Weddingbee Blog

While Mr. Taffy and I were having our portraits taken, our guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The two lovely ladies below are enjoying one of our signature drinks: Champagne Punch. mmmm.

All photos by our fabulous photographer, A Girl In Love.

Something tells me our groomsman was about to order a pint of Bell’s Oberon or Two Hearted Ale. (or both!) These two Michigan beers were also signature drinks. We were happy to serve Michigan beer!
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Let the smoochfest begin!

All photos by our fabulous photographer, A Girl In Love.

Muah ha ha. OK, OK. I’ll try to mix it up a little.
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We had a great time putting the details together before the wedding…it was wonderful to see everything come together! (And to finally get them out of our house! They were multiplying and taking over!!!) I’ll give you a peek here before we take a look inside our cocktail hour.

Many of the details were meant to coordinate with our invitations, which Mr. Taffy’s brother designed and made for us.

To start, our escort cards, which were a labor of love:

All Photos by our fabulous photographer, A Girl In Love.
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Ah yes, it was time for family wedding portraits! Once again, Mr. Taffy and I met at the steps of the Union, where we enjoyed the weather and the company of our families, as well as the new rings on our fingers.

Here we are with Mr. Taffy’s (and my new!) brothers.

All photos by A Girl In Love
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I just wanted to pop in to say that the Taffy recaps will be making a comeback soon! This past year has been very crazy for us, as we only saw each other on the weekends due to my US / Canadian commute! Well, before the recaps continue, I wanted to share some exciting news with you: we decided to take the plunge and move to Canada!

image via Mah-Shop

Yes, after 13 months of commuting, we are living under the same roof all week long!

Before the move, the commute was taking up too much time to work on the recaps. Since we decided to move in November, we have been up to our ears beginning the immigration process, and were busy moving our household here and looking for places in Canada.
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You watched as we made it down the aisle. Now, our ceremony continues!

All photos by our fabulous photographer, A Girl In Love.

We were so excited to begin our marriage with all of our friends and family present!
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As I waited with my mom to walk down the aisle, I couldn’t believe that In a few short minutes, we would all be in position, and our ceremony would begin:

All photos by A Girl In Love

But first, we had to travel down the aisle, in front of all of our friends and family! Eep. As cool and collected as I had been during our pre-ceremony portraits, I surely had the jitters now. Not for the actual ceremony… just a case of aisle fright. Luckily, Minister Twizzler was the first brave soul to head down.
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After out first look, we jumped right in to taking portraits with our bridal party. This was one of our favorite moments of our wedding day… it was like a happy, exciting pre party. We were so elated, standing on the steps of our venue on what turned out to be a beautiful day, surrounded by wonderful friends, counting down the minutes to our ceremony… we were on cloud nine.

Our photographer did an amazing job capturing the afternoon!

All photos by A Girl In Love

My favorite shots with the Taffettes…
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Welcome to the final recap of our belated honeymoon / first anniversary trip to Paris! It has been wonderful sharing our trip here with you.

After eight days in Paris, we finally made it over to the Eiffel Tower…

But I am going to quickly rewind to the day before…
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This post is dedicated to the lovely Mrs. Perfume, whose wedding was inspired by Marie Antoinette!

I was very excited the morning of my 30th birthday… making the trip to Versailles was one of the things that I was anticipating most about our trip to France. Going there on my birthday was just a bonus! (Having a wedding anniversary five days before my birthday has its perks!)

We wanted to get to the palace before opening, as we knew it would be swamped on a Saturday. The fountains at the palace only run on the weekends, so we didn’t mind the prospect of heavy crowds very much. I wanted to see the palace grounds in full swing!

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On our fifth day in Paris, Mr. Taffy and I braved the Louvre, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. Although very excited, we were already quite intimidated by the museum before we arrived (the guidebooks we read while planning made it seem impossible to get through). Seeing the incredibly massive building in person didn’t make us any less nervous! Because of this, we blocked two days to get through the museum.

We arrived just before the doors opened, full of anticipation.
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I am interrupting the Taffy wedding recaps to blog about our first anniversary trip to Paris!

After our wedding last May, Mr. Taffy and I took a minimoon on Lake Michigan, with the intention on going on a more traditional honeymoon for our first anniversary. After some debate, we decided to spend 12 fabulous days in Paris. I hope that these recaps will be helpful to anyone planning a honeymoon or vacation to this beautiful city!

Mr. Taffy and I flew to Paris from Detroit on a Saturday morning. We had a very brief layover in Montreal (where we practiced some of our French!), and arrived in Paris Sunday morning, which was our actual anniversary, at around 6 am. We had several hours to kill before checking into our hotel, so after we dropped our luggage there, we set off to see the city!

We were a bit delirious (we couldn’t sleep on the plane), but were very excited! Without exactly planning where to go, we ended up at the Louvre. We were in awe of the size of the museum, and wondered how we would ever get through it!

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Seeing Mr. Taffy for the first time on May 30th was one of the happiest moments of our wedding day. I was so excited to meet him on the front steps of our venue that our bridal party and DOC could barely keep me inside! The morning rain had cleared and the sky was absolutely beautiful—blue and sunny.

Our wonderful photographer captured an excited and somewhat nervous Mr. Taffy waiting…

… for his extremely happy bride! I practically busted out of those doors!
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I’d like to give you a peek of what was going on right before our first look.

Below, you will see our ceremony location, the Pendleton Room at The University of Michigan Union.

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Mr. Taffy and I had really been looking forward to our tasting. Our caterers only hold one tasting per year! The tasting date was cutting it quite close to the day we needed to give our entree options for our invitation reply card, so we were hoping to make a final decision at the tasting, or directly afterward. After all, we had been combing over the menu for months, crunching numbers and discussing the different entree choices! We had a menu in our minds, but wanted to try everything to make sure it was as tasty as it sounded.

I wish I could say that it was that easy, but this tasting was full of surprises, and quite frankly, some disappointments.

At least we had another couple to cope with! Jessie516 and her fiance, who are getting married the same month as we are, were also at the tasting.

The four of us have been really sick with the sinus infection / bronchitis plague going around Ann Arbor, and joked about how much we would actually taste due to our symptoms.
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