Weddingbee Blog

Today is National Penguin Awareness Day! lmmcnutt’s bridesman created this penguin cake topper for her!

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Hive, I need help! I can’t decide what we should do for our “getaway!”

I think that bubbles are adorable, but I hate the little plastic containers they come in…don’t ask, just one of those bizarre things that bother me.

Via Luster Studios Blog / Photo by Luster Studios

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I’m sort of a private person. I know that may seem strange coming from someone who is blogging every detail about her wedding… but I really am! I don’t share a lot of details about my life or feelings with people around me that I don’t consider close friends. I’m sort of a “closed book,” and I kind of like it that way.

When I first got engaged, I really didn’t tell anyone at work. I just felt like it was my business and if people saw my ring and wanted to ask, that was fine! I would tell them if they asked. One of the main reasons I didn’t share my wedding news with work is because I work in an incredibly cerebral environment with very scholarly people. These people know more about science and medicine and evolution that I could ever imagine, and I read their papers in awe before I started to work with them. They are all really smart, like Darwin-of-our-times smart. It can be incredibly intimidating, and I really didn’t want to look like the dumb 22 year old who couldn’t stop gushing about wedding dresses and flowers and invitations (I’ll save that for the hive!). That being said… I don’t think that people who talk about their weddings at work are dumb, I just felt like I would be perceived as such in my particular work environment.

But then something changed:
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I wanted to chat a little bit about the bridesmaids’-dress hunt with you, but then I realized that I never properly introduced you to my ladies or even told you how I asked them! You caught a glimpse of some of them way back in this post, but I figured it’s time we chat about them a little more. My bridal-party breakdown goes a little like this: two maids of honor (friends from high school) and four bridesmaids (two friends from college, two family members). Because we were having a long engagement, many people advised me to wait awhile before asking our bridal party. But the thing is, I’ve pretty much known since day one who I was going to ask. And now, with five months to go, I don’t regret asking any of them! With six bridesmaids I will admit that our party leans on the larger side. Having a large party makes me a little busier, but honestly I just feel lucky to have six wonderful ladies in my life who are always there for me. So how did I ask them? Well, I didn’t ask them all in the same way.

1.) First up was Mr. Coyote’s younger sister. Because we only live 10 minutes apart, I asked her in person. Easy peasy, right? Honestly, I was kind of nervous asking her. Even though the dude and I had been together for five years, she and I just aren’t that close. What if she said no?? Even though we get along great and have a lot in common, we just never got to that point where I would call her up on a Saturday night to grab drinks. But…the truth is, I’ve always wanted a sister and I am really excited that (26 years later) I’m finally getting one! And so, I plucked up the courage and asked her to be my bridesmaid. And whaddyaknow? She was just as excited as me and happily accepted!

(Personal photo) / Sis-to be, Mom-to-be, and me at our engagement party

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Have you noticed a theme with my posts this week? I have shoes on my mind! Today, I want to share a little project related to my bridesmaids’ shoes.

Early on in planning, I knew that I wasn’t going to ask my bridesmaids to wear the same shoe. I figured I would give them a color and let them pick a pair themselves. With luck, the shoes would already be in their closets, but if they did have to buy something, I wanted them to buy something they liked and would wear again.

I wanted something to unify the potentially disparate looks and decided to make a few pairs of chiffon shoe clips.

Photo by Miss Mink

Since it’s DIY Friday, I thought I’d share how I did this project. I should start by saying that I have absolutely no sewing skill. I do not own a sewing machine. My expertise is limited to reattaching buttons to clothing.

In other words, you can do this.
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Like many brides, I had a few nightmares here and there about the impending wedding. Mostly things like the wedding arriving a lot earlier than I had planned or Mr. Funnel Cake seeing me in my dress before the wedding. Just small stuff. And when the big day finally came and everything was just perfect, I really thought my nightmares would be over.

Wrong.

They started on the honeymoon. Post-wedding nightmares. I would wake in gorgeous Hawaii, turn to Mr. Funnel Cake and tell him with wide eyes “I just dreamt XYZ happened at the wedding!!!” and he would look at me like I was nuts. Who stresses about an event that is already over?? Apparently lots of hive members have post-wedding nightmares as well though. (Thank God I’m not alone!)

For the most part I keep dreaming that I am late and I need to get dressed already. I don’t have all my preparation items with me and I have to improvise on hair and makeup. Everything is rush, rush, rush. Why, just last night I dreamt I was in my parents’ front yard sewing flowers on to my wedding skirt the morning of the big day and Mama Funnel Cake was yelling at me about having dirt all over myself. We were running short on time, of course. I kept saying, “Just one more flower and it’s done, just one more flower!”

I think my favourite post-wedding nightmare so far was the one where Mama Funnel Cake informed me that President John F. Kennedy would be attending the wedding as a guest and that I needed to give him a VIP tour of our house before the wedding started.
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You have had the big day, you are a MRS and all the stress and jobs and projects leading up to the wedding are finally over, right? Wrong!

Here are a few things that you might want to consider when budgeting your wedding and also things to think about whether or not you want to do after you get carried over the threshold into your blissful wedded life.

Dry-cleaning your dress: We were on the ball with this one, because we had asked around and so we were able to budget in the exorbitant $600!!! it cost to dry-clean and box my dress. I was still hemming and hawing about whether or not to sell my dress, but regardless I had to have it dry-cleaned so I dropped it in as soon as we returned home from our honeymoon and now it is sitting pretty in its beautiful box in our second room (because it is too big to go in a cupboard!).

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We were putting some assets together for a campaign, and someone asked me what the Weddingbee font was.

I knew I could ask Mrs. Bee via email, but I know she’s busy being a mom of two (!!!) and blogging away over at Hellobee lately, so I thought I’d take a stab at finding it myself.

I searched a few font libraries, in “comic” and “curly” sections to no avail. Then, I stumbled across Fonts.com’s identify fonts by sight.
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Howdy!!! I am so very excited to meet you! Forgive my gratuitous puns, but seriously it is scooooone nice to meet you! After obsessively checking my email and trying my hardest to be patient, one morning I received an email from Pengy and I thought I read the email wrong. I had to re-read it a few times in disbelief because it was way too exciting. Then I had to announce it in my office and call my better half…ahhh!!!

I am sooo very excited to be baking up some fun in the hive as Miss Scone! Why Miss Scone? Scones are one of my favorite breakfast treats, they are also one of my favorite things to bake (favorite recipe is below just in case you are tempted!). While I am not baking anything for the wedding, it is one of my favorite things to do…

Here’s a bit about us:

I grew up between Oregon and Northern California (think five hours north of San Francisco—what up Eureka and hey Eugene!), fled the West Coast for college (howdy Mount Holyoke!), decided snow wasn’t for me so I bounced between Oregon, Washington, and California until I finally settled in Napa. I am someone who must have projects on my plate (not one, sometimes two, usually three or more…), I love baking from scratch (bread, cake, SCONES, cookies, pies, etc.). Family is super important to both of us, and we know how to have a good time. Whenever I have the chance, I try to head outside to enjoy the beautiful area I live in, and I am actively trying to re-learn to like running…

(Personal photo)

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