Wedding Blog

I know it’s a bit pathetic to post about something so miniscule, but it was a huge relief to start checking things off of my list!

A few weeks ago, I was back home, escaping school. So we decided to go get our marriage license!
You can’t bring cameras into any of the AZ courthouses, so we just took a picture of ourselves at my house. When…

So I’ve got to warn you - this post contains some pretty downright frightening picture of me. Now, I’m not saying that I’m some kind of beauty queen, because I’m not - but I look very much not like myself in these pictures. Really. So… uhhhhh, don’t judge me? I could be the poster child for what NOT to do for your wedding makeup in…

Because that’s how I roll. You know - wet T-shirts, body shots, throwing dolla-billz at half-nekkid men, not to mention all of the swinging around poles and dancing on bars while sipping on some boozy cocktails.

Uhm, except that I AM A TOTAL GRANDMA. My “wild and crazy” bachelorette actually consisted of dinner and some dessert with 3 of my cousins and a friend in SF.…

We had our second engagement shoot while we were in San Francisco for Cousin Ramen’s August wedding. Sister Ramen has a natural eye for photography, so we borrowed our uncle’s SLR and took some photos around the Academy of Science and the DeYoung Museum. It was a super cold August day, but we braved the frigid San Franciscan weather and got some amazing shots! Cousin Fishcake…

AKA, the envelope details…

Here are what our pretty light blue envelopes look like all nekkid. So… this story is about my first epic fail, which could have been disastrous, but ended well.

With ~ 210 invitations going out, you can imagine the importance of keeping track of RSVP cards!

To do so, I invested in the coolest little pen ever - the blacklight/secret agent pen!!! I wanted to keep the RSVP cards looking nice. I also wanted to avoid guests feeling like they were “ranked lower” just because of their #. So, I went with the spy pen.…

So, since I’m starting to get RSVPs back… this means I can finally reveal our invitations to the hive!!! Hooray! Yes, our babies have all left home…

To start with, we HAD to have letterpress. We made sure we budgeted enough for this - and when our budget looked a little tight, Mr. Ramen told me to just go for it, since it’s the one paper…

Eh. That was my last attempt at a funny title. So this post will be about the Ramen engagement shoot numero uno. That’s right, we’ve had more than 1. Let me explain.

Remember our photographers? The globe-trotting ones who are insanely busy? Well, since we had this whole long-distance relationship with them, we decided to opt for a day-after shoot instead of an engagement session. This…

I know, I know, I’ve been a bad bee. I put off blogging to focus on my last couple of exams/projects for school… and then my laptop DIED. It was terrible - but one of my AWESOME classmates was able to save allllllll of my files/photos/wedding stuff! Whew! I was thisclose to losing EVERYTHING. But now I’m back - on my new baby netbook (my…

Recently I’ve been overwhelmed by an outpouring of love and kindness from different people: family, friends, and even strangers! In the midst of a lot of stress and anxiety, these little bits of encouragement and kindness have meant the world to me and have been an overwhelming reminder that God is soooo good to me.

Over the summer I got an unexpected wedding invite from an old college friend; being the lover of weddings that I am, I coerced Mr. Ramen to attend YET ANOTHER wedding of someone he didn’t know.

My friend’s then-fiancee, now wife, is Indian; probably 95% of the weddings I’ve been to have been Chinese/Asian weddings, and I’ve never had the privilege of going to an Indian…

Remember that little Manzanita forest I have going on back home? Yes… the nekkid branches, that’s right. I promised to tell you how we decided to decorate the branches, right? Well…

We’re approximately 50% decided on what to do with them.

And that 50% would be to make a little army of hanging votives. If you remember, I was a bit disgruntled at the beginning since we…

Our invites are finished being pressed!!!

Yes, I am proficient with MS Paint. And this is just 1/2 of one of the stacks I received… sigh. LOVE THEM!

I just got our envelopes over the weekend so I could start addressing them (by hand… more on that little bit of insanity/epic fail another day…), and a tiny little part of our invitation suite - the rest will…

Goccoed Napkins. Beautiful, creative, affordable, cohesive, fun, quirky, a bit sexy? Yes. I’ve been drooling over the idea of making these cute little suckers for quite some time... so... I did it!

I would definitely recommend doing a little Google image research for inspiration - there are a TON of really sweet designs and fun ideas out there! Here’s a few that I came across...

I am a pessimist. In every scenario, I almost always imagine the worst thing that could possibly happen. For instance, I’ve lately been obsessed with the fear of tripping over my dress and FALLING DOWN the stairs during the recessional. I visualize it happening probably once a day... (I think I once learned that you start to go crazy when you are sleep deprived...).