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My bachelorette party is this weekend! I feel like the luckiest girl in the whole world that all of my bridesmaids (well, except for my 12 year-old little sis), as well as two of my best friends from grad school, will be joining me at the Jersey shore for the weekend! My maid of honor Carolyn has done most of the work to put the event together, and much to her credit, has managed to keep the nosy bride (that’d be me) out of it. I’m pretty sure that the girls have a few surprises in store.

I think that it was only to keep me from bugging her about what I could do, but Carolyn agreed to let me put together favor bags for all of the girls. I took a little a lot of inspiration from Miss Peacock. Thanks, Miss Peacock!

I was lucky to stumble onto a HUGE sale at L.L.Bean, and got personalized mini boat and tote bags for everyone. Read more…

I’m the girl from Maine who doesn’t eat lobster, and I actually pronounce the “r” at the end of the word since I lost my accent in college! Despite all of this, I hope our guests will be excited about receiving these this week:

Pretty cute, no? All credit goes to my FMIL and the woman she worked with to design them.
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I’m sure that many of you have seen this on weddingbee or another wedding blog already, but I wanted to share yet another of my Etsy purchases with you all anyways. Along with many others, we’ll be using the Paloma’s Nest Tiny Text Bowl to carry our rings down the aisle.

Etsy sellers have the best packaging.

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Crazy cheap budget-conscious Miss Tiramisu here, back with some hard-earned research for you all! I posted a while back on the possibility of lighting our paper lanterns with homemade LED throwies. Well we’ve finally gotten around to putting these suckers together. As I said in my last post, I ordered the supplies on ebay. My first mistake was not paying attention to the difference between “diffuse” and “bright” LED lights.

Here are the trial pictures so that you can see for yourself:

Mr. Tiramisu modeling our lovely 14″ white lantern lit with 3 diffuse white LEDs, all attached to their own battery.
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Something blue. Check. Shoes and garter.

Something old. Check. My Nana is graciously letting me take a piece of lace off of her wedding gown to wrap around my bouquet.

Something new. Check. Take your pick… dress, bracelet, veil, shoes…

Something borrowed. Check. Make that something lost! My friend L. called me this week to tell me that the perfect and beautiful chandelier earrings that she wore on her wedding day- and generously offered to let me wear on mine- have gone missing! Somewhere in Pennsylvania is a box with her wedding shoes, headpiece, and earrings, and no one can locate it.

Sniff, sniff… here they are:
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I had my hair trial last week. It was just so-so and I’m looking into other options at the moment, including totally changing how I thought I wanted to wear my hair. The one thing I do know for sure is that I have always wanted to wear a flower in my hair on my wedding day. I thought about a real flower, but I’m just too much of a planner to not know exactly what it would look like until it arrived on the day of the wedding. Fake is the way to go for me- no wilting, no brown edges, and control freaks like me can know just what they’re getting ahead of time!

There are so many gorgeous hair accessories out there that it was tough to choose one. After searching through a lot of Etsy shops, I found my favorites at Mikiye Creations.

Here are some of the top contenders:
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We finally got around to picking out the groomsmen tuxedos a couple of weekends ago. I totally forgot to blog about it because it was such an unexciting experience. With groomsmen spread out all over the east coast, pretty much our only option was Men’s Wearhouse. I don’t think I’ve ever read a review of a wedding tuxedo rental experience that wasn’t without a few mishaps, MW included. So we’re probably looking ahead to some snafus of our own, but hopefully there won’t be anything un-fixable.

Mr. T and I rolled up to our nearest MW, ready to peruse the options. We were handed a book of tuxedo choices, and picked out a couple that we were interested in…

Mr. T: Here are the two that we’d like to look at.
MW employee: Great! But, uh, we don’t actually have the tuxedos here.
Mr. T: Oh. Well I guess this one will be okay then. I’d like to look into purchasing my tuxedo though.
MW employee: Great! But, uh, we don’t actually have those here either.
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*Mr. Tiramisu, here’s where you stop reading!*

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UPDATE!
Thanks for all the entries! The winner of the blue shoes is….

Commenter #39, laurag!

Looks like between all of us bees, we’ve now sold that website out of those blue shoes! If you’re still looking for some, there are tons of great suggestions in the comments of this post. Good luck!

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My parents are divorced.

I’m not unique in this fact. I don’t even have a sob story to tell about how my life was ruined, and in fact I had a happy childhood during which my parents never fought. Both my mom and my dad are now remarried, and in the end I got an extra (both awesome) set of parents out of it, not to mention a brother, sister, and a slew of cool step-relatives. So I’m really not here to complain. But the truth is, sometimes having divorced parents sucks.

There’s the obvious split up holidays, which I’ve mostly gotten used to, but still manage to have a yearly mini panic attack over. There’s the awkwardness that is unavoidable at events with both sets of families. There’s the question of what to call my brother and my sister- really my step-brother and half-sister if you want to get technical, but those titles seem so weird to me and we’ve never used them. And at the moment, there is the huge bummer of not having my mom and dad sitting together, smiling proudly at my wedding.
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