drama? what? nooo....

well this week we had just the eensiest bit of drama concerning our envelopes. we had ordered certain ones offline that we really liked, however, turns out they are not coming in until MONDAY. oh heck no.

so last night scott and i ran to a handful of different stores trying to find something that will be just as nice but much much faster. i was really supposed to have these suckers out last Saturday. woops. but glory hallelujah, we found some cute ones. and no one will even know. well...except you now. but these other ones are very cute too. and the late envelopes will be used for very nice thank you cards. i am a fan of thank yous.

today, i ran around after work in pursuit of two things
1) good postage stamps
2) more envelopes!!

it was exhausting let. me. tell. you. first of all i was in holly's car since mine is taking his sabbatical - and the very sad thing about hers is that it no longer pushes out any AC. second, i got off work around 1:20 and had to have her car back to her by 3, so time crunch. i drove to two different staples (got lost once) and the post office.

at the post office the kind young man was very sad that he had such a limited supply of stamps, however, lucky for me, the second of his 2 options were exactly the ones that i had wanted. in a stroke of genius i whipped out an invitation stuffed envelope and handed it to him asking if it would take one or two stamps. he proceeded to MAN-HANDLE my poor invite, bending it a little and squishing it in his thumbs. nothing i couldn't smooth away, but still. the heart palpitations i'm telling you.
i think i am a far distant long way from ever being dubbed a "bride-zilla" but i have to defend this one. scott and i spent a lot of time on those things. this is not just a cutely wrapped water bill buddy! that is a limited edition, scott + heidi wedding invitation!

i think the minor horror on my face must have communicated some sort of physical pain to him because he gently put it back on the counter and said, "uh, two stamps i think...there's uh. there seems to be a bump in it" yes there's a bump! it's twine! who knew that putting a piece of twine in your envelope would cost you an extra 20 cents?

no matter, i am simply irritated because i am sweating through my clothes and need twice the stamps i thought i did. and my one invitation now needs therapy. it's ok.

the post office ended up actually being the only productive part of the frantic outing since neither of the two staples i went to carried those same envelopes. i think scott's going to stop at one more before he comes over though, so i'm crossing my fingers.

sigh, on the bright side, i got 30 of them out today and my socal bridal shower invitations as well! woot.

i was just about to post the said bridal shower invitations when i realized that the girls have not gotten them yet and in the off chance that someone looks at this, that might ruin the fun.
so this is all i'll post for now:




not as exciting in a picture, i'll have to say.




more pictures next week when i'm sure they've all been delivered. but i was quite happy with how they turned out.

in any case, this rambling needs to end. i need to prep more invites in expectation of more envelopes!

onward and upward!

let the race begin!

that's kind of what i feel like now. it is ... wait let me grab my calendar ... 57 days till the wedding. sorry, you can't tell the time lapse there, but i got a little distracted and started filling in my calendar with other things i had forgotten. so that "wait let me grab my calendar" was really like 20 minutes of waiting.

my calendar is filling up so fast, weekends are fleeing like it's their last hope, i have lists of things i need to get done or nail down by certain dates ~ most important of which are the invitations.
scott texted me this morning and let me know that karrie is dropping them off at the office today so i have some serious ants in mah pants to see them, hold them, play with them, and package them nicely.

UNfortunately and yet, very fortunately at the same time, we had to order our envelopes through another website that we didn't really expect to do. unfortunate because they will not come until monday. cryyying. but fortunately because we really like the envelopes that we're getting now. i think they will be perfect. ahh. it will be ok, we'll get them out early next week and everything will be a-ok.

last thing before i go hit that to do list for the weekend - scott and i worked on our wedding website last night. it is awwwesome. we make one freaking good team. we did steal some graphics from another genius (thanks ben) but with the limited time that we have, we can't make everything ourselves :}

can't wait for you guys to see it. should be up around monday or tuesday. woot woot.

alrighty, time to hit the planning!!

ps. this picture makes me really happy:



cute pic from 100lc

weekend anyone?

i believe we are now at 65 days and counting. holy guacamole. i mean really now. everybody just hang on a second.

well, i do not have work today or tomorrow so i am dedicating myself to Getting Things Done.
in the spirit of such an endeavor, i have begun making lists. i do love a good list. i made sure to balance some things out (fun/no fun at all, time consuming/i could do it with my toes, running around/sitting and trying to 'focus'...etc...)
despite said list, my mind is still running in tight little circles. i am sitting on the couch, looking around at my menagerie of wedding related papers, notebooks (i also love a good note book), seating charts, and how-to-books, and it is increasingly difficult for me to focus on just one thing at a time rather than jump into creating This, and then wait, no, i was going to make a budget for This, oh hang on, wasn't i in the middle of mapping out the ceremony? no, i was definitely researching marriage licenses.

OK.

here's the game plan: i am going to get off here, because this is really not making any of my little To Do boxes fill up with check marks. sipping coffee and browsing my favorite blogs is not (despite common belief) getting me much of anywhere. but first, i WILL share one of my to do-s with you all. i need to pick a style of cake that i would like to show holly. on my cute list it says that i need to pick four pictures to show her. alright. let's pick.




he's cute huh?
so simple, but really just so classy.



now she is lovely. i really am not all about the traditional cake
but, i do like this very simplified version of it.



now hear me out. i adore the idea of maybe three little square fellows like this
all on different floating tiers. a little like this:



but not ugly. just artsy. theeen, have cupcakes around? i do like cupcakes.
cupcakes could potentially be scattered or on something like this:



just a thought.

ok, moving on with the cakers~

right along with that square idea is this



something about her makes me go 'ahhhh'

or she is nice also!



i appreciate the texture on it. makes it interesting without too much hoo-ha.



and i think we can conclude that i like the simple look. simple and artistic and i am a happy duck.

scott has tried to be a help in this decision but to little avail. i don't think he cares a whole whole lot about it, which is ok. when i do ask for a yes or no, he very kindly will let me know what he thinks :]

alright, i need to get cracking on other things on the list now. if anyone has an opinion or a favorite regarding the cakin matter, please speak up!

we're thinking red velvet cake by the by. not sure if that's all that relevant to the look of the outside, but i suppose it lets you know that we can't do marzipan smooth finishes. which is a-ok with me.

alright, alright! i'm leaving.
tschuss!

it's been a while

my apologies for slacking a little :]
74 days until the wedding! and so much to be done. there will be plenty of opportunities to update within these next two months. i don't doubt that.

i have been working on some projects and have some more scheming and brewing going down. muahaha. but i can't tell you yet. i don't want to spoil everything. and although it is so hard for me to keep fun secrets, i think the end results will seal my lips well enough.

but i do have to tell you that our invitation packets are coming along be-a-utifully.

in other news - scott and i spent some of our glorious long weekend up in laguna with good friends and we happened to have a chance to check out a few places for the beginning of the honeymoon. i would say the top two in the running are the montage and casa laguna. and i think we might be leaning more towards casa laguna. it's a little more personal, and would be way fun to come back to years from now on an anniversary.

check it out



ok, front - cute




award winning breakfast that you may eat at any one of their patio tables located throughout their secret garden-like grounds. likin it.



the rooms - soo nice.



how could you refuse with a room like this??



do you see my secret garden analogy?


so i guess when i say that i'm leaning, maybe i really mean that i really want to stay at THIS place and i'm not even going to bother posting pictures of the montage.

the montage is like, where james bond would stay. but we're more interesting and personable than james bond. and we have more unique names too. not to mention we're less skanky. well the new james bond was pretty awesome...but not the point.
besides when i'm 35, 45 and 55 i don't want to go back to the hotel that sean connery stayed at in goldfinger. i want to go somewhere unique and fun.

well enough chit chatting. i have things to do! colds to get over! ncis episodes to watch!

xoxo