Holy Crap

In 19 days, I get to marry this man...

While I have wedding projects coming out the wazoo, Chris is making sure our humble abode is guest ready. He's painting, and turning doors around (I didn't know you could do this!) and reshelving and recabineting. The place looks awesome. I have no idea what I would do without him. I definitely wouldn't have any shelving. My toilet paper would sit on the floor. The painting I can handle... but not at the top where the ceiling meets the wall, even with a step ladder. Thank God for him and his handiwork :-)

Rehearsal Dinner Invite

I kind of love our Rehearsal Dinner Invitations. I wanted something simple and easy. So, we did them up in Photoshop and got them printed at ColorImages in Burbank. They are post card size, so they'll be super cheap to mail. Perhaps since I'm saving so much money on postage, I should upgrade to Zazzle stamps... they are having a sale ::muhaha::

Yummy Letterpress

I didn't really allow myself to look at a lot of invitation suites because I knew I (a) wanted to do them myself and (b) didn't want to spend a ton of cash on them. I had a feeling that I would fall in love with letterpress, so I stayed far far away. Just in case I fell head over heels and decided that I needed to have it in my life.

But now that invitations are done, what's the harm in buying a few t-tiny little itty bitty things?

I started with the calendar from Etsy shop ilee. Because it's STUNNING and adorable and cute.

Then, I happened upon some Thank You Notes and realized that I would have to have something to write a little note on for the bridesmaids. Opps.

Let the love affair begin :-)

Merry Christmas!

I just realized that it's 1:45 am which means it's Christmas! WOOOO CHRISTMAS.

As it was 70+ degrees today, and we only just put up the tree 2 days ago, and we've spent all of our waking moments with wedding shiza, I kind of forgot that it was Christmas. Our tiny little tree (that I adore) looks so sad with just a few little presents underneath. Me, not being so good with surprises, and Chris, working like a madman, we just bought/exchanged on the spot a few weeks ago.

Perhaps I will never again plan an enormous event three weeks after Christmas. Perhaps a bad choice on wedding date :-)

I'm already looking forward to next year when I have time to try new cookies, and pies, and candies and I'll be able to eat it all without fear of forcing the seamstress to let out what she just took in.

Merry Christmas to all! Enjoy your families, your holiday and your food and your sweets (jealous!).

Enjoy!

Camera Camera Camera

Chris and I love to take pictures. We were point and shoot folks until about 18 months ago, when we accidently dropped too much cash on the Nikon D50 and it was the best decision on the entire planet.

The pictures are crisp, clean and stunningly beautiful. It makes us look good!

But a few months ago our 55-200 lens just stopped working. Then we were told it was going to blow up the camera. BOO! So last night we bought ourselves and early Christmas present and sprung for the new Nikon 55-200 with the Visual Stabalizer. Woo!

Then we decided there was going to have to be a new bag to carry all the gear for Thailand.

We bought the Quantaray QR Echo Messenger Backpack. Based only on the grounds that I would NEVER have to carry it. It's only redeeming "cool" feature is that it is a messenger bag and not a super cool backpack. So, here's my question... why doesn't anyone design a nice, stylish, stunning, fun, sexy little bag that is functional and cute?

Hummmmm... business opportunity?!

P.S. For anyone interested, Ritz Camera has a crazy sale on the Nikon D40 ... Body & 2 lenses for $600ish. Awesome deal! Go get it.

Postcards

I love that the Roosevelt is an old vintage hotel. It has so much history! One of my favorite things to do while I should be working, or doing something wedding related, is troll eBay for old Roosevelt things. There's so much!

Sometimes there are old room keys, matchbooks, dinner programs, advertisments, all kinds of stuff that was once part of the hotel. There are ALWAYS old postcards. I thought about buying a bunch for our Out Of Towner baskets, but at $4.00 a pop, that seemed dumb.

So I made one!

We'll write a little note on the back of the card and put it on top of the OOT box.

Welcome to Hollywood in t-minus 25 days.

Le Bling

Bling Bling :-)

I adore the set that Chris bought with absolutely no help from me! Well, maybe a little bit of help from me.

The stone was my grandmothers'. It was part of a seriously large 1980's God awful cocktail ring. My aunt gave it to Chris in August and he kept it in his sock drawer for three months! He bought the set at The Diamond and Jewelry Gallery on Ventura in Studio City.

We bought Chris ring at Icing on the Ring in downtown LA after many many recommendations on the Knot. It's a 9mm white gold ring.