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The name’s Ticket. MRS. Ticket.

I’m back!!! The wedding was amazing and wonderful, and I would be lying if I said it was perfect, because nothing in life is ever completely perfect. But it was certainly one of the best days of my life (the day Mr. Ticket proposed is still high on my list, as is just about every day of our honeymoon). Luckily I was pretty much the only one to notice the hiccups we did encounter and for the most part I managed to just go with the flow and let everything roll off my back.

The family drama llama managed to keep its cool (hallelujah!) and everything turned out even better than I had imagined. After dreaming everything up in my head for so long, I started to freak out the week before the wedding as to how it would all actually pan out. Well, there was no need for worry, between the team of expert vendors, AMAZING family members, and a truly spectacular bee (looking at you Mrs. Parasol), the wedding went off without a hitch and looked incredible.
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Tonight is my last night as a single woman. As I sit on a bed surrounded by the most wonderful bridesmaids anyone could ever hope for, preparing to marry the love of my life tomorrow, I can’t help but think how incredibly blessed I am.

Hive: It has been such a pleasure and a privilege to share all the details of wedding planning with you. Thank you so much for all of your advice, stories and well wishes. I can’t wait to share the next part of our journey with you.

Bees: I can quite honestly say that you are some if the most amazing women I have ever had the honor of getting to know. You have helped shape our wedding into something special and entirely our own and I love you all for that.

Date triplets: Can you believe it’s finally here? I love that I get to share such an awesome day with such fantastic ladies. Hope your day is as MAGICal and wonderful as you dreamed of, and I can’t wait to see you on the other side.
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In one of my early posts I mentioned that Mr. Ticket and I met playing World of Warcraft. For those of you that need a refresher… I alluded to the fact that there would be at least one treasure commemorating this little detail of how our love story began and it’s finally here! Seriously, I’m just beyond stoked. I’m sure that this will seem cheesy to some of you; heck, Mr. Ticket kind of laughed at me a little when I showed it to him, but I love it!

I showed you a while back that our kids’ buckets will include VIP tags with a semi-Disneyfied drawing of Mr. Ticket and me. In keeping with the theme of drawn Tickets I sought out the assistance of friends. Well… brother-in-law of a friend… whatever…he’s awesome. So without further ado…

WOW Versions of Mr. and Miss Ticket by Michael Rodriguez

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I would like to give a fair warning out to brides nearing their wedding day. It’s easy to put things off and plan to do them later. I think some of us assume that if it comes down to it and we run out of time, we can always throw money at the problem and let someone else do things for us.

I am here to tell you that I recently learned a difficult lesson…

Attempting to throw money at a problem does not always work!

I had originally planned to design guest book pages myself, then print them out and leave them on a table with place cards for people to fill out. However, I have been unable to replicate the awesomeness that others have created. After enough failed attempts, I started avoiding guest books in general.

Image via Weddingbee / Posted by michellybelly124

Honestly, I think I avoided working on a guest book for so long that I actually just forgot about it…
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Let’s be real for a moment here. Family drama exists, and more often than not it rears its ugly head around family functions…like a wedding. A wedding you may just have happened to spend the last 11+ months planning. A wedding you may or may not have just spent thousands of dollars on. A wedding you possibly want to be one of the happiest days of your life and the last thing on EARTH you want to deal with is FAMILY DRAMA!

My own personal little ball of family drama decided to drop yesterday afternoon. A certain someone was recently…indisposed, but found themselves released from prior constraints yesterday and has announced they will be attending our wedding…yay? Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I did in fact send this person an invitation (ONLY at the vehement request of my dearly beloved aunt). However, when I sent this invitation there was NO question in my mind as to this person actually attending. As far as I was concerned, unicorns would be making a flight to Pluto, the once epic planet, and CNN would be airing the live coverage prior to this person actually coming to the wedding.

Well Unicorns… your big day is here!

Horrible Paint Art by Miss Ticket

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I would like to take a moment to share the awesomeness that was a productive Tuesday with you all. Lately with a still overflowing to do list, it isn’t often I feel very accomplished. But yesterday gave me a little glimmer of hope.

Mr. Ticket and I finished our final pre-marriage counseling session (the week before our wedding; talk about cutting it close!) and with our marriage license in hand we are so ready for next week! Mr. Ticket tried on his suit and officially learned how to tie a tie (side note: my man looks GOOD in a suit).

Then a few little last minute projects…

Programs

I’ve known for a while that I wanted to have programs, but I just kept putting it off because I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to put in them. With the wedding next week and no one else offering to design the darn things for me, I sat my butt down and started/finished them.

I was inspired by the fan concept. Our wedding day is looking to be in the low to mid 80s (fingers crossed) which is suitable weather in the shade, but a fan and a water bottle would certainly improve things for our guests.

Image via Weddingbee/ Posted by Sievequeen

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Remember back when I mentioned painting our cake stand? Well, I did get it back eventually, and here’s the proof!

Side view

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So there is one project that I alluded to and I’ve been stupidly excited about. It involves our flower baby. In case you forgot how cute she is, here’s a brief reminder.

Seeing as how she will only be 14 months old for our wedding and she’s still a touch wobbly when she walks long distances, we wanted to give her some help getting down the aisle. So we bought this…

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The instant I saw this on wedding blogs I fell in love with it. As I believe I may have mentioned before, my favorite parts of wedding planning are the things you get to keep after the wedding. So the concept of having all your nearest and dearest write notes for you to open on each anniversary is FANTASTIC in my book. While I find the pre-made boxes from Happily Ever AfterWords to be quite lovely, I didn’t particularly want to spend $50 on this little project. So I set to work on how to do it for less. I scoured Etsy for cute little boxes, but found it would cost me just as much if not more to go that route. So I asked Mr. Ticket if he would mind making our box out of scrap wood from work, and he said sure. Score!

Next up was the note cards. This was the fun part. There were SO many amazing options.

Image via Wedding Paper Divas

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Sorry for the light posting as of late. While I still haven’t managed to track down my half-way decent camera I figured a few cell phone pictures were better than nothing for a couple of posts, so here goes nothing.

Mr. Ticket asked for very few things throughout this wedding process. He doesn’t tend to get overly-excited about the details. He did like the food/cake tastings and I know he’s pretty stoked about the cookie table. Then, every once in a while, he throws me a curve ball…

We will be stocking our own wedding bar and hiring a bartender to save some $$$. First we asked our caterer what it would cost to rent glasses from them (our catering contract includes all dishes/server ware rentals) and when he informed us it would cost upwards of $0.75 per glass for rentals we decided to just pick up a few packs of plastic cups from Sam’s Club. Then one day I stumbled upon…

Image via Ruffled / Photographed by Wildflowers Photography

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Less than a month. Even as I type it part of me can’t believe it. There were periods of time where this engagement felt like an ETERNITY…where all I want to do is just be married to Mr. Ticket already and not hear one more person ask me, “Are you excited yet?!” or, “Well, you should be all done planning now, right?” (You’ve got to be kidding me with that last one folks.) Yet here we are: the Ticket wedding is less than one month away. I’ve basically been running around like a crazy lady for the last month as is. If general life stuff, work, and helping Mr. Ticket move into our future home wasn’t enough to deal with, we are in crunch time in regards to wedding planning. I’ve been baking cookies, designing the menu, working on the OOT bags, buying materials for our photo booth, printing and cutting, and generally just trying to stay sane while accomplishing more than I have ever attempted before in my life. Getting a college degree was a cake walk compared to wedding planning.

I’m happy to say it’s not all stressful though, as there are certainly some fun moments in there, too.
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RSVP #s Are In! Well, mostly. Here’s a basic breakdown for you.

• Total Invited Guests: 102

Formal RSVP Received by Deadline: 62 (61%)

• Yes: 50
• No: 12

Phone In/ In Person/Tracked Down After Deadline RSVPs: 14 (14%)

• Yes: 10
• No: 4

Still Missing RSVPs/Haven’t Been Able to Track Down: 26 (25%)

• Total Yes: 60
• Total No: 16

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It’s getting closer and closer to the wedding and I realized I haven’t even mentioned what our bridal party will be donning for the affair. Fairly early on in the wedding planning process, I decided I wanted my girls to wear short black dresses; somewhat similar to Mrs. Avocado’s girls.

Via Mrs. Avocado on Weddingbee

I have been in several weddings, and generally speaking, the dresses are frightening (I’ve got some pictures of flower girl dresses I wore as a child that make Ronald McDonald look fashionable) and most certainly will never be worn again. Let’s just say Miss Ticket does not look good in yellow…
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Let’s talk about presents!!! Oh wait…first things first.

Image via Zap2It / From the NBC show Up All Night / Lame editing by Miss Ticket

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How did I find Weddingbee?

Google. Isn’t that how everyone finds everything these days? The day Mr. Ticket proposed I was already on the web searching “wedding.” I spent a couple days exhausting every photograph on TheKnot and WeddingChannel for inspiration. Then I found Weddingbee. When I first stumbled upon the site I found Mrs. Hamster; I’m not even sure how that happened since she finished her last post prior to Mr. Ticket’s proposal. But I LOVED reading her backlog of blogs. I read through her entire story in one night and then I moved on to other current bees. I was totally hooked. I had no idea how women came to write for this site. After a few weeks of regularly checking in on newly posted blogs I finally saw the little “Apply to Blog” option on the side of the page. I was stoked. I had never really blogged before but I loved hive so much  that I desperately wanted to write for it.

My Application Story

Pre-Application:
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