We’re The Yoberts. Thanks for swinging by and enjoy what you you find!
All in Life
We recently started using two beautiful electric toothbrushes from a new brand called GLEEM. And BOY do we love ourselves some minimal, streamlined design. It comes in two colors, white & black, so bonus - no more “forgetting” whose toothbrush is whose or leaving one behind on a vacation. They’re literally too beautiful to leave behind!
We travel a lot! If you’ve ever traveled far from home, then you’ll know the dread that comes with realizing you’re miles away from your medicine cabinet and your skin regimen isn’t working. It can be the change of climate, lack of sleep, pollution, dehydration, you name it - your skin suffers! BUT WAIT! It doesn’t have to be like that.
It’s summer in like a week and we’re sitting here thinking… are we ready? Summer is arguably the best season, but it can be a lot of work to make sure you’re ready when it hits. Did Crossfit do what is was supposed to? How many vacation days do we have left? Did we book a rental car yet for that family trip in July? You know the drill.
Yesterday was the big day! We are officially Husband and Husband! Mr. & Mr. Yoberts* Ok, that’s not actually our married name. In fact, we chose to keep our ‘maiden’ names. Corey Roberts & Cristian Young.
Rehearsal Dinner Day! We're Drunk. It was a Success. Is it okay if we just upload photos?? Okay Great! Thenk u!
We rented our U-Haul for pick up this AM, still mourning the loss of our big break with toyota, and along with the help of some strong friends, we managed to get all of the plants to the venue. It actually turned out to be a pretty chill day. Everything is mostly taken care of at this point, and we enjoyed some brunch with Corey's family.
As promised, we're almost there. Here's our quick updates
It's definitely going to rain on the wedding day... we've lost all hope! So we're going to buy some umbrellas and blankets as well as coordinate possibly a tent with the venue! Corey got his haircut, and Cristian will be soon to follow. Family is starting to arrive and tomorrow we're moving the plants to the venue (we rented a U-Haul)! Also, the Sam's Club plants arrived.
With this week being the final push, we decided to try publishing a blog post each day to get you up to speed on what's happening Chez Yoberts!
Happy Birthday Cristian!!!
Poor baby angel! Haha – His birthday happens to be 7 days before the big day and we’ve all been a little negligent on the planning side! No worries! We shall all take respite from wedding planning and celebrate the birth of Mr. Cristian!
We’re getting pretty close to the big day! EEK! Corey’s mom arrives this weekend to help with some of the last minute details, but otherwise we think we’re in a pretty good place. Corey finalized the Jackson Shrub order (we changed our mind on some things.. oops!) and we’re at the point where everything is ordered. Fingers crossed for the weather on March 10th because the 2 week forecast thing says it’s cold and rainy…
Words out! We booked Cali Craft Cocktails for our wedding in March and we couldn’t’ be more thrilled to have them serving for the big day! We just finished a tasting with them and we’re even more excited than we were before. Can it be March 10 already?
We’re officially a month out from the wedding! OMG can’t believe it! It’s so crazy, etc. etc. etc! But really, can you beweave it?! We have a long laundry list of things to do however there’s one very important thing we haven’t done yet… PLANTS!
We’re off over the hill of LA to a lil place called Encino. We’re excited because it’s the first time we’re actually going to use the Tent Corey’s mom gave us for Christmas/ our Wedding!
Remember that time we literally said Wedding Planner Schmedding Planner? Yeah… we get it. We really do. There are so many details to figure out for any wedding already and it seems like a complete extra set of decision to consider for a gay wedding!
Sometimes you have to throw up your new tent inside and invite over some friends for a good ol' fashioned tent party.
Ok, maybe we’re not at that point in our relationship, but we did a little Black Friday shopping (on Sunday) for some wedding suits. At this point, as you know, we’ve been feeling a bit defeated by the suit industry. Cut to us walking into the Beverly Hills showroom of Indochino and being reborn as two wedding suit aficionado angel babies.
It’s official. We "tasted" wine and now we’re experts. That’s a lie. We still know nothing about wine.
Basically, we’re DIY’ing the rehearsal dinner (Re: 15K quote from the LA restaurant Eveleigh) and part of that process entails choosing wine for 50 people to enjoy for 4 hours.
It's insane that we're at the point where invites are already going out! Thankfully the cardshop in Venice, remember the one where the cheapest they could do for invites was 1k, gave us their handy dandy invite guide! It told us to mail out invitations roughly 2-3 months before the date of the wedding.
Call us old school, but printing and hoarding wedding related paper is amazing! Our love of this possibly being a byproduct of Corey’s days planning events at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and/or the tutelage his boss, the queen of events, now our wedding officiant, Irena, plan many domestic and international events!
We're planning our rehearsal dinner! Also, we’re still trying so hard to not get caught up in wedding traditions that A. Cost thousands of dollars and B. We don’t understand. That said, We love the sentiment behind a rehearsal dinner and it's a must have for our wedding!
