Wedding Blog

Part I: Primped and Prettied
Part II: The Dashing Gents
Part III: The Wedding Duds + A Switcharoo

As the morning prep progressed, all seemed well and fine. Erwin proceeded to take photographs of my wedding threads while the females and I continued to ready ourselves.

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One last shot of my gown before I…

Part 1: Primped & Prettied
Part 2: The Dashing Gents

While the guys were dressed in minutes, back in the girls’ camp we were still fussing and preening. Erwin snapped pictures of my wedding threads as he waited for us.

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I promise this picture isn’t proof of the ghost of weddings past. My gown…

On the wedding day, brides spend their morning meticulously primping and pruning for hours on end. Each eyebrow hair is diligently combed in place. Each lash, carefully coated with mascara. Conversely, a groom’s job is easy. Rent tux. Show up. Remember to say “I do.”

So, how DO those boys keep busy?

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Hello, dear hive.

Long time, no blog! It’s Mrs. Eggplant here, back from my sabbatical in the land of the married. Well, it has been nine months since the wedding and I have yet to post a recap of our wedding photos. Between nesting and working, I’ve been a negligent blogger. I do apologize!

I can’t move on from our wedding without some closure, so over…

It has officially been six months since the wedding (happy half-year, Mr. Eggplant!). I thought I’d celebrate by sharing one of my most favorite parts of our wedding: Our slideshow. I’ve written about how we used media as an inexpensive means to make our wedding incredibly personal. You’ve already seen our entrance music video and heard our first dance songs. But the grand media finale was a thoughtful, embarrassing,…

If I haven’t convinced you to buy a Cuttlebug yet, maybe this next tutorial will sway you. I’ve shown you how to emboss using Cuttlebug embossing folders and today I will show you how to use Cuttlebug dies. What is a die? A die is a metal form or stencil that is used to punch or cut out shapes. Below is a picture of the…

I finally finished sending out “thank you” cards to all of our wedding guests… all except for my bridesmaids. Five months have passed since the wedding and I haven’t officially thanked them! That’s awful, isn’t it? I had my heart set on making each of them personalized cards, and I just didn’t have the chance to get around to it until recently.

I made another “thank you”…

After my wedding passed, I needed a way to fill the void that wedding planning had once occupied. What was I to do with my lonely craft-deprived hands? Well, I recently discovered the wonderful world of stamping and paper crafting. I’ve always been a scrapbooker, but I have developed a new love for stamping and card making. Along with this new hobby, I picked up…

Hello hive! It’s been a while. I apologize for being MIA. Mr. Eggplant and I have been really busy trying to sort out our housing situation at the moment. We are no longer purchasing the SF condo that we had planned on buying. There were some complications with the timing of the finished construction, our marriage date, and title issues. It’s a long and complicated…

I have been really into stamping and card making lately. Stamping is such an addicting hobby! I used to be really into scrapbooking, but I’m impatient and it takes so long to finish a scrapbook that I ended up neglecting my projects. With stamping, I can easily finish a project in a hour and move on to a new idea.

Anyway, I wanted to share a…

My Valentine swappers all should have received their packages by now, so I can write about one of my all-time favorite baking projects: cookies on a stick! I’ve made these for for baby showers, birthday parties, Christmas exchanges, and more. They are super easy and cute.

Calling all engaged photography lovers: Ray and Erwin from Apertura Photography are hosting a free engagement session contest! They photographed our wedding and engagement session and we couldn’t have been more pleased with the pictures. From their blog:

I love the Life and Soul article in this month’s “Real Simple” magazine. Real Simple readers answered the question, “What’s the Secret to a Good Marriage?” Here are some of my favorite answers:

My husband and I have a strict rule: Never argue with your clothes on. If we are out and about to fight, we know that we have to wait until we’re home and…

Hey ya’ll.

I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth, but let me tell ya, married life sure is BUSY. Two sets of family + two sets of friends + double the committments = no free time at all. Is my schedule always going to be so crazy? I’ve been treasuring every spare minute that I have.

Another strange thing happened recently: I totally forgot…

Oahu is a small island. It only takes a few hours to drive the entire circumference, but you wouldn’t know it by the sheer amount of activity and people in Waikiki. It is a bustling city with an immense amount of restaurants, sights, and things to do. We took our trip in October, which was off-season for travel. Our plane tickets were less than $300…