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It’s Cotton Candy recap time!
A peek at what’s to come!
I originally planned to kick off my recaps with a rundown of all the madness leading up to our big day including the late night hours spent wiring a million and one pom poms to our giant wreath and my bridezilla moment at the bank after they informed me my debit card was canceled and I couldn’t take out any money. But really, who wants to read that? So, I decided to just jump in feet first with all the day-of goodies. I hope you enjoy it!
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Less than a month. Even as I type it part of me can’t believe it. There were periods of time where this engagement felt like an ETERNITY…where all I want to do is just be married to Mr. Ticket already and not hear one more person ask me, “Are you excited yet?!” or, “Well, you should be all done planning now, right?” (You’ve got to be kidding me with that last one folks.) Yet here we are: the Ticket wedding is less than one month away. I’ve basically been running around like a crazy lady for the last month as is. If general life stuff, work, and helping Mr. Ticket move into our future home wasn’t enough to deal with, we are in crunch time in regards to wedding planning. I’ve been baking cookies, designing the menu, working on the OOT bags, buying materials for our photo booth, printing and cutting, and generally just trying to stay sane while accomplishing more than I have ever attempted before in my life. Getting a college degree was a cake walk compared to wedding planning.
I’m happy to say it’s not all stressful though, as there are certainly some fun moments in there, too.
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RSVP #s Are In! Well, mostly. Here’s a basic breakdown for you.
Formal RSVP Received by Deadline: 62 (61%)
Phone In/ In Person/Tracked Down After Deadline RSVPs: 14 (14%)
Still Missing RSVPs/Haven’t Been Able to Track Down: 26 (25%)
It’s getting closer and closer to the wedding and I realized I haven’t even mentioned what our bridal party will be donning for the affair. Fairly early on in the wedding planning process, I decided I wanted my girls to wear short black dresses; somewhat similar to Mrs. Avocado’s girls.
Via Mrs. Avocado on Weddingbee
I have been in several weddings, and generally speaking, the dresses are frightening (I’ve got some pictures of flower girl dresses I wore as a child that make Ronald McDonald look fashionable) and most certainly will never be worn again. Let’s just say Miss Ticket does not look good in yellow…
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Let’s talk about presents!!! Oh wait…first things first.
Image via Zap2It / From the NBC show Up All Night / Lame editing by Miss Ticket
How did I find Weddingbee?
Google. Isn’t that how everyone finds everything these days? The day Mr. Ticket proposed I was already on the web searching “wedding.” I spent a couple days exhausting every photograph on TheKnot and WeddingChannel for inspiration. Then I found Weddingbee. When I first stumbled upon the site I found Mrs. Hamster; I’m not even sure how that happened since she finished her last post prior to Mr. Ticket’s proposal. But I LOVED reading her backlog of blogs. I read through her entire story in one night and then I moved on to other current bees. I was totally hooked. I had no idea how women came to write for this site. After a few weeks of regularly checking in on newly posted blogs I finally saw the little “Apply to Blog” option on the side of the page. I was stoked. I had never really blogged before but I loved hive so much that I desperately wanted to write for it.
My Application Story
Pre-Application:
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You may have noticed some orange envelopes in my invitation post. Well, they were our rehearsal invitations, of course! I know they aren’t absolutely necessary, but I also knew they would help avoid confusion since more than half of our bridal party are from out of town. Plus, I really wanted an excuse to order these…
Image via JPressDesigns on Etsy
Aren’t they awesome?! They are so similar to my original inspiration picture and the best part is…
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So I feel like I kind of left you hanging with the invitation posts. I started off telling you about my inspiration then I moved on to explaining the torturous design portion of the process, then I explained the assembly and send off. But I never actually did an official reveal of what our invitations looked like in the end. I would like to apologize for that. I had intended to write that post as soon as Mr. Ticket and I returned from our little mini vacation to Philly for his brothers wedding. But as we were en route home we received some very sad news: Mr. Ticket’s grandma passed away that morning. With this news and sending Mr. Ticket back to the East Coast for a few days I simply was not in the mood to write about our invitations. I wasn’t really in the mood to write about anything.
Life happens. It doesn’t stop just because you are planning a wedding—this was a harsh truth that really took hold of me that week. That being said I would like to report that the wedding in Philly was a complete success—Mr. Ticket and I had a total blast and the happy couple had a wonderful day.
Mr. Ticket sporting a spiffy Tux
And while we are still mourning the passing of his grandma, we are trying to honor her memory by continuing with the planning of our wedding. She had deeply wanted to attend and she would be pissed at us (she was a FEISTY grandma and I loved her for that) if we didn’t continue planning as usual. So without further ado…
Our Invitations!!!
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I’ve loved reading past bees’ posts in this series, so I thought I would join in on the fun.
1. When I play video games I require that my inventory be organized and I frequently log onto Mr. Ticket’s World of Warcraft account to reorganize his bags (I think I might be a tiny bit type A…)
Personal Screenshot from World of Warcraft
2. When I was 11 years old I was deeply in love with Zac Hanson (as in love as a person can be at age 11 having never met the other person).
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After most of the guests had left the bridal shower (and I was totally exhausted), Mr. Ticket decided to surprise me.
Sister/MOH Ticket planned the bulk of Bridal Shower Socal and Mama Ticket helped (and provided our house for the shower). Sister/MOH Ticket decided to give us a shower with a Hawaiian theme since that’s where we are going on our honeymoon. There were leis, grass skirts around the tables, little umbrellas, plastic coconuts, and pink/orange flowers as far as the eye could see. They did such an awesome job decorating while Mr. Ticket and I went out to breakfast. (He decided to go to the movies and see Friends With Benefits in order to avoid the cackling of 24 women.)
This was the view when you walked in the door.
The day before “Bridal Shower Socal,” I asked Mama Ticket if she and Sister/MOH Ticket had favors for the guests. She sounded puzzled and said no. I told her I would take care of it. She thought me a little odd, but agreed and went on her way. Later that day she called me back to inquire more about these favors—suddenly it had occured to her that recent showers she had been to had favors as well! She was very concerned over the fact that she had forgotten this and didn’t want me spending too much on my own shower. So Daddy Ticket kindly offered to pay for the goodies, and I put them together.
After trips to Dollar Tree to buy ribbon and little cello bags, Target (unsuccessful mission to find bags), Party City (Mission “Find Bags” = success!), and Michaels for a “Thank You” stamp, I was ready to acquire the goodies. I headed to Sam’s Club and picked up giant bags of M&Ms and Skittles, as well as a bucket of Ring Pops, then went home and set to work.
Personal photo
My future family (FMIL Ticket hosted) was generous enough to throw me a bridal shower while Mr. Ticket and I visited in March. People commented that it seemed a bit early (eight months prior to the wedding), but it was the only time we would be in Pittsburgh before the wedding, and I was thrilled she was so generous as to think of such a thing.
When choosing who would be in our bridal party, Mr. Ticket and I ultimately made the decision to have mismatched numbers. We chose those close to us who we love and wanted to stand beside us and, well, I had four girls and he had three guys. The little OCD monster inside of me struggled with this for a little while. I wanted things to be equal and balanced, but in the end I realized it was far more important for me to have my girls standing beside me than for things to be “balanced.” And we didn’t really want to find a random stand-in for Mr. Ticket just to make the sides even. Thus, UNBALANCED it is! And we like it that way. =)
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