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Mrs. Tomato, Napa Valley Age and Occupation: 25, Technology Project Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Engineer Engagement Date: October 22, 2006 Wedding Date: July 1, 2007 Blogging Since: May 1, 2006 Venue: Auberge du Soleil About Me: I love all things beautiful. From handmade stationery, feminine fashion and delicate flowers to the little moments in your life treasured with your loved one. I am also notorious among my friends to be a deal hunter! My best deal was perhaps my Monique Lhuillier dress for $1100 (orig. $5000). I also tend to use a lot of exclamation marks! =)
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Wedding Day: Part I

July 25th, 2007 @ 12:50 pm by Mrs. Tomato

I’ve been contemplating on how I can share my wedding day with you all. I don’t want to miss any details, and yet I don’t want to make it too long to read in one sitting. So I’ve decided to divvy it up in parts, and share my timeline with you as I go along. Creating a timeline was a headache and it took me two weeks of revising as I kept remembering things I had forgotten to add. Hopefully mine will make your planning go a tad smoother!

I strongly recommend creating one weeks in advance whether or not you have a coordinator…not only is it helpful for your vendors/bridesmaids/groomsmen (and the occasionally forgetful groom), but it kept my mind sane and I never had to wonder, “Did I forget to do something?” or “What am I supposed to do next? Where am I supposed to go?”

Morning of…

7:00 - Wake-up call for Bride, wear button-down shirt; gather overnight bag, emergency kit, purse, shoes/jewelry/veil

7:20 - BMs meet at Alice’s house

7:30 - BMs leave Cupertino to pick-up Bride; wear button-down shirts and bring dresses/shoes/makeup

8:00 - BMs meet Bride at home in Foster City; head to Lavish Hair & Makeup Studio

-At 8am, they still hadn’t arrived, and I was kind of wondering where they were. I ended up making myself some toast and was eating it when they called and said they had arrived.

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-Here is my bridesmaid Alice, scared that I was going to kill her for being 15 minutes late. I was actually nonchalant, since I had scheduled tons of time in between our schedule “just in case” something went wrong (I’ve heard stories about brides with flat tires).

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-Here I am, sleep-deprived and laughing as I get into the car. My contacts usually irritate me after 10 hours of wear, so I decided to wear glasses until the last possible minute (before I had makeup on).

9:00 - Bride and BMs arrive at Lavish.

-As it turned out, we were ahead of schedule here! So we stopped by Le Boulangerie in SF (one of my fave bakeries) for coffee and nourishment…

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-This bride did not care about her diet that morning. I ogled the pastries before finally settling on a salmon-caper-cream cheese sandwich. Mmmm…

9:30 - BMs begin hair/makeup with Annette Avila, followed by the bride

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-Alice is getting her hair done as I’m taking a picture of her. I had no idea my hair had gotten so long! Good thing, since curling it makes it shorter.

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-My hair looks crazy here. Annette, the hair stylist, is setting in the curls.

….To be continued! Wedding Day: Part I :  wedding napa valley pictures post wedding Laughin029 laughin029

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13 Responses to “Wedding Day: Part I”

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Kat

Keep posting! This was really interesting. I love the illustrated time line :)

 
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Bride of Rochester

very organized! I’m really liking the schedule posted with the pictures. :)

 
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gttoct

great idea of putting pictures with the timeline, I feel like we just got started though, can’t wait to read more

 
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MissChris

This will help me in making my timeline for the day of. Thanks for the post and I look forward to reading more.

 
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aoedorothee

hehe, it would’ve been cool if your hair was like that for the wedding. reminiscent of the old chinese dynasty movies where the pricesses had such elaborate hair-dos.

 
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Miss Peppermint

So glad you put the actual timing–I’ve been trying to make a timeline for mine and don’t know where to start!!

 
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Joanne

ooh! i can’t wait to hear more!

 
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Lou

I had one master schedule for the week leading up to my wedding. I broke down the wedding day schedule for the bride’s family and the grooms family. I made copies of each and gave them to key people the day before the wedding. As far as I know it helped and no one complained (to me) about not knowing when they were supposed to show up for pictures.

 
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Christina

Can’t wait to see/read about the rest! Your wedding seems so exciting Miss..Mrs.! Tomato!

 
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Mrs. Tomato, Napa Valley Age and Occupation: 25, Technology Project Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Engineer Engagement Date: October 22, 2006 Wedding Date: July 1, 2007 Blogging Since: May 1, 2006 Venue: Auberge du Soleil About Me: I love all things beautiful. From handmade stationery, feminine fashion and delicate flowers to the little moments in your life treasured with your loved one. I am also notorious among my friends to be a deal hunter! My best deal was perhaps my Monique Lhuillier dress for $1100 (orig. $5000). I also tend to use a lot of exclamation marks! =)

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