Party of the Century

Yow!! We're married!!!

Thank you all so much for coming and we just adore you all so much, truly, madly, deeply. As my niece said last night, "this was the party of the century!!!" Some of our dear friends couldn't make it and we missed you, we'll send you the cozies and buttons!!

In the middle of it all, of course we forgot a few thank yous:

Thanks so much to Oliver Stahl for officiating, to Shaz's father John Bennett for the lovely blessing, to Derek Call, Susan Morris, & Brandon "Braz" Bennett for their amazing contributions to our ceremony, to Brian Robinson & Heather Bennett for their speeches, and Josslyn Luckett & P.J. Pesce for their kind impromptu words!!!

Maggie Mackay for the gorgeous flowers!

Thank you to Dan Wilcox for the awesome DJing! (check out his radio show on KCRW!)

Thank you Daniele Neuharth for the wine!!

Thanks Devin Williams for the most awesome band ever--Orgone!!

Thank you Matt Shafae, Maggie & Dan, Pam Martin for coming early to help us set up!!

Thank you Susan Morris, Eden Bennett, Heather Bennnett, Maggie, Pam, Robin Wilks Dunn for taking the polaroids for our book (which is so amazing!!! we love it - we read it last night after the wedding)!!!

Thanks to Andrew Kuykendall and Kelly for taking the "official" photos!!

To Paolo Davanzo, Kevin Hanson & Dagie Brundert for filming Super8.

Thank you Derek Call and Susan Morris for MCing!

A beyond big huge thanks and besos you to John Bennett (Shaz's father) & Lluis Caner (Jean-Pierre's father) for making this wedding beyond our wildest dreams!!!!

Thank you all for coming!!!

I know a lot of people had cameras and took photos - please please send us the photos - if you can email or put them on a disc that would be amazing!!

we love love love you all.
The party of the century!!!
Yow.

xoxoo
shaz & jean-pierre

PS-Please please send us the photos

Wedding Weekend and Location!

We’re getting married! Yow!
Here are some more details for the wedding weekend!

Saturday August 9th
7:00 pm
The day before the wedding! Yow!

Our most awesome friend Cindy Bennett (I love that she's a Bennett, she's definitely one of us!) has offered up her amazing gallery in Chinatown to host a "rehearsal" party for us. We look forward to seeing you then!

Cindy is an extraordinary artist - the gallery shows her work and others!

Cindy's studio is located at:
North Hill●Chinatown
945 North Hill Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

tel: 213.500.7778

Here is a map to the studio:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Los++Angeles&state=CA&address=945+North+Hill+Street

Cindy's gallery is located 2 1/2 blocks West of the Gold Line - Chinatown Metro Stop - if you haven't taken the subway in LA - you gotta try it, it's so great!
If you're driving, park anywhere or she recommends the 1st lot on your right at the bottom of the 110 freeway (N or S) Hill Street/Chinatown exit ramp. Walk one block south on the same side of the street.

Sunday August 10th.
5:00 pm
The day of the wedding! yow!

The wedding and reception will be at the Olympic Collection Banquet Hall.
The location of the hall is in West Los Angeles.

11301 Olympic Blvd. #204, Los Angeles, CA 90064
http://www.ocbanquet.com/

Here is the map link:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Los++Angeles&state=CA&address=11301+Olympic+Blvd.

See you all soon!
xoxxoxoox
Shaz & Jean-Pierre

Thank you to our friends and family!

Thank you first of all to Lluis Caner, Jean-Pierre's father for everything!
Such an amazing gift to both of us in getting the Banquet Hall and all the work in getting the menu together and everything! Thank you!!!

Thank you to Shaz's father John Bennett and her family for helping with everything! Thank you!

Thanks to Naz Arandi and Neelu Made designs for designing our gorgeous wedding invitations!

Thank you Maggie Mackay for the flowers - you rock!

Thanks to Dan Wilcox for DJing and helping put the funk in funky!

Thanks to all our friends and family who have helped pull this all together.

xoox
shaz & jean pierre

Registry and Gifts / Buy a Brick

To our amazing friends and families,

We have decided to forgo the formality of a traditional wedding gift registry.

No gifts are necessary at all but if you want to help us "buy a brick" toward our own home - we'd love you forever, which we already do!

We are so blessed with great friends and family and really have all we need but we would love to have our own home so we can get a dog for Jonah to play with.

You can make a donation through Paypal via the "donate" button (bottom right).

Or our pal Maggie Mackay has offered to accept checks for us:
Shaz & Jean-Pierre house fund c/o Maggie Mackay 1745 Silverlake Blvd. LA, CA 90026

Or to us directly: Shaz & Jean-Pierre 903 1/2 Parkman Ave. LA, CA 90026

We love you.
Shaz & Jean-Pierre

We love kids!

Because a couple of people have asked, kids are welcome at the wedding.
We love kids, especially our friend's kids and our nieces and nephews who almost aren't kids anymore!
But, yes, we love your kids and if ya wanna bring em, it's up to you.

The Wedding Party

This is in reference to the "wedding party" meaning people, not wedding party meaning party! This is a non-traditional wedding as you can imagine given the people getting married but anyone who knows Shaz knows how seriously she takes rituals!

We have invited only our close friends and family to be with us and hope you can come. Since we're not really doing a wedding line per se - it's more of a wedding circle - in that circle along with all our awesome friends and family...

Shaz's one and only sister Heather Bennett is her maid of honor, technically she is married but no one wants to be called a matron. Shaz's bridesmaids (another very strange word) are: The awesome Pam Martin, the amazing Susan Morris, the lovely Maggie Mackay, and Shaz's two oldest (as in years known, not years on earth) friends, the fantastic Eden O'Brien Bennett and the excellent Robin Wilks-Dunn.

Jean-Pierre's good friend Brian "Big Bry" Robinson is his best man, if only out of tradition! Jean-Pierre's groomsmen are: the wonderful Brady "Bird" Crawford, the extraordinary Andrew "boozy" Kuykendall and the ever-talented Matt "Sha-Lo" Shafae.

Our wedding officiant is the oh so very reverent Oliver "Ollie" Stahl who is one of Jean-Pierre's oldest friends and one of Shaz's newest and dearest! Speaking at the wedding ceremony will be Shaz & Jean-Pierre's good friends Derek Call and Susan Morris and Shaz's brother Brandon "Braz" Bennett.

Our flower girls, because why have just one! are our neices - Hannah Hanson, Emma Hanson, Grace Bennett, Emily Bennett, Jill Bennett and Karen Bennett.

Hotels, Lodging, Travel

As you all know, Los Angeles is real spread out! I hope this is helpful and not too much information. Please feel free to call me or Jean-Pierre with any specific questions about locations or plans.

Airports would be either Los Angeles (LAX) or Burbank (BUR).

Everything in LA takes about 30-40 min to drive anywhere on a good day!

Jean-Pierre and I live on the Eastside of LA and we’re getting married on the Westside of LA.

Areas of the city close to the wedding hall: Westwood/Brentwood/Santa Monica/Cheviot Hills/Japantown. We live in Silverlake which is closer to Hollywood/Downtown/Los Feliz.

In trying to cover some hotel housing ideas we wanted to give you a general idea of the city – ideally we want you to stay wherever you are most comfortable but here are a few suggestions!

We love our neighborhood but there aren’t a lot of hotels. There is only a Holiday Inn select that’s really close to our house but not the nicest view, but still nice.

Holiday Inn Express
www.hiexpress.com

This hotel holiday inn express in silverlake is the closest hotel to jean-pierre and i - it's clean and nice and safe but not the nicest location only cuz it's by the freeway but in some ways that's super convenient and very close to us.

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/laxsl?firstpoint=dcb2&EX;jsessionid=R3TMLH0U5UFJ2CTGWA0SIIQKM0YBCIY4&_franchisee=LAXSL&_requestid=212144

Then there's this place where my pal told me her parents stayed - it's pretty close to us - closer than some others and nice and safe and clean - close to a grocery, starbucks, metro and freeways.

http://www.hollywooddowntowner.com/

Vacation House Rentals:

Craig’s List:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/vac/

VRBO:
http://www.vrbo.com/vacation-rentals/usa/california/los-angeles-catalina

Hotel Recommendations on the Eastside:

Hollywood Hills & Magic Castle Hotels - comes with Magic!
7025 Franklin Ave, Los Angeles, CA (323) 851-0800 http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
http://www.magiccastlehotel.com/

Vibe Hotel
5922 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA (323) 469-8600


Best Western Hollywood Hills
6141 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, CA (323) 464-5181
http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=05204

Holiday Inn Hollywood
2005 N. Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA (800) 465-4329
www.HolidayInn.com

Downtown:
Figuero Hotel
http://www.figueroahotel.com/

Hotels on the Westside:
I’m not really that familiar with the Westside… sorry, but if you want to call me I’ll help you find a place over there.

W Hotel in Westwood
Whotels.com/losangeles

Yow!

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