A wedding planner has nothing on meFebruary 15th, 2008 @ 5:01 am
In cast you missed it, the lovely Jenn over at OperationPinkHerring got engaged during her recent trip to Spain. I could not be happier for her and her Matt, er, I mean Joel. I continually refer to Joel as Matt. It’s easy considering he looks like this:
I seriously got tongue tied when I got to meet Jen and Joel last September. I wasn’t prepared for how pretty Jen was or hot Matt Damon-esque Joel was.
In honor of said engagement, a virtual engagement party is being held today for OPH and Matt Joel.
See, I did it again.
I never had an engagement party, which is odd since I’ve been engaged twice. So while I haven’t had an official engagement party, I have had two weddings.
Let’s talk about the second one, since it’s the only one that “stuck”.
Okay, so since I had had a previous wedding, that my parents so graciously paid for, they weren’t thrilled to pay for a second one. I don’t blame them really, but I was in no place to be able to afford a dream wedding in Mexico. (Boo-hoo!) That meant The King and I were paying for most of our wedding. (His parents footed the bill for the food which, lets be honest, was our biggest expense).
Which meant we made our own decorations. For reals. We bought flowers from the local flower wholesalers, a ton of tulle, glue guns, ribbons and wire and got to work in The King’s mom’s kitchen.
Believe it or not, I hadn’t put much thought into what the plan was for the wedding reception. Something about blue. And yellow. And watering cans and a shiz full of live daisies.
My mom and baby sister did their part to help with the preparations.
Hey, it was hard for them to fly all the way up to Seattle for the wedding. Very, very hard apparently.
Hey sis, thanks for the help. Why don’t you take a break and put your feet up on The King’s mom’s fancy furniture.
I know it’s been almost eight years, but I swear this is the help I got from them. Jerks.
In between the actual wedding ceremony, inside the Seattle LDS Temple, and the wedding reception, we decorated the little reception hall. And by “we”, I mean The King and I and all of our friends and family. Oh yes, we did. And we had a blast.
Again, we had no idea what the actual decorating plan was. We just started sticking flowers and tulle balls all over the place.
Hey Isabel, should we put more flowers above the window?
Oh yes, more flowers. And add some tulle. You can never have too much tulle.
(I love how my uncles are “helping” by holding the ladders for my two single, and hott friends. Thanks Uncles.)
The King even did some flower arranging. He just stuck his tie in his shirt and got to work like a good groom.
My friends and sister got extra creative with the table for the guest book. Again, more daisies (dude, we got a screaming deal on them) and watering cans. Yes it takes three people to place the daisies in just the right location.
It’s a good thing the caterers were focused on the food. It gave us more time to stick those damn flowers all over the reception hall.
We aren’t paying you guys to just stand there. Get that food in order!
(Oh my hell, look at all those tulle balls. They.are.everywhere!)
I don’t really remember anything much about the reception. I know here were lots of friends of The King’s parents and my close friends and family that flew up to be with us. And me, in a pretty white dress and The King is a new blue suit.
We all ate and talked and laughed. It was the perfect way to spend our wedding day.
And then we drove off, together, into the sunset.
Here’s to Jen and Joel and their engagement. May they have their own dream wedding, whatever it may be, and drive off into the sunset.
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janet
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February 15, 2008 at 5:50 am
great post! I always wanted to hear more about your wedding!
We didn’t get to drive off into any sunset, mostly because there was WAY too much booze at our wedding for anyone to be driving, and also, nowhere to drive to. I love your decorated Just Married car!
Amanda
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February 15, 2008 at 6:56 am
Oh wow - what a wedding reception!! Personally, I think getting the guests to actually do something other than sitting around drinking alcohol was a great move LOL and I loved the photo of your uncles holding the ladder - that was classic!!
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RA
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February 15, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I love your comments about your not-so-helpful family members. I have similar residual bitterness about our set-up day, but I don’t trust myself to release it to the internet.
Thanks for joining in!
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February 15, 2008 at 2:54 pm
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Operation Pink Herring
said,
February 15, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I am so impressed that you did all that stuff yourself — but it looks like fun! You can never have too much tulle at a wedding!
Thank you guys, a million times over. I am totally surprise (again) and in love with the interweb today. You guys rock.
Liza
said,
February 15, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I love the tulle balls!
We had our wedding & reception in the same space, so my friends & family had to help decorate before the actual wedding. Luckily, we were able to give instructions the day before at the rehearsal, since Jill and I were not able to help in the moment.
The downside of this is that I’d given very specific instructions for what I wanted our bouquets to look like (simple, small, lavender roses only, no greenery), which were completely disregarded (so large & long they required 2 hands, every available speck of greenery & baby’s breath). Oh well.
Audrey
said,
February 15, 2008 at 4:47 pm
What a fun reception! I love it! We had our wedding and reception in the same place, and our “pew” (read: rows of lawn chairs) flowers doubled as centerpieces, so I had assigned a couple of aunts to transfer them from the outside chairs to the inside tables. And my dad had to step in and bring a bottle of champagne to the “head tables” (tim and I had a table, the wedding party had a table, and our parents had a table) so that we could, you know, toast our own marriage. Apparently the catering staff forgot about us?? How does that even happen?! Thank goodness for family helpers!
Rachel
said,
February 15, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Great story! Thanks for sharing and Congrats and Best Wishes to OPH!
heidikins
said,
February 15, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hahaha, this is fantastic! Love the tulle balls!
xox
Keri
said,
February 15, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I hope OPH gets married here where we both reside. Even though I dont know her live in & person, I feel like I do b/c I read her blog everyday. If she has it here & tells me where it is, I will volunteer myself to go take picture & then send them out to the interweb. That would be reason enough that I can start my very own blog. Plus I would prob get readers w/they’d all want to see the pics…
Nic
said,
February 15, 2008 at 7:13 pm
You guys look so cute!
And I loved the entire post, but my very favorite part is that you put a blackout mark on your friend’s heinie.
alyndabear
said,
February 15, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I love the pictures - looks fantastic how everyone pitched in to help… some more than others, haha.
elise
said,
February 15, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Posts with pictures are the best. And this is a great story. I am impressed at the DIY nature of the whole thing! Y’all pulled it off and it all sounds really fun.
Lindsey
said,
February 16, 2008 at 2:08 am
The tulle balls kick ass! I love your wedding! It looks like you guys had so much fun.
SJ
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February 16, 2008 at 5:09 am
That was so fun hearing about your wedding! We (meaning me, my sisters, my soon to be mother in law, my mother and a few of my girlfriends) decorated our reception hall all by ourselves. The men? They were out playing golf.
Congrats to OPH!
Anth
said,
February 16, 2008 at 11:47 pm
It was fun to hear about your reception. I’m glad I’m not the only one whose reception is a big blur.
Anth
said,
February 16, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I mean, whose memory of my reception is a big blur.
Laurel
said,
February 20, 2008 at 1:21 am
That sounds like a great wedding and a team effort to boot!
Courtney
said,
February 21, 2008 at 1:18 am
Great story. And yes, you went a bit nuts with the tulle balls… but hey, when else in your life can you stick tulle and daisies everywhere and not be looked at as a crazy person.
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