Weddingbee Blog

Our good friends Carmen & Vaish got married 2 years ago in September. They had the ceremony and reception at Liberty House Restaurant in Jersey City and actually had 2 ceremonies - one Indian and one American, and they also had the Chinese Tea Ceremony in the morning.

This isn’t wedding related but they have a dog named Nigel. Why Nigel you ask? Because Vaish wanted to name his future son Nigel and Carmen said “OH HELLZ NO!” So instead this sad little dog got stuck with this name. Carmen you’re smartly. If you named your kid Nigel I think I would even have to make fun of him.

Happy 2 year anniversary you crazy kids you!

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I went totally gaga for this layout when I saw it in the most recent issue of Martha Stewart Weddings (which was an exceptionally good issue overall I might add). Minhee Park and Truman Cho were fourth grade classmates but didn’t start dating until fourteen years later. When they went home to California from New York for Christmas last year, Truman proposed in front of their old elementary school.

They had 5 months(!) to plan a retro school themed wedding at the Fullerton Arboretum, where they once went on a school field trip. Minhee is the genius behind Papercup Design (which we love, love, love!) so she designed letterpress invitations, maps and rsvp cards on vintage notebook paper and asked guests to indicate who was coming on attendance reports.

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I attended an Indian/Chinese wedding with my best friend this weekend at the Lotos Club near Central Park. The place was small, intimate, cozy and beautiful! It looked like a residential building.

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To get to Martha’s Vineyard for Hylton and Mimi’s wedding, Mr. Bee and I drove to Quonset, Rhode Island, parked our car, and took the hour and a half long Vineyard Fast Ferry. There are ferries that depart out of other locations, but Quonset is the closest to New York City (approx 175 miles).

It was quite a journey with us missing the last ferry the day before the wedding due to traffic and rain, so we were very happy to check into our room at the gorgeous Mansion House Saturday morning. They had even upgraded our room to a penthouse, so we had two adjoining rooms with a living room and a bedroom - yay! Wonderful service and experience all around - very highly recommended!

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After the ceremony, a bagpiper led the guests towards the reception venue like a pied piper.

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Holy gorgeous! Two of my close friends got married last weekend and these are some of the pics I took at their wedding. Doesn’t it look like they could have been featured in a magazine? Their colors were brown and blue — very elegant! Each of the rectangular tables had big centerpieces of different white flowers. Below are just a few examples of these spectacular arrangements:

They rented light blue plates to match the decor and had brown trimmed menus printed. The effect of the whole set-up is below. I’m still in awe of how phenomenal it looks!

I was waiting for the groom to give me the ok to post pictures from the wedding Mr. Bee and I attended last weekend in Martha’s Vineyard. He emailed me all the way from his honeymoon in Ireland to give me the go ahead.

After a stormy Friday that caused us to miss the ferry out to Martha’s Vineyard, Hylton and Mimi could not have asked for more perfect weather the following Saturday. The ceremony was held right in front of the water.

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Hi Mrs. Bee!

I’m writing you to send you a link to the photos our photographer took for our wedding. Our photographer, Parker J. Pfister, was fantastic, and he shoots all over the country (and world). We were lucky that he happened to live near our Ohio location. (He’s since moved.) In any case, I thought he was the most FANTASTIC photographer ever… very cheery, fun, and he got amazing shots. He sent this surprise slideshow he put together in advance of the rest of our photos. I cried when I saw it for the first time, because he really managed to capture that moment in time.

Since I know he travels everywhere to shoot, I wanted to share him with the weddingbee readership. I’m too shy to post directly, but you can judge for yourself! Enjoy,

Christine

The link:
http://www.pfisterphoto-art.com/22/

So last Friday, in the morning, I headed up to the Catskills–destination: the Full Moon Mountain Resort, where Liz (formerly the little girl I used to babysit) was to wed Matt in organic, environmentally friendly style. As the antithesis of all that is green, crunchy or ecofriendly, I was a little nervous I might be ousted from the wedding as an imposter, but happily this wasn’t the case. What did ensue was a wonderful weekend and one full of great ideas for anyone seeking to have an outdoorsy and perfectly gorgeous wedding.

The Welcome Dinner

After driving all day (and stopping at the Palisades Center Mall en route to buy flat shoes for the wedding lest my heels stick in the grass), I checked into my hotel–slightly down the road from Full Moon–the Alpine Inn:

Mr. Daisy stands before the majestic Alpine lodgings

Then I changed and headed off to the welcome bbq, which was no joke. Just a casual dinner thrown together for a couple of over 150 friends. The wine flowed like water and the food flowed like, well, water too. Or something. There was a LOT of it. And it ruled. Somewhat to the bride’s chagrin, the weather was being a bit uncooperative so the bbq had to be held indoors. I had no complaints, though, since the tent was done up to perfectly evoke a casual bbq atmosphere:

Love the gingham cloths!

And the bbq food was not to be stepped to:

The sweet corn with either ginger or lime (there’s a debate on this one) butter was outrageously good. Mr. Daisy tried to coopt mine to no avail.

The centerpieces set a casual country tone:

There was great bluegrass music (think along the lines of the Soggy Bottom Boys/O Brother, Where Art Thou? except, sadly, without George Clooney):

And then, when you thought it was time for it to end, they announced an after party (open bar! woo hoo!), which likely lasted until the wee hours of the night. They even provided flashlights for the (short but superdark) walk to the afterparty:

The flashlights were inscribed with something charming/romantic, but I can’t seem to locate one now to quote it here.

Despite the open bar, Mr. Daisy and I made a brief appearance at the afterparty and then called it in early since we are old and tire out pretty easily. (Read: we are lame). My sister and brother (and even my parents) made it out later than us, but we were the ones up early the next morning at the breakfast (also included as part of the wedding festivities) and powering up on hearty fare. So who’s lame now? (Ok, it’s still us. but we were lame while eating French Toast and sausages. Somehow that takes the edge off the lameitude).

Also, unrelated to the wedding, here’s a tip that the bride’s mom told me as we were leaving the afterparty: “If it’s brown, lie down; if it’s black, fight back.” This tip refers to what you ought to do if you come across a bear. Apparently, we were in bear country. This tip makes sense on paper. But I sometimes have a hard time figuring out which pair of my own tights or socks is black or brown. I have a feeling that when you factor in the terror of seeing a bear within my sightline, I might not be able to determine what color its fur was. My tunnel vision would probably fixate on its teeth. And claws. Honestly, unless the bear is on a unicycle, I really don’t want anything to do with it. Seriously.

More on the actual wedding to come…

Wedding Date: July 1, 2006
Venue: Gloria Dei Lutheran Church and The Semple Mansion
Bridal Gown Designer: Reem Acra
Florist: Flora Bella
Photographer: Studio 306
Cake: D’Amico
Wedding Coordinator: Ambiente, Joan Nilsen
Bridesmaid Dresses: Watters and Watters
Honeymoon: Peter Island, British Virgin Islands

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