My Life, As Told Between (Baby Cakes') Naps

Back from our wonderful honeymoon in Maui! I’ll try to post some pretty pictures of Maui soon, but in the meanwhile, as promised, here are some pictures from the wedding. Most of you have probably already seen these since many of them are either up on the Flickr site I set up or on various Facebook pages!

The programs. Notice the scrapbooking paper I had my friends scour the earth for! I love the color combination on this paper, which is much richer in person.

Here’s our Treasure Chest Card Box – the pirate related project I had alluded to in an earlier post! My friend H and I stained it, painted the black stripes and attached the gold trim to it. I made the stacks of “gold” coins by gluing together bits of wood and painting them. I’m really glad we were able to get the box done. People left us really sweet messages and cards.

Our cartoon theme table assignments and escort cards. We assigned each table a cartoon name and each place card had a picture of a different character from that cartoon. We tried to attach some meaning to the various character assignments but lots of them were just random. The table cards themselves each had pictures of us carrying a white posterboard which I photoshopped the table names onto on the front and a picture of the cartoon cast on the back.

The dining room. You can see the centerpieces we were upsold on. I didn’t love our flowers (some looked a little wilted and there was more greenery than I would have liked), but the florist showed up on time and didn’t mess anything up so I don’t have much of a complaint, especially since flowers were never our top priority.

The ringbearer pillow which I made following Martha Stewart’s instructions, with some slight modifications to account for inferior scallop shears. The flower is made out of left over fabric from my wedding dress after it was hemmed and the gray bead is from a neckalace I sacrificed for the cause. Sadly, the pillow was destroyed by our adorable ringbearer.

Speaking of which, here is our adorable ringbearer and flower girl. They’re both kids of T’s friends from his old neighborhood growing up.  The ringbearer took his job of holding her hand down the aisle very seriously and didn’t let go all night!

The props basket, used to take pictures in our Picture Corner. We (I) decided to do Picture Corner at the last minute and wasn’t sure if we could pull it off. Fortunately, it all came together relatively smoothly, thanks to our great photographers! I can’t wait to see all the silly pictures our guests took. We also made sure to pay homage to ITLAPD by including plenty of pirate gear.

Our table setting, including our favors (pear shaped salt & pepper shakers and pear jelly belly beans), menus, and cards asking our guests to upload their photos onto a shared Flickr site.

And lastly, here are the invitations to the bridal shower and the wedding. My sister B made the bridal shower invitations herself! We ordered the wedding invitations, but I lined the envelopes with the scrapbooking paper I loved and embossed them with green vines – both ideas inspired by B’s bridal shower invitations. I love how well the envelope liner complemented the invitations and how the entire ensemble fit the vibe we were going for of a casual, modern outdoor wedding.

The wedding was wonderful, although it flew by entirely too quickly. There were a few hiccups and quirky moments (apparently I was making funny faces up at the alter – I have a very expressive face) but overall I had a great time and am still overwhelmed at how lucky we are to have such a fantastic group of friends and a wonderful family (and extended family). The beach party the following day was also lots of fun and gave us a chance to unwind and spend some quality time with everyone.

Busy cleaning house right now and getting ready to leave for Hawaii, but I promise wedding recaps and pictures when I get back!  In the meanwhile, here’s one of me being walked down the aisle by my dad, who got too choked up to actually give me away.  He was rescued by my mom, who piped in “we do.”

I think I’m coming down with a cold.  F*ck.

Yay!! I’m getting married in a week! I’m so so excited about having our family and closest friends all together for the first time. I’m also excited to see how all of our ideas play out. We wrapped up the last of our planned projects last weekend, but new ideas keep popping up. I’m in the process of seeing if we can execute one of them now and am keeping my fingers crossed. If it works, I think it’ll make the wedding more fun. Hopefully everyone will love it as much as I do! If it doesn’t, well, I’ll tell you about it in another post. =)

See many of you next week! (And, if I don’t, I promise many pictures to come in the weeks following the wedding. Followed by a period of complete silence as I desparately think of what to write about next.)

P.S.  Completely off topic, but I’m reading The Road right now and while I realized it was dark, I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to get through.  It’s compellingly written, but leaves me feeling vaguely depressed every time I read it so I have to put it down periodically.  The only other book I’ve had this experience with was Blindness and in comparison, Blindness was not that bad.

T and I bought a scale last weekend.  We’d registered for one, but figured it was unlikely anyone would buy it for us since weight can be such a sensitive issue.  I made the mistake of testing it out tonight.  I think our scale is broken because I’m at least two pounds heavier than I thought I was.  Or maybe it was the brownie sundae I had for dinner.  After all, it was a pretty heavy brownie. . .

T and I had a marathon weekend of wedding projects.  We finished our place cards, favors, menus, programs, ring pillow (which I made from scratch – go me!), and various other wedding related projects no one will notice or care about except us (well, except me actually).  T anticipates that all our guests will take away from the evening is that our theme color was red.  I’ve already warned him that since I’m generally one to toot my own horn, I will make it a point to comment loudly and frequently about everything from the place cards to the ring pillow (that no one likely even saw).  =)