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Posted on Apr 30, 2008 8:55:56 PM | By Margit
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It's been a while since I've blogged. I think this is what you might call "crazy time," or as Obama might say "silly season," or as my 3-year-old nephew might say, "bananapants." Things are, shall we say, hectic. Brides, this is the time when we start to settle. Settle?! (that's you gasping)... you didn't settle on the man, why should you settle on the wedding details? Oh honey. For those of us who don't have a full-time wedding planner, there are just some things you have to say "Eh, I can live with that. I need my sanity." Allow me to illustrate: 1. The officiant, recommended by our wedding venue, isn't someone we know at all, but who could get to know us well enough in two months, right? Even if she's a little new age-y for our taste, offering to have her husband co-officiate and play from one of...
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Last Friday our invitations arrived! They came in this gorgeous wooden box from our designer Paper +Cup (here's their super-cute blog). I have to say, they delivered in style. Designer Minhee Park of Paper + Cup does some truly lovely work -- we had a tough time narrowing down her wedding invite options. In the end we went with one similar to the below example, in brown letterpress, with red rsvp envelopes and cool, self-adhesive return address labels (although they were kind of a pain to affix, they were very cool). This past weekend, at my family's house in Philadelphia, we created an assembly line of addressers and stuffers. I was heartened that everyone chipped in with their particular skills. The jobs: > My sister, aka MOH, who (lucky for me) has some of the most beautiful handwriting in the world, addressed envelopes. > My brother-in-law, a big fancy curator...
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Ok men (if any of you are reading this blog), here's a way to get invited to a wedding with that girl you're trying to impress: pitch yourself in a video! Real Simple staffer Katrin Warren sent along this video from a guy who'd been flirting with her friend Lauren during a bachelorette party in D.C. Said guy, Adam, and Lauren's friends were trying to convince her she should invite him to the wedding. Lauren wrote to me via email, "I told him to submit a video and an application (I was joking of course) since I had to be sure he would be a good date. After a couple weeks emailing about the video he actually did one. Needless to say, it won him a date to the wedding." Here's that video. What do you think? Should this have won him a date? Personally, I'm not sure about those...
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Don't get me wrong. My 30-40-something gal pals and I had an awesome time at my Borgata bachelorette party. Let's just say it was a bit more subdued than it would have been, had I gotten engaged at 20-something. My friends who attended the event were mostly moms on a much-deserved night off. So everyone was ready for action, sorta, but a little tuckered out on this Friday night. I'm not a mom, but editorial directing a website isn't far from having your own baby. So lump me in. No matter, the best part was having really good friends around me supporting me on my journey out of singledom. Oh, and the spa massage the next day. Here's a video snapshot of a night that started with a glass of wine in the hotel room, continued with dinner at Bobby Flay's, and ended at 12:30am at club mur.mur (no those...
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A quick post to say I just got this amazing little techie item, perfect for DIY wedding video: The Flip video camera -- and I'm taking it with me this weekend to my ring-a-ding-ding bachelorette party at the Borgata in Atlantic City. (Can I film in a casino? Probably not, but I'll try.) Jim Baker hipped me to this cool gadget: It's pretty much the easiest piece of technology I've ever used and completely idiot-proof. The buttons are intuitive, the film quality is pristine, and the attached USB drive that flips up (hence the name) makes the whole process effortless. It took me about two minutes to unpack the thing and figure it out. Not to blatantly shill for The Flip but it's so easy I want to film everything. I've already filmed my trek from the office through the subway tunnels and home. Exciting! Stay tuned for embarassing moments...
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So about that long lost cousin in Tasmania... My mom called, "Margit, can we squeeze one more in?" Let me back up, to explain that my wedding is small-ish, limited to 64 people at a restaurant just outside of New York City. Our guest list is at 68. We started off thinking we'd have a bigger 150 person wedding in my hometown, Philadelphia, but decided -- since we're older, a hair wiser and wanted something really special -- we'd pick a great restaurant and invite just immediate family and a few close friends. Of course we started at a guestlist of 30. Oops. The only thing I regret about our choice is that there's no room, really, for dancing. We'll have a jazz quartet, but, sadly, no room to bust a move. Back to Mom: "G (we'll call him G) is coming in to stay with Uncle G in California...
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After a stressful weekend of wedding planning, flower coordination debacles ("Oh when you said 'carrot colored' bridesmaid dresses I thought you meant this color orange not that color orange." Sigh.) and unexpected guests to add to the list (my breakdancing cousin from Tasmania. A post about that later...), I thought it would be fun to post a few weird and quirky wedding pictures. Just for a good giggle. And to remind you that yes, Virginia, you do have good taste. Now that's a shotgun wedding...(booo) Asleep or drunk -- you decide. (From allfunny.net) A beer can archway, perfect for the redneck wedding (or they took our feature "New Uses for Old Things" a bit too far.") The camouflage dress. Although somehow I don't think she's in hiding... --Margit Detweiler
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Fiance: "I think you're more excited about the honeymoon than the wedding!" Well...no, dear. But I am excited. South America here we come! This past weekend we bought our plane tickets and settled on our itinerary. I used my horded away stash of 61k frequent flyer miles and, using a tip from Real Simple's article on how to use miles, I bought a few extra to make the necessary 70,000 miles. It was worth it. This Ecuador-Peru trip solves our quest to find the perfect mix of culture, adventure and romance -- as well as a few iguanas, Incan ruins, and Ceviche along the way. Here's our basic itinerary and a few random highlights: Day 1 & 2: Quito, Ecuador: We've planned a blissful "nothing" for the first two days. The travel agent had us touring around, but I think we're going to need two days of "chill out" before...
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