Wedding Blog

My friend and maid of honor is an amazing make-up artist in Los Angeles. She did the make-up for me and my bridesmaids on my wedding day, and she’ll be doing my make-up again when I’m a bridesmaid in my brother’s wedding. This is her website. She mostly has fashion pictures on her site, but she’s done a lot of weddings, movies, music videos, fashion…

Quick… what did the centerpieces look like at the last wedding you attended?

I had to look at pictures, but still didn’t recall.

For the most part, I’ve based my wedding budget on how much my sister spent 5 years ago on her wedding. While this sounds sensible enough, what I’ve only recently started understanding is that my sister spent way too much on certain things. She…

I’ve known about the engagement ring for 4 months and been officially engaged for over 1 month, but I still haven’t told any of my friends yet. (with the exception of my very closest friends)

I’m not sure why. I suspect that it’s because I’m scared of further alienating myself from my single friends. We’re all pretty young- around 23. But I’m just in such a…

I think official etiquette states that every adult over the age of 18 should be invited with a guest. These rules were clearly written before weddings cost a zillion dollars and you could easily spend $100/$150/$200 per head.

Today I think it’s perfectly acceptable to invite single people sans guest, especially if there will be other singles at the wedding. My plan is to invite…

My fantasy wedding would be at the Rockhouse Hotel in Negril, Jamaica. The villas have their own stairs to the turquoise blue waters!

The ceremony site

The dining area

The path to the pool.

The pool is set at the horizon!

A wedding here would probably cost the same, or even less, as a wedding in NJ. And it would definitely be a million times more beautiful and…

as of friday, august 19th we’re officially engaged. woohoo!

i left work with hanyoung on friday a little past 5. as we went our separate ways i called up c on my cell. he told earlier that day that he had a client visit and that he was probably going to get out of work early and go grocery shopping.

c: what up babe
me: hi hun.
c: where…

MK and I are officially living in sin. He’s been moving his stuff in for the past several weeks, but he closed on his house and moved himself in this past Thursday. I love him. His stuff is another matter.

We went to the Barney’s Warehouse sale and MK bought a tux. Just tried on one tux, didn’t even look at the pants and bought it. I wish dress shopping had been as easy.

We met with a videographer who we’re going with. I love his style - 30 minute tightly edited videos. He uses super-8, which I love too. He has a couple of old samples on his website: www.filmjones.com.

I wish I could show you the sparkles in my *eyes* when he proposed.

For some reason, I assumed that his proposal and my reaction would be less than extraordinary. Of course, our love is extraordinary, but the concept of spending our lives together was something we talked about every day. There would be no element of surprise, especially because he let me design my own…

I think I’m going to send it to MK so he knows what to expect next year.. yeah right.

Anyone have suggestions on the best way to collect addresses from friends for invites and STDs? Did you send personalized emails letting people know why you needed their information, or a blind-cc email just telling people you were “updating your address book?” For college friends, we have an online data base, but not everyone updates their info regularly, so I’m afraid to trust it.

I’m almost…

My friend introduced me to the NYTimes wedding section a while back… and I am so addicted! The feature stories are short and not all that sappy. A far cry from the trashy romance novels I used to indulge in. But I enjoy them because they’re beautiful and heartwarming. And, above all, they’re real.

What I find most intriguing are the unusual combinations of characters…

I got this in my Daily Candy today…

Base camp, so to speak, is a loft-turned-army barracks that includes the city?s only indoor obstacle course, which was modeled after Fort Knox. The co-ed platoon (that?s you, soldier) even wears fatigues to work out.

In one action-packed hour you?ll be pushed from every angle and sweat like you never have before: rolling logs, hauling sandbags, swinging on monkey…

Who Wants to be a Millionaire is a having a special where engaged couples compete to “Play to Pay” for their weddings. I found out about it through theknot and signed us up for an audition slot last week. Got an email today that MK and I have an audition on August 23rd!

Even if we do well on the audition, we only *might* make it on…