Going crazy...

You know you're going wedding fever crazy when you start listening to Diana Krall on LastFM (by choice).

I have no idea how old my soul is, but I know its A LOT older than 24 years. I don't mind though, the soul was always older than the rest of me. =) I blame the Diana Krall on my pops though... that and everything else...

Seriously though...

It took me a while to get to sleep last night. Wedding anxiety has been already keeping me up for the past week, and we have barely even started.

The wedding coordinator I talked to wanted $4,200 as their "destination wedding planning fee."

Freaking bananas isn't it?

No matter what I know I need the help, I have to find someone who really knows their shit, and I'll have to pay them--because I can't do this. I have obsessive compulsive tendencies when it comes to plans, details, and events.

No wedding research today, I need to sleep.

New PLAN!

So change of plans...

Jeff and I are going to get married at a park, preferably one that has a bridge on the playground (that way we're higher and people can see us). Then after the ceremony a taco truck will be coming to cater, all you can eat tacos! And for dessert we're hoping an ice cream truck rolls through. Ohh and my moms is gonna bring a cake from Costco.

NEW PLAN!

Face painting and caricatures will be done by Paul Abadilla.

Donations being accepted

So apparently our dream wedding would cost roughly $10,000 more than our original budget, plus its on a completely different island.

I spoke with a wedding coordinator from Honolulu this afternoon about my diva-bride "vision" (cause only divas have a "vision" regular people just have a "picture," well me, I got big dreams and a "vision") anyways... Jeffrox and I gotta find a way to make this happen without cutting corners.

HOLLER IF YOU WIN THE LOTTO, free graphic design for the rest of your life if you pay for my wedding. *wink and snap-finger-point*

AudioVisual.

Is it crazy that I do not want a videographer for the wedding? No matter how many people will tell me how much I will regret it, I don't believe I will. I can't watch myself on camera and I feel uncomfortable watching myself on any form of vido. PLUS PLUS PLUS, I will never watch it. I will look at pictures over and over and over.... and I will show pictures over and over and over. BUT I will not pop in a dvd and tell everyone to watch it. I really won't.

Honestly, my engagement was caught on tape (I really wish it wasn't though) and I haven't watched it yet, and I don't have any plans to watch it. I just manage to remember the moment how it happened, not caught by someone else's point of view. I'm not sure if I am explaining this properly, yeah.... I'm not explaining this quite right...

UNLESS, the "video" was done in either a film-noir-silent-vintage-way on 8mm film (which would be fking siiiiiiiiiiiick if you ask me) or unless Michel Gondry or Wes Andersen could direct the videographers in super sick ass way.

Ahhhhhh.... crazy ass bride dreams.

Just Mauied

Hahah. Just Mauied. That cracks me up. It hella sounds like some 4 year old from Brooklyn. Just Mauied. I guess we're not flying a photographer over to Maui. It looks like we found an awesome photographer already there. But it ain't going to be this one for sure. Haha.
JustMauied.com

YEY.

SO WE SAID WE'D PLAN...

I remembered that a new quarter just started which means new wedding magazines. I've been stuck with my last round since October. So we hit Borders after work to scout the new material. There was a real wack magazine soley dedicated to Hawaiian weddings but it had a vendor section where I found some pretty good leads. Instead of buying the crappy magazines I wrote all the relevant vendor websites down.

Its coming along very slowly. Hopefully next month we start seeing/talking to wedding planners so we can get a better picture of what it takes to make everything happen and most importantly HOW MUCH THIS WILL ALL COST.

Groom's Gift Ideas

Date Nite

We're celebrating 6.5 years together tonight.

Big date: Juno + Japantown

PF Flyers Number 5

Kate knows that I will not wear dress shoes to our wedding. Not even our own wedding? Yes. It's our wedding. Kate and I are calling the shots. Kate and I are paying a hefty portion. Kate and I will have our own style. But the one thing, up until now, Kate and I could not agree on is me wearing leather Chucks for our wedding (the ceremony and the reception). For the past six years my dress shoes have been leather versions of Chuck All Stars or Vans Slip-ons. I own about 15 Chucks, two of them being dressy counterparts to the classic black/white canvas joints. The other one is a brown leather, lo-top oxford pair of Chucks. Then I have all black canvas Vans slip-ons and brown leather slip-ons.

Well, Kate thinks they are still too casual. Anyhow, Kate and I have finally agreed on a pair of shoes. The PF Flyers Number 5. Everybody I talked to still thinks it's too casual but Kate and I have flare, yo. I'll rock this shit in a dope suit and it'll look hot. For too long, guys have been suited up like penguins and plain as hell. We're not quite traditional. We will both walk down that aisle as Jeff and Kate, not Jeff and Kate acting like a bunch of other people (not even on our wedding day). Like I said, it's our wedding. With that said, the shoes...