I'm in love with Jim

I mean, I love the future Mr. Palindrome.  But in my fictitious life, I love Jim.

Enjoy this extra clip from NBC.  Not only do you finally find out if Jim is a boxer or briefs guy, you also get to see Pam's budget savvy wedding planning tips:


You can also visit their wedding website here.

You Need to Know about This

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So fun.  So applicable to a myriad of wedding items.

Try it! and send me what what you come up with :)  I'll feature yours, right here on Palindrome Bride!

Tossing Tradition

 I've been the single girl, hoping to catch the bouquet, enough times to know I don't want to partake in the tossing tradition at our reception.

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Instead, I'm tossing tradition and considering some the Martha Stewart suggested alternatives:

1. Save your bridal bouquet and throw a special "fortune bouquet" composed of a dozen or so small clusters of flowers bound together with a ribbon that you untie before you throw. Each mini bouquet is bundled with a different romantic fortune.
2. If you prefer, toss out the toss and try this custom popular in Finland instead: The bride is blindfolded, and the unmarried women form a circle around her. While music plays, the bride slowly turns in place in one direction and the women walk, arms linked, the other way. Everyone stops when the music ends, and the bride walks forward to hand off her flowers to the person directly in front of her.

Another idea, inspired by Miss Bruschetta, is to gather all of the guests on the dance floor and have both the Future Mr. Palindrome and I shower our guests with gift cards or scratch offs.  The Opera House has a great balcony on the third floor that overlooks the dance floor.

Since I would have to make/buy another bouquet and garter for the toss, I think it'd be more fun for everyone if I spent the money on something more useful for the recipients. 

Is my practical side getting the better of me?  Will people miss the traditional toss, or will they be glad the tradition was tossed?

One lump, or two?

I took a blog break over the weekend to soak in my wedding shower. We had a spot of this:

Then a little spot of that:

and 1386 tea sandwiches later, my shower was over. More photos, stories, veil making updates and give away later this week!

Following a New Blog!

Today, I ran across Clare over at Bells, Bouquets, and Galveston Bay.  Clare's site is chock-full of really good technical instructions for websites and color palettes.  Check her site out using the link above, or the newly added link on the right side bar.

Friday Finds - Hail to the Redskins!

TGIF!

The Redskins will always be my #1 home team.  Doesn't matter who they tromp, or who they're tromped by - I'm a Skins fan for life.  Since it's football season, and my team's colors are perfect for autumn, I'll give you a little taste of sophisticated football inspired wedding items:

From L-R:
Garters by Kristi: Washington Redskins Inspired Garter Set
Blue Flourish: Boutonniere - Wedding Tweets
Southern Girl Wedding: Meant To Be Bridal Bouquet
Fleurette: One Little Miss Sunshine Cheery Saffron Yellow Flower Headband

The Magic of Macy's

At times our registry experience was magical, at other times it was not.  I had visions of us happily flitting about the store, the future Mr. Palindrome delighted to be holding the clicker, and after a full day of registering, we would eat junk food in the mall food court with smiles on our faces.  Seriously.  Where do I come up with this crap?

Our real experience went something like this:
After a long morning at my outdoor graduation, we went to the Greenbriar Mall Macy's.  We waited for 15 minutes for a representative to show up in the china department.  It took about 45 minutes to set up the registry.  This also included the time to open a Macy's credit card account so we could take advantage of the Star Rewards system.  We didn't think too hard about this and learned the hard way - do not open a credit card (even at a dept. store!) when your loan request for a mortgage is being processed.  We finally got the clicker and walked aimlessly around because we had no idea what to register for when we didn't know where we would be living.  After registering for a roaster and some mixing bowls (and wasting another 30 minutes), we gladly handed the clicker back and vowed never to come to that Macy's again.  It's small and definitely not worth registering at because their selection is quite limited.

I have been using the online system exclusively since then.  There is a big draw back however.  I have repeatedly run into the problem of the registry site, which is run through Wedding Channel, not matching the Macy's website.  I'll find something I like, I'll try to register for it, and it will not be available to assign to my registry.  Leave it to me to find the 10 things that you can't register for, but it's definitely annoying.

The reason I keep the registry open is twofold.  The first part is that it's the only brick and mortar store where we registered.  The second is that when items are purchased online, Macy's makes a donation to the charity of our choice (Special Olympics in our case)

Have you been happy with your registries?  Did you have a smooth experience?