This blog is dedicated to all things that I love, Italy, photography, family, and all things pretty. After spending a semester in Florence, I feel like I was meant to live there....but I don't...hence the name of my blog.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

1 week to go!!

I can't even believe it....the wedding is one week from tomorrow!! I picked up my dress today. I had to have my fiance pick me up from the dress shop b/c I didn't know how else to get the dress home. The shop is in downtown San Francisco so there is no place to park, so he had to wait outside. I think he would be too clueless to get any sense of the dress based on its size etc. Luckily he couldn't see through the thing it was in. I better watch what I eat this week b/c that thing has no room to wiggle! I also got my final printing needs yesterday....we got the table name cards, seating cards, cupcake menu, flip flop sign etc. You can't read it probably on the blog but I printed great quotes of San Francisco on the backs of all the table names. It was hard to pick just 9!! Oh and I got a sample of our centerpieces....I am in LOVE with them. I just think they are so beautiful. Can't wait to see them all set up and my bouquet as well! TICK TOCK......







Here are all the quotes that I liked...we only used 9 of them though:
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world" - Oscar Wilde

"One day if I do go to heaven~ I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco. " - Herb Caen

"No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living" - William Saroyan

"It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else -- it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit~. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?" - Julia Child

"The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco." - Mark Twain

"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world" - Oscar Wilde

"San Francisco has only one drawback. ''Tis hard to leave"- Rudyard Kipling

"San Francisco is a city where people are never more abroad than when they are at home" - Benjamin F.Taylor

"San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth." - William Saroyan Author

"Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady" - Norman Mailer,author and frequent visitor

"You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away."John Steinbeck

"I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City"~Robert Kennedy

"When you get tired of walking around in San Francisco, you can always lean against it."~Unknown

"I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are Free."~Luisa Tetrazzini,San Francisco's all time favorite soprano, on occasion of breaking her New York contract