4 years passed. Where did time go?

My last post was August 2011 and I decided to record all my career development and personal development. Four year passed, I recorded nothing! Family was doubled. I got a smart and handsome boy who is almost 4 year old now and a cutest sweetest baby girl who just turned to 6 months! I have nothing to complain about life! My ambition about career was on and off along the way with two little ones. Now since my tasks have been accomplished, maybe it's about time to really focus on what I want to do and where I want to be in 5 years, 10 years and further along the way! Better later than never!

It's all about work!

Wedding is far far behind me now. 3 years just flied~ From now on, I decided to dedicate this blog to all work related. This will be a place to record my career development and personal development.

A productive long weekend!

Every weekend together became super precious and busy now. Before I read on magazines that brides are always filled with appointments. That is the TRUTH! Another busy scheduled weekend just passed by.

Let's see, what we have accomplished. Saturday, we took a dance lesson at Arthur Murray Dance studio. Not bad! But I felt it was a little too simple and too slow of the learning process. And their price was so much higher than what we expected! What a robbery!! Then after that, we stopped by bridals by Dannielle and solved the BM dress problem. Robin, the salelady that my bms ordered their dresses from, seems a Newyorker type of person to me. :( Then we stopped by Men's wearhouse on the chestnut st.. Those guys were not welcoming us at all. Oh, well. That's fine if they don't want the biz from us. I feel sorry for them. But we did find that there is a very similar color for the men's vest which can match bm dress's color.

Followed by Rodney's wedding. Such a touching wedding. When the bride arrived, I couldn't help my tears. And when i looked at Rodney, he was trying to swipe his tears. So sweet! Here I grabbed that moment. The wedding was also very fun too. Their guests basically didn't stop dancing. A very lively group. Even though most of the time, we didn't join the dancing, we enjoyed to see people enjoying the event. And afton's dress was gogeous! I love the train of her dress. My dress doesn't have such a pretty train, so i think that i need a long veil with some details to compensate the train's plainness. During the reception, the toast from groom's dad, bride's mom and themselves, and also a lot of relatives were all very touching! My eyes were full of tears again! Or just I am becoming too sentimental nowaday?


On Sunday, we met with Michael's DJ Adam. Dave thought he was a very organized person. We will see the proposal he will come up with and also on the following thursday, I will go to thepros' wine and cheese showcase this time. Hopefully i can meet with the DJ lisa recommended. Then we also went to BBB to update our registry. I almost fell asleep on on of the picnic chairs in BBB store. At nite, we invited Yunan to YinQuan (jade harbor) for dinner, the restaurant that we were thinking to have rehearsal dinner there. So basically we were doing research on their food taste and store environment. Their upstairs is much larger than what I thought. So i don't think that we could book the whole floor. Probably 3-4 tables at the corner should be fine. Sunday nite ended up that we both fell asleep on the sofa while watching "china, from the inside" :)

Monday~ Meet with an officiant from the journeys of heart. This organization was highly recommended by several ppl. The lady, Irene, seemed very peaceful and experienced. I think that I will feel comfortable to have her as our officiant. But dave didn't really talk about what he thought about her. We will see. Monday afternoon, another dance lesson at 2nd st.. I liked the intructor at this studio better. But when we looked at the package, the price was still very high. It's just a robbery biz! But dave tended to pick them since he always wanted to learn dancing and their price is a little bit more reasonable comparing with the first studio we went to. So here we go. We booked the dance studio and our first private lesson will start on June 7th!

See how productive we were?!

女人是善变的动物

这个真是颠簸不破的真理。我们本来以为bm dress已经最后定稿，没想到第二天，又翻出一些问题来了，这个dress太亮眼，太fancy，而且跟我的dress不大搭。我的亲爱的总是这么considerate，让我很感动。而我又总是这么indecisive，估计让她吐血。今天又跑到城里的bridals by dannielle，很出人意料的是他们竟然能给我们20%的折扣，而且还这么近，以后他们去fitting什么的就很方便了。真是好事多磨一波三折阿~

最后还是在dave的帮助下，做了决定，当然还没有跟亲爱的最后协商，但是其实最后最决定的都在我，每次都是我的善变让她们也跟着折腾。新的一款bm dress出场，当啷啷~

Forgot to mention~

That we have already decided the caterer. The biggest cost! Now things left with the caterer (shaxamaxon?) is cake tasting and chicken option! Oh yeah~ We are really making progress!

A little hint, the Petit Filet Mignon and Saute'd Scallops is just delicous~~~ strongly recommended. And for those who can enjoy the BUTLERED HOR D'OEUVRES during the cocktail hour, I am so jealous of you since they are all yummy~

Bridesmaid Dresses decided, wohooo~

After making several trips...totally 4, we finally decided on one very elegant long dress designed by Jim Hjelm. It's a Burgundy satin A-line gown, V- neckline, gathered empire bodice. I think it's also a very nice evening dress too. I would love to have one like this if I was my bridesmaid. The only thing is that they have to get it hemed. But according to the owner of the bridal salon, even we get a tea length dress, we also need to do the hem to make the length look the same for every bm. oh, well~ I guess amercian just care too much about the details. Today we saw one picture that 6 bms even wearing the same earrings. :)

Here is the picture of the bm dress. Can't you admit that the model is just gogeous?

All about art!

Looking for photographers now, a lot of good ones are not available for our wedding date. And we found one who is amazing. Here is her website: http://www.susanstripling.com/

I can't wait to meet with her! Hope she is not too expensive.

Look at some pretty photoes from her~