Mrs. Shortcake, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Manager/Children's Lit Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Master's Student/Personal Trainer
Engagement Date: August 7, 2007
Wedding Date: October 2008
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Venue: Ceremony in a historic church, tented lawn reception at a golf and country club
About Me: 1950's housewife sent to the future, reborn as crafting-obsessed, jill of all trades. I enjoy decorating, writing, baking sweet things, singing show tunes/dancing in public, wearing pearls, and knitting sweaters for my furbaby, Harvey, to chew upon. I heart pink, and believe that sparkles are the new black.
Calling all British Columbia Bees!
May 12th, 2008 @ 10:59 am by Mrs. Shortcake
If you’re like me, or many female Vancouverites between 15 and 50, there’s a good chance you have invested your paychecks heavily in lululemon yoga gear. Now, you can have a chance to win some of that moolah back!
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A Shortage of Shortcake
May 8th, 2008 @ 12:36 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
Because airfare from Winnipeg to Vancouver is ridiculously expensive nowadays, Mr. Shortcake and I have had to cut down our planned trips home before the wedding from six - to one. Because we’re only getting one trip before the wedding, EVERYTHING has to be done during those ten days. Does this sound stressful yet? Read on:
Miss Shortcake’s Itinerary:
see ceremony venue for the first time
meet minister, set time for rehearsal, go over ceremony outline
have all ceremony music picked out, time processional down aisle.
find areas around the church for post-ceremony pictures
premarital workshop through ceremony church
see reception venue for the first time
meet DOC for the first time, give her timeline
meet with linens coordinator, choose linens, make mock table
Ink It To Me, Baby! Uh huh!
May 6th, 2008 @ 1:45 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
Shortie DIYs: A Bouquet Worth Tossing
May 5th, 2008 @ 4:28 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
I love my bouquet. I haven’t seen it yet, but it exists in somewhere in the feathery, floaty, martha-polluted reaches of my mind. Because of my overwhelming love for my bouquet, I’m having a hard time reconciling myself to the idea of throwing it into the masses of single, ambitious, love-hungry ladies at my wedding.
Crazy ladies like ME.
I have been known to, at more than one wedding, so ferociously go after the bouquet that people ended up maimed. For ‘realz’ - at my first wedding (when I was twelve), I jumped up and elbowed two ladies in the face! (I don’t remember this, I kind of “black out” during bouquet tosses, only coming-to when I feel the bouquet handle lodged securely in my grip, feel the thrill of triumph running through my veins, and/or hear the angry mutters around me (”did you SEE her?”) 
I’m a wee bit competitive and prone to believing in wedding superstitions.
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Have SKU Gun, Will Travel
May 2nd, 2008 @ 2:55 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
Well, we finally did it!
We registered! Like Miss Hummingbird, we registered at Canada’s largest department store, the Hudson’s Bay Company. Unfortunately for us, there is no Macy’s, or Williams & Sonoma, or Crate and Barrel in Winnipeg, so we registered at the good ol’ Bay.
This didn’t phase Mr. Shortcake one bit, as he was already off and running with the sku gun:
“piuuu! - piuuuu!” What is it with FIs and scanners? Yeesh!
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Miss Marshmallow Meringue
May 1st, 2008 @ 5:00 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
NOTE TO SELF: Adjust hoop skirt size. 
Anyone else wearing a hoop skirt?
Tachy-Cardiac-CUPCAKES!
April 30th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
Who is this woman, and why am I not married to her??? SERIOUSLY.
Mistress Zalita of the Magical Kingdom of Cuppy-Cake has stolen my heart, and broken it into a thousand crystalline fragments. There’s nothing left.
My heart is racing like I’ve just met Johnny Depp and he just said something profoundly witty and intimate. Like, “hello.”
I can’t breathe.
…..I can’t liiiiiiiiivvvvvvve
if living is without youuuuuuu (Zalita)
I can’t giiiiivvvvve
I can’t give any mooooorrrre….
Turq-a-licious
April 29th, 2008 @ 3:05 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
He-llo, Lov-ah!
Have you seen Turq jewelry?
Splendiferous!
Check out my favorites from their bridal line, named after married lay-days:
Make-in-up Is Hard To Do
April 28th, 2008 @ 6:33 pm by Mrs. Shortcake
It may come as a shock, so you might want to sit down in preparation.
Miss Shortcake? The one with the pink wedding and huge sparkly dress?
Yeah, she’s a GIRLY-GIRL.
I KNOW. SHOCKING.
Despite my frou-frou-prissy-pants nature (least favorite child hood taunt? “I’m going to put [insert gross and messy something] on your dree-essss!”), my younger sister has me beat when it comes to overwhelming knowledge of makeup and hair.
I put on makeup, I do my hair, but Youngest Sister Shortcake?
She not only does both really well, but does it all the time, everyday, without fail. That takes talent, and a dedication that I do not have. And she’s pretty cool:
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Ding-Dong! Shortcake Calling!
April 27th, 2008 @ 11:05 am by Mrs. Shortcake
(from “I Enjoy Being a Girl” sung by the incomparable Peggy Lee):
