{"id":385,"date":"2009-02-10T00:31:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2010-04-12T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:16:28","slug":"wedding-invitation-extravaganza-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/10\/wedding-invitation-extravaganza-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Our &#8220;Do It Yourself&#8221; Wedding Invitation Extravaganza Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric and I love making stuff, but honestly with the Wedding Photography business keeping us busy, we have unfortunately put our own wedding planning on the back burner for far far too long. Heck, I only ordered my wedding dress earlier this month (to the shock and dismay of the ladies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masakohawaii.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Masako Formals<\/strong><\/a> in Honolulu&#8230;&#8221;Your wedding is this MAY???&#8221;) For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Eric and I are actually already married, and had a civil ceremony in September 2008, but are having our actual wedding back in the California Bay Area this May!<\/p>\n<p>With my history in 911 call-taking, I have mastered the art of multitasking and really feel out of my element if less than 5 things are going on at once.\u00a0 So of course for Super Bowl weekend, we decided if we were gonna sit and watch the game for that amount of time we can FINALLY get our own wedding invitations done.<\/p>\n<p>Our very good Wedding Planner friends Michelle and Justin from Au Lait, Inc. lent us their expertise and manpower in crafting over 100 invitations.\u00a0 If only everyone could be so fortunate! Eric, Michelle, Justin and I spent &#8230; well, I&#8217;m not going to admit to how many hours getting each paper slice perfectly strait and every envelope licked and stamped.\u00a0 After a few needed breaks for refreshments (beer) and snacks (Clausen pickles), the fruits of our labors finally paid off and most have been sent out, squeaking by just under three months before the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Mucho mahalo to Michelle and Justin of Au Lait, Inc for their skills and to their Shiba Inu &#8220;Inuki&#8221; for playing the role of official mascot of the Leslie Mansperger Wedding &#8220;Do It Yourself&#8221; Wedding Invitation Extravaganza Weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wedding-invitation-diy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386\" title=\"wedding-invitation-diy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wedding-invitation-diy.jpg\" alt=\"Do it yourself wedding invitations by Au Lait Inc and Leslie Mansperger Photography\" width=\"755\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric and I love making stuff, but honestly with the Wedding Photography business keeping us busy, we have unfortunately put our own wedding planning on the back burner for far far too long. Heck, I only ordered my wedding dress earlier this month (to the shock and dismay of the ladies at Masako Formals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,6,103,1],"tags":[160,159,41,158,37,61,52],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-shot-of-love","category-hot-wedding-ideas","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-au-lait-inc","tag-do-it-yourself","tag-hawaii","tag-invitations","tag-oahu","tag-photographer","tag-wedding-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmprophoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}