Weddingbee

I’ve been searching high-and-low for months trying to find the perfect one. I originally wanted a Tiffany Blue clutch, but besides buying one from Tiffany’s there was not an inexpensive one to be found. Enter Etsy. While searching for other bridal accessories, I came across Red Ruby Rose handmade clutches. At first, I did a request through Alchemy for a custom blue clutch, but I fell in love with this breezy, red tulip clutch once I saw it. Rowena, the owner, lives in England and has awesome customer service. She messaged me seconds after I bought the purchase to say that my bag would arrive in about 10 days! YAY! Above and below are picture of my clutch that I will be stalking my mailbox for in the coming days.

Although I was really looking forward to using the Alchemy process for my clutch, I’m very satisfied with my purchase.

Have you had any custom items for your wedding made through Etsy?
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“Fathers and Daughters” by Paul Simon

“One More For My Baby (And One For the Road)” by Frank Sinatra

Which song do you think we should choose?
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First, Mr. Cookie really hasn’t really had an opinion about the design details of the wedding, at all! But the one thing he really wanted, when it came to flowers, was red roses. (Red is Mr. Cookie’s favorite color!) Since we are getting married at the end of September, we are trying to time it so that the fall foliage will be at its peak and the backdrop for our ceremony will be colored with red and orange foliage. So, red and orange roses were in!

Second, when I started looking for a florist and deciding on flowers, I vowed to not be a Cymbidium orchid bride! They are in every bridal magazine, and I was not going to be that bride! Yeah, well that vow was broken the second after my florist put together a mock bouquet with burgundy Cymbidium orchids in it! Yes, now I am another Cymbidium orchid bride! However, after I had broken my no-Cymbidium orchid vow, I felt even worse for not choosing wildflowers, especially since we are getting married in the mountains. So, I decided to round our flower palette out with burgundy dahlias, burgundy hypercium berries, amaranthus, and leucadenron.

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All the flowers, except the orchids, will be arranged in centerpiece boxes similar to one pictured above.

How did you decide what flowers to use for your wedding?

As I am writing this post, I am thinking about going back to my florist and cutting the orchids! I think they are really pretty but with a mountain wedding it just doesn’t work. What do you think?
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Have you seen this article? It came across my RSS news feed yesterday. Apparently, a bride in Virginia auctioned off a spot as a bridesmaid in her wedding to the highest bidder on eBay in order to pay for her $7,000 wedding. With a combined income of $32,000 and a 1-year old child, the couple was on a tight budget, so they turned to eBay to offset the expenses. So who was the lucky winner? Dr. Pepper and Snapple! Not only did the company up the bid to $10,000, but is launching an online competition to decide who the bridesmaid will be — with talk of a surprise celebrity. I have to give the couple major props for being creative! Now, they can not only afford the wedding, but the honeymoon as well.

This article begs for us to ask the question: is corporate wedding sponsorship the new bridal trend? Mr. Cookie and I are trying really hard to stay on budget, but I know that I couldn’t have a corporate brand plastered among our decorations to offset expenses. I know the bride didn’t mean for Dr. Pepper to be her wedding sponsor, but would you solicit a corporate sponsor your wedding?

What are some other creative ways you have used to pay for your wedding?
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Last Friday, Mr. Cookie and I ventured into Al’s Formal Wear in Cherry Creek for his own personal groom’s fitting. Yes, you heard that right! Mr. Cookie got the Cary Grant celebrity treatment in an after hours fitting courtesy of the lovely saleswoman helping us, Shannon. (Really, the store closed at 6:00pm, but since Mr. Cookie doesn’t get off work until 5:30pm, Shannon kindly allowed us to stay after the store closed to do the fitting. Thank you Shannon!)

A week prior, we went into Al’s to scout out tuxes for Mr. Cookie’s fitting. He picked a tux by Perry Ellis and one by Joseph Abboud along with silver, pool, and black vests to try on. I wasn’t too keen on the pool or silver vests, but they were both definitely worth a try.

Ladies, if you go tux shopping with your man ask the saleswoman how many times the tuxes have been worn. I say this because Mr. Cookie wears Perry Ellis on a regular basis and it’s a good deisgner brand, but a lot of “I Do’s” had been said in that tux! The Joseph Abboud tux was not as worn, had lighter fabric, and was smokin’ on Mr. Cookie! I was totally wrong about the silver vest! Mr. Cookie looked hot, hot, hot in it, but the pool — oh, pool! Poor, poor, pool — let’s just say it wasn’t even a contender. In order to stand out, Mr. Cookie chose the silver vest for himself and black vests for the groomsmen. Now, to the Cookie’s dilemma: Tie or Bow Tie?

Mr. Cookie is thinking he wants to wear a silver bow-tie, but I personally like the silver tie on him much better. If all the boys were wearing black vests, I think a black bow tie, a la Cary Grant, would be very handsome. But this Cookie is just not digging the silver-bow tie on Mr. Cookie. Hive, below are photos of the different tie combination for the men, and we are letting you decided…

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Mr. Cookie

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When Mr. Cookie and I toured the venue in November, we took the chair lift up to the Ten Mile because the road was buried in 6 feet of snow. Now that all the snow had melted, we could take the dirt road up. I am really glad we did this because finding the road in town is really, really tricky. Addition to my to-do list: 1. Make signs to point our guests in the right direction.

(Please ignore the fact that this photo was taken going down the mountain. I was a little too excited about seeing the venue again that I totally forgot to take pictures on the way up!)

First off in our tour of Ten Mile: Inside. Lucky for us, they were setting up for a wedding, but unfortunately I couldn’t meet with our coordinator, Britton, as she was hosting another wedding at one of the other Breckenridge Lodging and Hospitality sites. Another coordinator, Helen, graciously gave us a little tour of the facility and answered all of my questions.

Above, the bar/cocktail area. I really like how it is off to the side and separate from the dining room. If too full, guests can spill off onto the patio. I did a count of the tables and after counting 8 High-Tops (I thought there was only 4), the Michael Miller Dandy Damask linens might be cut for cost. GRRRRRR! I want to think of a way to incorporate the fabric. Any ideas?

In the pictures is my FFIL, as well as our guest book table, escort card table, monitors for a slideshow, and table for appetizers. At some point in the evening the table for appetizers will go away and this area will be used as our dance floor. Off to the right hand side and not pictured is a little alcove for the DJ.

The big issue that we discovered were the tablecloths. In our pricing basic tablecloths are included, so I just went with them; however, this is what the basic tablecloths looks like –unpressed and dropped only a few inches off of the table. Although, I could potentially look past this, it just doesn’t look good. Addition to my to-do list: 2. Hunt for better linens. Next up on our tour: Outside.

Above is a photo of Mr. Cookie, his parents, and his sister.

This is the patio where Mr. Cookie and I will get married. I love, love, love the long walk down the aisle! And the mountains in the background! *sigh*

In this photo you are seeing my FFIL and myself discussing the grate issue. Right where I will be standing there is a grate that I could potentially get my heels caught in. I can just imaginee myself a happy, tearful Cookie blissfully staring into Mr. Cookie’s eyes and then !!!!BAM!!! nose dive into the pavement. Although the aisle runner will cover it, there needs to be something hard underneath to prevent heel and bodily damage. Addition to my to-do list: 3. Cover for grate.

A photo of Mr. Cookie and myself in the exact spot where we will get married. *sigh*

And finally on our tour I leave you with this: my sunburn. That’s right, on Friday I did a whole post about the altitude, but did I even think of putting sunscreen on my shoulders, no! Although, I did put it on my face! I was only out in the sun for 30 minutes max, but at 10,000 feet the sun is 40% stronger. I am really hoping it will fade by September, but I have a tan line from a burn last year on my back that still hasn’t faded. Oh, well. Addition to my to-do list: 4. Apply aloe vera to burn liberally.
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My to-do list grew exponentially during the trip, and I learned a lot about the venue as I watched them set-up for a wedding later that evening. Needless-to-say, I have a lot to blog about, but this post isn’t about our wedding weekend. Oh, no! This is a post about my realization that Mr. Cookie and I are getting married and what the wedding is doing to our relationship.

OMG, I am going to marry my best friend in 90 days! It’s really happening, I am getting married! I feel like a little, giddy girl filled with excitement and awe as my wedding is just t-minus 90 days away! That little girl that played dress-up in old bridesmaid’s dresses is now the bride!

But as my to-do list continues to grow, so has my anxiety about getting everything done. This anxiety of perfection has spilled into Mr. Cookie and my relationship, and the hard and sadder realization I made over the weekend was that I am getting lost in the details and losing sight of our relationship. Instead of the day being about the love that Mr. Cookie and I share, the day has become all about the creases in the linens, the number of candles, the perfect shade of blue, and a silver bow-tie. Suddenly, the love and laughter we shared is being replaced with fights over bow ties. Instead of our day it has become my day, and that makes me really sad!

So, I had to make a choice to let go of my grip on this wedding for the sake of our relationship. Although, I still need to buy more candles and coordinate better linens, I am making a commitment to put the day into perspective. Although a very important day, it is just a day. And I further realized that the most important thing about our wedding is not the details, but the commitment that we are making to one another — to spend the rest of my life with Mr. Cookie, and that is really what this day is really all about!
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