A wedding filled weekend

So this weekend was all about weddings...weddings...weddings.

On Saturday Mr. Honda and I made our way to the beautiful home of a custom wedding invitation designer. We spent over an hour pouring over sample invitations and luxurious papers with absolutely delicious textures. She had so many beautiful invites. Not to mention that she was extremely helpful. Before we met with her I felt completely wishy-washy about what I envisioned for our wedding invites. But now the vision is crystal clear! Not to mention she's willing to give us a discount if we self-assemble our invitation suites. I am double and triple crossing my fingers that we'll be able to afford to work with her. But even if not I am so grateful for all the time she spent working with us and helping us refine our vision of our invitations. I would definitely recommend her services to any brides-to-be in the bay area.

This morning we headed over to Crate and Barrel in the city for a special wedding registry event. The entire store was closed for the event and we and several other engaged couples were provided with a scanner and wandered around the store scanning to our hearts desire. To make things even better they provided us with complementary mimosas, cappuccinos, and freshly made eggs, sausage, and waffles. And as we finished up and turned in our scanners they gave us a gift bag too.

We then headed over to Union Square to relax a bit before our next registry appointment at Macy's. While we were there we saw this most adorable Yoda heart there. Much to Mr. Honda's pleasure he has made me into quite the geek.

We then made our way over to Macy's where we began our registry in search of some fine china and other such luxurious items. But much to our surprise the everyday dish and glassware was much more reasonably priced than at Crate and Barrel. So it seems that we may have to rethink some of our registry choices in order to help our guests get more bang for their buck. But we have quite a while to refine our registry, so it'll be nice to take the time to pick out the things that really suit us.

All in all it was a very productive weekend for wedding planning. And Mr. Honda was surprisingly patient throughout it all. I really am a lucky girl.

-Future Mrs. Honda

Swimmingly...sorta

I'm excited to report that the wedding plans are coming along swimmingly. We booked our venue, photographer, and videographer.

Unfortunately we're still in search of a DJ/emcee and florist. The cost of DJs/emcees that we've looked at aren't too bad, but flowers...YIKES! I definitely did not expect flowers to cost so darn much. I am crossing my fingers that some family/friend connections can help us out in this department. 

-Future Mrs. Honda

Save the date!

Mark your calendars folks! March 3, 2012 is the day that Mr. Honda and I will officially begin our lives together.

-Future Mrs. Honda

Could it be true?

We may have actually chosen our venue! Now we just need to cross our fingers that all the stars align and the venues, photographer, and videographer we are hoping to get are all available on the same day.

Cross your fingers for me folks! We need all the luck we can get.

Setting the mood for my entire wedding.

They say that you should take your time choosing your wedding invites because they help set the mood for the entire wedding. Well that sure seems like a lot of pressure for a few pieces of paper if you ask me.

Maybe it seems more difficult to me since I don't even have a clear vision of what mood I'd like to set for my wedding. I keep going back and forth between cute and fun or classic and elegant. I'm starting to get worried that it'll end up being a disastrous combination of the 2.

Hopefully once we're set on a venue I'll have a clearer vision of what I want for "the BIG day."

-Future Mrs. Honda

Let's start from the beginning.

Mr. Honda and I wanted a place to chronicle all the hard work we'll be putting in to our future nuptials. But before we go any further...I think it's only right we start off with the proposal story. After all, that's where this story begins.

Mr. Honda and I have been together for quite some time now. We'll be going on 7 years this coming April. And in this time we have vacationed in many places like Hawaii, Mexico, SoCal, and Tahoe. But of all the places we've vacationed, the one place we frequent the most is Las Vegas.

This year we were able to get away to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving. We spent 9 hours driving down on Thanksgiving day. I had been begging Mr. Honda to make reservations for Thanksgiving dinner, but he kept putting it off. When he informed me that we had made dinner reservations I assumed we were having a really late dinner. Needless to say I was surprised when we checked into our hotel room and he told me to get showered and dressed because we had dinner reservations at 5:30.

We got dressed, hopped into the car, and headed to Mandalay Bay. Mr. Honda had made reservations at Strip Steak. Right as we checked in for our dinner reservations Mr. Honda bolted saying he needed to use the restroom. I saw him heading one way and I pointed out there was a restroom closer, but he ignored me. I was seated at our table and waited for his return. I waited and waited. He was taking so long that I was starting to worry that something was wrong. Just as I was about to call to see if he was okay, Mr. Honda walked up to the table. He sat down and we chowed down on what may have been the MOST delicious meal of my life! We nibbled on some complementary duck fat fries and potato bread as we waited for our main course of which consisted of a kobe filet, kobe burger, and truffle oil mac and cheese. We topped it all off with my favorite dessert creme brulee.

After dinner we were heading back to the car when we slowed down so that I could drool over the Lion King theater. I had been dying to see the Lion King, but when we looked at ticket prices while planning our trip Mr Honda said they were just too expensive. Mr. Honda asked if I was ready to head back to our hotel and rest before going out to gamble the night away. I nodded and agreed. It had been a long day and I was ready for a nap. However, Mr. Honda said our nap would have to wait as he pulled 2 tickets to the Lion King out of his jacket pocket. I was so thrilled! All I could think was that I have the BEST man in the world.

We handed our tickets to the usher who scanned our tickets and we walked in. Mr. Honda took my hand and led me to the center of the theater lobby where he held my hands and hugged me. He then pulled a little blue box out of his jacket pocket and got down on one knee. He opened up the box to uncover a beautiful ring as he asked me to marry him. With tears in my eyes I said, "Of course!" As we hugged and he slipped the ring on my finger and nice gentleman who had seen the whole thing came over and said, "Say YES!"

It was the best day of my life. And here we are now, planning the biggest day of our lives.

-Future Mrs. Honda