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9 days left! Yikes! I went in for my final dress fitting last week. It felt so good to put my dress on, and I fell in love with it again after second-guessing my decision. I questioned my style of dress for my beach wedding but the only thing that matters now is I’m in love.
My dress is Maggie Sottero’s Madeleine in diamond white with a white sash. I got my alterations with Mahtab in Lake Forest, CA. She was very easy to work with and did a great job. I had it shortened and bustled (not shown) for a reasonable price.
I’ve been engaged since September 2004. All I kept hearing from everyone was, “You are so ahead of the game”, “You have so much time to plan”, and “Your wedding is so long from now.” Now, I’m in major panic mode with three weeks left. Since I’ve graduated, I have nothing to do all day except wedding stuff. For some reason far less is being accomplished. My to do list just keeps getting longer and longer, and every time I cross something off, three more things get added. Every time I ask someone to help out, they agree enthusiastically and then enlist my help to the point where I do 90% of it anyway. I asked my FMIL to do the rehearsal dinner invitations. She bought them, told me what colors to use to print them out and then passed out on the office couch. So, I ended up doing them. Read more…
My fiance’s parents live in Northern California. My parents live in Southern California. I’ve lived in So Cal my entire life and I love it; traffic, smog and all. I’m a beach baby and I actually do make my way to the beach every chance I get. The problem is real estate prices. My fiance doesn’t want to live inland (without the lake he has back home) and that leaves us with looking at very overpriced condos. (We actually have a condo inland at the moment, but it was a temporary thing while I went to grad school.) I don’t really want to live in a condo when we start having kids, so that leaves us with pretty much nothing…living on the streets with our cats.
Another problem is there’s a billion eye doctors in So Cal… not much room for me. Sigh. So, after years of convincing on his part, I finally agreed to leave my precious southern California for his hometown. After my graduation 2 weeks ago, we piled all our belongings in the U-HAUL and drove up the 5 freeway to my new home. It hasn’t really hit me yet. I still feel like I’m on vacation….that soon we’ll pack up our suitcases and take a Southwest flight back to our little condo.
This past weekend, we celebrated my friend’s Bachelorette party at Hidden Talents dance studio in Huntington Beach. We had a private pole dancing lesson and it was a blast! Most of the girls are relatively shy but at the end everyone was posing and spinning like there was no tomorrow. I’d definitely recommend it, not only for a bachelorette party but for just a fun night out with the girls. You can also take regular classes just to work out. Maybe have a few sips of wine beforehand if you’re the conservative type. We were told to wear tight fitting clothing and a buttondown shirt that could be removed. Here are some highlights:
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….gets posted on Weddingbee!!! I just got back from my awesome bachelorette party in Vegas. I had such a great time with my girls. We stayed at the Monte Carlo for their cheap rates with an awesome pools (wave pool and river pool along with several others). The first night we partied at Tryst at the Wynn. I kept hearing how awesome it was and how hard it was to get in. I’ve had friends line up for hours and never budge in line. But we were let in immediately….probably due to our coordinating hot pink and black outfits. They really cater to the bachelorette parties and the sexy ladies.
I’ve gotten a couple of comments and emails regarding my DIY Powerpoint maps I made for my invitations. I will guide you step by step through the process so you can create your own.
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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. 
After the Queen Mary was vetoed, we decided to look elsewhere. The next place was Tivoli Terrace in Laguna Beach, CA.
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.
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!
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