September 27th 2011:
Earlier this month, Felicia and I drove our little car up north to Napa for Pete & Cindy’s destination wedding at The Chardonnay Golf Club (speaking of driving, I’m disappointed we only clocked 36.25MPG on that long drive).
It was a beautiful day for a wedding, a surprising reprieve from the heat seeing as it was pretty warm the day before, and Pete & Cindy made a wonderful day all the more enjoyable by being their awesome selves. I spent the early part of the day alternating between driving Pete around and photographing him (chauffeuring is another of my many talents), while Felicia zipped around with Cindy as they went on a hunt for Pete’s missing tuxedo shirt studs, so everyone got to go on an adventure!
Cindy’s little niece, Priyanka, is really fond of her, and was thrilled to have ‘matching’ shoes as her aunt.
On any given wedding day, I’ve been known to fold pocket squares on the fly, tie ties, pin boutonnieres, but this one thing had me stumped: How to tie a bow tie from scratch.
Thanks to most tux rental places, most of our grooms have the ‘ready made’ bow tie. But Pete had to be all fancy-schmanzy and got a REAL bow tie. Damn. One that needed real tying. One that… neither Pete, nor I, nor the venue coordinator could figure out despite bringing up ‘How To Tie A Bow Tie‘ YouTube videos on my iPhone. Thankfully, one of Pete’s wedding guests is sufficiently stylish to not only know how to tie a bow tie, but how to do it with finesse, so we drove over to his hotel and had him work his magic.
I’m starting to believe that James Bond isn’t trying to look all debonair and casual with his bow tie undone: He just can’t figure the damn thing out.
Those flowers are made of sugar and completely edible. But they look so good that nobody could bear to eat them. Amazing.
Cindy and Pete have been an absolute blast to work with, and as if we didn’t already eat too much while in Napa (more on that tomorrow), they invited us to their day-after brunch with their friends & family where I stuffed myself with lumpia, inari sushi and all other manner of deliciousness. Don’t judge. I worked hard for it.
Congrats Cindy & Pete, have a wonderful life together, and thanks again for everything!
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