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Getting a gift for Mr. Lemon is a really difficult task since he is the one that is usually bestowing them upon others. He gives gifts to people around the clock for the silliest reasons, but it’s a trait that I adore about him… and not just because I’m the recipient of lots of exotic sodas and video games. He loves gifting… which made the whole wedding present issue such a to-do!
He doesn’t wear a watch, or cologne, or cufflinks… or anything really traditional of the sort. He buys himself (or me) everything that he really really wants… so there’s not a whole lot left to go out and get. So… I decided to go creative and had something made just for him:
Mr. Kiwi loooooves him some gadgets. If we were gifting each other on the day of, I’d consider getting him a subscription to the “Gadget of the month club“.
Since he’s a fan of cooking (loves to make his own chili for some reason), these cooking gadgets, spaced over a year would be a great surprise. For $129.99 dollars, you get:
The one thing we knew from the beginning of wedding planning is that our wedding wouldn’t be formal (ballroom, tuxes, big dress etc). So when it came time to think about attire for the men, particularly my fiance, we knew we wanted suits and not tuxedos.
After a little thought (and a very generous offer from our groomsman and fiance’s best friend to pay for 40% as his wedding gift to us) we decided to have his suit custom made. Our very organized and excited groomsman did some research and narrowed it down to Alan David Custom in NYC.
First time buyers get the following great offers:
$100 off every suit purchase
$50 off every sport coat purchase
$100 off any tuxedo purchase
10% off any trouser purchase
10% off any shirt purchase
The whole experience has been fantastic. My fiance and I went with our GM and his wife to meet Alan, the tailor and partner in the business. What is different about a custom tailored suit vs. off the rack?
After much searching, calling up various jewelers across the country, and the help of a very good friend, I was finally able to locate the perfect wedding present for the Hubs.
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Early on the Friday morning of our wedding weekend, Mr. Lemon will be getting ready for the rehearsal here:
Mr. Kiwi is a no-fuss kind of guy. His primping routine includes: shower, shave, brush teeth, put in contacts. On the rare occasion (between haircuts) he may use a squidge of gel, but that’s it. Sometimes he uses a splash of cologne, but since I’m not a fan of the cologne he likes, he usually doesn’t bother.
I’m sort of the same way- in the morning I wake up, put my (usually still wet from the night before’s shower) hair into a messy bun and brush my teeth. Makeup usually isn’t applied, and if it is, it’s at around noon when I’m bored and need something to do. The wedding day look will most likely have lipstick, blush, eye shadow, liner and mascara. Perhaps a set of false eyelashes since I think they look cool. That’s about it.
When I asked Mr. Kiwi if he was planning on doing anything different to himself for the wedding day, he said no. Then, “Yes. I want to have my back done.” Done? He wants (don’t tell him I told you) a full spa treatment for his back- exfoliating, moisturizing, waxing… the whole shebang. Isn’t that cute (and a little gross)?
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Mr. Pumpkin is a punk. I obviously mean that in the best possible sense of the word, but it is true! In fact, maybe we can call him Mr. Punkin’ from now on! He loves punk music, has a mohawk in his drivers license picture and often has a goatee so long that I can grab it and shake his head around when need be.
Now, I never “did” ballet (gotta love Avril’s grammar) and I am far from a princess, but I am also FAR from a punk. I love hip hop and girly clothes and TV shows like The Hills. Our relationship has long been a mystery to our friends and family but somehow, we work it out. He goes to shows with his buddies, I go dancing with my girlfriends, he has “rock concerts” (listening to music really really loud through earphones) while I watch my “silly” TV shows. We compromise and it all works out in the end.
So, when we went to look at tuxes for the wedding and they showed us the shoe choices, I could tell that Mr. Punkin’ was dreading wearing any of them. It just isn’t his style to wear anything shiny on his feet. So, I present to you Mr. Punkin’s wedding shoes!
Get ready to log onto Target.com on May 6th for the newest temptation from Target…Isaac Mizrahi’s bridal line! (It’s available exclusively online)
Bridesmaids dresses are included, as are groom’s cummerbunds and ties, along with bridal accessories and a range of footwear. Prices start at US $9.99 for accessories and $159.99 for wedding dresses.
While I spent hundreds of hours pouring over every little detail of my “wedding day look”, I have always thought that my FI’s attire deserved the same amount of attention (although he, as a typical boy, told me that he couldn’t care less if he rented or bought/what color it was/what kind of fit/etc.). Either way, I still wanted him to feel extra special on our wedding day, so I helped him to find the perfect suit/had it tailored, had the shirt custom made, found the perfect tie, and I needed to find the “perfect cufflinks” (accessories) to complete his look. BTW–he absolutely LOVES his shirt–he says it’s the comfiest and best-fitting shirt he’s ever worn (well duh, it better fit–it was CUSTOM haha, nerd.)
I’ve been searching for quite some time now and FINALLY came across some links that just screamed “buy me, buy me!”. For those of you who don’t know my fiance, he is quite the nerd–he likes basketball, videogames, and more of those old-school video games (think original Nintendo and Atari). Soooo, I got him these:
One of the things I love about Mr. Lovebug is that he consents to letting me put together fantastically hip outfits for him. For dinner the other night, I had him in a Goonie’s t-shirt, a velvet blazer, True Religion jeans, and Converse. Very dashing, I assure you.
Of course, I can’t rest on my laurels. The drive to keep him cutting-edge cute compels me to scour the net for the latest in metrosexual man-wares. And as every well-accessorized woman knows, god (and goddess) is in the details. So if details like shirtcuffs linked with beautifully detailed enamel and sterling silver from Duncan Quinn…
(Just kidding, actually. Mr. Blueberry has made some very important decisions concerning the wedding).
Last week Mr. Blueberry came to me with some rather startling info. He’s changed his mind about this getup:
And has decided that this is how he wants to look at the wedding:
OK well maybe not quite, but he has decided that he likes the bow tie more than the traditional one.
I am really against this–I don’t tend to like bow ties, and I think that given the builds of the other men in tuxes–his BM and our dads, it really wouldn’t be very flattering. But Mr. Blueberry wants what he wants, so I guess bow ties it will be ::sigh::. Now I’m in the process of convincing myself that it’ll be more formal, and that since this is the one time in his life Mr, Blueberry will get to wear a bow tie, he should be able to.
Mr. Kiwi is a large man. He’s a big teddy bear, about 6′3″ and built solidly. His size makes it hard to find a suit that looks good on him. Although the term “Big and Tall” is an insult to him, I love it. He’s big. He’s not fat, just big. I guess you’d call him “big boned”.
Anyway, Mr. Kiwi wants to wait until after the summer to start looking for suits. Since he works at a school during the typical months (Sept. through June) he’s often a little heavier during these times. During the summer though, he works the beach volleyball tournaments and loses weight. I can understand his reasoning for waiting, but I’d also like him to take a look around to see what he likes, since he’ll most likely have a suit made for him.
A friend of ours who married last year said that her husband shopped for his suit early, and it was a good thing, because a lot of work had to be done. Another thing kinda making me want to start looking now is our scheduling - after his summer schedule of traveling, he’ll be right back in school full time, which means full evenings and weekends. With our wedding two months after school starts, when does that leave time for suit shopping?
A question: when does your guy shop for the big day outfit?
I need some help.
Mr. Raspberry is fabulous in oh-so-many ways, but I feel like recently I have been nagging him to take care of a couple of wedding related items that he has agreed to take care of. For example, he is in charge of the dance lessons, booking the tuxedos, getting a final budget from his parents and getting the guys’ meaurements.
And none of these things are checked off…. I hate feeling naggy about them, but I am getting nervous as we are less than 4 months from our wedding date and I feel totally overwhelmed with how many things still need to be done. A couple of the things I have been asking him to do for 2 months!
So, I am looking to you for some help. I have tried explaining to him that I am stressed about the long list of to-dos and he understands, but he is really busy with his job also… AHHH!
Please help! How have you been managing your stress? And the stress on lack of initiative on your SO’s part? Is it just time to hire a coordinator?
Please welcome back groom-to-be chrischoi! You can read one of his previous blogs here, as well as his most fantasticromanticwonderful proposal that we previously featured here.
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I think I have a lot of great ideas. The only bad part is, I don’t think the rest of the world agrees. This is most exemplified in my sad attempt to try to “help” in the wedding planning process. Thus far, I have officially submitted, complete with TPS cover sheet, 10 wedding ideas. Thus far, 10 have been rejected by my wife2b. Hold on, lemme first explain this.
Tangent #1
wife2b: I decided today to call Esther “wife2b” cause it makes her sounds like a cool droid, and it sounds better than fiance which sounds like a french word (and we all know that as a way to show true american spirit, we rename all french words with the adjective freedom but freedom girlfriend sounds weird.) Plus it sounds like really cool technology. End tangent.
Mr. Lily and I had a big talk last night on whether or not our wedding is what we thought it would be. For him, it’s a definite no. In his head, his wedding would be very small and intimate with lots of quirks. In my head, it’s a semi-no. I always wanted much bigger and more formal than him, with lots of quirks as well.
Yet, our wedding has somehow morphed into a much bigger, fancier event than either of this intended. Mamma Lily had something to do with that. She wanted fancy shmancy all the way. We tried to rein her in and got her to compromise as best we could (no tuxes, no silver linens, no floor-length bridesmaid dresses, no band, no… wait, is that it?). But she won on a lot of things: half the flowers should be high to add height, the groomsmen can’t wear their own suits, she and my Dad invited 150 people on their own (hard to protest this when they are paying the bulk), everything must be coordinated down to the colors of every last ribbon, no escort cards strung up on clothespins…
Does this mean I am disappointed with how it’s turning out? No — it’s just not quite what I expected, although I always knew it would be hard to get our 3 minds to meet in the middle. My biggest concern is that it is really not quite what Mr. Lily wanted. He says, “It’s fine, it will be great, it’s just not what I envisioned.” I don’t want him to not like his wedding though! Do any of you have grooms that think the wedding is running away from them? If so, what are you doing to make it better?
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