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For anyone sick of looking at my dress, I truly apologize. But I’m pretty sure blogging about the first fitting is in my Weddingbee contract. I’d hate to get canned this close to the wedding. How embarrassing would that be?
I’ve blogged briefly about Destiny’s Bride in Scottsdale, and I want to reiterate what a fantastic experience it’s been dealing with them. The staff has been super friendly, attentive, and accommodating. They even stayed open an hour past closing for me, to give me plenty of time to drive up.
I’ve always known that no matter who I married, we would be writing our own vows. That was mandatory - marry me, and you can forget about pre-formatted promises. But when we met with our officiant and I told her that I wanted to put my “verbal stamp” on as much of the ceremony as possible, she was incredibly enthusiastic. Indeed, she encouraged me to write as much of it as I wanted - all of it, even.
Challenge accepted!
I consider myself a fairly practiced writer - but penning a marriage ceremony is…a unique assignment. There’s only you, feelings that by their very nature defy expression, and your wish to write something moving, but not schmaltzy - timeless, but personalized.
First we had to hammer out what basic elements we want. Doing so came with its own concomitant challenges, since while Mr. LB is a spiritual bug, I’m an agnostic one. I like to think of religious beliefs as a set of umbrellas. Some are very small, limiting, and only have room for a very few people (a highly fundamental or restrictive belief system). And some are much larger, able to encompass entire nations and generations (a generalized belief in a higher power, or basic karmic principles).
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If “tablescaping” is a word, is “centerpiecescaping” one, too? Because that’s what I’ve been doing. Centerpiecescaping. In fact, I recently published an entire series of books, all in the name centerpiecescaping:
Help me, hive. I want to attach typewriter keys to the clutch of my bouquet to match Mr. LB’s typewriter key cufflinks and, well, everything else in our wedding. But I can’t decide. Do I go classic and use “LOVE” (The theme of our wedding being The Sweetest Type of Love)? Or do I go clever, and use “2 B MRS”?
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In lieu of a traditional guest book, I wanted to do something along the lines of a wish book or wish tree - but with a twist on our theme. So, taking our cues from our ubiquitous, trusty vintage typewriter, we came up with our guest book interpretation…the Wish Paper Basket!
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
I blogged a while back about not knowing 53% of our wedding guests. Which, if I’m totally honest, relieves me of a good deal of pressure. Why kill myself to impress people I’ve never met, right?
Well, one of the invited guests is an English woman, an old friend of my fiance’s family who lives in England still. That alone is enough to make me like her (I’m a mad, mad anglophile). But she really won my heart with her wedding gift to us:
That “fourth leg” is the bit that takes us into London! In other words, she’s symbolically “bringing us over” to her. So sweet, right? Well, this morning, her par avion reply card arrived, complete with fancy British stamps:
I keep weapons in the house. Dangerous, damaging weapons:
I have to protect myself against the greatest evil of all time! …my curly hair. My insanely tangly, sleep-on-it-once-and-it’s-a-magpie’s-nest naturally curly hair. And while I loooooove curls on other girls, I loathe them on myself. Hence the arsenal of tools to make myself look as little like my real self as possible.
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A couture wedding gown, a string quartet, a garden full of peonies - of all the incredible details in store for our wedding, how weird is it that my favorite so far is the simplest and cheapest?
This is a handful of kiss stickers I whipped up to act as seals for the candy buffet bags. Just soft pink resume paper from Kinko’s printed in our secondary font (Urgent Telegram) in a medium grey (to evoke the look of a typewriter), punched in one-inch circles, and run through the Xyron sticker maker.
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For the out-of-towner welcome baskets, we decided to dish up some Southwestern goodness. (Did you know that Tucson is home to one of the largest annual rodeos in the country? Yee to the haw.)
I picked up everything locally, and tried to coordinate all the treats, papers, etc. in a palette of, well, Southwest-y colors: turquoise, brown, red, and gold:
One five-pound bag (ok, three and a half pounds now) of pink grapefruit Jelly Belly jelly beans.
The beans were purchased by a colorblind bride who thought they looked more pink online. Not so orange.
Anyway, said bride has no need for these beans, and in fact would very much like them gone, as they’re not doing much other than filling in as a lazy alternative to a proper breakfast.
From a smoke-free home.
Call 1-800-LOV-EBUG for more info.
Have to share this snippet of nearlywed dialogue. I’m making Southwestern-themed wine charms as part of our out-of-town welcome baskets (to debut shortly), but since the charms for those haven’t arrived yet, I thought I’d make a few for us real quick, from some other charms I had laying around.
But, being the old blind bat that I am, I can’t see to fasten the tiny little jump rings to the charms. I need Mr. Lovebug’s younger, better peepers…
ME: “Honey, could you help me with something real fast? Don’t worry. It’s ‘N W R’.”
HIM: “Never-ending wedding?”
pause
HIM: “Oh, I guess that’d be ‘N E W’. My bad.”
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For Mr. Lovebug:
The thing about Lovebugs is, they wear their hearts on their wings. This can lead to all sorts of damage, including bruising, tearing, and permanent scarring. Because while a Lovebug’s wings are exposed to all the world, they’re actually quite fragile. Lovebugs must be very careful to steer clear of wasps and other predatory man-imals.
The thing about Lovebugs is, there aren’t very many of them. There was an “incident” back in ’02 involving a miscommunication at the Homeland Security desk, and, well - let’s just say that crop dusters can’t do “surgical strikes” after all. So if you see two Lovebugs coupled, you’ve really just witnessed a miracle.
The thing about Lovebugs is, they require special care. You can’t keep a Lovebug in a jar, or an aquarium. Even aviaries make them claustrophobic. They need to feel secure, yes, but they need lots of room to buzz about, too.
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With less than five weeks to go, we finally made it to our local tux superstore to check out the goods. Alas, we were saddened to learn that while they carry wrinkly shirts and mini sampler ties, they do not carry actual tuxedos.
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