Everything turned out fine. Better than fine.
It was an amazing week!
Here are some pics:
http://weddingnouveau.com/2009/08/31
and some videos to whet your whistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4whF4sVP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsy8CIi1hpM
I'll get more pictures back in a matter of days and post them.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the wedding: our families, bridal parties, friends, readers, our officiant Michael, and all our guests for making it the most unforgettable week of our lives.
lots of love,
Soneela
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Down to the wire
There's nothing worse than logging onto your wedding website, glancing at the corner of the screen and seeing that horrid sentence: 24 days til your wedding. TWENTY FOUR.
And if I log on tomorrow (which I most certainly will NOT), it'll tell me that i have 23 days until my wedding.
HOW, I ask you, AM I SUPPOSED TO CONTINUE LIVING IN DENIAL while this horrific count down persists?
It's impossible, I tell you. And, perhaps, that is the point.
It was all pretty chill for a while there. All of that is over. OVER!
Not to mention I'm still doing a show...until the 19th.
And to make matters even worse, my body has chosen this moment to come down with a cold.
CURSES!
And if I log on tomorrow (which I most certainly will NOT), it'll tell me that i have 23 days until my wedding.
HOW, I ask you, AM I SUPPOSED TO CONTINUE LIVING IN DENIAL while this horrific count down persists?
It's impossible, I tell you. And, perhaps, that is the point.
It was all pretty chill for a while there. All of that is over. OVER!
Not to mention I'm still doing a show...until the 19th.
And to make matters even worse, my body has chosen this moment to come down with a cold.
CURSES!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
AHHHH!
This is a warning for all you people who are planning a wedding. THE WEDDING IS NOT ABOUT YOU! You may think it is. But it is not. It is about your family. And whatever they want is what is going to happen. Especially if they pay for it.
What does this mean? It means there will be tons of people at your wedding that you have never met. And that your parents will invite people to YOUR wedding without even telling you.
Consider yourself warned.
Ok, so that was a little bitter of me. But, let's face it, it's pretty accurate. It's amazing how people get offended by not being invited to your wedding. Even if they haven't spoken to you for five years. And don't particularly like you.
These invitations are officially the bane of my existence. I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. Can I get a volunteer to take over in this particular area? I'll let you do the seating chart. And I promise I won't say anything if you put my mother next to my bridesmaid's boyfriend's cousin. Or whatever.
What does this mean? It means there will be tons of people at your wedding that you have never met. And that your parents will invite people to YOUR wedding without even telling you.
Consider yourself warned.
Ok, so that was a little bitter of me. But, let's face it, it's pretty accurate. It's amazing how people get offended by not being invited to your wedding. Even if they haven't spoken to you for five years. And don't particularly like you.
These invitations are officially the bane of my existence. I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. Can I get a volunteer to take over in this particular area? I'll let you do the seating chart. And I promise I won't say anything if you put my mother next to my bridesmaid's boyfriend's cousin. Or whatever.
Friday, June 5, 2009
I did it!
I finished stuffing, sealing, addressing, return addressing and stamping all the invitations (I won't even discuss all the different stamp combinations I had to master to send invitations to Germany, Canada, England and Colombia among other places. Now I can say that I have seen 61 cent stamps! As well as 17 cents, 4 cents, 3 cents, 72 cents and $1. What I want to know is who is the dude that comes up with the amounts that stamps should come in? I mean, 61cents?!? What can I do with 61 cents? Seriously, is this just to make my life harder? Because of this man's genius - and, yes, I do think it was a man that came up with this - most of the invitations have 3 stamps on them. Those lucky people who live abroad have up to 5!! Luckily the envelope is really big. Otherwise they wouldn't all fit. But I digress.)
YES the invitations are out! So look for yours in the mail soon!
I kept shoving them into the mail slot in our building. They're really big! So I shoved as many as I could in there until there was no space for anything else and then I came back the next day and did the same thing!
So I did it yesterday morning and then, assuming that the mail had already been taken, I went back yesterday late afternoon. The mailman was there at the time. I saw his cart but not him. Bingo! I'm going to give him this last batch and then all of them will go out today! I hunted around for a minute and found him chillin' on one of the chairs in the lobby. Seriously. I'll refrain from commenting. Anyway, I put on my sweetest smile and ask him if he would take the rest of my invitations (the 35 I was holding in my hand). He looked at me, incredulously, and said, "How many of those you got?!"
My sentiments exactly!
I assured him this was the last batch. He took them begrudgingly and I skipped off, free from the burden of my invitations.
YES the invitations are out! So look for yours in the mail soon!
I kept shoving them into the mail slot in our building. They're really big! So I shoved as many as I could in there until there was no space for anything else and then I came back the next day and did the same thing!
So I did it yesterday morning and then, assuming that the mail had already been taken, I went back yesterday late afternoon. The mailman was there at the time. I saw his cart but not him. Bingo! I'm going to give him this last batch and then all of them will go out today! I hunted around for a minute and found him chillin' on one of the chairs in the lobby. Seriously. I'll refrain from commenting. Anyway, I put on my sweetest smile and ask him if he would take the rest of my invitations (the 35 I was holding in my hand). He looked at me, incredulously, and said, "How many of those you got?!"
My sentiments exactly!
I assured him this was the last batch. He took them begrudgingly and I skipped off, free from the burden of my invitations.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
FINALLY!
We finally got the invitations. It's been a long time coming. We've been looking at invitations since December! And our invitation company was a little bit of a nightmare. They're located in Bombay. Everything is slower over there. And then they had to send them here. They were supposed to get here last weekend. But, whatever, they are here and that's all the matters.
There is one other thing: They don't really look anything like what I thought they were going to look like!
The company sent us a photograph about three weeks ago (now displayed on the right side of this blog entry). I loved the invitation in the photograph. The invitations we got don't look like that. They're nice, don't get me wrong, but I was really surprise to get 150 invitations that I'd never seen before! It was pretty hilarious.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
I feel pretty...oh so pretty!
Well, not yet, but soon! Ladies and gentlemen I have finally booked a hair and makeup person. Well, I'm going to try her out in a couple weeks, but I've heard very good things about her. My wedding planner used her for her wedding! I think that's a good sign.
So Walker and I are heading to DC for a marathon wedding weekend soon. We're doing cake, caterer, alcohol, makeup you name it. And then when we get back the invitations will have arrived (FINALLY! Do yourself a favor, when you get married, don't have your invitations made in India. Yes, the pricing is very reasonable, but it's just not worth it. Because instead of taking two days to do something, it takes two WEEKS! And that ain't cool. Thank goodness for Gobind Nankani! Without his persistence, at this point, I'd probably be frantically scribbling invitations on construction paper with a crayon)
And then we're going to labeling invitations like its our job. And then he's off to Martha's Vineyard for a show! And I will already be in rehearsal for my show so it only gets more complicated from here!
By the way, I'm signing up volunteers if anyone is interested.
At least the bachelorette party is soon. Less than a month away!
And I think for our honeymoon we are going to Athens and some Greek Islands so I have that to look forward to too!
Ahhhhhh!
So Walker and I are heading to DC for a marathon wedding weekend soon. We're doing cake, caterer, alcohol, makeup you name it. And then when we get back the invitations will have arrived (FINALLY! Do yourself a favor, when you get married, don't have your invitations made in India. Yes, the pricing is very reasonable, but it's just not worth it. Because instead of taking two days to do something, it takes two WEEKS! And that ain't cool. Thank goodness for Gobind Nankani! Without his persistence, at this point, I'd probably be frantically scribbling invitations on construction paper with a crayon)
And then we're going to labeling invitations like its our job. And then he's off to Martha's Vineyard for a show! And I will already be in rehearsal for my show so it only gets more complicated from here!
By the way, I'm signing up volunteers if anyone is interested.
At least the bachelorette party is soon. Less than a month away!
And I think for our honeymoon we are going to Athens and some Greek Islands so I have that to look forward to too!
Ahhhhhh!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Getting going
So, we haven't really done ANYTHING in the last few weeks. I don't know why. Burnout maybe?
But we're trying to get back on the bandwagon.
We registered!
At Macy's and Crate and Barrel.
It's so funny. I was agonizing about where to register - can't be too expensive, must have stuff we like, etc. And then I realized that all the stores have more or less the same stuff! And all the stores charge more or less the same price (well, except for Bloomingdale's. That place is expensive.)
So next thing I know I'm picking china. CHINA. That was weird. And who knew there were so many different patterns? And who knew that Vera Wang and Kate Spade china patterns. Oh the things you learn when you get married!
So the only thing we can't decide on is whether to register for a Kindle. I want to do it it! Walker does not. Because he thinks we can't register for two and if we only have one I'll hog it all the time. Which is absolutely true. :)
We're also getting close to signing a contract with the caterer (gulp!) and I'm finally going to DC to figure out who on earth is going to do my hair and makeup.
And then, of course, we are now talking about the honeymoon!
And I am talking comments, suggestions and the like on this particular topic.
We're currently talking about Greece, Cyprus or Santorini.
We want a beach and some culture. And preferably we'd like to go to a place that neither of us have been to before - which is actually the hardest condition to satisfy since Walker and I have both traveled so much!
I think the sooner we get the honeymoon planned the better. That way when we get stressed out, which WILL happen, we can resort to a honeymoon mantra: "the beach in Greece, the beach in Greece, the beach in Greece!" for example. Ahhhh! I can feel myself relaxing already!
But we're trying to get back on the bandwagon.
We registered!
At Macy's and Crate and Barrel.
It's so funny. I was agonizing about where to register - can't be too expensive, must have stuff we like, etc. And then I realized that all the stores have more or less the same stuff! And all the stores charge more or less the same price (well, except for Bloomingdale's. That place is expensive.)
So next thing I know I'm picking china. CHINA. That was weird. And who knew there were so many different patterns? And who knew that Vera Wang and Kate Spade china patterns. Oh the things you learn when you get married!
So the only thing we can't decide on is whether to register for a Kindle. I want to do it it! Walker does not. Because he thinks we can't register for two and if we only have one I'll hog it all the time. Which is absolutely true. :)
We're also getting close to signing a contract with the caterer (gulp!) and I'm finally going to DC to figure out who on earth is going to do my hair and makeup.
And then, of course, we are now talking about the honeymoon!
And I am talking comments, suggestions and the like on this particular topic.
We're currently talking about Greece, Cyprus or Santorini.
We want a beach and some culture. And preferably we'd like to go to a place that neither of us have been to before - which is actually the hardest condition to satisfy since Walker and I have both traveled so much!
I think the sooner we get the honeymoon planned the better. That way when we get stressed out, which WILL happen, we can resort to a honeymoon mantra: "the beach in Greece, the beach in Greece, the beach in Greece!" for example. Ahhhh! I can feel myself relaxing already!
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