Wedding Blog

For a bright and bold color-lovin’ gal such as myself (look for me, I’m the only person in New York City not wearing a black coat), there’s just no beating Greece! Everywhere we turned, there was one fabulous array of dazzling color after another. I was in heaven, and wondering why we don’t decorate like this here in the United States!

Hey there, everyone! We’re baaaaaack!

First off, let me say that I missed you all. So much. I checked into Weddingbee every few days during our honeymoon (all the way from Greece!), but refused to let myself comment on anything or post. You know, just to avoid addict status… oh, who am I kidding? Checking into Weddingbee from my honeymoon officially made me an addict, but…

Hello, Hive! MRS. Star here, reporting live from the other side!

I wanted to share a few quick teasers with you before we jet off to Greece for two weeks on Friday (yay!). I really need the assistance of some gorgeous pictures to tell this story, since words alone simply won’t do.

Before Sunday, I was really worried that, because all of the normal hype of wedding…

It all started two long years ago in a little dinner theater in Boston:

In that moment I felt many of the same feelings that I do now: chills of excitement, nervous butterflies, the warm flush of pure joy, and a thrilled hope for the future.

Yep, we’re procrastinators. But Mr. Star and I got up really early a few days ago to get to the NYC Marriage Bureau when they opened so that we could be legally ready to marry!

It was a shockingly short visit, probably 20 minutes or less. We basically just had to give our contact info, parents’ birthplaces, show our IDs, charge some moolah on my credit…

Card boxes were never one of those fun, crafty details that I daydreamed about. Let’s be frank here, people. It could have just been a big box. But that wouldn’t have been ambitious (read: crazy) enough for Miss Star. No, no, no…

My wonderful DOC, Danielle, asked me a couple of weeks ago what I had planned for a card box. Nothing, was my initial answer.…

I realized a few weeks back (after reading Mrs. Swan’s awesome post about the challenges and perks of being a bride later in life) that I’ve done a lot of focusing on the negative aspects of being a young-ish bride and haven’t really talked about all the wonderful parts about finding your partner at a young age. I guess it’s often more emotionally pressing to write…

I posted a few weeks back about a dilemma I was facing in regards to our ceremony: how to honor the fact that our gay friends are not allowed to marry and make it clear that we have not forgotten them in their struggle for equality, while not riling up our more conservative guests to the point that they want to walk out.

I wanted to…

I remember way back when Mr. Star and I were trying to figure out how to cut our guest list to a reasonable size -- about a year ago now! -- what a tough time we had figuring out exactly how many people we could invite and what the chances were that we would end up with the number of people attending that we were aiming for. We wanted between 80 and 90 guests to celebrate with us on the big day, but didn’t know what that translated to in terms of how many people we could invite!

One of the other little DIY projects that I really had my heart set on getting done was the idea of having wedding wands for our parade.

I love how festive they look, and guests always look like they’re having fun in pictures with wedding wands in them!

You may or may not remember one of my very first posts way back when about my little sister (the flower girl) and my littlest sister (the honorary flower girl).

I just thought I’d give you an update on how my little ladies’ looks are progressing! We took them to the tailor earlier this week to get their dresses altered to fit them perfectly.

My little sister…

Like many other brides before me, I just love the look of a sparkler send-off. I love the drama (of course!), and it makes for such a perfect end to a classy, city light-filled wedding.

So I bought some sparklers off of eBay. But they looked pretty drab, in all their gray loveliness, so I made cutesy little tags to accompany them:

We are officially less than two weeks until the wedding and I am furiously turning out polka-dotted craft projects (you may have noticed that I’m hardly ever on the boards anymore — things are heating up around here!)!

The other night I took some vases I found at the dollar store, some ribbon I already had from other projects, and some leftover invitation cardstock and made:

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This has definitely been the hardest young-ish bride post for me to write because it’s not something that I usually like to admit to. Well, not to anyone except Mr. Star.

Many times during this nearly two-year process of engagement, I’ve gotten nervous or stressed or anxious or scared about [insert ridiculous wedding detail / legitimate marriage anxiety / partially unresolved divorced parents issue here].

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With the final alterations on my dress complete, the only thing left to figure out was the bustle. With all of the horror stories I’ve heard about with bustles that don’t turn out so great or brides getting into arguments with seamstresses over the "correct" bustle for each dress, I was nervous about getting mine done. I mean, no one wants to be this upset about their wedding dress: