Weddingbee Blog

Maybe it’s just me being true to my hair color, but when I got my glorious birdcage veil in the mail I was a little befuddled as to how to wear it. Where should the comb go? Why is it sticking out so much!? Gahh!!!

After a little bit of experimenting, I think I’ve figured it out, and naturally I’d like to share the fruits of my labor with you all! Now, there are a million ways to wear a birdcage veil, which is one of the things I love about it, but this is my particular interpretation.

Here is Miss Powder Puff’s Official Guide to the Birdcage Veil:

1. Open the package and take out your veil. Most birdcage veils have a comb sewn in with the netting gathered around it. It will look like this:

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In years past, I, like every other young girl, had grandiose dreams of my wedding day. There will be flowers everywhere! A humongous poofy dress! Tiaras! Lobster and filet mignon! Tuxes!

Around the time I started getting serious with my college boyfriend (who is NOT the man I am marrying, thank goodness), I arrogantly attempted to prepare my father for my golden, nay, platinum dreams, since he would obviously be footing the bill for this shindig.

This exact conversation, believe it or not. took place around the time I was 20 years old.

Me: “Dad, I just want to prepare you for what my wedding is going to cost.”

Dad: “Ok…”

Me: “I’m expecting it to be around $100,000.”
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Well girls, I did it! After lots of bridal indecision, and a couple of phone calls to my stylist (aka Sister Powder Puff), I went ahead and ordered a birdcage veil. That’s right, no drop veil for me, I am birdcage all the way! I also did some crafting this weekend and made myself a pretty little feathery flower fascinator.

I ordered this beauty from Something Bold.

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Well y’all, the people have spoken. After I wrote about my money-saving tricks, I received a lot of interest in the baby’s breath centerpieces idea. And far be it from me to deny the people what they want!

Here’s the wedding that I used as inspiration for our reception flowers. Now, we aren’t going all out on baby’s breath like this bride did (we’re using other types of flowers for the bouquets), but her wedding is nonetheless absolutely GORGEOUS!

All the images are from the fabulous Sedona Bride.

Jennifer and Josh were married back in May in Sedona, Arizona. Jennifer works as an event coordinator, so, as you can imagine, her wedding was styled from head to toe. Literally.

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The other evening I was flipping through channels, and came across the newest WE TV wedding show, “My Fair Wedding.” Has anyone else seen this show?

The basic premise is style-impaired brides whose weddings get totally overhauled by a wedding planner. Seriously, WE and their wedding shows never disappoint!

Doesn’t he look saucy?

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Bridal Guilt, that is.

Ever since becoming engaged, I have begun to experience the distinct feeling that me getting married is putting people out in some way or another. I know that this is just a carry-over from my personal issues with people doing things for me, but I feel a twinge of guilt every time I think about what others are sacrificing for my wedding.
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This weekend I did something dreadful. Yes, that’s right folks, I sat down with my mother and we went over the wedding budget - dum dum dum!

It was actually a very productive two hours. After adding up what we’ve already spent, and estimating what we will be spending on things we’ve yet to book, I was shocked at the total! Peeps, we have spent a little over $9,000 of our $10,000 budget- EGADS!
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I found my dress back in July (in spite of my mom’s insistence that you can’t find your dress on the first day of shopping)!

Now, dress shopping was not the agonizing experience that I thought it would be. I was pretty much open to trying on whatever, since I had a pretty broad idea of what I liked and what I didn’t like. Sequins? Sure! Lace? Yes, please! Strapless? Bring it on!

I browsed through the racks with my mom, sister and friend, and we picked out dresses that we liked for me to try on.

Here are some photos from the day.

Mr. Powder Puff, kindly navigate your tokus away from this page if you would like to be at all surprised on our wedding day.

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In the beginning, freshly engaged, I was staunchly anti-save the date. “Why on earth would we need save the dates?!” I wondered to myself. “Basically everyone we’re inviting lives in town. Bah humbug on save the dates!”Well, bah humbug on myself more like it! The more I thought about it, and the more people we added to the guest list, the more I realized that I wanted, nay, NEEDED save the dates. Especially when most of Mr. Powder Puff’s friends live out of state- yikes!

The decision to include save the dates added another level of planning onto my plate, especially since we have very little wiggle room in our budget. So first and foremost, they needed to be cheap. But I didn’t want to sacrifice style either!

Enter Hazel Mail- a fabulous Web site that allows you to design and send your very own adorable postcards for $1.50 each, which includes postage! This is not an email postcard. Oh no, my friend, this is actual, paper postcards, which happen to be pure awesomeness! I want to convey a very relaxed, casual, laid-back feel for our wedding, and what better way to do that than a cute Michigan postcard?
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I have to say, unlike most girls, I had absolutely NO CLUE that an engagement was near. Now, don’t get me wrong, Mr. Powder Puff and I had definitely discussed marriage, but he had me so convinced that he wasn’t going to propose for a good long time that I was completely surprised by it when it happened!

In May I went on a short family vacation to Disney World (which was AWESOME by the way!), and I asked Mr. Powder Puff to pick me up from the airport. Now, before I go any further, I have to say that I was looking snaaazzzyyyy. I had just flown for a couple of hours, I was wearing my glasses, no makeup, jeans with a giant hole in them, and a sweatshirt. Wow.

Once we got home, I jumped on the computer to catch up on the latest episode of “The Office” (my fav!) when my phone started vibrating. I had called a girlfriend of mine earlier in the evening, so I thought she was simply returning my call. To my surprise, it was a text message from Mr. Powder Puff, who was in the other room.
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So, before I dive into wedding details, I should probably set the scene a little for you all and tell you how the lovey Mr. Powder Puff and I came to be.

Well, back in 2006 I had been dating a string of guys that were, how should I put this, not the nicest guys in the world. After Christmas I had become so fed up with being let down that I decided to try something new. Enter the world of online dating. My mom had been talking to me about online dating for quite some time, and I thought, what the heck! So I created a snazzy little profile for myself and let the magic happen. I emailed back and forth with a couple of guys for a while and went on a few dates with another, but no one really caught my eye.

At the end of February, I was about to cancel my account when I got an email from a guy who really sparked my interest. He seemed cute, funny and really sweet. We wrote back and forth for a couple of weeks, and finally decided to meet. As the date grew closer and closer, I started to freak out. “What if he’s not all that great?” I said to myself. “Do I really want to venture out into the snow for some guy who’s going to be as blah as the others?” This internal dialog went on for some time, until I was worked up into a nervous frenzy and canceled the date! Mr. Powder Puff was so sweet (I told him I thought I had the flu), and told me to have some soup and feel better.
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I’m Miss Powder Puff, and I’m thrilled to be the newest bee to buzz around the hive!

Here’s a little info about myself. I’m a Michigan transplant living in Chicago, but planning a wedding back home. Sounds great, right? Well here’s the kicker—Mr. Powder Puff and I are planning our wedding for only $10,000!

We decided on that budget for a couple of reasons. First of all, we feel very strongly that the wedding industry has turned something that is about promising to spend your life with your best friend into, well, something else. Tune into shows like “Platinum Weddings” (on the WE network), and you’ll see what I mean. Amongst all the signature cocktails and gilded wedding cakes, they’ve lost the original, sacred meaning of the ceremony itself (my apologies if any of you enjoy these types of events. They are merely not my style). So Mr. Powder Puff and I decided to keep our budget small for the sake of keeping our wedding sane. We want to focus on the day rather than stress over a million details.

Second of all, we are saving for a down payment on a house.
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