Wedding Blog

I’m a real fan of stilettos. I have some in pink, turquoise, taupe, brown, black… the list goes on. Not only are they elegant, but simply beautiful, especially in bright shades. Though sometimes, especially at outdoor weddings, they sink into grass, get stuck in cracks and get ruined by pebbles.

Well that’s all history with the SoleMates High Heeler™.

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On Friday, we had our day-after wedding shoot because we felt that our wedding photographer didn’t deliver. I went all out - I went to the hairdresser and I got my makeup done like we were getting married all over again.

I realized I needed a bouquet for the shoot, but didn’t feel like spending an arm and a leg for a fake wedding bouquet. Since I…

When I had my hair trial, I felt that there was some vintage missing in my ‘do. I followed what many of you suggested and asked my hairdresser to make me some finger curls. I didn’t go for a second trial, because my hairdresser insisted that I didn’t need to, so I only saw the final product the day of my wedding, I know—crazy.

The day…

If there is one thing I loved about our wedding, was definitely our decor elements. Everything was perfect, from the photo corner to our menus. I know I went crazy with the details, but at least our guests pointed out how beautiful everything was. Hurray, I’ve accomplished what I wanted!

The overall feel and look that I wanted for our reception site was easy: vintage and…

Our photographer is one of the first vendors that we hired. We chose this company because I knew the owner, so we got a pretty good price. We looked at their work and it seemed nice at the time. There was some imagery that I didn’t really like, so I was sure to mention what I liked and disliked that first time around. We wanted to have all the high…

Ever since I blogged about our invitations, I’ve been receiving emails left and right about my chandelier illustration. A reader asked me if I could vectorize an image for her; a chandelier of course. I guess I didn’t explain it in detail, so I figured - what the heck, here is Flamingo’s Vectorizing crash course.

Now I’m no pro at this - I literally learned about Illustrator’s CS2…

I like labeling stuff with words that I make up, so this was no exception. I’ve decided to officially call our wedding/pro-pics posts Glamuptials.

definition: (noun, pl - the meshing of two words.
Glam which is the shortened form of glamour and nuptials - a wedding)

The first installment of glamuptials is about our guestbook. I was lucky enough to score me one of Zinke Designs‘ Wishing Wells. It’s a beautiful ivory…

I had mentioned that I wanted to put photo cards on the tables so that the guests could upload their own wedding photos. After much debate, I decided to go with Flickr simply because you can upload the pictures directly - no need to download a program. I designed a folded card which I placed on each table. They were bilingual (French & English) with a…

One experience that I truly enjoyed was the wedding show Mr. Flamingo and I took part in. I must admit it’s hard work being in front of a camera. Not only do you have to talk as though there is no camera around, but there are many many takes.

Can’t forget the touch ups.

A while back I was debating what style of escort card we should have. I went with the majority of your suggestions and went the glamour option. Since chandeliers seemed to be a very big part of our theme, I decided to go with something like the left picture below.

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I didn’t take any pictures of my escort cards in progress since I had to finish them…

We had a wonderful wedding, and it’s true when they say “It’s the best day of your life.” Our guests were extremely impressed with everything and we were so happy to share it with them. They deserved a nice Thank You Card at the very least for the compliments and their generous wedding gifts. So I went ahead and designed these:

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Hey everyone, I’m back…well to be honest I’ve been back for quite some time now (I’ve been married for a good 3 weeks) but the after-wedding blues kicked in and the desire to blog has basically been a huge flatline. Even though I will be blogging about my wedding and how wonderful, perfect and magical it was, the planning is over and it makes me…

I’m officially married and it’s wonderful! We had the most gorgeous day! Everything was perfect (apart from the fact that I forgot my second veil at home - what a bummer). I still have lots to blog about and will take advantage of it, since I don’t have any of my pro pics yet.

Everything was so magical and we had an amazing time. It’s true…

Today is the day…. today is my wedding day. All that hard work and planning for today. I’m writing to you before I go to the hairdresser because I realized I never said bye (as a non-married gal). Bad flamingo!!!

First off, I would like to say a huge thank you to all you awesome readers and bees. Weddingbee has become a family to me and…

At my bridal shower my high school friends (which I’ve known for 13 years) asked me if they could plan my bachlorette party. I found that really sweet and my MOH and bridesmaids didn’t mind. They wanted the night to be a surprise, so I had no idea what was planned. My surprise bachelorette party was last friday - one week before my wedding.

My high…