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Happy afternoon, my love muffins!  Summer seems to have arrived slightly late, since it’s like, what – OCTOBER right now?  (WOW.  I need to put the petal to the metal on Halloween costumes for Bam.  We were thinking *bunny* but that wouldn’t require a costume…)  But you don’t hear me complaining, because it’s the perfect temperature right now for outdoor lovemaking, clothing optional.  I mean, if you were wondering what parameters I use to judge perfect weather.  It’s those.  Perfect weather is all about the choice to wear whatevs you want to wear.  And I could walk outside in longs and longs, or in my [STOP READING HERE IF YOU ARE MY FAMILY] {Continue reading…}

I’ve got my sexy face on this afternoon.  It’s on my mind in a very real way.  I’ll be the first to admit it.  Of course, given the fact that we just launched our boudoir photography giveaway yesterday afternoon, I’m hardly surprised.  So today?  I’m having fun with my thoughts.  And so I pray that you are able to have fun with my thoughts, too.  Because here come my thoughts…  {Continue reading…}

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OMIGOD YOU ARE GONNA BE SO HAPPY YOU VISITED TKB THIS AFTERNOON.

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Happy evening, my loves!  Quick fyi – that gorgeous bride above?  Not the bride from today’s story.  Isn’t she adorable, though?!!  Her expression is priceless; I couldn’t NOT use this image for this post.  Her wedding is coming up very soon on TKB.  You’re gonna love the crap out it, just so you know.

Here’s the question I have for you, when you’re done reading this post or if it’s Shark Week and you’re feeling impatient… Do you have any fears about something going wrong on your – or a sibling’s or friend’s – wedding day?

Ok SO… Whew!  AMIRITE?  Yesterday was prettyyyyyyyy pretttyyyyyyyy emotional, for most of you guys and absopositutely for me.  But I liked it, too.  Felt good, felt right.  Glad we did it.  You see I always second-guess myself a little when I venture into the territory of getting more personal with you guys on the blog.  It’s me delicately shoving extremely personal life stuff that has my extremely personal emotions attached to it, into the huge, gaping orifice (←uhhh) of The Internet, for the entire world to see.  I’m always like, {Continue reading…}

I don’t really know how to start off this post.  It’s about 6:45pm east coast time on Tuesday, and here I am, slightly in shock.  And it’s not for the reason you may be thinking.  It’s not because we just lost Honey’s grandma – whose funeral was, as many of you know, yesterday.  (By the way, thank you so much for your understanding in my decision to keep the blog silent yesterday.)  It’s not the fact that Grandma Henny’s death has brought to the surface how much I deeply miss my {Continue reading…}

You guys.  The only thing I think this wedding needs is maaaaybe more cowbell.  But that’s really it.

Ok let me just get the niceties out of the way, I’m not a barbarian.  So, happy Friday afternoon, pretties!  Love ya faces!  Are those hotpants you’re wearing?  Oooohh you are en fuego!  Mama like.  Ok, DONE.   {Continue reading…}

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Happy Thursday afternoon, friendsicles!  How ya doin’?  Hopefully mighty fine.  But if you’re anything less than ‘mighty fine,’ well then I do hope today’s supercalifragilisticexpealadocious giveaway from Krissy of Make Believe’N perks you right up, wherever it is you need some perking.  Could be in your mind, your overall spirit, your teetaas, wherever you decide to apply your dose of perk is fine with me.  I’m bestowing perkiness in your general direction!  Use it well, and in the right areas!   {Continue reading…}

Hello there, my pretties.  It’s a lovely Wednesday evening, a little before 8pm in nyc, and after proofing her post, mama’s pretty sure she’s gonna need to start things off with a fair warning:

This is quite likely the most insane out of hand post I might have ever written.  And I’ve written like 600 posts.  Just know that the tone was set by today’s reader question, so do blame her.  Or don’t.  Just don’t say I didn’t warn you about the weirdness that lurks beneath this preface.  Also keep in mind that I had some paranormal television channel action going on in the background, completely without knowing it.  It’s really pretty naive to think that it didn’t have an impact on the prose ahead of you.  Anyway, just, I dunno, read with caution, and your anti-anxiety pills at the ready maybe.  ENGAGE THE WEIRD IN FIVE, FOUR, THREE, silent two, silent one…   {Continue reading…}

Happiest of evenings, pretty faces.  It’s a little after 9pm in the evening here in NYC, and I’ve got some heavy stuff to share that isn’t at all what I ever wanted to share today.

First, let me say that I hope your day has gone well, complete with a delicious lunch, lots of emails answered and little to no drama/back-stabbing going on within the common areas or washrooms of your respective offices.  Yes?  I do hope so.  Because nobody likes office drama.  Totally messes with efficiency.  Anyway this post is kinda heavy on the personal, emotional side.  And quite low on the helpful-use-of-transitional-phrases side, as you just experienced when I jumped from workplace efficiency to Alison’s EMOTIONS.  So, just a warning, if this kind of thing isn’t for you today.  I’m pretty sure you guys won’t mind, but heck, you never know.   {Continue reading…}

AAAAAAAAND we’re BAAAAAAACK!  *said like Jimmy Fallon in that Z105 sketch from SNL in which he uncharacteristically managed not to crack up at himself during the sketch*

Sooo… ‘ja miss me?  I missed you.  … Wait no, not you… YOU… yeah… you, over there… yeah… no wait, no, not you – YOU.  Yeah, YOU, right there.  I’m pointing at you.  Right.  I missed you so much!

Anywho, on this beautiful late Monday afternoon, aka our first day back from a week’s vacation, I think I’ll start off excessively strong and super inappropriate.   In other words, promptly return to business as usual.  Ok HERE WE GO, with a…

FUN TIP!

If you and your beloved’s initials are something like, say, “T + A” or “D + P” consider – just consider – {Continue reading…}

Happiest of Fridays, my friends, my pals!  We hope you’re doing well, and are excited for your weekends, since they’re like five seconds away which is AWESOME.  We’re almost back home from our little vacay, which means things are about to return to bidniz as usual, but we gotta say, we seriously couldn’t be happier with the way our Bloggistas held things down while we were away.  We think they offered up a hella stellar week of wedding ideas and inspiration, and we hope you guys love them as much as we do!

Ok, SO… I’m going to kick off your weekend with a touching little story, {Continue reading…}

Hi honey bunnies!  Hope you’re all doing well on this wonderful day!  I say wonderful because you’re *that much closer* to your weekends. ;)  Hehehe, BUT ANYWHO!  We’re currently in Mexico, and there are some lovely tornado-like cloud formations worrying our faces at the moment, but heck, we’re in Mexico – not gonna complain!!

So!  We’ve got a truly delightful new Bloggista to bring to you today, who happens to be another one of our planning brides!  She’s seriously as sweet as can be.  Not to mention, she blogs quite the pretty wedding, too!  {Continue reading…}

Hello lovies!  Happy Wednesday to all of ya faces!  Ok, so I’m so so so excited to introduce to you our next newest Bloggista… her name is Natalie, and she’s equal parts absolutely fabulous and super duper handy when it comes to crafting beautiful wedding details.  She’s just got this incredible knack for stellar DIY projects, and it’s such a pleasure to have her join our team and share her creative world with all of you!  We think you’re gonna fall in love with her style, especially after seeing the very first DIY project she’s created for you guys!  {Continue reading…}

Happy Tuesday to you, lovelies!  Ok, so prepare to be psyched, because we’ve got another fabutastic Bloggista to introduce today, and she’s kicking her Bloggistaship off strong-style with a seriously harrowing tale of one of THE WORST things that can go wrong as your wedding approaches.   {Continue reading…}

Hello sunshines!  It’s Monday, which means we’re kicking off Bloggistas Take Over week here at TKB!  I gotta say, I’m crazy thrilled to introduce to you guys our first Bloggista of the week, Kristine!  {Continue reading…}

That was my best Britney Spears accent, in the title.  Yeeeaaaahh, I’m still working on it.

Ok, SO!  Happy Friday afternoon, my friends, my lovers, my pals!!   The day has finally come.  We’re traveling for the first time in what feels like AGES, and, well, we couldn’t be more excited about it.  We haven’t been on a real trip in waaaaaaaay too long, and we’re doubly excited because we’re kickin’ it with some good friends… though they’re vendors of the photographer and cinematographer variety which means that we’ll be covering up our a$$es and other problem areas THE ENTIRE TIME.  TGIS!  (Thank Goodness For Sarongs.)  {Continue reading…}

Can you guess where they are?  I can’t keep a secret they’re in a candy shop photo booth!

Happy Thursday evenin’, honey bunnies!  Ok SO.  I’ve switched things up today, because we received an urgent question from a reader who needs help (if you couldn’t tell by the title of this post), and I definitely need your help figuring out what she should do.  Reason?  I have nada zip zilch nowhere near the understanding or personal life experience that it’s gonna take to provide the answer she needs.  Oh, and paired up with the reader question?  The killingest APROPOS sneak peek of a stylish little candy shop shoot, that’s totally like I said apropos, and totally killingest.   {Continue reading…}

FYI, this bride’s jewelry needs to report to my neck immediately.  

Happy Wednesday eeeeeevuhhning, my lovahs from otha mothahs!!  On this beautiful Wednesday night, I can’t imagine a better way to start a post, than with a phone conversation you weren’t involved in.  Amirite?  HERE WE GO:

*ring ring ring ring*

Mom: hellooooo?

Me: Hey Maaaahhhm.

Mom: hiiii sweeeetiiieeeeeee.  WHADDYA WANT!  *giggle*  I’m kidding, wussup?  {Continue reading…}

Happy Tuesday afternoo- errr late evening, bubelahs!  How you doin’, you doin’ well?  You feelin’ good?  Weather nice, near you?  I love your shoes today.  How’s the guy, he good?  Yeah, he’s doing well?  Good, good.  ALRIGHT SMALL TALK OVER.

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Sometimes Starbucks coffee is a bit bitter, but sometimes Starbucks coffee is the liquified embodiment of the moment of creation/discovery of the essence of all that is bitter in this cold, unforgiving world by the esteemed inventor of bitterness himself, Sir Bitter McBiddingston, IV, Esq.

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check it out.  check out that swagger up top.  almost as much swagger as this duck has.  

not as much; almost.

FYI, I love this wedding, and I really think you’re gonna love it, too.  For starters, it’s not the typical wedding I drop onto the internet’s face.  It’s full of peacock feathers, button bouquets, lace and button boutonnieres, galoshes and just general DIY adorableness.  What I’m excited about is that the bride is pretty hilarious, and her write-up is jam-packed with important details and advice.  It is as refreshingly informative as it is amazeballsly amazeballs.

But before we get to that, I feel I should tell you something.  Now, I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but {Continue reading…}

two of my fave things are in these photos, but can you guess what the third is?  it’s not revealed up there…

Happy Wednesday afternoon/eveningish, lovies!  Three – count ‘em, three! – photographer friends recently asked me to make sure I include some Bambino in their features, so I’m telling you, if you’ve been suffering without your Bam fix a bit, relax, he’s back.  I do want to warn you, though, that Bambino is en fuego today in aisle 4 of the Adorable Department.  He’s not performing as well in the {Continue reading…}