GLOVES!

I just bought these beauties on Etsy from Cassie's Attic. I did a search for "crocheted wedding gloves" in the vintage section and ba-boom! Done!

My fingers are longer than the average 1940s woman, though, so hopefully they'll work out....

My soon-to-be-sister-in-law wore lovely crocheted gloves to her Tokyo wedding and I remembered how sweet they are. They get at the pretty, vintage, bride-ey look without being hot (temperature-wise) or OTT.

Registries

So Pip and I did a couple of registries... one at William Ashleys for dishes, cutlery, teapots, etc. and one at the Bay for sheets and pots and pans and things.

I kinda thought it would be fun to do this... like shopping with other peoples' money, but it was kinda icky and un-fun. Icky because we're basically telling people to buy us stuff, and un-fun because it's hard to get excited about towels (cream or white?) and pots and pans, especially when the salespeople were completely NUTS.

I kept thinking "I wish I could just register at IKEA" since they have cuter and more useful stuff and it's so very reasonable.  But they don't do registries.  For instance, I'd love to get a white slipcover for our currently red corduroy couch.  But whateves... it's not about that, right? 

une robe pour ma soeur

Yay!!! Another thing accomplished! My matron of honour/sister now has a dress. It is sooooo cute on her. Probably because she is soooooo cute!

Still alive, still getting married

So as of today it is officially TWO WHOLE MONTHS since I've posted. I've talked to a lot of brides, and I hear that a phase of wedding-overload-don't-show-me-another-bloody-centerpiece-or-clutch-or-ANYTHING is completely normal, and I think I just went through mine.

These days there is just so much information out there for us brides to be. It's fantastic! I don't have to buy those frou-frouey magazines (except Martha, always) that make me feel sick to my stomach because there are so many hip, crafty people out there who are free and easy with their wonderful ideas. On the other hand, though, is the information overload. As a librarian, I'm careful to avoid going overboard with my patrons ("if you want to find everything you have to search five gazillion places, but for your little assignment you can just tip tap type and you're done").

Like the doctor who ignores her symptoms, I ignored mine. I flew through the wedding feeds in my Google Reader in favor of knitting, design, travel... and weeks and months went by without anything being ticked off our loooooonnng list of to-dos from The Knot. UGH. But now we're slowly accomplishing things. We know where we're going to have our rehearsal dinner, we know where we're getting our cakes and things from, I know what I'm wearing, I know what I'm doing with my hair... phew!

So, some details in no particular order:

Our venue, the Gladstone Hotel, was featured this week on some of my favorite blogs: Design*Sponge, and poppytalk.

I'm working with the lovely Chelsea of ohmydeer on something pretty for my hair.  Chelsea and talented hubby Tec had, I think, my favorite. wedding. ever.  Although, now that I think about it, Lena Corwin's is right up there too...

Back to more regular posting as of riiiight..... NOW!

HUN-E-MOON!

So we're banging along now, booking stuff, planning stuff, waiting for stuff, talking about stuff... feelin' good.

Last weekend Pip and I sat down and thought of all the places we wanted to go, discussed merits and drawbacks, checked prices of things, and then booked flights to Stockholm!

We found travel.yahoo.com to be really useful as it checks all sorts of sites (including other aggregators) and the prices it cites include all those crazy taxes. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying taxes, but certain airport taxes are just crazy.  For example, a flight to the UK was in the ballpark of $200 plus $400 tax?!?! That's not reasonable at all.

We're looking to have a good balance of Stockholm city excitement and somewhere else in Sweden country relaxation.  Do some hiking, eat some good food, sleep in, chill, experience some culture, try out a new language... a nice laid back holiday.  So I'm thinking, a good gift for someone to give us would be this very classic rucksack from L.L. Bean.

Not that it's about the presents, just I know people want to get us things, and this is something I would like and that would be useful :)

Len and Pip take a 180

So a week ago our initial choice for the venue, the Ward's Island Association Clubhouse, told us that they'd be raising their prices for next year by 80%. Hmm. Kinda took the fun out of it. A few tears, a few beers, and some frantic googling later.... we're all booked in at a fantastic new venue:
We've signed stuff, we've paid the deposit, we're happy, we're incredulous, we're GETTING MARRIED!!!! I can't tell you what a relief it is to just have this booked, and how happy it makes me to know that we have a place and a caterer let alone how freaking cool the place is.

We've booked the ballroom, which means we've got the cafe and the concert-ey space at the back. There's exposed brick, heritage, a raucous sound system, gorgeous restored wood floors, hep-cats around every corner. Have I mentioned how happy I am? The bones are so gorgeous that we don't need to do much by way of decorating. Some candles, some casual floral arrangements, but nothing ostentatious is necessary. Huzzah! Here are some pics from their site. See how gorgeous?


Happy! So now things are happening. Still 7 months to go...

don't call this a comeback

i have been asked to write another entry for this wedding blog as the staggering toll of updates is wearing Elena down. i thought i'd give everyone a break this week. i will not be asking you to decide between Fendi leather banana or Pedro Garcia Sonia flats. clearly a trick question and, let's be honest, we all have to make so many decisions in our lives it's not fair to dump ours on you...or is it?

a) if you think it's fair and
b) if you think you've got enough on your plate

i thought instead i would tell you about how i'm feeling about the wedding: um...great *shrug*. really, everything's going really well. we have china picked out, a photographer, Elena's dress, a location, invitations being made, flowers. it's coming along nicely. only real snags so far are the caterer's not really pulling through for us (which i am getting over). and that someone read my mind and stole my idea for our entrance / first dance. pay attention to the dance when they land and in particular his first little solo dance. hello?! i do that ALL the time!



also please support my dad in his mustache growing competition for men's depression and prostate cancer awareness...



until next time,
pip