Just came outside from taking a few pics of our house in the snow we have been receiving for the past three days. I figured I would post one since it looks so festive.
Mr Corn and I are headed to PA for the holiday and then on to California for New Years. In order to travel more lightly, we opened up a lot of our Christmas presents tonight...one of my gifts was a web cam!! YAY!! So I am hoping to broadcast again sometime in the near future.
In Mr Corn's family, they have a tradition of giving ornaments to each family member that represent things that have happened throughout the year. This year I got this ornament:
What 'new' family traditions for the holidays will you be a part of this year?
I am sure you have already heard about this wedding since it seems to have popped up on every news feed I read this morning. But just in case you didn't, the full story can be found here.
Jennifer Cannon and Doy Nichols were married in a public restroom in Times Square Yesterday. The bride wore a Hanah Kim dress made entirely of toilet paper, glue and tape.
Personally, the short dress that Mrs Onion and I fashioned in our webcast last week was MUCH MUCH better...not that I'm bitter or anything :)
...but I FINALLY took the shadow box that I used to make the Guest Book Wish Tree Sign and made a memory box of our invitation suite.
Here is the box just prior to our wedding...
And here it is now...
I have it in our dining room, on top of an etagere case that we purchased with some of our Crate and Barrel Registry gift cards after the wedding. I also re-purposed the jar that held the wish tags as an pseudo-atrium filled with some of the sand, shells and grass from the wedding. The whole display is finished off with one of the manzanita branchs that we used for the wish tree and some candles I had around the house.
Are any of you planning to incorporate any of your wedding decor into your home? Any suggestions/tips?
Hey there ladies! It was super fun to chat with y'all on Thursday and I had a BLAST meeting Mrs Bee and Mrs Onion. If you missed the highlights, you can find them by clicking on the calendar icon in the chat area of Bee TV. It really is a sight to see if I do say so myself :)
Annnnyway, a friend of mine sent me an email about a blog she reads written by a woman in NY who does hand written stationary and invitations. I headed to the site and the invites are G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S!! I have no idea what the company is like; if they have exceptional service or what-not...but considering how much the site made me drool, I figured I had to give a shout-out on the Bee.
Here's a really fun wedding card that you could use for announcements or for Thank You's...
The company is based in NY and is called Citywrites and the owner, KJ, blogs over at KJ the DJ.
Some personalized stationary that you could get for your bridesmaids a-la Mrs. Onion...
Citywrites also does hand addressing of envelopes and seating cards! Lastly, I just LOVE this note card set: "Questions for the chicken meeting:"
Do you have any off-the-radar finds to share with the Bee?
I haven't posted in a while, but last night I got to thinking about how Mr Corn and I have been married for almost three months now and, as cliche as it sounds, it feels like the wedding was forever ago.
Part of that stems from the fact that we got married at the end of summer; just after Labor Day weekend, and then were in Italy until late September. Soon Fall came, and in typical New England fashion, we have snow on the ground and although it is still technically Fall, it looks awfully winteresque outside. In other words...we have experienced the best of three seasons in only three months.
Summer in Newport...
... Winter this morning.
Weather woes aside, even though the wedding seems to have been in the distant past, every once in a while I look over and literally think, "Holy shit, we're married! When did THAT happen?"
How long did it take for you to to settle in to your new marriage? If you aren't married yet, do you have any expectations on how long it will take you?
**WOO HOO lookie what I did. Good to go, Bee...let me know if this doesn't work.**
When we first started planning our wedding, I assumed we would hire a DJ for our reception and Mr Corn assumed we would hire a band. I loved the idea of a band, but I was convinced that we wouldn't be able to find one that we could afford that wasn't cheesy.
I. Was. Wrong.
We hired The Belltones, a five piece band "specializing in Swing, Sinatra, Motown and Disco".
I had no idea how to even attempt to look for a band, but it actually was really, really easy. When we first started looking, we were interested in a Zydeco band, so on a whim I Googled 'Zydeco Band' and the first post that came up was from a site called Gigmasters. One click led me to an amazing place where I was able to look up bands by style, type of event, even the state my event was in! Even more, I could see individual websites of the bands, I could listen to .mp3's, see pictures and read reviews. And incredibly, I could also look up ceremony musicians and DJs!! I swear, this was the easiest process; if only all the cake bakers and photographers in the world had a one-stop-shop like this set up!!
Below is a video of our first dance. Keep in mind we knowingly did not hire a professional videographer and the fact that we have this is purely bonus. I am posting it here so you can hear how great the Belltones were. We danced to "Exactly Like You" as perfomed by The Belltones:
Using Gigmasters was very easy and we eventually hired our ceremony musicians through them as well. We did have to pay a nominal fee to go through the service, but to be able to have access to so many different options was absolutely worth it.
Below is another video that highlights how well our band was able to roll with the punches. Here's the setup...because of a situation in Rhode Island a few years ago, there are new regulations on announcing fire exits. The Belltones are a Massachusetts Band, so I am pretty sure they were surprised that this was still required even though we were in a open tent. They handled it wonderfully and with grace and humor that our guests really appreciated. Believe me, I know how important the regulations are and I appreciate the safety precautions, but I am also glad that they were able to keep the announcement from changing the tone of the evening...
One of the biggest things I look for in a vendor is feeling like they really care about your event. Throughout the process of hiring and working with the Belltones they were very professional and curteous. They answered emails and phone calls timely and they were personable. I highly recommend them and have included their contact information below, including a link to their website. Please let them know you heard about them from me. We really, really loved them and would love for others to get to experience how great they were.
After I posted about Mr Corn's cousin's wedding that we went to in Seattle, a few people wanted to know where the stamp came from that they used for their programs:
I am pleased to tell you that I was able to get the info from the bride and you can find the stamp at the Addicted to Rubber Stamps website.
