I must brag! We did it! We finished our thank you cards! Finally!I had been warned that this was going to be the most time consuming and annoying part of the wedding. Every night, writing cards for months. But honestly, I enjoyed it. I love handwriting cards to friends and family. In fact, I have an 80-something year old pen pal in Chicago. :)But all in all, I am proud of us. We wrote all of our thank you cards and I even made Dan in charge of his friends and family, for the most part, and he completed all of those last night!WE DID IT! :) (It was also fun because we loved our thank you cards which were designed for us by our awesome invitation designer, Brooke at Paper Candy Prints)
Dan's Cufflinks
So I can finally reveal Dan's cufflinks to the world. If you read my blog, you saw here that I had commissioned custom Hebrew cufflinks for our wedding.
Here they are!
Here is a link to the cufflinks for sale on Gabriel's site.
Kippot Have Arrived!
We just got the kippot for the wedding! It was so exciting to get a huge, heavy box filled hundreds of kippot! This is just one piece we will be giving our guests at the wedding.
I was a voracious wedding/bar/bat mitzvah kippah collector when I was younger. We had every color, shape, and material you could imagine. In fact... For my bat mitzvah my grandpa Milton so graciously paid for the kippot as a gift to me... he wanted me to have everything I wanted... even if that meant alternating satin panels of teal and rose... yes, your eyes are not deceiving you... my bat mitzvah kippot were TEAL AND PINK! Oy. My only defense is that it was the early 90's...
Anywho, I shopped around online for the perfect kippah. I found them at A1 Skullcap! Since our colors are navy and yellow, we went with a navy suede with gold imprint... I never dreamed I would do a gold imprint... I seriously dislike gold but... it works! I love them! And I highly doubt our children will tease me for these as badly as they will tease me for my bat mitzvah ones...
Can't wait to share them with our guests.
Dan's Wedding Gift
So there is a tradition, which evidently a lot of people haven't heard about. I always knew that the bride and groom get each other gifts on their wedding day. Jewelry, cufflinks, flask, etc...I have been planning, nearly from the minute we started planning this wedding, to get Dan special cufflinks for the wedding. I knew exactly how I wanted them designed and how I wanted them to look... no, I will not tell you, it is a surprise!But of course, they do not exist. Even though the design is not that unique, not one person (that I can find online) has made them as cufflinks.Darn!But I don't give up that easily.So I Googled and Googled.Still nothing.You see, I had hit the trifecta of hard to find. I wanted:
- Fixed back
- Hebrew
- Unique design
Chirp, chirp, chirp... nothing on the internet. I was starting to worry... would I have to settle for less than perfect here?In the final stages of my despair, I started Googling anything I could. Then this image of beautiful custom Hebrew monogram cufflinks popped up.
I knew I must find this designer. Immediately. I googled his name, Gabriel Prero and found his website - www.prero.com and his ShapeWays storefront - CuffJunk.
I immediately contacted him and we are working together to create the perfect gift for Dan... I can't wait to give them to him... or rather, to have my brother Ronin give them to him. :)