Just Married!!

We got hitched 10-2-10, and I just got home Friday from our amazing honeymoon. I am waiting for all of the photos from the professional photographer, but my friends took some amazing ones. They also came through for us, helping us over the wedding weekend in a million ways.

Our wedding was Dia de Los Muertos and papel picado inspired and very eclectic! We held it at some cabins on the river in the Texas Hill country owned by a fabulous collector who also owns a costume shop.

I have a lot of DIY stuff to share here, too, over the coming days, but my favorite by far was my bouquet. With the help of an old college friend and a group of girlfriends drinking coffee, I made my bouquet the morning of the wedding and LOVED it. It has a sterling silver double heart charm my dad made attached with the aqua ribbon and turquoise peacock flowers!

The lovely ceremony site down by the San Gabriel River. You can see the bouquet and hair accessories I made. I love our smiles in this one. Our good friend officiated a sweet, Buddhist-inspired ceremony we wrote.

You can see the awesome Gypsy-Yiddish style trio Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour behind us.

They played, "All You Need is Love," as we marched up the aisle:

You can also see the boutonnieres I made with paper flowers and feathers!

We were serenaded with a waltz for our first dance, which was spontaneous and dreamy!

We were told that it was a very sweet wedding and was very "us" so I am really happy with the way it turned out.

It also appears everyone had a blast...!

Love this inspiration board

Our own wedding is 11 days away! Aye, aye, aye!!!

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Our Very Own Inspiration Board

Our wedding is starting to look over the top! I think it will all balance out though. Less than a month to go! Holy smokes!

Focus on the Ceremony

Crossposted from The Wedding Chicks blog I wrote

As a DIY bride,  I have been crafting up a storm and making things for our wedding left and right, as you can see below. A huge part of us will be in the wedding, but now with a month left, we’re finally focusing on the ceremony with full attention, which at the end of the day is the most important part, isn’t it?. As a non-denominational/Buddhist-leaning couple, we chose a good friend to officiate for us. But that also means that the ceremony is entirely up to us.  From scratch.

So how do you start?

I started with some personal vows I scribbled seven months ago after a couple of margaritas. With minimal cleanup, they are actually really quite good. And when my fiance re-read them today, I got an e-mail in my inbox from him that was so sweet, it made me tear up!

So if you like margaritas, you can always go that route!

I’ve scoured tons of books and web sites about traditional (and non-traditional) ceremonies and vows and ceremony structure. To be honest, I started by reading the original Offbeat Bride’s very own ceremony. The Offbeat Bride site has a lot of articles and help with ceremonies. This article is also helpful from Weddingbee.

I have borrowed, copy, and pasted the heck out of a google doc! I like the google doc because it’s easily shared between computers and my fiance and our officiant.

Seeing the structure, then piecing in the parts of vows and ceremonies we like and rewriting and tweaking to reflect ourselves is the process that’s working for us. We have a month to polish them up!

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Who knew our wedding colors are so on trend!

My favorite color, turquoise, got picked as the Pantone color of the year.

Pantone Color of the Year for 2010: PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise

Turquoise Transports Us to an Exciting, Tropical Paradise While Offering a Sense of Protection and Healing in Stressful Times