Ed and Elaine: Wedding Planning

September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

wedding hairYay! I got my hair done yesterday and it looks great (highlights).I made my appointment for hair and make-up on the ceremony day and we talked abut styles. We are totally on the same wavelength! I’m excited!

And we got the signature photomat.

Also, I made postcards with info about the reception (attire, hotel booking, wedding weekend events…) They are pretty cute and should be here in a day. I want to send them out ASAP since the reception is Nov 12th.

Current to-dos:
- make appointments for facial, waxing, and manicure
- find photographer for “bridal shoot” (I decided I definitely want to do this. I didn’t before, but now I really want it)
- confirm musical entertainment (roaming jazz guitarist)
- find nanny/ babysitter person to watch over kids (depends on # of kids)
- make centerpieces (decided on bamboo shoots in glass cups with ribbon tied around and origami flowers surrounding the bamboo just laid out on the tables)
- order fortune cookie favors
- do test run for cupcake tower (coordinate with sis and mom)
- make drink tickets
- order corsages for mothers
- coordinate some helpers (one person on ground floor directing traffic, one person in receiving line handing out drink tickets, one person helping to seat people if we have seating chart)
- make kiddie packs to entertain the kids
- write vows with Ed
- buy champagne (Ed will do)
- make PowerPoint template
- make ring bearer pillow/ thingy

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Ed and Elaine: Wedding Reception Plans

September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

wedding cakeSo, we don’t have a true theme for the reception.
But I have a sort of genre: French-Asian fusion.
Colors are burgundy, ivory, lavender, green.
Bamboo will accent the cupcake tower and likely the centerpieces as well.
Lavender flowers will be somehow involved. I’d really like to create a centerpiece with lavender and bamboo but I have no clue and don’t want to spend a bunch of money on a florist or on experimentation. So, we’ll see about that…
I would like lots of origami decorating the tables, the buffet area, the bar, the cake table…
We could do fortune cookies with personal “thank you for celebrating our marriage with us” messages as favors if we want favors ( http://www.fortunecookiedepot.com/ )…

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Ed and Elaine: Wedding Plans

September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Oh, and more good news! My dad chipped in $1000! Hurray! (We’re paying for everything ourselves. This is the only financial help we’ve gotten)

And… we’ve decided to invite our parents, my sister, and my nephew to our ceremony instead of keeping it completely private. So, my nephew can still be a ring bearer, my mom will love to take pictures and FMIL will be happy too.

We’re rescheduling the ceremony for a few hours earlier and we’re going to camp out at Valley of Fire that night as well as the next night. So, we can bring a picnic dinner for our wedding night and we can consummate the marriage under the stars!

It’s going to great. The weather is perfect that time of year. The scenery is gorgeous. The wedding style and mini honeymoon is just so “us.”

And just think, we still get to do Costa Rica in the winter! yay!

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Another emo post

September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Been feeling really down lately. Think it’s a combo of sadness from the current news re. hurricanes and country going to hell in a hand basket, wedding planning stress and realization of hugeness factor of marriage, stress from moving and still not having things unpacked, stress from the damn ants we have who are getting into the cat food, the potted plants, everything!, uncertainty about law school and wanting to quit or take a break, money issues, lack of non-flakey friends, knee pain, image problems, clothing issues…

I just may take a leave of absence from school. But what will I do instead? How will I feel about that?

Also, I just plain miss Ed. He’s out of town right now.

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Cop story

September 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The other day I had lunch at Carl’s Jr. and did some reading for one of my classes.

In walked 4 men.

Immediately following the men walked 3 police officers, two in standard uniform and one in street clothes. The cops arrested the 4 men.

During the arrests, 2 other cops showed up at Carl’s Jr. The cops brought all the men out to the cop cars and sat them there for a while.

Then the cops released all four men and the men went back into Carl’s Jr. and ordered food.

About five seconds later the cops came back into Carl’s Jr. and ordered food.

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