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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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Hi Hive! We’re sitting here in Eden Prairie, MN, with a fire a-blazing on the fireplace station on TV, waiting to open our socks. Hope you are having a wonderful and peaceful day, wherever you are! 
Merry Christmas from our family to yours…
Hi hive!
The fun folks at YouTube sent us a round up of the top viewed wedding/proposal videos of the year, and we’re here to share them with you! I spent the morning watching them, and I’ve got tears running down my face!
1. Greatest Marriage Proposal Ever!!! - MattandGinny (Views: 20.2M):
After 65 years, Priscilla of Boston is closing up shop and retiring their line of brands (Priscilla of Boston, Jewel by Priscilla of Boston, Platinum For Priscilla of Boston, The Dress by Priscilla of Boston, Melissa Sweet, Reverie by Melissa Sweet, Vineyard Collection). Priscilla of Boston gowns have long been a favorite of mine (we recently included a PoB dress in our New York Magazine guest edit).
If you’re ordering PoB wedding gowns or bridesmaids’ dresses, you’ll want to check out their FAQ in regards to how they will be fulfilling current orders.
From Mrs. Penguin’s last visit to PoB’s Bridal Market Runway
Goodbye, Priscilla of Boston—thank you for 65 years of gorgeous gowns.
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Spring Wedding Favors
“Embrace the season with wedding favors that are perfectly suited for spring! Adorable AND affordable.”
Vera Wang released her sketches for Kim Kardashian’s three wedding gowns on her blog recently. This one’s my favorite, and you can see all three here.
It’s a great reminder that I need to commission someone to sketch me in my dress…I love the timelessness of designer sketches!
Do you love them? Which of Kim’s three dresses is your favorite?
The lovely Mrs. Sand Dollar proposed a series a while back where married bees compile the most basic elements of their weddings into one concise post where members new (and old!) to the hive can get an idea of what a specific bee’s wedding was like without having to sift through lots of recap posts. If you’re planning a wedding similar to any past bee’s, this will give you a chance to connect with older bees that you may not realize are planning similar weddings to your own, all in one swift post!
Stay tuned every Sunday for this new series, kicking off today with my own 2008 wedding! We’ll tag this series “snapshot-sundays,” so you’ll be able to access all the posts in one click! We hope you enjoy reliving our weddings with us!
Mr. and Mrs. Penguin
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
Last time around I shared my day with FitBit, and now I want to share a little bit more about its functionality.
As far as size, it’s small, and you can clip it anywhere on your clothing. It’s about the size of a money clip, but thicker. The reason you can clip it anywhere (unlike a pedometer, that you typically have to clip to somewhere near your leg) is that it tracks your movement in a 3D space (similar to how the technology for Nintendo Wii works). So it can tell you’re moving, not just because you’re shifting your weight (which is how a traditional pedometer functions).
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I recently won a FitBit via the LoseIt blog, and was really excited to get one! The shorthand version of what a FitBit is (which I’m sure their marketers hate to hear) is that it’s a very tricked-out pedometer. The longer form explanation of what it is can be found here. Basically, it’s a device that you wear 24-7 that tracks your steps (with 3D movement technology similar to the Nintendo Wii’s), approximate calories burned, distance traveled through the day, and your sleep efficiency. It takes all that data and shoots it wirelessly into your computer, and you can access this info via an app on your phone (Android or iPhone) or your PC. The FitBit Dashboard (basically, your homepage at FitBit) allows you to manually input a variety of extra information (your calorie intake, weight, water drank, exercise activity, mood and more) giving you a one-shop stop for getting a good grip on your calorie consumption/output and is a nice, digital partner for your fitness goals.
Up front: Its functionality is similar (but not the same) as the BodyBugg’s, which is a device that I know of through Jenna/Mrs. Avocado and I’ve really coveted since she’s had one. The BodyBugg measures your calorie output more scientifically based on your individual body heat and movement than FitBit. FitBit estimates your number of calories burned based on your BMR (Base Metabolic Rate). The FitBit is less of a monetary commitment—a FitBit is a one-time cost of $100 with no monthly fee, while the BodyBugg costs around $200, plus a monthly fee of $10 (less if you commit to a year plan instead of going month-to-month). If you are considering either, I highly suggest Googling “BodyBugg vs FitBit” and reading some side by side comparisons.
I left a little bit of unsolicited advice for marriage at the end of my anniversary post yesterday, and in turn called for our married hive members’ advice on Weddingbee’s Twitter and Facebook as well. The response was fantastic—we got so many juicy nuggets of advice from you all that we couldn’t help but archive them here for eternity on the blog!
ambergontrail_ : I have two pieces of advice: Separate bathrooms and a King Sized Bed!!
blifestyles : I only give one piece of advice to newlyweds: Don’t put fabric softener in with your towels. (Ed. note: fabric softener makes towels less absorbant!)
AmyC83 : Be silly. Make each other laugh every day.
TweetMyWedding : A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
BeccaBooJones: always pick your battles, at the end of the day, does it really matter?
ZazzBridal: never stop working on improving your communication together! really listen and never judge your spouse.
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Today is our third wedding anniversary! We marked the occasion with a trip to Mendocino a couple weekends ago.
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Shedding the Stretch Pants: Intro, The Before and Nutrition Counseling, Seven Weeks to On Track, Road Blocks and Results (So Far), Cost
You’re a bride. You’re on a budget. You want to tighten up.
We didn’t say lose weight… I might say tighten. Tighter. (Name that movie!)
So here’s how I keep myself in check—I use Loseit.com for calorie/fiber/protein counting (Lose It is available as an iPhone app as well, but I have an Android…I do hear that Lose It Android is coming to Beta soon!). Calorie counting is tedious to some. To me it’s a game, and it’s all about planning your day so that you can live your life, have that glass of wine (or 3), or just generally be accountable to your fitness plan.
I was out of town on Monday. Clearly. I will never give up McDonalds at the airport. NEVARRRRRRRR.
How I do it:
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Shedding the Stretch Pants: Intro, The Before and Nutrition Counseling, Seven Weeks to On Track, Road Blocks and Results (So Far)
Money is something I’m loathe to talk about in such a public forum. But it’s about honesty, and while yes, it is possible to diet an exercise completely for free, some of us (ovah heeeeahhh) need a lot of external help to get ’er done.
What I really wanted to talk about today was the cost of losing weight: both time-wise, and money-wise. I’m not self motivated to diet/exercise, and I spent a lot of money (in my world of money) thus far to get to this point in what I at least consider is a healthy way. And of course, there were redundancies—I didn’t quit the YMCA until a month and a half after I was into my boot camp because I thought I’d return eventually.
THE MONETARY COST OF 15 POUNDS:
I wrote the first half of this post when I was about one month in to my boot camp.
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Losing weight has been this all-consuming cloud that’s weighing over my life right now. It’s not necessarily a bad thing but I think about all the people I know that constantly count calories and are tortured by food and how annoying that is from an outsider’s perspective. And now, I just hate what I’ve become. (Yes, those same people are also skinny and fit and beautiful. Sooooo, cost/benefit.)
We decided that based on my basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories I expend while at rest in a day…so say, if I laid in bed all day for one day) plus the amount of activity I have in a typical day (I’m pretty sedentary), I burn about 1800 calories. This is if I don’t work out. So, from that, I set a goal for myself to consume 1200 calories per day, with one cheat day of 1800 calories per week.
I love counting calories; it’s the best “diet” I’ve ever been on. I (sort of) eat whatever I want…I just have to make better choices and really watch my portion sizes. It’s time consuming (calculating meals that will fit into my daily diet, logging everything in my Lose It calorie counter) but I haven’t really felt deprived and I’ve been going strong for a month living this way. Results are happening (obviously) and combined with rigorous workouts 4 times a week, it’s happening quite rapidly.
Sounds so easy right? Count calories. Work out. Lose weight.
Not so much. The psychology behind it all is really what’s torturing me through this whole process. Right now, I’m the person I loathe. Weekdays are easy—in my little controlled environment of my house where I choose and cook what we eat. The weekends though. The weekends.
A friend calls, want’s to go to dinner. I ask where we’re going. I look at the menu. It’s all devastating—Charcuterie. Cheese Boards. Flat breads. Hello? Nary a freakin’ salad in the house? My blood boils. I complain to my husband that the menu is ridiculous. I don’t want to go. I’d rather stay home.
And then I step back, horrified of what I’ve become. Salami is MY LIFE! Go eat some salami. Who cares if you don’t lose any weight this week.
I EFFING CARE. I worked out 4 days a week this week. I slaved over making sure that I stuck to 1200 calories a day. Sure, I’ve “allowed” myself a cheat day, but I really don’t feel like having a cheat day if it means that I can lose 2 pounds this week instead of one.
Then I think about my life before dieting. I didn’t even CARE that I was fat. I still don’t. But now—there’s just too much effort being put into this journey to just blow it off. Hours and hours of meal planning, working out…and let’s be honest…it’s EXPENSIVE. Nutrition classes. Trainer. Gas to get there.
Low calories in, dedication to rigorous 1 hour workouts 5 days a week. Down 6 pounds. Losing weight is easy.
I might lose all my friends. I hate going out to eat. All I can talk about is calories and what I’ve eaten today and how many calories I have left to consume in the day. I beat myself up over what goes in my mouth when I’m not in my house. Losing weight is hard.
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I was roped into joining a boot camp for seven weeks (six weeks, and they were running a one week free promotion) in Oakland. Was I nervous? Heck yes. I was essentially going from couch to working out three times a week+, and I expected it to be grueling. It was tough, but not too bad, and super rewarding.
My boot camp focused on gaining muscle while working out at an elevated heart rate. That meant short intervals of cardio with weight training mixed in between. So, it was never an hour long cardio dash (yikes! scary! too hard for me!) nor was it just weigh training where you didn’t break a sweat…it was a great way to go from not working out at all to getting on track.
Obviously there are different types of boot camps all over the world, so my boot camp experience won’t be the same as yours, but there are some key elements that were important that I think you should look for when choosing a boot camp.
Accountability - find classes that are small, and that meet at times that you know you can always attend so you have NO EXCUSES to miss classes. If the classes are small, people will notice and ask where you’ve been. If you’re serious (of COURSE you are!) find a specific-set week regimen that’s pre-pay, so when you feel like giving up you remember how much money you sunk into the camp. Larger classes are probably cheaper, but more impersonal, and you might not feel as obligated to show up consistently. (If you’re responsible and wonderful and committed, obviously this doesn’t apply to you, and you can find a large format cheap class and go to that!)
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I was rooting around for some pictures of myself for this post, when I realized that beginning sometime after our wedding, I didn’t take a lot of pictures anymore. A lot of it had to do with being unhappy with my weight.
To understand me a little bit, I will say that I’m not obsessive about my weight. On a daily basis I don’t care that I’m overweight. I don’t think about it, don’t obsess over it, it really doesn’t bother me. Aside from feeling bad for my husband that he only outweighed me by 15 pounds but was 10 inches taller than me, I truly enjoyed my life. I love healthy food (fish, veggies, all that good stuff) and while we did (and still do) eat out 3x a week and my portion sizes our OUT OF CONTROL, I can’t say that I have a particularly bad diet, nutrition wise. That being said, I didn’t like having a lot of pictures taken of me. Only when looking at pictures did I realize how much weight (25 whole pounds) I’d gained over the last few years. That’s rough for my 5’2″ frame, as I started out squarely overweight, and zoomed right up into obese (according to BMI calculators).
YEAH YEAH Wii Fit, I’m OBESE. And you’re an inferior gaming console. TAKE THAT.
So, simply, the solution was to stop taking pictures. Weight problems solved.
But that’s boring and detrimental to blogging. Plus, even more dangerously—I don’t go to the doctor. I was so terrified of getting weighed in (I avoided scales like the plague) that I haven’t had a physical in quite a few years. BAD. BAD.
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