Wedding Blog

Mr. Stiletto and I enjoyed the most fabulous wedding day EVER! I can’t wait to share more with you once we get the professional pictures back... I’m already dying to do recaps!

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with the lovely sneak peek posted by our photographer, Laurie Peacock:

Well, this is it. Finito. Done. My last post as a single gal. Wheeeeeeeeeee!

To Mr. S - I’m so incredibly excited to be your wife and continue on our journey together. You’re my best friend, and I know that I wouldn't even be writing this post today if it weren’t for your support and encouragement...

Like the many Bees who have gone before me (think Mrs. D’orsay and Mrs. Spring Roll), I have opted to make tissue paper pomanders to decorate our ceremony site!

I had been searching high and low for options that would look great, be non-fussy, and affordable. I started seeing these pomanders pop up on Weddingbee and on other sites, so when I came across these instructions…

The programs are done!!! Well, almost. But half the hurdle is deciding what you want to do, designing it, printing it, cutting the paper, and then putting it all together. As of right now, half of our programs are completely done, and the rest are ready to be assembled. Not too shabby, eh?

Mr. S and I were inspired by Mrs. Penguin’s programs for her Thai…

Whew! Time is winding down until the Stiletto festivities, so every D-I-Y must get D-O-N-E. Fortunately, I’ve been able to spend the past two weekends hunkered down in our condo getting some projects started and finished.

Remember when I shared the pictures Mr. S took for our table numbers? Well, I’ve finally been able to get the project completed!

We had 5″x7″ prints made of the pictures…

Whew! The Stilettos finally have their act together - we’ve chosen all of our special songs for the day, from ceremony to reception. I have to say, it wasn’t an easy task choosing some of these songs - Mr. S and I went back and forth quite a bit.

Bridal Party Entrance

“Just Like Heaven”, Vitamin String Quartet

Way back at the beginning of June, I dropped off my dress for alterations. This weekend, I went back in to visit my dress, check things out, and identify any other changes that might need to be made over the next two weeks.

They had sent it out for cleaning, taken up the hem just a bit, did the bustle, but had held off on adjusting…

No, not this kind of change, silly! Now that we’re finally nailing down the details and making decisions for the big day that is just two weeks away, we’ve up and changed so many details that we previously thought were set!

Head Table

I never thought we wouldn’t have a head table.

We went through a million ideas for our guestbook - from an adorable "wish tree" to a typewriter tell-all, to everything in between. We finally settled on the Polaroid guestbook. It incorporates Mr. S’s love of photography and it’s an interactive element with our guests.

Since we knew we wanted to do one of these:

In the early dark ages of my wedding planning, I found and fell in love with our great cake topper. Remember? I also developed the escort cards that will nestle into bed of wheatgrass at the reception, as you might recall.

However, one topic I haven’t touched on are our table numbers. How are our cake toppers involved in this topic, you ask? Well, I decided…

It’s been a long while since my fabulous wedding day shoes have made their way into a post! I’ve had them for months and months, and while I’ve cheated on them a few times with some other eye candy, they’re here to stay. I feel sex-ay when I slide these on!

They don’t match my dress at all (they’re more of a yellow-y ivory and my…

I’ve been watching our guest count grow and grow over the past couple of weeks. The jury is still out for about 10 of the 72 invites we sent out, but the RSVP deadline isn’t until this Friday. I think that’s a pretty good response rate so far!

We’ve had very few declines... 6 to be exact, in addition to the 5 invites we sent to some family members that we were pretty sure wouldn’t be making the trip, but we needed to send an invitation to.

On discovering the ‘bee…
I found Weddingbee before I got engaged, when I had a girlfriend who was looking for her wedding dress. We had already gone to various boutiques in Chicago, but she had hit a wall on finding “the one”. I was digging around online trying to find new places for us to visit, and I came across Weddingbee and a post by a…

Remember my lovely Part 1 where Sister Stiletto threw me a fabulous bridal shower? Well, once it was over, we skedaddled out of there, drove into the city to our suite at the Hard Rock Hotel, changed, and then hopped into a cab on our way to a mysterious destination.

Here we are, on our way...

A little while back I had posted about my hair inspirations in preparation for my hair trial. There’s so much great inspiration out there, but I was nervous that I’d pick out styles that my hair wouldn’t cooperate with, or that I wouldn’t end up liking.

I’d finally narrowed it down to this great style: