Ready As I Can Be: January 2012

Invite dabbling...pt 1

It's a given that the wedding invitation sets the tone for what guests should expect, with that in mind I browsed on different ideas of what I wanted to include on the invitation and the look of it. We both agreed black-tie formal didn't fit our personalities, we wanted a semi-formal fun event.

First we decided on wording for the invitations, which was harder to decide upon than we thought.

Runner-up:

Life is not measured
by the number of breaths
we take, but by moments that
take our breath away
Mr. and Mrs. Max St.Fleur
ask you to join them
as their daughter
Makerbie St.Fleur
gives her hand in marriage
to
Joshua Rema

Son of Ms. Carmeline Rema
(date & time)
(location)

(address)

Loved it but a little too formal!

Winner:

You work, you play
and then one day...
love just happens!
Makerbie St.Fleur

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max St.Fleur
and
Joshua Rema

son of Ms. Carmeline Rema
invite you to be a witness
to one of life's loveliest
surprises
as they are joined together in
matrimony
on (date & time)
at (time)
(location & address)

By this point, I already had an idea as to how I wanted the invitation to look. But a vision doesn't always turn out the same during the execution phase however, I still dabbled with the different ideas I had.

I looked for pictures that I thought would fit with the theme, because I felt water-marking an image in the background would sort of set the tone.

I really loved image #5 but it didn't look to good behind the text. I ended up using image #1 on the website and image #2 on the card.

Here is a sample of the drafts for the inserts:

I felt something was still missing, the damask was pretty but not part of the theme. In next post I will go into further details, then it will be the invitation reveal.

Themed Up

When I started planning for the wedding, I knew instantly that I wanted a theme. At first I thought I wanted to go the route of a black & white affair, so it would be checker boxes (given that I love the color black). But having the whole party in black for a summer (outdoor) wedding didn't seem too appealing, trust me I thought long and hard about it (here).

Then I started thinking about things that we both loved, aside from each other (I know that was cheesy but I had to add :-). So we narrowed down the topics and focused on travel.

We both love to travel.
I like old (vintage/antique) suitcases, he likes old comics.
We both love watching Anime.
He loves Manga, I love Korean drama's.
We both love Thai food.
He loves Kimchi, I love Korean drama's (yes repeated it because I am not a fan of Kimchi).
I love the Asian culture, he loves anything "Bruce Lee" and martial arts.

Well, you get the point!

When we summed it up, we came up with:

Travels
Traveling far East
Traveling to Asia

Traditional Attire at Gyeongbok Palace

At a Korean Restaurant, Upper East New York

My fave Korean dish, Dolsot Bimbimbap

His fave Korean side dish, Kimchi (I never tried it and never will :-)

Did I mention how much I like K-drama's?!

Finally, we decided on adding a few touches of "Traveling and Traveling to Asia". I say touches because we did not serve Asian food, as much as we loved it, we figured we would be considerate to our guests.

Again, wait till you see how we incorporated the theme in the wedding!

Labels: Wedding theme

Thank You for Dreaming...

& Living the Dream!

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Thank you Dr. King for being a part of changing the views of others on justice, love, human purpose and for seeking equality amongst all. You also demonstrated that change can be done in a non-violent manner. You are now dead longer than you lived but within that life you have created such a change which allowed others to dream even bigger, including myself. For this I want to THANK YOU!

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"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

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"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" ("I have a dream" speech)

Name in Lights (part 2)

Okay, I won't do anything just to get my name in lights but I certainly worked on getting my name in lights.

Several months ago I wrote a post about drafting the logo for our wedding (here). Soon after I chose a theme for the wedding (which I will discuss further in another post); from that point I knew I wanted to input characters/signs in the logo.

First I thought about a lantern

Then I decided upon the Korean characters "I love you"

I put those same characters in a scroll to see what I can come up with, but it wasn't working for me.

I basically played around with different designs but in the end I knew I wanted our initials to be part of the final look. In the end I decided to go with no designs around the logo but simply our initials and Korean characters. I tried completing the task myself in Publisher which turned out fine but if I needed to enlarge, the picture (pixels) was blurry so I sent each file (initials & characters) to Cynthia from Elizabeth Couture and she embedded the letters in the image.

I used the monogram on the invitations, as a back drop for the reception, and other wedding items to add a personal touch.

image from guest

I used the "Edwardian Script" font for the initials.

Wait till you see how else I incorporated the monogram :-)

Remember...Respond

Today marks the second year of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, which affected many lives including mine. It's unfortunate two years later much is needed to be done. If you are up to date with current events then you are aware of what took place. This is a simple post to remind you to reflect then respond.

"Where there is Hope there is Healing.
Where there is Healing there is Support.
Where there is Support there is a Vision.
Where there is a Vision there is Hope.
Thus it begins and ends with Hope."
-MR

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Kiddos!

Children are adorable and create that cute little moment in a wedding....but I didn't want them!!

I certainly didn't want to see this while watching our wedding video, sad but true :-)

Videos above are not my own (found on YouTube)

This one was just too funny and adorable, so I had to add!

We both agreed early on that we would not have any kids at the wedding, but with 8 nephew and nieces (that's on my side of the family alone) it was easier said than to accept. I had to let my little hearts be a part of the wedding. Then it was the close cousins which had children(also my little hearts) coming from far so we had to be considerate. In the end we had a cap on the number of children we would allow at the wedding, a total of 15.

Thankfully, the venue had a conference room. I turned that room into a mini day-care :-). All the children would stay in that room during the ceremony and reception and would be allowed to enter the ballroom after dinner. Issue solved!!

As for a mini-bride and mini groom, I went without and I didn't miss it. But I did have my nephews walk down the aisle as my bodyguards before I walked down the aisle with my parents :-)