Hi Everyone!
I'm really excited to be joining the sweet ranks of becoming a new candy-bee! It seems so fitting for me because I have a ridiculous sweet tooth and am notorious for having candy with me at all times!
We met in college, and he said at first look with my crazy pink hair and weird Japanese punk clothing that I was crazy, then spoke to me and decided I was "normal". He has since learned his first impression was right! I'm a Japanese importer, animator by degree, and he's a video game programmer - so we're both complete geeks. We spend a whole lot of time on our computers, going to Japan, decorating our home with vintage furniture and high tech toys... but mostly raising our two puppies, a papillon and a long coat chihuahua.
We're getting married on an organic farm an hour from our home. We really want to focus on wonderful local foods, the beautiful warm and natural setting, and the good company of close friends and family. I'm a sucker for all things vintage and envision my wedding as Seurat's "Saturday in the Park", although Mr. Gummi Bear scoffs at that image. I really want the whole event to feel relaxed and comfortable for everyone!
Despite being an artist, I'm all thumbs and am here representing the DIY-impaired! I'm really happy to be a part of the community and hope I can share a little bit of my strange style aand get feedback from the whole community! thanks!
30.6.07
21.6.07
bad cake, bad baker!
Three cake tastings down, one to go.
I'd like to say they were all wonderful and everyone was fabulous, but it'd be a horrid lie. Our first tasting had a wonderful vendor, really a sweet woman and she was so accommodating! All of our questions were answered and our fears quelled. It was unfortunate that the cake wasn't impressive. Mr. Gummi Bear and I are both very easily swayed by how much we like the vendor as a person, so we felt bad that we weren't sold on her cake.
The next tasting, which we were very excited to go to, turned out to be the opposite experience. We sat, looked at books, ate cake and were impressed... only to wait an extra half hour to be greeted (or not really, she didn't say hello or introduce herself) by a woman with a calculator and a scowl. She was rude, unaccommodating, condescending, and was flat out making up numbers out of thin air. She claimed that what the first cake vendor said was possible, was impossible, and made sure to tell us that on a good day, without traffic, in a normal car, it would take over 2 hours to go to our venue. It takes 50 minutes with normal driving as it's on the way to my parents' home, so I've driven the distance numerous times. I let it go, I wasn't going to argue how ridiculous that time estimate was, she was just flat out mean to us. I politely tried to leave several times, only to be bashed about how I couldn't have what I want (so, I should give in and go with her - obviously). We left thinking we'd rather not have a cake than have one by her.
Which led us to our next vendor, who is located only 3 blocks from us. So we walked down the street, picked up two slices of pizza from the local bakery, and strolled in to chat. We were very disheartened and almost had decided not to get a cake at all, considering our last two meetings were not at all what we were looking for. But we were very surprised! She was sweet, funny, easy to talk to about her designs... and she also agreed with our first vendor, it IS possible to have a buttercream cake delivered to our venue! And then the tasting... GOOD! We got our estimate and left smiling, reconsidering our thoughts of foregoing a cake altogether.
We're very easily swayed by "clicking" with our vendors, so although we have another appointment this Saturday, we may have already found our baker!
I'd like to say they were all wonderful and everyone was fabulous, but it'd be a horrid lie. Our first tasting had a wonderful vendor, really a sweet woman and she was so accommodating! All of our questions were answered and our fears quelled. It was unfortunate that the cake wasn't impressive. Mr. Gummi Bear and I are both very easily swayed by how much we like the vendor as a person, so we felt bad that we weren't sold on her cake.
The next tasting, which we were very excited to go to, turned out to be the opposite experience. We sat, looked at books, ate cake and were impressed... only to wait an extra half hour to be greeted (or not really, she didn't say hello or introduce herself) by a woman with a calculator and a scowl. She was rude, unaccommodating, condescending, and was flat out making up numbers out of thin air. She claimed that what the first cake vendor said was possible, was impossible, and made sure to tell us that on a good day, without traffic, in a normal car, it would take over 2 hours to go to our venue. It takes 50 minutes with normal driving as it's on the way to my parents' home, so I've driven the distance numerous times. I let it go, I wasn't going to argue how ridiculous that time estimate was, she was just flat out mean to us. I politely tried to leave several times, only to be bashed about how I couldn't have what I want (so, I should give in and go with her - obviously). We left thinking we'd rather not have a cake than have one by her.
Which led us to our next vendor, who is located only 3 blocks from us. So we walked down the street, picked up two slices of pizza from the local bakery, and strolled in to chat. We were very disheartened and almost had decided not to get a cake at all, considering our last two meetings were not at all what we were looking for. But we were very surprised! She was sweet, funny, easy to talk to about her designs... and she also agreed with our first vendor, it IS possible to have a buttercream cake delivered to our venue! And then the tasting... GOOD! We got our estimate and left smiling, reconsidering our thoughts of foregoing a cake altogether.
We're very easily swayed by "clicking" with our vendors, so although we have another appointment this Saturday, we may have already found our baker!
19.6.07
How it began (the venue, how the ball rolled, stopped, and began again)
I hadn't wanted a wedding, I know what kind of person I can be - detail oriented, focused, and easily frazzled. I saw the eventual downhill roll into insanity that would ensue if I agreed to plan an event. Rob wanted a wedding desperately, and so after agreeing that he would take a major roll in planning, we bought our first wedding magazine and started. This was in April 2006, and we immediately began making appointments to view venues that we'd be booking for Fall of 2007. We knew we wanted outdoors, natural beauty, to have our pick of caterers, and just to feel it was - the one.
We traveled all over wine country, the coast, within San Francisco city limits and just beyond, only to be broken down in not finding the right place. We stopped looking for months, got sidetracked with buying our home and it wasn't until this February that we looked at each other and thought, "oh yea, we're getting married..." and jumped back on the horse. We hadn't considered leaving the bay area, but we took a chance and drove an hour from our home to visit a small organic farm directly between our two home towns.
lavender field facing the cottage:
the lush almond trees where we will make our entrance:
It was beyond perfect! Exactly what we had been looking for. The open vendor list, so they said, a natural setting, an open canvas completely outdoors, and although it wasn't in the bay area, it was one hour from my parents and one hour from his. We'd found it, the one! They offer 10 weddings a year, 1 per weekend, and we wanted to be one of them at any cost. So began our negotiations...
We traveled all over wine country, the coast, within San Francisco city limits and just beyond, only to be broken down in not finding the right place. We stopped looking for months, got sidetracked with buying our home and it wasn't until this February that we looked at each other and thought, "oh yea, we're getting married..." and jumped back on the horse. We hadn't considered leaving the bay area, but we took a chance and drove an hour from our home to visit a small organic farm directly between our two home towns.
lavender field facing the cottage:
the lush almond trees where we will make our entrance:
It was beyond perfect! Exactly what we had been looking for. The open vendor list, so they said, a natural setting, an open canvas completely outdoors, and although it wasn't in the bay area, it was one hour from my parents and one hour from his. We'd found it, the one! They offer 10 weddings a year, 1 per weekend, and we wanted to be one of them at any cost. So began our negotiations...
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