Mr. Celal & Miss Jennifer

My mom's old friend's daughter works for a movie company and knows this guy that works at a gossip magazine (similar to US Weekly). She told my mom she could have this guy come to our wedding to do a little feature on us. I don't know if I like that idea but I will accept the offer if we are on the cover. Otherwise, I need to think about it. What does Paris Hilton have that we don't??? I am sure the lines will be similar to this under our picture while cutting the cake: "The biggest steel trader and fabricator of Turkey, Mr. Celal, married the famous American artist, Miss Jennifer." Jen will only be in the magazine if they say she's a famous artist.

I am going to pick up the rest of the invitations and envelopes this week and we will start giving them once Miss Jennifer comes back.

I may be the biggest steel trader and fabricator of Turkey but I still have time to post here while I am at work. Now, that's something! I need to work...

The hairdresser didn't make the cut

This morning started with a phone traffic. Making a wedding guests list is a tough job! I talked to my mom, uncle and grandma to finalize it. After an hour of discussion we came up with the final list.

Normally, Turkish weddings are huge. I mean HUGE. Two years ago my friend's wedding had 235 people. Last year my other friend's wedding pulled 285 guests. This is pretty much the average amount of guests at a Turkish wedding. You might think that is a lot of guests, but listen to this: My brother's friend is having a wedding this summer and one thousand guests are invited!

We even talked about inviting my mom's doctor and the hairdresser to our wedding. (My mom's doctor made the cut.) Another issue with making the list is the chain. If you invite this specific person, you need to invite others. Then if you invite those people, you have to invite some more people. When I thought I was done with the list, grandma added eight more people (and she already told most of them they were invited). Luckily my mom removed two of them. I will still have some people that I have never seen in my life in my wedding. Well, you need to make your family happy too.

Big round belly

Since Jen is going to Florida tomorrow, today was busy. We went to see two wedding organization places to check out what they had for the decor. Then we went to pick up the invitations. We love them! However, there was one thing wrong. The ribbon on it was 1mm thinner than the sample one they showed us and supposedly there is a color difference that I cannot see. YES! Jen caught these details (and I thought I was anal). Imagine the next three months... GOD HELP ME! We also went to pick up the ring (after having it resized) and ate an out-of-this-world beyti kebab at a nearby kebab (kebap in Turkish) restaurant. The owner of the restaurant loves to talk and read Turkish coffee fortunes. It will sound weird but he is a cute man with a big round belly.

Hoş geldiniz!

Welcome to our super fantastic wedding blog! We plan on posting here throughout the next few months before the wedding with rants, raves, and other useful information for our national and international guests and fans. We are already in the whirlwind of wedding planning and are just finishing up the invitations, so if you're on the list you'll get one in the next two weeks.

Turkish school: Welcome!

Hoş geldiniz! (hoesh GELL-diniz) - Welcome!
(literally - "You come with coziness")

Hoş bulduk! (hoesh BULL-dook) - Thanks!
(in response - means "We find coziness here")

Thanks for visiting our blog and please check often for updates on our insanity.

With love,
Jen & Celal