Really? . . . . . REALLY?!?!?

i want to inflict pain on myself right now. allow me to elaborate why:

remember how I said I ordered our invitations? Well, I paid rush shipping on them so we could get them by Friday (today) and work on addressing them this weekend and get our first batch out next week. So I get home from work today, decide to go on a run, and find a package from 123print.com on our front door step. I don't open it right away, despite my almost uncontainable excitement. When I get back from my run and get all showered (i really was building up the suspense for myself here) I decided it was time. I open them up. Yes! they are beautiful! printed envelopes, printed RSVP cards, the whole works! It looks amazing. Then . . . I notice it. On the address of the replay envelope it says "Unity #D"   yes ..... unitY. "not that big of a deal, " i think to myself. " The post office will know what that means. or we could order new ones. It'd only be like 20 bucks" So Steve calls and I tell him about the invitations. And when he gets home, I proudly show him the beautiful invitations that I ordered. He starts to read out loud. "Mr and Mrs. bla bla bla request bla bla bla wedding of their daughter Mallika to Steve, on the THRITY (that's thRity. NOT thirty) first of May" my heart stops! shit! he keeps reading. He questions weather the correct wording is "half passed" or "half past" like I had. So, so far I have misspelled something on one set of envelopes and the invitation. Steve's checks the main invitation envelope. YEP, I misspelled our OWN address! good LORD! i feel about as stupid as a bump on a lump right now. 

We have to REORDER everything except the RSVP cards! Which have a date of May 9th, so we have to get the invitations out soon! Why? why does this keep happening to my wedding? Does someone up there not want us to get married. 

boo :( 

Something Blue

I think I'm in love!







I wanted to find a nice bracelet to wear on the day, since I feel like the dress really doesn't need a necklace. And when I saw this I almost feel out of my chair. I hadn't even been looking for a bracelet to fill my "something blue" but it really works perfectly. Our wedding colors are blue and purple.
Now, the bracelet is a little pricey, like more that $150 . . . so I wanted to ask you guys. do you think it's worth it? I want to have something that IS a little more expensive; something well made that I can pass on to my kids or something cheesy like that! What do you think?

Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

I love reading wedding blogs. I have gotten some really great ideas from other brides posting about their weddings, or the planning process of their weddings. And even though I know the details aren't important, and hope to not care too much how the whole day "looks", I have had a ton of fun planning and dreaming up a lot of little details (most of which I'm not going to reveal... there has to be some things that are a surprise) But the more I read these wonderful wedding blogs, the more I see little aspects of my wedding popping up everywhere. I guess it means that I have good taste? or maybe just that I'm a copycat. Like, pictures on a clothesline. I saw it on one blog, and loved it. I said to myself "how cute! it's like a slide show, but in a different way. I want to do that!" and now I see it everywhere!



I still love it and will probably do it (though, if we do a book of pictures of us as the Guest Book and we also do this, is that too many pictures of us all over the place?).
In general I've learned a lot from these women. About what to expect from vendors, what the "book" says is the best way to do things, and some fun ways to break the "rules" I have only found a couple vendors through the web though. I believe in recommendations from friends, and only went with online vendors when we met in person and I got a great sense of their talent and their personality.
We are going up to Thousand Oaks to meet Michelle tonight and taste her cupcakes: Chocolate, pumpkin and carrot! YUMMMERS! I can't wait. I'm glad I didn't give up sugar for lent (I took the other half of Molly's dilemma - I'm doing cheese!)

3 months and 3 days to go!

I did it! I ordered our invitations!
After much hemming and hawing (spelling of that????) Steve and I decided that it's best to save not only time, but also a little $ on the invitations, and order them from a printing place online. Invitations are not the most important thing to us.
So we went over the 123Print.com and found some pretty charming designs. We chose Cheery Blossom Romance, to give our guest the hint that it will be outside, and cause it's purple :)

So we should get those by next week. And hopefully Julie will be ready to do MORE wedding stuff when she gets back from her honeymoon.

This week we are:
-tasting cupcakes with Michelle Mitchel
-signing contracts with our DJ, hotel reservations, and a new one with Suthi, our photographer
-setting up the rehearsal time and the rehearsal dinner lunch at The Taj Cafe (Indian food!!!)
-setting up a tasting with our caterer
-booking our HONEYMOON !!!

we have changed our mind again about the honeymoon. We have decided that Bali and Fiji are just to far (i looked at tickets online, and we'd be traveling for 24 hrs and changing planes at least twice. no thank you) So..... Tahiti it is! We've looked at some really cool hotels to stay at, with "over the water" bungalows! how romantic! So we just have to do some number crunching, and we are ready to book it.

it's pretty easy when I just make a list for this week. I don't feel like it's too much to do in 3 months.

Also, the PCC Flea Market is this Sunday and I will be there, early, to try to get those pretty old tea tins, a mirror to make a vanity with, little sake cups (as many as possible), and maybe even some cool old weathered wood to make little signs for the wedding :)

woke up this morning with out an alarm.
peace and quiet
and started getting ready for my day.
suddenly realized that it might not be 6am, like I thought.
it's 4:50. great.
go back to sleep? or tough it out and be a little more tired later today.
tough it out.

And that brings me here. 5:30 AM. dressed and ready for my day. seems like it's either one extreme or the other for me these days. Either my alarm goes off at 6:30 and I snooze for an hour, or turn it off and sleep later than desired. OR I wake up before my alarm, tossing and turning, unable to sleep anymore. I've never had anxiety like this in my life. Then again, I've never been through as much as i have in the past 6 months. or dealt with death so close to me. or drugs so close to me. I've started therapy again, for the first time since I was living in Buffalo and depressed and in a sad relationship. My relationship is the one thing that is now my rock. My thing I know I can count on and my lovely future husban that will support and accept me through everything.

RE: my last post, our wedding site offered us a few dates in May, that if we were able to move our date (up by 4 months!) we could keep our gorgeous site, and all our vendors. And after much thought, and agony, and tears, and worry, and excitement, and frustration, we have chosen to move the wedding date, despite the scheduling conflicts that could potentially come up. There were pros and cons either way we went with it. And we fell in love with this site, and it's the wedding we want to have (with the vendors that will make it great!). So, while it's bound to be a little more stressful with rushing a lot of the planning. It's also really motivating us to get some of these things done. Things that I've spent hours on the blog circuit for inspiration and ideas. It's time to choose what we want. And that's always a great feeling.

Valentines Day is this weekend, and our 5 year anniversary. Just in case Steve reads this blog ever, I'll post about what I got for him after the gift exchange. But I'm really excited about what I got him. :) And we are heading up to Santa Cruz for the weekend. Mostly to see the family, and get away from LA for a second before full blown wedding planning happen to our lives. But we do have three wedding related things to do.

1) Meet with Nancy (hopefully our officiant) and discuss the beginning stages of designing our ceremony
2) Meet with "someone's" mom (remaining secret here, since I know my MOH reads this) about some gifts for my best friends/bridesmaids
3) Meet with JD, the dude who marry's everyone at Mt Madonna, and get some ideas of how to work a little bit of the Hindu traditions into our ceremony.

should be a productive and love packed weekend. We are going out to dinner with my dad and his gf on V-Day. And my sister has her 13th birthday party on Sunday. ( I think it's been honestly like 9 years since I was home for her birthday. . . . sorry sissy! i love you!)