Bridesmaid Dresses

My beautiful Team Bridesmaid will wear this dress from Target party line. I ordered them today and hopefully they will arrive first thing next week so I can bring them to the pretty ladies when I visit Texas for graduations.



We love the Jackie-O feeling, or is it Audrey H, this dress brings? And the color is also beautiful. I am not trying to limit the shades of purple theme. Everything works.

To make things even prettier, I also have commissioned Bridesmaid Didi to make personalized fascinator hairpieces for the three of them. Check out her work here.

Can't wait to see you girls walk the aisle. :D

Team Bridesmaid:
Maid of Honor -- NY
Bridesmaid -- Mrs. Benyamin Setiawan
Bridesmaid -- Didi

Hmmmm....taking a deep breath.....

We might need to downsize the wedding depending on what happens at the work front.

Things will start unfolding tomorrow and the following week. At the worst case, I am picturing that it boils down to a matter of life survival in lieu of an extravagant -well, to some extend- nuptial celebration. This epiphany is the result of wee morning perusing news and company announcement. 3 AM, no gym tomorrow!

On the positive side, the whole deal takes pressure off from myself (and the dude) on the planning of a somewhat dreamy wedding. I am just glad we haven't put anything down for venue.

PS:
Babe, really, your Vegas plan is more realistic at this point. LoL.

PPS:
Screw you, Economy. I am going to retreat to some type of a simple life, Fiance, you're coming right? Foraging anyone?

A Reception Venue Run-Off

I am throwing this to the forum and want to see what everyone is thinking. As of now, both places are available and we are on hold for first dip for May 1st. We are thinking of having a 75 people reception, starting at around 4 PM and lasts into the night (4 hours).

Here is the guided decision making from Excel. I am trying my best not to be that biased, but it still clearly shows my preference, huh?



Pat O'Briens

OK, these pictures don't actually do them justice. Try your best to imagine the rooms if you seen both rooms on larger size images.




Outer facade (courtesy of Flickr)



Rio-Rio








and the view from it at night...

Please keep your comments coming! Thanks!