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Like most brides-to-be, I was determined to look my best on my wedding day so over the past year I tried out countless different beauty products. Often I was unimpressed, a couple of times I was pleasantly surprised but these two were the most noteworthy. And so I present to you, dear readers, my very first (two) product reviews! Do you want the good news or the bad news first? I will start with the good news because I would rather help advertise GO SMILE than Veet so let’s put their picture on the site first! (See, my psychology degree was worth it! I remember the concept of primacy very well and am applying it in real life!)
We had such a wonderful time at our rehearsal! It was so fun getting everyone together and there was such a nice feeling in the day. So much excitement and love in the air! Here are a couple of pictures taken by the lovely and talented wife of our Best Man.
I don’t want to give anyone the wrong impression here, I had a wonderful wedding day! However, this is a blog about the reality of weddings and it is meant to help others in their planning. So just this once I am going to tell you about the things that went wrong for us that day, only in an effort to help you avoid the same trappings. And then every post after this will be sunshine and lollipops, rainbows and puppy dogs, I promise!
This is quite a long post but there are lots of pictures further down so keep reading!
Our day was planned out as follows:
9:30 - everyone who was helping to decorate the island and reception site was to meet at my parents’ house to pack everything up and drive it to the site
9:45 - 10:30 - Miss Pumpkin organizes decorating and delegates jobs to her team of helpful volunteers at the restaurant, so that she can move on to the island
10:30 - 11:30 - Miss Pumpkin organizes decorating and delegates jobs to her team of helpful volunteers on the island so that she can move on to getting her hair done, etc…
12:00 - Miss Pumpkin and MOH meet hair dresser at hotel to begin getting ready
2:30 - Miss Pumpkin, MOH, Mr. Pumpkin and BM meet photographer to start pictures
4:30 - Mommas, Papas, and Grandmommas meet wedding party to take some quick photos before ceremony.
5:00 - all of us are picked up by the ferry and taken over to the island to get married! Read more…
One of the coolest and most spontaneous things that happened at our wedding was the guest DJ phenomenon. We had rented sound equipment and then created playlists for various times throughout the night (cocktail hour, dinner, dance). We had my very good friend and her husband (who had played music this way at weddings before) sort of looking after it all night and changing the playlists when needed etc. Later in the night though, after we had put on the wedding dance playlist and my friend and her husband had left the post, we started having guest DJs appear! First was one of my cousins, then another cousin, then my two brothers! It was great! At first I was nervous (especially because the first cousin to step up there was only 15) but they kept the party hopping and the dance floor filled all night!
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As you may recall I was having a hard time deciding how to display the lollipops and rock candy sticks in our candy buffet. While there were some fantastic suggestions of where to buy test tube type displays in the comments of my previous post, I just could not justify spending another $50 or so (plus shipping to Canada) on racks that I would likely never use again, and so another DIY project was born!
In Regina we have a lovely store called Gale’s Florist and they sell everything crafty at wholesale prices if you have an account. Luckily for me, Papa Pumpkin’s work has an account and so Momma Pumpkin and I bought almost everything that we used to decorate the wedding from Gale’s including almost all of the jars we used to display the candy buffet. We found the perfect square vases to display the rock candy sticks in, and so I left the sticks in the wrapper and stood them up in the vases and it looked great! Unfortunately I don’t have a great picture of that for you but I am hoping that when I get my professional pics back there will be a close up of the candy display.
The majority of weddings that I have attended have all been open seating kinds of events, where guests sat wherever they wanted. So when we were planning our wedding, we decided to kick it up a notch and have assigned seating. This meant that we needed escort cards which in turn lead to an escort card display! I had already pulled this picture out of MS Weddings because of the centerpieces shown on the bottom of the page, so when we decided to do assigned seating, I knew exactly where to look for an escort card display.
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One of the best parts of coming home from our honeymoon, besides sleeping in our own bed and having clean laundry again, was that we finally got to open our wedding gifts! What wonderful, thoughtful, and generous friends and family we have! We were given so many lovely gifts, but three that stood out for us are a quilt, our wedding invitation framed for us, and a bottle of Dom Perignon! Check these out:
This quilt was made by my BFF’s mom for us. It is so beautiful, and I can’t believe that she went to that much trouble for us! She even matched it to our invites!
We are having a fantastic time in Italy! Venice was amazing and now we’re in Florence. I’ve seen enough old men in Speedos to last me a lifetime and there are a lot of mullets around Italy. I don’t know if they are local mullets or tourist mullets but regardless, they are here! Our Airmiles hotels have been incredible and I will have lots of pictures to show you when we return. Read more…
Hi again! It is raining here in Amsterdam so I had a few minutes to chat! We have already been to London and Dusseldorf and are in Amsterdam until morning when we will take the train to Paris. We are having a wonderful time so far and it is so much fun telling people that we are honeymooning and saying “My husband…” whenever possible. Our hotels have been fantastic. I especially love the European beds with the two separate long and narrow blankets so that you can snuggle and then when you eventually fall asleep and roll away from one another, no one is stealing the others blankets!! Mr. Pumpkin and I are both notorious blanket stealers so we are considering doing this at home too!)
Anyhow, since I have some time I thought I would give you a more detailed description of the wedding! Mr. Pumpkin’s ankle held up fairly well! (Thanks for asking) He had gotten a boot type thing earlier in the week and so he started putting a little weight on it on Thursday. He walked down the aisle unassisted and we had our first dance without anyone being the wiser! After the first dance though the boot went back on.
Hi everyone! Mrs. Pumpkin here - writing from a little internet cafe in London.
The wedding went really well (I will write a more detailed account when I get back from honeymooning) and so far, London is fantastic! Mr. Pumpkin and I inadvertently spent some time in The Azure House, an Indian brothel, last night while waiting for a cab, but other than that the traveling has gone really well. 
I just thought that I would check in and let you know that I haven’t forgotten you all now that I am married! (So fun to say that!) I was hoping to be able to post a teaser picture at least but the cafe won’t let me upload anything so you’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for that. Take care and good luck to those of you getting married either this or next Saturday!
Well! If someone would have told me that this is how you are supposed to do it I would have reached my goal weight ages ago!
* Patsy Cline
Okay Weddingbees! I need your help. Here’s the situation - my parents went away on a weeks vacation and they left the keys to the brand new Porsche - would they mind? Hmmmm well, of course not. Just kidding. Sometimes I need a little Fresh Prince in the morning to get me going.
Okay, *here’s* the situation. We are having a day-after brunch at my parents house on Sunday. Mr. Pumpkin and I talked it over and decided that we were not going to open our gifts in front of everyone so that it is a brunch, not a gift opening. The other night we were talking about it with my SIL and she said something like, “Well, of course you’ll have all of your gifts opened and on display then, right?” And I said, “no” to which she replied, “You have to! It is rude not to! People want to see what you got!”
My personal feelings are that it is nobody else’s business what we “got” for wedding gifts. As I have said before, I think comparisons surrounding gifts and money almost always lead to hurt feelings. When I explained this to my SIL she said, “Well then display the gifts without the cards.” Well, what is the point of that? To me that just seems like we are showing off or something. It is all a bit weird, isn’t it? It never once occurred to me that it might be “rude” to not have our gifts be the focus of the brunch. My intentions surrounding the brunch were just to have a more relaxed setting to visit with our friends and family and to thank them once again for coming to the wedding. Read more…
We all know that rain on your wedding day is not ironic (right, Alanis?), it is simply bad luck. Well, that is exactly what Mr. Pumpkin and I have been having this week! On Monday, Mr. P and I were helping my Mom fix and paint her deck, and Mr. P sprained his ankle! Poor Mr. P - he feels so badly about the whole thing. At the moment (three days before the wedding) he still can’t put any weight on it and I don’t foresee that getting much better before Saturday. What to do? I feel as though we’re in the middle of a John Irving novel, as we are just “waiting and seeing”. We go to see the doctor again tomorrow, so if I have time I will post an update for you after that. Here’s a gross picture of his ankle that I know you are all dying to see…
I spent some time cutting the silk flowers for our centerpieces last night, and then I put everything together to see what a table might look like for the reception dinner.
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