Kyle Hepp

June 14, 2010

May I present to you the lovely Angelica in The W Hotel? Enjoy

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May 4, 2010

I hadn’t known peace until I’d floated silently down a tributary of the Amazon watching a rainbow form.

I hadn’t known curiosity until I met groups of people living on the edge of the jungle, sleeping in the open air, treating themselves with their own medicine, wearing no shoes, but t-shirts with English slogans.

I hadn’t known the power of Mother Nature until I felt a torrential Amazonian downpour coming down so strong I couldn’t even see two inches in front of my face.

And I hadn’t known pain until I got the world’s most painful stomach ache and thought I was going to poop my pants at the start of a 4 hour boat ride, when our motor broke down in said torrential downpour. FYI, there are no outhouses in the Amazon!

Like I said, our trip the Peruvian Amazon was out of this world incredible. I am already planning on saving my pennies or trying to figure out another way to win a contest and go free again! The whole experience was absolutely beyond anything I could have ever imagined.

I really didn’t have any expectations going in. Anyone who knows me…has traveled with me has met me for more than five minutes has probably realized that planning isn’t my strong point. Seba and I were the weones who showed up to the jungle with no safari hat, who packed tennis shoes, not hiking books, the ones who brought regular off instead of the hardcore stuff with deet bugspray, and the ones who brought no cash on board (with which to tip the crew, buy drinks, buy artesenia from one of the villages we visited) And really, we were lucky this was a luxury boat. We slept in gorgeous cabins with an Amazon-front view, and air conditioning — not mosquito nets. So ridiculously lucky, actually.

I’m running out the door to the airport now to leave for the U.S. (15 minute countdown!) and I still haven’t had a chance to look through all the photos and videos we took. I swear, I’ll really do a full blog post as soon as we get back. For now, here’s another HOLY CRAP I’M IN THE AMAZON picture. Yeah. Pretty sure my face looked like that the entire trip. Also pretty sure that’s Seba’s HOLY CRAP I’M IN THE AMAZON AND MY WIFE IS RIDICULOUS face.

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November 20, 2009

Thank you so much to everyone who came out last night for our first annual cocktail. We held a little event to celebrate our first official year in business and the turnout was wonderful. I SO appreciated the presents of many of our past and present brides and grooms!

Cupcakes: Cupcake Mania

Venue: Akarana‘s Tapas Bar

Flowers: Seba’s mom (all bought from the Terminal de Flores, more on that below).

I asked Geraldine to make the cupcakes in our official colors, red and purple. They looked spectacular and tasted even better!

More on the Terminal de Flores — this is most of the florists in Santiago buy their flowers. We went to a florist who quoted us 35,000 pesos for ONE arrangement. We bought enough flowers for like 4 big arrangements, multiple small arrangements and bouquets and even the glass bowls and vases for about 40,000 total. The price difference is ridiculous. The red daisies were selling for 1,000 a piece in Recoleta, and at the Terminal de Flores went for 10 of them for 2,000 pesos. To get there — saliendo al norte de Santiago, take the Quilicura exit, address is Av. Presidente Eduardo Frei 1651.

And the best part of the night was the company. We get along so well with all our clients that I always assumed they would all get along with each other if for reason they ever met. And they did. Everyone was totally sociable and we had such a great night!

Thanks again to everyone who came, and to those who couldn’t make it — you were there in spirit!

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