YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!
Our FABULOUS photographers Ray and Erwin of Apertura have blogged some of the photos from our engagement session.
OMG. I LOVE THEM. I kinda have funny expressions in some of them but the angles of the shots, the colors, the light… aaahhhh, so pretty.
Here’s a teaser…
Now go HERE to see the rest.
SO EXCITING!
Oh Lakers. You broke Rob’s heart. 🙁 Boo on you.
I sent one of our extra invitations to “Mickey and Minnie Mouse” and look what we got from them! HEE.
I also sent an invitation to the Governor so we’ll see if he sends us anything. 😛
Anyway, RSVPs for the wedding are steadily rolling in so I think it’s time to share my beloved invitations.
As much as I wanted to “DIY” the invitations, I didn’t feel 100% comfortable enough with my Illustrator/PhotoShop skills to take on such a big task. I feel like invitations set the tone for a wedding and I wanted them to be perfect. Without breaking the bank. So I worked with stationery designer Prim and Pixie on the graphics, wording, and execution (from the pocketfolder to the belly band). And then Rob and I gave them just a bit more “oomph” by adding tags for the guests’ names and wrapping everything in a handy dandy mailer box.
PICS! Click for bigger.
Some of the boxes wrapped, labeled, and waiting to be mailed out. If you look closely, you’ll see that we used Disney and Marvel Superhero stamps! We also had some Star Wars stamps but I don’t have any pictures of those boxes. I love little details like this.
The open box. Instead of writing our guests’ names on the envelope, we made little tags instead. Rob was in charge of punching them out and hammering the eyelet into the top. He’s the best.
The pocketfolder held closed by a personalized belly band. What you can’t see in these pics is that all the paper has a metallic sheen to it. So sparkly and pretty.
And finally, the invitation and inserts. I love how everything has its place. SQUEE. The whole package makes me so happy.
I hope our guests enjoyed receiving them as much as we had fun putting them together. 😀
So I managed to have a good weekend despite the unexpected hack job. (GRRR).
I finally went to see the Sex and the City movie. WOO HOO! It totally made my weekend. I’ll post my thoughts after the cut.
I’ve also been getting through some movies on our Netflix queue. Let’s see if I can write quick 2-3 sentence reviews.
Atonement
Enjoyed it (mostly because I loved the romance between Robbie and Cecilia) but it was depressing. And I’m actually still mad at Briony. Can’t help it.
27 Dresses
I’m in the throes of wedding planning so of course, I thought this was a cute movie. Jane could have been a really sad, sad character but Katherine Heigl did an amazing job at giving her real depth. And she totally pulled off the scene where she tries on every single one of those 27 horrifying bridesmaid dresses. Plus, Judy Greer! I love her.
National Treasure 2
Cheesy (and I’m sure terribly historically inaccurate) but so much FUN! I totally want to see the first one now.
Juno
I think I might have bought in to the hype cause I liked the movie but wasn’t WOW-ed by it. I hate when that happens.
August Rush
Again, I liked this movie (as you can probably tell, I am very easy to please when it comes to movies) but I also felt like it was too… something. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Too sentimental maybe? Almost like it was trying a tad too hard to win over the audience. Anyway, Keri Russell as Lyla really sold this movie for me (and it didn’t hurt that there was eye candy in the form of Jonathan Rhys Meyers). I think Evan (Freddie Highmore) was supposed to be the heart of this story but I found it in Lyla.
Ok, now for some Sex and the City thoughts (spoilery! beware!)…
Testing, testing…
UGH. Hackers strike again.
So I spent a good part of the day reinstalling Movable Type and importing my old entries. WHAT A PAIN. Luckily I’m pretty diligent about backing up my files so I only lost the last entry… Boo. I’ll probably rewrite parts of it later cause I thought it was a good post!
Anyway, please excuse the mess around here… there’s a lot of broken links and images. I’ll get around to fixing them soon. I hope.
Been a busy bee lately.
My cousin Rizza (aka Maid of Honor) was in town for the weekend to help with a wedding project. Rob and I wanted to incorporate our alma mater, UC Berkeley, into our wedding so we decided to name our reception tables after campus buildings. And we thought we would go the extra mile and attempt to get our photos taken in front of them. (We’re dorks, I know). I asked for Riz’s help with this because she’s a photographer and it was an excuse to get her to come visit me. 😀
So on Saturday, we spent 4 hours walking all over campus posing like crazy people in front of over 25 buildings (we won’t really have that many tables — I wanted to have more options just in case). Riz has to go through all the photos and process our selections but I thought I would share a random one we took…
These cute bears are on the North side of campus. Awww.
It was a really tiring day but good practice for our engagement photo shoot this coming Sunday. FUN!
I got bored.
So I created a WeeMee!
Me in Paris wearing a comfortable hoodie and jeans and sipping on coffee. Ahhh, so perfect.
I had my first bridal gown fitting today. It’s even more beautiful than I remember… the beading, the neckline, the back of the dress… SQUEE. Today was all about the alterations — the dress has to be shortened, the 10 point bustle sewn in (I’m going to need some serious help from my bridesmaids on this one), and the bodice taken in a little (I had no idea I lost a few inches in this area but YAY). Sadly, I still look like a freaking linebacker thanks to my ginormous arms. *sigh*
One thing I had to bring to the fitting were my shoes. Since I splurged on my dress, I didn’t even think about purchasing designer shoes. I just wanted a pair that were silver, comfortable, and affordable. I found a few pairs at Nordstrom that would do the trick. One night, a few months back, I happened to show them to Rob and he casually mentioned that he had been planning to buy me a pair of Jimmy Choos or Manolos for the wedding. UMMM. !!! YES PLEASE. So of course, I was on a mission and found this gorgeous pair…
Diesel posing with THE BOX!
It seems like everyone’s doing it…
[Edited to move the Twitter box.]
The 2 W’s have taken over my life… Work and the Wedding.
Work has been absolutely crazy lately. It’s the dreaded “planning” season, which means looooooong days. SUCKS to be me. But our team just got approval to hire an Assistant so that’ll definitely help whenever we find the time to actually recruit and interview candidates. :/ I really, really, really want my hours to be “normal.”
But the craziness doesn’t stop at work. Oh no. I get home and go into Wedding mode. Rob and I spent the past 2 weeks working on getting all our invitations out the door. We finally got them all mailed out over the weekend. YAY! Once I get confirmation that our out of state guests have received theirs, I’ll share pics!
Now I’ve moved on to other projects — like designing the programs and menus, figuring out if I can handle putting together a slideshow to play at the reception or not, selecting our ceremony music, etc etc etc. OMG.
Not going to think about ALL THAT STUFF right now.
Anyway, this past Saturday I went to my very first Bridal Shower for my good friend Shirley. Despite the heat, it was a really fun-filled day. Her bridesmaids did a great job coordinating everything. We all met at Shirley’s place for breakfast and introductions, then we went to Napa for massages (mmm, so nice), and finally ended up at V. Sattui winery for food, games, and gifts! Shirls, I can’t wait for your wedding — 1 more month! 😀
In TV news, I have not been keeping up with any current shows, except for Lost. It’s too hard. I did manage to get caught up with Gossip Girl (minus the season finale) while I was working on the invitations. But I have tons of One Tree Hill, Brothers and Sisters, Smallville, Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy episodes saved on the Tivo. I don’t know guys. It looks like I might have to start deleting these. Smallville will probably be the first to go.
Too bad I’ll probably have even more TV piling up because I was reading the new show descriptions from the recent Upfronts and I’m totally eyeing the new 90210 series that the CW picked up (WHAT? I grew up with 90210!) and OF COURSE, the new JJ Abrams show, Fringe, that Joshua Jackson is starring in. The show doesn’t really look *that* appealing but whatever, PACEY!!!
😀
I’m delirious and it’s past my bedtime.
There is a freaking heat wave here in the Bay Area. The one day I would have preferred to stay in my nice air-conditioned office, I had to run out and do errands at the post office. UGH. It was about 90 degrees in the city today. It’s almost midnight now and it is STILL sweltering. YUCK.
I just realized that I forgot to mention a couple of recent milestones…
On April 12th, Rob and I celebrated our 9th anniversary. Can you believe he’s put up with me for that long? 😀 And then this past Monday, on May 12th, we celebrated our “engagement-versary.” (I don’t know what else to call it!) 😀 Time has flown by so quickly. It seriously feels like I just got engaged yesterday. And now there’s only 86 days until the wedding. (!!!) I feel really lucky that I have Rob in my life. He understands and loves me despite all my faults (see below entry for evidence). We share the same hopes for the future. We have interests that overlap (TV!) but we have our own things as well. But best of all, Rob can look at me and smile and I can still feel the butterflies. (Points for you if you get the reference :P).
< / end sappiness>
So. Iron Man was AWESOME. I totally want to go see it again (possible spoilers)…