6 Months!

6 months ago, 11/10/12 was the happiest day of both our lives; the day we became husband and wife!

It has been a blessful road for Peter and I.  It is said that the first year is the toughest; the transition of living together and learning new habits that we may never have known about one another.  Knock on wood, but God has really been in the center of our relationship and as my sister puts it, "we are truly madly deeply livin da vida loca."  :-)

The biggest obstacle we have faced is feeling that our marriage has just recently begun.  What I mean by that is we had a roommate living with us.  Even though our roommate was respectful with our space and pretty much gave us most of the apt, we didn't feel like we started our lives together until after we moved to our own place.  I only say that because I felt like the place wasn't part of me.  Yes I may have decorated and used the kitchen most, but it wasn't home to me or for us...not yet  I guess it's not really an obstacle, but for us we were very antsy and could not wait to move.  Especially since we had all these wonderful wedding gifts to use for our place.

Our place is coming together slowly, but surely.  I'm slowly adding my crystal touch to everything and so far we are both loving how everything looks.  What I love best is that Peter and I make a great team and really work together through everything.  I love how I am in the middle of cooking and he'll come home after work and always offers a helping hand.  Even cleans up the apt when we are about to have guests over the weekend...I don't even have to ask.  My heart absolutely melts when I see him with Bear and I know he will be a wonderful father someday.

6 months and counting as I continue to fall in love even more with my best friend, my help mate, my life partner.

Best,
Crystal 

Excited - New Project

I'm excited for my new little project...blogging!  I wanted to keep a blog in a scrapbook-ish form of our new journey together as husband and wife.  This particular blog was initially created when we had undergo the long, blessful process of wedding planning.  After a month of working on the new layout to our blog and trying to figure out the contents we wanted to share was a fun process.

I'm excited to share fun food adventures, recipes (good and bad), yelp reviews, and a little bit about our journey together as a cruiser and sportster.  For those who ride knows what I'm talking about.  I'm eager to see this blog grow as our marriage grows through the daily obstacles and blessings we will have along the way.

"We love because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19

Finalizing Invitation Design & Guest List

It has been such a surreal feeling, as we are less than 4 months away from our happy day, 109 days to be exact.  yay...:-)  


We are in the process of finalizing our guest list with our parents.  Being sure that we are covering our bases with the correct names, addresses, and putting them in the RSVP portion of our website.  Between my parents and me, the guest list has been quite a struggle and a obstacle.  All in all, God has certainly been in the midst of it all.  I dreaded working with my parents on the guest list, just because I didn't want to get into a argument with them.  Just recently while working on the list, they completely took a 180 and was actually talking to me and not at me.  For those who have asian parents know what I'm talking about.  Anyhow, I just have to give thanks to God for being in the center of it all...God is good!


It has been so much fun seeing our invitations come together.  I have been designing them slowly since last year after we booked our venues.  Now that the time is nearing to print them, it becomes even more surreal to me that this is all happening.  I can't wait to send them out and have our family and friends see what we did.


On a side note, our pastor who will be officiating our wedding was the same pastor who baptized Peter at the rock church.  When I shared from day one that God is orchestrating our relationship, it humbles me to see how good He is to us.  The pastor gave us a little homework assignment to write a draft of our vows and his and her story.  As silly as this may sound, I had tears just thinking what I would write.  I can only imagine how I'll be the day of...oh happy day!  

Dam Hoi (Engagement) & Wedding Shower

The Dam Hoi (Engagement) and Wedding Shower is done!  It was a beautiful day with family and friends.  Our engagement was a very important and significant event for our parents.  It was the day where both immediate families meet and for Peter's family to ask my parents for my hand in marriage.  Like my cousins say it, "we're officially engaged!" 


Some pictures to share on our special day!

Dam Hoi (Engagement)

The Wedding Shower

Special thanks to our family and awesome friends who made this all happen for us.  Thank you guys for everything, it means a great deal to know that we have you guys in our lives.

Save The Date

They are SENT!  :-)

It was like Christmas morning opening the package of the pretty paper I selected for the Engagement/Shower invites.  

Envelopes are stuffed, stamped, sealed, and sent!

We kept our save the date cards pretty simple.  Our wonderful photographer designed it out for us and we couldn't have been more thrilled.  He really understood what we were looking for and executed with such creativity.  If you guys are looking for a photographer and looking for someone who will creatively blow your mind, then book Eric Kieu!

I am pretty detail oriented and a perfectionist, so picking the paper, envelope, address stamp, etc. was important to me.  We ordered our address stamp through a groupon wedding special they had and couldn't have been more happier.  The paper I choose for the invites was a pearlescent champagne that really brought out the graphics my brother and friend designed.  

All in all, it was a fun seeing it all come together and slipping them all in the mailbox.  

Guest List and more...

Overwhelming and a complete nightmare...

I tend to shy away talking about the guest list, just the fact that I've had plenty of discussions with the parents and fiancé about it.  Dealing with my parents is a whole other level of patience and communication for me.  Being sure that we respect our parents and they are happy with the agreement is priority for us, but keeping in our budget because of it has been a struggle.

We are in the process of finalizing our save the date list and engagement/wedding shower invites.  I'm hoping to send them out by mid May...

I've been starting to feel really overwhelmed and stressed with the little details, thankfully I have a wonderful fiancé who helps me take a breather and reminds me everything will be ok.  Makes me smile knowing how wonderful he is.  

Photos of the Galore

Photos photos photos...It has been a lot of fun, yet overwhelming.  We had a terrific time with our photographer and videographer.  We were able to recreate a lot of memories that brought Peter and I together.  To be able to capture that on camera was like reliving that honeymoon stage all over again.  It made me fall in love with Peter even more so.

At this moment, we've been overwhelmed picking out photos for the save the date card, website, slideshow, etc...It has been a overwhelming process, but the outcome has surpassed my expectations.  We received our final edited proofs and we were ecstatic to look at them again.

We are in the process of finalizing everything and can't wait to share it with everyone...