Yearly Archives: 2008

Sara over at 2000 Dollar Wedding had all sorts of fun and affordable plans for her big day. I’m planning to use her idea about creating a flickr group for your guests to submit photos after the wedding. Personally, I feel that there’s a wee bit too much photography at some weddings. The guests are…

The Ladies Activity Club was hosted last night by Yvonne and her sister at my apartment. For our activity this month, we decorated bowls and glasses first and then experimented with molecular gastronomy. FoodOur hosts prepared a feast of cupcakes with fondant flowers, meatballs, colorful sushi, button cookies and buffalo wing bites. DrinksOrangina, soda and…

Packing for the honeymoon started last weekend. We’re visiting so many climates over 29 days, it’s hard to figure out what not to take! My friend Margaret pulled this article out of an old Domino magazine as inspiration for me. Love the striped shirt, flat boots and aviator glasses. Here’s what else is on my…

A caution to other brides-to-be. As well as you plan and as strictly you budget, the last few weeks of wedding countdown are going to be expensive. Consider it “closing costs” on your marriage! With more guests than expected, our catering agreement is up by a grand. Costco doesn’t carry polariod film anymore so we’re…

Over the past few years, I’ve received so may questions about what to wear to weddings. And over the past few weeks, I’ve had even more from our wedding guests. So let’s do this thing! Here’s my opinion on what to wear to every sort of wedding: Brunch wedding – This includes lunch weddings too.…

The escort cards came out well! The little envelopes from PaperSource are pretty darling. Although, if you’re planning to use them you should know that they don’t lay flat when stuffed with the business card sized paper and left unsealed. You’ll either have to seal them (tricky to get them open again) or get stickers.…

What a weekend! For a few days that I had planned to devote to the last wedding chores, we certainly managed to pack in some excitement. On Friday night, we rode our bike home from work, ate dinner and took the car over to Twin Peaks to see our friend perform with the San Francisco…

It has been overcast and foggy all week. Which I actually love; it translates to boots, tights, scarves and wool sweaters. But it isn’t the best wedding weather. Luckily, the weather report for next weekend predicts Saturday in Sausalito as the one bright, sunny and warm day. Knocking on wood as I type this…

When going through my floral order for next week, I went on a bit of a Clematis tangent. These vine flowers are going to be a party of my bouquet along with garden roses and jasmine. They’re so gorgeous and so very “bridal.” Martha has a bouquet design that’s all clematis and would be perfect…

Another one of my favorite registry items arrived last night. This 9″ pewter basket is from Match (browse around their site for a bit, they have some great photos.) It’s a lovely, simple thing that I can see using for decades to come. The gift was from “anonymous,” which I think will turn out to…