Wedding Blog

I went to Catholic school for almost ten years. We wore plaid skirts, collared white shirts, and penny loafers every day (pre-Britney Spears’ “Hit Me Baby One More Time”. So, it wasn’t sexy or cool to dress like that at the time). But I guess you can say, I have always been a tad bit preppy. Our wedding will not reflect much of my preppy…

I’m going waaaay back here, to November of 2008 - The Secret Life of Bees, Weddingbee edition, version Kiwi.

Here are some things you don’t know about me:

1. I still count on my fingers. Sure, most of the time I can figure it out without it, but then I count on my fingers to make sure my guess was correct. And yes, I AM a bookkeeper,…

I think this story should be funny by now, but I still can’t seem to shrug off this one very important, crucial part of our wedding…

The one moment of the wedding day that I was most nervous about was walking down the aisle. Don’t trip, don’t walk too fast, don’t take your eyes off the groom, and most importantly—try not to ugly-cry. And I remember…

It’s hard to believe, but Sister Daffodil’s wedding is in three months! As her big sister and MOH (and not to mention, ahem, a newlywed who misses the whole wedding planning process), how can I help myself but do everything I can to help make her day perfect! I’ve got some great DIY paper crafts that I made for her wedding that I will share…

I will never forget the first time I received flowers (sorry Mr. J, but they were not from you). It was a lush bouquet of peach roses lightly tinged with pink. Even after they wilted, I picked off all the petals and kept them in a jar (hmm, maybe this story is more about the boy who gave them to me and less about the…

For the past couple of months I have been taking better care of myself and have been trying to prioritize my health and skincare (e.g. cutting out nasty habits like eating junk food and falling asleep with make-up on, increasing my workouts to every other day, and finally starting to take vitamins daily). I have been so busy worrying about myself (how vain!) that I…

I’m an old married lady. No longer watching for the new issue of Martha Stewart Weddings, now I’m reading Real Simple, and religiously checking Apartment Therapy Los Angeles for tips on furnishing our new pad. Still, not much else has changed.

Here are some things I think would be good to know about being married, stuff I learned post-ceremony.

1.) The wedding is not the most stressful…

Mr. Kiwi and I had been married a year and a month when one of his best buddies offered us a super cool Christmas present: she would take portraits of us! I’m not exaggerating when I say that Mr. K and I have probably about 5 pictures of us from the day we got engaged to the wedding- that’s a whole 19 months there, people.…

I hadn’t planned on displaying my bee-hind to you so early; I thought you’d at least take me out to dinner first. But since yesterday’s Weddingbee Wiki post was on bustles, I figured I’d be topical and show you the photos of my bustle from my second fitting yesterday.

My seamstress, Anahit (who, incidentally, is quite possibly the best bridal seamstress in New England — thanks,…

I’m talking about chairs and chair covers today. I know, don’t get too excited. But, when you think about it, even though chairs are such a minor consideration compared to other aspects of the day, they will probably sneak into a good amount of the wedding photos. And I don’t want them to look out of place. Yet, in the same vein, our budget didn’t…

What’s fun about planning a Chewish wedding is that our families get to learn about wedding customs from another culture. My uncle, for example, recently asked me whether all of the men were going to wear “Yamahas” at the wedding.  The image of Mr. HC with a piano on his head made me laugh so hard I almost choked.

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He meant yarmulkes.

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This weekend, Mr. G and I will have a flower consultation with the lovely Courtney, owner of Flush Designs in South Pasadena. I am super excited because I have been admiring Courtney’s work for some time now! She is a Weddingbee PRO blogger, florist, designer, photographer, and wedding planner, all rolled into one - super talented, I tell ya! I also got the pleasure of…

Being an overly optimistic DIY-loving bride, I assumed I was going to Gocco the invitations for our welcome dinner and farewell brunch. But you know what they say about assuming…

Thank goodness I have generous future parents-in-law who came to my rescue when I realized that I had far too much on my plate. Because of them, instead of smoke signals, we’ll be sending these beauties…