with limits come freedom...

i cannot even tell you how nice it is to have an actual direction of a 'look' for the wedding. [never let me utter the word 'theme'] it is just the clarity i need to move forward. it is heartwarming to know that what everyone said was right--"just stick to what you want, remember its YOUR wedding." Well, that last part isn't really true, but the more i just kept gathering visuals and things i like the more it seemed that the collection of patterns, bold graphics, deep colors and plantlife all led to what i already knew: i love art deco! an art movement which bled into the next art movement, art nouveau, which i love as well! [maybe more] and if i keep those elements in mind as i imagine the scene, it really helps to eliminate clutter. like, i have a desktop folder FULL of adorable paper and cloth dangly room decor pics which in the end has no place at my wedding.

anyhow, lots of talking to offer my first inspiration board. is it too all over the place? do you get it?



[oy. now to figure out where i got all this stuff. this was mostly pre-me-knowing-i-would-need-to-know-credits. def the flowers are from saipua pink pic from flickr]

if i find the others in my inter-travels i will update

but for now, lets just go ahead and buy one of all of these from etsy store, romancing the bling

rehearsal dinner

a.k.a. THANKSGIVING

currently considering how to have a lovely evening the night before the wedding. and to do it on the cheap. pot luck? where?

wait. pot luck is a great idea. now the where....




[i am a flickr whore]

yesssss

This is what I'm talkin about



[stolen from flickr]

and this as well:



[also stolen from flickr]

These are the starts of my impending inspiration board. its all about art deco and art nouveau. strong graphics, great color palettes, and angular structure developing into drippy, liquid imagery. love it.

StheD's

Of course I had to go DIY with the STD's [how is it acceptable to have that be the accepted acronym?]

Anyhow, we used this pic from a trip to Mexico:



And put the text on like it was painted on the ground:





Then when you flip it over it's got more details and the infrared version [which is more of a midnight blue]



then it will be in a vellum envelope with these little return address dots and big yellow or grey dots for the mailing addresses. Which i will write by hand. yikes. i better practice my penmanship....perhaps we will figure out what a "mail merge" is and print them. hmmmmm



[this pic was of the first 'draft' of a completed std]

also we got these stamps

there. first whole big production thing done. we even got our own domain name! [yooouuu're sooo vain...]

:)

[update--in the end, addressees here handwritten by myself and super-friend, sarah. little return address dots were printed in a sweet little, tiny, print font and placed on the back of the envelopes. the cards were also enlarged to fill the envelope]

ps... now i have 175 vellum envelopes left. i guess we know one element of the official invites..

juanita kwan

i have to include this little 'thing' that is happening in the thick of my beau and i preparing to spend the rest of our lives together. a little puppy [or really, a mature little chihuahua/chinese crested mix, i think] has entered our lives via the alley behind where I work. she was roaming free, obviously in the wrong place, but definitely belonging to someone. anyhow, long story short, we are now fostering her and i am madly in love. i have done all the things i should do to find her owner, and will do more after the weekend. but for now, it is better to love and lose than to never have loved at all. sigh.