09.13.08
Posted in randomness, wedding planning at 10:32 am by Pammy
This morning I woke up to an article that my fiance had left for me to read.
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The Anti Wedding” printed in the Washington Post Magazine on September 7th.
As I read the article, I started to become offended, was Chris trying to tell me that he thought I was becoming a crazy bridezilla (gasp)?! Did he not want to see me in a beautiful white dress?! Does he not want flowers?!
But I read on. This is one interesting article. They are obviously going for shock value. But the point that I think they are trying to make is that a man and woman shouldn’t feel like they are supposed to have a traditional wedding with calligraphist addressed invitations, flower center pieces, an individual favor for each guest, and a white dress.
The bottom line though, is this: Every bride and groom should plan the wedding that they want. Not the wedding that the wedding industry leads them to think they want. It makes it difficult when anything with the word “wedding” stamped on it comes with a higher price tag. I think that the writers are trying to change this fact, or at least take the first step to it. Because everyone doesn’t want the OTT wedding. But the ones that do, that’s great too!
This is definitely making me rethink some things that I have been planning for my wedding. Because I want the event to reflect the couple that Chris and I are and have every guest remember our special day for its uniqueness. Our location is one thing at least that won’t be at all traditional.
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09.11.08
Posted in randomness at 5:45 pm by Pammy
Baby Kaleb
Baby Victoria
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09.08.08
Posted in wedding planning at 2:26 pm by Pammy
..and look at what I find!
Damask Vases from Safeway
Yea that’s right, and on sale for $14.99 no less, lucky me 
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09.03.08
Posted in fashion, wedding planning at 5:12 pm by Pammy
So I found this new website that creates really cool collages from images that you grab from the web. It is really simple to use and so much fun. I love that it deleted the background of the image for you so you can overlap the objects. It makes it so much more dynamic than the tiled square style inspiration board that I made before. I was playing around with it today and I created another inspiration board! My only gripe with it is that the site doesn’t allow you to upload your own images!
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Posted in home decor, shopping, wedding planning at 3:18 pm by Pammy
Black and Ivory Damask Pillows
Today on my lunchbreak I decided to head over to Ross and see if I could find any damask. I have seen stuff at this type of store before so I was pretty confident that I would find something. They actually didn’t have all that much. They had a couple of frames that were baroque style but not damask. They were mostly silver though and I would really like to stay with black and white. There was a pink damask decorative box, several damask photo albums (but I’ve seen these everywhere so I won’t have trouble finding one when the time comes), and several damask pillows. I took a picture of the ones that would work best in my wedding.. but I didn’t purchase them. They aren’t black and white, they are ivory and black. They are $8.99 each, and Ross has 4 of them. I’m sure I could find a use for them somewhere, they are really beautiful. I wish that they were white rather than ivory though because I think that it’s so much more modern. My other thing is.. I could always make throw pillows myself if I find that I really want to use them.
I also found another damask pillow that was black and silver, it was really nice, but the only one. On one of the shelves was a black and white damask lampshade, but I don’t need anything like that. Unless they were tiny shades to put on small lamp bases.
Has anyone seen any damask at any local stores? If you ever see anything, please send me a PIX message and let me know where it’s from!
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