OMG!! Eleven days!

It seems like the time is going by even faster now that the wedding is so close. Wasn't it just six months out just a few days ago? Now all the things I put off doing because they didn't seem that urgent are coming to bite me in the ass, like the accessories for the Filipino cord and veil ceremony which I really want to make sure we incorporate into the wedding, the only truly 'traditional' part of our otherwise spiritually and ritually eclectic ceremony. I could've bought this stuff months ago, and indeed started looking about a month ago for the veil, but got sidetracked by other, more pressing issues and thus this task got left to the bottom of the barrel. Sigh. I think we found our solution though, thanks to the Silk Road fabric store in downtown Oakland which thankfully has a beautiful selection of wedding-worthy fabrics, and is open 'til 7pm while every other fabric store (besides the kinda trashy and too-craft-oriented Joanne Fabrics in Emeryville) seems to close at 6pm--kinda hard to get to if you actually work for a living from 9-5! We're going to see if our amazing tailor, Isaac from San Francisco Tailors on Geary Blvd. near Union Square, can work his magic for us and hook us up with some finished edges on the poly-blend, embroidered organza we bought.

And I think I'm going to just go ahead and bite the bullet and buy the cord at MyBarong.com, which specializing in Filipino barongs (formalwear for men and women too sometimes) and thankfully has a nice cord for sale for less than $10.

Keep us in your thoughts and prayer and send positive energy our way! I need every bit of it now that we're really down to the wire.