Lots 'O' Pictures

I wanted to congratulate Matt & JIll on the birth of Peter Reiswig! What a cute baby and I can't wait to meet him! Welcome to the world Peter!


Last Wednesday Kevin and I went to Santa Barbara to take engagement pictures and had a lot of fun. It was a long day, however, and we held up pretty well, all things considered. Our photographer, Erik, lives in Pasadena so we picked him up around 7am Wed. morning and were on our way to Santa Barbara where we proceeded to take pictures from about 10:30am-7:30pm. What a long day! But our pictures did turn out really well and I'm really happy with them. Once we narrow them down I'll have to post some on here :) We even had costume changes and went to different locations - all without having a place to change or get ready in! We were like Clark Kent changing in the telephone booth . . . only we just had our car to change in :o)


Here are some statistics that I found online about weddings and the difference 50 years can make haha

Random[ness]

Now, usually you ask your closest, most important life-long friends, sisters, cousins or whatever girls that have been instrumental in your life up until this point to be in your wedding party so they can share in one of the most important days of your life. Naturally you want them to have a good time and look beautiful as well, so that's why you make them wear things like this:






I actually think that the last picture was from my mom's wedding album :)

Also, I think that inflatable arches are a great classy addition to any wedding reception. They just bring a certain something to the overall feel of the party.


I also think that every bride should have her picture and name in as many places as possible during the wedding and reception so I'm really leaning toward putting my picture onto all the flowers on my bouquet. That sounds great :)


And last but not least . . . I think that this is the absolute most breathtaking display for a wedding cake that I can think of. Understated elegance.

92 Months ~ of Fun!

Kevin and I met with the Deacon at the church here in Redondo Beach at St. James and we had to fill out this form and it asked for how many months we have dated so I had to calculate it all out and it comes to 92 months! Ha ha, that's a long time. We have another meeting in 2 weeks and then we're also going to be taking engagement photos in 2 weeks as well. Yippee! Erik, our photographer, is going to Santa Barbara with us for the day so we can take some pictures there. These are some places we might take our pictures at:




Kevin also wants to take some pictures at this hike he likes to go on called Inspiration Point or 7 Falls - I'm not sure which one. I just asked that we could take the 'pretty' pictures first and then we can hike and get sweaty and take pictures up there too if we must ha ha!

Work[aholic]

The last few weeks of work have been pretty busy and I've actually been working a lot and have another solid 6 days ahead of me before another day off . . . boo :( But at least we should have lots of money coming in, I hope! :o) Tomorrow Kevin and I are meeting with the church here in Redondo to start our pre-marital stuff and to get all that started. Hopefully the meeting goes well and we get the ball rolling. Also, good luck to Matt and Jill - they should be having little baby Reiswig any day now. Go Baby Reiswig!

My Dress

I know that the dress is the most important part of the whole wedding planning process and I personally took a lot of time to search for the perfect dress. I ended up going to 10 different stores and searched from the lowlands to the high seas and I still couldn't find anything I liked. Throughout this search I went to David's Bridal in Modesto, David's Bridal in Redondo Beach, a fancy place in Modesto that had a gorgeous Pronovias dress that I really liked but it just didn't have all the components that I was looking for, I went all the way down to Costa Mesa and looked at Mon Amie, which is like one of the biggest bridal store places around Southern California and still nothing. Nothing that just had everything I wanted. But then finally, finally, after all the sweat and tears I finally found THE DRESS! It's a little bit different than what I had initially thought I was going to go with but I think that once you see it on, you'll just really appreciate it the way I do. As soon as I put it on I knew it was THE ONE!











HA HA HA HA HA HA Can you imagine?! No way!

I Heart This Cake

So I found this cake on the website theknot.com and it was a cake from a wedding in New York. My friend Renee and I went around today looking for some edible pearls and edible confetti/glitter so we could try and recreate this cake. Hopefully we can play around with some ideas and try to make something as pretty as this picture. Yea! I just hope no one breaks a tooth on the pearls or slides and breaks a hip if they fall on the ground hee hee. Now onward to flowers and centerpieces. The fun never ends haha.

More Cakes

Here are just some fun cakes I found online. People sure are crazy:








I think some of these are good if we end up inviting the 3,000 Portuguese people I am related to :o)

Mario Lopez is Not Nice

So I have a kinda funny/kinda mean but probably true portrayal of Mario Lopez. I have a really cute funny friend at work named Kathleen who is adorable and she went to Vegas last weekend with a bunch of her girl friends and they were at a club in the Palms casino dancing and having a good time. Well, all of a sudden a bodyguard comes over to them and is like, hey, Mario Lopez is here in the VIP room and he wants some girls to hang out with him in there. So of course the girls were like, yeah, we'll go hang out in the VIP room! Kathleen and her friends went in and saw Mario Lopez and he was sitting with his brother (who Kathleen said is like 2 feet tall and Mr. Lopez is not so tall himself, and yes, I'm short too but whatever) and the girls were hanging out there for like at most five minutes before Mario Lopez looked up and down each girl, shook his head and nodded to the bouncer. The bouncer then turned on his flashlight, flashed it over the girls and said, Okay girls, time to go. The girls were like, what's going on, but they stood up and walked out as five more young girls were being ushered into the room to replace them. Kathleen was so outraged because obviously Mario Lopez only wanted someone to find him the hottest girls in the club and if they didn't meet his satisfaction then they were going to be easily replaced with new girls. Now, I understand that this type of thing probably happens all the time but it just doesn't seem very nice and makes me definitely not like Mario Lopez at all.