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Mrs. Elephant, Dallas, TX Age and Occupation: 27, Financial Operations Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, IT Student/Store Manager Engagement Date: March 29, 2009 Wedding Date: April 2011 Venue: The Tribute Golf Club About Me: I'm a Philly native creating roots deep in the heart of Texas. I might be a little obsessed capturing those Kodak moments of anything and everything (mainly on vacations). I've become more of a gamer thanks to Mr. Elephant, who I met online and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with. We are planning a wedding based on our favorite colors, blue and green, with a travel theme for 150 of our closest friends and family. Hopefully our long (2-year) engagement won't kill me!
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Let There Be Light!

September 28th, 2010 @ 10:32 am by Mrs. Elephant

During one of my many random searches of real wedding inspiration online, I stumbled upon this.

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Mrs. Elephant, Dallas, TX Age and Occupation: 27, Financial Operations Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, IT Student/Store Manager Engagement Date: March 29, 2009 Wedding Date: April 2011 Venue: The Tribute Golf Club About Me: I'm a Philly native creating roots deep in the heart of Texas. I might be a little obsessed capturing those Kodak moments of anything and everything (mainly on vacations). I've become more of a gamer thanks to Mr. Elephant, who I met online and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with. We are planning a wedding based on our favorite colors, blue and green, with a travel theme for 150 of our closest friends and family. Hopefully our long (2-year) engagement won't kill me!
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Wedding Splurges

September 9th, 2010 @ 8:15 am by Mrs. Elephant

There were a few splurge items for the wedding that I mentally listed as very nice to have if we have room in the budget, but not totally necessary. The first was photography, and I can’t wait for Lynn Michelle to shoot our engagements, rehearsal, and wedding! Another splurge was uplighting for the reception.
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Mrs. Chick, Houston Age and Occupation: 28, Rights and Reproduction Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Computer Programmer Engagement Date: November 15, 2008 Wedding Date: April 2010 Venue: A farm outside of Houston About Me: Mr. Chick and I met almost ten years ago at Baker Blues, a college jazz party. He was attracted to my intensity, and I was mesmerized by his trivia pursuit skills and his dorm furniture adorned with his initials. We've grown more sophisticated through the years, with our love of wine, owning a house together, and parenthood (of a cat), but we have not lost our silliness or childish sense of humor!
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Origami

August 27th, 2009 @ 10:33 am by Mrs. Chick

Since I have a couple of very talented origami expert friends, I thought I might use their dexterity to my advantage!

What do you guys think of these? Aren’t they cute?

I’m not so big on the beads, but I think these would be lovely just on their own, hanging.

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Here’s the tutorial for pink flowers. I really like the ball above. It reminds me of Martha’s chapel. I actually like these better because they seem a bit more sturdy and sophisticated.
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Mrs. Chick, Houston Age and Occupation: 28, Rights and Reproduction Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Computer Programmer Engagement Date: November 15, 2008 Wedding Date: April 2010 Venue: A farm outside of Houston About Me: Mr. Chick and I met almost ten years ago at Baker Blues, a college jazz party. He was attracted to my intensity, and I was mesmerized by his trivia pursuit skills and his dorm furniture adorned with his initials. We've grown more sophisticated through the years, with our love of wine, owning a house together, and parenthood (of a cat), but we have not lost our silliness or childish sense of humor!
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Flower Lights

August 25th, 2009 @ 3:05 pm by Mrs. Chick

Thanks to Lulu, who sent me this link! These are a nice alternative to the naked bulbs you see in most weddings these days.

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Mrs. Poodle, Santiago, Chile/San Bernardino, CA Age and Occupation: 27, Industrial & Web Designer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Firefighter & Mountain Patrol Engagement Date: February 25, 2009 Wedding Date: January 2010 Venue: Mr. P's Grandparents’ Ranch About Me: I’m a Chilean girl who's crazy about nature and swimming. I enjoy carving, drawing, reading and sewing; I drool over computers, fabric, pretty paper, purple and patterns. To me, chocolate should be one of the seven wonders, right next to lemon pie. I never thought an exchange work experience program was going to change my life forever, but while working in California, I met Mr. Poodle, and ever since my days are better and brighter. We are two goofy souls that, after finding each other, couldn’t help but want to be together forever. It has being a long and sometimes hard road, since we have to deal with such a long distance between us, but we are now facing the last stage of our Fiancé Visa, and soon we will be together. You know the best part? We will be married! So I’ll be blogging from Chile until just a few months before our “green and purple” wedding.
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You Light Up My Day! I Mean… My Night!

August 14th, 2009 @ 3:16 pm by Mrs. Poodle

I’ve been looking for cute and inexpensive ideas for lighting our reception (besides the recycled paper lamps I want to make). I thought that candles could add a great romantic look, so the search began, and this was what I could find:

Good old paper bags! This one is the least expensive option. Wow! It looks so cute!

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Mrs. Sprinkle, Los Angeles Age and Occupation: 26, Preschool Teacher Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Television Production/Writer Engagement Date: December 24, 2008 Wedding Date: September 2009 Venue: The Marvimon House About Me: I'm a Bay Area native trying to create a life for myself (and my fiance, and our three cats!) in the vast city of Los Angeles. I love vegan red velvet cupcakes, pilates ,and mid-century furniture. Mr. Sprinkle and I met when my band toured through his city (we bonded over cake and a mutual love of Morrissey) and we are getting married on the four year anniversary of our first date. When I am not teaching preschool (or blogging!) you can find me perfecting recipes, petting kittens, hiking in Griffith Park, and overusing exclamation points. We are planning a vegan, green-as-possible, DIY wedding, and I couldn't be more excited to share all of the details!
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Project: Jar Lanterns!

August 2nd, 2009 @ 12:50 pm by Mrs. Sprinkle

Mr. Sprinkle and I finally got around to our lantern-jar project last week. Another task to cross off our list! We turned some of these:

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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: April 19, 2008 Venue: Historic Inn About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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Uplighting It Is!

April 17th, 2008 @ 11:32 am by Mrs. Lovebug

I blogged a couple weeks ago about my lighting indecision. About how I was unsure if I wanted light trees aimed at our dance floor. Super fun and dance-inducing…but would they ruin the vintage vibe I’m going for?

Well, thanks to you guys, I was turned on to some awesome alternatives. Danielle and an Excited Bride introduced me to the mighty Gobo. I was all over this idea. I even had invitation goddess Tara of Ephemera knock together a ridiculously cute design:

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Mrs. Licorice, Atlanta Age and Occupation: 25, Full-time Interior Design Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Pilot Engagement Date: February 6, 2006 Wedding Date: September 1, 2007 Blogging Since: July 18, 2007 Venue: John Oliver Michael, a historic farm house and barn replica About Me: I love artistic pursuits of all sorts! I'm creative and organized, but my downfall is obsessing over details. I enjoy running outdoors, trying new restaurants, and staring at décor and wedding magazines for hours on end. I hope to one day design a hotel in a foreign country, preferably France, Greece, Japan, or Australia. I am elated to marry Mr. Licorice and experience life’s adventures with him!
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Let There Be Light

August 6th, 2007 @ 1:29 pm by Mrs. Licorice

My original desire for the barn replica at my reception site was to add specialty lighting to the otherwise bare interior. I planned on using a lighting company in Atlanta to achieve a look similar to this:

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I mistakenly assumed that I could do whatever I wanted to the space as long as there was not any damage done to the building. My plan was to string the lights through the rafters and install uplights around the perimeter of the main room. I later found out that no one can string anything through the rafters of the barn. Whoops. I could still have the lighting company install uplights, but the overall cost was not worth it to me without the string lights (over $3000).

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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: April 19, 2008 Venue: Historic Inn About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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Taste The Rainbow

June 1st, 2007 @ 4:58 pm by Mrs. Lovebug

I don’t know what blog-hopping path I followed to discover this site, but it led me to a rainbow wonderworld called Glassybaby.

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Adorably named glassybabies are votive-sized, multi-layered glass vases made with varioulsy-shaded “color rods” to produce a look with texture and depth. They come in 53 different colors, can be used as drinking cups, candle holders, or vases, and are virtually indestructible. Read more…

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Mrs. Plum, Dallas Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin Engagement Date: December 31, 2004 Wedding Date: June 29, 2007 Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
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The Search For A Lighting Designer

April 24th, 2007 @ 2:02 pm by Mrs. Plum

Ok - before I begin this post, I just want to put a disclaimer out there and say that yes, I know it was an “unnecessary cost” in the grand scheme of what’s really important, but I just really really wanted one, ok? :)

With that said, I probably researched and received bids from about 7 different lighting/event companies in the Dallas metroplex area.

I was looking for someone who could provide the following services:
-monogram gobo for the dance floor (ok ok, I’m a lemming, but who cares?)
-pinspots for the centerpieces
-highlighting the cake table
-place ~20 round paper lanterns at different heights above the patio outside the glass wall panel (coming down from the downcans on the patio - not just hanging from a wire)

However, when it came to decision time, my choices were narrowed down to 3 main vendors:

1. Switch Dallas (referred to by Todd Events and highly recommended by my venue coordinator)
2. Lite Dallas (saw their ad in a local wedding magazine)
3. HPS Lighting (per the recommendation of a lovely bride, Lynda)

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Mrs. Plum, Dallas Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin Engagement Date: December 31, 2004 Wedding Date: June 29, 2007 Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
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I have been getting a bunch of bids from various lighting and event companies in the Dallas area, and I think I’ve found -the one! laughin07 Although they’re not the cheapest, I feel better about booking them because of their great portfolio and the glowing recommendations I got from other brides and my coordinator!

When I talked to one of the owners today on the phone, he kept coming up with all of these great ideas and I am already envisioning what it will be like. So far, we’ve come up with pinspotting of the tall centerpieces, color-washing the walls with creams, ambers, and blues (our wedding colors), adding ivory asian lanterns to the outside patio and uplighting outside of the glass wall with steel blue lighting and shining up into the lanterns - I can’t wait! It’s going to be absolutely amazing!!! I think it will look fabulous!

I’ll give more details once I sign a contract - don’t want anyone to book my date, ya know! Planning a wedding can be vicious sport! winky06 (I’ve already lost 1 vendor to another bride! silly08)

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Mrs. Plum, Dallas Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin Engagement Date: December 31, 2004 Wedding Date: June 29, 2007 Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
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Struck By Lighting

March 20th, 2007 @ 6:07 pm by Mrs. Plum

How many of you hired or are hiring lighting/event designers for your wedding?

I’m still in the process of getting quotes from various places (well the 2 best ones in our area anyhow). Got one, still waiting on the other, but I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the price tag… which is really weird because I suppose I knew how much it was going to be, but I was *hoping* it’d be cheaper by some miracle. It’s actually a great price, but what kills me is the fact that the labor costs more than the actual thing, silly07 again, even though I knew that….

For 12 pinspots on centerpieces, 1 cake table spotlight, and a cool gobo for the dance floor (I prefer a leafy/flowery swirly pattern as opposed to the solid monogram…), it’ll run me about $800.

Another company I saw, let me have 25 pinspots, uplighting, monogram gobo, and dance lights for $600, but they were not that good - just an average white/ivory light.

What are you doing for lighting?

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Mrs. Emerald, Chicago Age and Occupation: 26, Wedding Planner Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Paralegal Engagement Date: October 8, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2007 Blogging Since: November 29, 2006 Venue: Hyatt Lodge, Oak Brook IL About Me: I have been dreaming about my wedding forever, and flipping through bridal magazines since high school, so I am in my element! I am calling our theme "Vintage Inspired French/Asian Fusion." Mr. Emerald is very involved in the planning process, but of course he generally defers to me cuz I have a strong opinion of how I want everything to be :-).
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Sometimes Real Is Best

February 13th, 2007 @ 1:34 pm by Mrs. Emerald

For my low centerpieces, I got my inspiration from this picture that I found on brides.com - a lantern surrounded by a lush “garden” of blooms.

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For the lantern in the middle, I found 10 fabulous ones (see below) on Ebay for the bargain basement price of $6 each, and $6 shipping for the whole batch (it was a BIG box too)! I’ve also seen this same exact lantern sold on wedding websites for $25 each! Ouch.

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Mrs. Strawberry, Seattle Age and Occupation: 25, Radio DJ, Advertising Sales, Day of Wedding Coordinator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Engineer Engagement Date: 07/04/2006 Wedding Date: September 1, 2007 Venue: Lake Union Cafe, Seattle About Me: I'm a Navy brat that has lived all over the world. I love reality shows that are in poor taste, going to new restaurants, and trying to be crafty. Emphasis on trying!
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Idea Thief!

February 5th, 2007 @ 3:27 pm by Mrs. Strawberry

Everyone and their mom has done the paper lantern thing. And now, I am too. I have no shame. I’m stealing ideas left and right, not caring how overdone they are! :) I am convinced however, that the average wedding guest isn’t inundated with wedding images and probably has never seen them used before. In that case, I will claim the idea as my own and let them gush at how brilliant I am. :)

I’m planning on doing clusters above the dance floor, similar to this.

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Miss Lily, New York/Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 30, Public Health Researcher Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Art/Web Stuff Engagement Date: February 11, 2006 Wedding Date: April, 2007 Venue: Tuscon, Arizona About Me: Here are some things I love?�‚�? painting, drawing, knitting and all other crafty things (including glueing popsicle sticks together); burritos (must be from Arizona); indie/70s rock; whiskey; dogs (if only my tiny apt could support one!); bad TV; and reading. I'm also crazy indecisive so fingers crossed wedding planning doesn't kill me.
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Battery Powered Paper Lanterns

January 11th, 2007 @ 10:53 am by Mrs. Lily

For my venue I really wanted battery powered lanterns so I wouldn’t have to deal with ugly cords. I found the perfect ones at Paper Lantern Store and just ordered a whole little army of them! Some of the ones I ordered were 16″, which are no longer listed, but this happened once before and they seem to reappear once they are in stock again. They come in multiple colors, but I bought white:

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