A New Address

Well, now that I'm back to blogging again, I thought we should switch sites so that our friends from around the world will have the opportunity to keep in contact with us!

Visit our new site by clicking here!  It's http://jeanneandruss.wordpress.com/.  See you over there!

Carmen at the Hollywood Bowl

Russ planned for us to go to the Hollywood Bowl to watch Carmen.  We had a great time sipping wine, eating snacks, and watching the show!

I forgot to take a lot of pics and that's about all I had!

Rihanna Concert

We got really lucky and were invited to the Rihanna Concert at the Staples Center!  =)

It was hard to take good pics, but that's Rihanna!

And then Eminem came out of no where and did a song w/ Rihanna!

 

Our pics turned out pretty terrible.  :(

Our Video Made It On The Internet!

Our short film of the wedding made it on the internet!  =)  It's really cute and I just LOVE it!!!  Check it out here!  Hope you enjoy it!

I'm back!

*phew*  After a six-month hiatus from blogging, I'm back.  Not sure why I took such a long hiatus, but I'm back!!  =)  Oh, I know why I had the hiatus...it's b/c I had nothing to write about for the longest time!  Russ and I took a huge break from the wedding and basically went into hiding.  But now we're back and I've got tons to blog about and tons of pictures to share!  Stay tuned!

"Sashay in LA"

We were planning on having lunch w/ Dan & Donna and we were GREATLY surprised by Jeff, Meghan, Kelly, and Lindsay!  And they came with our BIG e-session pic that we displayed at the wedding:

They also surprised us with a book of how we went around LA w/ them!  It was AWESOME!!!  Check it out:

Thanks Dan, Donna, Lindsay, Nelson, Kelly, Jeff & Meghan for the AWESOME book!  We LOVE it!!!

My Bustle

A few weeks before the wedding, it became apparent that my bustle wasn't working right with the tailor that I normally go to!  :(  So, I asked Kelley if she had any recommendations for a bustle person and, of course, she totally did!

Within a few days, I was in touch with Olivia from A Stitch In Time and had an appt for my bustle.  =)  I went in, put on the dress w/ the shoes and w/in a few minutes, she had my dress pinned up in a bustle and she knew where to take in at the top and to make sure it wasn't too tight!  =D

I went back a week later for a 2nd fitting.  And a few days before the wedding, I picked up my dress, which was stuffed, pressed and ready to be put on!  She even pinned a little blue bow in my dress so that I would have something blue.  =)

Here's my dress pre-bustling:

Here's some shots of dress post-bustle.  I can't believe how awesome she is and how easy it was for her to come up w/ a bustle.

Sand Ceremony

In researching what we would do for our ceremony, I came across several sand ceremony readings and really loved the idea.  When I showed Russ the sand ceremony idea, he loved it too!  It was esp great b/c Casa was right on the beach and it would fit right in.  =)

Basically, the sand ceremony is like the unity candle thing, except w/ sand.  Sooo...here's us pouring our separate sand into one bottle.

And here's the final product of our sand ceremony:

Ring Bearer Bowl

Instead of a ring bearer pillow, we decided to get a Paloma's Nest Ring Bearer Bowl.  It was really awesome b/c we could customize it with anything we wanted.  That was sooooo much more simpler than trying to find a pillow that would match our colors.  Not to mention, we weren't finding any designs that we liked, esp b/c a lot of them were really flower-y, which just seemed very 80s to us.

Anyway, we decided to use the following quote from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho:

ONE IS LOVED BECAUSE
ONE IS LOVED.
NO REASON IS NEEDED
FOR LOVING.

- THE ALCHEMIST
 

And then we decided to have it end with:
"J + R 5/29/2010"

 It was really beautiful.  =)  Here's a pic of it:

Beer-Of-The-Month

Thanks to Kelley, Russ has been getting Beers-Of-The-Month for his bday!!  =)

The first month of beers arrived randomly one day.  It was quite a surprise!  We got 4 types of beers, 4 bottles each.  Russ totally enjoyed them!!

Thanks Kelley!!!!

Wedding Night Props

While Russ and I were saying bye to everyone, Anita and Audrey were in our room *decorating* it for our arrival.  Apparently the two of them were very happy and had A LOT of fun *decorating* it.  heehee.

When we walked in, there were rose petals everywhere!  They started a bath for us, lit some candles and opened a bottle of sparking wine for us.  heehee.  It was gorgeous!!  =)

In addition to all of that, my mom gave us some important things that would ensure a healthy and strong marriage for us.  Here's what they are:

The hearth w/ the strings connecting it are supposed to keep us tied together and strong.

Now, they're on display in our bookshelf in our room.  =D

Another Photobooth

While I loved our photo booth, Pete and Jessica's Photo Booth was WAY MORE FUN!!!  I think the fact that it produced photos right then and there made it much much easier to use.  Not to mention, they had some pretty awesome props too!

There was a constant line for the photo booth all night long.  Here's me and Russ enjoying the photo booth:

And now here's the newlywed couple enjoying their photo booth:

And the soon-to-be parents enjoying the photo booth too:

And of course, Russ and Pete showing off their love for their rings:

What a bunch of dorks!!

See how cool the photo booth was at Pete & Jess' wedding!  =)  EVERYONE enjoyed it!  =)