Weddingbee
Reader t-blaz brought in something cool and unique for wedding favors - a machine that makes souvenir pennies!
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Any and every bride that is on the web has run across at least one or two pictures from mrs.pootiekins‘ beautiful wedding. I don’t know when or how, but I fell onto her wedding bio very early on in my planning process (you can also drool over her planning bio here). I must admit, like many other brides to be, I was in L-O-V-E!
This was also the first time I had really noticed any bride wearing a hair flower.
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Hellllllo gorgeous! I NEEDED one!
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Well hive, we’re back! Officially Mr. and Mrs. Yorkie now for 19 days, with the honeymoon behind us, we’re just beginning to settle into married life. The wedding went beautifully (it was a Plan A day!) and even featured a few surprises, like thunder rolling overhead during Mr. Y’s vows to add a little emphasis.
The 4th of July is may favorite holiday! Yep, more than Christmas and more than my birthday, I LOVE the 4th of July. Why? I really can’t describe it, but I love BBQs and I LOVE LOVE LOVE fireworks. The 4th of July just makes me happy.
When Mr Frenchie proposed, I immediately told him I wanted to get married on the 4th of July. What luck, the year we’re getting married my favorite day happens to fall on a Saturday, the most common wedding day of the week. I had already fallen in love with an inspiration board on Style Me Pretty.
As you know my wedding is not this weekend. *le sigh*
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While my plans for dressing up the dinner tables are slowly coming together (thanks to you guys! 
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Since our venue doesn’t allow open flames, I plan on filling our mason jars with pretty vegetables and flowers. I’d love to have that glow-y effect of the flickering candlelight behind aqua glass, but it’s just not in the cards. I need the aqua jars, though. Need them.
Seeing as how I’m a whole hemisphere away from my venue (and my family), I can’t exactly troll through antique stores and Goodwill at my leisure.
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Mrs. Cupcake incorporated oodles of various cut glass bowls and glasses in to her centerpieces. Mrs. Cherry Pie used mismatched mason jars and cans at her beautiful rustic Montana wedding (which I had the privilege of attending). Miss Bunny used stuff she already owns to create wonderful wedding day decor. These ladies (and many others) created amazing ambiance by hitting garage sales, asking relatives, looking through their attics, and otherwise exercising their bargaining muscles. Heck, Miss Joey is a Craigslist pro!
If you’re taking a casual or laid-back attitude toward your wedding theme (and not everything has to match), have you been taking advantage of thrift shops?
From the time I went to college, I’ve been a big fan of garage sales, thrifting, eBay, and even dumpster diving. Only within the past year did I buy any new furniture; up until then almost everything I owned was used. I have many depression glass bowls and candle holders, ’70s-era wall hangings, and cute little tchotchkes that I’ve picked up over the years… each for under $5. My kitchen mixer cost me $3.49 at a garage sale, my utility shelves are someone’s discarded Target closet-system, and I found my ironing board in the alley behind a former apartment.
I find that thrift stores usually have a mixture of “garage-sale” and “grandma’s-house” stuff. Just think of some of the “shabby chic” centerpieces you could make with some of these previously-loved treasures.
For a couple of who loves to read: mismatched ornate reading lamps and stacks of old books on each table at the reception. You could just cut the cords off of the lamps, turn them in to votive-holders, and even paint the table numbers on the lamp shades. You could find books that match a common theme (example: romances, cookbooks, or travel guides), or simply books whose bindings match your color theme.
One thing about planning a wedding in a place that you are not currently in is that you have to travel a lot. I just counted, and between the beginning of May and the wedding in September, we will have traveled to the UP eight times. EIGHT! Multiply that by 5 hours each way, and you have 80 hours of driving. That is a lot of hours spent in the car my friends, and that doesn’t even include trips to other places during that time period. No bueno.
I shouldn’t complain. I’ll admit, I’m not typically the person driving. The boy usually drives and I find things to do to occupy the time. Things like picking potential songs for the ceremony. Things like entering our entire guest list into our table planning software. Things like figuring out who all needs to be at our rehearsal dinner. Oh, and things like choosing our wedding party. Yep, that was done in the car too!
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The Joeys made it legal yesterday! No, I’m not talking about getting our marriage license (we already did that), I’m talk about getting our building permit! WE HAVE A PERMIT! I can’t tell how relieved I am. I feel like a new woman — seriously.
The permit consumed both our lives for the last 3 months, particularly, all of June. There were a lot of tears, a lot of swear words, plenty of begging and pleading, and now it’s all over and we’ve got it.
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Today in our Real Bee Budgets series, check out the bees’ favors!
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Mrs. Flamingo’s Favors
Favors: Imported Italian Sparkling Water + Donation to Quebec Breast Cancer Association
# of Favors: 96
Total Price: $192
Price per favor: $2
“When it came time to choose our favors, we decided to make a donation to the Quebec Breast Cancer Association. We felt as though our guests might like to leave the wedding with something in their hands, so we purchased Italian imported water. We created little cards and DIY pink ribbons with the mention of the donation in memory of my grandmother and in honor of my mother, who is a survivor.
The guests loved our favors and still talk about them today… some even shed some tears!”
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I love flowers… plain and simple! Since I was little I was always fascinated by flowers. I decided to use roses, gerbera daisies and orchids to spice up the wedding. I wasn’t into roses very much until I worked at Central Market. I saw this beautiful intuition rose and from that point forward I loved that particular kind of rose. I used this all over our wedding and it added a wonderful texture to my bouquet. Roses and gerbera daisies are the most common flowers that people see and they are less expensive than other kinds of flowers such as peonies and orchids. It’s all about how you use the flowers and how they fit into your personality. I added some feathers and beads to my bouquet, which made it a little bit more special than the normal bouquets that I saw. I also added the bead sprays to boutonnieres and hand corsages to make everything fit together.
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