Yep, I was on Fox 5 San Diego! Which means I’m like, practically Britney Spears now, right? I’ll be expecting my private dressing room any minute.

Some fellow bloggers and I recently filmed a segment with Fox 5 local news about mommy bloggers. Apparently if you’re a mom who blogs you’re automatically a “mommy blogger.” And in my case, even if you aren’t a mom and you’re just a woman who blogs…mommy blogger. Anyway, here’s the segment that aired yesterday:

I sent a quick email to my family and the family of my soon-to-be husband, Nate, to inform them of my insta-fame and let them know that I would be obtaining a purse-sized dog and bleaching my hair to fit in next to Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan. His uncle responded with this:

Wonderful.  I think this also means you need a personal assistant.  Somebody to be at your beck and call twenty four hours a day. Someone to braid your hair on occasion and fetch you a snack at night.  Someone to do ALL those little tasks that can be such a bother to a media darling such as yourself.

I think Nate will fill that role splendidly.  Smashing idea don’t you think?

And this, folks, is why I’m joining their family!

In an effort to instill small personal details into the wedding, we decided to have shot glasses customized with our names and the date as favors for our guests. I collect shot glasses from every vacation I take (a habit that started, not surprisingly, during my college days) and Nate thought it would be a fun way to put a bit of my personality into things. I’m not sure exactly what that says about my personality, but here we are nonetheless!

There is one problem, though: I simply can’t find a favor box that fits the shot glasses. I know that this problem could easily be solved with favor bags, but for some reason I’m really set on boxes for the favors. I’ve seen table settings with both and I just think boxes look cuter. So I set out on a crazy mission to make my own favor boxes. I found a great pattern on Style Me Pretty with four different prints, and I used Photoshop to adjust the sizing and color for our wedding.

I’m using the standard generic cardstock from Michael’s to print these out on our home printer. I’ve printed 30 in each print and plan on alternating them on the table (there’s eight people per table so it works out perfectly for there to be two of each pattern per table).

I then cut the printed patterns out and use a straight-edge and bone folder to create creases where the boxes need to be folded. Then I fold them and, finally, glue the edges together before inserting the favors with a decorative little piece of white tulle. It takes a long time. A really, really, really long time. So long, in fact, that when my terribly-behaved cat decided to pee on 50 of the cut-out patterns, I had a conniption fit and just about disowned the little bastard entirely.

But then I realized that things could be worse. He could have chosen to pee on the already-folded ones with the favors in them. That would have been a true disaster. And as bad as he is, I really love that bastard cat.