Weddingbee Blog

Sorry it has taken so long, but I hope you all are ready for this.

Here are a few teasers from our AMAZINGLY fantastic photographer, Amanda from Blueberry Photography:

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I am done. The wedding is over*, the marriage license was signed, toasts were made, the cake has been cut, but the Peeps still have a party to plan.

As I said before, Mama and Papa Peep are throwing a hometown reception for all of our Southern California loved ones. Up until now, Mama Peep has been graciously planning this shindig, but during a bout of post-wedding energy, I asked Mama Peep what I could do to help.

My task: inspiration pictures for the centerpieces to provide the florist. It sounded fun and exciting on the phone, but now, now I am totally uninspired.

So hive, I need you to point me in the right direction. Help me give Mama Peep some super fabulous post-wedding reception centerpiece inspiration.

Here’s what we’ve got so far: A causal, beach-side family and friends reception.

The invitations:

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Hey hive, the Peeps are back (do you remember us?). And surprise, surprise, we are married! Woo hooo! The wedding was an amazing experience, and I still have to remind myself that it happened and that I am a MRS!!! Someone pinch me! If it didn’t say Mrs. Peep Toe above, I almost wouldn’t believe it!!

I don’t like a bragger, but peeps (by peeps, I mean guests) have been describing the wedding with one word—perfect!! And while I know of a couple (dozen) imperfections here and there, it was a perfect day.

After the big event we spent almost two weeks on an amazing adventure honeymoon in Panama. Again, the word perfect could be used to describe our trip, evidenced here by a sneak peek photo taken from our over-water bungalow (even our family hasn’t seen any pics yet):

Unfortunately, upon returning from our trip we were thrust right back into a very bad reality.
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From 530 to ZERO.

That’s how long we’ve been planning this day!

Mr. Peep, I’ve loved you more each day!!

And today—today, I get to make you my husband!! You’re the love of my life and I can’t WAIT to continue this crazy journey with you next to me. I can’t believe that I get to hold your hand ’til it’s wrinkled and your hair has turned gray. You mean the world to me. You have my heart, so hold onto it tight! OR else! Hee hee.

To the hive: Finally, it is our day!!
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Before I say, “I Do,” I am going to show you one last DIY project: our escort cards.

I had to wait until I knew who was coming and what each guest wanted to eat before I could start this project. Green is for the guests eating beef, and pink is for the guests eating fish. I printed out both the names on the front, and the inside directs guests where to sit:
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I talked about the frazzled mess that I was last week, but we finally had a moment of clarity, and all I can say is that the stress has melted away. From here on out, if it gets done—great. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter because our marriage is legit. That is, we have a marriage license.

Last week we headed over to San Francisco City Hall:

Isn’t it gorgeous!? No wonder so many couples get married here. While we were there, we saw four couples getting married!!
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So, the Peeps have been ordering and receiving a lot of fun things in the mail. Some that I’ve shared with you, and others that, well, I am just sharing with you now.

First up, Mr. Peeps’ and Papa Peeps’ wedding gifts. I ordered them both from Red Envelope because I found a 20% coupon online. They are the perfect wedding day gift:

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Back in November I bought what I thought would be the perfect wraps for the ladies. I was so excited about them, I even bought one for myself to go with my dress.

Here’s the problem—the one I bought to go with my dress is all sorts of wrong. While the wraps are freakin’ gorgeous, they all have a vintage appeal to them. And well, there is nothing vintage about our eco-chic, modern city wedding. I was in denial until Mama Peep suggested just getting simple pashminas for the ladies.

Of course, I couldn’t do simple. I wanted to make them eco-friendly. Finding eco-friendly wraps that were somewhat affordable was relatively easy. Enter: Nimli. I was able to order 6 pashminas—4 for the girls, one for me to go with my rehearsal dinner dress, and one for Mama Peep for under $200 (using a 20% off discount code online, of course).

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You are probably wondering how crazy I must be to constantly be talking about the ups and downs of wedding planning.

But yesterday, Mr. Peep and I found out that our honeymoon is a real pain! Before we could jet off on our fantastic honeymoon to Panama, we needed shots!!!

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While at my annual check-up a few weeks ago, not only did I have to get a Tetanus shot, but I found out that our health care provider also suggested us to get Hepatitis A shots and Typhoid shots.

So yesterday, we took a shot in the arm for love, and a safe and happy honeymoon.
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… to the list of wedding music!!! SSSSSS— AAAAAA— FFFFFFF— EEEEEE— TTTTTTT— YYYYYY— SAFETY DANCE!

This was the email that I got from Mr. Peep today. And I have to admit—this song wouldn’t be on my list!! But I am totally OK with that! I am just excited that Mr. Peep is excited to bust a move on the dance floor!

Here’s the thing: up until a wedding last June, I could NEVER get Mr. Peep on the dance floor. It almost made me want to break up with him at his cousin’s wedding. Seriously, this Peep likes to bust a move (like the white girl I am) whenever I get the chance. I couldn’t marry someone who didn’t dance.

Enter DJ David.
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Like Miss Cheese (yet a lot less eloquently), I want to provide a good representation of what the final countdown feels like in the Peep household.

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One word: Frazzled.
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As I said on Monday, I have a bunch of projects that I haven’t shared with the hive yet, and I am trying to get them all up before the wedding. This project was supposed to be makeup bags for my ladies, but I wanted to spice them up. After some trial and error on my part, the project turned into this:

Clutches for my ladies!!!

Here’s my best shot at a sewing tutorial. I’ve never written up a sewing project like this before, so I am going to try my very best to be specific, but I just really sew by trial and error, and I don’t know all of the technical terms for things.
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I have already blogged about shoes before—here, here, and here!! I even asked the hive for advice, and totally ignored all if it. (Sorry, I’m a bad bee.)

But today is a glorious day—Miss PEEP TOE finally has shoes to wear to her wedding!!! Before, I showcase my perfect pair of peeps, I thought I’d write a little bit about my experience with online ordering.*

First, Endless.com. I love the idea of Endless—free shipping both ways = fantastic-ness!! But I ordered three pairs of shoes through them, and two of them were pretty damaged. Right out of the box, they both looked second hand. Not good. The other was just not right. All three were quickly returned—FOR FREE.

These two were damaged:

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Since almost all of our guests are from out of town, we need some serious Out of Town (OOT) Bags. While I was watching my pennies spent on the OOT bags, I still wanted to make sure we put a little bit of SF and a little bit of ourselves into the bags.

First up, the perfect bag:

From the Target $1 bin, they’re reusable and the perfect size. Run, don’t walk to your nearest Target to get your own. They also come in blue and tan.

As for what to put in the bag, some of the Peeps’ favorite things, of course:
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So I lied to the hive on Friday. I said that I’d have a weekend full of last-minute wedding stuff, but in actuality, I did nothing wedding related (unless you call going to the gym and treating myself to a mani/pedi wedding related)! Which, in a sense, it was—I think I have learned how to justify just about anything as wedding related.

While I don’t have much to show for my weekend, I do feel VERY refreshed today, and finally feel ready to tackle some of the projects that I should have posted about ages ago.

First up, I showed you our invitations, but I never showed you the full package. One of the things I really wanted was brown envelopes—and boy, did I get them. Finding brown, square, eco-friendly envelopes was a challenge. Fortunately, we found them—and paid a pretty penny for them. Unfortunately, I don’t have the name of the envelope company anymore (sorry guys). I will say that getting brown envelopes over cream ones ended up being an unexpected wedding splurge and catastrophe, all in one.

Since calligraphy was never in the budget, I thought I could easily print them out on our handy-dandy color printer. When I went to print our envelopes, I constantly got this message:

ERROR!!!
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