DomestiGal Jen,

We’re certainly having a detox emergency!  We have to get you hotter-than-your-already-oozing-hottness, and ASAP.  (And, since The Doctor and I just received your Save-the-Date, now there’s no extending time to get you in uber-Evangeline-Lilly form!)

DomestiGal Jen in 6 months!

I love that you’re taking fish oil, (over)eating salmon, and spending extra hours exercising with Colossus.

Have you considered drinking aloe vera juice as an all natural-cleanse?  You can read more about it on this detox site, Detoxilicious.

Secondly, and this will be hardest… [insert clearing of the throat here].  How many drinks are you drinking per week?  I mean, you’re a stressed out MBA student, so do tell.  Are you having a glass of wine an evening, or one glass of wine between classes??

DomestiGals love red wine

While wine is super high in antioxidants, and help us all prevent wrinkles and other unsightly signs of aging, you could also consider juicing with veggies, rather than, ahem, grapes.  Aside from that, depending on the pour, a glass of wine is anywhere between 100-200 calories.  Are you drinking an extra 1,000 calories per week?

Don’t worry, Jen, your response will be between me and you… and the rest of the DomestiGals.

xx,

Sue

Hello again Sue,

I realize that I got so into my anti-fondant tirade yesterday that I forgot to mention why the urgency to detoxify and fabulosify.

Well, first of all. I feel gross. Seriously, I haven’t worked out more than three times in as many weeks. Ugh. So not hot.

Second, I am getting married in less than six months! Which means I have less than half a year to get my Domestic Boddess in the best shape of my life! Ack!

Third, and most urgent, is the fact that in just over two weeks The Lawyer and I have our engagement photo shoot. Thus, I simply must look A to the Mazing STAT!

Now, you have known The Lawyer a lot longer than I have. Did you ever think he would agree to an engagement photo shoot?! I mean do you love it or do you love it. He’s even working out extra super hard with Colossus in order to be at his hottest. In fact, I am getting a little concerned that if I don’t start sweatin’ pronto, The Lawyer is going to totally out-hot me. Which is unacceptable. Obv.

So Sue, I have been thinking of you because you are the Detox Queen.

DomestiGal Sue, the picture of zen

So, in accordance with your teachings, I have taken the following measures to ensure ultimate hotness for my engagement pictures:

1. Fish oil rules. I am taking six capsules a day.

Fish oil is good for your heart, your skin, and your brain!

2. Detox tea. You know I love me some Yogi tea.

This tea tastes great and sometimes makes me poop.

3. Eating lots of salmon.

Here fishy fishy fishy... come to Jenny...

4. Cutting back on the booze. Yeah, um - so here’s the thing. If I drink whiskey that’s better than wine, right? Because, you know, you only need a sip or two. Please tell me this is acceptable, Sue. I can’t get through grad school sober.

Jack and Jen: MFEO?

5. And, last but not least, getting off my bum. I have some steep competition these days, as my trainer just got a new client:

DomestiGal Jen's fellow gym rat

No. For real. That’s really her. She’s a famous model.

But I bet she can’t deadlift 240 pounds!

Sigh. I think it’s teatime.

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

DomestiGal Sue,

I bet you’re wondering where I’ve been the past week. Well, it hasn’t been pretty. Finals got the better of me and I have emerged puffy, bloated, and broken out. It is not my finest hour, Sue. But starting today - TODAY, I tell you! - I am in offical detox and fabulosify mode.

Which is why I do not appreciate posts like your most recent one. Granted, I have been MIA so what right do I have to scold you for posting about carbtastic wedding cakes? Whatev. You know you love me.

For the record, I think the initial attempt at your wedding cake by your sister is A to the Dorable. And really? Can we clone her and give one of her to every bride-to-be out there? Because dude, if I had a sister who was willing to both sew my wedding dress AND bake my cake, I’d be one blissful bride.

The cake does need a little work, but I do applaud the use of buttercream frosting instead of fondant. I am really not understanding the increasing popularity of fondant-frosted wedding cakes. Is this Martha Stewart’s influence, I wonder? The more wedding magazines I buy the more anti-Martha I become, which may come as a shock considering I am the Domestic Goddess. But I simply do not appreciate the pressure she puts on us brides to have every detail of the wedding look totally perfect.

Martha, it's nothing personal.

Not that I want my cake looking like the sad, sloppy brownies that I baked for my sixth grade bake sale with multi-colored dinosaur sprinkles that my arch nemesis dropped down the stairs which I always suspected was on purpose - but I also do not need my wedding cake looking so - well - inedible.

Check it:

This is a wedding cake with fondant frosting.

Is it just me or does that just not look particularly yummy?

As opposed to this:

See now, the frosting is still smooth but you can tell that it’s creamier - and thus yummier - than that tasteless fondant.

I wish I actually knew who baked that cake with the buttercream swirlies, because that is what I want on my wedding cake! What do you think, Sue?

Thank goodness I’m back, because this cake issue is a big one and there is lots to discuss. Don’t even get me started on cupcake wedding cakes…

More soon! It’s good to be back!

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

Sesame Street is in mourning this season:

Monique Lhuillier Spring 09 via NYMag.com

Ok no but for real Monique. Why. Do. You. Do. This. To. Me. Unless it’s so that I lust after your other dresses less, in which case The Lawyer’s bank account says, “Merci beaucoup!”

She can still pull it out though:

Monique again. Via NYMag, obv.

Ok so these veils she showed this season were weird, but ignoring those - I love the asymmetrical layer here, and the interesting texture of the dress. Very luxe, very noughties. Yes, that’s noughties, as in this decade, not naughties. Thank you.

But back to the first creation - seriously? Would anybody ever actually wear that in real life? Down the aisle? It’s one thing to be fashion-forward, but this is not even flattering! It’s fugtastic! Right? Or am I just missing the bird - uh, boat - here?

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

Hello Sue!

Apologies for being MIA recently… that’s Miserable In Assessments. Seriously. I have had two group projects, two exams, and three papers to write! Insanity! And SO not fabulous!

What IS fabulous? Your moissanite wedding rings!! I love love LOVE them! Good for you for crossing over to the bling side, baby! I have now worn the Ring of Dreams for over a month and have yet to see a piece of jewelry that compares. Not that I’m biased. Not to mention the fact that I will totally have kicked ass on my exams because I doubtless blinded everyone else in the room. Gotta love the engagement ring as competitive advantage!

I am also slightly obsessing over the fact that you are getting married on Buddha Day. You will have the greatest Feng Shui Wedding of all time! I am rather devastated that I will not be able to be there, as we will have just returned from our Wedding Planning Whirlwind. We have thus far made five appointments in as many days. Full itinerary to come, Sue, as I know that Sue of the Non-Wedding Feng Shui Fest will want to live vicariously through Jen of the Wedding of Dreams.

In other wedding-related news (like there’s any other news that matters), we received our Save-the-Dates! Keep your eyes on your box - your MAILbox, Sue! - because we’ll be sending them soon. They are super cute. A tri-fold card with a detachable calendar with our date circled on it. Simple and different and fun and lovely. And orange! Yes! I used an orange color for the font! After all, if I can’t actually have an orange wedding dress, I might as well make as much of the rest of the wedding orange, right? Right.

More news to come. You know you want it.

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

So for those of you who were not as obsessed with New York Fashion Week as I was, I will have you know that Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham showed a collection. It was not ground-breaking, but it was far from fugly! In fact, two of her numbers would work perfectly for a courthouse wedding. Check ‘em:

Victoria Beckham Fall 09 via NYMag.com

I mean, right? Not ugly! Kind of lovely! I like this one even more:

Victoria Beckham Fall 09 via NYMag.com

Give that gal a chic birdcage veil and a few calla lilies and she is good to get hitched!

Nice work, Posh. Now please go and eat a Krispy Kreme.

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

Hello Sue,

Ok, so obv I am not going to actually buy it, people. But look what I found!

Fab orange gown that could totally be a wedding dress by Carmen Marc Valvo

Sigh. Orange perfection.

Now, I heart Carmen Marc Valvo for a number of reasons - not the least of which is that he makes very gorgeous dresses, one of which I will be wearing for my rehearsal dinner! Yes! Yes! I will! It’s a lovely dark green cocktail number with a deep V-neck (HOT) and a black beaded belt (double HOT). I have lusted after Carmen Marc Valvo’s designs for a number of years and was thrilled to find one I could actually afford. Unlike the Orange Wedding Dress of Dreams pictured above. Sigh.

Another reason I heard Carmen Marc? He is a colon cancer survivor. Pretty amazing, right? And he does lots of work to help spread awareness about the disease.

Speaking of which, March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, DomestiGals! The Colon Cancer Alliance has more info about this very treatable and beatable disease - take a moment to check it out and help spread awareness!

After all, butts are just as hot as boobs - isn’t it time we started talking about them?

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

Ah ladies, I’m sure you missed my wedding gown gushing last week! Well, I am back. And feeling… feathered.

Pamella Roland Fall 09 via NYMag.com

Thoughts on this one? It actually reminds me of Nicole Kidman’s Oscar gown. A little too bird-like for me personally, but I do appreciate the movement of the dress.

Or what about faux-feathered?

Angel Sanchez Spring 09 via NYMag.com

There is a LOT going on here. But I kind of love it. But I would never wear it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fabulous. Or is it not?

Clearly I am torn. Thoughts, ladies? Give this chick some clarity!

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

Ah Sue, pop-culturally challenged Sue,

You really need to work on your pop culture references. Next thing you know, you will be telling me that he plays a hot vampire in Twilight:

While he sings and dances and is a general all-around hottie hottie boomalottie in High School Musical:

Sigh. You have a lot to learn, my dear.

Meanwhile, back across the pond,The Lawyer hath returneth from NYC! Yipee! And he brought presents! This is how well he knows me - my gifts included High School Musical 3, Wall*E, Molton Brown products from their new Nurture line (I mean hello, what better way to cope with planning a wedding and completing an MBA than to pamper, pamper, pamper!), and… drum roll please… a chocolate chip carbfest of a muffin from my very favorite muffin maker of all time, Between the Bread on West 55th Street in NYC.

Check out the carbstasticness:

Muffins from Between the Bread in NYC. You know you want 'em.

While my ever-slimming belly is now bloated with the onslaught of carbs, I am a happy girl. A very, very happy girl.

After all, I FINALLY found a way to work Zac Efron into a post! Rejoice!

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen

Sigh. Sue,

You know, I really got my hopes up upon reading the title of your last post. I was hoping you were going to write about HONEYMOONS! Since The Lawyer and I have not experienced the relationship rut that you and The Doc are currently navigating, I don’t have much insight to offer except that in addition to chess, I would also recommend Pass the Pigs.

DomestiGal Jen's favorite game. For real. Don't knock it.

Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it.

But back to honeymoons. You will doubtless be thrilled to hear that The Lawyer and I have decided on ours! We are going to Australia next December! Hotness! (Literally.) Friends of ours are getting married, so we decided to turn the trip into our honeymoon. I mean duh, in this economy it’s not like I’m going to be getting a job after grad school anyway! Bring on the vacay!

In addition to the honeymoon, we have decided to take a mini-moon right after our September wedding. We just haven’t decided where to go. I want to go somewhere lovely and quaint in Rhode Island (my favorite state in the union, baby!). Here are some contenders…

Newport, Rhode Island

Ah, lovely Newport: classic, timeless, snooty? Yeah, that’s my concern. Plus, I got wasted there one 4th of July drinking appletinis made in a motel coffee pot… not sure I need to relive those memories.

Narragansett, Rhode Island

Narragansett: I don’t know what this building is, but I need to live there. Or just wake up there next to my Lawyerly hubby and be served breakfast in bed.

Bristol, Rhode Island

Bristol: Lowkey and lovely, me thinks. Plus, it has this guy:

DomestiGal Jen hearts historical recreations.

I mean. The spinning wheel may have just spun us a winner, people!

But seriously, Sue and Gals out there, where should we go? What should we do? Have any of you taken a mini-moon?

xoxo,

DomestiGal Jen