4 posts tagged “wedding”
funthk made an appearance friday night... and decided to stay all weekend! i'm totally pooped and totally need two days to recover from my 3 day weekend. good thing I have friday off and will have a 3 day work week and another three day weekend! yay me!
we found ourselves clubbing (yes, we still club- haha) on Sunday night, complete with champaigne table service at the most VIP table- on stage with the DJ. BALLIN'! haha. so lame and yet so fun.
thk and our friend Mike love the song make it rain and so after asking for some change, lots and lots of single bills, and then requesting the dj play the song, mike actually stood on stage and made it rain on the crowd below us. The Chinese (and Not Retarded) in me cringed as I saw the bajillion dollars floating in the air but it wasn't my money so I couldn't really say anything. I looked over and saw thk throwing Mike's money into the air and wanted to kick his ass for not shoving it into his pocket, instead.
this morning, mike forwarded us a couple of photos and I was in one of them. Oh, the shame of being caught on a club website the morning after! Luckily, it's just my back view.
that empty area in the middle there is because everyone is scrambling on the floor to pick up money. i totally should have hopped down and grabbed some, too! and doesn't my hair look sort of awesome?! it's actually quite fried at the ends and I am in bad need of a haircut; I've been trying to grown my hair out for the wedding but it's been a very slow process.
thk and i went to our first (of three) pre-marital counseling sessions on Saturday afternoon and although it's a little more Christian-based than I would like, we spent a good amount of time talking about the art of communication and conflict resolution in a marriage.
I left the session grateful for being smart enough and wise enough to pick a life partner more patient, more calm, and much more level headed than I am or ever could be. A lot of the communication no-no's discussed were things I do- shutting down, avoidance of problems, silent treatment... when I realized how much harder I make our relationship just by being an ass and got all teary for being 99% of the problem during conflicts, I half expected thk to say something to the pastor to acknowledge what he was saying pertained only to me. instead, he reached over and rubbed my knee and took equal responsibility for our communication bumps. Seriously? how awesome is that?
I'm looking forward to our next session, where we will cover in-law relationships, our sexual relationship- with a minister?awkward!, and something else, but I forget what. Hopefullly I won't giggle through it- it's bad enough that with his fobby accent, every time the minister said "blessed" it sounded like "breasts" and thk and I would snicker. hehe.
in more wedding related crap- anyone have a dj or officiant they can recommend to me? I've got neither and we're less than 3 months out! :O
Birthday tradition- the three of us get together for dinner and spend hours gabbing. with jane in law school and prepping for the bar/her own wedding and grace globe trotting for work- she's in mexico today and heading to China again for two weeks tomorrow after having just returned from China and San Francisco, these 3x/year guaranteed meet-ups are priceless.
i had an incredible scallop salad to start, the suckling pig with risotto, and finished it off with the best.panna.cotta of all time complete with blood oranges and champaigne sauce. mmm. soo good. thank you girls for treating me to such a fantastic meal!
After treating me to two private birthday dinners and one birthday dinner with his folks, thk got together with our friend Will to throw me and Will's ladyfriend Kelly a joint birthday party. What was supposed to be a small group of friends getting together for drinks ended up being a full blown table-serviced club-fest with over 30 friends and cake (and some pregaming in the parking lot out of kelly's trunk all collegeghetto style, heh)!
(these photos are out in order. i mean, i wouldn't start out the night drunk and licking ass, right?) it was the best birthday party of my life and i was so grateful to have so many of my good friends come and celebrate with me. the best thing about the whole thing was how loved i felt- grace showed up even though she had to be jetting off to yet another country the next morning, letisha came all the way from playa del rey and totally brought the party in her handbag, and thk made sure Kelly and I had a drink in hand all night long.
this is my last year celebrating my birthday (technically) single and thank god, right? because how fantastic is it to know that for the rest of my life, i get to celebrate my birthday, and every other day, with steve? soo fantastic.
my days of dancing on tables (and falling off of them) and drinking until my liver aches (and it still does. stupid, i know) may be numbered but I don't think I'll ever get over hearing about random "wtf happened after we left?!" stories that include walking out on the bill at denny's at 3am, checking into the motel 6 after you realize everyone left you behind and your phone battery has died so you can't call anyone, calling an escort to your room "only to use her TMobile phone" and finding your sim card won't fit into your phone, and $850 charges on your cc the next morning... haha!
We took care of a lot of wedding to-do items on Saturday, including picking out linens, place settings, tableware, table sizes and shapes, as well as attended our first food tasting session at our venue.
I was a little worried that the mandatory caterer for the venue would suck ass but other than the crap crab cakes, everything else was pretty delish. I think we're going with the phyllo wrapped chicken with spinach and tri tip for saturday night's reception.
Allowing me to sleep in on Sunday morning,
thk got up early to let the dogs out,
change my brake pads,
check my oil and fluids,
find a nail in one of my tires and fix it with a tire plug
rotate my tires,
pick me up a spare tire since I’d been driving around without one for the past 4 months,
and wake me up to a deluxe breakfast from McDonald’s.
seriously.
And then, after all that, I yelled at him, just a little, when he didn’t line up the template perfectly with the patterned paper for our wedding invitation envelope liners because I’m an anal ass.
Want me to help you?
Yes!
How do you do this?
You line this corner right here with this corner right here, then you trace this template like this, making sure to get two complete patterns above this line and three patterns below this line, like this…
Like this?
No.
Like this?
No. like this.
Like this?
NO! GOD!!
Honey, how about if we go in the living room and I’ll sit behind you and watch tv while you work and give you moral support?
Ok.
And after that was done, thk, his parents, and i spent the rest of the night folding tissue paper flowers a la martha stewart. I read the directions online incorrectly and thk's pops figured out how to make the flowers correctly. hehe.
i'm pooped but it's monday and back to the daily grind. :)
probably because the guy she was about to marry had a slight shoe addiction. i'm not naming names or anything :)
could you help us decide what shoes look best with thk's wedding suit? we picked up shoe #2 (gray high top chucks) last weekend along with black and white chucks for the groomsmen. I was thinking shoe #4 for ceremony (the groomsmen would wear dress shoes, too) and #2 for reception... not sure what thk liked best but i think he wanted to wear #2 all day long.
thanks!
alby: I love your wedding announcement so much
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alby: they make me want to get fridge magnets
heh. yay! people are starting to get their stds but for some reason, a lot of them have been delayed. boo. why is it taking one whole week?! ugh.
thank you, sarah, for letting me full on bite your stds. everyone thinks i'm fabulously creative for it!
paper + brads, stamp, ink, embossing powder, embossing tool, extremely sore thumbs from stamping so many pieces of paper, , a shitload of photo strips, mailing stickers, and let's not forget the most important part- yoda stamps...taa daa!
there were two versions- one that said the above for friends, and another with just our names for the family+coworkers. :) you can see both on my flickr.
