Weddingbee Blog

Garden Ridge always has great deals on decorative items so I decided to stop by this past weekend to take a look. They had piles and piles of Easter items on sale. I found these cute Easter baskets on sale for half off - $1.50 each basket. They had so many different colors, sizes, and designs. Unforunately, I couldn’t find one that had a creme/sage/chocolate color, but I found ones that were just as cute! The colors/fabric on the baskets are playful and age appropriate for the little munchkins.

We have a total of 40 kids under the age of 13 attending our wedding. I know they will be a main part of the wedding - running around the tables, playing along with the photographer, and pointing and laughing at us kissing. So, their tables had to be decked out as much as the adults. But of course within a kid budget.

Here is the breakdown of the items.

Garden Ridge - baskets, moss = approx total $2.12 each basket
Walmart - crayon sets, crayon books = approx total $4.00 each basket
Misc Toys and Bubble Gum = approx total $ 1.00 each
total = $7.00 - $8.00 per basket

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This is the deck outside of our venue (actually, this is the deck as viewed through a window. It felt like minus 30 last week with the wind and I really didn’t want to step outside. Not even for your benefit, dear readers).

This is where Mr. Broccoli and I will (hopefully) lead all of our little kiddie guests sometime during the reception and help them dismantle a pinata.

I’m thinking a Fiona pinata for the girls, and a Shrek pinata for the boys. Unfortunately, I’m having a hard time finding the ones I’ve envisioned, so I may have to find something more boring. Like a wedding cake pinata. But who wants to whack a wedding cake pinata? I think they’ll have more fun attacking a bride and groom pinata!

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There are going to a LOT of kiddies at our wedding. Consider this: Mr. Broccoli’s father has NINE brothers and sisters and all but a couple have 4+ kids. And let’s not forget the second cousins and their kids. No way! You say… Ha. I wish.

But really, it’s not that bad. Kids lend an air of fun to weddings, especially if you’re not set on having an ultra-fancy affair.

So I thought, why not give the kiddies something fun to do? We’ll probably have a pinata, and perhaps set aside some tables for kids only, complete with candy and board games, coloring books, etc. (granted, we’ll need to make sure we have room to do this).

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After-holiday sales are the best, especially when you’re trying to save some money for this seemingly never-ending pit of wedding expenses.

After Valentines Day, I hit up the local Walmart and Target in search of cute and cheap “Love” themed items - ideal for a LOVE-themed wedding (haha - all weddings are love themed! so lucky us!)

Here are some of my finds (at 75% off!):

Love maze games
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Mr. Apple and I visited a Dave and Busters together a few years ago. Dave and Busters is the adult version of Chuck ‘e Cheese - they house a full restaurant and bar, poker tables, pool tables, and all of the latest arcade type games. We were in the arcade area playing the games and we came across a funny little photo booth, “The Gene Machine.” Instead of just taking your photo, this photo booth morphs your digital image (any character trait - eye shape, nose size, eyebrow arch, etc.) with your significant other’s image to create your imaginary progeny.

So we both went into the booth and had our photo’s taken, half thinking that our kids would be Kodak commercial worthy. Oh boy, were we surprised at the results. We couldn’t stop laughing at the print outs - a little mortified to say the least. The girl was a good mix of Mr Apple and I, the boy was kind of cute I guess in a William Hung/American Idol sort of way.

My sister took these with her now husband while they were dating, and the boy photo resembles my little nephew to the T. I know we have the photo somewhere in our house. I’ll have to keep digging to post up our little “William.” In the meantime here are some samples I found by googling.

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I love kids, don’t get me wrong. We plan on having 3. We have names picked out and I love looking at baby clothes, cribs and nursery decor. My friends who are older than me think I’m very strange. Now, I’m in graduate school and a bit of a feminist when it comes to certain issues. I’m definitely not a burn-my-bra kinda gal, but I believe in a little “girl power” every now and then.

The reason I mention this, is my fiance’s parents, aunts and cousins (heck, even people I hardly know) all lecture me when it comes to “waiting to have kids.” “Don’t wait too long.” “You don’t want to be an old mother.” “You should definitely have some kids before 30.” “You could have complications later.” I really can’t stand it anymore. I’m 25 years old people. My Mom had me (her first child) when she was 32. I turned out just fine, thanks.

The thing that upsets me is I have no intentions of waiting that long. We want to start “trying” after a year and a half of marriage. I’ll be 27. My fiance’s cousin was also 25 when she got married. The only difference is she didn’t pursue any post-graduate studies, and she was more than willing to give up her job to have kids. No one pressured her.

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Tick*tick*tick. What’s that sound keeping me up at night? My biological clock. It’s ticking so hard I can barely focus on wedding planning! When I was dating Mr. Kiwi, my obsession was rings and engagements. After we were engaged, I spent the first few months booking things and picking out colors until my eyes crossed. Now with less than a year to the wedding, I don’t want a wedding so much anymore but a baby!

Don’t be alarmed - I go through these baby phases all the time, especially when I go into Baby Gap or Gymboree. Since I’ve been counting down the months to the wedding, I can also count down the months until we can start trying for babies! So… according to the plan Mr. Kiwi and I have agreed to (loosely), we can start trying November of ‘08.

The plan goes like this: We get married in November of 2007, just days before I turn 28 and 3 months before Mr. Kiwi turns 29. From day one, I’ve been very explicit in that I want a baby before I turn 30. So, we enjoy one full year of wedded bliss (no more and no less), and then get to it. That leaves us a full year of me being 29 to have a baby or get preggers.

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I had lunch with a friend today who’s working on a business class project about a baby website. She asked if I could give her the data from a post on babies I wrote a long time ago, when weddingbee was but a little personal blog. This is the transferred post - you’ll see that the first commenter is my mom. It’s the one and only time she’s ever commented on weddingbee, and obviously coincidentally it’s the one about babies.

Before we got married, Mr. Bee and I discussed waiting 2 years to start having kids. But our timeline slowly seems to be getting pushed farther back. We’re both so busy with work and this time we have with each other before kids come into the picture is so great. If I could, I would wait a couple more years from now. But I also don’t want to wait too long because I’m no spring chicken. Time really flies after you get married. The plan for now is 2 1/2 years… but we’ll see.

I didn’t have a nifty poll feature when I originally wrote the poll, so I thought I’d repost it.