{Me & my Maid of Honor, Katierose}

One of the best pieces of advice my mom gave me when I first started dating: Don’t ditch your friends when you land a boyfriend. They’ll be the ones picking up the pieces when you break up.

I don’t plan on ever breaking up again, but I think this advice applies more than ever when you get engaged; it’s so easy to get caught up in the melodramatic, panic-inducing decisions of which tablecloth to pick for your reception, or whether to serve mini lobster rolls or lobster corn dogs during cocktail hour, or have repeated nightmares about where your guests will park, that you forget to pick up the phone and see what (actually important) things are happening in the lives of your girlfriends. Especially when you’ve placed them in the indentured servitude of being in your bridal party.

I think the new advice would be: Don’t ditch your friends when you land a fiancé. They’ll be the ones listening to you cry about what your neck looked like in that one engagement photo, and you don’t want them to hate the crazed shell of a human you’ve become by the time this godforsaken party is over.

So, this weekend I got some much needed girl-time in with the platonic love of my life and my Maid of Honor, Katierose. (Maybe you remember her from our Ojai wedding location-scouting trip?)

Saturday night, we went to a Cinespia screening of There’s Something About Mary at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. If you live in L.A., these screenings are a must; if you don’t, they’re almost worth flying out for, they’re so fun. There’s a beautiful cemetery in the middle of Hollywood and in the summer, they screen movies every weekend. The gates open a few hours early and a DJ spins until the sun goes down and the movie starts, so you show up early with a picnic and wine, and gossip and people-watch. It’s right next to Paramount Pictures, so you have beautiful views of the Hollywood Hills, the Griffith Observatory and the dozens of palm trees surrounding the cemetery. It’s one of the things I love most about living in this city.

{Cinespia @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery}

Our love loves of our lives were performing in the summer Groundlings show, giving us the perfect opportunity for a girl’s night. Katierose packed a suitcase full of pillows, blankets and pajama bottoms because she is a problem-solving genius, and I packed two containers full of cupcakes left over from our engagement party because I am food-obsessed. We broke out our pizza in line, and ended up talking for so long after the movie, we were politely asked to leave. It was the best night.

{Our grub stash}

And Katierose is such a good friend, she let me spend most of the night venting about the latest drama with our wedding location. And eat most of the cupcakes. (Not sure if that last one was so much that she let me, as it was I ate them before she could get to them.) I am the luckiest, to have girls like her in my life and bridal party.

{Kro, rocking a dress, pajama bottoms and blanket drapery… She pulls off this look better than the Olsen twins}