Weddingbee Blog

You may have noticed some orange envelopes in my invitation post. Well, they were our rehearsal invitations, of course! I know they aren’t absolutely necessary, but I also knew they would help avoid confusion since more than half of our bridal party are from out of town. Plus, I really wanted an excuse to order these…

Image via JPressDesigns on Etsy

Aren’t they awesome?! They are so similar to my original inspiration picture and the best part is…
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So I feel like I kind of left you hanging with the invitation posts. I started off telling you about my inspiration then I moved on to explaining the torturous design portion of the process, then I explained the assembly and send off. But I never actually did an official reveal of what our invitations looked like in the end. I would like to apologize for that. I had intended to write that post as soon as Mr. Ticket and I returned from our little mini vacation to Philly for his brothers wedding. But as we were en route home we received some very sad news: Mr. Ticket’s grandma passed away that morning. With this news and sending Mr. Ticket back to the East Coast for a few days I simply was not in the mood to write about our invitations. I wasn’t really in the mood to write about anything.

Life happens. It doesn’t stop just because you are planning a wedding—this was a harsh truth that really took hold of me that week. That being said I would like to report that the wedding in Philly was a complete success—Mr. Ticket and I had a total blast and the happy couple had a wonderful day.

Mr. Ticket sporting a spiffy Tux

And while we are still mourning the passing of his grandma, we are trying to honor her memory by continuing with the planning of our wedding. She had deeply wanted to attend and she would be pissed at us (she was a FEISTY grandma and I loved her for that) if we didn’t continue planning as usual. So without further ado…

Our Invitations!!!
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I’ve loved reading past bees’ posts in this series, so I thought I would join in on the fun.

1. When I play video games I require that my inventory be organized and I frequently log onto Mr. Ticket’s World of Warcraft account to reorganize his bags (I think I might be a tiny bit type A…)

Personal Screenshot from World of Warcraft

2. When I was 11 years old I was deeply in love with Zac Hanson (as in love as a person can be at age 11 having never met the other person).
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After most of the guests had left the bridal shower (and I was totally exhausted), Mr. Ticket decided to surprise me.

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Sister/MOH Ticket planned the bulk of Bridal Shower Socal and Mama Ticket helped (and provided our house for the shower). Sister/MOH Ticket decided to give us a shower with a Hawaiian theme since that’s where we are going on our honeymoon. There were leis, grass skirts around the tables, little umbrellas, plastic coconuts, and pink/orange flowers as far as the eye could see. They did such an awesome job decorating while Mr. Ticket and I went out to breakfast. (He decided to go to the movies and see Friends With Benefits in order to avoid the cackling of 24 women.)

This was the view when you walked in the door.

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The day before “Bridal Shower Socal,” I asked Mama Ticket if she and Sister/MOH Ticket had favors for the guests. She sounded puzzled and said no. I told her I would take care of it. She thought me a little odd, but agreed and went on her way. Later that day she called me back to inquire more about these favors—suddenly it had occured to her that recent showers she had been to had favors as well! She was very concerned over the fact that she had forgotten this and didn’t want me spending too much on my own shower. So Daddy Ticket kindly offered to pay for the goodies, and I put them together.

After trips to Dollar Tree to buy ribbon and little cello bags, Target (unsuccessful mission to find bags), Party City (Mission “Find Bags” = success!), and Michaels for a “Thank You” stamp, I was ready to acquire the goodies. I headed to Sam’s Club and picked up giant bags of M&Ms and Skittles, as well as a bucket of Ring Pops, then went home and set to work.

Personal photo

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My future family (FMIL Ticket hosted) was generous enough to throw me a bridal shower while Mr. Ticket and I visited in March. People commented that it seemed a bit early (eight months prior to the wedding), but it was the only time we would be in Pittsburgh before the wedding, and I was thrilled she was so generous as to think of such a thing.

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When choosing who would be in our bridal party, Mr. Ticket and I ultimately made the decision to have mismatched numbers. We chose those close to us who we love and wanted to stand beside us and, well, I had four girls and he had three guys. The little OCD monster inside of me struggled with this for a little while. I wanted things to be equal and balanced, but in the end I realized it was far more important for me to have my girls standing beside me than for things to be “balanced.” And we didn’t really want to find a random stand-in for Mr. Ticket just to make the sides even. Thus, UNBALANCED it is! And we like it that way. =)

Image via El Borak’s Myopia

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I once read a magazine article about brides in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. It mentioned the key differences in age groups, from style of dress to size of bridal party. I recall loving the style of the 30s bride’s wedding. It was a simple backyard-like affair and her dress was beautiful, but the part that captured my attention the most was her flower baby. Rather than a flower girl between the ages of three and seven, around the average, she had a flower baby that was roughly between one-and-a-half and two years old. She was the cutest thing I had ever seen in a bridal magazine! I wish I could remember which magazine or issue it was. I believe it was a Brides magazine from 2009, but I really can’t be sure. I have scoured the internet for the article, and it appears it simply doesn’t exist in the digital world.

That being said, let’s get on to the main point of this story: I now have a flower baby of my very own! My sister, MOH Ticket, had a little girl in August of 2010, and that child has a hold over my brain in a simply uncanny way. Her smile makes me smile; simply put, the moment we met at 4:00 AM about two hours after she was born, I knew this little girl would be a MAJOR part of my life from here on out. The moment Mr. Ticket and I got engaged, I knew she had to be included in our special day. I wasn’t even sure how at the time, but the day wouldn’t be the same without her being a big part of it. I’m not sure what triggered it, but something reminded me of that article and I realized that by the time our day rolled around my niece would be 14 months old and would make the PERFECT flower baby!

After having asked permission from this little beauty’s mommy before sharing her picture over the internet (she’s all over Facebook already), I would like to introduce you to…

Our flower baby (Personal photo)

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Hello, my name is Miss Ticket and I am an indecisive font monster. Yes it’s true. There’s no hiding it. I spent so much time staring at and changing fonts that they all became one giant blur to me. I said I was done with invitations and yet somehow I still sat down in front of my computer to AGAIN revamp the RSVPs (while watching one of the worst movies ever made please don’t watch Skyline…. save yourself, just say no!). I printed out another 8 options of different fonts and wording and continuously asked opinions of Mr. Ticket. I think even his eyes grew confused after all the different fonts.

It was shortly after this point that I decided to give up. It’s not normally in me to do that, but I’m afraid it was the healthiest course of action for my sanity. What I had was good enough. They would have to do. It was time to finish the little monsters and move on with my life. I knew I had hit my limit when I begged Mr. Ticket to redo our RSVPs and he said, “Only if I get to include a picture of a Starcraft Zealot ripping a Disney Princess’ head off.” (Since of course he knew I would never agree to this.)  I agreed…we were definitely done with the invitations!

After making Mr. Ticket, Mama Ticket, and Daddy Ticket double…triple… and quadruple check spelling, grammar, directions, etc. It was time to print these babies out!
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I won’t lie to you—I went into this invitation endeavor with the soul intent of shamelessly emulating Mrs. Panther in any way I could. I figured I wouldn’t get mine to be nearly as beautiful and I certainly couldn’t afford letterpress or calligraphy, but I was going to try to do my best with what I had.

I couldn’t find a background online I liked, so I bought a pack of designed card stock from Michaels and scanned a piece. Then I edited some color in using Corel PaintShop Pro after finding the colors I wanted to use via Pantone. Bam! Step one down, and it only took me about 2 hours! I decided on the wording I wanted and then spent another 3 hours looking through every free font known to man to find something I liked. Then I tried to figure out how to include our awesome silhouettes. The design process is actually quite boring to describe—just picture a tired and frazzled Miss Ticket sitting at a computer and occasionally smacking her head into her desk.

Image via The Online Sleep Clinic

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When we first started planning for the wedding I started mentally cataloging things in order of priority. There were certain things I knew we would want to spend more money on because they are simply more important to us. There was one thing however that I never particularly intended to spend much on, but deep down I knew I would be completely dissatisfied if they were anything less than AWESOME. I’m talking about invitations.

As I was working out our budget with Mr. Ticket I put down a very measly amount for invitations. One day while I was at Michael’s I even bought a pack of really nice looking ivory and orange invitations for about $5 (after coupon). I figured that even though I wasn’t in LOVE with them the price was just too good I couldn’t NOT use them.

Exhibit A: Perfectly nice invitations that even come with lined envelopes and ribbons!

Personal Screen Shot taken from Michaels.com

As time passed by the little voice in my head reminded me that these were just simple pieces of paper being sent out—they weren’t food or drinks or entertainment in any way—got TOTALLY drowned out by Bride Brain that was screaming we needed to have nicer invitations. I’ll give you two guesses at who won that battle and I’m sure you’ll guess correctly the first time. That’s right ladies…
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For some reason, weddings and children seem to bring it out in people. Everyone thinks they know best and that you, of course, want to know how they would do it, because naturally you won’t have an opinion of your own. From the month of the year you choose to marry to the wording on the invitation, EVERYONE has an opinion.

Mr. Ticket and I chose to have a relatively short engagement (though at times it’s felt like it took FOREVER) with 11 months to plan our wedding. From the very beginning we have received advice/suggestions/requests… some were taken more seriously (those given from parties assisting in the payment of the big day) and others were taken with a grain of salt (no, we will not be playing Ke$ha at the reception Best Man A. Mr. Ticket put his foot down on that one).
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Cake stands are expensive. No joke. And while I love to drool over beauties like this…

Image via Rosanna

I simply can’t justify $75.00 for a cake stand right now. But we still need (as much as anyone can ever NEED something frivolous for a wedding) a cake stand. I really love pink ones; they are a bit more unique than the average clear glass ones (which I still love and totally have one of). I searched high and low and couldn’t find one in a reasonable price range.

Then one day I was checking Groupon (as I so often do) and they had a deal for Color Me Mine. With credits, I already had the deal equated my spending $5 to get $30 worth of awesomeness at the store. So I called up the local Color Me Mine, and sure enough, they had a cake stand available to paint! Sold! I bought the deal and figured I would just go in when I had time.

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