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The Bunting Bash: Fashionably Late
Before I can explain why our bridesmaids were glancing at one another in confusion, let’s rewind back to where you last saw me. My bridal party had rescued me after a wave of emotion threatened to...
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The Bunting Bash: Slow Dance on the Inside
After our welcome, invocation, declaration of intent, and remembrances, we asked our first reader to step forth. Our first excerpt was read by one of the most kindhearted women I know: my mom’s close...
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The Bunting Bash: That Moment of Yes
It was time for my favorite part of the ceremony…our vows. As we stood facing one another, hands clasped and giddy smiles plastered on our faces, our pastor started us off. In the presence of God and...
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Imma Back!
Oh, hey bees, remember me? I don’t blame you if you don’t—it’s been a while since I’ve written any posts for the main page. But, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been around. I’ve been keeping up with our new...
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A Bee’s Life: Pony’s Tale
What better way to jump back into blogging than with the tale of how I got here in the first place. How I Found Weddingbee Way before Mr. Pony and I were engaged, I was reading a wedding blog of an...
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A Tip for You
There are plenty of things I found mystifying about planning a wedding, like how to craft our own ceremony or making a seating chart, but the most confusing thing by far was figuring out how to tip our...
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Dress Fit Regret
So, before we get to the wedding day, I need to address an issue that has bothered me since our wedding day. My wedding dress. Or, more specifically, the way I felt in my dress on our wedding day. This...
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The Week(s) Before, With A Dash Of Vendor Drama
There were a lot of things I didn’t get to blog about before the wedding. As much as I tried to avoid it, the last few weeks of planning were one giant mess of projects, meetings and even a few...
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The Pony Rehearsal Dinner
I woke up super early the day before our wedding. I had a huge list of things to finish up before our rehearsal. When we were first engaged I told myself I would finish all our projects the Thursday...
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Ponies Rehearse
After getting our fill of takeout pizza, we headed down to what I’m going to call the wedding gazebo to get our rehearsal on. You may notice that by the time our rehearsal started, the sun had already...
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Holy Matri-pony: The Girls Get Pretty
Since I am a light sleeper on a good day, I was surprised that I slept soundly until my alarm went off the morning of our wedding. I woke up with a sense of urgency, already feeling the adrenaline...
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Holy Matri-pony: Our Venue
After the dreary, rainy day that was our rehearsal, I had resigned myself to the belief that it was going to rain on our wedding day. I shed a few tears over this realization, but I woke up to gray,...
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Holy Matri-pony: My Details
As soon as we got to the winery, my lovely dress and accessories were whisked away for a short photo shoot. My dress, Paloma Blanca style #3691, which is the least interesting name for a dress ever,...
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Holy Matri-pony: Becoming a Bride
Before I could put on my dress, we had to wait a few minutes for Mama Pony to get to the winery. I absolutely did not want to start without her. She was making a very important stop—to pick up some...
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Holy Matri-pony: Our First Look
Mr. Pony and I agreed early in our planning process that we wanted to do a first look. Neither of us are very traditional or superstitious people, so waiting to see each other until I walked down the...
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Holy Matri-pony: Couple Shots Part 1
When our five minutes of “private time” after our first look was up, Jamie asked us if we were ready to get started on pictures. This picture looks like we’ve been caught doing something bad, but I...
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Holy Matri-pony: Couple Shots Part 2
Couple portraits were a high priority to me (as you can probably tell from the multiple posts). We allotted forty five minutes of our wedding day to couple portraits, although based on the number of...
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Holy Matri-pony: Bridal Party Preparations
As Mr. Pony and I gallivanted around having our pictures taken, our bridal party was hard at work. Our florist lined up the ladies and taught them the proper way to hold a bouquet. Apparently the most...
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Holy Matri-pony: Wedding-Party Pictures
After the wedding party made their way down to the pond, we started things off with pictures with my lovely ladies. My ladies have all known each other for a very long time, so it was easy for us to...
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Holy Matri-pony: Family Times
As we were wrapping up our wedding-party shots, I saw Papa Pony walking toward us for family photos, tie in hand. He doesn’t attend many formal events and he can’t tie a tie on his own. Luckily, Mr....
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Holy Matri-pony: Final Single Moments
After finishing up our family photos, we were released to relax until it was time for the ceremony to start. I was very excited to be able to sit down, relax and eat a bit before walking down the...
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Holy Matri-pony: Ceremony Details
Our ceremony was easily the most important part of our wedding day. Therefore, I feel that every detail that went into making our ceremony deserves to highlighted here. First is our ceremony location....
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Holy Matri-pony: Pony’s Processional
As our guests began making their way to our ceremony, they were greeted by the beautiful Niece Pony. She passed out the programs, ribbon wands, and hankies to our wedding guests. She’s such a smart,...
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Holy Matri-pony: A Very Special Walk
There are moments that you imagine a million different ways in your head. Moments you wait your entire life for. Moments in which the reality far exceeds any of your hopes and dreams. The walk down the...
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Holy Matri-pony: Our Ceremony, Part 1
Writing our ceremony was one of the most difficult, yet most rewarding tasks we undertook during wedding planning. We wanted a ceremony that respected the beliefs of our families and friends while...
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Holy Matri-pony: Our Ceremony, Part 2
Our ceremony continued with a group declaration of support: As family and friends you form a community of support for Mister and Miss Pony. Each of you, by your presence today, is being called upon to...
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Quilled Vows
I’m going to take a quick break from our recaps to show you something special I didn’t get to blog about before our wedding, but deserves to be highlighted now that I’ve shared our vows. A long, long...
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Side Pony: Our Programs
I wanted to take another quick side bar from our recaps so I can share our DIY programs with the hive. Let’s start with a view of the finished product on our wedding day: Photo by Jamie Grant...
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Holy Matri-pony: One Blissful Recessional
With our ceremony finished, Vitamin String Quartet performing Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” accompanied us during our walk back up the aisle as husband and wife. You’ll notice no one using their ribbon...
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Holy Matri-pony: Couple Shots, Part 3
Once we escaped the rapidly forming receiving line, I decided to steal a few more smooches from my newly minted husband. We were still very much in our “just married” bubble and we were much more...
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Holy Matri-pony: A Stylish Ride
As I alluded to in my last post, we had a bit of surprise waiting for us when we were done at the winery…our very own Beetle limo to take us to our reception! Photo by Mama Pony Ok, it wasn’t really a...
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Holy Matri-pony: Reception Venue Shots
After reluctantly saying good-bye to the Beetle limo, we met up with our wedding party to take a few more pictures with them at our reception venue. We took a lot of pictures at the winery, but I...
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Holy Matri-pony: Introductions
When we were planning our reception, I was originally against the idea of introductions for the wedding party. When I’ve been a part of introductions in the past, I felt that they were contrived and...
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Holy Matri-pony: Reception Details, Part 1
Although the details are far from the most important part of the wedding day, they were still a pretty big part of our wedding. In some cases these details represented months of planning and work, so I...
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Holy Matri-pony: Reception Details, Part 2—Sweet Stuff
Yes, I’m dedicating an entire post to the sweets at our wedding, that’s just how much I love desserts! Our wedding cake, which sits on a stand that Papa Pony made just days before our wedding, is...
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Holy Matri-pony: Speeches & Surprises
After introductions, we decided to immediately go into toasts. Our coordinator suggested having our toasts before dinner because it would keep the speeches short and our guests would be less likely to...
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Holy Matri-pony: Dinner
We were more than ready to get some food in our systems when the speeches were finished. I don’t have many pictures of our food (everyone was too busy eating it), but here is our menu, made from...
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Holy Matri-pony: Our First Dance
Mr. Pony and I don’t have song that we consider “ours”, so we didn’t have an obvious choice for our first dance song. Most of the songs I preferred were too melancholy or had lyrics that didn’t seem...
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Holy Matri-pony: Parent Dances
Much like our walk down the aisle, I was very much looking forward to sharing a special dance with Papa Pony at our reception. I made a majority of the song selections for our wedding day, but I...
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Holy Matri-pony: Cutting the Cake
Although I never talked about our wedding cake while planning, it was something I was very much looking forward to. I was very excited about our cake not only because cake is one of my favorite food...
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Holy Matri-pony: The Tosses
After cutting our cake and dancing with our parents, there was one final activity we had to complete before we could start the dance-party portion of our reception. And it involved all the single...
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Side Pony: DIY Photo Booth
One thing I absolutely had to have at our wedding was a photo booth. Mr. Pony, on the other hand, was not quite as sold on the idea. Actually, he was completely against having one. Knowing Mr. Pony...
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Holy Matri-pony: Photo Booth Fun
One of the main reasons I pushed for a photo booth was to provide an alternative to dancing. We have a lot of friends and family that aren’t big on dancing, so I thought a photo booth might keep them...
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Holy Matri-pony: We Dance
When dinner and all the other formalities were finally finished, we were ready to start the dance portion of our reception. Things started off on the slow side, which is always a nice way to get a lot...
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Holy Matri-pony: The Perfect Ending
Our photographers stayed at our reception for a good amount of time, but they couldn’t stay indefinitely. Well, I suppose they could have, but they have families and lives, and we didn’t expect them...
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Side Pony: Inspiration vs. Reality
I, like most other brides, spent a lot of time worrying how everything would come together on our wedding day. I pulled inspiration from all corners of the internet, but there was no way of knowing how...
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Side Pony: Budget Breakdown
When we started planning our wedding, we didn’t set a budget. Not in a money-is-no-object sort of way, but in a “we have no idea how much money we will be able to spend, so we’ll just try to spend...
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Holy Matri-pony: Day After Shoot—Part 1
Even though our wedding day was over, we weren’t quite ready to be done dressing up for the camera. A mere three weeks before our wedding, I contacted our photographer, Jamie, to see if she was...
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Holy Matri-pony: Day After Shoot—Part Two
For the second half of our day after shoot, Jamie brought us to the industrial looking area in town to give us a different perspective and backdrop. I’m sure after seeing the many posts from our...
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Farewell from Pony
As much as I hate to say it, my days as a regular Weddingbee blogger are coming to an end. I’ve shared everything from our engagement and wedding day, and it is time for me to retire and turn over the...
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