So last weekend, my Jen Malone flew in from NY for a weekend of good times. She was such a big help going on many wedding related errands with me all weekend. Thaddeus took the time off to go to San Diego with Brenden to watch a rugby tournament. During the day, we called Thad once to see if he was going to be home for dinner with us and he ended the conversation with her with "God Bless You Jen". Jen and I moved to CA together back in 2003 and we miss her very much. We would love a roommate again!
She got in late Friday night, on her plane was the 80's classic Cyndi Lauper (flying in for the Grammys). We woke up early Saturday and headed to do a quick cake tasting, it was 10:00 in the morning and red velvet didn't seem to appetizing but we were on a schedule and it was the only time we could fit it in.
On to Maravilla to give her a look, checked out the hotel for our guests, and then went to our first of two flowers appointments that day. The woman was great and really paid attention to everything I said, but she was a bit over our budget so we moved on.
Next we headed over to Yamaguchi flowers, a family owned flower company that grows everything they use on the property. They came highly recommended by our caterer and another bride that used them. I have to admit, I was initially not loving them because of the atmosphere. It was a run down building with ALOT of flowers everywhere and we had just came from someone's beautiful house where she had hundreds of pictures laid out for me to choose from. Yamaguchi man just wrote down chicken scratch as I impressed him and Jen with my new knowledge of flowers. After a few short minutes we loved him, his sister Susie, and their grandmother (that's all we met, there were many more) He made me a centerpiece of my colors to get a feel for a look that I liked and sent Jen and I home each with a bouquet of flowers. He came in right on budget without me even telling him what it was..... Needless to say we booked Yamaguchi man yesterday!!!
Saturday night we went to our favorite Mexican place, Casa Vega for dinner. We had the best time laughing and chatting while waiting for Thad to meet us there.
Sunday- we got up and only had a few simple things to look into. I took Jen to try on her bridesmaid dress, we looked at invitations, we went and got Leda's cupcakes which is our (Thad and I) favorite bakery. Then over a few glasses of wine we tackled the designing and the wording of our programs. So fun when you reach a point of "I don't care what it says as long as it prints!"
Monday- Jen and I, thinking we are big bad New Yorkers went to the fashion district downtown. Not a bad area, but it is VERY close to bad news as we found out. We were out looking for some silly items, ribbon in bulk, a different size vase, a headpiece for my hair trial this week, nothing really too important. We asked a policeman where a street was and he told us that we were headed to Skid Row. I think you can imagine what I am talking about, if not google Skid Row in LA, scary! We explained that we were parked there, he in a nice way said to get your car soon. We took his lead and headed to Beverly Hills for lunch. Yes two extremes. After lunch, we walked around for a bit and then I found my wedding shoes and bought them!!!! I can't show a picture of them because they are top secret like the dress!
All in all awesome weekend. We checked off many things on the list. I love you Jenny May, thanks for coming!
Stay tuned. Next post Thad and I registering at Crate and Barrel, Thad was very particular about the weight of his spoons!!!
