A Lyfestyle Blog
“When you’re dreaming with a broken heart and waking up is the hardest part.” This John Mayer song plays in my head daily. I often hear the piano ballad first, then that line. Waking up was hard. The mornings frightened me. It all felt like a bad dream. But it wasn’t a dream. It actually happened.…
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“I understand what you want, and we need to work with Mark’s Garden,” said my wedding planner, Tessa. LOL. Mark’s Garden is the premiere celebrity florist in Los Angeles. They do every Kardashian event, every big celeb wedding, and are just straight up MEGA. Carms laughed when I told her. “They will not want to work with…
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Lesson learned while wedding planning: stick to your guns. If there’s a vendor you want to work with, do it. “Don’t work with someone who can imitate it, work with someone who has done it.” A word from my wise married friends, Cammie and Grey. Let’s just say I learned this the hard way at…
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“The wedding is happening on 9/12. Here in the backyard.” Jasper responded with his usual smirk and an, “ohhhkkAAaaayyyyyy.” Nothing really rattles him. Except when I would show up hungover, then he’s subtly pissed. Jasper and I were friends in high school and I reached out to him pre-OG wedding for personal training. There’s another…
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Jessie S. answered the phone at the Lela Rose retail store in Dallas. Lela Rose, unlike many bridal designers (except the biggies Monique, Oscar, Vera etc.) don’t usually have retail stores. Their store in Dallas has Bridal and Ready To Wear (RTW= every day clothing). Jessie was so warm, and within a few minutes, I…
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I sat on the patio of my parents home on a Friday afternoon in June. I had stopped by post cookie & coffee at GoGetEm Tiger on Larchmont. They told me the venue said, “adios,” to your beachy wedding dreams. I didn’t react, got sweaty, and honestly felt a bit faint, then decided to go…
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If these don’t define 2020, I don’t know what does. Holy hell. Now that I’ve emerged from wedding planning during a pandemic, I can return to my true love of sharing my shenanigans on Giggles. Where were we? Oh yes. My wedding getting postponed four times, cancelled, then me deciding to get bootleg and throw…
Read MoreIt has been a minute since we’ve last met. And A LOT has happened. Over the next few months, I will be sharing content that surrounds the catastrophe that was planning my wedding during COVID, my reasoning on why I needed it to happen this year, and anecdotes about my experiences during this crazy time.…
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Let’s get real- I am a mess. Physically– My hair is brown, I am borderline albino, my gel refuses to come off, and my eyebrows are going haywire (I will not discuss my chin, that’s a whole other story).
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Here’s what you know: My wedding was postponed due to the Coronavirus. What you don’t know: Why I am so motivated to get married ASAP, and why postponing sent me into the darkest spiral. No, I am not pregnant, but time is not on my side here.
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