Wedding Blog

As I gave a sigh of relief and a wave goodbye, Mr. Spring Roll placed our invitations in the outgoing mailbox at the Post Office. And with that, they’re off; hopefully making it to their destinations within the next couple of days.

Remember when I asked for help choosing our invitation’s belly band? After reading everyone’s great advice, I decided to use the monogram band. I…

Back when Mr. Spring Roll and I first became engaged, I started a wedding website at MyWedding. You see, I started, and well, never quite finished. No big deal, right? Wrong. We included the website information in our invitations, and with t-minus two days until they are to be mailed, I had to finish the website.

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After a can or two of Mountain Dew, and into…

Before I could inundate him with pictures of rings, Mr. Spring Roll had already picked out his wedding band. Regardless, I showed him other options, to ensure that he was satisfied with his choice.

“What about this one? It has a tiny diamond to match my band,” I excitingly asked. “Nope,” he replied.

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..until our invitations need to be mailed.

All of the invitations have been printed, and the envelopes addressed. However, they are not quite ready for take off. Why is that, you ask? Because I can’t choose between two belly bands.

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“Dee,” I yelled every morning from our shared bathroom, “can you please put my hair up?”

“This is the last time,” she replied, day after day. As she put my hair up, she would rub in my visible makeup lines. Without Sister Spring Roll, I would have spent many days with a bumpy, crooked ponytail and makeup lines galore.

For our wedding day, I decided it was…

Naturally, as a girl who loves lace, pearls, and all things frilly, I love mantilla veils. I, however, do not love their price tag. By now, I’m sure you all can guess what I did. That’s right, I made my own mantilla veil.

With a lot of help from Sister Spring Roll, we turned this:

Into this:

As with every New Year, 2009 will bring many changes. I will rent a home with Mr. Spring Roll, become Mrs. Spring Roll, turn 24, and hopefully welcome a new niece or nephew (hint hint Sister Spring Roll).

Sister SR, Gavin (Sister SR’s stepson), and me on New Year’s Eve.

The biggest change thus far?

I never imagined I would be saying this, but I am in love with maps. If you are not, than you probably haven’t seen Laura Hooper’s maps. If Mr. Spring Roll and I had an unlimited budget, we would commission a custom wedding map. Unfortunately, our budget is nowhere near unlimited. Instead of forgoing the map altogether, I decided to create my own:

For those of…

Mr. Spring Roll and I made a very exciting trip yesterday, one that I have been anxiously awaiting.

If the title didn’t give it away, here’s a hint:

After my terrible experience with a ceremony violinist, I was feeling disappointed and a bit hopeless. A few days passed, when I received an e-mail from FMIL Spring Roll. The e-mail contained a website link to a ceremony harpist, recommended by Mr. Spring Roll’s uncle. I immediately visited the website, listened to her sample music, and contacted her via e-mail. Within minutes of sending my…

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Remember when I asked you to help me choose Mr. Spring Roll’s hat and my flower dog’s dresses?…

I have been in the kitchen for the majority of the morning baking goodies for Christmas. As I was making Oreo truffles, I thought of all you bees.

Truffles I made for sister Spring Roll’s bridal shower

I couldn’t stop thinking of what a wonderful favor or treat for a candy buffet the truffles would make. Wouldn’t they be so cute in a truffle box, tied with…

After seeing the great photos that Miss Crab Cake and Miss Glitter took of their rings, I had to jump on the bandwagon. I followed Anne Ruthmann’s great advice on WeddingbeePRO and began snapping.

As previously stated, making our wedding favors was extremely rewarding. However, it was very time consuming. The project that took the longest? The key chain Rubik’s cubes. There were several times when I wanted to throw the cubes in the trash, or at least across the room. In the end, I am so happy that I didn’t do that, and finished the cubes.

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Today is a very special day. It’s National Maple Syrup Day, but more importantly, I met Mr. Spring Roll four years ago today.

One of our first photos together; January 2005

As Mrs. Cupcake would say, today is our “meetiversary”. It still amazes me how a simple, “Do I know you?“* will soon result in, “I do.”