I Want A Flying Squirrel…
September 11th, 2007 @ 2:22 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
and a pony… with wings. Oh, and to wish for more wishes.
I’ve been told by pretty much every boyfriend + his family + all friends that it is a complete and utter waste of effort to try and shop for me. I spend my day looking at Japanese webstores and researching goods alternating between english and japanese. My tastes are indescribable and usually involve vintage goods on ebay or something only sold in one store in some random country that you have to special order.
I guess being asian, we always got that great envelope with a generic card that I am sure my non-english speaking grandmother did not choose, with some cash stuffed into it. Not to say she doesn’t love me and that I don’t appreciate the thought, but I think the wit and sarcasm on a hallmark card in a language she doesn’t understand is probably not something she can grasp.
I’m Turning Blue Over Here!
September 7th, 2007 @ 12:31 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
Normally Mr. GB goes to get the mail when the post rings the bell because I have a tendency to only be half dressed at all times, but he was in the bathroom (haha, now the whole world knows you potty!) and so I threw a sweatshirt on and ran down the stairs. It was addressed to Mr. GB, and being the law abiding citizen and trusting girl that I am… I ripped that sucker open within seconds of it being placed in my hands. Before Mr. GB had come out, I was running into the living room with my treasures.
But It’s Not Easter…
September 6th, 2007 @ 4:36 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
We, like the now Mrs. Plum (congratulations!), also purchased those little nests from William Sonoma. They were having a sale, so we snatched them up and bought a poop-ton. Actually W-S tried to screw us and told us we could not have them for the sale price in a little formal letter they sent us in the mail. Mr. GB called in a hurry and after being denied a bunch of times for the sale price we purchased the nests at, he was transferred to a supervisor and immediately given the correct price. While this was annoying, +1 for W-S customer service for giving us the advertised price with not too much nudging. I don’t know why, but I’ve come to expect the worst possible service from anyone these days. I feel abused.
No Heavy Bracelet For Me!
September 2nd, 2007 @ 5:30 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
In my search for the right wedding jewelry (I still haven’t thought about my ears in months, oh god) I at least found the perfect wrist adornment. I didn’t want a heavy weight on me, or anything that might be too eye catching - I want people to still look at my face! Then again, we are asking people to bring their psp/ds, so it might be a sea of wifi-mario kart and puzzle quest.
This is what I bought:
Oh Photoshop…
August 31st, 2007 @ 3:51 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
..how I wish I had illustrator instead of you. Actually, I do, somewhere, but I’m using photoshop for easy-peasy stuff like this.
Mr. GB and I are taking on the daunting task of wrapping our favors one by one. 300 macaroons each individually wrapped with cello paper, tied on either ends with ribbons, and a sticker to keep them closed. I know, everyone has said this is total insanity to attempt the day before the wedding, but I think we’ll survive. We have friends. We may NOT have friends after we force them into this for a full day of torture and callouses, but by then, the work will be done, so it’s ok if they hate us! All for the sake of cuteness am I willing to give up many friendships!
We have cut ribbon into 6″ strips, we have the cello wrap… uncut, but it will be! And now the stickers, this is the design I came up with:
Beyond being kinda cheesy and not particularly interesting, which is the best in terms of color?
Table Numbers? Check!
August 31st, 2007 @ 10:36 am by Mrs. Gummi Bear
We’ve finished up the designs for the table numbers (yay!) and found ourselves some cute pedestals to put the numbers in. 12 verticals and 4 horizontal… just in case! I imagine we’ll need them for something, and I’d rather be better prepared than scrambling to make something out of wire hanger and spray paint the night before.
Inspiration Explooooooosion!
August 27th, 2007 @ 4:57 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
I don’t even need to say anything about Rebecca Thuss’ Portfolio, it’s just amazing. So many of these images have been in Martha Stewart (the seasonal wedding bible, as we call it at our house). But the nice, large collection of them all together so I can rethink my entire wedding all over again and cry about the missed ideas and opportunities is wonderful! for me, not so much for Mr. GB who is wishing the internet went down until the wedding so I’d stop mourning over what I wish we had time to do.
Here are some of my favorites!
But… Japan is NOT A Vacation!
August 25th, 2007 @ 6:28 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
Everyone wants to know where we’re going on our honeymoon, but honestly, we haven’t planned one! Mr. GB will be starting a new contract on a game in fall, we have the house and animals to take care of… and we can’t think of anywhere we’d like to go in October or November! It gets cold, and Mr. GB and I are both bay area weather wimps. What do you MEAN it gets under 50 and over 80? What kind of madness is this!?
And I’m not sure why, but people keep suggesting or assuming it’ll be Japan. I used to live there and I go regularly for work and visiting friends, I can’t think of it as an exotic location to take a trip! I want to use my honeymoon as an excuse to go somewhere I haven’t been and probably won’t go again for a while, if ever… hopefully not because I got sick and hated it. I have a fragile stomach, I can just see myself locked in a toilet in some foreign land cursing the lack of nice toilet paper. But seriously, Japan, what’s with the one-ply wax paper you use in the toilet?
Our Final Cake(s) Decision. Almost.
August 24th, 2007 @ 4:00 pm by Mrs. Gummi Bear
After the previous experiences of good baker, not so good cake… and good cake, not so good baker… we ended up find a good baker and a good cake. We were so relieved to find SOMEONE who was neither mean nor dry (hoho!) that we were almost not going to go to the next interview. Almost.
Thank god we did! The cake was amazing, and we haven’t figured out exactly the deal, but it seems that she makes the cake in her own home and that she just likes to make wedding cakes. That’s it. She enjoys making wedding cakes - and so they are not only AMAZING but there is that kind of homemade love in it. No bakery, no staff, just someone happy to make cakes for couples. 
We love her, and her home, and had our last meeting with her last week. The best part… she’s $700 LESS than the lowest quote we received. So I’m getting two flavors of the best wedding cake we tried for 1/3 the price anyone else offered us!!! I’m tempted to get a whole lot more cake to gorge myself on after the wedding.. not that I haven’t been eating ice cream cake every day for the past week. My arteries are crying right now. And possibly my thighs.
Invitation Melt..er.. Breakdown.
August 23rd, 2007 @ 10:31 am by Mrs. Gummi Bear
The last bit of our invitations arrived today!
Our box tags with our guests’ names written on them by Bluebird Studios. Rebecca is wonderful and really responsive, not to mention fast! I absolutely love the tags, and she was so sweet when I asked her to write some names more clearly for my non-native english speaking family. They’re perfect! And so nice, she put a few with our names on it!
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!
