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.

Frenchie Kisses: Papa Frenchie’s Speech

As you can probably tell, The Frenchbulldogs didn’t shy much from your typical wedding timeline. Mr Frenchie and I had been to a few wedding while we were dating and took notes on the things we liked and didn’t like. We really like when couples would get the speeches out of the way at the beginning, when you were still full from cocktail hour and happy you were sitting down. So, after our first dance, we went right into the speeches.

Papa Frenchie went first…


I thought about posting his entire speec, but I since I start tearing up just looking at these pictures, I wasn’t sure I could make it through transcribing the whole speech.

My Daddy isn’t a “big talker” like me… or my Mom. He’s more introverted, like Mr Frenchie.


My Dad doesn’t say, “I love you” all the time, but I know how much he loves me through his actions. He bought a book on writing this speech. While we were waiting for my Mom and Sister to arrive at my birthday lunch (2 months before the wedding) he took out a piece of paper and pen, asked me questions and took notes.


He dedicated a lot of time an effort into writing a meaningful speech for our wedding and it showed.

I’ve only seen my Dad cry one other time in my life, and that was when we had to put my childhood dog, Muffy, down.


He brought up his Father and my Mother’s parents not being there that day. He cried and everyone else cried with him.


And, in the end he left everyone laughing when he brought up his love for poetry (totally untrue) and read a poem.


This was especially funny to me because earlier that day when I was pinning on his boutineer, he said, “I look like I read poetry.”

My Dad and my special connection has always been our cheesy sense of humor. He makes me laugh. They say girls marry their father and Mr Frenchie’s cheesy sense of humor is one of the reasons I love him so much.

Please tell me I'm not the only cliché, did you "marry your father"?

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

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