Stinkerpants

WAHOO!!

April 3, 2008 in Our Wedding • Reception

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After yesterday’s obsessive post about chairs, I decided to call the Green Room, just to see if someone happened to rent the room for the day before or the day after. Thrill of all thrills (okay, maybe a little bit dramatic), the room is rented for BOTH DAYS! And I got in contact with both parties, and they are both interested in renting the chairs! YESSS!!! And at exactly 4 months away, this was just the pick-me-up I needed. Now if only someone would drop a free photobooth in my hands…

Stupid Things I Think About, Post #1

April 1, 2008 in Our Wedding • Ramblings While Planning • Reception

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Our budget is dying slowly. It gave a few whimpers in pain when we realized that our guest list had hit our maximum, yet we had no friends invited. It started to cry when we realized we hadn’t factored in a videographer, but we really wanted one. It started screaming bloody murder when we added an additional 39 people to the guest list. And now it’s dying. Despite all that, I still think about things that are likely a total waste of money.

Let me preface this by saying that I had never even heard of a chivari chair before I got engaged and started lurking around on the knot. Now I keep hoping that our venue will somehow decide to replace their god-awful chairs with chivari chairs at no additional cost. What is a chivari chair, some of you might ask? This is is a chivari chair:

image courtesy of Classic Party Rentals

I really like these chairs a lot. I am under no illusion that this is a reasonable or important thing to care about. No, I realize it’s totally stupid. It gets even more stupid when you realize that the average rental for a chivari chair is about $8. Per chair. For chairs.

These are the chairs provided by our venue for 50 cents each:

image courtesy of Shannon Berry.

They are very, very ugly, in my opinion. The room is so elegant, and these chairs are…not. Like, at all. Compare, if you will, to this photo of the Green Room set up with chivari chairs:

Photography by Lisa + James.

Oooooh. Aaaaaaah. So classy.

Part of me says, “They’re chairs. No one is going to notice them.” The other part of me says, “These chairs can like, make or break a room.” Stupid, stupid me.

My only hope is this: One of the caterers we checked out said that a lot of people split the cost of the rental with the other people who have rented the venue for the same weekend. So theoretically, if someone rented the Green Room for the Friday before our wedding and the Sunday after, we could split the cost of the rentals three ways and it would ALMOST not be a ridiculous and frivolous expense. Almost. Sadly, last time I checked, no one had rented the Green Room for Friday or Sunday.

I’ve heard the Green Room is a wonderful place to get married on Friday and Sunday nights in early August! Anyone interested? Contact them today! ;) Seriously though. What stupid things do you think about that you realize are totally ridiculous?

Cupcakes & Homemade Cake Stands

March 5, 2008 in Our Wedding • Reception

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When Mr. Stinkerpants and I decided to tie the knot, we were kinda thinking about doing cupcakes instead of cake, but we weren’t too attached to the idea. We decided to pick whichever ended up to be cheaper. Well, they ended up to cost about the same, and we decided to go with cupcakes. Why? BECAUSE CUPCAKES ARE FREAKIN’ DELICIOUS. Plus, they are very cute and fun, which kind of fits in with our personalities and our theme.

Typically, people who “cupcake” their weddings decide to use cupcake towers, with a little cutting cake on the top. I really like this one, from Bakery Bar in Portland, Oregon:

However, Mr. Cream Puff and I fell in love with the displays at Sibby’s Cupcakery in San Mateo:

We really loved the idea of different cake stands with different levels. Sibby’s rents out these stands, but they were $15 each. At that price, I figured I could buy some and get to keep them after we’re done. My mom and I went to a few thrift stores and found a couple of milk glass cake stands…but they weren’t cheap (about $30 each). To try and buy all milk glass would break the bank.

Then I had the genius idea to turn a glass upside down (or use a candle stick) and place a glass plate on top. They can be secured with epoxy and then, voila! Cake stands! There are TONS of awesome glasses and glass plates in antique stores, and I am really excited with what we got. We also decided to buy the two milk glass cake stands–they were too awesome to say no to. Check out our little display:

The two tiered milk glass one is actually kind of deceiving. The bottom part is an actual cake stand. The top (small) one is actually a milk glass candlestick and a milk glass plate. You might notice that we got a couple of really small plates and placed them on tall champagne glasses. These are for our personal cupcakes. We’re going to get “his” (vanilla) and “hers” (chocolate) giant cupcakes, which we will share instead of cutting the cake. :) Some of the glass is clear, and others are pink or green. I think they will look really cool with light reflecting off of them! Yay!