pie in the sky

I thought we could get away with cutting a small cake to satisfy those, including my sister, who want us to cut the cake. My sister bought us a Lladro cake topper as an engagement present, because I am so clearly a figurine person...yeah...not so much.

sis, "So just put it on top of the pie!"
me, "It will sink"
sis, "You take all the joy out of wedding planning!"
me, "You're welcome" (to my niece who will one day have to deal with the musings of my sister as she tries to have a low key wedding)

Emailed the coordinator at the restaurant who pointed out, well, if you cut a cake then people expect to EAT a cake. So true. Pie it is. Not just any pie, but fancy stacked pies.

yum.

the man in my life

Every time someone buys something off our registry, the man in my life (TMIML is too long, right?), calls me and updates me. Looks like someone has a case of registry-stalkaholism.

I find this...fascinating. Especially considering that registering was about as pleasant as a dentist appointment.

another sale

Daily Candy is beginning to be more of an annoyance than the knot.

What: Lela Rose Wedding
Why: Fifteen styles of white gowns are $500-$3,000 (up to 80 percent off).
When: July 15-17. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Where: 224 W. 30th St., b/t Seventh & Eighth Aves., 13th flr.

must. not. look. at. other. dresses. ugh.

bridal sample sales

go only because i can't...

Pronovias Sample Sale - Saturday, June 27th
14 East 52nd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenue.
by appointment only (212-897-6393).

Also,

Walked by Veka on Mott yesterday, they are having a sample sale, prices from $1000 - $2500 on european designers like Suzanne Ermann. Go Go Go. I totally went in to see some of those fancy numbers...you should too.

Veka
262 Mott St., nr. Prince St.
New York, NY 10012
212-925-9044

have you seen this?

The nytimes article With this Burger I Thee Wed? I object to a few things in this article, including this:

Still, the final tab is often head-slappingly high: The cost of a wedding planned this summer by Ms. Weiss or Jo Gartin, two of Los Angeles’s most sought-after wedding specialists, is as high or higher than last year, or about $150,000 to $200,000, according to the two planners.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ridiculous.

But the slideshow of readers' food picks is total wedding porn.


mmm, cheesy burgers...

la la la, less than 4 months...

I'm thinking I need to unsubscribe from smitten kitchen and Joy the Baker from now until October. Cuz all I want to do is go home and make these.


I've been MIA lately...had friends visit over the weekend from that place the FH is from and they were SO FUN to have over. That said, when asked what wedding stuff I had to show her, yeah, I had nothing. Like nothing. We have nothing in our apt that has to do with our wedding. Do I need to have stuff? Is there something I'm missing?

And our wedding binder, if you could call it that, is like a monster with paper as teeth, totally overwhelming the one inch spine I thought I would need for this thing called a wedding.

rehearsal dinner schmimmer

FH got taken to the cleaners by a restaurant in Little Italy in the Bronx and put a deposit down.

Came home freaked out. Talked it over. Since the dinner menu was going to be fancier than our actual wedding and there was a hazy area re: tipping, we canceled the reservation and stopped payment on the check. We decided to go to more affordable and less nice place. You know, the place with all the politician pics on the walls as you walk in, the pizza place in the front and the mirrored room in the back. alls kinds of classy.

As I've said before, I'd prefer to skip the whole thing, take a tylenol pm and got to sleep on the twin bed from my childhood, but if dinner is to be had, even the bare essentials will do for me. It's the parents who "care". Bring on the mirrored room and the cheap chianti.