Wedding Blog

Hellooooo ladies! I’ve been a BAD BEE. You’ve not seen hide nor hair of me since my final recap and I have NOT shared with you the photos from our Zihuatanejo honeymoon or any information about it. Well, next weekend is our one-year anniversary and I think it just might be time to relive said honeymoon with all of you wonderful readers.

Recently, I discovered a…

Just a reminder, the Seattle bees will be swarming around B & O Espresso this Sunday, March 29th at 4 PM. We hope to see you there!

Thanks to our AWESOME hive hostess doctorgirl for putting this together!

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Calling all Seattle based hive members! Mrs. Cherry Pie and I will be joining 12 other hive members for drinks and/or dessert. Please join us! We’re meeting at B & O Espresso at 4PM on March 29th. We’ll send out a reminder closer to the meet up. Hope to see you all there!

Comment if you’d like to join us!

I’ve been going back and forth for weeks about my wedding veil/hair piece. I decided that because I’m not wearing a long traditional dress, and because the dress has a high neckline, that I don’t want to do a veil. Now, the question is the hair piece. These are the ones I was going back and forth about.

I bought this beautiful brooch (circa 1920) to…

I’ve been to some weddings with some really amazing themes. One wedding I went to a few years ago was completely red and teal… down to the straws. It was obvious the couple thought long and hard about how to incorporate their wedding colors into every aspect of their wedding.

Our theme? Us?! We decided that WE would be our theme — traditions and wedding protocol…

The Joey wedding is still 4.5 months away, but already I’m thinking about what I would have done differently. Don’t get me wrong, I still love what we’ve done and are going to do, but it hasn’t stopped me from coming up with “what if” alternatives.

My first new idea? A school-themed wedding at McMenamins Kennedy School in Portland. Mr. Joey and I had lunch there when…

WPPI taught me something. I went to WPPI and realized that all the photography bloggers I read are just students of the medium, much like myself (although in a much more advanced stage). It wasn’t until I attended my first WPPI event that I learned who the masters in the wedding/portrait photography industry are.

The thousands of people pictured in the photo below by Lynn-Kai Chao…

We’ve been going back and forth about favors for a while. Even though we’ve started making Limoncello, we’re not sure that we have enough time to make enough for everyone. We’ve come up with a list of ideas, but we need help deciding.

1. Limoncello - Our original choice, but getting bottles can be pricey and we’d need to come up with an alternative for non-drinkers and for those…

During dessert, we invited our guests to witness our license signing. So, as they sipped on French-pressed coffee and savored the baked goods, we called them to gather ’round, and then we took one of the final steps toward making our marriage official.

There was no real ceremony to it - we simply set our Flathead County marriage license on the now-empty buffet table, brought over…

I’m not a huge drinker, but my favorite drink is the Classic Pimm’s Cup. What is Pimm’s? Well, it is gin-based beverage that can be served either on ice or in cocktails. It has a dark tea color with a reddish tint, and tastes subtly of spice and citrus fruit. It’s a very English drink, but the Napoleon House in New Orleans makes a killer version!…

WPPI is the largest gathering of wedding and portrait photographers in the entire world, and when that many cameras converge in the same place, photo shoots are bound to happen. The subjects are sometimes “real” people (posing for engagement shoots or bridals), but usually they are local models. Between the photography conference and bunches of Valentine’s Day weddings, it’s a tough weekend to rent a…

As you all know, my beloved music snob is in charge of music. Now that he’s got the ceremony music out of the way, his next task at hand was the first dance song. For someone with hundreds of CDs, finding one song has proven to be a daunting task. Mr. Joey just couldn’t come up with anything!

Knowing his musical tastes, I tried to help…

After a delicious dinner and wonderful toasts, we slipped momentarily away for some private portraits, some of which you saw earlier, and more of which I will show you later. (As luck would have it, the pouring rain stopped just as we finished eating!) Then, we hurried back to the reception tent, where our delectable desserts were waiting for us: A vanilla-huckleberry cake with buttercream…

In February I met up with my mom in Vegas for a convention known as WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International), to spend some time with her and to play. And, to meet Miss Dumpling, of course! I called Mr. Avocado each night bursting with excitement about all of the new things I was seeing and learning.

I’ll admit this first post is slightly gratuitous, a…