Baby Bees Part Deux
I had lunch with a friend today who’s working on a business class project about a baby website. She asked if I could give her the data from a post on babies I wrote a long time ago, when weddingbee was...
View ArticleBabies On The Brain!
Tick*tick*tick. What’s that sound keeping me up at night? My biological clock. It’s ticking so hard I can barely focus on wedding planning! When I was dating Mr. Kiwi, my obsession was rings and...
View ArticleBaby Opinions: Make It Stop!
I love kids, don’t get me wrong. We plan on having 3. We have names picked out and I love looking at baby clothes, cribs and nursery decor. My friends who are older than me think I’m very strange. Now,...
View Article“The Gene Machine” At Dave And Busters
Mr. Apple and I visited a Dave and Busters together a few years ago. Dave and Busters is the adult version of Chuck ‘e Cheese – they house a full restaurant and bar, poker tables, pool tables, and all...
View ArticleKids Boxes Part I
After-holiday sales are the best, especially when you’re trying to save some money for this seemingly never-ending pit of wedding expenses. After Valentines Day, I hit up the local Walmart and Target...
View ArticleBouncing Off The Walls
There are going to a LOT of kiddies at our wedding. Consider this: Mr. Broccoli’s father has NINE brothers and sisters and all but a couple have 4+ kids. And let’s not forget the second cousins and...
View ArticleWho Says You Can’t Attack The Bride At Her Own Wedding?
This is the deck outside of our venue (actually, this is the deck as viewed through a window. It felt like minus 30 last week with the wind and I really didn’t want to step outside. Not even for your...
View ArticleMy Kid Friendly Table Centerpiece
Garden Ridge always has great deals on decorative items so I decided to stop by this past weekend to take a look. They had piles and piles of Easter items on sale. I found these cute Easter baskets on...
View ArticleBabiiiies
Lots of my coworkers have babies since I work at a relatively young company, so I have always enjoyed the occasional baby pictures and stories. But now the new girl in my department has a baby, so...
View ArticleKids Favors
If I were a kid, I’d be pretty peeved if my free wedding gift were a silver picture frame or bag of gourmet coffee. In fact, I’d probably throw it on the floor and pout. (I still do that, actually)....
View ArticleKids, Kids, Everywhere
There are two schools of thought when it comes to children at weddings: 1) Kids are great and 2) Not so much While I tend to lean toward the former, Mr. Corn and his family definitely lean more towards...
View ArticleI Don’t Hate Kids, I Swear!
I just don’t want a million of them coming to our wedding. But yesterday, Mr. Radish’s mother called and informed us that one of his cousins (and he has over 40 first cousins) asked her if he could...
View ArticleUnexpected Additions
I don’t hate babies. I don’t hate children. But I am incredibly uncomfortable and nervous around them, I don’t really know what to do with them. Mr. Gummibear loves watching me when I’m forced to...
View Article“So When Are You Having Babies?”
My name is Mrs. Pearl and I am a baby stalker. That is my husband’s (eeeee, just getting used to saying that!) term of endearment for me regarding my absolute infatuation with babies. I love ’em. They...
View ArticleBabybee
This is the most personal thing I’ve ever shared in all my years of blogging. And I thought long and hard before deciding to share this with weddingbee readers, because it’s intensely personal (my mom...
View ArticleThose Mysterious Creatures They Call “Children”
Our hoped-for reception venue is tiny, so Mr. Tulip and I are finally getting serious about making an invitation list for The Big Day. And I have discovered that, on my side of the equation, there are...
View ArticleBabies Scare Me
I love my photographs of children the best, perhaps because they exude that candid spirit about them, but I definitely felt like I was one of those brides that was more than ready to put the kabosh on...
View ArticleKiddie Activity Boxes
Knowing that we were planning on having kids at our wedding, I decided to make little activity kits to keep them out of trouble. I bought these colorful lunch box looking plastic cases for $2 each at...
View ArticleDistractions for Little Hands
We didn’t invite every kid in our life as a guest to the wedding, although it is starting to feel like we are planning a circus. But who doesn’t love a circus (without the clowns)? These cases of fun...
View ArticleOur Baby Boom Guest List
I have been to some weddings which did not live up to the bride and groom’s expectations. No, we’re not talking invitations or flowers or even cake here. I’m talking about one of those things that you...
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