Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
Maybe Tokyo isn’t my hometown, but it sure feels like it. Remember when I lived there? That was pretty weird. I’m actually homesick for Tokyo—the lights, the quirkiness, the energy. Japan has four seasons, and in the winter in Tokyo it gets so cold it snows just a bit. Tokyo is most beautiful during the cherry blossom season in late March through early April, or when the leaves change color during fall (known as “koyo“). Avoid summer as it is unbearably hot and humid, and September is the rainy season and prone to typhoons.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
I’ve lost my Etsy virginity. After flip-flopping about how we’d make our invites, we’ve finally decided to have an Etsy seller design and print them off!
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
We are super busy all the livelong day. It’s hard to get in a free weekend that isn’t devoted to packing or moving details. Next month will be even worse! But our invitation deadline is looming, and we need to get on it.
As I explained here, I thought our best option would be to pick out some pre-made invitations and just print our info onto them. I visited Tokyu Hands tonight, and it turns out I was wrong, wrong, wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong.
What’s Tokyu Hands? It’s a department store like Macy’s, but it’s a little more comprehensive, with no clothes (if you can imagine that!). First, I started out on the fifth floor, which the floor guide told me was stationery. Really, it turned out to be office supplies, although they had a small stationery offering.
Kuroneko no gigi and Totoro stamps! We would love to find a way to incorporate them into our invites, but only the Japanophiles would understand.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
“Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?”
I’ve been falling in love with everything lately. And every once and a while, I like to do a wedding-porn dump on you, hive. Here is what’s been lurking in my inspiration folder. (Oh come on, you keep one too, don’t you?)
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
I originally posted about gowns here.
Recently, Mrs. Lab posted about her eBay find; she found a replica Jim Hjelm dress for $699.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
We don’t have Etsy here. We don’t have fancy crafting stores like Michael’s, Paper Source, or even anything like a Target here.
For a country that is known for it’s efficiency, convenience, and having everything-under-the-sun (love cups anyone?), this makes it hard to do our invitations.
Invitations are the one thing that we need to do from over here, though, so we are wiggin’ about them. The way we see it, we have three options:
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
Let’s set the way-back machine for June: we were knee-deep in wedding planning but still had to tackle Mr. G.’s green card. Finally, the day had come for our interview at the U.S. Embassy…
It is fist pumps all around here today! Fist pumps, slammin’ a Bud, and blasting Party in the USA! Only me, of course. Mr. Glasses is still English, despite being the proud owner of a new green card.
We were approved today after four months of frustration, mountains of paperwork, quite a lot of money, and two interviews. It feels so good. Like a huge weight off my chest. Honestly, wedding planning is stressful enough, but at least we have control over those plans. It was so surreal to sit in that crowded lobby, waiting to hear if we would be approved to enter America—my own home country. Everyone was really nice, though, and it all went smoothly this time around.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
I feel like our ideas are clear enough that I can finally make one of these.
Inspiration board number one: RED + WHITE + PINK + BLACK + CHERRY BLOSSOM THEME + BACKYARD WEDDING
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
As I’ve mentioned in the past, our wedding is virtually flowerless, but my mom is a florist and her feelings would be hurt if she wasn’t able to scrounge up a couple of arrangements for us.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
Our save the dates were DIY. Our printer is not our friend. That’s why our STDs took 345985340 hours to finish.
First, we HAND CUT every single one. Homeboy at Kinko’s didn’t do a great job aligning things, so the lines on the back of the card didn’t match up with the picture on the front and there were two images on each A4 sheet that also didn’t align. Thanks, bro.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
We went to Daiso and got quite the haul. Daiso is a magical place where everything is 100 yen. That’s more than your weakling American dollar. 
Just kidding! It’s the equivalent of a 99-cent store.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
Tents are dope. They create a certain ambiance that can really focus the feel of a reception. They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and there are so many things that can be done with them. I’ve got mad respect for anyone that can take the time to get creative and decorate the space a tent provides.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
Our save the dates have been printed! We got off our butts and went to Kinko’s today. We figured they’d be the most English-friendly printing solution. We were wrong. We had a terrible experience gettin’ ’em done.
Here it goes. We wanted simple save the dates. No fuss, no muss postcards to save on paper and postage. We used an image from our e-pics and tried to do something fancy with it and gave up. We saved the image that we wanted to use onto Mr. G’s awesome Optimus Prime memory stick and quickly typed up the back of the postcards. I had seen Mrs. Yorkie’s save the dates and really liked them, so we, uhhhhhhh, pretty much copied them.
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA
Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher
Engagement Date: September 2008
Wedding Date: October 2010
Venue: Parents' backyard
About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
Sick of our e-pics yet? I’ve got the last of our Tokyo goodies here. We took to the city in these.
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Kuroneko no gigi and Totoro stamps! We would love to find a way to incorporate them into our invites, but only the Japanophiles would understand.
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