Made of Honor

On Saturday I had a typical crazy day--haircut in the morning, then dance rehearsal, then the MOH and I went to the Annie Leibowitz exhibition at the Legion of Honor, and finally I took my ladies out to see Made of Honor as sort of a wedding kick-off. Oh, then dinner later--you know, the usual overstuffed day. I'm not happy unless I've got 20 things to do!

The exhibition at the Legion of Honor was great. I hadn't ever been there, so it was a surprise how gorgeous it is. It's set right on the Bay and would be a great place to take photos; in fact, we saw TWO wedding parties there taking pictures. Both sets of bridesmaids were in hideous dresses. I'm just amazed that still happens in this day and age. One set was in a hot pink, ruffled mini dress, and the other set was in burgundy (better color than that pink, but...), matronly floor-length coat-dress. Crazy. The MOH and I were amazed. My ladies will be wearing black dresses and black shoes of their own choosing; I can't fathom asking anyone to buy a hideous dress they'd never wear again. What a waste of money!

After a half-hour power tour through the exhibition (some of the photos made us weepy; she's such an amazing photographer), we zoomed over to the Metreon for what we all anticipated would be a terrible but fun movie. We each got a $1 massage in one of the automatic massage chairs. That was bizarre--we were giggling and yelping. Then we all crammed in and took photos in a photobooth. After that, my bridesmaid attempted to win me a stuffed animal from one of those coin operated claw machines. We were totally robbed--she had that panda all lined up with the claw, but the thing just wouldn't grip it. Robbed!

Finally we got upstairs and saw the movie. It was a bit better than all of us expected. Patrick Dempsey's much cuter than he was in his Loverboy days, that's for sure! It was entertaining fluff and we all had a good time.

After the movie we rushed to the mall to try to get to Out the Door before it closed, but to no avail. We ended up eating mediocre thai food and then yummy gelato to finish it off--no girl outing is complete without sweets, right?

It was a really fun day with my ladies. Hooray!

(Sydney Pollack plays Patrick's dad in the movie, so it was startling to read that he died yesterday. Weird to think we probably just watched the very last project he completed.)

Save the Date Cards

I think the Save the Date (or "STD"--hee, hee!) cards will be pretty easy to do once we have a venue settled. We can do a simple 4 x 6 postcard in the design of our choice and have them printed for about $100.

I found some really cute ones online, again courtesy of Offbeat Bride. I adore photo booths and I always drag Mr. T into them when we see them in bars and stuff, along with whichever friends are with us, which can lead to hilarious photos where only pieces of our heads/bodies are visible from frame to frame.

(I actually was considering renting a photo booth for the wedding, but I will have to see how we're doing with the budget first.)

Here's the whole invite. I believe they put it together themselves. Again, Mr. T is worried that homemade invites have the potential to look...very homemade, but I think these are cute:




Here's the photo strip. They had a friend take their photos against a white backdrop, holding up pieces of paper, and then did Photoshop work later to add the wording and the photo booth effect. Very cute!



I know we can do whatever we like, but part of me thinks we should keep to the Halloween theme even in the Save the Date cards. Maybe if we do a photo booth shoot we could put different costumes on for each picture? Or maybe just having the palette in orange and black is enough? Hm.