tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883651010567750262024-11-01T04:34:23.646-06:00The craziness of planning a wedding while being 5,000 miles apart...Alehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06520510399362859863noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-988365101056775026.post-2241162431942564212011-10-11T11:19:00.000-06:002011-10-11T11:19:46.407-06:00<div style="text-align: justify;"> I have been meaning to blog here for a while, but between work, graduation plans, killing the Silhouette, planning the wedding and working on other blogging ventures I haven't had time... But I guess that's pretty obvious... </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> D came to visit in July and everything was amazing... I really needed that.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We spent 9 days together, walking around and attempting to take advantage of his presence here to do some planning... Not much though...&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> We booked the church, ordered the wedding bands, looked for places where to order the wedding favors and visited the cupcake shop where I'm going to order the cupcakes for the wedding... But I think that's about it...&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOD68mVgS_5m-OwFrvOb2JPY2wWycA66mVsgZLBRI-W5agODSShtH0r2CbTGDUNIfw3YQIGCeSRfNSafvBLEyySwRq1gIpRIF1Dq7LESXUTZRjT-j39b6gADhMIthV6AROxcUKE1gMPo/s1600/engaged2" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOD68mVgS_5m-OwFrvOb2JPY2wWycA66mVsgZLBRI-W5agODSShtH0r2CbTGDUNIfw3YQIGCeSRfNSafvBLEyySwRq1gIpRIF1Dq7LESXUTZRjT-j39b6gADhMIthV6AROxcUKE1gMPo/s320/engaged2" width="320" /></a>He also had to do the whole "asking for my hand in marriage" thing... It was silly and nerve-wrecking and great! Although I had warned him that he'd have to do a speech or something like that, he wasn't ready.&nbsp; So he was even more nervous than it was necessary.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It was so funny trying to translate what he was saying about me while blushing and pretending I was so calm and cool and then translating what my parents were saying without chocking in tears.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Everybody did speeches.&nbsp; David, my parents, my brothers, my aunt (Yes! My aunt!).&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Everyone but me! :-D How awesome is that! </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At the moment I'm trying to decide where to hold the reception, although I think I found the perfect place to do it, they offer quite a fair price and would take care of pretty much everything.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> I'm trying to make as much as I can myself, because it would be cheaper and it would be far more personal :) The wedding lasso has been ready for a couple of months now and it's gorgeous.&nbsp; I'm also done with the envelopes, or almost because I have decided to make a few more because I'm sending invitations to some of David's friends that won't be coming and some of my family and friends in the States.&nbsp; </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The design for the invitations is ready and I have started cutting them up, which is why my Silhouette is being killed slowly :-P </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The outside has a papel picado design made by <a href="http://www.wilmermurillo.com/">Wilmer Murillo</a>, he's a Honduran illustrator and graphic designer whom I admire HUGELY.&nbsp; The design is really simple and cute and I love it!&nbsp; I'm really excited about the invitations, I think they look great and I can't wait to finish them and hand them out.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There's still a lot to be done, hopefully everything will come out well and we'll have a nice little wedding to celebrate with our friends and family just how we want to. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> Alehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06520510399362859863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-988365101056775026.post-10644217490353273572011-05-04T09:39:00.028-06:002011-05-04T10:30:47.459-06:00Well, D is a HUGE fan of <a href="http://xkcd.com/">XKCD</a> (and a hardcore geek!) and once he send me a link there we can spend hours sending links back and forth, and more than once feeling quite identified with some of the silly images...<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He sent me this one a few months ago, teasing me about how needy I am:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/angular_momentum.jpg"><br /></a><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/angular_momentum.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 521px; height: 335px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/angular_momentum.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />To be honest, it sort of does describe me at my silliest times...<br /><br />I am quite prone to dramatic statements when I'm feeling lonely and miss him more than usual, so the comic is quite accurate...<br /><br />Sadly for D, those moment happen quite often... ;-)<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.offbeatbride.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/6/files/2010/04/Picture-11-500x349.png"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 261px;" src="http://media.offbeatbride.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/6/files/2010/04/Picture-11-500x349.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Today browsing around the web I found the most amazing/geeky wedding favor EVER! Not something that I would personally like giving as a favor, but still!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is just perfect!!!!!!!! And it gives me a few ideas, to use the silly spinning girl for my own favors...<br /><br />Although I know that the moment D sees this, he will bug me endlessly to give exactly this!</div>Alehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06520510399362859863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-988365101056775026.post-24780797626198718062011-05-02T00:31:00.001-06:002011-05-03T16:30:50.142-06:00The wedding will be small, and on the cheap side... I mean, we do have to prepare for me moving there eventually and I have to get my visa sorted out after we get married and any other<br />expenses that will come with time...<br /><br />So the plans have gone from normal wedding to teeny wedding to cheap/cool wedding...<br />I kinda daydreamed with a huge dress and a ridiculous wedding and it's a bit sad to part with all those childhood fantasies, but to be honest, I don't mind anymore; in the end all that matters is that we will finally be together.<br />We will pay for it ourselves, and we have to be sensible and try not to get too over our heads which is really hard because it's so easy to get carried away when you see, hear, google so many beatiful wedding related things...<br /><br />Thankfully I'm very crafty and I can't wait to start making my own little details for the wedding... And just to prove how very excited I am, I've started buying supplies for the decoration and for the invitations... I probably shouldn't have, but my mom gets restless and wants me to start working on it...<br />But now that I have them I can't help but wonder if I'm getting ahead of myself...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://welovelaughkiss.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/myinspiration-doily.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 281px;" src="http://welovelaughkiss.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/myinspiration-doily.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I totally love these <a href="http://welovelaughkiss.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/she-says-do-it-myself-dim-lace-paper-envelope/">Doily Envelopes</a>, they look so delicate and could be made quite cheaply... But now that I have the doilies, I keep thinking that I will have to remember that I can't look at any other kind of envelope and like it even more, because I already have the supplies. I have a very rough but clear idea of what I want for the wedding, but it feels like the planning is all over the place...<br /><br />Meanwhile D, is halfway across the world just being shown bits and pieces of what I want... I won't lie to you, I want him here desperately... I don't want to this by myself... But I have no choice...<br /><br />How do I get my rather annoying fiance to want to be a part of it... I mean, any man would kill to have the chance that he has... not being really involved in his own wedding... No venue hunting, or flower picking, or cake tasting... Just showing up when the time comes and saying I do...<br />Feeling a bit discouraged lately...Alehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06520510399362859863noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-988365101056775026.post-8884474015391339682011-05-01T05:05:00.000-06:002011-05-01T11:49:38.517-06:00Well, it's 4:59 am and I'm awake... That sounds like a very good reason to me! :)<br />I have 10 months and 30 days to plan this wedding and it suddenly sounds like so very little time.<br />D is in England and I'm halfway across the world, in Honduras... How does one manage to plan a wedding when the other person is not there to stop you from panicking when things feel like they are way too big for you to handle...<br />I honestly have no idea...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0