Color

More beautiful colors and beautiful flowers

I just love everything about this...

She looks so cute and natural - and the colors of his suit are simple and elegant - then the different pinks in the roses...oh so lovely!!!

When the heart floats

When the heart floats, originally uploaded by emilie79*.

I've fallen in love...again...

Wild Wind

Wild Wind, originally uploaded by emilie79*.

such beautiful colors!

Scott and I love this jam!

I just stumbled across a local designer who had this posted on her blog Frolic! Check it out!

Bridesmaids

This is cute.

Aquamarine

So I think the most difficult aspect of this wedding planning stuff is picking the color palette. I LOVE color so much, it is really hard for me to DECIDE what to do for the wedding. My newest idea is to have a palette that has an icy aquamarine paired with metalics and accents of coral and salmon colors...

Flowers and Ribbons!

Just an idea - the ribbons give a more dramatic effect! Plus, I love the colors of the flowers!

Photo Booth

Scott and I would love to rent one of these photo booths. I love how this couple brought props!

chandeliers!

I love these cheap chandeliers from IKEA. They add lots of beauty and drama to any atmosphere-either inside OR outside. Definitely a must have!

beautiful vows

The following are vows I found on Snippet and Ink, and I think they are wonderful:

I promise to love you earnestly,
with passion and enthusiasm.
I promise my loyalty and that I will stay by your side
through hard times as well as the good.
I promise to work with you to reach your goals.
I promise to be patient with our differences
and to remember that they imbue our relationship
with resilience, strength and humor.
I promise to do what I can to stay healthy and fit
in body and mind so that I may age gracefully
by your side.
I promise to help create a home that is welcoming,
inclusive, spirited and inspiring.
I promise to keep our relationship fresh and lively
and to always remember that you are my lover
and my beloved.
I promise to love you all the days of my life and to be with you in spirit even after I die.

lanterns with ribbons -pretty!

The ribbons seem to add a more dramatic touch. You could even hang crystals from the balls as well to make make-shift chandeliers!

flowers and artichokes

Scott's favorite food is artichoke, and I love the look of these plants. Maybe there is someway to incorporate them into the wedding...

Warner! My wingman!

Some Pictures of Us

Fire.

(07-07) 04:00 PDT Big Sur -- They went through the last of the bananas Sunday and started in on the lettuce. Hundreds of these stubborn holdouts - ordered days ago to leave this fire-scorched area - remain hunkered down on their properties, garden hoses at the ready. Meanwhile, their perishables continue to perish.
"Today, it's bananas," said Kurt Mayer, proprietor of Big Sur Center Deli, hauling out a crate of 100 of them. "Everyone who comes in has to take a banana." The only people coming into the deli are firefighters and other emergency workers. The closure of Highway 1 means no tourists, and the evacuation order means any resident who chooses to stay must remain on his property or face arrest. For most, that means no free bananas. Firefighter Ron McCraner, who has been working for a week straight, took three bananas. He helped defend the deli two days earlier, when flames crept to the east side of Highway 1, just across the road, and embers were flying like fireflies. He figured he had earned more than one banana. "The work is pretty tough, but rewarding," he said. "It's better than a desk job. You're helping to save wonderful things. And you are doing a job that makes your kids proud of you."

The deli, Mayer said, could go broke unless the road reopens - real soon. He said he's losing $6,000 a day. "It's summer, you make all your money now, to tide you over through the winter," Mayer said. "This is serious."

Big Sur seemed to be from another planet. Through the smoke, the morning sun glowed redder than at sunset.
The world-famous highway, usually the domain of lumbering RVs and full of swivel-neck tourists, was deserted, save for water tankers, fire trucks and patrol cars. Near the River Inn, on the northern edge of Big Sur's resort area, small patches of open flame burned unchecked a few feet from the east side of the highway. Elsewhere, blackened, charred plots of land checkered the landscape. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Basin Complex fires were only 11 percent contained as of Sunday. They have consumed a total of 74,985 acres and destroyed 22 homes. Nearly 1,800 structures and 22 commercial properties are still threatened.

Monterey County spokeswoman Kathy Hilliker said firefighters hoped to use Sunday's favorable weather to prepare for hot weather and potentially strong winds from the east today. "They are doing a lot of backfires and 'dozer roads up north and working hard on backfires at the south end," she said. The worry here is that strong winds may accompany the next heat wave. "They keep talking about Sundowner winds. They come from the east, and are like the Santa Ana winds in Southern California. They are doing everything possible to be ready for it." Hilliker said that the fire now does not pose a risk to the Carmel Valley, the posh and more highly populated region to the north of the blaze. "We have had a plan in place for days and days," she said. "The cost of the homes really has no relevance. We're trying to protect everything."

A mile south of the Big Sur Center Deli, chef Tod Williamson grabbed all the remaining strawberries in the walk-in refrigerator at the landmark Nepenthe Restaurant and boiled them all into syrup and jam. Earlier, he grilled the remaining shrimp and fish and tossed whatever was left over."It's the final purge," he said. "The only thing left is the lettuce. Forty-five cases."

Throughout the day, neighbors slipped in and out of the spectacular restaurant. Most came by way of trails through the brush - rather than risk being spotted on Highway 1 by a sheriff's deputy. Longtime resident Ward Stephens took a break from garden hose duty at his home, a quarter of a mile north, and slipped through the woods. Nepenthe was serving complimentary lunch to its neighbors. "I have two cats, and a garden and a beautiful home," he said. "I'm getting cabin fever. But the only places that are being saved are the ones being watched by owners and caretakers."

Restaurant manager Tom Birmingham said Nepenthe was losing $60,000 a day. He spent the past couple of days sweeping fire debris from the deck. The fallen ash has turned the celebrated patio into something that looks like the surface of the moon.
"It felt good to take it back from the fire," he said. "Even if we're not going to open right away, it doesn't hurt to get ready."
On Sunday afternoon, the fire's northern front line was centered at the end of Palo Colorado Road, about halfway between Big Sur and Monterey. There, firefighters were building a 10-mile-long firebreak to protect wooden cottages at the base of the road and the larger homes of Carmel Valley to the north.

At Bottcher's Gap, a staging area for the battlefield, exhausted crews in yellow suits lay sprawled on the side of the road trying to keep their legs away from passing fire engines and out of the poison oak. A pair of water tankers - a big one and a little one - met on the road. The big one delivered 2,000 gallons to the little one, to carry up to the fire lines. Tanker driver Randy Pearson has been filling up water tankers and fire engines for two weeks straight. "I love the mountains, and I hate to see them burn," he said. "But fire season helps the wallet."

"We're living in this beautiful space on the whim of Mother Nature," he said. "She comes along like this every once in a while. It teaches you humility."