Not Exactly a Post-Wedding Chop...
But it's definitely a post-wedding change! I've been a fake blonde for several years now but honestly, I'm sick of how expensive highlights are to maintain. For real, it's ridiculous, especially in...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Commence Panic!
Hi folks (*blows kiss, takes deep breath.) This post has been kinda hard for me to write (hence my blogging absence lately) because it involves some moments of the wedding where I acted, um, how shall...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: First Look
You know the saying "The harder you fall, the higher you bounce?"Well, it's particularly true at your wedding. Or, it was at mine, anyways. After arriving at our venue and witnessing all the chaos...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Portraits
In the hour leading up to the ceremony, we managed to complete the bulk of the formal portraits, as scheduled. In spite of their traditional nature and the ever-present rain, the formal portraits came...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Before the Ceremony...
*Siiiiiiigh. Sorry to wax on a bit in this post but it has a lot of my favorite photos from our wedding day. Some may say that the little details don't matter come W-day but I will say that I noticed...
View ArticleBees, Then and Now: The Trailmix Edition
When I was in high school, I expressed my teenage angst through my hair. True story. Want proof? OK, I'll show you exactly one photo and then the memories are going back into the deeply-buried vault,...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Ceremony, Part One
It's time for what I think is going to be my favorite recaps of the bunch- the ceremony. We had numerous "Not a dry eye in the house"-type comments from our guests and I like to think it's because the...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Bees: Trailmix Edition
Let me just put this out there: I'm a total wierdo. There's so many things I do that I absolutely would never tell anyone else on the planet (except Mr Trail Mix, since he lives with me and knows...
View ArticleA Bees Life: Trailmix Edition
I figured I throw my hat into the ring for this series since I remember when I was a reader, I always enjoyed hearing about the process of becoming a Bee...Plus, I don't have too much longer around...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Ceremony, Part Deux
And now, dear friends, it's time to share the moments from my wedding that still make my heart swell with love and happiness whenever I relive them: Our vows, which we wrote ourselves but kept from one...
View ArticleHoliday Cards From Shutterfly!
I've never been inclined to send out holiday cards but now that I'm in my nesting phase, it seems like it could be a fun project. I looked around at a few different websites but couldn't pull the...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Strike A Pose
I last left off with our joyful recessional, set to The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love."As we finished our walk down the aisle and came to the entryway of the Tannery, we stopped short. Much to our...
View ArticleCongrats, Here's One Plate
Hey there Hive, I'd like your input on this one. Allow me to elaborate...We have friends who are celebrating their engagement with a fairly fancy-schmancy party (whoohoo, I love fancy parties!) in a...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Cocktail Hour and Reception Details
We whipped through our portraits in about half an hour, anxious to get to the cocktail hour, where delectable appetizers, champagne and our loved ones awaited us.Finally, Kelly declared us finished and...
View ArticleBee Holiday Party!
For the second year in a row, the lovely hostess-with-the-mostess Mrs Dahlia had us NYC Bees over to her apartment for eats, treats and wine at the Bee Holiday Party 2010.Although I arrived a bit tardy...
View ArticleFinally, An Album
Before I got married, I never really understood what was so difficult about making an album. You pick out some photos, decide on a layout and badda bing, badda, boom, album done.Um, yeah...Not so...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Celebrations!
Once our guests had noshed and drank, chatted and took shelter from the rain, we gave the go-ahead to our DOC to start the party! We opted not to introduce our bridal party but our...
View ArticleDoubt
I have these doubting thoughts sometime about my marriage. It's so hard to admit. Isn't the first year of marriage supposed to be blissful? Aren't we supposed to be so caught up in our own little...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: The Toasts
After all the scheduled dances were done, we just kept dancing! The band played a great first set for about 45 minutes, which I think allowed everyone to digest all the cocktail food and get ready for,...
View ArticleAll My Love, All My Life: Just Dance, It'll Be OK...
If there was ever a time in my life where I needed to 'Just Dance', this was it. I think we all know by now that my wedding was mildly disastrous and finally, at this point in the night, there was...
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