Holiday Gallery Re-Release + bumble ink promo

The holidays are quickly approaching! Just a quick announcement to all 2010 Meg Perotti clients! (and families and friends of these clients...... ;) ) All wedding, portrait, and family session galleries have been released through January 1, 2011 for those prints you totally meant to order 6 months ago but now would *really* like to have to give as gifts! As an added bonus and a holiday gift to you, we'll cover the shipping! The cut off to receive prints before Christmas is DECEMBER 13th. NO EXCEPTIONS. Production is officially on Holiday break on the 14th so all orders received after that date will be processed in 2011.

ALSO!

I am super excited to also say that I've teamed up with BumbleInk to offer you guys a discount on their holiday cards! They've provided us with a promo code for 15% off of the entire site to give to you that will be valid until December 31, 2010. If you see anything you like on the site (how could you not??) shoot me an email and I'll get you hooked up!

This is a favorite of mine :).. I also really love the postcard options!

Some info on them:

bumble ink is a San Francisco/Bay Area based stationery company featuring products with modern designs, clever characters, and fresh humor.  Our cards are printed with veggie based inks on heavy cover stock containing post consumer recycled content with a 100% recycled envelope sealed in a biodegradable corn based clear bag. Our brand new photocards are digitally printed on FSC certified 100% recycled white heavy-weight card stock. Customers can upload their favorite photo(s) and personalize their greetings. We also offer the option of creating a form letter or message on the back of each card. We can also turn any color photograph to black and white.

And a little wedding happiness to close out this business-related post :)

Aloha!

I will probably get about 20 e-mails after posting this blog from friends and family yelling at me to stop working and go get tan but I can’t help it. It’s time to reflect. Timmy is sitting next to me on this big bed in our hotel room in Hawaii reading Steve Martins biography and eating fishy crackers out of the bag. I just showered the sand off my body and am sitting here typing away in my Fairmont Hotel bathrobe. I am plenty relaxed and totally stress free so I promise, a wonderful dinner with my husband is to be had in an hour or so but for now- let me and my laptop be! Last Saturday was, hands down, the absolute best day of my life. Every single bit of it (even when I freaked out right before walking down the aisle) was perfect. The day was exactly as I had imagined it both aesthetically and emotionally and I am still exploding from the excitement and happiness of it all.

I was a little afraid that once the wedding was over I would plummet into depression. How will I spend my time? I want to do it all over again? What if I don’t feel the same way about my work after I’ve been there done that? I am so thankful to see that while I had the time of my freaking life, I am so happy to be Mrs. Timothy Resudek and so thankful to not be talking about table linens anymore! And actually, my understanding and appreciation for all my clients go through has only gotten stronger and I feel as though I will be able to do my job from a wonderful new perspective.

I noticed early on in the wedding planning process that I really found a lot of it exhausting. I find it hard to make decisions in regular every day life and the amount of choices I had to make and answers I had to come up with during the past 9 or so months was constantly overwhelming. I thought I’d blog about every little choice- this shoe or this shoe? Blush or lavender? Vintage bridesmaids or Vera bridesmaids? But seriously, a lot of the time I agonized so long over things that by the time I finally decided on them I was way over sharing my craziness with the world wide web.

I had the most amazing team of ladies to help me through it all and the day was better than I could have ever imagined- and you know, all of those pain-staking decisions actually paid off. The whole freaking thing looked exactly as I had imagined it.

I want to share (and rave) about my vendor choices, tell you all about how different being a bride versus a photographer is, and talk more about all of the decisions we made and why we made them- and I promise I will- but I’m going to head back into honeymoon mode! For now, check out J*’s blog edits here and a HUGE shout out to Yelena Johnson of The Stylish Soiree for totally and completely taking my vision and making it look like magic.

One of my favorites :)

Bridal Shower : Out of the office from Nov 1- Nov 17th

I started writing my vows last night and I could barely stop myself from crying. This could be bad!

I feel like I am in the eye of the storm right now. Most all decisions have been made, almost everything is purchased, we packed up and labeled all of the decor items. I have Yelena to keep me sane and my best friends are kidnapping me this afternoon for one last night of debauchery (ha!) ... I look at Tim from over my computer screen and its like the world around us is spinning so fast but we're solid- feet on the ground and steady. I started writing my vows last night after working for about 14 hours straight on album designs (holiday ordering deadline happens to fall during our honeymoon ... peachy!) and suddenly it hit me- if everything goes crazy, if timelines get thrown out, if shuttles don't arrive, if it rains, if, if, if..... I will still be marrying my best friend.

So clients, past, present, and future- please forgive me if e-mail is a little slower than usual or turn around times take a little longer than previously expected. I am working at my very fastest pace to get as much as I can get done before I am officially off the radar.

Come Monday- November 1st I am officially on vacation until November 17th.

It's alllll happening!!!!!!!!

Here are some pics that Heather took at my bridal shower- such a fun day!