so projects are fun...

except when you have to share your workspace with a messy janel. behold the evidence(!):


and in comparison, here is the workspace of a more well-organized person. like me, for instance:

i might add here (pun intended), that probably i'm working with 30% of the table. note my poor mouse had to live on the laptop when not in use. janel, janel's elbow and her fluff slowly increased in volume as the day went on, p.s. now i'm not a mathematician, or even an expert in the breeding practices of feathers, but i'm sure that is a) not fair and b) not possible since feathers can't multiply. unless janel is a witch. in that case, burn the witch! (a joke, people. i'm not actually advocating burning janel alive.)

so anyway. projects going well. stuff getting done. three weeks or so to go until the wedding. yay wedding!

p.p.s. THERE ARE FEATHERS EVERYWHERE IN MY APARTMENT. HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY, MESSY JANEL!!!1!1

guess what today is?

well, first of all/very important: it's bastille day, so yay france; allons enfants de la patrie! le jour de gloir est arrive!

second of all: we have a month to go until the wedding.

!!! commencing freak out in 3...2...1 !!!


BUT third of all, today will also go into the history books for this:


it's our wedding certificate! today we went to the courthouse in beverly hills and they handed us a piece of paper stating that we can get married! yipee!

just a little reminder...

...that all rsvp's are due by this friday! we've only received about half the rsvps people! again, make sure that the addresses are legible on the front- you may have sent the card, but it might not have reached us over here at wedding central!

and by the by, thanks to those who are writing such sweet notes on the cards- we love getting them!

and to entertain the masses, here is a picture of abject drinking during the recent 4th of july:

this is a post about hats

~we interrupt some boring wedding technical stuff with something more decidedly fun~

now you might be thinking, what does a post about hats belong in a wedding blog? well, the answer to that is, i was thinking that it'd be pretty neat to wear a hat to my wedding. not just any hat, mind you, but a fabulous and obviously elegant TOP HAT!

*crickets*

yeah, that was pretty much the reaction i got from the few people with which i have shared this little guilty secret of mine. but no matter, i was determined to at least try a hat to see if this whole experiment was going to work. i dutifully searched my go-to website for weird, etsy.com. and stumbled upon these beauties:

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these hats are beyond cool. i had to have them, but not so much at a 175+ dollar price tag. so next best thing- i decide to make them. i'm sure you know by now that i have learned absolutely nothing from my silk-screening journey and thought i could make a hat that is just as rad as the examples i showed you previously. or shewed you previously. (i'm reading jane austin right now.) but i digress. cue the music of my heart upon finding out there is a hat making class not too much more than a mile away from where i live: hands on 3rd!

so i signed up for that immediately. and insisted that both janel and debbie join me. they not-so-reluctantly agreed and off we went to make hats!

me trying to convey the appropriate angle of super-hat-in-the-making to our awesome teacher.

janel amidst a mess of hat materials.

don't let the smile fool you: i'm secretly pissed at the hat for not conforming to my wishes.

so after three classes and a couple of days afterwards swearing up and down at my hat, i present you with a close-approximation-but-not-quite-top(ish)-of-a-HAT:

i know, i think it's awesome too.

so yeah, i freakin' love it. and while it is not a top hat per se, i'm going with english riding hat. or something like that. it's victorian, all right?!?! and i love it!

more hat pr0n on the way:

and of course, i would be remiss if i didn't include janel's creation as well:

so where does this leave us with the wedding? well, not sure if the hat will make an appearance. i haven't tried it on with the most awesome dress in the world, but it's still a possibility. perhaps if time could conveniently stop or at least grow another week or two between now and the wedding, i could have time to make a second attempt on a bridal top hat. but we will have to see what happens!

what to do with the kiddies

it must be a red-letter week since you're getting two posts from me!

anywho, with regards to those nifty rsvp cards that you will be forwarding to casa wedding AND if you have children: just add the little ones on the name line but do not choose an entree for them as they will be getting a kids dinner. i believe it's chicken nuggets or something equally as appealling to the young'uns.

also! i know it's tempting, but if you are over the age of fifteen, you may not choose chicken nuggets as your meal, no matter how delicious smooshy mysterious chicken parts deep-fried in oil sounds to you. i'm talking to you, orion. must choose from the big boy menu, mmmkay?

we have had a steady trickle of rsvp envelopes find their way to us already, so keep it up, people! rah rah and all that! i might share with you that one of us squeals like a twelve year-old girl in the presence of rpatz whenever an envelope shows up in our mailbox. it may or may not be casey. i'm just sayin'.

Important PSA!! (number two)

hi all! it's been a while but i swear i have a good reason this time: invitations!! that's right, by now, most of you have received your invitations in the mail and while they weren't the juggernaut of the save-the-dates by any stretch of the imagination, they still took up a big chunk of my time.

but i digress. it's time for the psa part of our talk.

it has come to my attention that the post office finds our rsvp envelope stamp a wee bit hard to make out. as a result, some of them are being returned to sender. casey and i think it's because the numbers are a little too close together, resulting in a confusing glob. so. i implore you, dear wedding guest, to take a gander over the rsvp envelope and decide if it may or may not get to me in the mail. the address number should be 465 and the apartment number should read 102. if those seem unclear, would you do us the tinest of favours and either go over it with a label or find some way to make it legible? kthanxbye.

if you do send it and are worried if it made it to wedding central over here, then please email me to make sure.

and more posts to come. promise!

if you're looking for a hotel in the area...

then you can just look right over here

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or maybe a little bit down from over there, keep going, yep below that goofy picture of us...in any case, you will see a link for the Marriott Residence Inn LAX/El Segundo in the left hand column of this little ol' blog. we blocked rooms here for you to stay in during our wedding weekend. there are a few rules, though, so i'm going to walk you through them.

• the dates with the shiny 'n' special wedding room rate are only for friday, august 13th and saturday, august 14th. if you want to say longer, you have to make a separate reservation, which you can do through the marriott main website (top link) or you can call them. i was told that if it was for one extra day or so, they might extend the wedding rate for that, so it might behoove you to call if you are thinking of adding just one extra day
  
• there are four links to the left, one for the marriott main site and three others describing a specific room type

1. studio: has one king-sized bed and one sofa bed; has a living/sitting area as well as a dining area and kitchen
   
2. one-bedroom: has one queen-sized bed and one sofa bed; bedroom is separate from the living room/kitchen
3. two-bedroom: has two queen-sized beds and one sofa bed; bedrooms are separate from the living room/kitchen

• clicking on whichever room type you are interested in will take you to that reservation page for that room type only.
• there are a limited number of rooms allotted to us at the wedding rate. if you find that you cannot book a specific room any longer please contact me (janine) and i can call the marriott and get a couple of extra rooms assigned to us.

hopefully this is easy enough to follow! let me know if you have any questions, need more rooms, etc. and we'll see you in august!