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Mrs. Gummi Bear, San Francisco Age and Occupation: 25, Japanese Importer/Illustrator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Game Developer/Programmer Engagement Date: April 15, 2006 Wedding Date: October 13, 2007 Blogging Since: June 19, 2007 Venue: Organic farm an hour from San Francisco About Me: I live for anthropologie, design blogs, sweets, japanese zakka, and vintage goods. We just bought our first home together and live with our two puppies and cat - it's a strange mixture of vintage, high-tech (we have 7 computers and 21 video game systems in all), and a whole lot of fur. Our wedding tries to embody the Japanese idea of "slow life", which is truly taking the time to enjoy food, company, and your environment!
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I’m Just Detail Oriented! (Anal)

July 30th, 2007 @ 10:30 am by Mrs. Gummi Bear

Mr. GB and I aren’t spending a lot of time thinking about the huge aspects of the wedding. We’re not fussing over flowers (I trust my floral designer 120%) and not making a big deal over linens or plates. It’s all about the details for us. While I was completely happy with the idea of standard white this and standard that, I didn’t want anything on the table that wasn’t either completely blend-in-plain or part of my.. er.. vision. It occured to me I didn’t want standard ugly salt and pepper shakers, and toyed with the idea of vintage ones, or most likely, none at all.

Then luckily, I found a picture of these little sake cups in a magazine, and since research and digging around for information is part of my job, I hunted down the location and found that the manufacturer/distributors of these cups was here in San Francisco at a place called Tampopo. A puppy dog face and a little tugging and we drove across the bay to pick up a bunch of these little cups as salt and pepper bowls. We figured two sets per table would be enough since we don’t expect people really to be seasoning their food.

But I hate salt and pepper bowls that you use your fingers in. It’s just icky to me - who knows where the finger has been! There are foul things on fingers and I don’t want them in my communal salt bowl. On went the quest for spoons.

I searched high and low for them - originally trying to find mini wood ones, but nothing came up. We were settled on the fact we may have to buy mother-of-pearl caviar spoons when I happened upon these little silver spoons, entirely by chance. They are by FAR the smallest spoons we found and are adorable with their super round bowls and handcrafted imperfect shaping.

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PERFECT.

It’s in the details I say, and thank god Mr. GB is ok with my insanity. Now what to do with a bunch of bowls and tiny-ass spoons in 3 months…

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10 Responses to “I’m Just Detail Oriented! (Anal)”

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Didi

o those are sooo cute! i have the same germaphobia with open-finger salt/pepper cellars! where did you find the tiny spoons?

 
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Helen

They’re gorgeous. Can you not hide a card under one person’s chair per table and give them away as a present at the end of the reception? Or do a quiz per table and hte winner gets the sets? If you got yourself a deal, you may be happy to get rid. Or else, does you vendor want to relieve you of them?

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Rebecca

did you register at williams & sonoma? so, every time we get a present from there - they wrap there stuff all pretty and attach what we are now using as salt and pepper spoons. they are small and wooden, i think what you may have been looking for. might be worth cehcking out if you are still interested….

 
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hapahaole

too funny. i had the same insanity and couldn’t imagine the cloudy glass salt and pepper shakers on my very contemporary-styled tables, so i bought some from cb2. don’t think anyone noticed, but these are much more unique. love the spoons!

 
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Sarah

Speaking as someone who trusted the vendors on the big stuff and obsessed about the little stuff, every little thing we worked hard to personalize, someone said was their favorite part of the wedding. And the hands-off stuff went just fine, too.

 
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Jilly

Wow, that never would have occurred to me in million years! Sorry to say we had plain old shakers. :)

 
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Melanie

OMG, too funny.

Save the set for serving really tiny rich desserts with espresso!

 
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My

I so look forward to your posts…. You are hilarious.

 
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Beth

Those spoons are so cute! Who makes them?

 
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