

I am a slave to lip gloss. In the dryness that is Colorado, I perpetually carry around one tube of Burt’s Bees lip balm and one tube of my current favorite shade of lip gloss to fight against my curse of chapped lips. When I was thinking about what wedding accessories that I needed, a clutch to hold my lip gloss (and other accoutrements) was a big necessity.

My dad is an old timer. His first car was a 57’ Chevy, and I remember growing-up and listening to the Beach Boys on vinyl. Being the spunky old fart that he is, he loves to retell his glory days playing college football over and over again. Transitioning into the modern age of technology is not my dad’s thing. He has a computer that he barely knows how to use and doesn’t own a cell phone. Although we’ve had our differences over the years, especially when my parents got divorced, he’s still my dad and I love him!
Now reaching his mid-sixties, my dad loves to dance! He knows the jitterbug like no on else and dances like an old pro. Needless to say, picking a song for our Father/Daughter Dance has been a challenge. It would seem more apropos to my dad’s personality to have an upbeat song to dance to, but being the only girl in the family, our wedding is very sentimental to him. We’ve narrowed it down to two songs, “Fathers and Daughters” by Paul Simon, and “One More For My Baby (And One For the Road)” by Frank Sinatra.


From left to right: Row 1: Style Me Pretty, The Knot, Knottie Bio Vintageglam Row 2: Cymbidium Orchid? Row 3: Style Me Pretty, Couple?, Style Me Pretty, Row 4: The Knot, Martha Stewart Weddings, Heather Warska, The Knot, Martha Stewart Weddings
Since I am a very visual cookie, I did a floral inspiration board for my florist, to better understand the floral palette that I have envisioned for our wedding. (Sorry, my sources are a little incomplete because I didn’t write them down when I made this back in March). How did I decided on what flowers I wanted?

Weddings are expensive, and it seems like every time Mr. Cookie and I say “wedding,” the price seems to triple, if not quadruple. I think what is even worse is the nickel and diming - corking fees, cake cutting fees, food shortage surcharges, photography usage fees - it’s vendors trying to squeeze every last penny out of you! Mr. Cookie and I want to have a nice wedding, but we don’t want to auction off our first child to do so! But one bride did something similar!
Bees, thank for all your input about Mr. Cookie’s tux. After reading the comments Mr. Cookie decided that since he has never worn a tux, and doesn’t know when he will ever wear one again, he is going to rent a tux.

Since none of our families had seen our venue, we decided to take a little trek up into the mountain to Breckenridge on Saturday. Like I said in yesterday’s post, when Mr. Cookie and I toured the venue in November it was ski season – not only was the patio where we would get married buried under snow, but the dinning room was converted into a café for skiers. Now that all the snow had melted and ski session was over, we could get a better picture of what the location would look like on our wedding day. So, my FFIL, FMIL, FSIL, my mom, Mr. Cookie, and myself piled into our cars and drove up to Breckenridge to look at Ten Mile Station. The hour and half drive along I-70 is stunning!
This weekend was a big wedding extravaganza at the Cookie household. On Friday we picked out Mr. Cookie’s tux and on Saturday my FFIL, FMIL, FSIL, my mom, Mr. Cookie, and myself went up to Breckenridge to look at Ten Mile. When Mr. Cookie and I toured the venue in November it was ski season – not only was the patio where we would get married buried under snow, but the dinning room was converted into a café for skiers. Now that all the snow had melted and ski session was over, we could get a better picture of what the location would look like on our wedding day. Also, none of our families had seen the location, so we made a nice little morning/afternoon out of the trek up to Breck.

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