For Eleseret

So my best friend went off to travel the world. I was happy for her, but sometimes I wish she were here. When I need to vent about my mother and other family, ask her opinion about outfits and those sort of girly things, I wish she were here. Now that I'm getting married and trying to do all the planning, I miss her for her creative eye and balance of quirky, beautiful, dark elegance. Also I miss being there for her. Not knowing how she is and if she is happy really makes me feel useless. I am really afraid that once she is a traveled woman of the world, will she even connect with me any longer? Will my career in medical illustration bore her, rather than rivet her like it did not so long ago? So many many questions since everything is changing to rapidly. I feel for the first time that I am finished growing up. 

I always felt so mature and that the end of the road was so far away, that I never even really stopped to think about a life after school. A job using skills I learned in college, with people under me taking my orders. Now I have no way of knowing how of if things will turn out but I choose to accept that I simply do not know the answers. I just really wish that my friendships, more like sisterhood, (no traveling pants required) will grow forever with depth, value and complexity instead of fading away like boxed drugstore hair color.

Simply Meant to Be

I've been planning my wedding in January for about 6 months now and I have changed my mind drastically when in comes to decorating about 3 times. The only things that I have held on to are my colors and my theme, The Nightmare Before Christmas. 

The hardest part about a theme wedding in my opinion is figuring out how to keep enough elements of your theme without making your wedding seem like a Halloween party or something like that.  I still want it to feel like a wedding but also have those quintessential hints of whimsy that Tim Burton in known for. Since I want to keep it elegant I will be infusing my theme with black and white damask and a bit of Victorian vintage.  My venue is not made for Gothic winter weddings rather the opposite with its abundance of palm trees and tiki torches, but since our wedding will be held at night, all that will be visible are the Christmas lights wrapped around the trees and banister railings around the pond.

So that I can keep from hanging things on the walls I am going to pot large branches that I wrap with Christmas lights and push them against the walls. Also I am going to make some props for the centerpieces since each table will not be numbered, rather belong to a certain character from the movie. Such as Jack's Table, Sally's Table, Zero's Table, etc. Each centerpeice will reflect the character. For instance I am going to put antique corked bottles in a basket and place wooden sewing spools on Sally's table, and purchase a Florence Boiling Flask fill in with orange food coloring and water and place that on top of my copy of Grey's Anatomy for Dr. Finklestein's table.

Also I am going to make a foam board sign that looks like the Halloween town countdown clock that says 000 and says "Days To Wedding" instead of "Days To Halloween." I hope that I can balance everything otherwise I'm worried it will seem like a child's birthday party.