Where Have I Been?

Excuse time! Muy muy busy!

We had our food tasting at the Disneyland hotel two weeks ago, everything was great. The food is good, the chicken is moist, the cake is, well lets just say my guests might find that they get a box of animal crackers while I try to finish off a three tier cake by myself.

Invitations went out this week! Took us a little bit of time to get them all out. Sensible fiance talked me into using standard postal format for the envelopes, which I thought would be hideous, but turned out to be very plain and stark in a cool way, that totally offset the crazy colorfulness that happens when you open the envelope.

Standard postal format? Apparently the post office got new scanners a year or so ago, and it want all caps, san-serif, large type, no punctuation whatsoever. Looks like this:

MR and MR FAKE NAME
123 FAKE ST
FAKEVILLE CA 12345-6789

Anybody who sends out large quantities of mail knows that if you don't follow the format, you get a lot of mail back. We wanted these to get to their recipients. We wanted them to get there fast. They did. Mailed on a Saturday evening from Long Beach California, arrived as far as tiny town Oklahoma on Monday afternoon. Awesome.

Also I bought a Cricut Expression machine. Love It. It cuts paper. Love it. It makes things like this. Out of cut paper pieces you glue together. I love it.


My friend says if you love it so much why don't you marry it? I just might.

It's All The Same

For anyone that tries to tell us persecution and violence are different from not allowing us to marry and have equal rights, all those feelings come from the same place.

Invitation Sweatshop

This weekend I got some friends together to assemble invites. I felt like a sweatshop entrepreneur! I changed the girls names to Socorro, Consuelo, and Pei-Ming. We called Mike the gringo factory owner.



Thanks to everyone's help most of the work is done, and all I have to do is add the ribbon to the outside, add the embellishment, velcro closure, make some labels and get these suckers in the mail.

Buying Jewelry for Women

Lots of people mistakenly think that being gay is synonymous with good taste in clothing and jewelry. If you saw the way I dress half the time, you would know this is entirely untrue.

Especially difficult is buying jewelry for women. Mostly because I don't "have" to very often. I don't know the first thing about it. Things I find attractive many of my friends tell me are gawdy and tacky. Maybe it's because I don't ever think how this would look on a person, and I am drawn to big pieces because then I can actually see the detail. Maybe it's because lots of the jewelry I see is worn by drag queens.

I walked into Macy's today with a friend and right at the entrance I spotted these necklaces, and I thought "great for the wedding." They keep with the theme, they remind me of the embellishments on the front of the invites, they will go fine with black dresses which are a little low cut, I have 180 days to return them, and they were on sale! My friend assured me they were ok, and seeming as I trust her sense of style I bought one for each of the women in our wedding party. Let's hope they don't end up looking like drag queens.

Invitations Are Done!

Or at least the super final final sample is done. Now I just need to get my friends together assemble 65 of them! I know it sounds like a lot, but since I've actually already cut all the pieces all we have to is gluing. The invitation part is printed on pearlescent paper, so it has a little shine to it. I cut the cardstock for the inserts myself and printed the inserts on an inkjet printer. The folder and pink mat for the invitation came from Cards & Pockets.


I found the ribbon for the outside of the invites at Costco. They have a great selection of spring colors right now, and you can gat a 5o yard roll for only $6.99 at my local costco, that's a bargain. The hardest part for me to figure out was the embellishment for the front. Everything pre-made was so expensive, so I ended up buying three diffent shape-punches. A huge daisy, a smaller daisy, and a small mickey head. I used two large daisies and one small one and held the whole thing together with glue dots, and then used one large glue dot to attach the flower to the ribbon. The ribbon is held on using double-sided scrapbooking tape.


I made the inserts myself in illustrator, printed them up, and cut them. This is my favorite one of all.


I think people will be excited to get these in the mail, I know I would!