wedding planning break

Even though this my second post in two days, I've been slacking on this whole blog thing.  It's mainly because we haven't done much wedding planning lately.  We've also been a little busy with weekend trips and even being a nanny for a weekend (see pics below) so there's no time to plan when you're out of town or watching an 18th month old. 

So far we've booked most of our vendors...well mainly the venues, photographer, and videographer.  A family friend is going to be our DJ and another volunteered to do all of our flowers.  We feel sooo lucky to have such great family friends!

The two vendors I would like to book next are make-up and cake.  If anyone has recommendations please share! :)  Wedding planning will definitely start again in a few weeks when I'm back in Hawaii.  I'll be home for over 2 weeks which is the longest I've been home in 5 years!  Sadly, Dan isn't coming with me. Boo!

As for traveling, last month we went to Portland for my little brother's graduation and to Vancouver, Canada to go zip-lining.  Here are some of my favorite pictures:

The Wong kiddies :)

 Congratulations Makana!

Vancouver, Canada

 We didn't expect this much snow in May!

In our Zip-lining gear.



Vancouver has such a great food! Other than zip-lining all we did was eat/drink and we loved everything.

The weekend after we got back from Vancouver, I was a nanny for a weekend.  I watched a little boy name Jack who loves to eat like me.  He's such a cutie!  Dan helped me on Friday night since I also had to watch Jack's older brother Regan and came on Saturday afternoon to take Jack to the park.  It was fun but very tiring.  Jack's naptime = nanny wong's nap time, hehe.

Isn't he adorable?

♥...this makes my heart melt.

Next stop: LA and Palm Springs! I'm going on a solo trip this weekend to visit my bridesmaid Erin.  I'm super excited since it will be nice and sunny!  Apparently, Seattle forgot that it is officially summer and it rained today. :( 

700 or so to go...

Meaning, I have 700 or so cranes to go.  Cranes, you ask?  Yes, I am folding 1001 cranes to be displayed at our wedding reception.  Folding 1001 cranes is a local Hawaii tradition for weddings.  I decided to make cranes since I LOVE the framing of the actual cranes and think it's something special from your wedding that you can display in your house.

While I was back in Hawaii in March, I bought 11 packs of 100 sheets of double sided gold 3x3 origami paper.  I oppted for the double sided gold paper since I'm not an expert at folding cranes so I need all the help I can get.  After folding over 300 of these little cranes, I have to say I am getting better. There are some that aren't perfect, but its okay those can go on the bottom.  I try to fold 10 a night but that doesn't always happen.  Good thing, I have about 7 more months finish since most vendors need 6 months to do the design and framing.

For those wondering how these cranes are going to be framed, here are a couple examples:

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Typically, couples frame their cranes into their family mon which is Japanese and we don't really have one.  Or some make the cranes into the Japanese/Chinese character of their last name which doesn't really work for us since our last name will be Libby. ;) So we will pick another design similar to the second one.

Here are a few pictures of my work in progess....

The gold paper

Finished cranes!

 My container full of cranes

My guess is there is a a little over a hundred in there, the first two hundred are in a safe place in my room.