Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
So the portraits had been taken and it was time to start. At least for everyone besides me and my bridesmaids. We sat waiting in the house/changing area while everyone got to see the groom’s procession on the elephant. I’m so sad I never even saw the elephant in real life and only through pictures. I heard she was very sweet and well mannered, though.
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
After we all got pretty, we headed over to Saddlerock Ranch to take portraits. Mr. Margarita was already there taking pictures with his family and I really didn’t want to see him before the ceremony so we had a specific time I was supposed to get there. Naturally we were late, so we missed that window of time. I was kind of freaking out and…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
I’ve shown you some details and our wedding day outfits but I really haven’t been sure where to go from there. I’m going to do this as a chronological story of the day because that’s the only thing that makes sense to me. I know it’s not a shocking revelation and I should have come to this a long time ago. I blame the heat…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
I left you way back in November with some of our wedding details promising to tackle accessories and outfits.
I had two outfits for our day - a sari for the ceremony and a lengha for the reception. The sari for the wedding was a ivory/cream color, keeping with Sri Lankan tradition. I had it custom made in LA by Mehr Design Studio (described here) along…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
Hi everyone! I know it’s been a ridiculous amount of time since I’ve posted anything. I’m not going to give any excuses for neglecting my bee responsibilities. I know I’ve been a bad bee but I’ll be starting up my wedding recaps soon, I promise. First I wanted to share our wedding highlights video from Robles Video. They did a great job putting this together,…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
Our fabulous photographer Dina of Andrena Photography has been slaving away to get us our pictures back. She sent us an online album of over 2000 images! I don’t even know where to begin in terms of ordering albums and I am even more confused about where to start blogging. Since she still has to retouch many of the images, I will start with the…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
I’m still waiting for professional pictures but we just got our photobooth pictures back and they are so much fun I had to share. We used Cheesy Photobooths based out of the LA/Orange County area. They were so easy to work with and I love what they had to offer. The gave us unlimited double prints for the event up to 4 hours, digital CD…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
Our mendhi party was held at my house in Orange County the Thursday before the wedding. My mendhi artist insisted that I get my mendhi done the night before the party to let it really set in and get dark before the wedding. This forced me to stop running around like a mad woman and actually relax. Nothing like getting henna put on for five…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
Our programs were a labor of love. All in all they took us literally weeks to complete! The reason it took us so long was because I didn’t plan out the supplies very well, and since we started with only a few weeks from the wedding, I was just over it. That said, I’m SO glad we put so much effort into making them because…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
Mr. Marg and I both had pretty crazy schedules leading up to the wedding and had a really hard time finding a weekend to come out to California together to take engagement pictures. Since the engagement photo shoot and print for our wedding was included in our photography package, I really wanted to squeeze them in somehow. So, between our schedules and our photographer’s schedule,…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
I’m SOOO excited! I finally got to see my sari and veil/dupatta! I can barely contain my excitement and want to show everyone. Sadly, Grandma and Momma Marg have banned me from showing anyone my outfits or jewelry before the wedding. Sigh. I guess something about “evil eye” and an element of surprise. So, here’s a little snapshot of my sari and my veil.
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
My makeup/hair people called me yesterday and cancelled my appointment for our Mendhi night. UGH! I was definitely upset/mad and had a little breakdown, but I’m back to normal now. It was after business hours by the time I found out, so I’m gonna have to try my best to find another hair/makeup person in a little over a week. Any suggestions for Orange County hair/makeup…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
We are officially less than 2 weeks away from the wedding day! We’ve been planning this sucker since last March and we’re SO tired! Our wedding planning process has been filled with emotional highs and lows. If you told me a year ago that I’d be crying and angry about the cost of flowers and cake, I wouldn’t have been able to believe it. I…
Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los AngelesAge and Occupation: 26, Healthcare ConsultantFiance's Age and Occupation: 26, DoctorEngagement Date: March 21, 2007Wedding Date: August, 2008Blogging Since: June 18, 2008Venue: Saddlerock RanchAbout Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
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Mrs. Margarita, Boston/Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 26, Healthcare Consultant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Doctor
Engagement Date: March 21, 2007
Wedding Date: August, 2008
Blogging Since: June 18, 2008
Venue: Saddlerock Ranch
About Me: I grew up in Southern California, moved to Boston for college, New York for grad school, back to Boston and now I travel the northeast every week for work. When I'm not on the go, I love to read, draw, shop, sleep and spend quality time with my fiancé, family and friends. We're long-distance planning for our "big fat brown wedding" in California and are excited to unite our Sri Lankan and Indian cultures and Buddhist and Hindu religions in a unique and modern way.
