2.27.2009

Long time.. new sea!


Or ocean anyway...
I know its been forever and five days, but I'm back! And in a totally new time zone. I hope you'll forgive me for being gone so long but the joys of being a military bride are unending as we have now moved to California! We took a full 10 days to make the trip across and it was very, very much worth it. I'll post a few pictures with some of the fun adventures we had, but since they aren't very wedding-y, I'll keep it brief. That being said, I also have LOTS of wedding stuff to tell you too! We've decided on wording for the invites, ordered them, sent them out, and are collecting RSVPs. We've designed and ordered the rehearsal dinner invitations. I'm working on the actual ceremony now, and also deciding what hair adornment to go with. So for anyone still around to read this, MAHALO for waiting and I can't wait to fill you in!

1.11.2009

Blog Bliss: Jasmine Star...and her dog Polo


Jasmine Star is an amazing photographer. If you've never seen her work or stalked her blog, I HIGHLY recommend you do so. So shoot beautifully, and interjects personal tidbits and personality into her blog. Some people wonder why someone should stalk photog blogs.... this is why...Jasmine has a dog (Polo) who is celebrating his 2nd birthday.. and that might be the funniest picture I've ever seen. Thanks to Jasmine for posting Polo fun on her pro photog blog! Go, stalk, and enjoy!

1.09.2009

Make Melissa Pay MORE!!

Ok - go back and read my previous post about Melissa's generous offer, and then check out this update!!


BREAKING NEWS FROM MELISSA OF MASTERPIECE WEDDINGS!



We have another matching gift! I just got a call from Stewart at Power's Photography and he offered to match dollar for dollar our friends that blog about Let's Eat Cake!

So that means so far:

99 blogs
$1 per blog from me!
$1 per blog from our Anonymous Donor
$1 per blog from Powers Photography

= $297

So FAR!!! {Keep it going... what are you waiting for}

Keep Blogging! You have until the 12th, so bloggity blog away....

Make Melissa Pay!!


If you have not read one of my previous posts about Let's Eat Cake, please read this one. Blog about Let's Eat Cake! on your blog or website (before January 12th, 2009), and MasterPiece Weddings will donate $1 for every site that mentions Let's Eat Cake! (and links to Let's Eat Cake's website) and their cause. AND, now some annoymous benefactor has agreed to MATCH MasterPiece Wedding's donation!! That's $2 per mention!!Here is some additional information about Let's Eat Cake!


Masterpiece Weddings, an event coordination agency founded by Melissa Margarita-DiStefano, is working really hard to put on an amazing fundraiser in February called Let’s Eat Cake! - which will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital - an incredible organization that’s dedicated to treating children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.Let’s Eat Cake! is a wedding cake competition, featuring Wedding Cake confections from all over the United States. Bakers will feature their cakes to be judged by Local and National Culinary Celebrities. In addition bakers will be asked to make enough cake to feed the general public, so that they may judge the cakes as well!

Our Goal is to raise $50,000 for this extremely worthy cause, we know times are tough for everyone out there. But that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that kids still aren't getting sick. Please help spread the word about our goal, and our mission. If you can help financially, that would be great, if you blogging about this right now.... your spreading the word - and that's all we can ask for!
Please blog today!

12.22.2008

Giving, giving, Gone!!

Happy Holidays everyone!
In this season of giving, when we brides have spent so much time focused on receiving lines and registering for gifts... I thought I would toss out some ideas on how to give back... while receiving. It was my first guest post as a Wishpot "Wedding Expert". :-) Go forth and read!


I'll be hit or miss for the remainder of the year since I am busily packing for our morning flight to Utah for some beautiful skiing!!

12.19.2008

Egats! Engagment Pics!

Warning! Post laden with fun photos!!

So a few weeks ago it was a beautiful, crisp day and Adam, Guru and I headed down to Seville Square for some photo shootin fun! We were initially doing this because my mother hates all existing photos of us and didn't want to put them in the paper. We "needed" to have engagement photos for the newspaper! Oy. Well, I stalled and stalled, but then realized that yes, we would end up with a photo or two she would approve of, but really, I just wanted to capture us, as we are now as printable memories for all time.
(oof - I realize that sounded very sappy - just remember, its all Adam's fault!)
We spent about an hour wandering around and being cute as Guru snapped about 300 photos. Guru would want me to point out that the camera he has is years past it's prime so photoshop is his friend. Because of this, we went through the pictures, chose a handful, and he photoshoped them so the colors are beautiful and you can see our faces. Oh, and the turn around time for all of this was a few hours. All in all, guru rocks. And all these fun flickers are courtesy of him.

This one is actually going in Adam's hometown newspaper.
And no, there was no fan, it was actually windy.



I love both of these (above and below) because we are laughing. And really, that's how we spend A LOT of our time. He makes me laugh with jokes and faces and crazy antics, and my laugh makes him laugh. These are the moments that I really wanted captured in time.

Adam thinks he looks funny in this one, I think its fun! He looks like he's very much contemplating something far off, and I look like I'm about to pounce on him... I probably was. =)


Had to have at least one shot of us with our sunglasses on.
(We are both rarely without our shades.)

As posed as this might seem, I was actually just trying to pull of his sunglasses so we could keep taking photos. This is Adam's favorite.

Gotta have a least one kissing pic!


This one is going in my hometown paper! I like it as the best portrait-y shot of us.

I'm sure he was tickling me and proud of making me giggle like a 2 year old.

We had fun with that fountain. I very nearly ended up IN it.

The teaser shot.
And one of my favorite since he looks like he's planning something devious...
and my hair just looks cool.




So there you have it- our engagement pics!
Whatcha think?

12.18.2008

Photo Tease...

Guess what we did...

Image Courtesy of Guru.

Our Engagement Photo session!!
More to come...