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Catherine Clark loiters at her local library, makes art, watches movies en masse, plays video and tabletop games, poorly cooks healthy things, cuddles with her feline fur babies, and blogs at BijouxandBits.com.
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Create some retro fingerwaves with barrel pin curls

Holy gorgeous swirly retro curls, Batman! Tami Lee of My Moving Finger Writes knows how to rock out some retro waves that I know some era-inspired brides will totally be up for trying.

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A simple Sonoma seaside soiree

Jessica and Ina shared a simple and elegant ceremony on the Sonoma coast in Jenner, California. Friends and family helped with cooking, flowers, and music. While some guests were cooking, others were getting polka dancing lessons!

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Steal this menu: Pacific Northwest-style comfort food (plus root beer floats!)

Perhaps I was jonesing for some comfort food, but when I spied the menu from Lisa and Kevin’s garden party comfort food wedding, I was all “YESSSSSSS.” So I asked Lisa to give us even more information on their wedding day noms.

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Unite your entire community with a giant string

We’ve seen a few ring warmings and handfastings in our time, but this guest participation ritual was a little bit different.