This will be our first Christmas as a married couple, and I love newlywed holiday cards. I scoured the internet and have featured some of my favorites below. I am having such a hard time picking one though! Which do you like the most?
Weekend Food Adventures
I love trying new restaurants. I got to knock out three that I’ve been dying to try for ages this weekend – Mockingbird Bistro, Underbelly, and Latin Bites. My thoughts on each place are below!
I met two of my good friends, Paola and Guillermo, at Mockingbird Bistro on Thursday to celebrate their recent engagement. I ordered the Organic Beet Salad, which was great. As a beet lover, I will always order a beet dish if it’s on a menu. This one definitely did not fail to deliver. The spicy walnuts were the perfect touch to the dish. The service was amazing – our waiter brought a Congratulations dessert plate without any of us even mentioning the occasion! He must have been very attentive!
I’ve been to Underbelly for drinks before, but not for a meal. The menu is not super conducive to vegetarians, but the atmosphere makes up for the slim pickings. We ordered the eggplant appetizer (amazing), and then I got the Crispy Market Vegetables, which was a bowl of green beans (slightly strange, although they tasted great). The best parts about the evening were meeting Chris Shepherd (Executive Chef) and bragging on one of my good friends, Bryan, who did some of the art work on the wine menu (illustration and Bryan’s bio on page 10 here).
At Latin Bites on Saturday, I ordered the Quinoa Salad. It was heaven on earth. The ingredients include crispy quinoa, poached quinoa, carmelized cashews, mint, mozzarella, choclo, fava beans, avocados, tomatoes confit and passion fruit dressing. It came with baby iceberg lettuce wraps – one of my favorite dishes in Houston. See their dinner menu here. My only complaint about this amazing Memorial gem is the logo. As a typography nerd, it kills me.
San Miguel de Allende Weddings
One of my closest friends got engaged on Tuesday, and I cannot stop daydreaming about their romantic nuptials in a gorgeous city in Mexico next year. They still haven’t landed on a place (I mean, it’s only been a few days!), but one of their favorite cities is San Miguel de Allende. I headed straight to Style Me Pretty for reference purposes, and ohmygosh… this city is stunning.
The first Style Me Pretty wedding venue is Casa Capricho.
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I found this second wedding on photographer Stephanie William’s site. It’s perfect. The venue is Casa Chorro.
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I found the third wedding on photographer Brandon Kidd’s site. The venue is Casa de la Cuesta. More details can be found here.
Our Wedding Stationery: Papellerie
As I’ve mentioned many times before, we worked with Papellerie on our entire stationery suite (save the dates, invitations, programs, custom napkins, etc.). I loved working with Riley and Amy so much – they were incredibly good at understanding exactly what we (probably more I) wanted. Every single piece of our stationery was better than I could have ever imagined. The only missing photos were all of the goodies they made for our guest boxes! I’m upset that I didn’t think to have Ryan to take any pictures of the final product (my very unprofessional iPhone pictures below). The only faux-pas we had was that our seating assignment board – a corkboard with pins and personalized wine tags for guest’s glass with their name and table number – was setup vertically instead of horizontally (as planned), which made the tags fall kind of… off? You’ll see below. It’s definitely not a big deal though. As an FYI, the calligrapher that Papellerie uses is Meant To Be Calligraphy and the map artist was Katie Gastley. Everyone was amazing.
Our Save-the-Dates
Our Invitation Set
Our Programs
Our Placemats and Menus
Our Table Numbers
Our Reserved Signs
Our Table Assignments – a slight deviation from plan, as it was set up vertically instead of horizontally so the personalized wine tags don’t hang quite right! You win some, you lose some!
Our Custom Drink Bar Sign
Our Cupcake Flavor Labels
Our “Write your favorite memory” Postcards (A + S were gifted by my sweet little cousin!)
#ASPWedding Instagram Sign and Taxi Vouchers
Grand Exit Sign (Noisemakers here)
My iPhone Pictures of Guest Box Assembly + Seating Assignments
Our Wedding Pictures: Part 2
Et voila – the second half of the wedding (you can see part one here). We had custom cocktails, delicious food, hilarious speeches, and lots and lots and lots of dancing. There was a good mixture of Scottish and Serbian dancing, and of course, plenty of bouncing around to Miley and T-Swift (yes, he’s 32). I was a hot, sweaty mess at the end of the night, as I feel I should have been. I could not have dreamed up a better wedding for the two of us. I’m so happy to have these pictures and go through them time and time again. Love y’all – thanks for reading!
Wedding Venue: The Carneros Inn
Wedding Coordinator: Brooke Baglietto (at The Carneros Inn)
Florist: Julie Stevens
Dress: BHLDN
Shoes: Jimmy Choo
Bridesmaids Dresses: J. Crew
Hair and Makeup: Katie Donaghy of It’s a Date at the Powder Room
Photographer: Ryan Ray
Vegan Cupcakes: Fat Bottom Bakery
DJ: Aaron Long
Cake Toppers: Ready Go Wedding Co. on Etsy
Paper Goods: Papellerie
String Trio: Synchronicity Strings
Groomsmen Kilt Rentals: Kilt Rental USA