Weddingbee Blog

Wedding planning often challenges us to undertake projects we’ve never tried. Whatever their past career experience, engaged couples suddenly find themselves acting as event planners, stylists, graphic artists, personal shoppers, and many other things all rolled into one. Sometimes, taking on these new projects leads us to discover latent talents we never knew we had.

And other times? Well….

Meet our wedding invitations!
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For the most part, we’ve focused on only the important things for our wedding. Any high ambitions I may have had regarding fancy DIY projects have fallen by the wayside in light of my lack of time and energy….

But there was one Martha Stewart idea I simply HAD to try:

(image courtesy of Martha Stewart)
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Mr. T’s brother works in quite a wonderful place. Namely, Tiffany & Co!

Unfortunately, we have not taken full advantage of this special bounty. We looked at Tiffany rings at engagement time, but to save $$$ we ended up having a ring made from scratch. And, though the design is a classic that’s been around since the 1930s, we (ahem) basically copied something we saw in Bvlgari….

(showing my new ring box some love)

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We are nearly one month away from our wedding date. And I’m completely unprepared.

As mentioned in my intro, I’ve been ill for the past few years. I have fatigue issues and get migraines several days a week. When we first got engaged, 7 months seemed like plenty of time to plan a wedding, especially for someone who’s not working. Well, I often haven’t felt up to it and have put things off…. And now we’re down to the wire!

(image from here)

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Mr. T. and I are thrilled with both our ceremony and reception sites, in part because they’re extremely inexpensive. But if we’d had $$$ to spend on a site fee, I would have jumped at the chance to hold our 1920s-ish wedding at this beautiful circa-1920s manor home:

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Lately I’ve been finding that getting married can be expensive in ways that have nothing to do with flowers, gowns, or caterers. And I blame this guy:

 
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We’ve all seen it in the movies and heard it described: the romantic stories of people leaving a first date declaring, “this … THIS is the person I will someday marry!”

That is not exactly the case with Mr. T. and me. When we first met, we hit it off immediately. Conversation had never flowed so easily. And I found him terribly attractive. But many things were awkward for the first several months of dating. It wasn’t exactly the right time for either of us — I was just getting over a many-year relationship, and he wasn’t quite ready to settle down.

Seven months in, we broke up. And it wasn’t until we got back together, a few months later, that everything fell into place, we declared our undying love, etc., etc., and here we are on the brink of matrimony today.

Which got me to wondering… How many of you knew your spouse-to-be was “the one” when you first got together? And how many of you took a bit longer for the relationship to develop?

…I call him “Dad.”

(What do you think — family resemblance?)

At a friend’s wedding we attended a few months ago, there was one absolutely touching moment in the ceremony when the groom’s mother got up to say a few words. Her emotion and pride were so evident that I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house.

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Yesterday Always a Blogsmaid mentioned an Oprah show about the Lovings, a Virginia couple who challenged this country’s anti-miscegenation laws (laws against people of different races marrying) in the 1960s. The Lovings married in Washington, DC but were arrested on their return to Virginia, where “race mixing” was still illegal. Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and in 1967 the Court overturned all states’ remaining anti-miscegenation laws as inconsistent with the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

(photo from Amazon)

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We didn’t have much trouble coming up with a color palette for the wedding. But we’ve started thinking about combining houses after the wedding, and it turns out there are so many more color palettes to consider!

For a long time I worried about the kitchen. We both have a LOT of kitchen goods, and it makes more sense to keep most of what we’ve got as opposed to registering for something new. But my color scheme is “mostly blue”, while Mr. T’s is “yellow and green.” It seemed too different.

And then, one day, I was putting away one of my bowls and one of his bowls (I’ve got a few of his extras) and discovered this:

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So, I never filled y’all in on Paris! It’s coming, I promise. In the meantime, this post is a few musings on travel inspired by our trip.

And it’s looooooong — I’m warning you right now! If you want to read something shorter, or at least better, I recommend Rick Steves’ amazing travel philosophy. But if you love to travel and have patience for a long post, read on!

(P.S. To pretty things up, I’ve included a few favorite Polaroid Manipulations from past travels….)

(Hyde Park, London)

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Mr. T and I aren’t having a traditional, multi-tier wedding cake. But I definitely wanted a traditional cake topper. To me, it’s one of those details that “makes a wedding a wedding.” (Huh, funny I don’t feel that way about the cake itself…?!)

Luckily, my eBay obsession comes in handy for vintage goods, and after a bit of searching we ended up with this $12 beauty:

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Alright, I had a little talk with Mr. Tulip about not reading this post…. Which means I can finally show off my wedding, uh, dressES…!

Mr. Tulip, here’s where you stop!

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It’s here! It’s here! After many months of waiting (more on THAT below), I finally have a new Gocco in hand!

I have wanted one of these babies since reading about them in the very first issue of Craft magazine. At the time, though, the company had stopped making Goccos, and even if you picked up a used version there was no guarantee of future supplies. I’ve already seen the supply chain cut off for one of my hobbies, and the resulting feeding frenzy was a pricey nightmare. Plus, the expense was hard to justify for just a hobby….

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’Cause we finally found a place to hold the ceremony!!

Finding a ceremony site has befuddled us for months now. Neither of us attends a church that would be an automatic choice. And while I was technically open to finding some random church for the ceremony, as a non-Christian the idea made me a bit uncomfortable, as if I’d be sending mixed signals in some way….

If you’re forgoing a church for your wedding ceremony and on a budget besides, where does one go? We considered several places owned by the National Park Service. Including this location in Lafayette Park, which has a rather striking backdrop:

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