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Centerpiece thievery!

9:10 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | Permalink
Adrienne

This weekend I gave up on making my own centerpieces.

Yeah, I thought I was going to pull a Martha and knock out the world's cheapest, cutest table decorations, but finding flowers, vases, mirrors AND candles proved to be too much for my fragile mind. Plus, flowers are something I put on the "meh" list: Things I don't want to spend that much money on.

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Picky bride? So shoe me.

12:08 PM Tue, Apr 22, 2008 | Permalink
Taylor

Being a bridesmaid can be a bum deal. It can be depressing, embarrassing, emotional and, worst of all, expensive.

I've been there approximately 5,932,082,278,939,478 times. Because of that, I thought I'd be a pretty reasonable bride -- you know, inexpensive dresses, no major demands.

But I thought wrong.

I am butt-crazy obsessed with feet, people.

So shoe me.

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Four months to go!
(and food I miss)

12:28 PM Wed, Apr 16, 2008 | Permalink
Adrienne

Taylor does an excellent job of reminding me how many days, weeks or months we have to go till our respective weddings. She's not here today, but I know she would have walked in and said, "FOUR MONTHS, DUDE!" because she said that six days ago for her four-month date.

I told myself I'd take the month of April off, because its days were my last of freedom before an onslaught of events: Matt's graduation (HALLELUJAH! ADIOS, ANN ARBOR!), Matt's move to NYC for summer (sadness), Matt's apartment situation ...

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(and food I miss)

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Me vs. the blue metal mailbox

6:02 PM Sat, Apr 12, 2008 | Permalink
Taylor

I did it. I sent out my wedding invitations, and it was horrifying.

It's not, per se, the actual wedding that's horrifying. I mean, there are plenty of scary things about it: the cost, guest lists, my consistent inability to shrink my posterior... but none of those were on my mind when I pulled up to the menacing, blue metal box at the post office.

It was the finality of it.

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Get married, go directly to jail

2:35 PM Thu, Apr 10, 2008 | Permalink
Adrienne

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) -- A weekend wedding turned into an unforgettable first night for these two newlyweds. Police said a bride and groom spent their first night as a married couple in jail after their wedding party at a Vallejo home got out of hand.

When police had to return a second time to the home Saturday night, officers stunned both the gro...

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Getting dirty at the cake dive

6:24 PM Sat, Apr 05, 2008 | Permalink
Taylor

There's good clean fun, and then there's this:

Wedding Belles was among hundreds of Houston brides who tore through two specially-made, 100-foot-long French vanilla wedding cakes at the Bridal Symposium Saturday.

Though this blogger would've rather eaten her way through it, I got dirty with the rest of the brides-to-be, sloshing through piles of frosting, searching for prizes.

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Not excelling.

8:42 AM Tue, Apr 01, 2008 | Permalink
Adrienne

Since I've entered the ennui zone (no pressing wedding-related tasks to accomplish), I thought I'd spend yet more time on my computer and create the master guest list. It will hold the guests' addresses and their final RSVPs.

I got my pretty Powerbook in 2005. In 2007, I opened Microsoft Excel for the first time. This is not a joke. Anything I learned...

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