My MOH planned a fantastic Bachelorette weekend in Cleveland.

The entire event began with goofy bachelorette presents including feather boas for everyone and some seductive items for me…

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The Bachelorette Party:

Myself and a few friends are headed North to the closest “big city” for a weekend filled with a photo scavenger hunt, some pottery, possibly a movie (Bridesmaids, of course!), the traditional bar hop and an epic slumber party. This sounds amazing to me!

{photo from cle.com}

The Bachelor Party:

My groom and nearly every guy he knows are headed South to the country for a camping trip that includes four wheeling, target shooting, grilling, drinking and sleeping in tents. (As well as I’m told, burping, farting, not showering and all those things you can’t do around women)

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Here’s another idea that I had with the heart stick props.  This one, you can do so much more to make it more personalized.  Since the hearts are chalk friendly, you can write anything your hearts desire.  You can use these chalkboard hearts for your photo booth, engagement session, save the dates, or just for fun!  It’s an easy DIY project to do and budget friendly.  =)

The other day while I was getting more supplies for my wedding invitations, I came across these really cute red hearts.  I thought, why not just play around with them and make something fun!  So I went back home, thought of an idea…and walaa…I made hearts on stick that can be used for engagement shoots, DIY photo booth, or you can even make a whole bunch for your guests as fun favors!

They’re super easy to make, not time consuming, and most of all…budget friendly:

My Maid of Honor along with my bridesmaids threw me a lovely shower a couple of weeks ago. It was held at the beautiful Sippo Lake Clubhouse. It was a shower-themed shower.

MOH made the centerpieces with her Cricut. I think they were really pretty and sparkly.And the favors were bath salts and loofahs in greens and blues.

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Are you like me where you’re either afraid of going to the dentist, too lazy to get real teeth whitening, and just don’t want to pay for it if you don’t have to?  About a month ago, I got my yearly teeth cleaning and I asked my hygienist for non-professional teeth whitening options.  She recommended the Crest 3d White Strips.  Guess what I did the very next day?  That’s right, I got the Professional Effects 3d White Strips (Pictured on the left).

Results: Out of a scale from 1-5 (1 being no effects to 5 my teeth are blinding white!), my rate would be a 2.5 out of 5.  It wasn’t as white as I wanted it to be, but it did have SOME effect.   I thought about posting up pictures of my teeth, but I don’t want to gross you out!  =P

Would I Recommend this Product?
Not really.  I spent about $45 on it and the results weren’t what I wanted.  I thought about returning it to the manufacturer and getting my money back, but I just thought it was too much of a hassle.

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At work I receive emails from a service that helps reporters and writers get content for their stories. It’s like a help wanted ad for sources.

Yesterday I ran across not one, but two different writers looking for “groomzillas.” We all know about bridezillas, but do the men really get that way too?

Image from hawaii-aloha.com

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Olive Dude and I have not yet come to the decision as to whether or not we will be going with traditional vows, completely writing our own, or somewhat mixing the two. Either way, I stumbled across GeeZee, an amazing artist’s Etsy shop, and fell in love with this idea for after we say our “I Do’s”.

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Ok, I’m probably not going to be on everyone’s good side with this post.

I’ve been engaged for a long time. That means I’ve been reading a lot of blogs, magazines, and other websites on top of watching some wedding television. There is just something that I’m baffled by in all of the wedding world’s chaos. Why all of the dead people?

Product and photo from foreverwedstore.com

My point is in this blog title. But before you start hating on me or think I’m completely down on having any “memorialization” in a wedding, know that my fiance and I have loved ones who will not be able to see us wed.

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The trouble with inter-faith weddings is finding someone willing to marry us!  Our specific situation is a marriage between a Jewish man and a non-Jewish woman (me)!  Even though we have agreed to establish a Jewish synagogue affiliation and raise our children Jewish, there are very few Rabbis is the DC metro area that will actually recognize our marriage.

We have a few friends who have had the same issue so we bypassed all of the headache and heartache by playing off of their hard work.  We contacted their rabbi to see if he was available. Unfortunately, he is in high demand and already had our date booked. Bummer! Fortunately, he gave us a list of a few of his colleagues who would also recognize our marriage so we were back in business.  I set up a meeting with the first rabbi on the list and crossed my fingers that he was a perfect fit so that I could easily cross that off of my growing to do list.

Let’s just say that the meeting didn’t go as I had planned.  The rabbi was a perfectly nice man but I found him dry and odd.  Not the words I want to describe such an important man in my wedding.  I am not sure what I was expecting but it basically broke down to getting a marriage license from the courthouse and  cutting him a check for $800 for his services.

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