We said "I do"

We’re MARRIED!!! I know, crazy huh? We wanted to do something spontaneous. We’re so much in love that we couldn’t wait two years to get married. We had our civil ceremony this morning. It was such a wonderful experience. Lester had the giggles and I had the tears. When I saw Lester’s eyes filled with tears, I cried even more. We still plan to have a wedding and get married through church to celebrate with our family and friends. So may I introduce you the new Mr. and Mrs. Concepcion….
Us laughing!!
Me crying!

My FMI loves me...

I am one of the luckiest girls to have the world’s nicest future mother in-law (FMI). She is so sweet and down to earth. If you were to ask anyone about her, they’d say the same. But some brides are not so lucky enough...


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What starts with "D" and ryhmes with "riot"

It is time for me to diet, seriously! No more with the; “I’ll start on Monday,” “I’m too tired,” “I’m stressed out so I need to eat” It’s time to get down to business and pull out the gym card and healthy treats. Seriously peeps! I’m not joking....

I don’t want this to be me on our wedding day.....

A note

As I was getting ready to go to bed yesterday, I found a note next to my pillow. Lester left it there before he took off to work.



My babe is the sweetest person ever!! He made my night :)

The Date

There are times where I just want to get up and go to the courthouse to get married already. I want us to get a place of our own already. I want us to start a family already. I do not want to wait till 2010!!! Whaaa whaaa whaaa! I have to remind myself not to rush into things and how our wedding is important to us. This wedding is the uniting of two families, our family. It's about creating memories and having a good time with them. It's a start of a new chapter. Due to being many miles away from our family, planning a long distance wedding, and financial reason we chose to get married in 2010. Lester had asked me to marry him on his mom's birthday. To go with the flow and to be cute we planned to get married on May 22, 2010 on my dad's birthday. A minor issue arose and me being selfish, we changed our date. Lester and I are both Aries. Our relationship became official on April 5,2003 and yup that date is an Aries too. You know where this is going right? Our wedding date will be an Aries too. As much as I wanted to get married in May, I am delighted with our new date.

Lester and I at my cousin's wedding (Victor and Shawna)

My color Palatte

Once again I am deeply sorry for being MIA. BUT!!!! GOOD NEWS! I passed my test. I am finally a certified teacher in Texas, yippee!! That test had me seriously stressed out. My cousin Jessica told me about a movie called “The Secret,” regarding motivation and thinking positive. I told myself everyday, “I passed the test, I passed the test” and it worked. Finding a teaching job here in LA county, California will be yet another challenge for me. As I was driving to work this morning I noticed that teachers were on strike outside their schools. I managed to capture some of it on video which was hard since I was behind a person on a bicycle. The strike consisted of the education funding cuts proposed by the governor. Budget cuts can certainly mean freezes in teacher hiring as well. Although this scares me, I will not let it stop or intimidate me from finding a job; damn it!

So now on to wedding planning, I finally got together a color palette. I knew that I wanted to have a black and white theme with a splash of color. I googled black and white wedding theme and it took me to Jennifer Skog’s bridal shower pictures. This is where it all began. Our theme will be based on Damask pattern (I love it). Colors will be black and white with lime green (to bad it ain’t pink, thanks Lester!!)



http://jenniferskog.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/the-most-amazing-bridal-shower/


If anyone finds anything cute with damask pattern that can be incorporated into the wedding let me know, thanks :)

"Forget Love-I'd rather fall in Paper"

Oh paper, how I love thee! You can absolutely do about anything with paper. As I mentioned before, I love DIY projects and the wedding planning process will feed me my hunger and cravings for DIY projects :)

My DIY list will consist of:

• invitations
  
• save-the-date cards
  
• thank-you cards


• will you be my BM cards.
  

So far that's it... OK, let me break it down for ya'll....

Invitations
For my invitations I plan to use a gocco machine to print them. Once all the ink is printed on those babies, I will stack the invite card, reception/dance card, etc together with a ribbon or pretty vellum paper. I was originally going to make my own pocket fold invites, but I'd be killing myself if I did do it, so X that out.

Photo from Flikr member: Heatherjeany

Photo from a Flikr member: Ignafruit

An example of gocco print (above photo). I plan to stack them together and wrap it with pattern paper/ribbon so it looks like this (bottom photo).

Photo from Flikr member: Ignafruit

Pocket-fold invites that will murder me if I dare DIY (bottom photo)

Photo from socialfrog.com

Save-the-date
I have so many ideas for the save-the-date cards. Here a couple of cards that I might make...


Photo from Flikr member: Amberinnorfolk

The couple had their photos taken by a professional (above photo). I believe in saving money as much as possible. I found a Flikr member Creaticraft who took the photos using a regular camera and edit them in black and white (bottom photos)... SIMPLE!! (or at least i hope it well be)






This is how it looks edited. You can click on the picture to view it larger. I LOVE IT!!! (bottom photo). I plan to take pictures very similar to the ones I have showed you. Once our pictures are edited like the picture below, I will paste them on to beautiful printed cardstock paper.

Thank you Cards

I am at aw when I see photographs of couples holding signs. I will make Thank You signs to have our pictures taken on the day of the wedding by our photographer. Sort of like the photos below. I plan to make them into post-cards :)

Bridesmaid cards

It's a surprise :) I'll post pics AFTER I send them out to my bridesmaid, which will be sometime in August 2008.......