so in the beginning we were waiting for our budget to flush out a bit more before we decided if we wanted a wedding planner. we decided that we didnt have the funds for it so we wanted to be super detailed about the timeline etc.
then Angie came along! she asked if i had a planner and of course i said no. she said she wanted to plan my wedding! she was trying to start her own event planning business since quitting her office job. i gladly agreed.
she basically became my day of coordinator and i was so grateful for having her. i knew in the back of my mind that we probably needed someone to "run the show" backstage. and it was so nice! i didnt really have much to stress out about. looking back angie probably took on a lot of the stress. i was reading articles about why wedding planners are great. they can save money with their connections etc. but for me it was all day of. a week prior to the wedding we took a lot of time and a lot of emails to really flush out the schedule and timeline of events. i knew that it would payoff and help make things run a lot smoother.
angie is also just so sweet. she remains calm but cheerful and doesnt show much stress. it was so nice to have her around
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
the decor
so i dont really have a theme for the wedding. its just a whole bunch of stuff that i saw and really liked. so most of the decor i saw somewhere and attempted to make myself. you can see more over at my other blog. there are still several projects that i havent started and some that are not complete. im hoping it will all come together somehow (fingers crossed) at the wedding since theres no way for me to see how it will all look together.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
the fitness routine
ive wanted to write about this for a while but its always been a difficult subject for me. for as long as i can remember ive been dissatisfied with my body and having an upcoming wedding doesnt help! there are some expectations that a bride always loses a ton of weight before the date etc. im trying to balance wanting to look good, healthy, and fit with wanting to lose a ton of weight. of course i would love to lose a lot of weight but i know it wouldnt be good for me. it could put me in a downward spiral into disordered eating and i dont want to jepordize my metabolism before i get pregnant etc.
i dont even remembered why i started dailey method but i did and i love it!its been convenient for me to go tuesdays, wednesdays, and thursdays because its on my way home from work. some days are harder than others but its definitely a respite from all the body hate that i have going on in my head. my body does feel more strong, more flexible, and more fit after class. the class basically consists of similar portions - warm up, high c curve (abs), arms, legs/thighs, low c curve (abs), seat work, and then warm down. the exercises each day vary but the sequence is pretty much the same. i also got their dvd in case i wanted to do it but couldnt make it to class. there is also a lot of working a muscle and then stretching it out right after in class. so after we work our thighs, we stretch them out. classes are expensive though and im not sure i can keep up this habit for long!
stephen has also recently started working out through P90X and so i join him on days where hes doing arms, yoga, or plyometrics. i skip the back and shoulders because im self conscious that i would get too big there. Plyometrics is basically cardio without a machine. its a lot of jumping around like a lunatic ahha. often times i feel like a monkey. the routine now is P90X twice a week when stephen is in town and then dailey method once a week. i think closer to the wedding i may aim to work out more than 3 times a week but will have to see. so stephen gave up on the p90x so no more of that!
my friend told me about a new yoga and cycling gym in the area so i joined that through a bloomspot! now i do yoga once a week and also spin once a week. i then started to do spin three times a week instead and them maybe yoga once a week. this gym is also on the expensive side so once my 20 class packages run out i may not renew
i dont even remembered why i started dailey method but i did and i love it!its been convenient for me to go tuesdays, wednesdays, and thursdays because its on my way home from work. some days are harder than others but its definitely a respite from all the body hate that i have going on in my head. my body does feel more strong, more flexible, and more fit after class. the class basically consists of similar portions - warm up, high c curve (abs), arms, legs/thighs, low c curve (abs), seat work, and then warm down. the exercises each day vary but the sequence is pretty much the same. i also got their dvd in case i wanted to do it but couldnt make it to class. there is also a lot of working a muscle and then stretching it out right after in class. so after we work our thighs, we stretch them out. classes are expensive though and im not sure i can keep up this habit for long!
stephen has also recently started working out through P90X and so i join him on days where hes doing arms, yoga, or plyometrics. i skip the back and shoulders because im self conscious that i would get too big there. Plyometrics is basically cardio without a machine. its a lot of jumping around like a lunatic ahha. often times i feel like a monkey. the routine now is P90X twice a week when stephen is in town and then dailey method once a week. i think closer to the wedding i may aim to work out more than 3 times a week but will have to see. so stephen gave up on the p90x so no more of that!
my friend told me about a new yoga and cycling gym in the area so i joined that through a bloomspot! now i do yoga once a week and also spin once a week. i then started to do spin three times a week instead and them maybe yoga once a week. this gym is also on the expensive side so once my 20 class packages run out i may not renew
Monday, February 27, 2012
the invitations
so another thing i had fallen in love with early on were the wood invites that i saw on a blog and etsy. at $6.75 per invite though, it seemed a bit out of budget so i set off to look for cheaper vendors. we did flip flop a lot on even what kind of wood invite we wanted. we thought we wanted ink and then we thought we wanted laser engraved. in the end we went with ink and foil printing and the result was awesome! the only thing is that the green foil isnt as dark as we had hoped but its not something we are stressing about. in the end we went with cards of wood because their sample pack was the most impressive. they were the ones who showed us the foil option whereas the other vendors had either ink or laser. laser is actually done on thicker wood pieces and there were a couple issues with that: 1. people probably couldnt put the invite on their frige with just a magnet and 2. postage would cost more. at some other places, the ink printing looked like it added a clear layer on top of the wood which i didnt care for much. when we got the invites in the mail, i used a punch to round all the corners. didnt take too much time and i liked the effect much more.
for assembly we decided that we wanted to hang two leaves on some twine and tie it over a strip of vellum. the leaves we cut on the cricut but i think a leaf punch wouldve been better for the job. i think when the cricut does repetitive cuts over and over some of the cuts can be not that good so some of the leaves had small rips in them. after the leaves were cut, i also punched a small hole on one end so the twine could go through. the darker leaf was stamped with "c&s" and the lighter leaf with "072812" both sides. the toughest part about the leaves was actually stringing the twine through. we used pink and purple divine twine.
as for the vellum we got two rolls of 18" by 5 yards from a drafting store in sf and did a lot of cutting. how do you cut about 150 pieces of vellum? very imprecisely. some of them came out slanted when assembled. but i didnt worry about it too much. we also ended up having to tape down the twine to the vellum with a small piece of washi tape because when the invite was pulled out of the envelope, it basically got unassembled.
for assembly we decided that we wanted to hang two leaves on some twine and tie it over a strip of vellum. the leaves we cut on the cricut but i think a leaf punch wouldve been better for the job. i think when the cricut does repetitive cuts over and over some of the cuts can be not that good so some of the leaves had small rips in them. after the leaves were cut, i also punched a small hole on one end so the twine could go through. the darker leaf was stamped with "c&s" and the lighter leaf with "072812" both sides. the toughest part about the leaves was actually stringing the twine through. we used pink and purple divine twine.
as for the vellum we got two rolls of 18" by 5 yards from a drafting store in sf and did a lot of cutting. how do you cut about 150 pieces of vellum? very imprecisely. some of them came out slanted when assembled. but i didnt worry about it too much. we also ended up having to tape down the twine to the vellum with a small piece of washi tape because when the invite was pulled out of the envelope, it basically got unassembled.
i actually ordered some pearlized envelopes online but cards of wood provided me with envelopes as well! i think we can use them for thank you cards maybe? unless the thank you cards come with envelopes too. then we will be in envelope overload mode. i printed the leafy pattern on 8.5" by 11" paper and cut it down as an envelope liner. to adhere the liners to the envelope just a glue stick was good. liguid glue, while strong, wrinkled the envelope a lot. i also rounded the corners on the liner. the calligraphy stamp on the back was also a custom piece.
the save the date
the save the date was such a labor of love. i had seen some save the date videos before and thought that ours could include one since it was through email. the stop action or stop motion ones really caught my eye and stephen willingly (?) or not so willingly took on that task.
his first iteration was just of totoro running around. he didnt end up liking it because he felt like it didnt have much to do with the song or the message. the first song that we chose was actually Home by edward sharp and the magnetic zeros. we ended up changing that too since his last and final idea was a more fun, party-ish vibe. he did end up using some of the totoro footage
his second idea involved me and him and it was us getting ready for a picnic through kody's eyes. fate wouldnt allow us to finish that one though - no bottle opener, out of battery, and inclimate weather. so we ended up ditching that footage altogether
his last idea was to have the dunnys spell out save the date. we were actually short a few dunnys so i made a try to urban outfitters for 10 dunnys. most of them were repeats so they contribute to my collection but they definitely helped the save the date video.
we finally sent it out with a link to our website.
his first iteration was just of totoro running around. he didnt end up liking it because he felt like it didnt have much to do with the song or the message. the first song that we chose was actually Home by edward sharp and the magnetic zeros. we ended up changing that too since his last and final idea was a more fun, party-ish vibe. he did end up using some of the totoro footage
his second idea involved me and him and it was us getting ready for a picnic through kody's eyes. fate wouldnt allow us to finish that one though - no bottle opener, out of battery, and inclimate weather. so we ended up ditching that footage altogether
his last idea was to have the dunnys spell out save the date. we were actually short a few dunnys so i made a try to urban outfitters for 10 dunnys. most of them were repeats so they contribute to my collection but they definitely helped the save the date video.
we finally sent it out with a link to our website.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
the transportation
so we had been thinking about booking a shuttle for our guests but wasnt sure if it was a priority or if we could afford it. i ended up looking and shopping around and found a place that wasnt too bad in terms of price. for now, we booked two 36 passenger shuttles.
the roads up to the venue seem dangerous to us and i guess no dollar amount can take away the piece of mind that comes with giving them the option to take the shuttle.
logistically i would delegate the task of communicating with the shuttle the day of the wedding to someone else. i am thinking both shuttles would leave the hotel 30 minutes before the ceremony. then they would each probably shuttle back and forth from the venue from mayb 10pm until the end of the event.
i havent even thought about how the bridal party etc would get to the venue ... drive? or book one of the shuttles for an extra 30 minutes to take us? not sure
the roads up to the venue seem dangerous to us and i guess no dollar amount can take away the piece of mind that comes with giving them the option to take the shuttle.
logistically i would delegate the task of communicating with the shuttle the day of the wedding to someone else. i am thinking both shuttles would leave the hotel 30 minutes before the ceremony. then they would each probably shuttle back and forth from the venue from mayb 10pm until the end of the event.
i havent even thought about how the bridal party etc would get to the venue ... drive? or book one of the shuttles for an extra 30 minutes to take us? not sure
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
the makeup and hair
the makeup style im not too picky about. i want to look natural, pretty, soft, with a touch of color. im afraid of my face looking uneven, my eyebrows being lopsided, shine, oil, makeup melting off by the end of the day, white face, flat face, fat face etc ...
as for the hair, im in love with the side braid, chignon style. its hard to tell what the front looks like but im thinking more of a swept back, away from my face thing for my bangs. im going to have to do a trial with them to nail down all the details. pretty excited!
Friday, January 6, 2012
the maids
haha not sure about the title of the post but this is supposed to be about the bridesmaids. they will be my two sisters and stephen's sister.
i decided pretty early on that i didnt just want one or two colors, that i wanted multi-colors for my wedding. a lot of people didnt understand this concept or didnt like it. not sure but people still keep asking me what my colors are.i wanted them to be in a neutral color with a bright accent color in a sash etc. i had originally wanted to give them more freedom to their clothing choice but when jcrew had an extra 40% sale i couldnt resist. kate spade also had a sale so i got them the shoes too. the only thing left is the sash. i am thinking silk faille since its not shiny and structured.
my sister jess will be in the yellow with the larger clutch since she is the maid of honor. she will be holding my oil blotting paper and tissue etc!
i decided pretty early on that i didnt just want one or two colors, that i wanted multi-colors for my wedding. a lot of people didnt understand this concept or didnt like it. not sure but people still keep asking me what my colors are.i wanted them to be in a neutral color with a bright accent color in a sash etc. i had originally wanted to give them more freedom to their clothing choice but when jcrew had an extra 40% sale i couldnt resist. kate spade also had a sale so i got them the shoes too. the only thing left is the sash. i am thinking silk faille since its not shiny and structured.
my sister jess will be in the yellow with the larger clutch since she is the maid of honor. she will be holding my oil blotting paper and tissue etc!
the purple was for cynthia since i thought the neon might be a bit too much for her. i had such a huge huge headache with the clutch though! i bought it online and they cancelled the order for no given reason. i had bought it with a gift card because when i exchanged her shoes that didnt fit, it was over the time limit. then when they cancelled the order, they also cancelled my gift cards. it took them months to give me new gift cards. long story short, no clutch for cynthia yet. they have a black one this season so im waiting for it to go on sale ...
toni is in the hot pink.
the dresses are all different styles but same material (silk taffeta) and color (golden khaki its called). i then got bright cardigans in different styles as well.
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