Wedding Blog

To Have and to Hold
To Do the ‘Do
To Bake a Cake
To “Break it Down”
To Play Dress-Up
To Have and to Hold - Again
To Say Cheese - the Fams 

Wowwwweee, my last post was a MONTH ago. Quick word of warning: you always think you cannot be busier than you are while wedding planning. Untrue. After the wedding ends, expect an avalanche of stuff you were forgiven for not…

To Have and To Hold
To Do The ‘Do
To Bake a Cake
To “Break It Down”
To Play Dress-Up
To Have and To Hold - Again

Hey, have I mentioned that it rained on our wedding day (I know, it’s over, I need to get over it)? Well, despite the rain, we actually had a decent photo spot outside under an awning – so we all got to smile pretty and…

Back in the day, I had my heart set on some true geek-wedding favors: rubik’s cubes. Well, when Mr. BG (and cost) dashed my hopes (that’s right, Mr. BG, DASHED), I was sure no favor would appease me.

I think the problem that we all face with favors is – we want people to like them, and things that people like tend to cost more than…

To Have and To Hold
To Do The ‘Do
To Bake a Cake
To “Break It Down”
To Play Dress-Up

The first time around, I was sooo super excited to post ceremony pictures that I may have skipped a bit- thus I cannot help but revisit our ceremony– of course, in picture-form:

Part 1: To Bake a Cake

I just want to take a second to thank everyone for their super sweet feedback on my labor of love a.k.a. my wedding cake:

Really, I cannot believe how ridiculously supportive all of your comments were.

It means SO MUCH to me.

To Have and To Hold

To Do The ‘Do

To Bake a Cake

To “Break It Down”

It wasn’t finishing the cake decorations at midnight on Thursday night. It wasn’t shopping for Sunday brunch on Friday at 3 pm, when we should have already left for Maine. It wasn’t finding out, four hours before the ceremony, that the venue’s generator had been struck by lightning and that they had been…

To Have and To Hold
To Do The ‘Do
To Bake a Cake

Okay, so I realize that these are horribly out of order, and I promise that I will get to every aspect of the wedding (I’ve spent about a month with my eyes glued to these pictures), but I can’t resist this series of pictures…

“Let me break it down for you.”

…

GAAAAAAHHHH!!! I am soooOO excited!!!

So, as many of you know, I married Mr. BG. With that marriage, I OFFICIALLY (unofficially, I was already there) got a brand new mom, a brand new dad, and a brand new brother.

Well, guess what people!!! Brand new brother got engaged!!!

Now our unofficial family will be one big official family (and family pictures can be hung on walls ).

Basically, it happened here:

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To Have and To Hold
To Do The ‘Do

A while back, I mentioned my grand plans to make my own wedding cake. Well, ladies and gents (light on the gents), I present to you my wedding cake:

Thanks to the wonderful advice of reader, Cindy, I found an AMAZING place to get my hair did for the wedding - Illusions in Saco, ME did a fanTABulous job on everyone’s hair.

To be honest, I was worried. When I went in for my trial, I was a little disappointed. The curls fell out rather quickly (I had washed my hair that day, plus she…

The Bubblegums have returned from Bar Harbor, equipped with all sorts of Bar Harbor minimooning advice*!!

Do: Stay Downtown – The main part of Bar Harbor is about, oh, I’d say… one… square foot? So there are really only a few hotels that are right there in the thick of it. Others are definitely walkable, but there’s something gratifying about walking out of your hotel room and onto the…

Because weddings are so garsh darn expensive, Mr. BG and I had made the decision a while back to forego the big honeymoon for the time being. The plan is to spend a couple weeks in Paris sometime next year. In the meantime, however, we had made no plans to honeymoon. Our wedding was Saturday, and I was at work on Tuesday. Let me tell…

Let me just say: our ceremony was amazing - despite the fact that it was absolutely in no way how I had pictured it. For one, I had pictured it outside. Sun shining. People squinting. A giant, petal-covered aisle leading to a modest gazebo.

It was nothing like that. Outside, rain was falling. At three pm, I was told my ceremony would take place on the dance…

About three and a half hours before our ceremony, I was driving to my hair appointment. As I was driving, my mother was telling me a ridiculously long, drawn out story about a friend of hers who had four very different husbands. It was meant to distract me. Meanwhile, I was imagining what would transpire were there no wedding here today.

Let me rewind.

I woke up on…

Ahem - we’re married! And we’re happy!! And we’re exhausted!!!

It was really just an amazing day. I had started to feel like nothing was going to go right, and I had started to worry that I wouldn’t properly enjoy our day. Amazingly, I really do feel like most everything was perfect, and I don’t know if there’s a picture of me where I’m not grinning ear…