Mrs. Pinot Noir, New York/Napa Valley
Age and Occupation: 24, Health Educator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Market Researcher
Engagement Date: November 10, 2007
Wedding Date: October, 2008
Blogging Since: June 25, 2008
Venue: Auberge du Soleil
About Me: I am a Minnesota raised, NYC transplant planning a destination wedding in Napa. I'm balancing my love for the environment and my hubby-to-be's love for tradition to create our "green wedding in disguise." Our wedding will include local food and wine, antique touches and lots of love and laughter. When wedding planning isn't taking up my free time (and money) I love to read, cook, workout, watch baseball and travel! Follow along in my adventure as I attempt to plan an eco-friendly and socially responsible wedding (with eco-oblivious Mr. Pinot Noir).
After we finished with the family pictures, we moved on to the wedding party. Making the list of photos for this group was hard too! It would have been nice to have a photo of us taken alone with each member of the wedding party, but I was worried it would take too much time and I figured we would get these at some point.…
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Mrs. Caramel, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 24, Art Gallery/Museums
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Engineer
Engagement Date: January 8, 2007
Wedding Date: October 6, 2007
Venue: a beautiful church and hotel reception
About Me: I love dancing, singing, eating out, eating in, surfing on the net, and brainstorming fantastic ideas. I also love cats, coffee, and know every quote written on Sex & the City. I'm known to laugh really loud and have really crazy hand gestures while I talk. My fiance writes songs and I take pictures. What else? We're just a crazy young couple in love, trying to make a fabulous wedding!
I’ve never been a consistent “scrapbooker” mainly because it’s so time consuming and easily takes over my life. What starts out as a free afternoon turns into a 3AM mess of glue, cute paper and tiny scissors with no food, water or bathroom breaks. (Who’s with me on this?!)
I tried to finish our wedding scrapbook before our 1 year mark…. but I just couldn’t do…
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Mrs. Orange, New York
Age and Occupation in 06: 29, Librarian
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Academic
Engagement Date: January 25, 2006
Wedding Date: March 2007
Venue: Nassau County, Long Island
About Me: Mr. Orange and I met thanks to my college friend and Mr. Orange's dad in Feb. 05. I love to eat, cook, watch Dog the Bounty Hunter, Without a Trace, L&O, and MTV Hits as well as chill with my cat Illie, work on little DIY projects for the wedding, do extensive wedding related searches on Google using my "skills." Ha-ha. We are having a 150+ ppl wedding incorporating his Jewish background and my Japanese heritage.
It’s a crane made out of origami paper (Pearl Paint) glued onto a placecard (PaperSource). My grandmother is making all 120+ of them. I won’t start this project until the calligraphy is done first, but thought I’d share the idea.
The Martha Stewart Weddings Fall ‘06 issue also had an example of origami used in a wedding - an origami guestbook display.
(from Martha Stewart Wedding Fall…
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Thought some folks would be interested in the new partnership between Martha and Kodak EasyShare (formerly Ofoto)…great photo cards. I think they’d be adorable for holiday-timed STD cards, or for holiday cards featuring wedding pics of the happy new couple!
Jordan
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Mrs. Bird of Paradise, New Orleans
Age and Occupation in '06: 26, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Operations Manager
Engagement Date: November 28, 2005
Wedding Date: November 18, 2006
About Me: The wedding is around the corner and planning has been a blast! I've enjoyed nearly every detail obsessed minute of it and I can't imagine what I did with my time before all of this! I can't wait for our wonderful day and the rest of my life with Mr. Soon-to-be Bird of Paradise.
Here are little thank you cards.
On our tear off RSVP cards in our invitations, we used the French phrase “Repondez S’il Vous Plait.” I live in a very French area and have a French heritage so I thought it’d be nice to continue with the French theme for our thank you cards. On these I used “Merci Beaucoup.” And if we have time to do…
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Mrs. Bird of Paradise, New Orleans
Age and Occupation in '06: 26, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Operations Manager
Engagement Date: November 28, 2005
Wedding Date: November 18, 2006
About Me: The wedding is around the corner and planning has been a blast! I've enjoyed nearly every detail obsessed minute of it and I can't imagine what I did with my time before all of this! I can't wait for our wonderful day and the rest of my life with Mr. Soon-to-be Bird of Paradise.
We were going to include a little “This day in history” list in our wedding programs. Now, I’m not so sure we’ll have room. Here’s the link - just type in your date at the top in the grey bar. You can even select what category you’d like. The list will appear on the left side.
Here’s a sample of what happened on our day.
1820
Captain Nathaniel…
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Mrs. Bee, New York
Age and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee Publisher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Internet
Engagement Date: May 7, 2004
Wedding Date: March 5, 2005
Venue: Westside Loft, New York
About Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
October 12th, 2006 @ 6:34 pm by Mrs. Bee
After she was stressing out about them, they turned out beautifully.
The RSVP enveloped tucked into the back of the invitation.
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Mrs. Bird of Paradise, New Orleans
Age and Occupation in '06: 26, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Operations Manager
Engagement Date: November 28, 2005
Wedding Date: November 18, 2006
About Me: The wedding is around the corner and planning has been a blast! I've enjoyed nearly every detail obsessed minute of it and I can't imagine what I did with my time before all of this! I can't wait for our wonderful day and the rest of my life with Mr. Soon-to-be Bird of Paradise.
When I was first letterpressing my invitations, I asked them to quote me a price to have my thank you cards letterpressed as well. The price was nearly $500. Although I knew they’d be stunning, I thought this would be a place to save a bit of money. I decided that I was going to have the offset printed locally. A print shop, who I’ve…
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Mrs. Orange, New York
Age and Occupation in 06: 29, Librarian
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Academic
Engagement Date: January 25, 2006
Wedding Date: March 2007
Venue: Nassau County, Long Island
About Me: Mr. Orange and I met thanks to my college friend and Mr. Orange's dad in Feb. 05. I love to eat, cook, watch Dog the Bounty Hunter, Without a Trace, L&O, and MTV Hits as well as chill with my cat Illie, work on little DIY projects for the wedding, do extensive wedding related searches on Google using my "skills." Ha-ha. We are having a 150+ ppl wedding incorporating his Jewish background and my Japanese heritage.
Yes, I’ve finally caught the bug — calligraphy bug that is. It’s my healthy obsession numero dos.
Here is my list of hand calligraphy vendors so far:
- Beautiful Calligraphy and Custom Art
- Wedding Tulle-Calligraphy
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Sales
About: Links to special deals
October 12th, 2006 @ 2:39 pm by Sales
thanks, cindy!
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Mrs. Orange, New York
Age and Occupation in 06: 29, Librarian
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Academic
Engagement Date: January 25, 2006
Wedding Date: March 2007
Venue: Nassau County, Long Island
About Me: Mr. Orange and I met thanks to my college friend and Mr. Orange's dad in Feb. 05. I love to eat, cook, watch Dog the Bounty Hunter, Without a Trace, L&O, and MTV Hits as well as chill with my cat Illie, work on little DIY projects for the wedding, do extensive wedding related searches on Google using my "skills." Ha-ha. We are having a 150+ ppl wedding incorporating his Jewish background and my Japanese heritage.
I have a number of obsessions. One is stationery, paper products and an assortment of paper-related goods. So I developed a healthy obsession over invitations and more specifically, letterpress printing.
A few months into our engagement, we went to Invitations and Beyond in Oceanside, Long Island. The drill was to go in the store and browse through volumes after volumes of wedding invitations. They were all…
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Mrs. Ant, New York/Jamaica
Age and Occupation: 25, PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Finance
Engagement Date: July 26, 2005
Wedding Date: November 18, 2006
Blogging Since: February 15, 2006
Venue: Rockhouse Hotel
About Me: I live in New York but I'm planning a destination wedding in Negril, Jamaica. My fiance and I are high school sweethearts!
October 12th, 2006 @ 1:08 pm by Mrs. Ant
This beautiful silk dress is the chipao that my mother wore to her wedding reception many many years ago.
I considered wearing it to my own reception. But, unfortunately, the dress is a bit too snug. (It “fits”.. but I can’t move. Or breathe, really.)
So… I decided to incorporate the floral design in our ceremony programs!
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Mrs. Bee, New York
Age and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee Publisher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Internet
Engagement Date: May 7, 2004
Wedding Date: March 5, 2005
Venue: Westside Loft, New York
About Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
October 11th, 2006 @ 7:03 pm by Mrs. Bee
Our friend KenzieKate is unveiling two gorgeous new invitation designs, and needs help naming them so let’s give her a hand!
The first one is my take on a beach wedding invite, the second used Mexican silver jewelry as an inspiration, but is pretty enough that it could work in so many other colors as well…. I like to name all my invites after cities. I…
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Mrs. Apple, Dallas
Age and Occupation in '07: 28, Entrepreneur
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, Police Officer
Engagement Date: Easter Day 2006
Wedding Date: May 27, 2007
Blogging Since: September 28, 2006
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant & Gardens
About Me: I'm in the midst of trying to plan a "perfectly beautiful" wedding and decorating my new home. It's been exhausting but totally worth every minute of it. Ironically, I was never the type of person to want to get married but now that I'm engaged, I get giddy over anything that is wedding related! I'll try my best to give you all unique and practical ideas.
The first time I ever saw wax seals was on Mrs. Bee’s personal blog back in 2004.
I absolutely fell in love with the idea, and the personal touch it gives invitations. I’m still undecided on whether I want to try it. Has anyone else tried to do them before?
Mrs. Bee, would you suggest another B2B investing the time and money on doing it?
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Miss Sunflower, New York
Age and Occupation: 26, Speech-Language Pathologist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Slave to the MTA
Engagement Date: August 12, 2006
Wedding Date: April 2008
Venue: Jericho Terrace, New York
About Me: Mr. Sunflower & I have been together for 3 years and to this day, he laughs at me when I tell him that I knew on our first date that I was going to marry him. Well, the most recent events prove, yet again, that I know everything. Most of my time these days involves planning and getting inspiration for our wedding, but when I'm not doing that, I enjoy shopping, movies, reading, writing, and making attempts at being crafty.
After making about half of the menus for the engagement party, I decided to print out the STD bookmarks that I’ve been playing around with. I made three of them, with a different font for each. I was debating on sending out all three styles so everyone gets a different bookmark, but mom and I really like the first one. It looks more formal than…
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