love it!

love this ring shot. merry christmas everyone!

honeymoon booked!

mr. zok and i will officially be going to turks and caicos for our honeymoon!



turks is located in the Caribbean, below Florida and the Bahamas.



look at that water!!! i cannot WAIT! especially considering how burnt out i feel right now! sitting beneath a fifty pound rock sounds better than going into work in the morning!

for sale!

one of my bridesmaids, grace, is selling candied apples for the holidays at a great price! Each apple is hand-dipped and coated with a variety of toppings:
Turtle
Walnut
Pecan
Cashews
Ghirardelli chocolate chips
Black and White
Heath Bars
Oreo
Candy Cane
Peanut Butter Chips
Holiday Swirl
or any other suggestions

price: $8
retail price: $10-19

She is also making gift baskets! Each gift basket includes 3 candied apples, and your choice of either:
Ghirardelli caramel brownies
Ghirardelli chocolate chip cookies
chocolate hazelnut biscotti
cranberry pistachio biscotti
customized frosted sugar cookie cut-outs
chocolate covered pretzels
strawberry heart cookies
and your choice of bottled beverage of either Acqua Panna, S.Pellegrino, or wine

gift baskets: $60.00
Retail Value is from $80.00-$120.00

Each item is individually wrapped and packaged inside the gift baskets

I am considering using her for my wedding favors! If she'll give me a discount. =)

Let me know if you're interested!

my diet

so unlike most brides-to-be, i have to go on a special diet to GAIN weight. from working and running around town and stressing out, i lose weight quite easily, to the point where i look emaciated. now i need to GAIN weight to look nice on my wedding day. =(

so one thing i am doing for the first time in my life is counting the calories i consume in a day. next, i'm trying to figure out a workout plan for myself to build muscle. hopefully this will work.

if you have any suggestions, please let me know!

GOAL: gain ten pounds by my wedding date, which is 111 days away!!!

cake!

so i haven't really found many wedding cakes that have wowed me in ALL OF MY RESEARCH! but today, while perusing through martha stewart's wedding magazine, i came across this cake, and i LOVE IT! i wouldnt' want it in pink, but the stenciling is just absolutely beautiful! the best part is that mr. zok thinks it's cool too. =)

words words words

wedding planning is in full gear, as essentially the wedding is only 3.5 months away! what a scary/exciting/overwhelming feeling!

elements of the wedding:
1. we have chosen a photographer! how exciting! we will be using jerry yoon of blogjerry.com. go check out his work!

2. after much deliberation/heartache/stress, i think i have found a bridesmaid dress that is not only cute but CHEAP! it's purple still, but is more functional than the original dress i picked out since the girls can most likely wear it again. it's from zara! yipee!!

3. registering is not that fun. it is stressful because i'm a perfectionist. bah!

4. i asked mr. zok if we could just have fruit tarts for our wedding cake, to which he replied with a face of disgust. he then continued to say "there would be so many berries on it"............

5. i think i've decided to hyphenate my middle and maiden name and then take on the hubby's name after all. here comes the name change! and the non-california license. =(

6. the save the date has been sent!

alright i'm too tired to write more.

boo

i got the blue shoes, except they weren't blue. they were black. so back they go!

i want to pin a bow on my toe...

I have been searching online for the perfect wedding shoe. I found the BEAUTIFUL shoe below on nordstrom.com, but it was too expensive and i wanted to figure out if I really wanted to wear 4" shoes, so I was waiting for them to go on sale to decide. they never went on sale, and now there are only sizes 5 and 10 left. so i am =(.



I was on zappos.com forEVER today, and I finally found another shoe that I liked, but of course in very jennie-nature, they were really expensive! and they were plain ivory, which i think is sort of boring. so i decided to go on ebay and weddingbee.com to find shoes that were being sold at cheaper rates since people cancel weddings or change their mind about shoes, like i might...

while on weddingbee.com, i found these lovely shoes that are half a size too big but so cheap! and brand new! they're being sold at half price! so i contacted the seller and am contemplating buying them and just putting insoles in. aren't the bows so cute?! and these babies are 3.5" tall, which means that my FMIL will not be happy (she wants me to wear flats).


but while on ebay, i found the pair of shoes that i liked from zappos except in navy blue! i liked them immediately but wondered if they went with my color palette, but they were being sold at 25% of the going rate! so i decided to bid on them just on a whim, and I WON JUST LIKE THAT! so now I have accidentally purchased these shoes! And I must return them in a week if i dont like them! But right now, i do like them... it's just a matter of what do i like better??