beauty for vegas

actually its not just for vegas, but some beauty stuff I want to get before vegas.
Jane iredale lip fixation.

I need my brows waxed.
nails filled
hair dryer

Ouidad detangler brush.
some pureology hair conditioner.
brow pencil that comes with the stay put brow wax.


ok so I prolly wont do it all, since that would cost an arm and a leg. But definitely I'll have my nails filled and my brows done.

ARRRGHHHH

I hate Ohlone College! I am trying to register for classes and it keeps giving me this!
HIST-104A-01 - Student 0378705 has no Registration Priority. Term 2010SU requires one.

WTF!!!!!

ladida

I love the simple solitaire look. It never gets old to me.
I had lunch with an old friend. Linda and her grandmother, her mother, and her daughter today. I can't believe how big her little girl is now. Last time I saw her she was just a baby.

ALso talked to my dad today, talked to him and his co worker about accounting stuff.

I am going to be going to Shabana' wedding tomorrow morning too. Then we have to put together the table for our office. Then we have to pick up our deposit check. Then we have to do some last moving things and have a bbq on monday. Also 13 more days till vegas!!! !!!!!

Possible photographers

I liked my last photographer Hoiland. But I think id like to go with someone else for the reception.
Maybe the person that Kurfay had, Jay Tsai.
Here is a sample of what he does.
This is a picture of Kurfay and Cliff.

I also like Ammie Wang
This couple is Kristina and Patrick.

I also really like Lucie XYZ
You have to go to her website to really see her work.
http://www.luciexyz.com/gallery.php

anyways just some ideas.

ok im off to cook fish now:)

My phone died

Completely. It wont turn on again:(

Also here is my new favorite nail polish. Its a very sheer pink. If I apply several coats it gives my nails the perfect pinkish hue. It goes on very sheer too so its great for a french manicure.

no pre-nup
by Essie

bleh sucks

It really really sucks that Andrew is marrying whats her face! Although frankly, part of me thinks that they deserve each other.

also getting sick now, I hate being sick.

Say yes to the dress: and im sleepy

I love this pnina tornai dress. Its all lace like my wedding dress only it is a full ballgown.

SI was watching the show today and saw some gorgeous ball gown type dresses I loved.
The episode I watched today had this girl who preferred costume style dresses. She hated this Kenneth Pool gown that I actually thought was stunning.
Below is a Melissa sweet gown that I adore. I discovered that I love certain things about dresses. I tend to like all lace, or slim ruched dresses. Or dresses that have a lot of volume but have one focus point like the Kenneth pool dress and this dress below by Melissa sweet
Then there is this vera wang dress with a gorgeous green sash.
As you can see the one thing they all have in common is a sweetheart neckline.

ok its late. Cornerstone (the barn place wrote me back)
They have packaged deals too, in march friday-sunday it is 4500. I think it might include the food but we would need to take care of the music, and we need to pay for our own alcohol and cake. OK its after 1:30am. Im gonna crash now.

More freedom hall photos and info (photo)

http://www.freedomhall.com/photos.htm

Perfect wedding package

Include: (Based on 100 Guests)

Exclusive use of our "Newly Remodeled" air conditioned, indoor facility (from 100 up to 250 guests) plus and the use of our beautifully landscaped gardens along with a large water pond and bridged walkway with a cascading waterfall and fountains.

Your wedding memories captured on film will be wonderful!

• "Diamond Certified" The Freedom Hall & Gardens is the only Bay Area wedding facility to be awarded the "Prestigious Diamond Certified Rating" for the highest in quality, service and customer satisfaction. Check out www.DiamondCertified.org for a $1,000 Guarantee.
• Several Food Menus to choose from including our own famous "Freedom Chicken Madeira." This dish is so delicious it is hard to describe!! All menus include surprise Chocolate Dipped Strawberries delivered to all your guest tables after every meal. Voted America's #1 most romantic food!!

• Complimentary taste test available by appointment at your convenience.

Unlimited wedding beverages for the full entire (5 hour) celebration

• Including unlimited champagne, Chardonnay, White Zinfandel and Merlot wines, Budweiser, Budweiser Light, Coors Light, MGD and Blue Moon draft beers along with five kinds of assorted soft drinks, Lemonade, Iced Tea, Assorted Juices with Sparkling apple Cider, Shirley Temples and assorted Italian Sodas.(Optional Beer upgraded package available)
• "Champagne Toast" to include preset flute champagne glasses at all your guest tables with Freedom Hall staff to pour champagne and sparkling apple cider to the bridal party and your guests during the toasting of your celebration.
• *Italian Roast regular and decaf coffee served from the time the first guest arrives until the end of your celebration.
• Style of service: Glass coffee mugs

Crisp table linens and napkins

• Available in 35 different colors to choose from with Elegant Black Chavari Chairs and round tables. Pleated skirting and colored accent linens are included for all your special tables. White Chair Covers also available by request at no additional charge for all your dining room seating..

Table Arrangements & Centerpieces

• To include a “Tiffany” style lamp for the guest book sign in table and a beautiful large Candelabra for the buffet. Also a choice of three different styles of elegant candle vases, complete with round mirrors and votives for all your guest table centerpieces.

Your choice of wedding cakes:

• Featuring: "Piece of Cake Bakery," an excellent upscale quality bakery also located in Santa Clara. There are many styles to choose from. The celebration package includes complimentary cake cutting service with china plates and stainless steel forks. Custom cake risers available to showcase your cake at no additional charge.

Professional DJ Service for a full (5 hours)

• Featuring: "Elite Entertainment." Includes professional music and program consultations. You can choose your own favorite music selections from a large list of over 600 of the most popular songs played at weddings and much more !!!.

Freedom Hall & Gardens "****Diamond Certified Rated Five Star Service"

• Just ask anyone who has been a guest at the Freedom Hall or any of our former couples and you will always here the same thing, "The Freedom Hall gives outstanding service with a smile."
• We have hundreds of references from satisfied customers

All Labor Costs with Black and White Attired Service Staff.

• Labor includes the set up of the hall and complete service for the entire 5 hour wedding reception (including: the buffet meal, beverage service, cake cutting, all bussing, and clean up after your event).

Wedding Coordinator/Captain

• Experienced on site wedding captain and coordinator on the day of your event.
• Our wedding coordinators have 13 years experience with over 2200 beautiful wedding celebration memories coordinated for each of our brides and grooms. He/she will help manage and coordinate all the services of your celebration package from start to finish to:

January, February and March Deduct $2,000.00 off any of our “perfect wedding packages” (Discounted Extra Guests Costs)

For additional guests over 100: add $33.00 per guest on Saturday and $31.00 on Sunday For additional guests over 100: Add $30.00 per guest on a Friday Night

Our “Exclusive Sunday Perfect Wedding Package”
Choose any 5 hour celebrating time
between 11:00a.m. and 12:00 midnight
*Save Money* Saturday Exclusive packages are $12,500.00
Sundays Exclusive package is only $8,250.00 for first 100 guests.

Reception begins at 6:30 p.m. or 7:00 P.M.
Our Friday “perfect wedding package”
*$7,750.00 for first 100 guests
For additional guests over 100: add $31.00 per guest

Its still expensive but at least it includes everything. For NDNU I would have to spend 6-8000 on the rental hall alone, not even including the food let alone music etc.

I am thinking now march would be best since its my bday month and its cheaper. April would be ok but its only 1500 off if we have it then. Jan or feb would work too but march gives us more time.

If we plan this for 2011 that would be 10 months from now. George and I would have been married for 1 year and 10 months. (at least its not quite 2 years) haha this reception has definitely been belated.

Then there is this

November and December, April Deduct $1,500.00 off any of our “perfect wedding packages” (Discounted Extra Guests Costs)

For additional guests over 100: add $33.00 per guest on Saturday and $31.00 on Sunday For additional guests over 100: Add $30.00 per guest on a Friday Night

If we want to have it in November (end of november looks good too)
November 2011 would be 18 months from now ( which would buy even more time) but by then george and I would have been married for almost 2.5 years.


If we do it at freedom hall the only outside source we will need is the photographer.
Here are a list of a few

Donnabrommer.com

cost 1600-2500 for 4-6 hours


http://www.mikedanen.net/
I love his work but don't know his pricing.

http://www.photographybycharles.com/#/client/template.xml?aaa=home
He is really expensive start at 3300
but he might actually be worth the price. His photos are amazing.

Then there is jaytsai photography (kurfays wedding)
http://jaytsaiphotography.com/blog/2009/05/20/kurfay-cliffs-engagement-legion-of-honor-and-palace-of-fine-arts/

I also don't know his pricing. But their photos look great.

Then there is always the guy we used for our wedding (his prices are good) but he is a bit well a lot. He did however make the wedding memorable. hehe!


here are some pictures of a ring I think is soo cool!
Also here is a picture I stole from my sister Kathryn of her 16th bday at my new house.


Now its time to get into my nerves. I am sooo friggin nervous about my test today. But my brain is completely fried. Zeba came by last night and her brain got fried too. But at least I have a few things to go on now. I am going to leave in half an hour and get food, then I'm going to school early. I figure I can always do one last review before the exam begins.

btw the food at the bday was awesome!!!!! Since I have made george buy me more salmon and cook it over the grill. I love bbq. When he does it he does the cooking and then the cleaning too :) I get to just sit and enjoy hehehehehe.

Reception sites again and stat complaining

So my notecard is finished and I am doing some last minute reviewing for my stat class. Zeba is coming over after work to help me do more studying. My big issue now is determining what type of problem I am dealing with (kinda big).

My test is from 1-3pm tomorrow. Afterward I plan on doing some cleaning and preparing. 19 more days till vacay:)

Anyways I have kinda nixed the idea of having the reception at my school. It is just too expensive to have it on the weekend and no too cheap to have it on the weekdays.
I found this nice place called cornerstone in sonoma. They have a great barn which might be fun to have the reception in.
Here are some pictures from their website.
Cornerstone



Either that or a wine country club, a opera house, or some historical place might be nice. I kinda like this barn though.
Some nice pictures can be taken here and we can still dance.


Then there is freedom hall, where Jenifer's wedding was at.
hahahahahhahah
This picture was taken by my wedding photographer.
There is more. at freedomhall.com

slowly fading

So I am taking on a different strategy now. I still need my notecard notes for chapers 7,8,9. But there are parts I am not sure about so I won't make that till tomorrow after I see zeba. I am getting really sleepy right now. I can feel my eyelids fall. I think after I print these lecture notes out, I will read through them, take a shower, then call it a night. I'll wake up earlier tomorrow and go through the notes again. Then after work, I'll clean a little and begin practicing the problems online with my calc, notecard, and tables. I am starting to feel doomed though. Hopefully it is enough to transfer this course though.

Annoyed

Ugh I am soo annoyed right now. Both with myself and the University of Phoenix. Im annoyed with myself for being so slow to understand my statistics. My exam is this saturday. I am annoyed with UOP because they keep friggin calling me. Even after I've told them to take me off their list repeatedly. they have called me today every hour since 8am. They called me like this starting last week all through today,. I hate them now!

glider

Worked out on glider for half an hour today. now back to studying and making george study.

drained today and a couple great photos

These are a couple of my favorite photos from my wedding.

Today I am feeling a bit drained. I really do need to do more studying though. I at least have been studying off the exams which seems to be helping a lot. Hopefully my friend zeba can meet up with me tomorrow night and help me clarify a few things.

21 more days till vacay!!!

Great wraps, etsy

modernromance


Alexabridal


Glamourjunkie
Here are some great wraps (I prolly would want some black accent added, or just have them in black.) Plus way nicer than at the bridal salons.

Or
wrapor



beh ok back to work again

Message from Ralston hall

So my school messaged me back

Maria,

Thank you for your inquiry regarding Ralston Hall Mansion for your upcoming wedding. We currently have availability for a few Saturdays in November, 2010. The Mansion can accommodate up to 200 guests seated for a dinner and dancing. We have a lovely garden area for your ceremony or you may choose to be married in the beautiful ballroom. The first floor of the Mansion is elegantly furnished and makes the ideal site for your reception festivities. We have a Preferred Caterers List which we ask our clients to select from. Clients are also invited to bring in their own alcoholic and soft beverages without a corkage fee. Click here to see beautiful wedding photography at Ralston Hall Mansion.

Our rental package is for an eight-hour period comprised of 2 hours of set-up, 5 hours of event time and 1 hour for clean up. Also included in the rental fee are tables and chairs for guest seating, installation of a dance floor, 1 hour of rehearsal time, locked storage for the week prior to your event and the services of a facility manager during your event. Rental rates are as follows: Saturdays-$8500.00, Sundays-$7500.00 and Friday evenings-$6500.00. Rates are slightly lower January through April. Current students receive a 25% discount on these rates.

We conduct tours Monday through Saturday, by appointment. Please call if you would like to schedule a time to visit our beautiful home. We look forward to hearing from you.

Denise and Karen

Karen Boquist-Gelineau

Denise Winkelstein

Ralston Hall Mansion Event Coordinators

Notre Dame de Namur University

1500 Ralston Avenue RH 100

Belmont, CA 94002

Phone: (650) 508-3501

www.ralstonhall.com

(They didn't get that this is just for the reception and not the wedding.)

Also if we do have it there it prolly will not be on a Saturday. With there prices it will prolly be on a weekday evening. Perhaps end of Feb or around my bday in 2011.

RalstonHallMansion

click on above for gorgeous pictures taken at my school.

Another option is

San Mateo Garden Center

This one is probably way cheaper than my school.

When the time comes I think I'll pick the venue and catering with my parents. Maybe we can go cheap with the music and play it off an ipod. I think the food and the place is more important. Food prolly will take top priority hahahahaha.

I figure we can just start by mingling, (if we can get a party host, that might make it easier.) Then we can do the eating, dancing, bouquet toss and garter toss. more dancing, cake cutting, and then more dancing till its over.

I think maybe if we pick a venue and host and then let them take care of the decorating that can save a lot of money. Before we really get into the planning I need to find out what my parents budget is though. If we want to keep it as cheap as possible, picking a lower cost restuarant and doing the entire thing there will prolly be cheaper than having it at my school and getting food catered.

pooped

George is acting like a baby. GRRRR im not happy with him right now. Whinning and whinning.
I am exhausted too and not looking forward to tomorrow bleh!!! Its going to be a very long day.

Good news is I finished my project and my glider thingy is set up. I worked out for a little over an hour watching my Army Wives show today. I am pretty out of shape, im exhausted. My goal is to work out on the glider at least 3 times a week and do weights and toning workouts at least 3 times a week alternating.

so yeah clap clap clap to me.

Topsy Turvy

So I have a completed draft for my project and have studied quite a bit. I have a great plan for the rest of my studying

Monday (practice exams 1 and 2 and quiz for chapter 8) I will make note card for the chapters contained in these exams so its basically 1-6 and part of 8

Tuesday ( practice exams 3 and 4 and quiz chapter 8) I will make notecard for these chapters, so its basically 7-10.

Wed (review exam 3 and 4 online practice) go over this enough so that I am very good at it.

Thursday ( review exams 1 and 2 online practice) ditto previous

Friday ( overview everything using my notecard I created.)


Now for more fun stuff. The one thing I am very set on when it comes to the wedding reception is the cake.
I want it to be a topsy turvy cake.
This is my favorite