the sunday wedding

we (matt, sandy and me) are taking a trip to palm springs in like half an hour. we are going to the sunday wedding put on by flashdance. check out the website, they are group of super talented, creative people. cant wait to tell you all about it!

the dress search

i want this dress!!! i found it on rock'n roll bride. i have looked at a ton of online sites for dresses and i have not even seen one that i would want to wear, or spend my money on. there are really a lot of frightening wedding dresses out there. oh how i can wait to start my search.

goals

i think one thing that one has to keep in mind while planning is what they want the whole wedding to be or feel like, and to not get overwhelmed by what is expected. and that is not easy. we want a wedding that we built, with little pieces of our personalities combined to make one great, memorable party with a fun/cutesy vibe. a wedding is a celebration of love. (that sounds very hippy-ish, but i am pretty sure its true). its not about how much money you spend, or what designer made your dress ect, ect, ect. speaking of what a wedding is, i think this invitation is too cute, from evapaul
on etsy. we are currently playing with the idea of making an invitation that looks like a concert poster. i am supposing we are going to make another attempt at screen printing. but these could be plan b!

visiting the location

some think i made a crazy choice by picking a location that i had never been to. the choice was made both from frustration and because i knew that it did not really matter where we got married. we were going to make it great no matter what. i really wanted to get married at the ace hotel in palm springs, that place is awesome, but i also do not want to be broke after this. after all, it is just one day. so we opted to move the wedding almost a year sooner and pick a smaller more affordable venue.
we chose the newland barn in huntington beach. m's step sister had her reception there and he had gone, so at least he had been there. em and i paid the location a visit last week. its cute, its next door to a trader joes, that is kind of weird, but i can deal with it, and if we run out of something we can walk on over and pick it up! the one thing that i realized when i saw the location though, is that i have soooo much work to do! and the thought of actually walking down an isle (also known as a 3 foot gap between chairs) seems unreal to me. maybe i should have opted for vegas after all!
they have a gazebo on location, but there is no way i am getting married in front of a gazebo, that is so not me, so i an choosing the spot across from the gazebo, in front of the little water tower looking thing. what do you think? i think that its the right move.

save the date postcards

the making of our save the date post cards was trying. we went for the postcard option to save on paper. we took a screen printing class at bluerooster art supply in l.a. which equipped us with basic screen printing knowledge. though through lots of trial and error and we made them, and to my surprise they came out great!

we are getting married!

we are getting married in five months! this is our way of documenting the making of our big day. maybe this way we will remember to enjoy it, and to have fun with it, instead of stressing over to do lists, expectations, and ridiculously priced wedding gowns! (i know matt is really stressed about finding a dress).
(the lovely picture above was taken by

lori anderson