Graceland: Update

Friday, October 31, 2008

Update

Happy my favorite holiday everyone! How I love Halloween. Even though I'm stuck here at work all day, I just can't help being giddy. Maybe the stash of holiday M&M's in my drawer helps. :) Unfortuneately, Rick is working all weekend so I'm heading off to party hop tonight with other friends. I think we'll get a chance to sport the zombie bride and groom costumes again tomorrow night for his work party. Yeehaw or... I mean uuuuuuuuugh (that's a zombie moan).

Speaking of being giddy- here's an update on the wedding plans. The big day is January 16. We will be doing our reception the evening before. Please send me your addresses and relieve my stress level somewhat of all the things I have to do. :) I did decide on a dress which I get it back from the alterations person next week. You can probably drop by my house anytime between then and the wedding and I'll just be wearing it around. :) Now we just need a photographer and invitations. Any suggestions? Oh and fun honeymoon location ideas. Nothing too extravagent or expensive.

I was laughing last night when I was complaining to Rick that my head hurts from all these decisions. I'm just tired of making decisions. He offered to make them, then I realized that I really want exactly what I want, it's just that I don't know what I want. Being a girl can be hard. :) I can't even decide on colors. Really, in the end, not much of these decisions matter. We'll be married regardless of what we wear for our engagement photos. But really that is point. You do all of this craziness for good photos. The decision to get married is made so that's not so stressful anymore (well sometimes it's still a bit stressful), but the details which really shouldn't matter too much are just to have nice photos to remember the day. So, I ask again.... good photographer recommendations? Tell me some fun things you did at your wedding that you loved, or things you wished you did differently?

I figured this was appropriate for both Halloween and the wedding update (I stole this from Pinky's blog- thanks girl!)

7 comments:

kat said...: i agree that it's all about the photos. i wish that i had spent the money there, because before the whole deal that was what i said i wanted, and then i skimped. lame. mag had a good photographer here, but that is CO.

i've seen cool pictures by this utah photographer: http://canlasphotography.blogspot.com/2008/10/ferney-family-san-francisco-nie-nie.html

no idea how much coin though.; October 31, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Anonymous said...: For invitations here's the site for a place called The Mandate Press. I think they just moved to Draper.
http://www.themandatepress.com/
They do custom letterpress printing. Beautiful stuff.; October 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Heidi P said...: HappY Halloween!! Did you dress up for work?
The only thing I regret is not having a professional do my hair and make up.
Can't wait to see the dress!! :); October 31, 2008 at 1:49 PM
calittle14 said...: I would spend the money to get quality photos. We used a guy from Ogden, if you are interested e-mail me. We also went simple and had a dinner for family and friends instead of a reception. We liked that because we were able to talk to those we wanted for more than a few seconds. It was the best way for us to do it. We still had a cake and all that. It was a great, but simple day. Good luck in the preparations. We wish you the best of luck!; October 31, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Afton said...: Did not like standing in a line for the entire length of the open house and not even getting a piece of my wedding cake. (I know, can you believe it?) Also, I can't remember what kind of food there was because i think I got a cup of punch and a roll the whole night. The thing was that we had an open house so people kept coming and coming and coming the whole night, right up to the very end when it was supposed to be over. So that was a mistake. Open House should equal no line.

A good thing was we went someplace close for the honeymoon, then about a year later we took a fancier trip. We went to Tahoe for the honeymoon, which was nice, but within driving distance and it was low key.

My advice...do NOT, under any circumstances, go to a time share presentation on your honeymoon. No amount of money/helicopter ride/free food is worth it.; October 31, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Jill said...: I can't wait to see you in your dress!

I have a good friend who is a photographer. You can check out his work at mysweetwedding.com He's pretty artistic with his photos. I love his work.

Good luck with everything!!

Our address is 3463 Winding Creek Ln Riverton Utah 84065; November 2, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Marna said...: I just found your blog... from kat's...from kari's...anyway...
I am so excited for your upcomming wedding! You deserve the best!
Honeymoon thoughts- Costa Rica to see soe beautiful birds? Tuluim Mexico to see the ruins(our neigbors went tubing from the ruins to the beach and I thought it sounded REALLY unique. I'm probably to late, but thought I'd throw my 2cents in.; December 8, 2008 at 10:13 PM

My Movie Reviews

Quiet Earth. B-. Another SciFi recommended by Netflix, although this one was actually interesting and enjoyable. A guy wakes up and everyone is gone. Made in New Zealand, it claims to be one of the top ten movies in the US in the year it came out (sometime in the 1970s). After it was over, we agreed that it was good, but the ending was a little confusing, so we watched the ending again with the directors comments. Lame. Apparently the whole movie was supposed to have an anti-nuclear message and the director takes credit for his movie making New Zealand nuclear free. So.... pretend you don't know that and enjoy the movie.
Sunshine. C-. Netflix. That's it. We are not trusting Netflix's rating of sci-fi movies again. The sun is dying so a crew is going with a nuclear missle to "re-start" it. I kept hoping aliens would show up or at least something would happen to draw me in. A lot of things almost happened, but when they did, it did not make much sense.
Warm Bodies. B. Red Box. I was surprised by this movie. I'm a fan of a good zombie flick, but when I heard about the plot, it seemed a bit too much. It turned out to be very entertaining. I'd rate it pretty high on the must see zombie film list and very high on the cheesy teenage romance film list.
Wolverine. B. I'm a fan of the X-Men movies. I'm also a fan of Hugh Jackman. It was hard to go wrong going in with those two biases. The fighting sequences were too long, but that was expected. If you've like the X-Men movies, you should like this one too.
The East. B. I forget how much I love the indie flicks at the Broadway. This also had an environmentalist-based plot, but was written well and I liked how it ended. A women goes under cover in an environmental terrorist group. It goes with the obvious plot of her having sympathies for members of the group and trying to balance that with her personal beliefs. Worth seeing.
World War Z. B. I was in the middle of the book and didn't want to see the movie until I finish, but I couldn't help it and saw it opening weekend. Not a big deal as they are very different. This is a different kind of zombie movie. While most are horror flicks, this was more of a suspense movie. They cut out the gratutious gore associated with most zombie movies and gave it more of a plot. Fun for zombie fans and non-zombie fans.
Silent Running. D. Netflix. I have no idea why this is rated so well on Netflix. Sci-fi movie made in the sixties with blatant environmental message. Forests have died on the earth so they are growing them in a space station orbiting Saturn. Earth decides to abandon the project and for some reason that means they have to blow up the forests. One man understands the impact of losing all our forests so he kills everyone. My description made it seem way better than it is. At one point, he programs his robot helpers to play cards and you watch them play cards for about 10 minutes. Skip this one!

My Book Reviews

The Rent Collector. B. I loved this book while I was reading it. Then the author's comments on the back disappointed me. It was fiction! I was so inspired by the "true" story of this woman living at the dump in Cambodia and learning to read. The whole way through I thought it was true. I was mad when it wasn't. Although toward the end, it started getitng a little unbelievable. It was based on real people which bothers me wondering how much is true and how much is fiction. I still recommend the book, but know what you're getting into.
Divergent. B+. Fun, quick read. YA fiction. Your basic strong female in post-apocolypic world fighting to make change. Even though the story's been told over and over, this one was very engaging. I can't wait to read the next in the series!
World War Z. B+. For staters, this is very different from the movie. It's 10 years after we won the zombie war. The book is a series of interviews with survivors. I was hesitant about the way it was written and that I wouldn't stay involved without a central character. However, the book created a very real world. So much so that when I was getting off the freeway one morning and saw some homeless people waking up under a bridge, for just second, I thought they were zombies. I also wanted to bring it up in conversation. Like when someone was talking about North Korea, I wanted to say, "Did you hear how they handled the Zombie Apocalypse?' It was a fun book. I've never read a zombie book before and I may never again, but I'm glad I read this one. It also was welcome to read a book that isn't a strong female character overcoming incredible odds. I'm seriously weary of that plot line.
Waiting to be Heard. B+. I've followed the Amanda Knox case for several years. I thought, since I knew most details of the case, this might be boring. I was surprised at how engaging and well written it was. She is a quirky girl and, while the complete lack of physical evidence makes me sure she is innocent, I can see why people think she is hiding something. The book was haunting to think the someone who doesn't understand a culture coupled with a corrupt prosecutor could put an innocent person in jail for years.
Girl Gone. C-. Maybe it was called Gone Girl. I don't remember. Book club book. I've never gotten into mysteries. This one took a while to get into, then I couldn't put it down, then it ended and I wished I never picked it up. Ridiculous ending.
The Kitchen House. B-. I have no idea how to rate this book. It was slow to start. Once things started to happen (murder), I found myself sucked in and not wanting to put it down; however, once I did put it down, I didn't look forward to picking it up again. I'm not sure why. Maybe because it's similar to a bunch of other books I've read. I'm just getting weary of the genre and need to mix it up a little. Overall, an interesting read. The story of a young white girl who is indentured when her family dies on the boat from Ireland to America. Her relationship with her new family (the slaves whom she is sent to live and work with) and how her life is different from them because of the color of her skin.
The Happiness Project. D. I'm reviewing the book, but I'm not going to finish it. I knew this wasn't my favorite genre, but it was the book club pick this month so I thought I'd give it a chance. I didn't see the point of reading someone's goals. I sometimes feel like these "self-help" books are an excuse for people to feel like they are doing something to be happier, when really they are an excuse to avoid working on yourself by living through someone else's experience. Instead of reading the book, how about spend that time working on your own "happiness project". As I read, I kept thinking it should have been a workbook for readers to complete their own project while reading hers. I'll be interested to hear how others in book club liked it.

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