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Wedding: Planning on a Budget
First of all: this is the veil I wore for my wedding. I adore it, and I cannot wait to show you how the entire ensemble went together… but I have to wait for wedding pictures to share it all. So, there’s a tidbit for you. 😉 Someone suggested the other day that I do a wedding-planning tips post, and since I’m a huge fan of staying on budget and not overspending on things, it sounded like a fun idea to me. So, for all of you brides-to-be who are overwhelmed by the cost of weddings, or who are on a very tight budget: here are the things I learned…
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My wedding according to Instagram
This was my wedding day. Bits and pieces of it, anyway. It was perfect, in my eyes. 1, 3: Lanterns that we hung everywhere in the sanctuary. 2. The altar. 4. My beautiful, beautiful bouquet! 5. Our rings. 6. Owl cake toppers! 7. A beautiful pie 8. The amazing cake that my aunt made for me 9. Cakes in jars! Me with my wedding-day makeup on. Gosh, I wish I could go back and re-live the wedding part of the day. It was wonderful. I was nervous as heck beforehand, to the point where I might have thrown up if I had eaten anything, but once it came time to…
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Wedding: A Makeup Tutorial
I am doing my own makeup and hair for my wedding. This isn’t a very scary prospect for me; I know some brides get tense thinking about doing their own makeup and hair, because they want it to be perfect and they’re afraid they can’t do it alone, but believe me: it’s way easier than you might think! Plus, I’m not big on things like fake eyelashes or a bazillion steps for perfect skin. So I thought I would bring you an easy, relatively quick (say… 15 minutes max, skin included) and glamorous makeup look using a makeup palette that was under $6, a $3 gel eyeliner, and only three…
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Wedding: Invitations!
On Monday, my mom and I went shopping for invitation paper. I hadn’t really worked on invitations much, other than asking Mr. Owl if he would draw some up for us, but suddenly I realized… oh my goodness, it’s almost six weeks I NEED TO GET STUFF DONE! So, this is what I have been doing. Remember those really awesome nerdy invitations I drooled over a while ago? Mr. Owl and I recreated them in our own way, and we’re putting them together on Monday. I’m incredibly excited! Of course, I am not going to be hand-painting all of the invitations; we’re having them printed this weekend in gold ink.…
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Wedding: The Rings
Ever since we’ve started making wedding plans (aka… since two days after the engagement, basically), Mr. Owl has consistently insisted that he could get me a “better” ring than the one he got me. I happen to absolutely adore the ring he got me and would happily use it as a wedding ring, too, except for the fact that he’d like our rings to semi-match, and he’s getting a gold band. I never knew how difficult it was to find pretty gold wedding rings. Seriously. It’s like nobody makes beautiful gold wedding rings– they’re all either really gaudy/weird, or really plain– and every design that looks nice and delicate is…