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Miss Cream Puff, San Francisco Bay Area Age and Occupation: 25, Illustrator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Merchandise Planner Engagement Date: May 27, 2007 Wedding Date: August, 2008 Blogging Since: February 7, 2008 Venue: Ceremony at Crissy Field and Reception at the Green Room About Me: I never dreamed about my wedding as a little girl because I was too busy playing in the mud or pretending to be Martha Stewart–but now that it's here, I'm having a fabulous time DIYing everything in sight! We’re planning a very fun multicultural wedding (I'm Jewish and Mr. Cream Puff is Chinese), filled with as many personal details as I can muster.
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“Trashing” “My” Dress

April 4th, 2008 @ 1:54 pm by Miss Cream Puff

So my dress didn’t end up all that trashed. And it wasn’t really MY dress, but a $25 dress I bought the week before the shoot. But I’m still going to call it my Trash the Dress session anyway!

I met the photographer, James, on Saturday afternoon around four. We decided to take the pictures at the Sutro Baths, which is a really awesome historical site right on the water. San Francisco beaches are notorious for being incredibly cold and windy, but that Saturday was worse than usual, I’m not going to lie. I was freezing my butt off! I had visions (and I think James did too) of pictures of me walking on the walls overlooking the ocean–unfortunately I was getting blown all over the place and I didn’t want to get blown into the incredibly turbulent ocean! We still ended up with some cool shots, though:

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Miss Penguin, Sacramento Age and Occupation: 26, Video & TV Producer/Director/Editor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Doctor of Physical Therapy Engagement Date: January 29, 2007 Wedding Date: June, 2008 Blogging Since: September 14, 2007 Venue: Winery in the Gold Country About Me: I'm a silly mess of a girl who, above all else in this world, LOVES the Spice Girls. I eat sushi at least 3 times a week, and feel guilty about how much it costs the other 4 days a week. I love designer jeans and cheap accessories. I don't like sweets, but I love the UCLA Bruins!
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Just One…

March 25th, 2008 @ 11:15 am by Miss Penguin

Oh, Travis, how you tease…

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Image Credit: Travis Hoehne Photography

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Mrs. Caramel, Los Angeles Age and Occupation: 24, Art Gallery/Museums Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Engineer Engagement Date: January 8, 2007 Wedding Date: October 6, 2007 Venue: a beautiful church and hotel reception About Me: I love dancing, singing, eating out, eating in, surfing on the net, and brainstorming fantastic ideas. I also love cats, coffee, and know every quote written on Sex & the City. I'm known to laugh really loud and have really crazy hand gestures while I talk. My fiance writes songs and I take pictures. What else? We're just a crazy young couple in love, trying to make a fabulous wedding!
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How To Lay It Down

March 14th, 2008 @ 3:51 pm by Mrs. Caramel

Whew!! With my new job wiping me out everyday, I barely have the time to do any of my scrapbooking and album picking.  My photographer finally sent me the PDF version of our wedding album. I was really excited to see the pages and was pleasantly surprised to see that he had added about 6 more pages than what was on our contract. We had a pretty good relationship with our photographer but that was so nice of him to allow me to ask for changes! I’m not sure how many photographers actually would allow that.

I had some suggestions for him on the first version of our album. For instance, for the stiff formal family pictures that you absolutely need to have, I wanted to have a faded background of this really crazy picture just for fun. I loved having a faded background instead of having it be plain black or white. Also, Mr. Caramel and I both really preferred black backgrounds instead of white.

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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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Photography and cameras are always hot topics around here. And Miss Cupcake blogged a few weeks back about her search for a new non-sucky soul-capturing device.

But that’s not why I’m posting pics taken with my shiny new Leica D-Lux. I’m doing so because the images are 100 percent NWR, and Lovebug needs a wee break from wedding ish. :)

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Miss Shortcake, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Manager/Children's Lit Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Master's Student/Personal Trainer Engagement Date: August 7, 2007 Wedding Date: October 2008 Blogging Since: Venue: Ceremony in a historic church, tented lawn reception at a golf and country club About Me: 1950's housewife sent to the future, reborn as crafting-obsessed, jill of all trades. I enjoy decorating, writing, baking sweet things, singing show tunes/dancing in public, wearing pearls, and knitting sweaters for my furbaby, Harvey, to chew upon. I heart pink, and believe that sparkles are the new black.
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Shooting In My Skivvies

March 12th, 2008 @ 9:28 am by Miss Shortcake

Now here’s an idea! For those of you who aren’t doing a full boudoir shoot for your hubby-to-be’s, how about a doing a “mini-boudoir shoot” like Holly with your photographer, right before you get dressed? That way, you know your hair and make-up will be fabulous, and you’ll be at the height of bodaciousness!

(yes, I adore Anne Ruthmann, yes I think she’s the bomb,)

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Miss Tiramisu, Annapolis, MD/Maine Age and Occupation: 26, Soon-to-be Eye Doctor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager/Real Estate Management grad student Engagement Date: May 15, 2007 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 4, 2008 Venue: Oceanfront lawn and tent About Me: I was born and raised in Maine, now living in Annapolis, Maryland and planning a hometown wedding from afar. I’m nothing short of obsessed with wedding planning, and am loving the do-it-yourself madness that has now taken over my life! As for me, I’m a craft-loving, martini-drinking, girly-girl who loves traveling, photography, my schnauzer, and above all, spending time with Mr. Tiramisu.
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Miss Tiramisu: The Impulse Buyer

March 11th, 2008 @ 1:08 pm by Miss Tiramisu

I admit it. I’m emotional. I cry at commercials. I cry watching A Wedding Story, Whose Wedding is it Anyway?, and Engaged and Underage (wait, what?). Mostly though, I cry while surfing wedding photographer websites. Let’s not even think about how I’m going to be on *my* wedding day, as I can’t really make it through a slideshow of a stranger’s wedding without going into the ugly cry. (You know, where your face bunches up as you try to swallow back crying, and you end up making a little “humgph” noise with a red nose?”)

While still a naive (how do I get two little dots above the i?) and newly engaged Miss Tiramisu, I was surfing wedding photography websites when I stumbled upon I Do Click Photography, via the Wedding Photojournalist Association webpage. I watched just one of her slideshows, and I was hooked. The beautiful music, the artsy (but not *too* artsy) photos. The pictures were casual, but classic. They were of real weddings, not budget-less events, which made me sure that I was loving the photography, not just the couture gown or fancy reception details. I was hooked. And yes, I was ugly crying.

My grandfather is an award winning photographer (and you know what, my dad’s probably even better), and I like to think I have an eye for good photography. Or maybe I just know what I like, but I knew I liked I Do Click. I emailed the owner, Sam DePoy-Warren, right away, and she was just as awesome as her pictures.

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Miss Cream Puff, San Francisco Bay Area Age and Occupation: 25, Illustrator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Merchandise Planner Engagement Date: May 27, 2007 Wedding Date: August, 2008 Blogging Since: February 7, 2008 Venue: Ceremony at Crissy Field and Reception at the Green Room About Me: I never dreamed about my wedding as a little girl because I was too busy playing in the mud or pretending to be Martha Stewart–but now that it's here, I'm having a fabulous time DIYing everything in sight! We’re planning a very fun multicultural wedding (I'm Jewish and Mr. Cream Puff is Chinese), filled with as many personal details as I can muster.
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My First DIY Project

March 6th, 2008 @ 1:33 pm by Miss Cream Puff

After our engagement, the first thing I did was set up our website and a flickr photo page so that our friends and family could upload their pictures from the proposal. I sent out thank you cards to the people who attended and included a link to the flickr photo page, hoping people would use the password I provided and upload their stuff. Sadly, I didn’t get any takers. Not to be discouraged, I kept the flickr page and decided to create cards to put on people’s plates at the reception with instructions on how to upload their photos. I am really hoping it works! Here are the cards I made:

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Miss Milkshake, Seattle/Vancouver, BC Age and Occupation: 23, Pharmacist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Pharmacist Engagement Date: May 2007 Wedding Date: August 2008 Blogging Since: December 6, 2007 Venue: Victorian Mansion About Me: Despite the fact that I’ve invested many long years of my life studying the sciences in college, I’m glad to be out of there and I would never do it again! I’m super artsy at heart - I run an indie craft site, I grew up shooting and developing my own film, doing jazz and ballet, and the whole gamut of art classes. I’ve been called a Jane of all Trades… but I was also told many years ago not to make my passion my career because it’d suck the fun out of it. Hence my choice of day job. We live in Seattle but are having our wedding in Canada to be fair to all our family and friends.
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Yay For Candids

February 28th, 2008 @ 4:38 pm by Miss Milkshake

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Miss Cupcake, Philadelphia Age and Occupation: 27, Graphic Designer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Construction Project Manager Engagement Date: February 10, 2007 Wedding Date: September, 2008 Blogging Since: December 7, 2007 Venue: The Desmond Hotel in Malvern, PA About Me: Mr. Cupcake and I hit it off at a Halloween party and immediately began a long-distance relationship. After two years, he moved to my neck of the woods, and a year and a half after that, he proposed at the “place we fell in love.” I am a true perfectionist who enjoys designing and creating more work for myself, so wedding planning is my perfect outlet. Mr. Cupcake and I are both old souls, and we hope to weave that aspect of our personalities into our wedding day.
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Wanted: A New Camera That Doesn’t Suck

February 20th, 2008 @ 1:40 pm by Miss Cupcake

I don’t know what it is about me and cameras; I buy a new one every few years that I research and research and research about, but after a little while of thinking it’s the latest and greatest piece of photography equipment, I start finding flaw after flaw after flaw.

My biggest issue lately is a common gripe with digital cameras: the delay. I love digital, but I am a big fan of candid shots, so there is nothing more annoying than missing a great moment because my camera needed to “think” for a few seconds first. I also yearn to be able to take decent close-ups without them being a blur-fest. Maybe it’s my newfound blogger status that has put me over the edge, but it drives me insane when I can’t get a single good shot of a project I’ve created that I want to show the world!

The honeymoon is now only about 7 months away, and although we haven’t booked a trip yet, I know that wherever we go I’m going to want some fabulous pictures to come home with! I don’t want to regret missing any great shots just because my camera didn’t have the chops. I’d love to get a new camera now so I have some time to mess around with it and get to know it a little better while being able to better document the wedding planning process.

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Miss Hydrangea, Dallas Age and Occupation: 26, Administrative Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Network Analyst Engagement Date: June 2007 Wedding Date: September 2008 Blogging Since: January 14, 2008 Venue: Catholic Church and Reception at The W Hotel About Me: Mr. H and I come from very different cultures and backgrounds so I'm excited to plan our wedding with a balance of both traditions. My mom has always been a DIY queen, and I'm just now starting to get into it with a new house and a wedding to plan!
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My Photographer Rocks

February 16th, 2008 @ 2:30 pm by Miss Hydrangea

And this is why.

They occasionally put up photos of their adorable goddaughters on their blog, but on Valentines they posted this great video:

By the way, this video was made entirely of photos. Over 1000 of them according to the blog. How freakin awesome is that!

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