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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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Goodbye Friendly Skies

May 22nd, 2008 @ 8:32 am by Miss Gingerbread

Oh, air travel, you have become such a nightmare.

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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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How many songs have been written for or about same-sex weddings? Well, before I read a recent post by Tales of a Female Husband, I would have said none. How had I never heard of this song by Vienna Teng called “City Hall” ? I love it!

As Loaf points out, a key line is “if they take it away again someday this beautiful thing won’t change”, especially because of the ballot initiative that may change the CA constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

I’m going to go buy all of her music now. Here’s a Youtube video featuring my new favourite song to keep you company while I’m off on my buying spree.

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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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Do I Bustle?

May 20th, 2008 @ 11:30 am by Miss Gingerbread

One difficult thing about planning the wedding in a new city is that I don’t have a plethora of people to drag to things like dress fittings. Since I don’t normally wear wedding dresses, I’m just not sure about the whole bustle situation. I asked my tailor and she just sort of looked at me blankly, which I interpreted as “Huh? Why would you do that?” Since I feel pretty clueless about bustles, I left wondering, “Yeah, why would I do that?” But now I am starting to question if this is something I need to do. Help!

Here’s the generic picture of my dress.


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I can’t find many other pictures of the dress and especially of this dress bustled. So, dear readers, help a Gingerbread out. Would you bustle this dress? If so, what the heck would that look like? Watters 9040B brides, I especially want to hear from you!

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Miss Shortcake, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Manager/Children's Lit Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Master's Student/Personal Trainer Engagement Date: August 7, 2007 Wedding Date: October 2008 Blogging Since: Venue: Ceremony in a historic church, tented lawn reception at a golf and country club About Me: 1950's housewife sent to the future, reborn as crafting-obsessed, jill of all trades. I enjoy decorating, writing, baking sweet things, singing show tunes/dancing in public, wearing pearls, and knitting sweaters for my furbaby, Harvey, to chew upon. I heart pink, and believe that sparkles are the new black.
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Thanks, everyone for all your kind suggestions on how to lighten my finish-your-wedding-plans-in-a-month-load! The suggestions to delegate were especially useful - I just didn’t expect that people would delegate tasks upon themselves! :)

Exhibit A:

The lovely and uber-helpful Miss Gingerbread found a sweet ad in the Vancouver Craiglist, contacted the poster, and sent me the information she received.
Now, Mr. Shortcake and I will have this SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET 1952 black Chevrolet deluxe as our chariot-of-choice!


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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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Our Song

May 19th, 2008 @ 11:30 am by Miss Gingerbread

Our first dance will not be the Piña Colada Song, but I think we may still need to play it at the reception even though it’s about as cheesy as you can get.

The Gingerbreads’ first vacation together was to Maui. We spent half of the time camping all over the island and it was awesome! Like so many Maui tourists, we wanted to see the sunrise at Haleakala. We set the alarms on our cell phones so that we’d get up in time to drive up to the summit for the sunrise. We awoke to the cold and grumbled as we dressed and stumbled out of the tent. The campground was quiet. No one else was up yet. We hit the restrooms and then jumped in the Jeep, proud of ourselves for having beat everyone out of the campground.

“Look at your clock and tell me what time it is” I said to Miss GB 2.0 as we were halfway up the mountain. Miss GB 2.0 had bought a little watch bracelet from Sports Authority that she set to Hawaii time. Answer: “It’s 11pm.” Our cell phones were still set to Pacific Standard Time! We morons counted the wrong way. We set the cell phone alarms back three hours instead of ahead three hours. We should have set them for 8am PST (which would have been 5am in Hawaii) but instead we set them to 2am (11pm in Hawaii).

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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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About Our Rings

May 18th, 2008 @ 10:29 am by Miss Gingerbread

I mentioned our rings a while back and several of you asked to see them. I couldn’t seem to get a decent shot of them, which is the reason for my delayed response. My apologies.

Here’s the backstory. A few years ago, Miss GB 2.0 and I talked about getting married. It was in our far off plans, after saving up to move to Canada. We wanted to wear rings as a sign of our commitment to each other and to our future together, but we weren’t in a financial position to buy any bling.

So one day, I was walking to work and I noticed a little jewelry shop that made custom jewelery. I went home and dug out a ring that my aunt had casually dropped in my lap many years ago. I’d always assumed that the big ol’ sapphire and diamond ring was costume jewelery. I decided to get the ring appraised the next time I walked to work. Well, wouldn’t you know, it was real! I talked to the jeweler about creating two new rings out of the old one. He agreed to do the work in exchange for the sapphire.

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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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The Morning After

May 16th, 2008 @ 11:55 am by Miss Gingerbread

Wow, yesterday was quite a day! I have to say a big thank you to all of the readers who left supportive comments. It was so nice to have your company as I hit refresh a million times on various news websites yesterday morning waiting for the ruling. And can you believe that I got the good news right there in my post from the fabulous Amy H.? I was watching CNN misreport that the ruling was against same-sex marriage when Amy H. posted the good news! Yep, turn to Weddingbee readers for all of your late breaking news :)

Last night we had some fellow “Love Exiles” over for champagne to celebrate. None of us can return to the U.S. with our partners since immigration is a federal marriage right, but we appreciate this important step towards equality. And we celebrate for all of our friends in California who can now say “I do” again, like Ellen and Shelly.


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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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The Verdict is (Almost) In

May 15th, 2008 @ 8:26 am by Miss Gingerbread

I was going to blog about the creation of our wedding rings, but I’ve been diverted by something big that has my undivided attention. The California Supreme Court is going to give its ruling on whether same-sex marriage should be legalized in the state on May 15, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. PST. I’m a nervous wreck.

It’s been a long journey. Many of my friends were married in San Francisco during what many now refer to as “the Winter of Love” in early 2004.


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Miss Shortcake, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Manager/Children's Lit Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Master's Student/Personal Trainer Engagement Date: August 7, 2007 Wedding Date: October 2008 Blogging Since: Venue: Ceremony in a historic church, tented lawn reception at a golf and country club About Me: 1950's housewife sent to the future, reborn as crafting-obsessed, jill of all trades. I enjoy decorating, writing, baking sweet things, singing show tunes/dancing in public, wearing pearls, and knitting sweaters for my furbaby, Harvey, to chew upon. I heart pink, and believe that sparkles are the new black.
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The Search for the Perfect Wife

May 14th, 2008 @ 2:32 pm by Miss Shortcake


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I like to wear pearls. I enjoy wearing aprons, and love a clean house. I plan on staying at home while our children are very young, and yet, I consider myself a feminist. I believe in women’s rights, and the freedom for women to choose what they want to do in life - in any direction, housewife, career woman, super-human juggler of both, whichever, whatever.

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Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 24, 2008 Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
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Something Old and Blue

May 14th, 2008 @ 11:25 am by Miss Gingerbread

On Monday I posted about someone else’s grandparents and on Tuesday I posted about mine, but wait, there’s more. My grandparent-themed posts aren’t over yet.

One of my favourite pieces of jewelery is an aquamarine ring from my Swedish grandmother on my father’s side. I only met my farmor (that’s “father’s mother” in Swedish) a few times and I was too young to remember her. From what my mom tells me, she gave me a toy truck once. Then when she died many years ago, she left me a few pieces of jewelery in her will.

Aquamarine is my birthstone. It’s definitely something old and something blue. Maybe I’ll wear this for my wedding.

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