decisions decisions

soooo i finally met with all the photographers and had narrowed it down...

1) belathee

2) Anja

BUT- then my friend just referred me to this photographer this morning, who turned out to be....just.......amazing!

GH Kim

MOVING ON....

i know everyone is sick of the color and theme- i am too. so this is the last time i'm changing it and i'm sticking with it!!

......yellow + grey......
and vintagey look & feel to focus around the photobooth theme.
(some of you initially voted for this color scheme back in the beginning.....i shoulda just listened then!)

HAIR/MAKE-UP
did my hair/make-up trial this past weekend in queens with reiko utsugi. i had originally heard good things about sachiko yanase, but when she was booked she recommended reiko. turned out be great too! with make-up i realized there wasn't much to do....but for hair there were 3 styles we tried out. (some of the pics are hard to see because of the lighting and also bc i realized it's hard to notice details with all black hair! also didn't have front shots of some but you can use your imagination :D )

1) grecian updo






2) low side bun w/ bangs




3) poof and chignon




which hairstyle do you like....?


TIPPING?
so i've been thinking about this lately and was hoping some of the married people could offer help....do you have to tip your vendors on your wedding night (ie: photographers or florists, etc). we end up paying a lot for each vendor, but for some that are service based, i'm not sure if we're supposed to tip- and if so, how much is appropriate? (for example, at the reception hall, we are given a "recommended" amount to tip the "Captain" who runs all of the logistics for the wedding the night of...)


ok that's all the updates for now....

PS- i ended up getting the jcrew shoes with the side bow bc they were a little more fun and colorful, and i know i would probably never get to wear the pretty ivory ones again....

PPS- can anyone help me find cute yellow dresses for the BM's (that won't break the bank?)

6 months to go!

after a nice hibernation, i'm back and ready to start plannning! (sorta)

so some major decision planning ahead of me in the next 2 months (before i move to cali)... wanna help? :D here's where things are at, and also a few updates....

NEW DATE
i know i mentioned this already (but people have been saying they didn't know the date was changed)- wedding will now be on o5.o2.o9. see you there! (unless you're not invited...haha jk!)


DRESS
arrived!!
good news: turns out i did order it in ivory
bad news: jjom tight. i get serious back-ass (you know when the back folds into a butt-looking shape squeezed into the dress as you try to zip it up....)
it's cute. i think i'll keep it this way...


PHOTOGRAPHER
here are the folks i've met with (or will be meeting with in a few weeks)

1. Scott Lewis
2. Heather Waraksa
3. Jenny Ebert
4. Kenny Kim
5. Belathee
6. Cappy Hotchkiss
7. Anja Hitzenberger

Heather was my top choice, but was booked on my new date....and i'm meeting with #5-7 in the next few weeks. so far i'm hearing that Anja seems to have the "cleanest" or "sharpest" looking pictures, whereas the others are not as consistent with clarity, shakiness, focus, etc. unfortunately i never took photography in my pratto9 curriculum so any photographers out there with advice on these folks- it would be greatly appreciated! (and on pricing, unfortunately they're all pretty pricey, but around the same price range so that probably won't be the determining factor)

COLOR SCHEME
i think i'm going to move forward with the ivory/sage-olive scheme. it's seasonally appropriate, and well- i know everyone is doing that color combo these days but i think it'll be easy to do...


THEME?
well john has been getting really into golfing lately, so some wonderful friends had the great idea of incorporating a golf theme in little subtle ways- maybe something with the place cards and table numbers...still brainstorming on this so send ideas this way!

BOOKED:

• music
• videographer
• church

TO DO:

• florist
• BM dresses
  
• hair and makeup (trial in november- any ideas for hair??)
  
• invitations (maybe try to make these with my good 'ol pratt colleagues)
  
• book honeymoon (greece!)
  

ok what else am i forgetting to do....??


i leave you with two final things...

1) please vote for the shoes you like better:


(a) (b)



2) can someone help me make/find this birdcage-ish veil?

SAVE THE DATE......finally

finally finally finally.....the date is set!
mark your calendars everyone...

saturday o5.o2.o9

same reception hall, same church.
only problem now- i'll be 40 by the time i'm finally married!
jk- ok but really, the make-up person i want is already booked for that date, and even worse, the photographer i wanted is booked already too :(

so no sachiko yanase. no heather waraksa. booo

alright ladies- i'm going to temporarily revive wedding planning to at least book a photographer so PLEASE help me.....

and then i'll go back into hibernation :)

FIRE IN THE HOLE

....i need back-up!
(for anyone who understood that reference, you are a geek- along with me)

on a more serious note, a very critical change has happened that will force me to start wedding planning more quickly, furiously and seriously....[boooo]

there's a chance the wedding may be pushed up to october (but more realistically) november. can we pull this off girls? will the reception hall and church even be available? will the other factors fall into place?

fortunately i at least ordered the dress right before i left for korea. only problem is that they say it takes 6 months to deliver it.....(!!!!)

so what to do.....what to do.....?

break-up

so i have been slightly MIA....because i broke up with wedding planning.
it was too demanding, too abusive, and i always felt like i was being taken advantage of...hustled. (hahah jk-kinda)- but i have a feeling we'll be getting back together again soon.

and no it's not because of the hold-up in deciding colors....well maybe partly

alright- in the meantime, something easier to decide on: a photographer!

i met w/ heather waraksa last month and she was really sweet- very creative, very brooklyn! (like danah our famous artist chingoo)
right now, heather is my top choice, but only because i haven't yet had a chance to meet with scott lewis (or anyone else besides kenny...)

i also found a few new photographers who i think are pretty great- check 'em out and lemme know what ya'll think.

i'm hoping to book next month so comment away.....
whitebox: http://www.whiteboxweddings.com/
OLOL: http://www.ourlaboroflove.com/
henry chan: http://www.henryshoots.com/index.html
heather: http://heatherwaraksa.com/
scott: http://www.scottlewisweddings.com/main.php


(and all of the prices are fairly comparable)

thanks for the feedback guys! :]


off to the motherland next week!

color + theme, not as easy as it seems...

mission: to select color scheme and theme

i was reading one post that said that the color scheme/theme should be based off the venue- but i guess that's kinda hard bc right now we don't have a church yet, and i have no idea what color theme should be reflected off our reception hall (classic? formal? match w/ the deep purple curtains?) other consideration is because it's spring, maybe picking a flirtier, lighter color palette (contrary to my beloved k-town get-down black on black)

color considerations:

• midnight blue + gold
• pale grey + pale pink (similar but not quite)
• steel/charcoal grey + pale pink
• ivory + gold + black (or here)
• all ivory (w/ hints of pink or gold)
  

theme ideas:

• a play off of "just friends"- since that's what john + i always were (even though we all knew he secretly loved me all that time) :D
• since we're going to have a photo booth, maybe a picture/photo theme (have vintage photos up/pics from our parents weddings, etc) and/or incorporate "vintage" theme
• no theme

i like this picture: jumping for joy!

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UPDATE: here are the final color schemes for everyone to vote on.
thanks for everyone's initial feedback- hopefully once we lock down the color everything else will fall into place! also really liking the vintage theme- here's some inspiration (thanks jane).

1) midnight blue + champagne/gold
2) pale yellow + grey
3) pale yellow + black + white
4) pale pink (or as martha likes to call it- cameo pink) + black
5) pale pink + grey

Guess who!

hint: mungchung



enjoy: keisha chung