one hundred seventy six

veils:

why are veils so ridiculous looking? Seriously, the only ones that look good to me are the retro netting ones, i think they are called birdcages (see below)

however my problem is that I don't think this will go with my dress. i'll have to mock it up in photoshop but i think i will have to stick with traditional.

Since i am attempting to make my own veil i have been doing some research and have found that there are all these rules that go along with veils. a lady has seriously made a webpage dedicated to how people wear their veils all wrong. for example i have seen a lot of brides that wear their veil under their hair bun. according to this lady that is wrong... who knew!

then the whole length deal. i could get one that was to my shoulders or one that is longer than my dress train. the rule of thumb here is that if your dress has decoration of any kind on the back it should fall above or below it. if the veil ended right in the middle of the back deco then it would be too busy and you would loose the detail. ah

i do know that i do NOT want to look like a snow beast with the veil perched way atop my head like this poor thing:

two hundred fifty four

flower girls and hairstyles. love it.

so from my neice i have been given "guidelines" to the way her dress should be. here is the list
1. It has to be all the way to the floor
2. I really want to twirl in it
3. Can i have dangly earrings?
lol i'm just waiting for more stipulations, and I haven't even heard from gabrielle (jordan's cousin, the second flower girl yet).

three hundred thirty eight

Patience! i need it and it seems some of my dearest friends need a small dose as well...
ha i'm kidding, i am waiting and waiting for my engagement photos from sara. ahhhh! soo very impatient.

slightly off topic but still under the huge umbrella of 'weddingness' i got my bridesmaid dress today for miss Elena's wedding. it is gorgeous and fits pretty darn perfectly, except for it being an inch too tall. easy enough to fix. here is a photo i took with my phone


the shoes are fabulous as well. they match the top of the dress so perfectly kudos to Em for such a fantastic find and for $20 bucks you can't beat that.

the dress is champagne color with the lace overlay on the top. maria, who is the maid of honor is wearing a slightly different dress that is gorgeous. here is my mock up that i did for elena to help her visualize the dresses and her choice of deep red roses. gorgeous!!!!
please ignore the fact that the roses are just floating there since their hands are actually behind them. use your imagination people!

it is less than fourteen days till elena's big one! i can't believe it went by that fast for her. my day seems to be dragging it's feet. yes yes, it will seem like it flew by when it FINALLY gets here but as of this moment in time.... it's taking the long road.

three hundred sixty four

finally! we are officially at the year mark. we have exactly one year left! yes yes yes! i am soo very excited. today is a perfect day, perfect temperature. there were six roses on my rose bush in full beautiful bloom. i missed traffic on my way to work this morning. so far soo good. so i believe september twenty fourths are forever going to be good for me. i really love this wedding process.

another good thing that is happening today is i am picking up my bridesmaid's dresses! ha so they get to sit in a closet for exactly a year.

four hundred fourteen

bridesmaids dresses are done and chosen! again, its super early, but it's done, one less thing to think about and it worked out so perfectly, my cousin bailey came in town and one of my bridesmaids megan was going to leave the following monday for kc. so everyone was in town for this friday.

we met up at the wedding gallery in st. charles which has the largest selection of bridesmaids dresses in the midwest. this is the shop where i got my beautiful and amazing dress (which has been out of my mind, well until now, and is carefully tucked away in my aunts gracious closet for safe keeping for another four hundred plus days) unfortunately my mom was out of town but my two aunts and cousin's grandma were wonderful step-ins. we arrived as soon as it opened and walked into a completely dark building...no power. ha well that didn't stop us! we were completely fine with using the light from the door to see these dresses! we would go to the men's dressing rooms in the front of the dark building, then race up to the door to take a look, quite the experience. after a few minutes of searching and trying in darkness the lights flickered to life and we continued without a hitch.

with four girls to try on dresses we basically took up their entire back room. we had about twenty different dresses that were swapped, switched and tossed between dressing rooms so everyone could try on each dress. i knew i was leaning towards chiffon fabric, and i loved empire waists but we tried on other options as well. however in the end whether from the general consensus or my slight nudges (i say slight nudges, but since we ended up with my original favorite dress i guess there were some definite shoves from me that helped in our "General Consensus") we ended up with a perfect dress. though i might be biased i think it looks wonderful on everyone. its elegant but simple and not over the top 'bridesmaid' ... well you'll have to be the true judge on that.

i won't show you a picture but i will tell you that it is the same color as that jeep in my previous post and it is chiffon fabric. i love it and hope my wonderful, beautiful, talented, amazing girls will like it too.

more wonderful pictures that inspire me daily:

four hundred thirty nine

bridesmaid's dresses. an interesting topic, so many people have so many different opinions on these things. "You have to go long for weddings, its so much more balanced with your long dress" "Don't do a typical bridesmaid's dress, they could never wear it again" "Pick something that everyone will look good in" "Let the bridesmaids choose their own dress, or style from a specific dress" ....

well i'm going to do the easy thing and listen to my fiance, because he apparently has some opinions too and i agree wholeheartedly with his suggestions. strapless, non-taffeta material, empire waisted. he actually picked a dress out that he likes the most. to describe it: empire waist, chiffon material, long, sweetheart strapless and very very gorgeous. as of now only shelby has tried on the dress but i am attempting to set up a time and place for all my girls to give it a try and to try on a few others.