DONE DONE DONE DONE- DOOOOOONE!!!

Jason and I got married August

31st 2008!!!!  I cannot believe how time has come and gone so fast!  Everything was absolutely beautiful and the wedding was a blast!  Jason was so handsome and we are so happy how everything turned out!  It was a day filled with wonderful memories!!!

I will be updating my bio as I get pictures to share my day, ideas, and decor!!!

- HMM aka Mrs. Z :)

Wedding Video Clip: http://vimeo.com/1757400?pg=embed&sec=1757400

BTW Here is our website: www.holymolymatrimony.com of course :)

Thanks to all the PW girls who helped and supported me though all my planning.  I truely appreciate it!!!  You helped make wedding planning fun for me and gave me something to look forward to... It means so much to me!

Love, Jamie :)

The Wayfarers Chapel, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.

http://www.wayfarerschapel.org/index.html

The Norris Pavilion, Rolling Hills Estates, CA

http://www.norriscenter.com/

                                           

 

 

DOC COORDINATOR                                                                                     www.platinumweddingsbykerrie.com                                                                                              

CATERING (Horible!!!)
http://gaetanosonline.com/

PHOTOGRAPHER:
www.louispalos.com

FLORIST
www.flowerallieweddings.com

ENTERTAINMENT & LIGHTING
http://www.atmospheredj.com/

LINENS
www.fusionlinens.com

CAKE:
http://rossmoorpastries.com

WEDDING DRESS
Designer: http://www.maggiesottero.com/

The dress:  http://www.maggiesottero.com/dress.aspx?keywordText=jocelyn&keywordType=any&page=0&pageSize=8&style=A3135

I bought it at: www.marymebridal.com

HAIR & MAKE UP   www.cheekcouture.com                                                                                                                                    

PHOTO BOOTH http://www.redcheese.com/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

BOUDOIR PICTURES                                                                                                                                 www.pussycatpinups.com

Our colors are black, a mix of reds, and a touch of burgundy. She will be adding a LITTLE pink in the floral arrangements to help make things pop! We will also be incorporating black calla lilies! Wierd I know :)

- Invitations
- Table runner for our Kings Table
- Menu cards
- Table names

My Maggie Sottero dress was a sweetheart, dropped waist, corset dress in Ivory- it was called the 'Jocelyn' 

It had messy pickups on the bottom, and thankfully not too poofy either.  There was also lace and sequece details around the top, as well as patches around the bottom that could be found around the pickups.

After MUCH looking around, it was inevitable I was going to pick a dress from the Dessy Collection. I LOVE their dresses!!! We stumbled upon this one and it just worked. We had originally picked out a long black dress, but then thought it was too formal for a summer/ chapel wedding.  I have my two sisters (Maid & Matron on Honor) and two best friends (Bridesmaids) and each of them look adorable in this dress!  Im so glad this worked for everyone!

 

 

   

   

I decided to take a different route for the flower girl dress. I bought a Sweet Beginnings Duchess Satin flower girl dress in Cranberry red, tied by a black satin sash with a large bow on the back. I thought it would be a nice touch with the very dark/ romantic wedding. We were so nervous for it to come, thinking it wouldn't look right- but when we recieved the dress we ABSOLUTELY LOVED it! My niece (MOH/sisters daughter) is our FG, and this is her 3rd time- but never in a beautiful red dress. She loves it too!

As for the RB, we just had them match the GM's attire!  My youngest RB held a pillow with a Shannon Crystal Ring we got as a gift from our engagment party, and my other RB had a very special surprise for my DH!

We went for all black tuxes- mainly because I think its sexy, and especially more our style.

My DH wore all black with an Ivory tie to match my dress
The GM & RB wore all black, with a red tie
FOG woer traditional black and white tux
FOB wore black jacket/pants, with a white shirt, vest and tie

We finally found it! Unfortunetly this picture does not do justice at all- it looked beautiful on my mom and very flattering on her!!!  We got it in black of course! No yucky blue :)

I got this dress at Forever 21 of all places (which normally I cannot fit) for only $22 bucks!  I already had shoes that went perfect- so what a steal this was! My BM made my bouquet from teh shower which came out so cute!

Jason and I with "Team Bride" :)

FOREVER 21 for $20!!!!!

Rehearsal Dinner was the Wednesday before the wedding.  After some practice down the Chapel aisle, we had dinner at Asaka Japanese Restaurant which is close by. Its on the cliff in Palos Verdes and overlooks the water- its even affordable too!  A perfect opportunity to take advantage of the beautiful location!  http://www.asakausa.com/

I got Jason' grooms cake from Rossmoor Pastries as well and it was delicious!  Its didn't come out exactly as planned but still a fun surprise for him and our bridal party- a perfect treat after dinner! On a side note- I know they can be expensive so I opted to have a smaller cake made and kept it one tier and a one hour labor so it was cheaper then the other estimates!

It is an off-road tire and I just stuck racing flags on top !

Jason's an off-road enthusiast and photographer so I thought it was a must :)

We even got some practice cutting a cake together :)

Here are some inspiration pictures for the wedding...

*** Thanks to all the PW girls for helping me accomplish making inspiration boards and posting pictures- you all are awesome!!!***

These are the two cakes that stick out to me the most to me when I look through pictures. Somehow I wanted to incorporate black ribbon with a scroll design. So my bakery will integrate the two! I want it simple and bold.

Tier 1 & 3 will just be black ribbon with NO piping
Tier 2 & 4 will have the scroll design above in black

Flavors
- White cake with fresh strawberry
- White & chocolate cake with Chocolate Bavarian cream in middle
- White & Chocolate cake with Dulce Carmel in the middle

The result..........

The Newlyweds in photobooth!

Here was our guestbook table setup to go with our photobooth

We are doing a 'message in a bottle' for my Bridal Shower invites! I actually wanted to stay out of some planning for once- but I thought of this idea which kinda got me involved. Jason and I REALLY want to go on a nice HM, so we registered for one, and we are now going with the Caribbean theme for the bridal shower. These aren't the exact ones, my BM and I changed the look a bit. We got white sand, a few small shells to put inside, the invites are on aqua blue metallic paper, and tying them with a little straw piece. We also may emboss a shell stamp on the invite? I'm excited b/c its an opposite 'theme' from the wedding, lighten up the mood a little bit :) I get to use some color and prettiness.

Finished product!!! (before the labels)

Another thing to take off my list!  My sisters/ MOH took care of the BB for me :)

DIY Invitations....

All supplies were purchased at Paper-Source. (Black Diagonal Fold Invite, Star-dream opal paper, red embossing glitter, Scroll & RSVP stamps, heating tool, and red Stardream Mars envelopes).  I had the main invite, which I embossed a scroll stamp off the side and 3 inserts, in which I also embossed the RSVP stamp too.  I loved the way they came out.  MY DH helped me soooo much with these!

:::Final Product:::

:::Parts:::

(we embossed RSVP too!)

(Directions & map)

(Tags for top of invite closure)

(Our red embossing)

We used Stardream Quartz paper from Paper-Source and used a Damask print for the border- we fit 2 menus per 8.5 X 11 so that helped cut peper costs down... Easy and cheap detail!

Ta-daaa!

Wedding pics of them:

We named our tables in Italian to go with our theme- they are different 'relationship' words....  (We originally got the idea from the wedding cakes that have words all over it- used the same concept with the table names and just translated them into Italian!)

We framed them in 5 X 7 black frames from Michaels, and wrote the words on our meatllic paper from Paper-Source.  We finished them off by adding our typical touch of damask for the border...

Jason and I made all of our placecards the week of the wedding- all material was puchased at Paper-Source!

We cut the red metalic paper and scored them in half using the tool from Paper-Source ($4) then Jason printed sheets of guest names with their table and I just cut and taped down using double sided tape.  We used the same two fonts we were using throughout the wedding- Copperplate and Scriptina...

Here are a few pictures in the hotel room getting ready...

Jason and I work for a race team and our boss was kind enough to give us the best "Something Blue" ever!!!  It was a huge surprise and hit for our guests, and a blast to have as our getaway car!  A little horse power couldn't hurt on the wedding day!  We drove it from the ceremony to the reception, and we kept it out front at both locations for eye candy :)

Ceremony

• During prelude we played "our' songs for a 1/2 hour
• Bridesmaids????  I forgot haha
• I walked to Canon in D
• Recessional was U2 "Its a Beautiful Day"

Reception

During dinner we played a mix of songs to go with our "Italian" theme and off a list I previously gave him

Entrance:

• Bridal Party: Dean Martin- "Mambo Italiano"

• Bride & Groom Entrance- Rob & Big Theme song

First Dance:

• Frank Sinatra- "The way you look tonight"

Father/ Daughter Dance:

• Heartland "I loved her first"

Mother/ Son: 

• James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend"

Cake:

• The Archies "Sugar Sugar"

Bouquet Toss:

• Nelly Furtado "Man-eater"

Garter:

• Van Helen- "Hot for teacher"

Last Dance: (We had 2 songs at the end)

• Louis Prima - "Buona Sera (1958)" and  Michael Buble  "Save teh last Dance for me"

We made our own STD's and uploaded the file to www.vistaprint.com, we also made a little postcard that went with it and mailed them off in our red envelopes like everything else! 

For the grooms gifts, I got Jason a Grooms cake (PIB), "Z" cufflinks, "In case you get cold feet" socks, a boudior session & book made, and some candy from Powells Sweet Shop!   I gave him everything (except for the B*book) at our rehearsal dinner...

Here is what we got our bridal party & parents, we gave out the gifts at our rehearsal dinner...

Parents: Digital frame and each something sentimental from our chapel gift shop, I also got his dad a Romeo & Juliet cigar

MOH/ BM: Robes to get ready in (PIB), black sequence flip flops from VS, all of their bridal stuff- earrings, bracelet, hair piece, and a gift certificate to get a mani/pedi for the wedding.   I also got my sisters (MOH's) a spa GC for all of their hard work.

GM: Custom cuff links and FI bought them all a book (Something with $$$/investing since their all getting into that)

FG: Her hairpiece and jewelry, SD ZOO tickets for her and family, candy for Powell's, ballet slippers, and mani/pedi GC

RB: Candy from Powell's & skateboard

http://www.powellssweetshoppe.com/

This website is helpful for making inspiration boards or collages with your weddng pictures!

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

Got my custom pink & black gater off ebay- and they match my shoes :)

                                                                          At fitting:::
   

Here are some pictures I have of my comb from my hair trial...

It took me forever to find, but worth the wait.  Its had pearl and crystals- to go with everything else!

I got it from: www.mariellonline.com One of the cheapest places I could find! (Bridal shops are too expensive)

Mines on the top left of the pade (H087) http://www.mariellonline.com/110.html

For my 'real' bachelorette party we decided to keep in local, and just have fun with the girls!

First, we met at OC Pole Fitness, where we were taking a strip class! (We had a blast! Highly recommended!)  While I was visiting my mom earlier- "Team Bride" was at my house decorating and getting ready for when we got back!  They did an amazing job on everything!!!!  They hung lingerie across my living room, got me a killer and yummy cake, decorated, had personalized water bottles, made food, you name it!!!  So when we got back we had a passion party, played some games, ate, then went to the Jacuzzi, and passed out!  Just thought I'd share some pictures of our fun!

Breaking into my pool at night in out stilettos :)

My penis "To have & to hold" cake         / My MOH's made me an emergency hit & gave it to me that night!

Jason surprised me with a mini-moon in Oahu the night of our wedding as my present.  We stayed in Waikiki for 5 days and had a blast just hangin together and being newlyweds :)

For our honeymoon we went to Playa Del Carmen and stayed at the all-inclusive http://realresorts.com/The_Royal_Playa_Carmen/ which was absolutely beautiful!!! We had an 8 day honeymoon filled with both R&R and fun filled adventure, it was quite the unique experience! I will never forget this trip~ we had an absolute blast together!  2 weeks later we found out were expecting!!!  We get to bring home a souviner after all!!!  ;)

At the Tulum Ruins                                               All-inclusive dinners = Eat tooooo much ;)

  Cliff diving was a blast!

***  UPDATED *** 02/09/2009

I am also available in the Long Beach/ Orange County Area if you don't want to deal with shipping :)

- TALL hurricane glasses (for buffet table, decor, etc) ($5 for single tall single glass and $10 for set of 3 tall- see pics below)

- (54) Martini Glasses ($50) 

Larger hurricane glasses I used for decor (Buffet table, lobby, etc.)

*** Available: the two boxes on the very right***

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Wedding Rehearsal

For

Jamie & Jason

Practice makes perfect, it’s true what they say

Please come for a run-through before the big day!

Please meet at the Chapel, 6pm on the dot

Where Jamie and Jason will soon tie the knot!

After the practice, when it’s all said and done

Please join us for dinner, drinks, and some fun!

August 27^th 2008 Wednesday

The Wayfarers Chapel

5755 Palos Verdes Drive South

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275

Asaka Japanese Restaurant

3128 Palos Verdes Drive

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275

I used my typical Stardream Mars (Red) paper from paper source as a mat, and used a double sided tape roller to stick the stardream opal invite ontop.  Then I sent them off in a matching Stardream Mars envelope!

We had www.idooriginals.com make our Unity Candle and it looked similiar to these!  We chose black & red of course!  Pics of ours to come....

*** If you want to DIY it would be super easy!  All you need is a blank candle, print your monogram or wording on vellum paper, adhere that to the candle (looping all the way around) then complete by putting the ribbon of your choice on the top on bottom- and waaalaaa!!!!****

Thought I'd post a few of our engagement pictures! They were taken by Erin Palos, of www.louispalos.com

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Non- Pro pics

Soon after we got engaged we asked my best friend & BM, Cora (who takes wonderful pictures for fun) to take a few engagment pictures for us!  We weren't sure if we'd ever get engagement pictures since we weren't sure about who our professional photographer would be at the time...   They turned out great and proves that DIY pics can be great too!  Here are a few!

Here is a pic of our engagement party invitations!  We got the accordion fold cards from www.kodakgallery.com   We thought they were something a little different then expected. (Plus people know were picture freaks lol so it was very us) We like how it just represents "us" being together over the years enjoy ing life.  We put a pic from my ring when he proposed as the cover and also stuffed them in red evvelopes as always!

:::Front:::

:::Back:::

Bambino was a honeymoon baby and a wonderful gift god has given us!  He is due August 4th 2009 and we can't wait for him to get here and be in our arms!  Stay tuned!

Here is our little guy!

Nursery:

Newborn Pictures:

Born August 3rd 2009 :)