Weddingbee

Our foodiemoon began every day with a wonderful breakfast from the Brownstone Inn Bed & Breakfast just two miles from the heart of downtown. The inn was such a wonderful choice by Mr. Pineapple. I loved staying at the Brownstone Inn because for the most part, a beautiful hotel is still just a hotel and often they lack charm and character. There was definitely no lack of character here.
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When people asked us where we were going for our honeymoon, we would tell them Cleveland, and we mostly got looks that were a combination of confusion and pity in return. Pittsburghers are not known for loving Cleveland. In fact, because of ye old football rivalry, we are supposed to despise Cleveland. Sorry fellow ’burghers, we loved it!
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copyright: Mary Mervis Photography

During my senior year of college an amazing thing happened. A dirty, lovely “rockin’ country saloon” opened on the South Side of Pittsburgh called Saddle Ridge. I was already known as “the designer who loved to line dance” at Carnegie Mellon (it’s not that popular for city chicks—go figure), when one of my photography professors suggested I do a series of photos at Saddle Ridge. 1600 photos and six months later, I had revived my passion from high school and made some of the best friends a pseudo cowgirl could ask for. Saddle Ridge is where bridesmaid Christy and I spent Thursday-Saturday nights and where we met BFF Free-J Mike.

Mr. Pineapple does not share my passion for dancing in a line, but he is really good at hanging out by the bar, spectating, and keeping my water cup full. So with a few of my Saddle Ridge friends in attendance and running the music machine, there was definitely a lot of line dancing happening at our wedding. Sister Pineapple ran the family camcorder by setting it atop her table, so the video is not of great quality (hello booties in front of the lens), but I thought you might like to see a bride attempt to boot scoot in a huge gown.
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Budgets are sticky topics, but when I first started planning I wanted to know how much people spent on everything. I knew weddings were expensive but I had no idea why. So, if you want to throw a Pineapple wedding of your own, here is the post for you.

From the get go Mr. Pineapple and I wanted to throw the party of our lives, but we didn’t want it to keep us from actually being able to afford living. I was constantly worried about the bottom line, about spending more than we had, about regretting the cost of just one day. In the end Mr. Pineapple and I came in about $3,000 under our goal budget and I wouldn’t have changed a thing. Here is the breakdown of our wedding day (which excludes rehearsal dinner, hotel, and foodiemoon, partly because I don’t know how much we spent eating the last 5 days and maybe I don’t want to know.) Read more…

We’re back from our honeymoon (which turned out to be a foodiemoon) and we are hitched! Saturday was just simply amazing. Everything went perfectly, everyone was so generous, happy, and full of champagne and sugar. Already our wonderful photographers Tammy and Marella of Mary Mervis Photography have a slide show up for us! Here is just a little sneak peek:

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I cannot believe it is the day before our wedding. Although we were married in a small ceremony a month ago, nothing quite compares to the excitement I feel about tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day I finally get to vow my life, love and support to my best friend with our friends and family there to witness. Tomorrow is the day we get to celebrate our love with those we love.
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Yesterday I spent a couple hours wrapping the handles of the clay flowers Diane made. All of the ribbon I used I got on sale at Michael’s for $1. It was a cheap project, but really not all that easy. If I were to do it again, I would probably just pay Diane to do it for me.

I wrapped my bouquet using a scrap of copper satin. The rest of this satin will be used as a runner of sorts on the cake table.
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Remember these?

Well, I can’t even tell you how many hours I slaved over these coffee filter roses. Then we moved and the box was stored in a closet for a couple months. Yesterday I pulled out the box to mock-up the centerpiece and all the flowers were smashed. They are very light so they couldn’t have smashed each other. I don’t know how it happened, but it wasn’t good. I was able to salvage just barely enough for our centerpieces.
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A while back I asked the hive for suggestions on how to incorporate our herd of animals into the wedding. Many of you suggested doing something with the table numbers, so I did.

I purchased 2-sided frames from the dollar store and used my photo printer to create the images. On one side is just a photo of either Rooney, Harrison, Onyx or Zazu.

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When it came to the programs, I wanted to keep it simple, but still keep it in line with the rest of our paper goodies. We decided on a vertical half-sheet for the layout and to open with a little blurb about our first wedding, written by Mr. Pineapple:

“On September 20, 2008, we were married in a ceremony with only our parents in attendance. The ceremony was planned to ensure that our families, the people who have loved and supported us for entire lives, could see us commit the rest of our lives to each other as husband and wife. We are thankful to them for everything, including sharing that special moment with us. We are honored to have our friends and families here to join us as we celebrate our new life together.”

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