Gidget Gets Married

I AM IN LOVE

2010-04-16T11:49:00.000-07:00

Hi peeps! I know. I know. I have been MIA. I am SORRY! Quit torturing me! hahaha. I have to say that blogging is a lot harder then I thought! I was really stressed out about going so long w/o writing, BUT you know what they say? If you fall off the horse you gotta get right back on and start riding! So I am back and riding again! I cant say that I wont fall off again, but I am back in the saddle today damn it!

So I havent talked about our wedding ceremony/reception/fiesta venue very much yet. But I have to say that I AM IN LOVE with this place! Like literally. During the ceremony I might be reciting my vows to the walls. JK! I am in love with BK too. (xoxoxo) I talked to the owner of the space today and he told me that a lot a lot a lot a lot of people have requested our date which makes me even more obsessed! Sooo I decided to google it today (for the umpteenth time) to see if there were any new pics posted recently and I saw THIS pic! Now you cant really see what the place looks like but HOW COOL is that BAR sign?!??!?!?! I seriously want it at my *cough* OUR (xoxo) wedding! Do you think our parents will go for it?!?! What do you guys think? Not all at once please!!!!!

B.O.A.R.D.

2010-03-29T14:12:00.001-07:00

No, not bored (well maybe a little)-BOARD! As in inspriation board. I have mentioned them here and there on this little blog, but I havent shared any of my masterpieces with the masses yet (well unless all my friends and family count as the masses....) I am currently working on about 3 boards and have only finished 1. I should probably concentrate on just one project instead of 3, but whoever said that I make the right decisions?!? So w/o further ado I present to you my first inspiration board ever!!!!

I was SO proud of myself when I put this snazzy piece together, but now looking back I realized that not everything quite fits. Like I dont think we will be having bright pink ice cream cones, but dont they look super cute?!? and also the cookie table doesnt match the color scheme AT ALL, BUT I needed to add it so I wouldnt forget my idea for a Pittsburgh cookie table that has a bit of a "twist" to it. I also added A LOT of hangy things.......and drinks.....but you know what? Its a little scattered. Just like me. So i like it!

REPRESENT!!!!!

'SCOPE it Out!

2010-03-11T13:56:00.000-08:00

For about 3 or so years my friend Wendy has sent me my daily horoscope. This started when I was still in Los Angeles and we were working together at Oliver Peoples. When I moved we transfered emails and when I started my new job we transfered emails again! Everyday I look forward to getting the email from her and everyday I read mine and BK's and then I forward it to him. So I am sitting at work today and dont really want to be surfing the net so I started reading emails from the day BK proposed to see what if there were any hints of what was to come. Thats when I came across Wendys daily horoscope!!!! Mine kind of sucks, but BK's is kind of funny!!! I am Aries and he is Scorpio:

Horoscopes by Holiday for December 10 2009

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Some shrink from danger, others seek it, and still others meet it when they must, knowing it to be part of their own journey upward. You'll be in the lattermost category today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Risk doesn't bother you, as long as it's calculated. Take the time to figure out the odds. Ask around. Gather as much information as you can before you decide whether it's wise to make a move.

Do you think he made a wise move? *hahahaha HAHAHAHA hahahaaha AHHHHAHAHA

*that is my evil laugh

WHIMSICAL

2010-03-04T13:41:00.001-08:00

Lets all say it together.......Whimsical. Doesnt it just come out of your mouth so freely and with such ease and grace? Whhhhimsical. (thats how I say it in my head). Why am I loving this word you ask? Well let me tell you. I have been trying to think of the perfect adjective to describe how I am picturing the wedding. Originally (and up until yesterday when I discovered the "w" word) I kept saying "dreamy". However everytime I said dreamy I would picture this:

and while Danny Zuko might be dreamy, he is not exactly what I want the theme of my wedding to be based on. SO when I was on StyleMePretty.com yesterday and they said whhhhhimsical was the word of the day I was struck with a lightning bolt of excitement.

"This is IT!" I thought to myself

"THIS is my wedding adjective!"

I went on with my day floating on clouds of whimsical flowers and whimsical hair and whimsical dresses. I came in to work today and was SO excited to put together a whimsical (sorry for the overuse but this is really how I was thinking!) wedding inspiration board. (side note: inspiration boards are becoming somewhat of an addiction. I am doing one for EVERYTHING. But thats for another post). I couldnt wait to look up the pictures and put everything together.

"Its going to be beautiful!" i thought to myself

So I googled "whimsical pictures" and this is what I got:

Now I dont know what you guys see, but I see a naked fat person tip toeing, a frog in a bath tub, and dancing furniture. So unless everyone at my wedding is tripping I dont think this "whimsical" thing is going to work.

I mean who doesnt LOVE Danny Zuko?????

DJ not VJ

2010-03-01T13:39:00.001-08:00

This post really has nothing to do with VJs (the video jockey!), but when I was younger I thought the MTV VJs were the coolest people in the whole world. They were to me what the ninja turtles were to boys (any maybe to me when I was way younger). I didnt even watch the videos on MTV! I would just watch the Spring Break shows or other things that I cant remember now. hahaha. Remember when they did the hunt for the new VJ and it was down to that crazy haired stoner Jesse and that heavier guy that really knew everything about music and Jesse won?!!? hahahaha. Now THAT was some good programming!!!!! Anyways, I was thinking the other day about how they are extinct now and thats why I am on this rant, but like I said this post doesnt really have anything to do with VJs......

i used to think he was hot........

What it IS dealing with is DJs (the disk jockey!) If you dont know where I am headed with this then I might be suspicious that you have been hanging out with Jesse recently! So yes, my fellowers we have hired our Wedding DJ!!!!!!!!

*Ahhhhh! And the crowd goes wild!!!!!!!!!!*

In all seriousness though we for real got the coolest ever DJ. His name is DJ Gaza (google!) and he ROCKS! I originally wanted to have a live band (BK's cousin killed us this past summer and had an amazeballs wedding w/ an AWESOME live band and now we have to somehow live up to this event of the century!) but once we realized how much these things cost we succumbed to the idea of a DJ. I wasnt too happy at first, but once our WP (wedding planner, duh!) told us about this guy and we (I) started researching him I got more and more and more excited. He isnt your typical wedding DJ and he wont be that crazy MC that gets too involved w/ the crowd, but I have heard that he did a wedding with the Catholic Irish and the Protestant Irish and by the end of the night they were doing the jig........TOGETHER!!!!!!! He also recently DJ'd the wedding of Fred Armisen (Sat Night Live Obama) and Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men) and who doesnt want to tell everyone that your DJ disk jockied for the fake Obama and a chick from Mad Men?!?!? HELLO?????

Anyways, I am just super excited and really can not wait. I mean the countdown IS on! 14 months and 2 weeks! Getting close!!!!

Shape up or Ship Out!

2010-02-23T12:36:00.001-08:00

There are a quadrillion things I want to blog about right now, but I am being so undecisive that it is driving me nuts. Like should I talk to you about how winter is starting to make me freak, or tell you about the AMAZE venue we just booked and show you pictures (Totally will!), or talk about how I am going to make my body look like the blonde from the new (but not improved or even cool!) 90210 who is on the cover of Shape magazine this month, or how all I want to do in life right now is go tanning bc I am so sick of being see through but I know its so bad for you and I have given it up but that doesnt mean I dont want to do it? I guess thats what happens when you dont blog for a while. I better check myself before I wreck myself!

Work it!

Rules are MEANT to be BROKEN!

2010-02-12T10:40:00.001-08:00

So I know that you have all been dying of anticipation to hear who the Kleenex Box Shuffle chose for the first spotlight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well guess what?!?! I have decided that I am going to throw a wrench into this game I am playing and change it up a bit. I know, I know. Thats shady and I should follow my original choice, BUT let me explain before everyone lights their torches! Yesterday I received the amazing news that my sister in law is pregnant with another little girl!!! I am beyond excited and really can not wait to meet this little angel (she'll take that after me) that she is carrying! I have already been lucky enough to have the most adorable niece ever and now I will have another one. Because of this I have decided to spotlight my most beautiful sister in law. MICHELLE SENNEWAY COME ON DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle and I met when she started dating my brother Billy in college. Bill never really brought anyone home for us to meet, so I had a sneaking suspicion that this was serious. I was the only girl in the family at the time, so I was a little territorial at first, but since Michelle is probably one of the coolest girls I had ever met we ended up bonding pretty fast. I would come home after a night out and barge into the basement (bill's love shack) to bum ciggies (jk mom!) off of them and then end up talking their ears off. Soon after they were married we took a Senneway trip to NYC (sans Bill-weirdo!) and I think that is where I realized that Michelle would end up becoming not just a SIL, but a best friend as well. We have so much fun together and we laugh ALL of the time. I am talking tears out of eyes , stomach hurts, "ouch my cheeks", "I cant breathe" laughter. I can also confide in her my deepest darkest secrets and tell her everything and anything. I am never scared that she is going to judge me or make me feel stupid. She listens and offers the blunt truth that I love. I have made some amazing best friends through out my life, but our relationship intertwines family and friendship and that is a bond you just cant beat! I am so thankful that she is in my life and I am SO happy that I get to share this experience with her. We are going to rock it and love it and sing and dance and laugh! I love you Michelle!!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxo

NYC 2004! We had such an amazing time!!!

NYC 2009!!! We had such an even MORE amazing time!!!

EYEBROW WAX?

2010-02-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

Good Afternoon!

Anyone that knows me knows that I was never one to get my nails done unless it was for a special occassion and even then I would usually skip this part of the getting ready process. Up until I got engaged I would say that I could count on one un manicured hand the amount of times I had them done. Well since then I have become quite addicted! Weekly manicures have been added to my budget and I always look forward to those 40 minutes of quiet me relaxation time. I tried a few places before finding "my spot". I have raved to everyone I know about it and brag about everything I get for $10. Its amazing! Actually getting your nails done in NY is 10xs better then getting them done in Pgh. You get a lot better bang for your buck! Anyways. My nails were looking sha-by yesterday and I could not wait to hit up my salon. So I went after work and requested "One manicure please!". Tina, a woman I have never seen before, sat me down and started chit chatting away:

What size is that?

Me: what, my ring?

Tina: Yes, what carat?

Me: ummmmm

Tina: ok ok. What color is it?

Me: The band is platinum

Tine: No, No, No. What color? D grade is best! What color is yours?

Me: ummmmm

So this goes on for quite some time. I SO do not like to talk during these events. I have the BEST hair stylist in Pgh that I have been going to for over 5 years and the longest we have talked total since then has probably been about 30 mins. Thats why I keep going back! So it continues with Tina:

T: You want special spa manicure? Your skin is VERY dry. You need it. YOu need 15 minute massage too

Me: No thanks. I am meeting BK at Tasty Corner for dinner and cant stay late

T: You definitely need spa manicure. I am telling you to get a spa manicure.

So I probably said no 3xs and with every No she got more and more aggressive with my hands. Then she went to give me a little back rub and was literally ripping my back apart! Just before the tears dropped from my eyes she stopped and asked if I was ready for my 15 minute massage.

Me: ummm no thanks!

So Tina came back around, sat down, grabbed my hand, looked up at my face and said:

Tina: Eyebrow wax??????

me (internally): wtf?!? did this lady just look at my brows and ask me if i need an eyebrow wax?! I know they are kind of bushy, but they arent bad and its always kind of been my look. OMG

Me (externally): Nope! Just the manicure! NO upgrades today!

She let out a sigh of dissapointment and annoyance and continued to clip my cuticles raw.

Looking back to that day (yesterday) I now can laugh, but the pain I felt in that moment will live on forever........................

p.s. I hit my 100th site visitor today! WOO HOO!!! Unfortunately, it was me who was the 100th person. Fortunately I enjoy reading my own blog!

Let it SNOW?

2010-02-07T11:06:00.000-08:00

So everybody in the world (exag) got snowed in this weekend and BK and I (and ny in general) thought we would be too! I was actually really excited and was anticipating a cozy and romantic weekend stuck inside. I went grocery shopping Friday night so we would be set for the weekend! All Friday BK kept asking me to look out the window to see if it started snowing yet and with every glance he received a defeated "nope". So Saturday morning came and as if it were xmas morning I was up early and ran to the window only to be left with a disapointed sigh. We received NOTHING! So while everyone else was complaining on FB about being snowed in and with every text pic I got of all the snow back home I got more and more bummed. Oh well I thought. I decided to continue with my cozy and romantic weekend anyways and prepped my turkey chili. hahahaha. Now its Sunday afternoon and we are heading out soon to a super bowl party, but I must say that its weekends like these that make me realize how lucky I am and just how much I love BK. We didnt do anything but spend time together and eat and laugh. We started the weekend with a mind frame of doing nothing this weekend and that is exactly what we did. Nothing beats falling in love. Nothing except for falling in love over and over again. I love you BK!!!

Enough with the cheese! Happy Super Bowl Sunday! The Steelers are still the champs for another 8 hours or so!!!! Woot!

Kleenex Box Shuffle

2010-02-03T13:47:00.001-08:00

Hola mi amigas y amigos! Today kicks off the Kleenex Box Shuffle. What? You have never ever heard of the kleenex box shuffle?!?!?! Well pinch my cheeks and call me rosie! I will have to tell you! I have decided that since I am SO beyond excited about the girls I get to share my special day with that I am going to spotlight one each week. So I put on my scientist glasses and started thinking about how I am going to choose the lucky lady! I was kind of stumped when I noticed my bright pink post it notes to my left. hmmmm I thought to myself. Why dont I start writing their names down and think as I cut. So I am cutting and thinking and I reach for a tissue to blow my nose and when I reached in I noticed there werent many tissues left! The horror! but WAIT I thought. If there arent any tissues in there I could definitely throw these names in the box, shuffle it around, and then pick the names out that way!!!!!!!! OMG! Woo hoo! I tossed my science glasses aside and started to shuff. SOOOOO the weekly spotlight chosen one AND the first EVER Kleenex Box Shuffle winner issssssssss:

TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!!!

Who will it be? Only I know.........

Here Comes the Bride.......smaids!

2010-02-02T10:36:00.000-08:00

Ladies & Gents! Let me introduce to you my lovely ladies and best friends! MY BRIDESMAIDS!!!!

LUCK O' the IRISH

2010-01-29T09:24:00.000-08:00

BK and I saw a couple of venues this week and we walked away with one potential! Here is a quick recap:

3 West Club

I walked in and was greeted by a huge elephant statue. Can anyone guess where this his headed yet? So we meet with our lady that is taking us around and she is really good at what she does. It seemed like she was having so much fun and it made me rethink my job of sitting at my office and online surfing :). hahahaha. Anyways the place is totally old school in a good way. Old libraries that had many leather bound books and smelled of dark mahoganey, a big ballroom, a "presidents" room, and a beautiful solarium with some SERIOUS views of St. Patricks Cathedral. It wasnt until we walked out of the mahoged library that I noticed the framed portrait of George Bush. I then looked to my left and saw a HUGE painting of Ronald Regean! I literally had to with hold laughter. I was standing in the middle of a Republican worship house! How I made it throught the whole tour w/o bursting into flames is a question in itself. hahaahha. Our Tour Guide later informed us that it is the Women's National Rebulican Club. In the end we decided that this isnt the place for us, but not bc of the Republican thing (BK is a PROUD Repub!). It just wasnt "us". Honestly, I dont want a ballroom at all. I want the furthest thing from a ballroom, so when we stepped foot in there I knew it wasnt "the one".

NYC Fire Museum

BK and I met up on our lunch breaks to check out this hidden gem in SOHO. This was more BK's choice then mine. Somehow I just didnt picture myself getting married in an old fire station. However, I almost ate my words! We met this fabulous man who goes by Wally. He is a retired fireman that volunteers his time at the museum and he had just turned 76! He was AWESOME! Just picture a 76 yr old man who was a fire fighter his whole life and was born and raised in NYC. AWESOME! He told us so many cool things about the place and really made it a special experience. They have a 9-11 memorial room and before I even stepped through the arched doors my throat closed and tears sprung to my eyes. It is a very touching place and something everyone should see. I posted some pictures below. In the end we decided against this place, but I am VERY happy that we had the opportunity to experience it.

Sun West Studios

This visit started off on the wrong foot since BK and I went to the TOTAL wrong place in the TOTAL wrong neighborhood for our meeting. hahahaha. We went to some dance studio and people thought we were crazy when we said we were there to see the wedding venue. hahaha. Eventually we found our way to the right place and we were defintiely impressed. Huge windows with great views, a terrace, and this really cool slopped white wall that looks like one of those fake surfing picture things. Do you know what I am talking about? when you go to myrtle beach or some other cheesey vacation spot (family vacations were spent in MB every year my whole life) and they give you a fake board that you stand on to take pics? Anywho, that is what this looks like! hahaha. Maybe I just came up with a great photo op for the reception! F photo booths! hahaha. So, long story short, we like it and its in our top 3. BUT we are NOT done looking!

So our wedding planner just informed us that my absolute most favorite ever venue that we saw on our first ever visit anywhere just raised their rental cost $2,000. This is the place that I picture our wedding everytime I paint it in my head. If thats not the luck of the Irish at work then i dont know what it is!

WHIP it CHICK PEA

2010-01-26T13:26:00.000-08:00

Growing up my brothers and I were pretty much allowed to eat whatever we wanted, so I literally used to eat dorito sandwiches. I am talking 2 pieces of white bread with regular cheese doritos smashed in between. hahaha. (sidenote: I never made this in front of my parents. I dont think they would go for that. hahaha). So when I moved to Los Angeles after college I didnt have very good eating habits. Thankfully my metabolism (where art thou?) was still pretty speedy so I didnt really gain much weight those days. Anywho, I was introduced to so many yummy healthy things such as wheat bread and learned to say "no thank you mayo!" and "go to hell ranch dressing!" during my time there. I pretty much gave up desserts and said goodbye to chips and so long to fried stuff. The thing is i LOVE food, so i had to find alternatives to these! I usually go through stages with what I like and keep around. In CA I really got into mixes such as trail and chex. Obsessed over almonds and nuts and flipped for 100 cal bars. Now I am REALLY into Hummus and Cool Whip (innovative i know). but when I am REALLY into something I am REALLY into it. If I have cool whip in my fridge I will bring home all types of fruit to "healthen" (word?) it up. but really i just use them as a guilt releaser when I am piling cups of oh so delicious and heavenly whip on them. I am also using veggies and wheat pitas as my hummus beard. i mean is it still a healthy snack when you eat a qtr container in a sitting? I guess thats a question your conscience will have to answer...............

So with the wedding coming up (in a year and a half) I am wondering if I should re evaluate my "healthy" eating. What do you think?

Anyone? Check. Check. Is this thing on???

BTW-BK and I are going to check out 3 West Club tonight. I love the location. Especially for out of town guests. It looks over Rockefeller Plaza and St. Patrick's Cathedral. I feel like it may be to stuffy for us. I guess we shall see!!!!!!!!!!!

EVIDENCE (flower provided by BK for our 2yr last week...sigh)

I.N.S.P.I.R.E.

2010-01-25T09:40:00.000-08:00

I cant quite pick the colors I want for my wedding yet. I am waiting for that "inspiration moment" where I go "Ah ha!" and I KNOW that I MUST have the palette that lays before me. hahahaha. I am not the craftiest person in the world and I am definitely not very good at putting things together that actually mesh, so right now I like pretty much every color of the rainbow. Someone was telling me about their "sorbet" colors or blueberry flowers. Really??? Is that how I will be talking in a few months????? My boss bought me a beautiful Kate Spade purse for xmas and I instantly fell in love with the box. The BK wanted me to throw it out, but I refused! It was just SO pretty!!! I have made it into my "Wedding Box" and just over the weekend I looked at it and I thought..........hmmmm. could this by my "Ah ha!" moment??? I LOVE the color combo! LOVE IT! But wouldnt I know if it was my "Ah ha!" moment if it was my moment? I think you all get where I am going. hahaahha. Anywho. I have attached a picture so you can all see what I am talking about. (I coudlnt find a picture of the box, but this should give you an idea of what I am talking about!)

p.s. i just looked in my drawer at work and found an old Victorias Secret bag I kept bc it was so pretty and I might have had another " !" moment! YIKES!

Stand By Me

2010-01-23T11:34:00.000-08:00

I have officially cemented my half of the wedding party today!!! Woo Hoo! I am going to have 7 Bridesmaids and 1 MOH. We are not having a huge wedding. Probably about 125 guests, but the one thing I didnt want to go too small on was the wedding party. I have made amazing best friends through out my life (hometown heros, college cuties, "adult" awesomenesses) and I wanted to make sure that I could have them all share this amazing and special day with me! So here we go! Drum roll please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maid of Honor: Allison Marie Kemerer Beltz

Bridesmaid: Michelle Marie Permigiani Senneway

Bridesmaid: Jamie Lynn Gannon

Bridesmaid: Andrea Beth Peters

Bridesmaid: Susan Marie Steingroewer Kim

Bridesmaid: Bethany Ann Cooper Speece

Bridesmaid: Natalie Ann Kline

Bridesmaid: Erika Juliana Wiese

Flower Girl: Gracie Senneway (i die of the cuteness! picture attached.)

And there you have it! I think I am going to do a "spotlight" on each girl so you can get to know how incredibly cool they all are! I love each of these girls for so many different reasons, but most of all bc they have all been the best friends a girl could ever ask for. Much love girlfriends!!! Muah! xoxoxo

Thank you come again!

D.R.E.S.S.

2010-01-22T13:02:00.001-08:00

I am watching Say Yes to the Dress and it is making me want to go to Kleinfelds NOW! I havent really been THAT excited to pick my dress yet, but right now at this minute I want to try on dresses. I have an appt at Kleinfelds on April 10th and I am very excited. That gives me 3 months to lose these pesky 5 pounds that I can not get rid of!!! I think I have an idea of what type of dress I want, but who knows what I will fall in love with!!!! Yay! I am excited now! hahahaha.

R.B.V. HELL!

2010-01-22T11:44:00.000-08:00

After the BK and I went to see the Midtown Lofts last night (which btw will not be "the one") I met up with my good friend Faheem. I havent seen him in forever and I was ready to rock! I ventured over to the east village and started the night with some white wine. I ended the night with Redbull vodkas and now today I want to die! Why did that seem like a good idea? I havent indulged myself with RBVs in a very long time and now I remember why!

No wedding planning today, so I am just relaxing! So far Studio 450 is my favorite spot! Its amazing and going to be very hard to top! Take a peek!

http://loft11.com

I want to go back and see it again! Next week we are going to see 3 more places! 3 West Club, Fire House Museum, and..................I dont remember the last one. hahahaha. We are going to see Battery Gardens in Feb and I am VERY excited!!!

I think that is it for now. Ciao!!!!!!!!!!

First. Blog. Post. EVER.

2010-01-21T14:23:00.000-08:00

Hello Blogsters and Bloggets! This is my first time blogging, so I can promise that I will be any good at it. I just got engaged and I thought that a blog would be a totally awesome way to share our story with everyone. in the world. :) I dont have much time right now to post much, but I will be back! PROMISE! Pete (the big kahuna-get it??? Gidget!!!) and I are going to see a reception venue in 20 minutes! Midtown Lofts in NYC. Check check check it out! Peace!