Too long!

Hello ladies,

It's been way to long since I updated this blog (thank you, maman, for reminding me...and melanie for putting some pressure on me :-) (PS: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii melanie, lets catch up soon..or at least leave each other messages on voice mail!).
So, what has happened in the past month. Well not that much, and it is a little worriesome. Luckily we now have an official wedding planner for the wedding in Tennessee (and of course, we have Mama Denuit, the best planner ever for our wedding in Belgium ;-))
I think I might be the worst nightmare for my wedding planner in TN, though (and perhaps for the one in BE as well, but that has most probably be the case for the past 31 years!)...here is a scene from our first conversation (sorry, Astrid for the repeat):
"So how many bridemaids are you going to have" "Euh, just one, my witness, we are not much
into bridesmaids etc..." "Only one???, so what do you want her towear? Did you think about a style, a color?"
"Euh not really, she canpretty much wear whatever she wants" "WHATTT??? So how am I going to
do to assort her flowers to her dress?" Me: "Flowers?? Does she need flowers?" :-D
As you can see I was probably not made to be a bride...
Other than not having to worry about the music, the flowers, the cake, the photographer (we have one picked out- joehoe!!!!), I also just (FINALLY!) finsihed our save-the-dates. I decided to use my long lost drawing skills (or lack thereof) to make them myself...you'll see how it turned out. I just need to print them and they are all set to go. So watch that mailbox of yours!

What else, what else...oh yes, sometime earlier this month I had a chose-your-wedding-dress-session in SF with Charlene, MC and Caro...hehe...after trying out 6 dresses (there was a max of 8 dresses), I got so fed-up with the "hold your breath...just a little more...there you go!" that I decided to swith the last 2 dresses for an Italian lunch. Probably not the best plan to actually fit in a dress, but eating pasta is sooooooooo much higher on my things-i-enjoy-to-do-on-a-saturday-list than buying wedding dresses.
Unfortunately, I still don't have a dress (for neither of the weddings, in fact) and Zach told me jeans was not an option. Snif!

Voila, for the update...hope the next one will be a little faster

Exactly 365 days to go...

Today is May 26th, 2011...so I have exactly another 365 days (as my best friend, Anouschka pointed out this morning) to call Z my fiance :-) Well actually, perhaps really only 182 days...I think i might have to call him my husband once i sign those papers in TN. Oh well, i am sure i'll get used to that too!

As with all great events, this event calls for a resolution...yes, and mine is, you might have guessed: get in super shape for the big day. How? By my self-made program. I have banned refined sugars from my diet (yes, chocolate is also considered refined sugars....how mean!) and most carbs. Zach was reading this book on how much better it is to eat proteins, so based on this book, I decided to not eat carbs for lunch and dinner...but i can still eat my cereals of toast for breafast. I started the program this morning at breakfast...and i am happy to report that it is almost 3:30pm and i still haven't had any refined sugars! Woehoeeee!

The goal is to lose 1 kg per month, or 6 kg by my wedding date. I'll post regular updates on how this is going...

In the meantime: happy -1 anniversary to us!

Sylvie

PS: I am also happy to announce that I am flying home to Z tomorrow....finally, after being away for 3 weeks

Sandra Special

After being asked multipple times to finallt post some pics of my lover boy...here are some snaps...one is taken by Goeric when visiting us in LA...the other one is a self-portrait from our "engagement" hike. Enjoy!

Dates

One more post for today...I promise it's the last one!

We have dates, yes we do!!! Finally, after a back and forth game between parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles...we have settled on our dates. So all, mark your calendars:

Saturday, November 26, 2011 in Tennessee
Saturday, May 26, 2012 in Belgium

Exactly 6 months in between...of course, save the dates will follow soon. The big ceremony with the white dress will be in Belgium...but we plan on having a small, mostly family (and friends who can't make it to Belgium) ceremony in the US...to sign papers, make it official, etc. So keep an eye on the mailbox (that is, if i get time off this project to make my save-the-dates).

Sylvie!

A brithday celebration...

This has nothing to do with wedding preparations...but i just felt like sharing this. I just spent an amazing weekend with Zach in Seattle...we visited Hongfei, Cedric and Raphael (my sister-in-law and nephews) for Cedric's birthday celebration. Cedric is very special to me...he's my godson! So I had to make him our traditional Denuit birthday cake...as you can see, it's a train...although his mom and uncle-to-be (Zach) were very sceptical about this being a train (they were just too impatient to wait to see the finished product and were commenting while it was only half-built), Cedric saw right away what it was (tchuk-tchuk-tuuut-tuuut were his words as he was helping me put the wheels on the freight cars...and then right before eating, his answer to a little friend's quote "wow, this looks like a train", "That is because it IS a train" (rolling of eyes to the ceiling) ;-)

Anyway, I hope he had fun, cause I know I did...can't wait for the next visit!

My engagement "ring"

By now, most of you know that I didn't get the usual diamond ring for my engagement...if you know me well you also know that this is most probably a good thing (can you imagine me coming home one day, looking at my finger and saying "shoot...where did I loose my ring"...indeed, this would not be a very good thing). So Zach (who happens to know me pretty well), decided to buy me something I could not loose...here it is. It's a monster, but it is sooo cool! You should all come visit and I will take you for a spin (although according to Zach it is pretty damn scary to ride in the back ;-))

This blog..

Oh no, another blog...I know. But it's Ok, the good news is: you don't have to read it, you don't have to follow it, you don't even have to know about it. It's really just for me (and my mom ;-). Since I am kind of all by myself in LA (read: no girlfriends to help with the task of organizing a wedding), and I don't want to drive Zach completely crazy, I thought i'd start this blog to be able to vent/ask for help/advice and keep everybody up to date with the latest wedding fashion for 2011 (I hear leather jackets and helmets are in this season ;-)). So, if you wanna know to what color palette your hair band or shoe lacces should be assorted...well euh, this is not the place to be...BUT if you want to find out where I just took my awesome engagement present for a ride...then yes, check "sylviesaidyes.blogspot.com"

No, seriously, in the long and tedious process of choosing dates, locations, food, dress, etc, I hope to find time to write everything down, so hopefully, i'll remember and laugh at the process when i read my entries in a few years. But mainly, this blog is supposed to help me with keeping everybody in the loop escpecially my mom ("Coucou, maman!...je te promets, je t'envoie la liste des invites ce soir"), my soon-to-be-mom-in-law ("Hello, Momma Dunn, you're the best!" (really, she is, i don't understand why people have so much trouble with their mom-in-law, mine is awesome!), my-fake-sister (yes, you, Sunny!), my soon-to-be-not-so-fake-sister-in-law (hip, hip, hoera for SunshineMeg!!), Anouschka, Annelies, Astrid, the ASCO girls (wow, it seems like your name has to start with an A to be my friend Belgium) and of course, "les filles" from the Bay Area (Charlene, Marie-Catherine & Caro), my awesome (ex)-roomie and my other girlfriends spread out across the globe...
Voila, i think i've got it all covered. Hope you enjoy the posts. And feel free to comment, give tips, etc...