Wedding Blog

A few months ago, I was reading an article or blog that suggested wearing your mom’s wedding dress to your rehearsal. This got me…

Sure, I could call all our guests or even email them to get them…

When we started planning, Mr. Fondue said he wanted two things: eight best men and a full bar. We’ve compromised a little on the bar due to budget constraints, but he definitely got his eight best men.

But he’s also had lots of input besides these two items. You may recall that he picked the flowers. He’s had lots of opinions on traditions. There was a…

Confession: Mr. Fondue and I are both music snobs. One of the reasons we actually started talking and dating was because we had a love for similar bands. What we consider our first date was a concert (A Perfect Circle). That’s not to say we agree on all music, however, which can produce some mild bickering in the Fondue household (like, he’s not allowed to…

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Okay, maybe not quite like that! Of course, I’m referring to the technique to tie a chair sash, as shown on BBJ Linen’s website.

Everyone in the family pitched in to help. Mr. Fondue helped with…

I’m referring to the new addition to our venue at the entrance to our ceremony area that appeared after we booked. This thing:

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One would think that it would be the perfect thing to decorate with bunches and bunches of flowers. Except I’m not a flower person. At all.

As I mentioned, we know we want our cake design to be based on our invitations and to include our monogram. However, I’m not really sure of the best way to go about doing that.

I’ve come up with several different designs that reflect our invitations and other elements in the wedding. Sorry for the terribly quality; I was just throwing stuff together in Photoshop. The…

When we came up with our budget (I use that term loosely, as there was never a definite amount we agreed to stick to), we agreed that photography was the top priority and videography was unnecessary. So we splurged on our photographer, and opted for a DIY wedding video by asking all our friends with camcorders if they would mind recording at least some part…

The printer I am using for our fauxtobooth is a Canon Selphy ES2. My parents bought it last spring to use at my grandmother’s 90th birthday party for a photo guestbook. Soon after the party, I claimed it so I could figure out the best way to make it work for our fauxtobooth.

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The printer is fairly intuitive to use. There’s a menu where…

One of the things I would really like to fit into the budget is a photobooth. Yes, it’s trendy. But I don’t care. It’s an awesome idea. And also a budget-buster.

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So for more than $1000 less, we are having a fauxtobooth. This is, essentially, a fake photobooth. People come up, dress up in whatever silly props they want, pose in front of the…

Cake is my favorite food, so you can imagine how giddy I was at the idea of a cake tasting. Last May, we started our hunt for the perfect cake designer. We went to a few tastings over a couple weeks (and I swear I meant to get pictures but got so excited about eating cake that I forgot my camera). Scheduling cake tastings was…

I’ve been married before. I was 20 years old. We did the whole wedding thing, and we were separated a little over a year later. So, when Mr. Fondue and I started talking marriage, I originally wanted to elope. I wanted to be married under a waterfall in Hawaii. Just us. No one else.

The problem was that Mr. Fondue hadn’t been married before and wanted…

Although we had originally decided to have a full open bar we are now leaning toward beer, wine, and one signature drink, for budget reasons.

Mr. Fondue was a bartender for several years, so I naturally turned to him for recommendations on what our drink should be. We decided it should be a red drink, since that’s our accent color. Mr. Fondue said he thought a…