Gift Registry

Please be patient while we get our registries done.  I promise, it will all be here by next week!

-Jenny

Mikey's birthday trip to Portland

 At the airport waiting for our flight

 Nathan's feeding me some stinky bread

 Nathan liked looking out the windows at the luggage throwers

 At Thomas and Dom's house.  Mikey got a birthday haircut.  This is what Mikey would look like with a fade. I don't think he liked it.

 Nathan loved playing with this guitar.  He started carrying it around everywhere he went.

We drove like two hours outside of Portland to the coast. Here's Nathan all in his little beach outfit.

 First time walking on the sand, I don't think he liked it.

He started to warm up to it when we got to the water.  But the water was not warm.

 Snack break

 After the beach, the guys bbq'd and the kids played.  Way to shake him, Jenavie!

Those kids loved to wrestle

Brunch and our last day in Oregon

I forgot Nathan's favorite book in Portland so I bought him new ones when we got back to Grandma's house.  He likes to read upside down.  What can I say, the kid's talented.




Happy Birthday Mikey!
<3Jenny

Hotel info

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Hotel!



Best,
Jenny

Get to shoppin

 Nathan catching that $1 dollar flip flop sale at Old Navy.

Save the Dates

Just in case you didn't catch the Save the Date back in November...

Photographer: Thomas Origami Chung
Prints: Walmart HP kiosks
Location: Downtown Portland, Oregon
Design: Me




I made two different save the date prototypes, but we couldn't pick one, so we just printed out both and sent them to guests randomly.




<3Jenny

The search for the perfect photographer

If you couldn't tell already, I'm a super picky person.  And I was just as picky with the photographer as I was with everything else.  Mikey doesn't care.  I think the only thing he was concerned about was how much longer he would have to listen to me obsess about the photographer.


My thoughts on wedding photography:

-Try to go through a referred photographer. You know what you're getting when you do business with someone who's already worked with someone you know, plain and simple.

-Even though I mainly based my wedding photography choice on referral, I did some research before I found our photographer.  My main thought is this: What did people do before there was the internet?  How hard was it to get what you wanted when you didn't have an example?  I Google searched wedding photography Bay Area, indie wedding, wedding photojournalist and looked up names, looked up websites, emailed people, read reviews, and rifled through thousands of images and saved pictures I liked.

-Wedding photography is really expensive.  The average wedding photographer quoted me prices like $2500, $3000, and $3500, and always added on, but "it depends what you want," AKA "the price goes up."

-Lastly, I've always loved my mom's wedding album.  It's not an extensive wedding album. I think there are like 20 pictures in the whole thing, but when I'm done flipping through it, I always wished there was more to see.  I think that's what I love about it.  And the pictures are so alive.  Closed eyes, open mouths, laughing, jumping.  So a wedding book with a million portraits was never on my wishlist from a photographer, give me 20 great prints of genuine moments in a regular photo album and I'm good.


So in short, I based my decision on these things:

1. Referral
2. Style
3. Price


Meet our wedding photographer Juvenia Tso-Wheeler (click the link to check out her site)!

I don't know if you can tell, but her blog was pretty much the template for this blog (thanks Juvenia!).

But how did I find Juvenia?  Not through a Google search, but through a coworker at Genentech, Eric Tso,  Juvenia's cousin.  He referred me to Juvenia after hearing about all my wedding talk.  It's not what you know, but who you know, right?!

After a bit of facebooking, flipping through some of her pictures, emails, and a price quote, I was sold.  Done deal, sign the contract, put down a deposit, and forget about searching, photographer found!





-Jenny

You know what else is very Mikey and Jenny?

If you want to see pictures of Nathan more often, come here!

Pictures of Nathan to be added weekly (my new goal for this blog =P)!

Maybe this will be incentive enough to make you guys check out our blog for wedding updates (*cough cough, gift registries, *cough).




Best,
Jenny