So, by now you know we’ve decided to go with Ringbearer books, because it’s cute and damn near indestructible! Recently I raided my local Savers store (similar to Goodwill) and came up with a treasure trove of vintagey books to play with. The first ones that caught my eye were these beauties, clearly from the same person’s library.
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Originally I had planned on using these, but upon opening up An Intimate Guide for Women I just couldn’t part with this beauty…
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… and in the darkness bind them… well wed them at least! I swear I’m done with Tolkien! I may not have mentioned this buuuut we have not one but TWO ring bearers! That means these two handsome faces will be bringing our rings.
Ring Bearer #1
(Who looks exactly like Cherry Dude as a kid- and is trying on his Barf/Mawg costume wig)
Ring Bearer #2
The quandary is how do I find two awesome ways for them to bring the rings that isn’t all matchy-matchy and doesn’t involve a pillow. I’m quite certain that these two soon to be 8-year-olds will need something less destructible and more boy-appropriate. As usual this brought me to Etsy… but Etsy only brought more ideas than decisions.
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So The E-Ring was on my 4th finger on my left hand… so the quest to cover His 4th left finger began! We first set off to Bailey, Banks, and Biddle to look at styles and get the Mister sized. We quickly discovered 2 things: he was a size 9 even, and he was also a picky Groom! So we were off… and we started our search at Etsy…
Etsy
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Yay we get to talk about rings, something I had no opinion on until we started the “Engagement Discussion” in June. All I knew when my fiancé brought this up was 1) NO BLOOD DIAMONDs 2) I like Platinum. My Fiance would bring quizzes for me- even when we were out to dinner! The first quiz looked something like this:
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When I decided I couldn’t possibly choose one, he said “Could you cross out the ones you don’t like then?” Well that was easy!
Princess- too trendy.
Emerald- would make my chubby fingers too fat.
Marquise- too 80s.
Oval- just not right.
Pear- is for eating.
Heart- is in my chest cavity.
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(For those of you that are interested: please note the title should be sung to the tune of “China Doll” by David Bowie)
When I first discussed China patterns with the fiancé I soon learned we had a full set… and Oh baby!, is what you would say when you looked at our China. Let me explain why the engaged-not-yet-married-couple has a full set of China, Crystal, and Silverware. You see the fiancé’s paternal grandparents are just a bit of hypochondriacs and really thought their time was up about 30ish years ago (please note they are in good health and still living). So they went out and bought all three of their grandchildren full 12 piece sets of China, silverware, and real lead Crystal. For the other two grandchildren this generous gift was given as their wedding present. For my fiancé, it was given as a housewarming gift as the paternal grandparents had given up on a wedding. This is a wonderful sentiment but the circa 1978 pattern is interesting to say the least….
Table Tops Etc.
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Just as a wonderful aside to how beautiful bridesmaid’s dresses really are, I made my Christmas Tree Skirt out of my last bridemaid’s dress and it looks wonderful! I seriously took it from this… to this!
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Neiman Marcus
… Well not quite, that beautiful tree skirt is from Neiman Marcus, but it’s similar to my Bridesmaid’s-Dress-Turned-Tree-Skirt. The point is that I don’t want my Bridesmaids to turn their dresses into something else, I hope they will actually like them. This is a tall order I know, but thankfully I have only 2 bridesmaids!
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Well Garden, I think it’s time to address my sometimes severely Type A personality. Most of my Future In Laws already know that my shout of “I WIN” to making good guacamole or winning at Banagrams is just genuinely me. I like to make everything into a “fun little game” and then focus intently on the way to WIN said game. To quote Maria Bamford‘s set “Life isn’t a game, but if it is- I’m winning.”
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No one would be grading my “wedding work” so why did it all matter? Because I am a self-confessed-sometimes-perfectionist. I found reading blogs about less than perfect people to be quite helpful. But the greatest gift any wedding blog has ever given me was this one simple article… Your Wedding is Not a Contest by the Offbeat Bride. Finally someone telling me in no uncertain terms that it’s okay to break tradition and it’s okay to be somewhat traditional too- and that there was really no way to get it wrong. It’s just about us.
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