Dear impatient/curious/worried loved ones,
The invites are coming. I PROMISE! We had hoped to get them out this past week but zpao had a crazy work week and I was feeling under the weather but I assure you...they are being assembled as I type! As I type? How is that possible, you ask? Invite elves. We hired some. They're extremely efficient.
Totally kidding. The truth is, I put zpao to work. I'm actually camped out in a Starbucks near Sacramento waiting for a wedding to wrap up so I can load up our vintage rentals and take them back to San Francisco. Here's to hoping zpao makes lots of progress while I'm gone! (zpao - if you're reading this GET BACK TO WORK! no really, peeps are waiting...)
In other news, we hired a videographer! We'd been toying with the idea for a while and finally decided that not having video from our wedding would lead to lots of post-wedding regret. Photos are great but I want to be able to watch and hear our ceremony, toasts, etc. over and over again. I'm really excited to be working with Seaglass Cinema. You can see some of their work here and here. We think they're pretty rad!
Ok, my eyes are closing. I think it might be time for a nap in the back of the Uhaul van. Yes, I know, my life is super glamorous ;)
xo,
zar
July 15, 2011
July 5, 2011
progress + our one year engagement anniversary
This past Sunday zpao and I celebrated one whole year of being engaged. Exciting, huh?! A whole year of being engaged - that must mean the wedding is all planned, right? Ha. I wish.
We didn't do anything fancy to celebrate but the day was awesome and super productive. We slept in (which so rarely happens these days), had brunch at our favorite spot, did some wedding invite + paper shopping at Paper Source (most awesome store ever!), hung out in the park, went shopping for wine for the wedding, ate pizza, watched way too many episodes of Arrested Development (can someone please explain to me why that show got cancelled?!?!), oh, and then I stayed up until 5:30am totally redesigning our wedding invitation for the millionth time.
But you know what? Progress has been made! The invite is finished and ready to be sent to the printers (HALLELUJAH!) and the crafty-DIY part of the invite is well underway (hint: it involves a lot of hand-made confetti which takes hours upon hours to make. These ideas always sound fabulous prior to actually starting the project!) For those of you who haven't heard about the invite design woes that led to me hanging out with my good friend Adobe Illustrator at 5:30am here's the scoop: We were originally working with a graphic designer on some custom invites but the graphic designer turned out to be extremely unprofessional (no responses to e-mails for weeks at a time - yeah, no bueno) so we decided to part ways with miss unprofessional about two weeks ago. Since then, I've been spending a lot of time brainstorming and designing to come up with our own custom invite. After many drafts and revisions we finally came up with something we are head over heels in love with and just in the nick of time because we need to get these babies in the mail ASAP. So now it's on to the DIY portion of the invite. Here's a sneak peek:
All I can say is - YAY! It's going to be awesome and of course I will post pictures when they are finished and mailed!
Additional progress made this weekend?
1. three out of the five wines we will be serving at the wedding have been chosen (a. I hope you all like pinot noir, cab and sauvignon blanc and b. our fridge/kitchen is jam packed with open and unopened bottles of wine - pretty sure we look like alcoholics)
2. my wedding shoes are purchased. (remember those cute kate spade shoes I posted a while back with the gold bow? YES!)
3. a lot of the wedding paper has been designed or is well on it's way to being completed (invite, details card, ceremony program, escort cards, etc.)
4. table linens/napkins picked out
With only 75 days left until the wedding we need more productive weekends like this....errrr....every weekend ;)
xo,
zar
We didn't do anything fancy to celebrate but the day was awesome and super productive. We slept in (which so rarely happens these days), had brunch at our favorite spot, did some wedding invite + paper shopping at Paper Source (most awesome store ever!), hung out in the park, went shopping for wine for the wedding, ate pizza, watched way too many episodes of Arrested Development (can someone please explain to me why that show got cancelled?!?!), oh, and then I stayed up until 5:30am totally redesigning our wedding invitation for the millionth time.
But you know what? Progress has been made! The invite is finished and ready to be sent to the printers (HALLELUJAH!) and the crafty-DIY part of the invite is well underway (hint: it involves a lot of hand-made confetti which takes hours upon hours to make. These ideas always sound fabulous prior to actually starting the project!) For those of you who haven't heard about the invite design woes that led to me hanging out with my good friend Adobe Illustrator at 5:30am here's the scoop: We were originally working with a graphic designer on some custom invites but the graphic designer turned out to be extremely unprofessional (no responses to e-mails for weeks at a time - yeah, no bueno) so we decided to part ways with miss unprofessional about two weeks ago. Since then, I've been spending a lot of time brainstorming and designing to come up with our own custom invite. After many drafts and revisions we finally came up with something we are head over heels in love with and just in the nick of time because we need to get these babies in the mail ASAP. So now it's on to the DIY portion of the invite. Here's a sneak peek:
All I can say is - YAY! It's going to be awesome and of course I will post pictures when they are finished and mailed!
Additional progress made this weekend?
1. three out of the five wines we will be serving at the wedding have been chosen (a. I hope you all like pinot noir, cab and sauvignon blanc and b. our fridge/kitchen is jam packed with open and unopened bottles of wine - pretty sure we look like alcoholics)
2. my wedding shoes are purchased. (remember those cute kate spade shoes I posted a while back with the gold bow? YES!)
3. a lot of the wedding paper has been designed or is well on it's way to being completed (invite, details card, ceremony program, escort cards, etc.)
4. table linens/napkins picked out
With only 75 days left until the wedding we need more productive weekends like this....errrr....every weekend ;)
xo,
zar
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