- I cut off all my hair, gave it to Locks of Love and have a completely new style and color
- We moved and are settling in nicely to our new home
- I’ve watched 90% of all NFL football games, excluding what I like to call “third quarter nap time” and including my very first live game at Candlestick Park where we saw the San Francisco 49ers vs. the Seattle Seahawks (9ers won)!
- We have visited our wedding venue three times
- We went to three Oakland A’s games, including some of the playoff games
- Hired our Wedding Coordinator
- Finished our Wedding Website or “Wed-site”
- Sent our Save the Dates
- Had our engagement photos, “E-Pix” taken!
- Celebrated Fletch’s birthday with a dinner party at our new house, complete with Nacho Bar!
Wow!
Now,
let me focus on the last two items on that list.
Both
took place last Saturday on an absurdly warm day for November in the Bay Area –
we absolutely lucked out on the weather!
The day started off with Fletch playing basketball in the morning and me
being pampered at home by my stylist. She
came to do my hair and makeup and we chatted the morning away. She brought along some false eyelashes for me
to wear since, for photography, you really want to accentuate your features so
that the camera picks them up. I had not
worn false eyelashes before, but had always been curious. I don’t wear makeup every day and Fletch actually
prefers me without it, so he’s always a little shocked when he sees me all made
up. Fletch said that I looked beautiful
and then joked around that the eyelashes looked like spiders coming out of my
eyes! He was kidding of course – boys
(insert eye roll here)!
You
might remember from my original post on E-Pix that I had a list of about 15
locations to choose from. Well, we
narrowed that down and ended up with three locations, two outfits each, two
beers and two and a half hours with our lovely photographer! I had done a lot of research and sent
examples of photos that I liked to our photographer. I feel like she really took those to heart, remembered
what we liked and led us through the poses with ease. She helped us to just be ourselves and enjoy
the process. Thankfully our photographer
is very easy to work with, we feel like she’s our friend and we just had a
great time being out and about together on such a beautiful day. We should be getting the pictures back in
about two weeks!! I’ll let you know how
they turn out.
After
the shoot was finished we headed back home to prepare for Fletch’s birthday
dinner party. I came up with a Mexican
Potluck theme and made all the fixing for a Nacho Bar. The night before I had cooked the chicken and
ground beef in my secret seasonings and prepped as much as I could by getting
out most of our serving pieces. I even
made the nacho cheese sauce from scratch and shredded all the cheese myself –
quite a fete! Our friends and family
came, brought wonderful dishes and important ingredients and all had a
wonderful time. It was a huge hit and we’ll
definitely be doing that again sometime soon!
We
had changed out of our E-Pix outfits for the party, but I was still wearing my
makeup from earlier. I received lots of complements
and also some funny reactions to my eyelashes.
One of our friends said something along the lines of “Those better be
fake eyelashes, otherwise, I’m going to have to hate you!” She was pretty relieved when I fessed
up. Later I was talking to my sister and
her girlfriend, who used to do makeup for MAC Cosmetics and always looks beautiful
and I innocently asked “What do you think of my Falsies?!” My step mom was nearby and said “You better
be careful who you say that word around, because in my day it meant something
else!” I didn’t know it meant anything
else, but for some reason teeth came to mind.
She explained and I thought I should let you know too! See below for the definitions:
Falsies (fôl′sēz):
Plural
Noun: Pads of material in women's bras used to make the
breasts appear larger or fuller. False eyelashes:
In recent years, "falsies" has also been used to mean false eyelashes.
Apparently
Falsies can also describe, however, more rarely, pads which create
the appearance of larger buttocks! Just
thought this was hilarious and that I should pass it along to you!
Anyhow,
not sure if I’ll be wearing my falsies (eyelashes, that is) at the wedding or
not, it’s still to be determined. Have
any of you readers out there done any kind of “falsies” for weddings or
events? Done any out of the ordinary beauty
regimens that you would recommend? Anything
you would caution against?
Just
want to let you know that I am making a point to write a new segment every
week. My current goal is to keep this up
through the end of the year and make a habit out of it! Keep me honest people and be on the lookout
for a new post next week!
Future Mrs.
Fletcher
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