I decided to check the weather today and I really wish I hadn’t. This little forecast caused me to produce some tears…

Really? In LA? But we’re having an outdoor ceremony, so it can’t!
I’m breathing through it…
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we aren’t having a typical wedding band at our reception. we’re having these guys…

because that’s the way, uh huh, uh huh, we like it, uh huh, uh huh.

don’t stop ’til you get enough. let’s groove!
yep.
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i know, i’ve left you hanging in the wedding planning updates. i have been extremely busy with work since january, so my wedding planning has been happening, but there has been very little extra time to write about it here. here i go now…

all these images are little hints, but not the “real thing”…

i have remained quite calm over the past several months, even receiving several comments to the effect of “you don’t seem like a bride so close to her wedding. you’re so calm”. yes, i was ~ until this past weekend…

i had two (two!) make-up trials, with two (two!) different make-up artists and neither of them got me at all. my eyes were lined dark in black eyeliner and one gal even tried to put what i would call glam-rock fake eyelashes on me that seemed a mile long. i mean, seriously, does this even look like me? i think i look like i’m a man in drag, but you decide…

not really for me, a gal who hardly ever wears any make-up at all. and i told her “natural”. yikes.

then i arrived home to my guy trying on his tux (so handsome!) and he said “whoa! babe – that’s a lot of eye make-up”. that is not exactly the response one hopes for from their groom on wedding day. meltdown begins…

*but* i am back on track now because my dear friend liz came to the rescue offering her local wedding hair and make-up salon.

18 days, sanity back in check. yippee and thank you, mrs. robertson, because, call me crazy, but i’d like to look pretty on my wedding day.
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i read in an article about addressing wedding invitations that i would need about three pens. luckily i have my favorite pen that takes re-fills, so i didn’t have to buy any special pen, but i was ready with extra inks.

well, the wedding invitations are all addressed, sealed, stamped and ready for the post office…and it only took me one pen that isn’t even running out. yay me!

here’s our wedding invitation box…

(no sneak peak of the invitation, sorry, you’ll just have to wait).

and did i mention it is now 67 days until our wedding?
whoa-whoa-whoa. i swear the time is speeding up just to annoy me. (smile)
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this is where we are hoping to go for our honeymoon. moorea, french polynesia.

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i would like to move to an overwater bungalow.

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i heard they bring you breakfast in a canoe. and that water! yum. i want to go to here.

yes, please.
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