flex my crafty skills. Let’s just say that the project won, and I sulked back into my little corner.