Wedding Blog

Last month, Mr. Eggplant was the best man for our friends’ wedding in San Diego. Coincidentally, one of my bridesmaids was the maid of honor! The wedding was gorgeous. Our friends hosted a lunch reception at the Marine Room, a restaurant with an AMAZING ocean front view. The beach was literally right outside the window. Unbelievable. And the food… Oh. Mah. Gah. It was the…

I am super excited for this post. First of all, this is only my second successful DIY project, and let me just say, I loved how it all turned out. Now that I have that out of my system, onwards to table numbering.

I took my inspiration from, where else, but Weddingbee. I like to think that they are a cross between Mrs. Tiramisu’s, Mrs. Canary’s…

Remember when I posted about having to take my ring to the jeweler’s to get one of the prongs fixed?

Well, our initial plan was to get our wedding rings at the same place that he got my engagement ring in LA, mainly so we could use the friends and family discount. We even tried on rings about a year ago, and I just figured we’d…

For the last few weeks, I have spent a ridiculous amount of time looking for the perfect rehearsal dinner dress. I wasn’t looking for that perfect white mini rehearsal dinner dress, but a dress that looked phenomenal—and that looked like me. I’ve been to all the usual suspects—Anthro, J.Crew, BCBG, Nordstrom, Macy’s, and Bloomingdale’s. I’ve even been to multiple locations of each to see if…

Alright, I realize I should have posted this last week, but for all of you Valentine’s Day procrastinators, here are some eco-friendly options.

First, I know that roses are the traditional Valentine’s Day flower. But they are totally out of season. Instead, ask your beau for some anemones, daffodils, and in some areas, tulips. They are a cheerful way to celebrate in-season flowers. I highly recommend…

So, I have mentioned the reception that my parents are hosting in my hometown, but Mama Peep and I are just now starting to plan it.

When Mama Peep said that they wanted to throw a hometown reception, I knew immediately where she wanted to host it. Way before Mr. Peep and I were engaged, whenever we went to my parents’ house, we would always conveniently…

Last week I found myself in a conversation about brides that get their drink on. I heard a few stories about brides being hung over after the rehearsal dinner and having a horrible wedding day, or worse—getting too drunk at the reception to even enjoy it.

This got me seriously thinking about a wedding weekend drinking game plan. I shamefully have to admit that I got…

I’ve noticed a lot of talk about names on the boards, and rather than just comment, I thought it was about time I addressed the name issue in a post.

My last name is one of those super complicated Polish names. It’s long, hard to pronounce, even harder to spell, and begins with the letter W. It’s dreadful. I can honestly say that the only reason…

The weather in San Francisco is unpredictable, at best.

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Mark Twain once wrote that the coldest winter he ever spent was the summer in San Francisco. Or, at least that’s what Clint Eastwood said he said in Escape From Alcatraz.

Living along the California Coast for almost my entire life (sans my time in Seattle), I am all too familiar with what is coined as ’June Gloom’.…

Steelers.

Here we go.

Pittsburgh’s going to the Super Bowl!

I just had to give a shout out to the Pittsburgh Steelers! I know that there are at least a couple Pittsburgh Steelers fans on Weddingbee.

While I have never even been to Pittsburgh, Mr. Peep and I met while watching the Steelers make their way through the Playoffs to the Super Bowl against Seattle in 2006! What I…

A good friend of mine is off to Hawaii on Monday for her wedding in Maui, at the Four Seasons, no less! In order to send her off in style, a friend organized an afternoon tea for the three of us at Lovejoy’s Tea Room.

I am not much of a girly girl, but this was the perfect place for us to catch up and talk…

I left you wondering what I was going to do with my bridesmaid dresses. Of course, the first person I called was Mama Peep. She always gives sound advice. Both of us weren’t worried about the dresses arriving on time, but we were worried that if they didn’t fit, they wouldn’t have time for alterations.

All of my bridesmaids are super busy gals. Wait, aren’t we…

When I first thought about what my lovely ladies would wear on the big day, I instantly thought that I would dress them in the cutest and easiest bridesmaid solution there is: J.Crew. I thought that they could just pick out any dress in Chocolate Brown and we’d call it a day. Plus, the dresses are fairly affordable in comparison to other dresses, and they…

This is a hard post to type—seriously, I poked myself with a seam ripper and I have a Band-Aid on my right pointer finger and it is making it physically hard to type.

I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time in the last few weeks working on several crafty DIY projects that I thought would be amazing!! And if you’ve noticed, I haven’t yet blogged about any…

Right after Mr. Peep and I got engaged, we jetted off to Hawaii for a vacation with his family. This left me in a very odd position- all I wanted to do was show off my new sparkling engagement ring, but ocean and new ring just don’t mix. Not to mention, as soon as we landed, we found out that our fax to get the…