fabulous/not-so fabulous - #16

Next up is from Jen, she got married in October of last year.......



"What I Should Have Had In My Emergency Day Of Kit!

Everyone thinks to include touch up makeup and a few extra bobby pins in their purse for the reception but I really wish I had asked my makeup artist for a little squeeze packet of eyelash glue! Needless to say, I was teary eyed for most of the day -- so toward the end of the reception the false eyelashes on my right eye began to come up! (Thankfully you can't see it in the photos!)

Also, a Tide pen/Shout wipe saved my dress! We returned to our sweetheart table after cutting the cake and Andy decided it would be cute to continue to feed me our chocolate peanut buttercake by hand. The cake was moist and the peanut butter was gooey - it was perfection... until it landed on my dress. Being the dutiful husband he is, Andy sprang into action and began trying to wipe it off my dress which, of course, only made the brown spot larger as he rubbed the chocolate into the lace. After some mild panic, Andy remembered the Shout wipes in the bathroom baskets. Voila! It worked like a charm.



Mission: Picture Perfect

Since we lived together before we got married, it was important for us not see each other the morning of the wedding. If there is ever a morning you don't want to have to fight for sink space - then it's your wedding day. But honestly, we wanted the "grand reveal" of seeing each other from opposite ends of the church aisle -- and all of the anticipation that comes with it. At the same time, we really liked the look of photos taken before the ceremony with the entire bridal party. Mainly, we liked that the photos are all taken at the same place. So we compromised. We decided that we would have our photos taken at the same location before the ceremony but at different times. It sounds easy now, but it had to be carefully orchestrated. It required down-to-the-minute Team Bride/Team Groom timelines, explicit instructions and directions (with maps!) for our limo driver and a lot of wishing and hoping that we would not run into each other! And did I mention we decided to do the photos outside? Unbeknownst to me, this whole plan caused my Mom many sleepless nights (she admitted this to me just yesterday). In the end, all the planning paid off and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect day or more beautiful photos! Our pre-ceremony photos are exactly what we were after: there is a cohesiveness to Andy's photos and mine. Even though we weren't there at the same time, the look and feel of the photos is as if we were. "








That was tricky, Jen! But thankfully everyone was very prompt which made it easy!!