Tag Archives: wedding

Relatives have started descending from all directions, and yesterday marked the start of a whole string of festivities: my future in-laws hosted the rehearsal dinner last night, my mother hosts dinner tonight, we’re hosting the wedding tomorrow morning, and my dad is hosting dinner tomorrow night.  All in all, a whirlwind of social activity. It’s [...]

Yesterday I met with the bakery that’s doing the cake to discuss the decorations.  We agreed that the white chocolate glaze, while tastier than fondant, doesn’t travel as well, so switched to a rolled fondant coating with a ribbon wrapped around each layer of the cake.  I had originally intended to use gold ribbon, but [...]

We got the marriage license this morning, and I settled the two florists and updated the caterer at lunchtime.  Tomorrow I’m meeting with the bakery to discuss cake decorations, and will stop by the dry cleaners to drop off Mike’s shirt for pressing and to get an estimate on the cost for cleaning the wedding-dress [...]

I finished up the hairpin my mother sent me! Here’s a photo of the double-happiness as my mom sent it to me – solid silver brushed with (real) gold in the double-happiness section: Given the matte white (and rather ugly, if you ask me) backing, I was a bit uncertain whether I could make this [...]