Knottie of the Day - Aguaviolet

TysWife2Be · April 2010

1. First Name & Fiance's First Name

2. Your Birthday & Age and Fiance's Birthday and Age

3. City Born In?

4. City Live in?

5. Where did you go to college?

6. What was your major?

7. What is your current job?

8. What is your dream job?

9. How did you and your fiance meet?

10. When did you get engaged and how did he do it??

11. When is the Wedding Day?

12. Where is the ceremony and reception?

13. What are your wedding colors?

14. Where are you honeymooning?

15. Favorite wedding vendor so far?

16. Biggest wedding splurge?

17. What is something you wish you could have at the wedding but don't?

18. Another knottie wedding you'd like to attend?

19. Favorite book?

20. Favorite movie?

21. Favorite tv show?

22. Favorite wedding dress designer?

23. Any advice you can give?

24. Anything you wish you could change about your wedding?

25. Share something about yourself!!

lemonsprinkles23 · April 2010

1. First Name & Fiance's First Name
Chan and Marc

2. Your Birthday & Age and Fiance's Birthday and Age
27 and 26

3. City Born In?
Chicago

4. City Live in?
Chicago

5. Where did you go to college?

6. What was your major?
Business Management

7. What is your current job?
Accounting

8. What is your dream job?
Bakery Owner

9. How did you and your fiance meet?
Sixth grade

10. When did you get engaged and how did he do it??
Dec 2008 at the Sears Tower observation deck

11. When is the Wedding Day?
June 5th

12. Where is the ceremony and reception?
Chicago

13. What are your wedding colors?
Apple(Lime) Green and Navy Blue with a peacock motif

14. Where are you honeymooning?
Carnival Cruise

15. Favorite wedding vendor so far?
My Photographers- our engagement pictures turned out great!

16. Biggest wedding splurge?
The entire wedding...lol. For real though, the cake. My cake cost more than my dress and that's a shame.

17. What is something you wish you could have at the wedding but don't?
Square tables- I like the look of that, but it wasn't in the budget.

18. Another knottie wedding you'd like to attend?
Alfdallas - she's doing peacock too

19. Favorite book?
The Giver

20. Favorite movie?
Any Disney movie from 1988-1997

21. Favorite tv show?
Too many to just pick one so my favorite station is DIY Network.

22. Favorite wedding dress designer?
Maggie Sottero - that's my dress

23. Any advice you can give?
Stay true to yourself when planning and do what you can afford. The people closest to you (family and friends) will test you, but you can't let them interfere with your plans. In the end it's all about you and your FI becoming husband and wife and really nothing else matters.

24. Anything you wish you could change about your wedding
I wish I had a smaller guest list, but I wouldn't hear the end of it.

25. Share something about yourself!!
I am an avid baker and love sweets!

TysWife2Be · April 2010

Nice learning more about you...

Do you have a recipe for some red velvet cupcakes? I tried a couple a few months back but it was NOT the taste I was going for.

What is your favorite thing to bake?

dawnbeatty · April 2010

Good question Tyswife - I would like to know that too.

lemonsprinkles23 · April 2010

Usually the bad taste comes from the red food coloring. I use a liquid gel food color because you use less since it's concentrated. It's a bit more expensive than the food coloring you get from wiltons, but it's so much better. Also the mccormick food coloring is water based so when you use that in your cake, you throw off the liquid-to-dry balance of the recipe. So when using that, reduce some of the liquid that is called for in the recipe and add that amount of food coloring to it.

The recipe I use for red velvet cake (cupcakes) is actually from the joy of baking. http://www.joyofbaking.com/RedVelvetCake.html I use a simpler cream cheese frosting recipes though since I like the taste of cream cheese on this cake.

lemonsprinkles23 · April 2010

My favorite thing to bake is chiffon cake. I love chiffon cake. It's so easy and it's a crowd pleaser. Also it's not so dense and heavy like a butter cake.

ChocolateDelight · April 2010

I look reading your story. I love your color scheme. Wow, you have known your FI since the 6th grade - talk about childhood sweethearts. I wish you guys all the best in love, life and marriage.

I totally agree with the advice on wedding planning, especially the idea that you and FI are a united team who should keep and block out all interference.

BTW, you've got me hungry with all those delightful baking ideas. . . thanks for sharing.

Mypasmita · April 2010

Chan, it's really nice learning a little bit more about you.

I've always liked your peacock theme and cannot wait to see everything come together. I love the strong bong between you and your FI. Six grade... so cute!

I am the worst baker in the entire planet because i can't follow recipes. LOL

wheatney22 · April 2010

It was nice reading about you.

Do you have a plan for starting your own bakery or is that still a seed right now? It sounds like so much fun! Perhaps you can start baking for small events and go from there.

How has your relationship changed during the course of your engagement?

MIABRIDENTAMPA · April 2010

Its was really nice reading more about u!

lemonsprinkles23 · April 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_african-american-weddings_knottie-of-day-aguaviolet?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural Wedding BoardsForum:400Discussion:938cba8c-0efe-47c0-b6eb-f174be4d614bPost:6dc60df0-b9d9-408c-9836-7411979e1a0f">Re: Knottie of the Day - Aguaviolet</a>:
[QUOTE]It was nice reading about you. Do you have a plan for starting your own bakery or is that still a seed right now? It sounds like so much fun! Perhaps you can start baking for small events and go from there. How has your relationship changed during the course of your engagement?
Posted by wheatney22[/QUOTE]

The bakery is still a seed, but it's been planted. I've started to bake for family and friends to get started, but that took a back seat when I started to plan the wedding. Now that my wedding is approching, I can't wait to get back into it.

During our engagement, I FI and I have learned to be an united front and have become closer because of that. We have changed from the mindset of "mine and yours' to "ours". It's been a process, but it's for the best. <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" />

1TriniDiva · April 2010

It was nice reading about you.

YasJas2011 · April 2010

Very nice learning more about you! I also love to bake. I can' wait to see the beautiful peacock colors come to life!

mnm729 · April 2010

Thanks for sharing. I like to bake as well, but am not great at it. The chemistry is always off. Please share your fool proof recipes. My fiance has an insane sweet tooth.

eagles347 · April 2010

It was nice reading about you!

If it's not too personal, please tell us how your FI proposed. I know the view was amazing and I love proposal stories. No matter how simple or elaborate, they always make my heart melt.

Thanks for the recipe also...I'm going to try it while I'm on vacation next week.

cincy2011 · April 2010

Great reading about you! I grew up outside of Chicago and I miss it!

lemonsprinkles23 · April 2010

mnm729 - I don't know about "fool proof:", I've created some disasters...lol. But when I find some that I truly like, I'll share them.

eagles - my proposal story is in my bio under "Our Story"

Cincy- I love Chicago...I just wish the Sears Tower didn't get bought out and it's name changed. UGH...the logo is silly looking to me.

cincy2011 · April 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_african-american-weddings_knottie-of-day-aguaviolet?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:400Discussion:938cba8c-0efe-47c0-b6eb-f174be4d614bPost:f3e8d131-df04-4769-a059-c91e2407d3d2">Re: Knottie of the Day - Aguaviolet</a>:
[QUOTE]Cincy- I love Chicago...I just wish the Sears Tower didn't get bought out and it's name changed. UGH...the logo is silly looking to me.
Posted by Aguaviolet[/QUOTE]
Girl I heard about that madness and chose to block it out and act like it wasn't happening. They actually put A LOGO on the building?? That is so horrible!!! I used to work two blocks from there and used to go to lunch in there all the time.

essian · April 2010

Sorry for the late post. It was nice reading more about you date twin. Our date is fast approaching....

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