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Hand-Writing Our Wedding Ceremony
How to Write Your Own Wedding Ceremony: A Complete Guide When we decided to have a non-officiant friend marry us (remember: anyone can marry you in Montana), I knew it meant that I would have to write...
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Best of the ‘Bee: Hand-Writing Our Wedding Ceremony
Mrs. D’Orsay nominated this post for the Best of the ‘Bee series! When we decided to have a non-officiant friend marry us (remember: anyone can marry you in Montana), I knew it meant that I would have...
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Helpful Series: Hand-Writing Our Wedding Ceremony
Originally posted on September 24, 2008 We’re kicking off our helpful series with a post nominated originally by Mrs. Pony and then nominated 5 times over by other bees in the hive! Mrs. Pony says: “I...
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Love for Japan: The [Secret] Life of Pi(e)
This post originally ran on November 10, 2008. ~~~ I know we’re getting a bit too “punny” with the “Secret Life of Bees” titles, but I had to give it a shot. I even made a PIE CHART to illustrate the...
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It’s Time to Get Hitched and Give Hope
I’ve been a busy bee since I started my own business in Seattle. Working from hard is home, and can be isolating…so instead of being a hermit, I decided to see how I could get involved with the...
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Taking the Dress for a Spin (Again)
Like most people, I suffer from the malady of time passing faster as I get older. When I finished my recaps half a year had passed since our wedding. In the blink of an eye, another half year was gone,...
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Get Hitched, Give Hope: A Brides Against Breast Cancer Event in Seattle
Hellooooo ladies! I’ve been a BAD BEE. You’ve not seen hide nor hair of me since my final recap and I have NOT shared with you the photos from our Zihuatanejo honeymoon or any information about it....
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Married in Montana: The Big Budget Breakdown
I feel like an equally fitting name for this post would be “Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems”. See, there’s a reason I haven’t talked much (at all?) about finances or budget before this post. We had a budget, to...
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Married in Montana: All in the Details (Part 2 of 2)
Well, folks, this is it… the last photo recap of our wedding. Next, I’ll share with you our budget breakdown, and then it’s on to our Zihuatanejo honeymoon. After that, who knows! My first detail...
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Married in Montana: All in the Details (Part 1 of 2)
Today I’m delighted to share with you the first of two detail-oriented recap posts. These are sort of like recaps of the recap – focused on all the outfits, accessories, DIY projects, decorations, and...
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Married in Montana: The Grand Finale
After our bouquet and garter tosses, the Good Wood Band again took the stage for the second half of their three-hour set. By this time it was very dark – the kind of pitch blackness you can only...
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Married in Montana: Bouquet and Garter Toss
In my last post, I introduced you to our bluegrass band, Good Wood. In my next post, I’ll let you hear some of their music and detail the craziness at the end of the evening. But now, as the band is...
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Married in Montana: First Dances
Besides our ceremony, the thing I was most looking forward to on our wedding day was the music and dancing. From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to hire a band to play live. It’s not that I was...
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Married in Montana: Portraits of Our Guests
Today I’ll be sharing more great portraiture from our fabulous wedding photographer, Nicole of Piknik Studios. In my last post, I showed you our individual portraits. This post will showcase the...
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Married in Montana: Glamour Shots!
Gather ’round, gals & guys, because I have a feeling you’re gonna love this recap. Today’s post is chock-full of gorgeous, close-up portrait photography taken by Nicole Tavenner of Piknik Studios....
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Married in Montana: Making it Official
During dessert, we invited our guests to witness our license signing. So, as they sipped on French-pressed coffee and savored the baked goods, we called them to gather ’round, and then we took one of...
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Married in Montana: Just Desserts
After a delicious dinner and wonderful toasts, we slipped momentarily away for some private portraits, some of which you saw earlier, and more of which I will show you later. (As luck would have it,...
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Married in Montana: Toasting
As everyone filled their plates and found their tables, the rain outside our reception tent continued to fall. Warm and dry as we were, it didn’t dampen our spirits one bit, although we did worry what...
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Married in Montana: Our Rustic Reception
As Mr. Cherry Pie and I finished up our portraits together, our guests were invited from the cocktail area to the reception tent by the ringing of a dinner bell. We intended our reception to be...
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Married in Montana: Wedding Party Portraits
Before the dinner bell rang, we had just one more set of portraits to take with our wedding party. I won’t call these pics “formal”, because as you can see, they’re also very much in the spirit of our...
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