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Like Miss Peony, I have to apologize for not blogging lately. Mr. Magnolia and I just sold my condo and bought a house (forthcoming: a very exciting blog about purchasing a home in the middle of a mortgage crisis!), and we’ve been moving, unpacking, organizing, and making multiple trips to Home Depot. Add to that a recent promotion at work (yay! 
) and some futile attempts on my part to focus on wedding planning, and….well, things have been nuts.
But I do have topic to address today…weather!
This was the scene in Atlanta this morning:
(photo courtesy ajc.com)
The weather on your wedding day…this is something all brides think about and some even obsess about. But it’s the one thing you absolutely cannot control. If you’re having an outdoor ceremony be sure to have a rain back up plan — a tent, an indoor option — something!
My “rain plan” consists of a pair of cute Ann Taylor wellies and a matching umbrella!
Photo by Daria Bishop
I lived in Florida for five years right out of college. Down there, if even the slightest disturbance in the air shoots itself off the African coast, they track it incessantly.
It’s not supposed to rain on the last weeekend of June - it’s SUMMERtime for cryin’ out loud!
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It’s finally time to update everyone on our trip upstate last weekend to see if we can have our wedding where we were planning to. (At our family’s summer house in the Adirondacks…which lacks enough uninterrupted space for a single large tent.)
Because the snow was so so deep…
we decided not to make our caterer drive all the way out to meet us. Instead, we took our 100 lb plus black lab and some snowshoes, and tried to trek up ourselves to at least check the area out. It was rather difficult.
Just like Miss Bluebell’s eerily similar post from yesterday (ok ok I blatantly copied it 
), the 8″ of snow we currently have is seriously screwing up with my wedding planning…
Since January, my mom has been trying to find a weekend to come up here to my college town so I could have my dress fitting (improbably, I found “The Gown” at the only bridal shop in this tiny town). She really wants to be present at it, and I really want her here. But every time we make plans for her to come up, it snows. Today was our “one last chance” day before I just give in and go it alone. So, of course, I wake up this morning to heavy snow and word that the highways in northern Missouri are nearly impassible in places. Fantastic.
Monday is our “one more last chance” day, and if it doesn’t happen then I’ll have to go to my fitting sans Mom.
End rant.
Want to see some pics of the snow on my University campus (before we had the full 8″)?
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Rain, rain go away! Come back on another day! This is the song I’ll be singing on my wedding day. Today I’m working from home because of the icy road conditions here in the NE. And it got me thinking about the weather and how one of my biggest worries on my wedding day is rain and/or snow (although end of march in Atlanta it is very unlikely to snow. *knock on wood*).
But you know how they say, rain on your wedding day is good luck? See, when I heard that I was pretty convinced that someone just made up that saying to make brides feel better for having rain on her wedding day. I tried to do some research on-line but unfortunately could not find any explanation of where this saying came from. Anybody know?
In anycase, it looks like it really is good luck for it to rain on your wedding day if you’ve purchased your rings from Elyse Jewelers in Massachusettes! If it rains more than half an inch in Boston on the afternoon of your wedding, they offer full refunds for your wedding rings!
I know, I know, Buffalo and that area has this bad rap for all of the snow that it gets… and this week is no exception. I have been completely unable to speak to anyone up there (my vendors) about anything due to the 4 feet of snow they got, because no one was at work the last two days. My mom said the cars that were parked on the street in town are literally waist deep in snow!
They got so much snow on Monday that the weatherman from Good Morning America was there doing the weather this morning, and he happened to be standing in front of a house about 5 blocks from our reception site.
Check it out…
(photo courtesy of The Buffalo News)
I am just praying it all melts before July 14!
Now that it’s snowing like crazy in NYC, I wish that my wedding was during the winter rather than in the heat of July. It’s just so pretty, but then again I know I’d be freezing. Those of you having a winter wedding, take lots of pictures outside 
I’d love to see them.
On the theme of winter weddings, I found these adorable things that are perfect for winter weddings:
The Weather Channel has a Wedding Planner where you can check out the weather in your area for the past three years, as well as typical weather for that day.
As a wedding coordinator, you have to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. One of my recent clients did just that at her recent December nuptials. There were problems to say the least!
Washington State was hit by some pretty nasty weather in the weeks leading up to the wedding, and thousands upon thousands of residents were without power for many days. Homes, businesses, and unfortunately churches were victims of the storm. The Bastyr Chapel, where they were to wed, was without heat and any kind of light on the big day. Now, the Bastyr is an amazingly beautiful and large church which is both good and bad. Good because despite the power being out, it still looked absolutely beautiful lit by candlelight. Lots and lots of candlelight. The bad part was that it was somewhat chilly inside such a large space. But with the excitement of the day… I don’t think anyone noticed!
So it seems like there may be some chance of rain on our wedding day. I’ve been telling myself over and over that rain is good luck, pictures in the rain look wonderful, a big bright umbrella will really liven up the pictures, etc. But in my heart, I don’t want it to rain.
Since we are staying at the W in Times Square, I thought it would be amazing to get at least a few shots in Times Square in my wedding dress. Very New York pictures, don’t you think? Then we were going to take some quaint pictures in the West Village. However, with the possibility of rain, we have to think of alternate locations.
I really love the quintessential New York style, so if it rains, we are going to take pictures in Grand Central Station. It does make for beautiful pictures, and I know my photographer has shot there before.
But… I still dont want it to rain.
I’ve been tracking the weather for my wedding, and the forecast calls for rain the Monday before the wedding THROUGH the Monday after. I’m so bummed. I thought I was finished with all my online wedding purchases. But, with the rain looming, maybe I should invest in a large umbrella since all I own are purse size ones.
Rain + Outdoor tent reception = 
I found this 48″ inch umbrella for $15.
According to a wedding weather poll on weather.com, fall is the best season for weddings.
Spring 27.4%
Summer 22.2%
Fall 44.5%
Winter 5.80%
We are (HOPEFULLY, FINGERS CROSSED!!!!) going to have our ceremony outside my family’s summer house in the open air, tentless and free.
I have always imagined getting married at this exact spot, with the view of the lake and the mountains behind us, and regardless of my desperate desire for no tent, I don’t think a tent would even fit there! Which is all good and fine except that this is also the exact spot where my brother was going to get married this summer before there was the most rain ever on record for a straight month leading up to his wedding.
Soooo, now I’m paranoid! We could always hold the ceremony inside in the living room like they did but (a) that’s just more copying of my brother’s wedding and (b) we’re going to have probably about 30 more people than they did, and even for theirs people were jam-packed in and a lot of them couldn’t see.
Which leads us to Poll #1!*
*Poll #2 will accompany the semi-related Tale of Tent Woe, coming soon to a…different weddingbee post near you!
**figure out a way to use the reception tent for the ceremony, then herd people away from it for a while as the caterers set up tables after the ceremony? Or some other creative solution which I will be sure to elaborate upon in your comments section!
[Disclaimer: I swear I can draw better than that, but with only Paint and a desperate desire to get this out to the weddingbee public RIGHT NOW, that was all I could come up with. Feel free to mock as much as you please! ;-)]
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