Gosh golly, I have been so overwhelmed with finals. So glad they are almost over. This is my classmate and friend Blue (yes, he's like 11...no actually I think 19, he makes the absolutely best short horror films...check them here) right before our school's film festival. I was on the events committee, typical. 

(Photo by The Stein)

The Black Label was released by Ban.do, I know this is not new information on the wedding blog circuit. But, what is so cool to me (and I can't find mentioned anywhere!) is that the painfully gorgeous Alison Sodul of A Fine Frenzy is the model. This girl single-handedly assisted me in getting over a break-up in 2008. Her voice is haunting and addictive. 

I ordered an amazing print from Flowers in May today, I cannot wait to get it. These invitations from the same designer are incredible. 

Found on Black Eiffel

Sorry I've been gone, I can explain...later. 

But a few things have been on my mind...

These laterns from India Rose are amazing! 

I love She and Him's new album: listen here (p.s. thanks NPR)

Can I justify wearing this dress to 2 weddings? Totally different crowds at each wedding so no one will know. But…FB pics....

I am obsessed with this nail color. I walked all the way to Saks to get it. I was nervous about going as I was not dressed very nicely (Sloppy jeans, cardigan and flip flops, day old hair...yuck). But I was beyond floored at how genuinely nice everyone was (and I am usually pretty good at spotting a fake).  

My brother is dating a genius and she got into medical school. Go Maggie!

A dear friend is back in the Bay Area from living far, far away. He is an amazing wedding cinematographer and getting married soon. I can't wait to introduce him to you! 

I am reading The Romantics by Galt Niederhoffer. It's generally about a wedding but the book is more emo, less light and fluffy i.love.it. I am excited to see the film version (the cast looks fantastic). It's kinda unique and cool that the author of the book is also the Director of the movie.

Confession: I used to, at all costs, avoid telling people that I am from Marin County. It's silly but usually when I tell people they would be  "ooooooooh...." with eye brows raised and then they'd stop talking to me. I am a fan of this FB page and that kinda sums it up. But lately I have re-fallen in love with my homeland just North of the GG Bridge (although still incredibly loyal to my true love, San Francisco). I would like to write a City Guide for Design Sponge (perhaps a certain someone would like to collabo with me on this? ;) ), my hands down favorite restaurants are all there and their are tons of great and unique shopping spots. 

main food table decor and a few game prizes wrapped in fabric and ribbon. 

I just really loved these giant buttons, found at Michael's. 

The KC is for the guest of honor (from Michael's).The cute part is that not only does her name start with a K, her husband's name starts with a K, and all of her husband's sibling's names start with K's as well (5 KC's in total). I think what we are all wondering is if the soon to be parents are gonna carry on the tradition to their newborn. We'll see!

Cute banner by Jessica Marcotte. 

Here's the dessert table from the Baby Shower. First, thanks so much to Bakerella for the inspiration and recipe for the cake pops! 

The rice krispie buttons were also supposed to be on sticks but that didn't work out so well. Too heavy I think. 

I acquired a large amount of sherry glasses for the mini milk shakes, we ended up not serving them because everyone was too sugar'd out. But they still looked cute and the few of us setting up for the shower enjoyed them! They were adorned with a mini oreo and a mini straw. 

(photos by fellow milk shake drinker Jess Epstein)

Would you believe me if I said that I was was still recovering from a baby shower four days ago!?! It was great but today was the first day I didn't wake up exhausted. So silly.

Every event, every wedding, every shower, I learn something (s) new. 

Here's a photo from the shower. I used the ever popular 3' balloons. Here's the deal on these. In my findings...at least in San Francisco, the price quotes were for $30 a balloon, they take a lot of helium. Yikes. Pricing it further, the balloons without helium cost $5 a pop everywhere I looked. I decided to rent a helium tank. 55cf (cubic feet) helium tanks fill about three-four 3' balloons. And that tank was $30. An 88cf fills about six 3' balloons and was about $50. I got the tank and balloons from SF Party. 

I thought that these beautiful balloons would be enough decoration so I would need little else to create a good impact and ambiance. I went with the 88cf tank, got five, 3' balloons and about 10 smaller ones for other areas of the party space. It came out to about $80 which is pricey for decor I know but I figured it was worth it! Everyone loved them and they looked great in the space. 

As an additional note. You really need two people to blow these up. Tying them after they are blown up will tear up your fingers ( good to switch off) and they will escape if you don't have someone else there holding them. I also used thick yarn as the string just to do something different. 

I am excited to share more details about this shower in the next few days. Including a DIY for the favors! 

(photo by my partner in crime and balloon holder Jess Epstein) 

After I saw on Hello! Lucky that Eunice's wedding came out in Martha Stewart Weddings yesterday, I literally dropped what I was doing and went to pick up my copy. Again, it is the most wonderful, beautiful, clever, unique, gorgeous wedding I've EVER SEEN. You can see some of the pics on the MS Weddings site here.