30 ish SoCal girl. Living with her adorable Hubs. Blogging about her - loving, cooking, baking, eating and going to interior design school. Is there something you want to know? Just ask :)
It’s taken me a couple days to address the prompt because I couldn’t think of any new friends I made… or remember if any new friends I have made we made in 2011 or 2010. I’ve become better friends with a handful of people and that has been great! Those friends impacted me 2011 by making me feel special, smart and loved :)
July – A lot happened this July. I finished the hardest semester of school ever, walked for graduation, went to my good friend, Tiffany’s, bachelorette party and was a bridesmaid in her wedding and turned 31. I’m not usually one to chose my birth month as my favorite month, but July was a good month filled with celebrations, accomplishments and friends.
In case you missed it, I’m on a guest posting roll! Last Saturday I guest posted on fellow Weddingbee blogger, Lemon’s, blog, kimberlymichelle.com. Kim is off on a fabulous vacation in Mexico with her good friend and Weddingbee Editor in Chief, Mrs Penguin.
Kim’s Fonts of the Week are one of my favorite of her posts, besides the ones of Miss L, of course. My favorites of those posts are when the fonts are FREE. Who doesn’t like free stuff, right? Well, I’ve decided to share with you my favorite free fonts, I’ve found on the web. Check out the rest of the post here.
Next weekend (the weekend before Valentine’s Day) Hubs and I are heading up to Northern California for his sister’s wedding. There colors are red, black and cream and I’ve been really excited about all the Valentine’s hearty goodness I could wear. I’ve always loved Valentine’s Day, which is unusual considering the first Valentine’s Day I had a boyfriend or a date was when I started dating Hubs… 5 yrs ago. (Loooooser)
I love the color of the gem, but the point on the back make me nervous about how it would lay. Plus, I’m not a huge fan of adjustable chains… but it’s so pretty.
I was MIA around the holidays. I kinda stopped posting all the Reverb10 prompts, only doing the ones that really spoke to me and wouldn't repeat something I’d already talked about. I haven’t posted the gluten free dessert I made for Christmas Eve yet… etc. I’ve decided to do a recap post for 2010 a little later than most. Let’s be honest though, it’s only the 3th, so I’m not that behind.
I really liked the way KJPugs did her 2010 review, so I’ve decided to copy her. Don’t worry, I asked… although, I didn’t really wait for her to respond and say it’s cool. Anyway, here we go…
May I started making recipe cards for my recipe posts. The first two I made were for the salad I recreated from a local French restaurant & Margarita Cupcakes.
October I did my first guest post and rattled on about the wonder that is Jazzercise.
November I blogged every single day… errr, posted every single day. Let’s be honest sometime we blog more than once a day but schedule those posts out. I also discovered Chipotle,
After the tosses we walked around and mingled with out guests as the night started to whine down.
We also got a few final pictures in with our wedding party.
Ohana, our photographers, set up these awesome shots with an old carriage, behind our reception area.
I have to give them props for rallying our wedding party and getting them to stand still for these shots because, due to all the free wine, they were pretty drunk by the end of the night.
In fact, I’m surprise I managed to stay serious in these photos because they had us cracking up.
We didn’t have a big exit at the end of the night, we’d already done our toss at the our ceremony.
Mr Frenchie and I walked around and said good night to as many people as we could. Then we disappeared to the parking lot to meet the car our hotel sent over.
It was actually really fun sneaking away with my new husband. We still had a lot of the night left because our reception ended around 9:30. We went to our hotel room and drank champagne on the balcony of our room and talked about the day.
The End :)
You’re not rid of me yet though, I still have a few more post planned with the Bee Series.
My gorgeous bouquet, that still can bring myself to throw away.
Mr Frenchie’s manly boutineer and FIL Frenchie’s tie from the 60’s, gifted to Mr Frenchie around the time we got engaged. MIL Frenchie’s dress ended up matching the tie perfectly.
My bridesmaid’s colorful and wild bouquets.
My wedding clutch that Etsy seller, IMH Designs overnights to me days before the wedding. Nothing like waiting until the last minute to decided on clutch.
My bright yellow Calvin Klein pumps. Like the clutch, I couldn’t decide which shoes to purchase. In the end I decided to wear a pair of yellow shoes I already owned and they were perfect.
Our rings on a bunch of grapes from the vineyard.
The “Wish Dish” – at the meeting with our DOC 2 weeks before the wedding, Amanda suggested a “Wish Bowl” when we had no clue what to do for a guest book. Mama Frenchie surprised me by getting this made at Color Me Mine. We nicknamed it a “Wish Dish” because it wasn’t really a bowl.
Like many other brides I wore two garters. The one below was the same garter my mother and her mother wore in their weddings. Mama Frenchie also made me a similar one for the toss.
With everyone gathered in the same location happily eating cake we decided it was time to toss some stuff. For the garter toss Mr Frenchie chose the Pink Panther theme song, by Henry Mancini.
Mr Frenchie is a big Henry Mancini fan and the Pink Panther album was one of the first CDs he burned for me. We thought it was a great garter toss song without being too trashy.
I’m really ticklish so my facial expressions from Mr Frenchie getting the garter are pretty funny!
Mr Frenchie’s groomsman, Jeremiah, caught the garter.
He stayed true to the tradition and proposed to his girlfriend Tiffany, this past February. Mr Frencie and I are honored to be members of their wedding party.
For the bouquet toss, I chose Clumsy, by Fergie. No real significance other than I think the song and I thought there might be some “Trippin’” and “Stumblin’” to get at the bouquet ;-)
When we were trying to decide whether or not to do the toss, I tried to add up how many ladies I thought would participate.
I grossly under estimated how many ladies would tell me I had to throw it to them. I didn’t want to throw the toss (hardy har) but I thought I’d aim in Tiffany’s (Jeremiah’s girlfriend) direction.
You can see Lindsay (groomsman, Brandon’s wife) coaxing Tiffany into position, on the right of the picture above and below.
However, after all my single friends came up to me separately through out the night scheming to get the bouquet tossed in their direction, (*coughChristianne(front and center)cough*) I chose to just close my eyes and toss.
The next set of pictures are among my favorites of the night. When I threw the bouquet, I tossed it too high and it hit the ceiling, sending it straight to Erin and Christianne.
Both of them put up a good fight.
The guests look shocked and worried… who’s going to win?
With only one hand left on the prize, Christianne appears to be losing the tug-o-war…
.. and Erin wins the bouquet!
Having caught the bouquet at a wedding before, I know that feeling! I love Erin’s smile :)
Are you having a garter and bouquet toss are your wedding?
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I’m not usually one to chose my birth month as my favorite month, but July was a good month filled with celebrations, accomplishments and friends.
