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Dear Hive:How awful of me. I stopped posting back in April without so much as a proper goodbye (so this is it). But so much was going on. Since my wedding in March, I chopped off my long locks (yay!)…

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Here are some shots of our delish wedding cake, inspired by Mrs. Bell Pepper’s (if not altogether stolen really):

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To be frank, the connection between our candy table and our Monopoly theme went over some of our guests’ heads (I blame myself entirely for not coming up with a more clever sign for the table). Nevertheless, the candy itself wasn’t overlooked, and in my book, that made it a hit regardless.

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I’m not sure we were entirely successful pulling off our Monopoly theme…when I think of the elements now they seem to yes, come together in some way, though perhaps not as boldly as they could have. That is the balance anyone trying to work in a theme struggles with I suppose: making it cohesive while not overpowering. We tried to make the best of it though, and here’s how we made “it” happen. For one, with little houses, dutifully spray painted pink & green, resting atop our escort cards, with calligraphy by the amazing Betsy Dunlap:

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Ah, formal pictures: the cornerstone of wedding photography!

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This post is dedicated to Weddingbee reader beanchar, my sweet bean, who one fateful Bee TV broadcast night found me the hat of my dreams.

You see, I wanted a certain Mr. Monopoly vibe at the wedding. Someone even threw out the idea of a cane too, but even I knew to draw the line. But I was set on a top hat. Now groom Petunia was a no-go, but the 8 year old just couldn’t say no. And that’s how we ended up with a top hat-stylin’ ringbearer, here walking down the aisle with his arch-nemesis looking on (that would be the six year old in the light pink dress):

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The writer in each of us just sometimes goes missing. You want to piece together the most beautiful ceremony, but don’t know where to start. Don’t worry: we weren’t creative cats either. We were only able to do it with the help of Judith Johnson’s book, The Wedding Ceremony Planner, which I believe Miss Penguin too has referenced before.

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About the ceremony, here’s one of the things no one told me: that my legs would forget, the second I got to the end of the aisle and stood next to my groom, that their main purpose is to support you. I shook and trembled. I shook and trembled something bad. But the hands remembered what they do best, and Mr. Petunia offered his to me to hold. There was rarely a moment of the ceremony where we weren’t touching.

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I’m not trying to bore you with a thousand photos of the ceremony: I really am trying to pare it down to pictures that will show something somewhat helpful to other brides (and even so, I wasn’t successful enough to get them all in one post: my apologies). But here’s what I want to share. For starters, that there will be a moment right before walking down the aisle where you will be so happy/excited/nervous, you won’t realize, until you see the pictures, that your father looked at you this tenderly:

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And by PG I mean Pink & Green (content is completely rated G, for my Gorgeous friends & family!). I thought other pink & green brides would like to see these colors at work together, if for no other reason that I myself started to question, just a few days before the wedding mind you, whether the colors would result in a garish combo. Thank goodness not!

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And the ranunculus. And the peonies. Thought I would interrupt my chronological wedding recap posts to bring you some of the loveliest details from our wedding: the flowers. They’ll make appearances in future posts, but they deserve top billing once before. After all, I just about died and went to heaven when I saw my bouquet.

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If you’ve gone out of your way to purchase a card to accompany your groom’s gift, as I had done, ordering a letterpress one online, I recommend putting it on your remember to-pack-for-day-of list. I suppose there are more important things I could have left behind, like our rings, but forgetting the card at home meant I had to do a late-night CVS run on the eve of our wedding. It could have been worse. I got lucky and found one of those new musical ones that played “I Walk the Line,” and Mr. Petunia is a BIG Johny Cash fan:

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I still think the original idea for my something blue would have been super-cute, but there was no need for it in the end, since at my last fitting, my girl Tania at the bridal salon surprised me with these:

How sweet are these? Blue bustle buttons! I never would have thought of it myself!

I only wore my veil for the ceremony and our formal shots (where the wind kicked it around like a kite in flight, argh). I do wish though that I would have worn it longer. It’s like some mystical shroud you’d really only wear on the day of your wedding, and that alone seems to make it special.
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I can’t say enough how happy I was that I went with my gut feeling and bought a second dress, drama and all. I love that baby. Girls: take your time finding the gown you love! And if you can, choose someone near and dear to help you put it on. It wouldn’t have been the same getting dressed that day without my girl’s help:
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