Photography

It's been awhile since I've blogged...guess my life isn't as exciting, as I think it is. This blog entry is to remind that I need to get of my lazy butt and practice my photography. Practice makes perfect! How am I suppose to get better, if I don't practice. Here are some pictures I shot awhile ago.

Decisions, Decision, Decisions...

What a week! I'm so glad it's Friday. I've been busy, busy, busy. However, the wedding planning is moving a long great. This past Monday, I had my hair and makeup trial with Nicole Deanne Bridal Hair and Makeup. The trial went fantastic, and Nicole is such a sweet person. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of trial to post, as I forgot my camera. Nicole took pictures though, and I'm just waiting for her to email them to me, so that I can make changes to the hair and makeup, if needed. Once I receive the photos, I will post. It's exciting though to have another vendor booked. Everything is moving along quite nicely. Not to mention, Twigs & Honey will be creating my custom floral hair accessory for the wedding. I'm super stoked!!!!
Twigs & Honey has been getting great reviews on theknot and after seeing her work on etsy, I was sold. I contacted her just in time for her to accept my order. Now comes the hard part deciding how my hair piece should look. Everything she creates is simply stunning and goregours! She's one talented person. Below are some pictures of what I'm looking for...perhaps I can combine some of the styles. What do you think?

All Images from Twigs & Honey

Memories...

I've been wanting to blog a bout some old pictures I've received from an old friend last week, but haven't had the time to do so. I had a crazy week not to mention all the drama I had to deal with. Thankfully, I'm drama free this week and moving on from all the shenanigans.

Below are the pictures I received from a good friend who lives in Colorado. They are quite funny, as I haven't seen these pictures in years. Back in my younger days, I was very involved in my community youth group and we use to go on trips all over Europe. One of the trips we took was to Switzerland, where we all went Glacier Climbing in the Alps. Seeing these pictures brought back a flood of memories - me completely frustrated and bitching about the glacier because it took me longer to climb up the glacier then I thought. Not to mention, it seemed as if I were never going to reach the top.

Our hike up to the Glacier

Photo Op

That's Me! Climbing the Glacier

At the Campsite

Money, Money, Money...in a rich man's world

Looking for the perfect wedding dress can be stressful, considering the various different dress designers out there. Not to mention, how expensive some of these dresses can be. Unfortunately, my taste in dresses is bit on the higher side. See example below:

Kenneth Pool, Design: Vivian

I absolutely love, love this dress, just too bad money doesn't grow on trees. After taxes and alterations the cost would be around $5000 -5500. Too expensive, even for just one special day.
But this past Saturday I found at dress, which was reasonable price and won't break the bank. It's a type of dress I had not considered at first. When I walked in the Bridal Salon I tried on several different dresses, but I didn't really find anything I was wowed by. However, there was another Bride at the salon, who had this beautiful ball gown dress on. She looked beautiful in it too. That particular bride wanted to purchase "my dress", but had to wait until her mom flew into town. The good daughter she is, she decided to wait, even though it was her second visit to the Bridal Department Store.
To make a long story short, I decided to try on that particular dress, as well. To my surprise a ball gown dress did not over power my petite statue. And I was actually wowed by the dress, once the sales lady put on the veil and the blusher on as well. I actually felt like a bride. =)
So, I'm so excited and just can't hide it...(don't know the rest of the lyrics. LoL)

Designer: Anne Barge
Not to sound conceited, but I got so many compliments, wearing this particular gown. Even after I had taken off the dress, shoppers still kept coming up to me to compliment me on the beautiful dress and the radiant glow I exuded. This reaffirmed to me that I made the the right choice.

Please Don't Stop The Music...

What a busy and fun weekend! Let me recap the weekend bulletin style.

Saturday:

• Dress Shopping in San Diego
  
• Drove home, grabbed my over night bag, then headed from the I.E. to Huntington Beach
  
• Reached friends house, by then tired from all the driving, rushing to get changed - then head to head out to swanky Beverly Hills, for a 30th surprise b-day party.
  
• Partied all night long, but still woke up at 9 am the next day.
  

Sunday:

• Ate big breakfast- afterwards uploaded the pictures to my friend's computer.
  
• Off to the Farmers Market - afterwards swam some laps in the pool, unfortunately no time to play Tennis.
  
• Took shower, got dress and then off to ECO-Fair in Anaheim Hills at the Nature Center.
• Side note: my friend's boyfriend is an artist and set him up with a project for my boss - 3pm appt at my boss' house.
  
• At home now, but tired from the weekend.
  

What would be a post with out the picture documentations. =)

At the Avalon Hotel

Group picture

How pretty is this bird?

Hawk rescued by the Bird Sanctuary

Labor Day Weekend

Soo sad that this three day weekend is coming to an end. I love lazy weekends. No work and no traffic!!! Just hung out at home and relaxed. Yesterday though, I met up with some friends at the beach, who were BBQing and later had a Bonfire. Played some soccer and volleyball. Now, I'm all sore from all the running around. =) It was good work out though, definitely needed it after all that food I've been eating this weekend. Pictures from the beach: