a Thank You from Kate

Hello all!

So for just this one time I'm stealing AC's blog and taking the chance to thank all of the vendors and Etsy shops who helped out with our recent wedding.

Things started out really rocky with our wedding planning. I was having my wedding dress custom made for me by Bridal Bliss Design on Etsy. That ended in a huge disaster with me unable to leave negative Etsy feedback to warn others. It's a ridiculously long story, but if any brides are thinking of using her and want the inside scoop please feel free to email me about it.

My dress was eventually saved and re-designed with the help of local designer, Melissa Ebel, and tailored to fit me perfectly by the amazing Diane of P'dia, a local shop here in Milwaukee.

After that I was a bit leary about planning our wedding with the help of Etsy stores, but decided to move forward and not judge any others on my one bad experience.

We ended up using Cyberoptix Tie Lab for all of the guy's ties, which I loved. Bethany, the owner, was so great to work with. We just picked the colors out and let everyone choose the designs they wanted.

Jay also got his cufflinks from the Etsy shop Cosmic Firefly.

My hair clip was from the Etsy Shop Design by Night and my handbag (which I can't find in any photos, sadly) was from Katsuro Vintage Attire.

And we got these great mustaches for our photo booth from Whisker Works. People loved them so much that we left that night with some missing.

But my favorite Etsy purchase was for our wedding "flowers". We bought everything from Succulents Galore, and they shipped it all out to our hotel where the amesome Alex from Thistle Floral put everything together to make these beautiful cacti centerpieces for our Reception and the most amazing bridal bouquet I've ever seen.

As for all the design work for our wedding, we had help from two great graphic designers. Mister Brennan Groh (who is my partner on making AC's cat calendar every year) made our invitations, which I love.

Miss Allison Beilke helped us out, too, by making our wedding programs (which I love how un-traditional she went with them) and these amazing maps that we put into all of our guests' welcome gifts to help them get around.

We also had tons of help from Erin of Goldiluxe, Joe Gorges and Scott Bergmann who both jumped in to take photographs for us when our photographer dropped out on us, and Michael of 811 Productions who took video for us (which is yet to come).

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out and made our wedding beautiful!

miss kate funk got married!

heya!

sorry i haven't written in so long. things have been a bit hectic around here. and as of this last Sunday, miss kate funk and mister jay finally tied the knot! i didn't get to go along to Las Vegas to celebrate, sadly, but kate did bring me back this super fancy hat from her bachelorette party courtesy of miss allison and miss erin. it fits me perfectly. (you can see how pumped i am about it in the photo.) we still have a million more photos and videos coming. and kate even took her super 8 camera along with her to the Neon Museum. i can't wait to see the footage! i'll have to show you everything once it's ready.

ok - super long break is over. time to start shooting some photos.

catsparella!

heya all you cat lovers!

miss kate funk stumbled upon an awesome website today, catsparella. it's all about kitties and super awesome! how have we not come upon this sooner? while scrolling through the pages she even came upon a photo of me in The Catsparella Guide to Cat Valentine's Day Cards! super duper awesome! go check them out!

The experts agree.

heya!

so miss kate funk got an email today from the awesome people at the experts agree. (which is a super awesome blog) to let her know that they included one of her cards in their most recent post: Etsy Schmetsy: Valentine's Day, Schmalentine's Day. go check it out!

she also found an amazing entry about an app she never heard of, The Kitty Caller, that looks 100% awesome. she's downloading it as i write this! hopefully it's as awesome as it looks - but for only 99¢ i'm sure it won't disappoint.

The Arts Mill Boutique

heya! sorry it's been so long since i wrote. miss kate has been super busy getting ready for her wedding that is coming up in a couple of weeks, so working with me has been the last thing on her mind. but she does has some exciting news: there is a new store opening up in Grafton, WI called The Arts Mill Boutique that will be carrying our greeting cards! Kate got a chance to go visit the space and said it was super awesome. It's located inside of the Historic Grafton Mill building. and all of the profits they make go towards the North Shore Academy of the Art's art, music, and performing arts programs! They aren't open just yet - we'll let you know when the grand opening is coming up. Until then you can find more info about them on the North Shore Academy of the Arts website.

later gators!

more new cards!

heya!

so miss kate funk finally had some free time and was able to make some new greeting cards with photos from the 2011 Calendar (which is now on sale for half off!). she just put them up on her etsy shop. there is February's AC and the Chocolate Factory, July's AC is Jaws, and November's AC Eastwood. she also came out with {The Big Screen} Boxed Set which includes all 3 of those new cards as well as two older cards from the calendar: AC is Rambo and AC is Godzilla.

go check it all out!

this saturday

heya. miss kate funk is going to be at the East Town Market again this weekend. here's all the info. go check it out!