Weddingbee Blog

We asked to have my Goddaughter/niece to be our flower girl even though she would be just shy of two at the time of our wedding. I knew she may not be able to walk by our wedding date or she may not even be in the mood to walk down the aisle. You never know how a toddler is going to feel, but we couldn’t imagine our wedding without her.

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I was super excited about our wedding day transportation. Mr. Starfish and I went on a Newport Trolley to get to our first date, so it seemed pretty appropriate to get to the first day of the rest of our lives together on the trolley, too!

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Vera Wang is set to launch her beautiful line of affordable dresses at David’s Bridal on February 11th. If only this came out around this time last year. While it’s too late for me to don a Vera Wang, it may have come just in time for other brides-to-be!
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As the Starfish Guys and my soon to be in-laws took some photos on the beach, the Starfish Girls and my parents had a little photo session of our own. We wanted lots of variety in our photos, so we took advantage of as many locations as possible. Aafter we finished getting ready, we headed back to the deck and got some photos in our party dresses.

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After the hot tub photo session, it was really time to get ready and the Starfish Girls changed out of their robes and into their dresses.

I had some help with my dress. Starfish Mom and Sister Starfish started to button me up, I think we were all praying it would zip. Luckily, it did!
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I never had a doubt in my mind that I would take Mr. Starfish’s name. I just didn’t know anyone growing up who did otherwise.

In the past couple years, I’ve seen things differently. In my work culture, it’s actually pretty normal for a woman to keep her own name, hyphenate, or turn her maiden name to her middle name. In this day and age, it really seems like there is no “standard.” I never assume a woman is going to take her husband’s name. I think it’s great that women now choose, yet there was no real questioning on my part on whether or not I’d do it.

Having recently changed my name officially (well sort of—I’m still sifting through all the paperwork with credit cards, banks accounts and all the other little details I’m probably forgetting), I’ve experienced this loss that I didn’t expect.

The first time I saw “Mrs. Starfish” pop up as an e-mail, I kind of did a double take—like, really? Who is that?
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The wedding morning was pretty low key for the guys. They all slept in a bit, as our ceremony wasn’t until 2 PM. They all got ready in their rooms and met at our honeymoon suite for breakfast.
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After I finished with hair and makeup it was time to get a few photos with the girls. I had given each of my bridesmaids matching robes in their welcome bags to wear while we got ready. They ended up looking super cute and we had to get some photos of them wearing the robes. So after we had all had the final hair and makeup touch ups, we took a few photos outside the suite on the roof deck.

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Mr. Starfish and I actually exchanged gifts before the photographers arrived, but our videographer asked me to read Mr. Starfish’s card on camera, to include in our wedding video.

This was probably the only moment of the day that I felt the video camera on me. I really wanted a wedding video, but videos make me nervous.
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I don’t have too much to say in this post, other than I loved all the little details that helped make me a bride. Well, almost all of them. I absolutely hated my shoes. They were totally not me and they were painful. I forgot to have my back ups for my photographer, which I ended up wearing for about 99% of the day. They were flats and they were amazing, if only for the simple fact that I could walk in them.

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The morning of the wedding, I awoke to sunshine, took a shower and headed to Starfish Mom’s suite to get ready with the girls. They were already there waiting for makeup and hair. I didn’t have to stress about everyone getting there on time, because they had arrived earlier than I did.

We all sat around and talked. Starfish Mom made us and the boys breakfast including my favorite breakfast casserole. She absolutely loved that her suite had a kitchen and made good use of it the morning of the wedding.

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I never thought I’d feel differently after marriage. Mr. Starfish and I felt like we had been married for quite some time. People nicknamed me “the wife” before we officially started dating. On our wedding day we had dated for seven years, and we’d lived together for five of them.

When people asked Mr. Starfish if he felt any different post-wedding, he’d respond along the lines that there was no difference; we just had a big party to make it official. When people asked me if I felt any different, I’d respond with our length of relationship above and say it’s all the same.

You’d be surprised at how often people ask if you feel different. It’s the wedding question that replaces the “where’s your honeymoon?” during the engagement period.

So, having felt this way for quite some time, I was surprised to realize that marriage did, in fact, change me. I didn’t notice it right away. It wasn’t until a few months after the wedding when someone asked about our postponed honeymoon.
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I was really into the meaning behind “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”

Something old is supposed to be continuity of the bride’s past and therefore should be something old belonging to the bride or one of her family members. I chose a three-stringed pearl bracelet of Starfish Mom’s. I wanted to wear something of hers on the wedding day and I’ve always loved this particular bracelet. I didn’t actually think of it until the week before the wedding when I was desperate to find my something old.
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As our wedding was approaching and the ten day forecast became available, people started asking what the weather would be like on the day of our wedding. I told them I didn’t know. I was refusing to check it until we got closer in. Although, I did a lot of praying the weeks leading up to our wedding. I said over and over I didn’t care if it rained every day surrounding our wedding, all I wanted was a nice wedding day—actually, at some point, I even hoped for “decent.”

At about the five day mark, I caved and looked at the forecast. I couldn’t believe what I saw. I felt like it was a cruel joke to get my hopes up.

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We decided early on we weren’t doing favors. Most of our guests planned to spend the night or weekend in Newport and I went a little crazy on the O.O.T. bags. A few things happened during our planning, like unemployment and the purchase of our first home. We needed to save somewhere, so favors and unnecessary details were cut.

As time got closer, I felt like we might have cut too much.
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