Frenchie Kisses: The Tosses

With everyone gathered in the same location happily eating cake we decided it was time to toss some stuff. For the garter toss Mr Frenchie chose the Pink Panther theme song, by Henry Mancini.

Mr Frenchie is a big Henry Mancini fan and the Pink Panther album was one of the first CDs he burned for me. We thought it was a great garter toss song without being too trashy.


I’m really ticklish so my facial expressions from Mr Frenchie getting the garter are pretty funny!

Mr Frenchie’s groomsman, Jeremiah, caught the garter.


He stayed true to the tradition and proposed to his girlfriend Tiffany, this past February. Mr Frencie and I are honored to be members of their wedding party.

For the bouquet toss, I chose Clumsy, by Fergie. No real significance other than I think the song and I thought there might be some “Trippin’” and “Stumblin’” to get at the bouquet ;-)



When we were trying to decide whether or not to do the toss, I tried to add up how many ladies I thought would participate.


I grossly under estimated how many ladies would tell me I had to throw it to them. I didn’t want to throw the toss (hardy har) but I thought I’d aim in Tiffany’s (Jeremiah’s girlfriend) direction.

You can see Lindsay (groomsman, Brandon’s wife) coaxing Tiffany into position, on the right of the picture above and below.


However, after all my single friends came up to me separately through out the night scheming to get the bouquet tossed in their direction, (*coughChristianne(front and center)cough*) I chose to just close my eyes and toss.

The next set of pictures are among my favorites of the night. When I threw the bouquet, I tossed it too high and it hit the ceiling, sending it straight to Erin and Christianne.

Both of them put up a good fight.

The guests look shocked and worried… who’s going to win?

With only one hand left on the prize, Christianne appears to be losing the tug-o-war…


.. and Erin wins the bouquet!


Having caught the bouquet at a wedding before, I know that feeling! I love Erin’s smile :)


Are you having a garter and bouquet toss are your wedding?

So Far...

The Beginning

Gettin' Sassy

Me & My Bridesmaids

Mr Frenchie's Morning

Waiting to go down the aisle

The "I Do"s

The Big 'Oops'

Family Portraits

Portraits with my New Husband

We're Here and We're Married Birdie Details

Papa Frenchie’s Speech

... and then there was cake!

***Note: All photos, unless otherwise noted, are by the fabulously talented, and super awesome to know, Ohana Photographers***

Frenchie Kisses: … and then there was cake!

After dinner, mingling and other wedding reception type things it was time for cake.


When we started planning our wedding I saw a picture of a cake buffet and fell in love. I wanted a cake buffet. I loved the look and also liked that it meant I could have several cake flavors.


Our baker had an amazing book filled with amazing she’d made for other weddings. I hope she wasn’t disappointed with how simple we wanted our cakes decorated, but I had a vision, you know?


We had three different flavors: champagne with champagne buttercream icing, almond with raspberry filling and almond buttercream icing, and chocolate with chocolate mousse filing and chocolate buttercream icing. Our favorite was the champagne and that is what we chose to cut into for out cake cutting.


We chose to cut out favorite flavor, Champagne, for our cake cutting. The top and bottom tier of the main cake were supposed to be the champagne flavor. We didn’t want to cut the top layer because we wanted to save it for our first anniversary. That meant we had to slice into the bottom tier, which was much easier in theory, but we managed ;-) Heck, when there is cake involved, I’ll make it work.


We cut and served the cake with the same silver cake server my parents used at their wedding.


Mr Frenchie is lactose intolerant and had run out of Lactaid pills at lunch, right before the wedding. Since, his meal was dairy-free he hadn’t run into any issues until it was time to eat cake with buttercream frosting. I had to try hard to get him a piece of just cake. I ended up serving him a teeny tiny piece and he gave me this HUGE bite. I kept telling him to make it smaller, which I’m sure looked funny to our guests.

While our caterer sliced the cake for our guest, we took the opportunity to thank everyone for coming and say a special thank you to my parent’s for throwing us such a wonderful wedding.

Our champagne glasses were from a set we found at Mr Frenchie’s Grandmother’s house. She past away before I was able to meet her, but about a month before the wedding Mr Frenchie and I drove out the her house to pick up a few things. FIL Frenchie told us we could have anything from the house that we wanted and I knew those glasses would be perfect when I spotted them.


FIL Frenchie was very happy we found someway to incorporate her into our wedding day.

So Far...

The Beginning

Gettin' Sassy

Me & My Bridesmaids

Mr Frenchie's Morning

Waiting to go down the aisle

The "I Do"s

The Big 'Oops'

Family Portraits

Portraits with my New Husband

We're Here and We're Married
Birdie Details

Papa Frenchie’s Speech

***Note: All photos, unless otherwise noted, are by the fabulously talented, and super awesome to know, Ohana Photographers***

LA Bee Meet-up

Last Saturday Bees from all over LA (and one from Orange County, me) swarmed C&O's Bar & Grill. We dined on an endless supply of garlic bread knots and tasty Italian food.

Miss Glasses, Ms-MoxieMonkey, Meliss, Kirabee, Genesee,

Mrs Moonbeam, Mrs Stripes, Mrs French Bulldog, MeganCake

(Not pictured: Mrs Kiwi & Baby Kiwi)

I had so much fun meeting you all and hearing about your weddings. I say this every time I meet new people from Weddingbee, but this community is full of the sweetest and prettiest group of ladies. I hope we can meet-up again soon.

Have you gone to a meet-up? Check out the local boards for any meet-ups in your area or to organize your own.

Los Angeles Bee Meet-up - C&O's Bar & Grill

Just a reminder for the LA Bee Meet-up this Saturday!!

I've tallied up the RSVPs, so far, on the LA Boards here. Please make sure I didn't miss you! Also, if you were a maybe, please clarify if you are coming or not. I'm looking forward to see you all tomorrow night :)

We're meeting at one of my favorite restaurants from my college days in LA and the home of the BEST garlic bread knots EVER!

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When: Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 @ 6pm
Where: C&O's Bar & Grill
3016 Washington Blvd
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

Note: There are there are two C&O's on Washington about 1 mile apart. We are meeting at the Bar & Grill because it's larger and easier to find parking.

Los Angeles Bee Meet-up - C&O's Bar & Grill

Ask and ye shall receive! We have planned an LA Bee Meet-up :)

We're meeting at one of my favorite restaurants from my college days in LA and the home of the BEST garlic bread knots EVER!

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When: Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 @ 6pm
Where: C&O's Bar & Grill
3016 Washington Blvd
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

Note: There are there are two C&O's on Washington about 1 mile apart. We are meeting at the Bar & Grill because it's larger and easier to find parking.


Please RSVP on the LA Boards here, so I can make a reservation etc.

Inland Empire Bee Meet-up

…or as we like to call it now, Sexy Cupcakes ;-)

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This past Saturday 5 Weddingbee lovers drove from all over Southern California to the beautiful Mission Inn in Riverside for lunch, girl talk and cupcakes… sexy cupcakes.

LaToya aka HELLOLVR, Ali aka Mrs French Bulldog, Joy aka Mrs Poodle, Laura aka Soon2BeeMrsLewis, & Jami aka Jami_Lynn (Behind the camera, Joy's friend and BM, Katie)

Why "Sexy Cupcakes"? The cupcake place at the Mission Inn, Casey's Cupcakes, is owned by former Laguna Beach "cast member", Casey Reinhardt.

That is the beautiful Casey, posing with one of her creations. Pengy, may or may not, have made a comment about having a sexy woman pose with your cupcakes does not make you want to buy them. (To be honest, it does make me think twice about the calories!) Well, what about 5 sexy women?

Pengy, we took this picture for you! We make this look good! ;-) Not that the cupcakes need help, they a were mighty tasty!

Thank you ladies for driving out the Riverside for the afternoon. It was lovely meeting all of you and I hope we can do it again someday soon :)

Southern California Bee Meet-up – Inland Empire

Mrs. Poodle, Soon2BeeMrsLewis and I are planning a meet-up and we hope you can make it too!


We thought it was about time the Inland Empire had a meet-up and we couldn’t think of a more beautiful venue than the popular wedding venue, Mission Inn.

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We hope you can join us for lunch at the Mission Inn Restaurant, followed by a cupcake at Casey's Cupcakes.

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Please comment below and let us know if you can make it, so we can add you to the reservation.