My New Wheels!!

Eeek!! I finally got a new (to me) car!! Here it is pictured above, and yes I do have two Buddhist charm hanging near my rear view mirror to protect me during my travels!! I'm loving my car!! It's so fun to drive!! Unfortunately I'm not driving it much because of my back/neck pains still. But it is fun to just sit in the car HAHAA!! Or even just look at it from the window, hehee!!

I'm really happy to announce my wonderful cousin Nary will be joining (and completing) our wedding party!! She's been my O.B.F. (Original Best Friend) and we share so many memories together. She was literally my very first friend ever and now she's one of my bridesmaid!! It means the world to me to have her beside me on the most special day of my life. If you'd like to get to know her more you can read more about her (and the rest of our wonderful wedding party) on the "Wedding Party" tab which is to the left.

Right now one of the things which we are working on is figuring out what linen we want. We're trying to figure out the material we want and also the color. Once we figure that out we can then start a few more DIY projects once a lot of the projects depend a lot on the color of the table clothes. Other great news about some DIY stuff we're doing is that Rey and I just finished up our *first* DIY project the other day. I'm remaining hush on what it is because I want it to be a surprise for all of our wedding guests, but I do want to say we're very happy with the way it came out. We only spent about $10-15 dollars on it when a lot of places are charging $120-200 for it!! Yippiee!! Gotta love saving money!! The way I'm seeing it is do one project at a time, just start early so we can take our time and do a good job at it so that way A) it saves us money and B) we don't get stressed off of it doing it last minute as the wedding comes along. So far so good. Rey has been very helpful and it's getting us more and more excited for our big day!!

This month has been kinda weird in the weather. I'm kinda bummed we haven't had that much of the normal "summer" weather. Let's keep our fingers crossed that next July the weather is warmer (in the 80's perhaps) once we are getting married outdoors. I want it warm, not hot and not too cold either.

Oh and I guess it's a good time to share, Rey and I have officially came to the conclusion that we're honeymooning in HAWAII!! Yippiee!! I'm really excited for us to take our "day after" (even though it'll be like a week after) wedding pictures in Hawaii with our amazing photographer Eddy Fong of Renai Photography. His work is so wonderful. Seeing our engagement photos still blow me away!! And some really cool news to share with you all, we have a bunch of our engagement photos actually show cased ON THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE!! Two of our photos are on the home page's slide show (once you press "enter") and if you go through his galleries a few more of our photos are sprinkled in there as well!! Go check it out!! It's so exciting!! And yes, there are a few engagement photos there which we haven't shared with anyone so if you go take a peek you'll see some "secret" photos we weren't going to share with anyone until the wedding. Hehee!! If you guys would like to see his work please go to:

www.renaiphoto.com
www.renaiphoto.com/blog

Hope everyone is doing well.

Our 6th July 4th Together!!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!! This year Rey and I celebrated our 6th July 4th together!! Wow!! That sounds SO long!! Hehee!! This year we went on a cruise around San Francisco with some friends and watched the fireworks from the boat (photo above). It was freezing cold, super windy, cloudy, and I had to sit for most of the time due to my back and neck injuries from the accident, but it was so fun!!

I've been spending lots of time at the California Pediatric Medical Center lately. Alex (one of the groomsmen) Rey's younger cousin is sick so we've been visiting almost everyday. Tonight and tomorrow I'm actually sleeping at the hospital with Alex so his Mom and Dad could have a couple days off of normal sleep.

Tomorrow in the afternoon I get a break from the hospital so I could go to my first session of physical therapy. Then I'll be headed back to the hospital.

Within the next week I'll be driving in a new car (new to me at least!!). I'm excited!! Haha!!

Wedding wise, we've waiting for a lot of sample swatches in the mail to come. Before we start buying a million things we need to check all their swatches to make sure the colors are all right. Once that get's squared away we'll be unstoppable buying all sorts of wedding stuff!! I'm excited!! The wedding is def. coming together with it being less than a year away!!

Hope everyone is well and is enjoying their summer!!666666666

Happy 5 Year Anniversary To Us & The Official 1 Year Count Down Til Our Wedding!!

There it is folks!! Our many count down tickers remind us that not only is today our 5 year anniversary. Wow, how time as flown!! I can't believe it's been 5 years already!! Plus, this exact date next year we're going to be husband and wife!! The official one year count down begins today!! So very excited!! This is the beginning of getting elbow deep in the wedding planning!! The next year is just going to FLY on by!!

In other wedding related news, yesterday Rey, MOH Brea, and I all went to meet with a top secret vendor for our wedding. All I can say is, WOW!! We were so blown away and today's appointment just made us THAT much more excited for the wedding!! YAY!!

Good News and Bad News.

Rey and his Dad at the birthday party!!

The bad news first.. I got into a car accident on Friday. Boo!! The car behind me hit me going on 101 south bound and he did take full responsibly for the accident and my injuries. I also got a rental car but I swear it's horrid!! The blind spots are HUGE and the stirring wheel has this fancy thingy on it, but it literally is so slippery I can barely grip it!! This car is an accident in the making!! Seriously!! Are they wanting me to crash or something??

Anyways, some good news is that we're proud to announce our God Parents for the wedding!! To see more information on them, please look to the left and click on "Parents and God Parents". Other wedding related news is we got a bunch of stuff in the mail which we had ordered. They are all a surprise though so I can't share with you guys what it is. You'll have to wait til the big day to find out what it is!!

More good news is that today is Rey's Dad's birthday!! He's 60!! Happy birthday to him!! On Saturday there was a huge party for him at the house with a singer, DJ, tons of food, and family and friends (photo above). It was fun even though I was handicapped the whole time.

We hope everyone is doing well!! Until next time!!

Errands in San Jose.

Yesterday Rey and I ran a whole lot of errands. We woke up, got an oil change, and then headed all the way down to San Jose. Rey bought 2 sets of 3 throwing knives (pictured above), while I looked for wedding ribbon, favors, and toppers. On our agenda was also looking for a purple dress for myself. I didn't get anything that was on my shopping list which sucked, but it's okay. We've still got a lot of time til the wedding!! I did however, get the cutest summer dress which I can't wait to wear. I'm thinking to wear it to our wedding shower even though that's far off!! Haha!!

In other wedding related news, I've been working hard on organizing wedding binders. I'm making one for Rey and I, and also for MOH Brea. Inside this binder is literally everything you would need to know for our wedding. There's a calender which has important dates, appointments, money due dates, a contacts list with numbers, emails, faxes, addresses etc. of everyone who's involved in the wedding (wedding party, family of the bride and groom, wedding coordinator, venue, all vendors, and officiants)., there's also the wedding menu, the guest list, a check list, and lots of other helpful tidbits. I'm really excited to finish these binders, they are so helpful!!

We're waiting to hear back from a few prospective vendors (videographer, calligrapher, DJ). Hopefully we get those squared away soon!! Hope everyone is doing fabulous!!

Domain bought!!

We finally bought our domain for our official wedding website for all of our wedding guests!! Whoo hoo!!

Mega Update!!

Wow, it's been so long!! So much has happened!! I have no idea where to even start!! I'll just list some things that happened, however I can't put them in the order they came in because I don't remember. Haha!!

Lots of bridesmaid dress shopping has been going on. Our friend Sarah and I went together and found a few cute dresses at Kay's Bridal in Castro Valley. Later in the week Sarah finally got to meet MOH Brea as we all got together to look at BMs dresses and then hit up a few wedding appointments. Brea finally got to see the venue which she loved. We also went to look at a few reception wedding dresses. That day was very productive.

A few days after that, MOH Brea accompanied me to the 2nd annual Yelp Elite's 80's prom!! It was so much fun!! We drank spiked punch, tequila, ate yummy food, danced to good music, saw balloon arches, took prom picture, and saw a burlesque show!! Haha!! She even won the raffle and got a free night at the hotel for two people including breakfast!! She's such a sweet friend and gave it to Rey and I as a graduation gift.

Which brings me to my other good news, my high school sweetheart and I were able to graduated college together (photo above). Although he missed the deadline to sign up for graduation and wasn't expecting to be able to walk until next semester, he did it!! We weren't assigned to the same building, and weren't even suppose walk down to the ceremony together (they split up the graduates in two groups by last name so one group could walk in from the left while the other walked in from the right), let alone seat near one another but our friend Sarah (who also graduated with us!!) went and ask the director if her best friend could have her Fiancee walk beside her and have him sit with her and the director said, "I just want her to be happy, tell her that her Fiancee can come to this building and walk with her." The day was better than I could have ever imaged it!! All of our friends that graduated got to sit right next to us!! If you'd like to see graduation photos, please go take a peek in the Photo Galleries section on the left.

Rey and I also went camping!! We went with his gym!! It was lots of fun and wasn't too far away which was great. Camp Memorial Park was only 1 hour away from Millbrae. We'd def. go back, hopefully in July!!

Well, that's pretty much it for now. Now that it's summer I'll have more time to wedding plan. Looking forward to a very productive summer!!