The Long and Winding Road

Much has happened in the past 4 months. We moved in with my future in-laws to save money (not nearly as bad as it sounds), we both picked up new hobbies (him: model-making for profit, me: we'll get to that in a moment), and we FINALLY took the plunge and booked a wedding location. I know for most people the actually getting married is the part to be proud of, but for me, committing to spend $10,000 on 8 hours is way, way harder.

We're getting married at the Sausalito Presbyterian Church. Neither of us are Presbyterian, or very religious for that matter, but they're happy to do weddings of all faiths so we're in. And its sooo pretty inside.


Did I mention that the wedding is in 4 months? And I have about 40% of it planned? Not bad for a week and a half of work. Our photographer is Aung Photography and we're getting a great deal since he and my love used to work together. For music we're having another work person to DJ. We're doing an early afternoon reception with hors d'oeuvres, cupcakes, dancing, and drinking followed by having everyone who wants to keep going back at our house for a casual party (NO HEELS) of dinner, real drinking, and wii playing.

Save the Dates are going out tomorrow, and I don't want to post about them until the one person who reads this gets theirs (Hi Carissa!), but I just finished them and I'm too excited so here's a sneak peak.


BTW, I am way more excited than I should be about getting married while these stamps are still valid, but I freakin love them. It may have been the second thing that popped into my mind when we decided to get married so soon - maybe. The save the date process has been overall a ton of fun, and I'm really happy with how they came out. The total so far is only at $106 including shipping, but I have about 35-40 more that just popped up (Thanks, Grandma!). A tip on DIY print jobs: laser color copiers can not print watercolor accurately. You're 1,000x better off using your ink-jet printer at home.

In other news, I've been slowly breaking into the cupcake/candy world. There's at least one store in Texas that is going to start selling my caramels and I made these cupcakes for a little boy's carnival themed 5th birthday party.


All in all, unemployment notwithstanding, things are very happy over here in the north bay.

Happy Endings

Well, I'm officially jobless. It was only a matter of time, and I'm supposed to be re-hired in March or April, but in the meantime I'm trying to relax and enjoy having the time to do all the things I always said I'd do if I didn't have to work. So far I have gone to the gym a couple times and watched a lot of Ellen reruns. Not what i had in mind.

I wish we had a budget and date set for our wedding, but we don't, so I can't really work on anything for that. We were discussing options and I thought the San Francisco Zoo might be cool. I mean, it has a freakin' carousel for crying out loud!!


But my love says it will smell like the elephants and it is not romantic. Even after pointing out that the fees were a small fraction of all other locations he was not having any of it. He picked out this place:

It is exactly what I pictured before I started looking into fees. $7,000 for a Saturday wedding for up to 150 people. If we have a Northern California wedding we're looking at a guest list of about 200 people.

If we end up with a large budget for this thing (which i have wishy-washy opinions on) I believe we're going to end up at Disneyland. I KNOW, I know. I hated the idea at first. Now, I'm a little bit (ok, totally) sold. Please keep in mind that we got engaged in front of the castle in December.

We could get married in front of the castle. the CASTLE people (person?)!


Realistically, we're not getting married at the castle. No matter what. You have to wait until the park closes and then they need time to set everything up. On Saturdays the park doesn't close until midnight. 10 on an off day. And I am not going to pay off the park to close early. I'd rather elope. So more likely we're looking at the gazebo at the Disneyland Hotel.



Please ignore the flowers and massive wedding party. as our flowers will be better and our wedding part smaller. I don't even think I know that many girls...

And look what I would ride in!

The guys in the little outfits like in Cinderella crack me up. Then the reception we'd want to have in the Disney Animation Attraction since my Love is an artist and its his favorite location. In case you've never been, its a huge hall with screens of all different sizes and they play screens from different movies with music. Its way cooler than I make it sound.


I would also do rounds. I'm a little confused about how long tables at weddings really work.

There would be an Electrical Parade rehersal dinner ( my favorite party of Disney) and a Mad Hatter Tea Party brunch (my favorite Disney movie).

Its perfect in its cheesy, we're only gonna do this once kind of way. I also think it would be awesome to have a picture of us and our friends and family on the Tower of Terror in wedding clothes.

To top it all off, a Southern California wedding means that we could get the extraordinary Max Wanger without having to ship him up to us!