Yearly Archives: 2015

The invitations, the shower, the bachelorette party and the flower mart shopping…now we’re just waiting to get the official photos from her wedding to talk all about her pretty day and all the special Pinterest-ready details she put together. Stay tuned for just a couple more weeks!  

Rob and I have tickets for the annual Parks Alliance Party for the Parks gala in a couple weeks. It’s a fantastic organization that helps support volunteers and natural areas across the city. This year, the party will be held at the Palace of the Fine Arts, a gorgeous 100-year old temple and lake that was constructed for…

There always seems to be one week a year here in California where everyone you know is off to Hawaii. Margaret leaves for her honeymoon shortly, Jackie is headed over for a family reunion and a handful more friends are checking in at the airport on Facebook as I write. I hardly can justify being…

My dear friend Margaret is married off! What a wonderful wedding she had in San Luis Obispo last weekend. After a busy week of last minute trips to Britex for ribbon and Amazon orders for all the tiny details we’d forgotten, I headed to the San Francisco Flower Mart early Friday morning. There’s been a wholesale flower…

I’ve thrown dozens of bridal showers, a handful of weddings and even more baby showers but, by chance, had never hosted a bachelorette party until Margaret’s last weekend! I was nervous to put together something really fun, budget-friendly and very San Francisco for the group of fairly non-party-animal types in our mid 30’s. So Saturday night, we headed out…

You may have been noticing some issues with EmilyStyle.com being unavailable ever since we migrated to the new platform in June. The hosting service we set-up, Bluehost, has been the WORST to work with and we’re migrating to a new hosting service this week. Hang in there for a few more days!

We had a such a great time at Margaret’s spa night bachelorette party over the weekend! I’ll be sharing all the details of the event – from our sunset session at Nob Hill Spa to dancing up a storm at the Tonga Room. But, first! Let’s take a closer look at the party favors for this elegant evening.…

As much as I like to prepare and cook ahead, sometimes a dinner party creeps up on me. I had invited Lauren and Octavia over for dinner on Thursday and then proceeded to get super busy with client work all week. By the time 5:00 rolled around, I had done absolutely zero to prepare for guests…

Wedding season is just heating up here in California, where late summer and early fall weather tends to be nicer than June. And, with it, time to consider buying wedding presents. I think if I had a different job than running my current company, I would be a registry consultant at Gump’s in downtown San…

A few months ago, Rob took on a volunteer role as the new community organizer for a group called SFUR, promoting trail riding in San Francisco. It has been fun watching him build a network of supporters through pancake breakfasts, speaking at City Hall and trail work events. He asked me to help host a dinner party…