Moving Along!

Well we're in February now and a lot of things are moving along. Last week we got our rings back from the jeweler, Gaspar Jewelers. I went with the 14K Gold Satin band with milgrain channels, rounded edges, comfort fit. Nancy got a half eternity band with 14 diamonds. She still wants to round her edges so we'll probably take it back for remolding. But here it is!




Sweetness yeah? We also took some free engagement pictures with Ashleigh in Beverly Hills on Super Bowl Sunday. Apparently, there are people that don't watch the game and wander around the 90210 haha. You can see one of the pics shown at the top of the post.

Everything but our invitations are running smoothly. Doug, our photographer is set to take our pictures in march and I gotta set up a taste test for our reception food soon too. Our invites on the other hand are stuck. One thing is linked to another and I don't even know what blue or pink we have anymore! I swear Nance just asks me about other similar colors to make it complicated -_-. Oh well.

The groomsmen are coming through and that makes me pretty happy. I'm excited to see what they have planned. Whatever it is, I'm sure it'll be fun.

That's it for now!

~Mike

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5 more months!

Yes, you read that right!! Exactly 5 months from now, Mike and I will have already exchanged our vows and be taking pictures with our family and friends in front of our amazing gazebo. I would most likely have already smeared my makeup by this time from being overfilled with joy and emotion. 

 

As time is winding down, things are slowly beginning to come together. There are really a lot of surprises for our guests (and us too!) that I really think will make our wedding unique. :) 

And btw, we're no longer having a Tiffany blue wedding and we are a lot happier. Sometimes in the midst of the wedding planning, you forget what's most important to you and in the end, the decisions that are made aren't meant to please anyone but ourselves and our families. So we don't care if you don't like our new colors, dresses, flowers, or anything. This is our wedding and this is how it's gonna be! :D 

 RAWR!

Tiffany Blue Wedding

Yes, that's right. After 3 potential color schemes later, we've finally decided on our colors! Tiffany blue and pink, with accents of ivory, brown, and green!

And the planning has begun!

So our date is set and our deposit to our venue has been submitted. It's official- we are getting married on June 28, 2009 at the Pacific Palms Resort!

This place is perfect and absolutely stunning. I don't think Mike and I could be any happier. We visited tons of chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley area and even collected all their banquet menus. There's one place I won't ever forget- the Elite Restaurant on Atlantic Blvd. Don't get me wrong, the owner was really friendly, but he insisted that we could fit all of our 150 guests in the small restaurant, even if it meant setting up tables in the already crowded hallway. Um, thanks, but no thanks. Sadly, none of these restaurants had what we wanted. We wanted a place that had a Western ballroom setting and yet offered a Chinese banquet menu. The only exception would have been Mission 261. That place has got the best chinese food (ok, well, dimsum) in town! Their decor is decent and food is delicious. For the whole duration of our meal, we happily chattered about the possibility of having our reception there, but the situation was out of our hands...Mission 261 will be closing for the 2009 year for remodeling. :(

The San Gabriel Hilton was able to offer the grand ballroom with a Chinese banquet reception to us. Unfortunately, their menu prices were beyond reasonable and the ceremony site on their rooftop wasn't quite what I had in mind. You see, summer wedding and a rooftop ceremony don't really go together. Our guests would either 1) sunburn, in which case, we might have to consider offering sunblock or rent umbrellas at $45 a piece, 2) sweat in their nice clothes, or 3) feel extremely uncomfortable under the sweltering hot sun. Hmm... yeah, another thanks, but no thanks. Though I must say, their ballroom reception room was beautiful, but I wasn't willing to sacrifice a not-so-mediocre ceremony site for that! And so we kept looking....

Until one day (ok, maybe the same day we visited Elite, Mission 261, and all the other big restaurants in SG valley), we visited the Pacific Palms Resort. A friend had recommended this place to me and I've come across PP several times during my internet search for wedding sites, but I had been left with the impression that PP would be very, very expensive. Nonetheless, Mike and I decided to take a look. We fell in love with the place immediately. The view of the ceremony site was breathtaking, the reception room had these hight ceilings and huge windows (we love huge windows!), and even better, they had a Chinese banquet menu option. The menu prices did originally scare us off, but fortunately, we were able to haggle with the wedding coordinator and even got some freebies! :)

I can't wait to get the ball rolling on all the other planning!!