thank you cards (sneak peak)

Call me crazy! But I just finished the thank you cards for the wedding. Well for after the wedding. They came out cute, a little embossing can go a long way (thanks for your help Tia). I even stamped our return addresses on the envelopes! Another thing to cross off the to do list. It sure feels good to do that.

the champion cupcake

Yesterdays cupcake tasting extravaganza was so delightful! We tasted cupcakes from Long Beach to LA and we found "the place". The cupcakes are moist, light and flavorful, the frosting melts in your mouth. We tried the pretentious and the mediocre and we found the gem we were looking for. Yah for Miss Priss cupcakes!! I will provide a more detailed rundown of the other places we visited in my next post. I just wanted to share the news.

photos are fun!

After a weekend of depressing and agonizing wedding dress shopping. (yes wedding dresses are much more hideous in real life than on the computer screen). We booked our photographer (Lori Anderson Photo) and got our engagement photos back! yah! I am excited to have something accomplished.

I am beginning to wonder though, what is wrong with me? Wedding planning is not the most exciting thing I have ever done, and shopping for that little white dress? I would much rather be shopping for any other dress. Like the cute mustard one I bought today at anthroplogie.

garland and banners

I am currently super obsessed with the idea of garland and banners. Home made, of course. I have a word doc. full of pictures and ideas. Where do you start, and where do you edit!?Image and how to found on

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center pieces, go!

over the weekend i went to a plant sale in fullerton. i bought a handful of succulents, and some of them came in really cute, vintage looking pots. these are part one of the centerpiece project. i am thinking about mixing them with old, vintage looking books, and somehow working records into the mix. i just do not want to overdo anything. i want to keep it simple. the book idea is perfect though, because when i make the garland, banner things i have i mind, i am thinking about using old dictionaries and books.
i think its hard for me to keep to one central theme. the ideal theme is vintage meets modern. i being the one whose into vintage, matt into modern. i just want to make sure that it represents both of us, hence the records for matt (even though they are not really modern, unless you are a hipster and like records because its cool to like records).