Wedding Blog

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Here are a couple of pictures from our super fun Buck and Doe last Saturday.

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.

Isn’t Momma Pumpkin the cutest? This is a pink and brown tiramisu she made for my girls only shower last night. First without and then with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.