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Everyone knows that timing is everything in a relationship. When I met Mr. Peep Toe I was ready to meet him, and he was ready to meet me. In fact, I had made a deal with myself to accept every invitation I received to go out in order to meet someone.
I had just moved to San Francisco, and I barely knew a soul other than Big Sister Peep Toe and all of her friends. And if I hadn’t honored my own deal- there is no way that Mr. PT and I would have met watching football. At a Steelers bar. On a Sunday morning.
As I said before we met at a bar watching the Steelers in the playoffs. Mr. PT’s best friend is a HUGE Steelers fan, and my new roommate grew up in Pittsburg. So they both dragged us to the bar on a Sunday morning to watch the playoffs. These folks had been watching the entire season together and they were crazy excited that Pittsburg had made the playoffs- and then they won!! It was so much fun I found myself going back to watch each playoff game, and I didn’t know it at the time, but Mr. PT kept coming back to see me.
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Get it? The dogs are getting to know each other?
In planning our wedding, I’ve struggled with feeling awkward about throwing a party in our own honor. Traditionally, weddings were put on by the parents to celebrate the happy nuptials. That makes sense to me, in a party-throwing sense (certainly not in the whole handing-over-the-woman-as-property sense). It’s acceptable to show off your offspring!
Mr. Cheese and I are footing the bill for our shindig, so we’re essentially throwing ourselves a party, which feels strange. Call me shy, I guess (there’s a first time for everything).
*light bulb goes off*
Or, we can be throwing a party for our guests to thank them for being so wonderful and supportive to us while introducing them to each other! Miss Cheese’s people, meet Mr. Cheese’s people.
I always believed that having a theme or motif for your wedding helps you to not blow your budget. If you can only buy items that have a specific color/design on them, then that rules out a lot of stuff that doesn’t fit and so you never give it a second look.
However, every trip I make to Target, Wal-mart, or Hobby Lobby leaves me salivating over their newest black and white damask items. I find myself standing in the middle of the store, trying to come up with how I could possibly use a damask-print lampshade/crib set/paper plate/comforter/name-something-it-comes-in-damask in the wedding. I come up with all these insane ideas (clearly, the lampshade could be turned upside down and with a bowl inside could be used as a candy dish) before I finally snap back to reality and run out of the store screaming. I think this is why Mr. Fondue won’t come shopping with me.
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When you read the title, did that song totally pop into your head? HaHa. The Sound of Music is one of my favorite things. Actually, I have a lot of favorite things. They range from reading a great chick-lit novel (Anything from Emily Griffin or Lauren Weisberger is fine by me!) to my TiVo - which captures Jon and Kate Plus 8 and Office re-runs all week! Mr. Dumpling shares my love of The Office, Thai food, reality shows and sleeping late. We’re a good match!
When we thought of what kind of wedding we wanted, we knew it had to be uber personalized. I wanted Mr. Dumpling’s family members that I hadn’t met before to walk away feeling like they knew a little something about me and vice versa for my family and Mr. Dumpling. The first thing that I knew I wanted to personalize was our music. Namely, the song I would walk down the aisle to.
Heres my short list of aisle songs:
1. Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles
2. Here, There and Everywhere, The Beatles
3. Something, The Beatles (accoustic instrumental version)
4. God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
5. To Make You Feel My Love, Garth Brooks
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One of the most popular and classic winter wedding themes is the icy blue, white and silver snowflake theme. Although this isn’t the route that we have decided to take, there are so many beautiful touches that can be added to a wedding using this color scheme, from the invitations to the favors. My favorite below are the mittens—adorable!
When I started looking at linens for our tablecloths and napkins and such, there was one pattern I couldn’t get out of my mind. Now I didn’t really know what it was called- but I explained to our coordinator, Joann, that I knew the pattern had swirlies and flowerly patterns but not really flowers. Pretty lousy description, but she sent me back some fabric swatches from bbj linens and cloth connection, and I found my second (wait, doggie Champ is my second- so this is my third) love… damask.
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Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
After seeing all of the gorgeous inspiration boards on Weddingbee, I realized I’ve never made one of my own. The colors we chose for our “theme” came together after visiting our venue and seeing all of the blue decor, particularly in the large archway at the Chinese Rotunda, where our ceremony will be held. Since Mr. CC and I are big fans of brown, the trendy combo of blues & browns seemed like an obvious choice for us.
The design of our custom monogram was developed over many, many conference calls at work and devoured a ton of legal pads in the process. In fact, my coworkers must have thought that I was taking notes in a new form of shorthand that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics - or perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright stained glass windows. I designed the center square with the intent of adding flourishes that I eventually purchased from iStockphoto.
I love how the back-to-back “K’s” combine to form both sides of an “M.”
O Damask, thou popular bridal pattern;
Your maze of flourish is mesmerizing.
Teal and Brown, or Black and White,
Boy do WE have a lot of catching up to do!
I’ve been planning our wedding for almost 9 months now and only have 4 months to spare. Fortunately, I’ve been a bit of a procrastinator with my Do-It-Yourself projects and will have a lot to share with you in the proceeding months. Let’s talk color scheme, okay?
When I first discussed colors with Mr. Pomegranate - I’ll admit it was the day after the proposal - I had thought that a bright modern wedding would be a blast! My first color palette included a nice black and white damask* paired with a persimmon orange and a subdued lime. I wasn’t able to find my original inspiration photos from 9 months ago, but the wedding below captures the complementary color scheme idea quite nicely (they added raspberry as well).
Images via the Knot
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Sometimes wedding inspiration comes from unexpected places. Today I stumbled upon the blog: Wear Palettes. The blogger, a Swiss graphic design student Daniel, takes color palettes from The Sartorialist clothing. This blog is a great place to find unexpected color combos. The best part? The attire selection for your wedding is already halfway completed for you.
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Mr. Coconut and I have been engaged since March of 2007. Initially I thought to myself, wow we’ve got a ton of time to plan our wedding, this is awesome. Little did I know what a long engagement really meant: loss of social life, increasing stress, and LOTS of time to change yo damn mind. Oh yeah. No one told me how many times I, “Miss Decision Maker” would question and 50-guess my decisions!
The hardest part without a doubt was choosing our color scheme. I’ve been asked a ton of times, “What are your colors?” My reply, “ummm, I don’t have three colors, I have like 7.” Yes, I got strange looks. Eventually though (like this week), I’ve finally come up with some solid elements of our wedding.
This is the first element I KNEW had to be at our wedding. Lots of branches and romantic lighting from the ultra-fab knottie mrs.anayisnin (photo by Laura Novak):
Mr. Pineapple will be starting a new job next week and decided to have his prescription updated and worn glasses replaced before switching insurance companies. He took me along to help pick out his new frames. (I guess I will be looking at them more than even he will be.) Here is the pair we chose:
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What does this have to do with wedding planning? They are copper, one of our wedding colors! Mr. Pineapple will be so coordinated, without even trying. They will even match his rose gold wedding band after the big day. We picked them out, because we both loved them , not because it was one of our wedding colors. But the fact that we have been buying and creating so many coppery things has defiantly influenced our tastes. We now love all things copper - copper cookware, copper mail boxes, copper paint, copper jewelry, copper planters, and I will certainly miss the penny if the mint stops making them.
Has anyone else become obsessed with their wedding colors outside of wedding planning?
I’ve been having nightmares. They go something like this: Mr. Donut and I are standing blissfully at the altar, smiling and gazing adoringly at each other surrounded by our family and friends who have traveled from far and wide to be with us on our special day. The sun is shining. The wee birdies are singing. It’s perfect…until we reach a moment in the service where I’ve forgotten to choose a reading and/or a person to read said reading. In the dream there is a terrible moment of silence and I turn very red for forgetting a part of the most important part of the day. I’ve had this dream three times. The third time I figured someone was trying to tell me something. So a couple of weeks ago I set to work on our program.
We wanted our ceremony to have a cohesive theme. We chose peace and unity and our search for readings that reflect that began. Once again I went into research mode and Mr. Donut endured weeks of e-mailed suggestions while I endured weeks of waiting for his responses and notes. (For the record, I do not recommend making a long distance move away from your sweetie a mere weeks before your nuptials. It more than kinda sucks.)
I have a list of daily bride blogs that I read every morning, Weddingbee being one of them, for wedding inspiration. Like Ms. Cherry Pie in her post about her inspiration board, I discovered inspiration boards via Snippet and Ink and Style Me Pretty (Abby, the writer of the blog, was kind enough to publish my inspiration board). I am a very visual person, and I think inspiration boards are a great way to communicate your wedding style/dream through images. Also, I have given my inspiration board to many of my vendors, and in the words of my florist, “It really helps bring the feel of the wedding to life.”
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