Woo! http://www.michellewoo.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Our Wedding: The Planner http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/09/02/our-wedding-the-planner/ http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/09/02/our-wedding-the-planner/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:19:38 +0000 michelle http://www.michellewoo.com/?p=2542 Continue reading →]]> Before we continue with more wedding details (by the way, if you think I’m milking this wedding for blog content, you’re … absolutely correct!), I must take a moment to give a million pom-pom-shaped props to our wedding planner, Paige Appel of Bash, Please. She helped bring my crazy wedding vision to life and saved my sanity in the final months and days. If you’re looking for a wedding planner in Southern California, you’d be lucky to snag her. She’s so creative and her enthusiasm for all things fun and adorable made the whole planning process a joy.

Some amazing work by Bash, Please:

A camping trip bachelorette party


A Warhol-inspired wedding


A Provencal picnic


For all you brides and grooms in LA, Bash, Please is hosting Hitched, a mega wedding showcase featuring the raddest vendors in town. Definitely check it out.

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Continuing with Wedding Week on Woo! (I know, when is it not Wedding Week?), I present to you my ensemble. Hair flower by Mignonne on Etsy, dress by Nicole Miller, necklace from J.Crew, bracelet from Anthropologie and shoes from Forever 21 (for FIVE DOLLARS! I KNOW!). And since we’re on a roll with these credits, hair by Kirsten Berg and makeup by Renee Lee. My crazy blue toenails were my “something blue.”

I think I looked pretty, tee hee, blush.

Photos by Raya Carlisle

Up Next: Our “first look.”

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(click to enlarge, if you’d like)

So the wedding detail I was most excited about, the unbelievable find I wanted to shout from the mountaintops, is this:

My bridesmaid dresses were $15! At H&M!

I KNOW!

They were on sale during Christmastime and I snagged five of them. (I even bought one for myself in black.) They fit my wedding theme so perfectly and I loved watching my pretty gals frolic in the woods. The flowers in their hair were also from H&M. They were like six bucks. I KNOW!

I think I told everyone and their mama’s mama about this killer steal. I love my frugal ways.

Photos by Raya Carlisle

Up next: Me!

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It was such a thrill to see our wedding on Style Me Pretty. Now I’d love to share with you some details. (Believe me, I’ve been waiting to dish the deets forever.)

First, our invitations and programs. They were both hand-drawn by my cousin Tiffany. Her talent is out of this world. I showed her our inspiration board and told her it would be cute if she could draw a bride and a groom, maybe give them some black hair, and then what does she go and do? She creates these adorable caricatures! They look just like us! On our reply cards, we had our guests draw our perfect honeymoon spot. Look what they dreamed up! For weeks, our stroll mad bolt to the mailbox was the highlight of our day.

We printed all of our stationery using Overnight Prints, which saved us a ton of money. Friends helped us cut out the heart programs and glue them onto sticks. Thanks friends!

Photos by Raya Carlisle

Up next: What may be my favorite detail of the wedding.

]]> http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/09/01/our-wedding-invitations-programs/feed/ 6 Zip Tie Ring http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/31/zip-tie-ring/ http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/31/zip-tie-ring/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:21:03 +0000 michelle http://www.michellewoo.com/?p=2507 Continue reading →]]> When I was little, I would play with plastic zip ties and pretend they were bracelets. Then I would cry when they wouldn’t come off. Now I can relive the magic with this cute zip tie ring from Rare Device. Also love this tiny diamond ring.

]]> http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/31/zip-tie-ring/feed/ 0 Our Wedding on Style Me Pretty! http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/31/our-wedding-on-style-me-pretty/ http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/31/our-wedding-on-style-me-pretty/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:06:55 +0000 michelle http://www.michellewoo.com/?p=2501 I am giddy to announce that our wedding is featured on the one and only Style Me Pretty! Check out tons of photos of our magical day. Go, go, go!

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I’d love to mount this above my nightstand.

From Sleek Identity, via sfgirlbybay

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Our lovely wedding party. Much more wedding goodness to come next week.

Happy weekend, everyone!

Photo by Raya Carlisle

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I promised Matt that my new website focus wouldn’t make me spend more money but oh, I am sitting on my credit-card-number-typing fingers today! Madewell, the little sister of J.Crew, is having an end-of-summer sale right now. So many classic, yet statement-making pieces. Yes, I am an enabler. Yes, you still love me. Now go shop!

]]> http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/27/madewell-end-of-summer-sale/feed/ 1 A Lovely Love Story http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/26/a-lovely-love-story/ http://www.michellewoo.com/2010/08/26/a-lovely-love-story/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:31:48 +0000 michelle http://www.michellewoo.com/?p=2467 Danny & Annie

“Being married is like having a color television set. You never want to go back to black-and-white.”

My heart feels full.

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