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1/13/2010 7:21:06 PM

Has anyone here hired a day-of coordinator? Was it worth the cash?

1/13/2010 11:19:50 PM

reposted from the last page:

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" elkaybie: How my friend, and NCSU alum, was proposed to on New Year's Day http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/08/met_562359.shtml#comments "

AWWWW

1/13/2010 11:35:17 PM

^^sure did...

It was nice to have someone else set up the chapel and reception so that neither I, my mother, friends, or any other family members had to. That peace of mind that "Rachel was taking care of it" was worth it.

However, she also served as a director, and there were a handful of things that she was in charge of that didn't go right. Did anyone notice? Unless you were directly involved in the planning or rehearsal, no. Were some of those things disappointing? Yes...some didn't matter and we've just said "whatever to it" but some we felt were pretty standard, old hat if you will, and shouldn't have happened.



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1/14/2010 10:16:27 AM

alright ladies

the date is june 11, 2011.
this gives me a lot of time. i like it.

right now im bookmarking things and getting my ducks in a row

so help me out pretty please:
i want bouquets like this:


and am entertaining the though of brooch bouquets like these:




anyone have any websites or suggestions on where to find these?
i googled and came up with fantasy floral designs, but that was it.

1/14/2010 7:09:53 PM

http://offbeatbride.com/2010/01/brooch-bouquet

has a link for a seller in Portland

really though, offbeatbride will probably be your best friend...they really do a great job of pooling amazing things from non and semi traditional weddings, a lot of DIY, w/ an occasional vendor posting

their message board is helpful too

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1/14/2010 7:25:43 PM

I offbeatbride.

I also really like Snippet and Ink though lately it hasn't been as inspirational as I found it in the past.

1/14/2010 7:53:40 PM

I found a lot of sites I loved so I will bless others with the links. I love wedding planning. I miss it. I'd love to plan someone else's wedding.

A Practical Wedding
http://www.apracticalwedding.com/search?updated-max=2008-12-16T05%3A23%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=10

NC Bride Bio - lots of vendor reviews
http://www.ncbridebio.com/

Vintage Setting for Modern Weddings
http://ruffledblog.com/

Style Me Pretty
http://www.stylemepretty.com/

Snippet and Ink
http://snippetandink.blogspot.com/

I know that there's more but those were my favorite. I also used the KNOT a lot.

1/19/2010 7:59:08 PM

one of my good friends and her (now) husband met at starbucks where he worked and here's the groom cake:

1/19/2010 9:57:49 PM

I don't really get the point of a groom's cake anymore. I get what it used to be, but now it just seems like an excuse for another cake.

Not that I have room to talk, we're going to have something like 10 cakes, pies, and cobblers at my wedding

1/19/2010 10:08:24 PM

I wish I had a picture of it, but my MIL had a cake made in the shape of a Tabasco bottle for Justin's groom's cake (done at the rehearsal dinner). It was awesome!!

1/19/2010 11:45:18 PM

Offbeat Bride's newest blog entry: Of Brides and Zillas

how the term "Bridezilla" has become just as passe as "tacky" when it comes to weddings

http://offbeatbride.com/2010/01/of-brides-and-zillas

1/20/2010 8:27:07 AM

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"Vintage Setting for Modern Weddings http://ruffledblog.com/"

bookmarked.

thank you thank you thank you TotalEclipse!

1/20/2010 7:20:19 PM

No problems.

I really miss planning my wedding. I used to pour over websites and had all these ideas. It was so much fun, even on our limited budget.

But I LOVE weddings.

1/20/2010 9:57:53 PM

If I had the cash, I would buy out that farm that's next to the Leesville School complex and convert it to a reception barn. Then I could help planning weddings every weekend

1/20/2010 11:08:56 PM

alright, question to all of you wedding vets


how long to do you think the seating of the grandparents/parents and processional takes?

I want to do all of this in one song.


here's the breakdown

1. greatgrandparents
2. grandparents 1
3. grandparents 2 (these grandparents may not come...but for times sake we will say they will)
4. grooms dad and step mom
5. grooms mom
6. my mom
7. bridesmaid 1
8. braidesmaid 2
9 me

i have a song that is roughly 9:30 long.

ive not very good with the concept of time so i dont know if this is long enough or not.
i'm going by the seating/processional i've seen at other weddings that take no longer than 15 minutes and they have anywhere from 5-7 bridesmaids....i have 2.

what do ya'll think?

1/26/2010 12:39:54 PM

^How far will you have to be walking? Also, is it on concrete or sand/dirt?

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1/26/2010 1:01:38 PM

backyard, so hard dirt?

bridesmaids will more than likely not be in heels (cant say that about the other though )

i am not sure about how far the walk is though >.<

i havent even made a guestlist, but im gonna try to make the "walk" relatively short

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1/26/2010 1:04:15 PM

^ I would think so. My best friend's wedding ceremony lasted 15-20 total (including the vows, walk, everything). There were 3 of us bridesmaids and we had to wait a certain amount of time to walk down the aisle... Although, I'm not sure if our walk included the parents and grandparents first... But my mom said the whole thing took only like 20 minutes so I think you'd be good



GAH I'm already starting to stress about all this stuff and we decided on March 2012 (aka I have a loooooong time). I do want to get SOME ducks in a row though.

I think I'm going to have my colors be either...

Green/yellow/white (probably like apple green and canary yellow)
Green/tangerine/white (mint green and a softer tangerine, not like HEY IT'S ORANGE)
Green/aqua/white (mint green and a relatively bright aqua but not summery aqua.. if that makes sense)


Joie - on theknot.com I saw this thing where a couple used antique brooches for their place cards

1/26/2010 1:30:59 PM

These are the main vendors that we used--I hope it may be of some help:

Dress (Reem Acra) (I wore a suit from Jos. A. Bank) - Alexia's Bridal, Cary

http://www.alexiasbridal.com/

Photography - Azul Photography (Christobal Perez)

http://azulphotography.com/

Flowers - Fresh Affairs, Raleigh (Lyn Graves)

http://www.freshaffairs.com/

Cake - Sweet Memories, Apex

http://sweetmemoriesbakery.com/

Wedding Invitations (programs, menus, and table tents) - The Green Kangaroo, Cary

http://www.tgkdesigns.com/

Location (ceremony, cocktail party, and dinner) - The Umstead, Cary

http://www.theumstead.com/

Musicians (cello, flute, and violin) and DJ - Musicians Booking, Raleigh

http://www.musiciansbooking.com/

1/26/2010 1:57:43 PM

$80, courthouse, done.

1/26/2010 3:04:45 PM

^2 how did you like Azul?

1/26/2010 4:05:15 PM

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"how long to do you think the seating of the grandparents/parents and processional takes?"

mmmkay, since we didn't have a run through at rehearsal, and since I had 3 songs that was manned and changed for the different parts (iPod ceremony!), this is a guestimate based on what I've seen in the wedding video

13 sets of people walking down the aisle was about 8 minutes, and just me was about 45 seconds...hth

1/26/2010 4:36:44 PM

We had a song for the grandmothers (About 3 minutes, because they hobbled).
A song for the mothers (very short, maybe a minute).
A song for the bridal party (3-4 minutes for the Groom, pastor, 3 bridesmaids, 4 groomsmen and the flower girl).
And a song for me--About a minute for me, because I had a much longer walk (from the building, instead of end of aisle). They were all very short songs though (obviously).

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1/26/2010 4:39:39 PM

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"how did you like Azul?"

Samwise16

The photos were phenomenal. Christobal is the 8th-ranked wedding photojournalist in the world.

1/26/2010 6:31:26 PM

sweet. so it sounds like i may be in the clear


thanks ya'll!

1/26/2010 7:23:06 PM

We're debating even having music since it will be on the beach. But will music help things go more smoothly? What do you guys think?

1/27/2010 12:03:45 AM

the one beach wedding i went to you could barely hear the music due to wind...they had an ipod ceremony.

however, i've been witness to a beach wedding where they had a steel drum band playing, and you could hear it a good 50 yards away.

1/27/2010 12:12:18 AM

Yeah I think we would definitely need to hire real instruments, which kind of blows lol. If you can't even hear recorded music being played it probably would be better to just skip the music.

1/27/2010 12:13:36 AM

*sigh* ... did any of you have to deal with disappointing/hurting someone's feelings/pissing someone off with your wedding plans?

1/27/2010 10:52:48 AM

yes. wanna chat about it?

1/27/2010 10:54:16 AM

^Absolutely. I think it's par for the course. My MIL was devastated when we weren't going to get married in her hometown. But she came around, and eventually understood we didn't make that decision to alienate her.

And we had people upset with the dates we chose. You can't please everyone.

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1/27/2010 10:54:22 AM

Yes, I need to talk to someone who's been through this (who's around my age, besides like.. my mom )

PM sent

1/27/2010 11:05:12 AM

btw samwise

Quote :

"Green/yellow/white (probably like apple green and canary yellow)"

my vote

1/27/2010 1:38:52 PM

^ I really have no idea how I'm going to pick!!! Mainly because of things like this:

I LOVE these colors together





















The "Real Weddings" section of TheKnot.com is addictive!

1/27/2010 2:00:41 PM

ain't it though!!


and honestly i was a litlle mehhh when you said tangerine
but after looking at those pictures
i like!

here are a few of the pics i have saved:












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1/27/2010 2:05:28 PM

um...have you seen photos of our wedding? i think you'd like it...

our colors were green, brown, ivory w/ an accent of confetti (yellow & red tipped) roses

all of the flowers were ivory and green except for the bridesmaids' bouquets (all confetti roses), I had one confetti rose in my bouquet, and there was one confetti rose in the pew markers





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1/27/2010 2:07:16 PM

^2 Haha when I first told my mom tangerine she was all then I showed her some pictures and she was like hey... that actually looks neat

and I am totally having one of these for escort cards:







^ I saw your bridal pictures (which were gorgeous!!!) and I think I saw some of them like your church and stuff (which I also LOVED). It was very pretty Do you have reception pics on facebook?

1/27/2010 2:11:49 PM

^i LOVE those apples

1/27/2010 2:12:35 PM

elkaybie
thats gorgeous!

1/27/2010 2:13:17 PM

I agree.. I love your wedding LK!!

I saw a cute idea for centerpieces... You put cards naming each table after something special to you and the groom or a place you've been or where you met... Or you put actual pictures of places you've been and use those names for the table -- is that what yall did with the pictures?


^ for you... more apples!



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1/27/2010 2:16:15 PM

hey look at me, im in one of those pictures

1/27/2010 2:25:36 PM

mmmhmmm...those are photographs we took (scenery only) on the many trips we had taken as a couple up until that point. we didn't have assigned seating though...we just reserved 2 or 3 tables for the bridal party and grandparents, and everyone else sat wherever.

we had 4 tables outside and 2 in the bar where we reused the bridesmaids' bouquets as centerpieces. just plopped em in a mason jar. i don't have any photos of those unfortunately.

we also reused all the flower arrangements at the chapel at the reception hall.

pew marker...

became part of the centerpiece...on the right


you can see that the tables alternated green and brown table cloths.

then we had this overlay on our sweetheart table, the dessert table, cake table, and the guestboard table

mmmm, chocolate mousse...

ahhh, don't forget a cake stand...or your cake may look like this


ok i'm done sharing...promise! haha
and thank you Joie and Sam
(not really...I loved our wedding, imma talk about it foreva! )

^lol, you were in many

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1/27/2010 2:28:46 PM

and i dont read this thread just so you guys dont get the wrong idea

i was informed there was a pic of me in here

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1/27/2010 2:32:47 PM

suuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre

1/27/2010 2:33:42 PM

you were totally reading it

and i LOVEEEEE the way your reception looked.
i think the tablecloths are the clincher....they dont match, but they do

love love love






and totally go with the apples
(srsly, i did that)

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1/27/2010 2:35:35 PM

Quote :

"*sigh* ... did any of you have to deal with disappointing/hurting someone's feelings/pissing someone off with your wedding plans?"

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. If you want to talk PM me. I've been dealing with this since the very beginning of wedding planning

1/27/2010 6:27:39 PM

Quote :

"The "Real Weddings" section of TheKnot.com is addictive!"

It is but it also kind of annoys me. Well over half of their weddings have a full wedding coordinator attached to them. And a huge portion of them either the bride or groom does some sort of graphic design for their work. So it feels like the only way you can get the results they show is by having $texas or doing it for a job to begin with.

Then again, I guess theKnot is basically the wedding industry's pimp machine so they want to encourage you to spend a crapload of money

1/27/2010 6:32:04 PM

^2 Haha yeah I vented to LK and if you want to vent with me, we can

Yeah I noticed that about the knot too... I was thinking - there's no way a lot of these people are this creative.

BUTTTTT my sister is a graphic designer and has already offered her services (and she's the M.O.H.) so I'ma put her to work!!

And they had a section on there for budget weddings... The article said the average wedding costs over $27K!!!!

1/27/2010 6:59:49 PM

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"however, i've been witness to a beach wedding where they had a steel drum band playing, and you could hear it a good 50 yards away."

was this in bald head island around the first weekend in october? if so, i was in that wedding

1/27/2010 8:16:28 PM