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West coast girl living in an east coast world, preschool teacher, marrying my marine biologist on November 4th.
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Happily married 🎉
November 4, 2018
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We've all scrolled through here a million times looking for advice or finding advice we were never seeking. We've seen the "DON'T HIRE FRIENDS AS VENDORS" or "ALWAYS HAVE A HAIR AND MAKE UP TRIAL" or...
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We got married over a month ago on November 4th, but we just now got our professional wedding pictures back!! I am absolutely obsessed with them and when I think back on the day, it was fun and joyful...
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Am I overreacting? My little sister is one of my bridesmaids and my older sister is singing in the wedding. We got thank you gifts for them for being part of our special day.... But I have a brother...
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Our wedding is 8 days away now, and we are down to the final DIY projects! We DIY'd a lot more than I expected... but I ended up being pretty obsessed with these vow books. They're not perfect but I...
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During planning we have been using the two interchangeably. Now it's time to send out the invitations and we have no idea what to call this shindig... - It's starting at 11am, will probably go until...
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So everywhere on here I've read that if you are requiring it for the wedding, it is not a gift. My gift to the bridesmaids was going to be an engraved wooden hanger for their dress, a small wooden...
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Has anybody been in/gone to a wedding that has made them totally spiral out of control for their own wedding?? I feel like I'm going crazy!! I was just in a wedding and I'm going to one tomorrow and...
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Okay so the invitations came, they look great, I love them, awesome. Wanted to stick them in the envelopes, slap the addresses on them, and move on with my life. But.... I'm confused. 1. Our...
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I have my photographer for some of the time that we are getting ready, so I want to get "getting ready" photos. The thing is, our gifts for our wedding party are already pretty pricey in addition to...
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I was looking up wedding invitations and was constantly bummed at what we were finding. Invitations are on the lower priority of our budget so after looking everywhere, we found a fairly cheap, simple...
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I have searched through these forums and every time this discussion gets left mostly untouched... I am planning on using Bloominous as my florist. I'm really not a florals person but some small nice...
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I've never done any DIY florals before, so I need some advice for creating a garland. We have a beast of a fireplace as the backdrop for our ceremony and our table at the reception. The mantle sits 9'...
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Our entire "theme" for our wedding is loosely "movie/tv show". Without going in to too much detail, a running joke between us and everybody who has been following our relationship on social media has...
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My fiancée is a marine biologist so it was really important to her that we be as environmentally friendly as possible in this whole wedding process and at least do the save the dates electronically....
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My fiancée and I bought rings from a place that doesn't do wedding bands, so we'd likely have to put up with bands not fitting perfectly with our ring or getting custom. We're on a tight budget (I'm a...
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I went in to today's appointment with SO much anxiety and stress. I had no clue what I was doing or what I was really looking for but I had a blast trying everything on. At the end I fell in absolute...
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It's super early for all of this but my FW and I are trying to get an idea of costs so we know how much we can spend on other wedding things or if we could even pay for the brunch ourselves. After...