Pikake & Pearls: Helen & Randy’s Website

… until the BIG DAY.  But what we’re really excited about is counting down the number of days until we’re actually on the plane to go “home”…. THREE!!   Our final three days in Boston will be jammed packed with things to do and tying up loose ends: teaching, pops gigs, purchasing sash fabric, building up publicity for WAITIKI, packing, charging batteries, and updating this blog.   Yes, we will be sure to include you in every step of the way.  We picked up our wedding bands today, and they are surely stunning, well-made in every way by the Boston Ring and Gem (aka BRAG).  Along with this great find, we managed to walk into the first fabric store we saw in Chinatown, and picked two possible colors for our groomsmen sashes.  The wedding party will look spectacular, so you’ll have to wait and see.  This has been a very productive day indeed.  Let the holiday parties begin!

Whoa, I can feel myself getting goosebumps, or chicken skin as they call it in Hawaii, as I’m typing this.  I can’t believe how time is flying and soon we’ll be on a place to paradise.  Wedding planning has been going well and we’re slowly getting more and more things checked off on our to-do list.  One of the things being this website, which needed a serious facelift.  The whole process took up the entire weekend, which was tedious but fun in a way, because it has been a while since we’ve taken upon a website making project.  The last one we did together was the Music-in-Education Web Sourcebook, a compilation of music education journal articles and concepts that relates to our work at NEC.  So this website is small in comparison, but it is definitely more enjoyable to work on because it relates to us personally and we can post anything we want.  Freedom!  Anyways, hope you all like it and find it easy to navigate.  

In our wedding section, we’ve included subpages about each person in our wedding party.  Not only do they each come from different points in our lives, they also come from different places and contribute a lot to who we are as individuals and as a couple.  Believe it or not, we have yet to gather everyone together before the wedding.  So keep an eye out for a possible time during the week of the wedding for a hang.  I can’t wait to see everybody all together in one place, something that’ll happen only once in a lifetime.  And it’ll happen at our wedding.

Things left to do: finalize RSVPs, make sashes, confirm cake and seating chart, get gifts and favors, maybe get another dress?  More updates to come….