What I Love Wednesday

Thursday edition since Blogger was down last night. 

This idea was borrowed from Allison.  :] 

Things I am currently loving: 

1.  My best friend's nail polish blog. 

2.  I have the next four days off of work which is so nice because I worked the past six days in a row.  This was only my second week back after seven weeks off prior to the wedding and I am just not used to being on my feet all day.  This is the only thing on my to do list: 

3.  Summer!!  I was so caught up in wedding planning that I didn't really have time to anticipate summer itself.  Here's to another beautiful Santa Monica summer. 

4.  My husband (!!!)  It is still so amazing to call Tim my husband.  He was my boyfriend for two years, my fiance for 14 months, and now my husband forever.  I love him so much. 

So, We Got Married

I have been M.I.A. for quite a while now because Tim and I got married!  Between last minute wedding planning, the actual wedding, honeymoon, and going back to work, I have been pretty busy. 

Our wedding festivities really kicked off on June 10th.  Our rehearsal went pretty well except for some dramatic family members and one of my bridesmaids and my bridesman not actually making it to the rehearsal.  Kasey was also absentee but he had a good excuse, being that it was his girlfriend's high school graduation. 

We all met at Temescal and after going through a semi annoying process to get parking permits for everyone, waiting for the graduation to clear out that was in our ceremony/ reception space, and loading all of the random stuff for the wedding into our DOC's car, we started the rehearsal. 

Jimmy, our officiant, had us go partially through the vows which was so awesome because I got a sneak peek of Tim saying his vows without the stress of everybody watching us. 

After the rehearsal, we headed over to M Street Kitchen in Santa Monica for our rehearsal dinner.  It was so good.  The food was fantastic as always and I was super impressed with how great the service was for a 30 person party.  The missing bridesmaid and bridesman showed up and all was well again.  I can't adequately express how AMAZING it is to sit at a long table, in one of your favorite restaurants with all of your best friends on the night before your wedding.  I felt so happy and blessed.  I ate a little, but not much because I was so nervous.  Some people got drunk, and Tim made an amazing toast. 

After dinner, we decided to go out to a karaoke dive bar.  Tim and I were some of the first people at the valet desk to get our car and we were the last ones to actually get it.  It turned out to be nice because we got a few minutes alone to just hold each other and talk. 

The karaoke bar was fun.  The highlight was definitely singing "I Want To Know What Love Is" with my friends and soon to be husband. 

Tim walked me back home and I pushed him out the doorat 11:59 because I didn't want to see him on our actual wedding day yet. 

(to be continued...)

Wedding Week

How are we here already?  The wedding is four days away which is just surreal considering how many days I was just waiting to get to the 12 month mark so my Knot ticker would start moving.  This is what it looks like now: 

http://global.theknot.com/tickers/ttc29a0.aspx

Ridiculous.  You can barely see the Mr. and Mrs. 

Tossing petal cones are the bane of my existance right now.  I am NOT crafty, no matter how hard I try to be.  I really should have just paid to have the florist make these for us but I was so determined to DIY something.  The closer we get, the less important a lot of these things seem. 

I slept ok last night, but the night before was awful.  I usually don't have too much trouble falling asleep, so I get really grumpy and angry when sleep eludes me. 

Tim and I went to Toluca Lake to pick up the wine on Sunday and now we have cases of Malbec, Pinot Grigio, and Prosecco, sitting in our living room until Friday.  (The office/ hammie room has all the beer and soda.)  Saturday, we spent a good chunk of the afternoon, evening, and night in the office making wedding stationery.  To be honest, Tim designed and did all of it.  I sat there and watched. 

(Super excited about my place card which says "Melissa Mather".) 

I'm stressed.  And anxious.  I was really hoping to avoid feeling either of those but I suppose it was almost inevitable, especially with my anxiety issues.  I'm mostly nervous about the expectations of the day and walking down the aisle and the dress fitting.  But on the other hand, it will be whatever it will be and I know I can't really control it. 

Ugh. 

I can't believe in 4 days I will be getting married.  This is so similar to how I felt before graduation.  Like, wow, really?  Where did all the time go?  Soon, I will be a Mrs.  I'm so happy about that.  I'm so happy to be marrying Tim.  He is wonderful and kind, patient, loving, amazing.  I am so lucky that he loves me.

Anyway, Troi should be getting into town tomorrow, then everyone else on Friday for the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.  I am excited to see my friends and have my friends and family together.  I really am hoping for a drama free weekend. 

Wish me luck!!

10 Days

I really haven't updated this in over a month and it makes me SO mad.  I was determined to keep up on this blog but then of course my computer got hit with not one, but two viruses and getting Tim off his laptop is near impossible.  BUT, he fixed it for me last night so let's get back down to business. 

Our wedding is in ten days.  NEXT WEEK!  It is surreal.  It seems like it can't get here soon enough but also that it's not nearly enough time.  I have a few things left on my list of things to do like make the cones for the tossing petals, crayon hearts, and Tim needs to burn a couple CDs for the D.J. and print out our wedding stationery and signage. 

Last Friday, I went and had my second and final dress fitting.  The dress fit like a glove and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out.  I'm super stressed about still fitting in it on the wedding day though because I am a stress eater, and because... well I worry about stuff like that.  I'm not worried about things going wrong with vendors at all, but I worry about gaining too much weight in two weeks to fit into my wedding dress.  Ugh.  It's just nerve wracking when $3000 was spent on a dress you will wear for 6 hours. 

I am a rollercoaster of emotions.  One minute, I am dancing around the apartment all giddy, the next I feel like I'm going to throw up.  Admittedly, I am nervous about walking down the aisle, dancing in front of people, and just withstanding the judgement of all the work we've put into this event.  I am also ridiculously excited to see it all come together (or not) and to marry Tim.  Our wedding planner sent over a first draft of our wedding day timeline and at the end of it it says "Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Mather".  I cried.  It is so weird and wonderful to know that in ten days I will be Melissa Mather.  I feel so lucky to be marrying Tim.  I feel so grateful for him.  He has been amazing through the wedding planning process and through our relationship in general.  And believe me, I don't always make it easy on him.  It's amazing to think about meeting him for the first time way back in 2004... this tall, lanky, spiked hair KID, who cleared out the back of his 626 to drive my friends and I to a Straylight Run concert.  Fast forward to now, a 25 year old man with an amazing career, a ridiculously successful mobile web app, my husband to be. 

Speaking of being grateful, I am so grateful that Tim and I had Memorial Day weekend together.  We went to meet with a stationer (and decided that Tim could do the stationery for much cheaper. ), went to Ladyface Ale in Agoura to pick up a gift bag and check out their scene.  It was beautiful.  We dined on a deck overlooking the Agoura mountainside.  We had pretzel sticks with violet mustard, grillled asparagus, and pommes frites with red ale ketchup and an aioli. 

We had Laaaaaaa Cabana that night for dinner.  So cheap and delicious and just the best.  My grandpa lovingly wrote out all our escort card tags by hand.  They turned out amazing and are the perfect touch to our reception.  Sunday, we made burgers (a must for Memorial Day weekend) and then made the trek to the other side of town to check out Los Feliz and Silverlake neighborhoods. 

I think we liked Los Feliz more.  I think it's the right move for us because I don't want Tim to have to sit in traffic all the way to Burbank.  That's time we could be hanging out.  But, I will miss the west side.  SO much.  I know it's still here and on a good day, only a 20 minute drive away, but it's not the same. 

The more things change...