First off I'd like to say that I don't like Las Vegas. Been there once & that was enough. Rampant materialism & excess don't thrill me. Casinos are fun for about 5 seconds. And I'm the kind of girl who's idea of dressing up is wearing a little lipstick. I don't paint my nails nor flash gobs of shiny bling. So then how did I wind up featured in the latest issue of Luxury Las Vegas magazine? Well I'll tell ya...see it all started in 2005 when I was about to get married to my fiance Daniel. Since our ceremony was to be outdoors, in a park, in summer, in Virginia, I wanted a nice sun hat. So I set about searching for a hat that would match my dress and that's how I found Maggie Mae Designs. Sally, owner of Maggie Mae, made custom hats & had even made a couple for brides, so over the course of several months Sally & I worked together; her sending me swatches, me yay or naying them, going over details of the design, etc. Fast forward to early 2008. I was contacted by a writer doing an article on Maggie Mae Design, about how modern brides are increasingly choosing hats over the traditional veil. She interviewed me about my experience working with Sally. (In the resulting article, the writer takes some of my words & bloviates them to sound more snooty. Cringe.) Anyway, that's how a mild-mannered, unassuming, bespectacled, guitar-pickin', tree-huggin' kind of gal wound up in the July '08 issue of Luxury Las Vegas magazine. And I can hear you out there in the gallery tut-tutting, shaking your heads, saying "you can take the girl out of the OC, but you can't take the OC out of the girl." No! It's not true!! Must...take...long...shower....clean....I must...get...clean...