Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in camobridezilla's LiveJournal:

Saturday, April 8th, 2006
12:51 pm	OK, we love you, but the hotel thing was killing us. worse, it was delaying the invitations. So, no hotel blocks, no transpo at the moment. People, start your coordinating. Book ASAP if you need a place to stay, the price will be better. Room share to your heart's content. Ride share as much as humanly possible. I'm sorry we couldn't work it out, but it causing waaaaaay more problems than it was solving. Thursday, August 17 - wedding is at 7. If you are around the airport you'll want to leave around 5:30, 5 for the Hollywood area. We love traffic. Need to eat now. Current Mood: cranky (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
4:15 pm	hotels Ok people - vote time Consider you are flying in to my wedding from the other side of the continent. Embassy Suites - $159 Hilton - $139 Both are the airport versions, both I've (briefly) been to and I'm cool with the general aestitic. Both have airport transport. Hilton does have a cocktail louge open until 2AM Embassy has free breakfast - good free breakfast. Hilton has rather small, yet very comfy rooms that could sleep four, but not much room to manuever. 4 merry crashers at most. Embassy gets you a bed room with double beds (or a king) and a sitting room wiht a queen-size sofa bed (or just a sofa). 6 merry crashers. I am working on way hotel to wedding transport. I make not promises at this point. Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Xplay (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
9:10 am	well, a great many things. We shall go chronologically.... I didn't mean to do it. I really didn't. I bought my wedding dress. http://www.maggiesottero.com/catalog/window.php?22 Now I have stacks of wedding sewing stuff around that I don't need, but oh well. The more sewing coutrue I can do the happier I am. Why the buy? Well, sometimes you go in, planning to just see what looks good - Minimizes the waist, gives height blah blah blah - and then there it is.... Mom and my Bitch-of-honor and I decided to hit one more bridal salon before I started on this project. I wanted to check a few styles, confirm a few things. I went through a dress or two, and then I put on this one. Boom. I was a-flutter. Mom and BoH were all smiles and I got complements from everyone in the damn store - mostly other mothers of the bride. We tried on one other dress, then went over to David's Bridal to try on a few that looked good last time, which simply reconfirmed the brillance of the Maggie. We had lunch. Over the course of which I was talked completly into the maggie, not that it really took much. I just had to let go of making my own. C'est la vie. The Boh will probably get Anne Couture. And then we had the handfasting. Very romantic, in the BoH backyard, under the yurt ('cause we feared for rain). We kept it very small - participants, their significant others and my mom. I wrote most of the cerimony, but I kept the invocation and the wisdom from the elements as something orgianal for the participants. Some bueatuful thing were said, all of which is a blur, but Christina is making scarpbook pages of it for me :), so everyone is sending copy to her. That makes me smile a lot. To end we did a healing circle for Curtis, and I think Christina managed not to cry. I don't know what else to say, other than the whole thing made me feel very loved. And mom thought it was bueatiful. And Chet more moved than I expected him to be. We went to dinner after wards - stuffed ourselves stupid, and I had too much to drink - oops. But it was very good. Current Mood: pleased (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
5:05 pm	Grrrr... fiance and fiance's family.... causing all sorts of trouble.... OK - hotel for out of townies - Airport Hilton, newly remodeled - $135 a night - is this unreasonable? for LA? I don't think so. Chet wants to go downtown for a cheaper price - lovely, but no airport transportation. I'm betting the cab is going to be about $30. And i really don't want anyone from the Eastern Shore renting a car and driving in LA. The In-Laws are just being snobby, which is really pissing Chet off. I'm also looking into some sort of transport from the hotel to the site - am I crazy or just really nice... Anyone wanna comment on hotel and transport issues - especally ya'll who are out of town.... Current Mood: aggravated (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 11th, 2006
9:56 am	The attendants rant The theory was great: I have a maid of honor, he has a best man - done. But no - he had to be all indescive and ask all 3 candidates thus, apparently, making me have 2 more maids. I don't want two more maids. I have a hard time picking two more maids. And ettiquette says one does not have to have even bridal parties. Not even going into the usher thing. While this issue bugs me, what is really getting problematic is psychology. He gets accusive and I get defensive. I know its all just stress on his part, and he has a lot of it. He doesn't need the wedding stuff. Its supposed to me my thing really. So its guilt. I can't make much better, but I could be doing more on this. Bad bridezilla... The future- MIL is pushing into things, sending invite suggestions. Rankles me. And of couse they are the most expensive (and boring). Theoritically, she's paying, but its a reembursment deal, which always makes me very nervous. Wish we just had our budget in hand and could go from there. Hm... being a bit of a control freak there. Off to get cleaned up. We're going to look at invites - time I need for Estrella prep.... *whine* Current Mood: aggravated (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 12th, 2005
8:30 pm	that pic go here. not a very good pic, but a very good ring. http://sandman.usc.edu/~cfb/ering.jpg Shiny! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
8:20 pm	the proposal it has happend. As we thought it would. He brought me home dinner. Sushi. I'm sick so going out isn't a good idea. We ate. We cleaned up. Sometime in there he stashed it with the couch pillows. Then pulled it out with "I got you a present." Little white box with a rainbow ribbion, inside a little black box and inside a shiny ring. Still a bit giggly here. We're working on a picture. Its got a really nice wieght to it. And so shiny... Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: whafting through my head (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
9:34 am	name tags OK, here's the thing. Mom and I had a what we consider a birlliant idea yesterday. As our wedding favors, we do name tags. Not the stick on "Hello, my name is..." thing, but very nice, tasteful (or at least not tacky) badge kinda things. WHY: Lots of people coming from out of state who have no association with each other outside of us. Really good ice breaker/ conversation starter - says me. ("oh so you went to college with Anne." "Yeah, I helped dye her hair green..") Since it will be a wine and hors'dourves wedding, people will be mingling more than at a sit down. There will be no seating assignments. No one has to remember names. Impomtu scavenger hunts (Find Chet's Cousins!) Chet and I did met at DragonCon, badges were a thing. How: Plastic badge holders with clips and lanyards avalible, probally made of ribbon in our wedding colors. Name cards will have at least the first name (I'd prefer first and last) and general realationship to the bride and/or groom (Ryan - Chet's roommate of many years, Jill - College friend of Anne's, etc). Possibly location too. Cards may be in different colors to indicate side (Anne's - green, Chet's - blue (?), Both - white) - probally a parchment like paper and a pretty font. What a guest would like to appear on their card as part of the RSVP, but the bride and groom the final say. Opinions? (13 Comments |Comment on this)