Weddingbee

Here is the fruit of my many hours of labor: My completed Pocketfold invites. Basically, I thought I couldn’t afford them. I had given up on the idea. Even if I got a basic Pocketfold with only one or two ink colors, I would be running at $6.00 an invite, minimum. Then, I found Cards and Pockets which helped make my invitation dream a reality. I didn’t get all my supplies from them, but they got the ball rolling and made me believe it was possible to have Pocketfold invites at a reasonable cost. Here, they are complete with rhinestones in my flower art.

The outside:

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My Maid of Honor and my Mom just threw me the most radical 80’s bridal shower ever, complete with vintage record decor and 80’s music videos playing all day. We played the typical bridal shower games along with some 80’s name that tune and trivia. The joy of the day however was seeing Mr. Hibiscus’s Aunts and Mom all dressed up in true 1980’s outfits. They should have all gotten the best dressed award.

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I think when you’re around a couple enough, you can just tell if there’s magic there. I know a lot of times you don’t know what goes on behind closed doors, but you can still get a sense. People may marry someone because they lust for them, some marry out of circumstance, some for convenience, others because they feel they have to and some people just plain settle. People even marry for their parents, or unfortunately some for economic reasons.

A lot of these things you can’t hide from other people… at least not for long. My friends have been to many weddings where everyone knew the couple would get divorced. So sad. What’s even sadder is those couples have gotten divorces. I’ve even had friends say their significant other or fiance wasn’t the love of their life. I have other married freinds who admit they settled. It seems only a handful of people marry the love of their lives. Maybe it’s asking too much. Maybe someone who is a good person with drive who cares for you deeply is enough.

I want to know how many percent of people do you think really truly marry the love of their lives? Perhaps a negative type question for Weddingbee, but I just want to get some opinions. Maybe it’s taboo to talk of divorce… but the rate is high and consider those couples that do manage to stay married but aren’t all happy.

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Okay, now that I’ve got your attention…. I just got a couple of my engagement pictures back from the famous and absolutely fabulous Jessica Claire.

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I already booked my extremely sweet and talented make-up artist LoAnn To of Let’s Get Beautified last year. I loved her so much I asked her if she could do my make-up for my engagement pictures (don’t worry I will post as soon as I have something to show you-super fun by the way!) and narrow down what I wanted for the wedding. I told her I wanted my eyes a little more dramatic than my first trial.

LoAnn is so easy to work with and fun to talk to, and her prices are very reasonable. I have to rave about her bionic super make-up that lasted through my engagement session of kissing a thousand times and getting drenched by a crazy huge wave. We were pretty much submerged in the ocean, freezing and shocked by the suddeness of it all and the first thing my fiance says is, “Your make-up still looks great!” haha I replied back, “Really?! No way!” I was expecting it to be gone or my mascara to be running down my face.

I get home and it’s over 7 hours since she did her magic and the make-up still looks awesome. If you’re in southern California and you don’t have your make-up artist booked, please give LoAnn a call. You will be amazed! Trials are only $25. I can’t wait for her to do my wedding make-up. Here is the proof of this magic I speak of.

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At the time of my last fitness entry, I was only 5 pounds away from my weight goal. I was excited. Currently, I have surpassed my weight goal by 1.4 pounds and I’m not feeling that same excitement. I’ve kept the same schedule: eating healthy on the weekdays, eating without guilt on the weekends and doing weights and cardio about 3-4 times a week. Apparently, this works. I’ve surpassed my goal with 3 months until my wedding, I feel healthy, and people have definitely noticed. I’ve lost a lot of weight. Twenty-five pounds to be exact. I’m at a very healthy weight for my height now.

Why am I not excited? Well, a couple of reasons actually. For starters, I still have huge arms. Genetics is killer. My Mom has huge arms for her size. I do weights and have been losing poundage but alas, my arms are still tanks. Please don’t humor me with the “I’m sure they look fine” comments because…. they are tanks. Second, I still have awful love handles. My stomach is flatter and I look good from the side, but my love handles will not go away. It’s so discouraging. I abhor them. And lastly, my saddest news (hence the title of my post), I’ve gone down two bra sizes. Yes, two. Two. So before you yell at me for not being excited about my tremendous fitness accomplishment, I must reiterate that I have lost major boobage yet my love handles and arms are not going anywhere soon.

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1. I am 25 and have never been drunk in my life. I do not drink, have not taken any drugs with the exception of medicine (which I never really take as well).

2. I am allergic to calamari. I did not find this out until last year.

3. I can’t fold my tongue into a taco like everyone else in the whole entire world. I believe BOTH your parents have to not be able to do this trait in order for you not to be able to. So sad…..

4. I have a butt fetish. I like to smack people on the butt. Even people I hardly know. I can’t help it. One day, someone will get terribly offended and I’ll have a sexual harassment law suit on my hands.

5. I can cry waterworks on command. It scares the hell out of my friends who insist that there’s no way I’m faking and try to get me to talk about my feelings for an hour.

6. I have clothes in my closet ranging from size 0 to 11. Yes, I have been both those sizes and everything in between.

Wow…..random……I love it!

I was at Target the other day and happened to see my wedding colors popping out at me in the form of a little girl’s Easter dress. My first thought was, “How cute! I would wear this if they had it in my size!” Then, my second more rational thought was, “Hmm…..little girl’s dress…….wedding colors………..cute………cheap…….Hello……..perfect flower girl dress for only $18.99!!!!”

Isn’t it pretty and the material is kind of a knock off my Aria bridesmaid dresses. The Moms all went out to buy them already. If you haven’t check out Target’s Spring dresses yet, give it a try! You might get lucky too.

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I wrote earlier about the awesome experience I had with Cards and Pockets and Paper and More. Well, here is the fruit of my DIY labor: my ghetto invitation mock-up. The inserts are supposeed to be on the same light blue linen paper as the invitation and of course the cuts will be straight (duh!). Also, the fonts on the inserts will be the same boldness. I was up late making this so it’s quite….experimental.

My fiance loved them though so that’s all that matters. Well, for roughly $3.50 for a pocketfold invite, he better love them, me and my hard work on Adobe Illustrator. I’ll post the final invite within the next month, complete with tiny rhinestones in the centers of the 3 flowers on the invitation. I will also post how I made them along with costs at that time. Let me know what you think of them!

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I’ve been working diligently over the past couple of days on scanning pictures for our wedding slideshow. I hate scanning pictures. I hate it! This morning, I spent an hour scanning about 30 pictures (yes I’m slow) and then I couldn’t find them on the computer. About 30 minutes into my frantic teary eyed search I contemplated scanning them again. It was a fleeting thought. This was a matter of principle. It was me versus the computer. I would not relinquish my photos to a machine. It took me another hour to find them but I finally salvaged my pictures. I was both relieved and irritated.

Then, the realization dawned on me that I could scan more than one photo at a time. (8 years of college ladies and gentlemen¢¢â€š¬¦.yes, she can be taught.) This has slightly lessened the pain. It will all be worth it I tell myself. My slideshow is going to be the slideshow to end all slideshows! (Not really….but that’s what I have to tell myself to get through this agony.)

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