Weddingbee
The 4th of July is may favorite holiday! Yep, more than Christmas and more than my birthday, I LOVE the 4th of July. Why? I really can’t describe it, but I love BBQs and I LOVE LOVE LOVE fireworks. The 4th of July just makes me happy.
When Mr Frenchie proposed, I immediately told him I wanted to get married on the 4th of July. What luck, the year we’re getting married my favorite day happens to fall on a Saturday, the most common wedding day of the week. I had already fallen in love with an inspiration board on Style Me Pretty.
As you know my wedding is not this weekend. *le sigh*
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Okay, are you ready for the big reveal? *cue drum roll*
For my bridal earrings I chose the lovely gold and pink bow earrings for the amazingly low price of $13 plus $3.50 shipping and handling! (Can you tell I’m channeling my inner Billy Mays? Man, I’m gonna miss that guy.) Aren’t they beauts?
I could have easily picked any of the choices in my previous post because they are all so beautiful. But it was ultimately the price tag and Mr. Lab’s approval that did it for me. (I had him pick his favorite before telling him my fave—we both picked these!) I think they’ll also complement my dress and whatever pink shoes I end up with, perfectly. My bridal “look” is coming along quite nicely but is missing a little something. Perhaps a dainty bracelet to match the earrings?
Warning: Sensitive information coming up. So if you go by the WB moniker of Mr. Lab, stop scrolling now. I mean it!
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Three days from now, Mr. Bunny and I will be married!
Life has been insane the past couple of days. Sunny Bunny brought her Australian boyfriend home and hosted the Bunny bachelorette Friday night. My family moved me out of my apartment and into our condo in about 3 hours flat on Saturday. Sunday night I took a break and chatted with the hive on Bee TV until my mother forced me to hammer out the rehearsal dinner guest list. And now I’m here at work, still plugging away on everything I need to get done so that I can go on our honeymoon next week!
When everything just seems too overwhelming and I feel like I’ll never get it all done, I close my eyes and imagine our wedding: the lovely details, the decorations I’ve been dreaming up for months, and most importantly (in fact, so important that it makes everything else seem completely insignificant), me and Mr. Bunny, standing in front of all our friends in family, promising to stick together through everything life throws our way.
Of course, images like these are extraordinarily helpful in getting me to that zen state:
Remember when I wrote about our wedding colors here? Well, I’ve had a slight change of heart.
I’ve been going back and forth (as evidenced here) on whether to include my all-time favorite color—pink—in our wedding. I just assumed that my manly future hubby wouldn’t be okay with having pink as one of our colors. Plus, my favorite shade of pink is fuchsia. Hot pink doesn’t exactly mesh with an outdoor autumn wedding. But still, I kept fantasizing about all things pink (to the point that I haven’t committed to any wedding color-related purchases in fear of my internal doubt) and finally decided to do something about it today.
Armed with inspiration photos of pink weddings, I sat Mr. Lab down and asked him his opinion on including the color in our wedding. I showed him an inspiration board that featured my next favorite shade of pink: “dusty” pink. And this board also included our other wedding colors we’ve already picked out: chocolate brown and champagne!
I was ready for the battle.
… Ms. Joey will find wedding inspiration.
Mr. Joey got a grant thing from the Gilder Leherman Institute of American History to spend a week in Washington D.C. studying the 1960s. While it doesn’t sound like the most exciting thing to most, he’s really excited about it and I’m really excited he’s excited.
With him gone, I’m free to spend as much time on the internet as I want. Saturday night was no exception. I went hunting for more table number inspiration and stumbled upon my inspiration for our wedding.
I won’t show you guys my original inspiration board, as it literally has nothing to do with our wedding now! My original colors were pomegranate and gold—not exactly what comes to mind when you hear the phrase “English garden”.
As the wedding planning progressed and I started to develop more of a cohesive “feel” for the wedding, I decided to add two colors to the palette: the palest of pinks and cream. For now, the pomegranate is tentatively staying as an accent color, mostly in the bridesmaids’ dresses; there are a few gold accents thrown in there as well. However, being the perfectionist that I am, I’m quite happy to edit my little heart out until I have every detail exactly right. We’ll have to see whether pomegranate makes the final cut!
I came across this beautiful inspiration board in the archives of Snippet and Ink, and it made me completely rethink our color scheme! Maybe I should edge out the pomegranate/berry color for good in favor of pale pink, cream, and vintage gold! My bridesmaids have already bought their adorable berry-colored dresses (which were also worn by Mrs. Cherry Pie’s beautiful bridesmaids), but maybe we can figure something out that goes better with the new color scheme.
It’s about time I share with you my infatuation for France. I may live in South America, but my heart will always be in France.
About 8 months after Mr. Cubbie and I started dating (and 3 months after moving in together!) we took a trip to France. This was a big deal to me. I [nearly] double majored in French in college (it was either the last semester of 2 French classes or a semester doing astronomy research in Chile), yet had never had the opportunity to go to France! They don’t really offer science classes in study-abroad programs in Europe.
Finally in France, we spent a week at a gîte in the Drôme region, just north of Provence (a cute little cottage!). We went for runs every day through the countryside to town (not a bad way to pick up your produce!). By “countryside”, I mean something like this:
I’ve thus far been afraid to buy any one piece of my wedding day ensemble; this is mostly because of my concern about the flower colors that will be available on the big day. I’d hate to buy orange shoes and an orange hair accessory and dress Mr. Mary Jane up in an orange tie only to find… no orange or yellow flowers at any of the grocery stores in town. I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to handle this. It isn’t a big concern, but I don’t want the colors to clash. I don’t want to go completely white with my accessories, either. I was to the point of considering consulting a florist and ordering flowers - something that I think would raise my floral budget quite a bit.
So I started to pay attention to the flowers at the grocery store. Whenever I go in, I try to take a moment to look at the floral selection. I’ve found that they usually have at least a few pink or yellow bunches of flowers and occasionally some other colors, but many of them are multi-colored bunches of mixed flowers, greenery and baby’s breath. These are flowers that appeal to the masses: bouquets fit for a grandmother’s birthday, a side-table centerpiece, or a friend recovering in the hospital. With that in mind, I give you this. (What’s a wedding planning girl [with little money to spend right now] to do? Plan, dream and Google-search, of course!!)
[sources: cupcakes, pearls, pink/green bouquet, green shoe, couple, jewelry (my photo), men’s ring, courthouse, car, orange/green bouquet, green shoe, barrette.]
You might say I had some pretty severe internal conflict when it came to defining our wedding “colors” or “palette”. I didn’t want anything too defined! You can’t hold me back from pairing green and red and purple! and brown! …. and cream! You could say I’d have benefited from some good idea refining.
Everyone and their momzilla needs to go here right now:
Hey! Not so bad, eh?
Maybe I’m not the most “with-it” fiancée when it comes to the wedding color palette (because the ring on the fingy must mean I have an honorary arts degree—what? You don’t?). Even if you’re much more color-confident than myself, I recommend a gander at this crazy Flickr widget thing!
Grey Likes Weddings posted this weeks ago, and I’ve had it “kept as new” in my Google Reader since…
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