Constant

So, I mentioned before that I have been very inspired by movies lately. I feel like I am constantly observing things around me in terms of the wedding, and movies provide a lot of inspiration. Today I have a few pictures from one of the movies I've watched recently: 27 Dresses. I know that's not a huge shock that it has inspired my wedding, considering it is about weddings, but it was really the everyday clothes that I loved, with one exception which I will save until the end.

First- The character of Tess This is her outfit and hair and makeup from her rehearsal dinner. I love love her hair here, it is loose, carefree, and yet still sophisticated. And her makeup is so natural looking. I actually loved most of what Tess wore throughout the movie.

Next is Jane (Katherine Heigl's) outfit from the rehearsal dinner.
It's kind of hard to see, but I love the shape and color of it. I would love this on my bridemaids if we choose brown. I love the belt- nummy. And her hair is very vintage, which I think is fantastic.

Last but not least, I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Tess' wedding dress that she is supposed to wear, which has been made out of their mother's wedding dress.
Omg, how droolworthy is this dress? Simple, clean, flattering- everything I want. It has some lace on it, and a dramatic back, but it isn't too over the top. Plus, I found out, it has pockets!

It is, as I found on the blog titled Bondville "I hunted down the source, and it is the Reese dress from Amsale's Spring 2008 collection. Description: Silk Faille. Faille A-line gown with low sweetheart neckline and crystal beaded inset. Ruched detail at waistline and tulip skirt with sweep train."

::swoon::

Love love love!

The new application that I found and downloaded makes me giggle and want to include it in every aspect of the wedding process... http://www.poladroid.net/ The polaroid project! Download the application, drag and drop your photos and wait while the polaroid camera turns it into a polaroid picture. You can even shake the photo to make it go faster. Then voila! A polaroid picture without having to buy a polaroid camera!


It makes me wonder about all the ways that I can use this for the wedding. Save the dates? Table numbers? Thank you cards? There are so many options!

First attempt

Holy cow! I have FINALLY, after all these years of trying, have figured out how to install new fonts onto my computer! Yes!!! That will give me the option of being able to design stuff on my computer for the wedding. So this is my first attempt... what do you think?

Mea culpa

I know I have been bad about updating this blog, but I have been so busy! Well, I have a few updates. First of all, I got to see my partner in crime, Mandie, IN PERSON, for lunch today!!! Very exciting, indeed.

Secondly, in my typical pattern, indecisiveness has set in. I am no longer committed to the dress that I found a few months ago. With such a long engagement, it's hard to settle on anything "for sure" these days! In any case, I am keeping my eyes peeled for something unique, casual, and fun. Oy, one thing is definite: I think I am shelving David's Bridal for awhile (indefinitely?). I think that most of the dresses are just so awful in those stores that you end up "falling in love" with the one that is the least garish of the bunch. I know I've been guilty of this on more than one occasion! DB's redeeming quality is their Dress Your Wedding function, in which you can make your entire wedding party resemble tan Barbie dolls. But seriously, it is kind of fun to play around with the options, as limited as they are. After spending some time dressing my wedding, I decided to abandon strict colors in favor of a much broader pallet, and refuse the WIC's conspiracy to sell uniforms for the wedding party.

One of my friends is getting married this April at The Chrysalis, in Bellingham. This venue is absolutely beautiful, and I am looking forward to seeing a real life wedding in there. She's DIYing a lot of things, and while I am slacking off on my own wedding planning, it is fun being involved with her extravaganza!

My wedding is floating out in 2010 somewhere, but I am really enjoying my engagement. I am half-way through my M. Ed. at the end of this month, and my other half is graduating with his in June. I am proud of both of us. If we can survive this, can we survive planning a wedding? Only time will tell!

dream dress

I'm so jealous that Anna has found her dress!! I haven't really gone out looking, but I have to admit that I'm a little uninspired to do so based on the dresses I'm seeing for sale online, or on tv, and in real weddings. I'm a plain kind of girl, I don't like excessive beading, or really beading of any kind. I'm not a fan of embroidery, or many many shapes of dresses. I felt overwhelmed and uninspired, two feelings that aren't the best together. Then I found this cool website http://weddings.ivillage.com/ where you can "build your dream dress". It gives you a drawn person who you can change the shape of to look more like you, and then many different bodices, skirts, ribbons, veils etc etc etc so I designed a couple of came to some conclusions.

Sweetheart neckline with a dropped waist ball gown skirt and chocolate bow

Sweetheart neckline, with a dropped waist ball gown skirt and big bow

Sweetheart neckline with gathered skirt

Sweetheart neckline, ball gown skirt with box pleats

Conclusions: I love a sweetheart neckline. I think it is simple, beautiful, and will be extremely flattering to my ta-tas. So I'm going to have to search hard for it because I haven't seen a lot of these around. I really like the drop skirt, but I'm not sure how flattering it would be on my hips, but you never know until you try. I do know that I like how the gathered skirt looks on me.

I mean, I have plenty of time to find my dress so I just need to keep my eye out for exactly what I want, but hopefully that will be easier now.

Go play on this website, much fun!

Blue skies shining on me

Sometimes I make myself think of that song when we are having the weather we're having... flood warnings on the horizon.

I have a new problem. Something I do that I know I shouldn't do, yet continue to do anyway. I fall in love with photographers. Like head-first, sigh-invoking, undying adoration. Poor F, still first in my life, but it's a close tie. Now, more than just the obvious problem with this (love with inanimate, online objects isn't enough?), the problem is that I fall in love with them before I check the price tags. F and I are doing things on a budget because we are probably financing most, if not all, of the wedding on our own. Actually, I'm thinking less than budget, we're doing things on the cheap. Unfortunately I have a certain level of class and elegance that I want on the cheap. So where does that leave us with photography? It is an expensive reminder of an important day and it is something I can't part with. Some brides go with the informal route by relying only on photos taken by friends and family, but I can't. I want that wide-skied, enlarged on canvas shot that makes F and I look amazing.

So what are my other options? Young photographer looking for new business is also an option, but due to our long engagement I can't start looking for them quite yet, but I want to get this nailed down.

Splurge more on photography than I planned is another option. But I want good photography for a good price, I just can't see myself spending $4000 on photography!

Oh, and the way I judge good photography? If they include a photo on their blog that is black and white, with something (usually roses) in color, I immediately close the web page.

Sigh.

Miss Penny Lane

I have been obsessed with movies lately. I don't know if it's the cold that is making me want to hibernate with a movie on (with snow starting to fall again!), or what. I've been drawing a lot of inspiration for the wedding from movies... some make sense and some are more random. I'm trying to get some really good shots, but I'm still collecting them so I'll make that my next post. Look forward to Mamma Mia, 27 Dresses among others.

Welcome to the new year! It is going to be a year of significant changes for me. Graduating from college and trying to find a job, applying for grad school, planning a wedding, moving out and moving in, finding time for creative endeavors and physical ones too. I've made a list of sorts; a list of goals- not resolutions- but goals. I haven't made resolutions in years, I consider those something that are made to be broken since they are never considered in exactly a positive light. For immediate goals in terms of wedding planning are finding a venue and setting a date. Also I want to sit down with F and prioritize where finances need to be spent.

Speaking of F, I need a little vent session. One of my biggest pet peeves since becoming engaged is having people 'remind' me to call F "fiance". F and I will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary this month (!!!) and for the majority of this relationship my main nickname for him has been "boyfriend" or I shorten it to "BF", and in turn he calls me "girlfriend". So as you can imagine, it gets a little tiring when I refer to something "my boyfriend did" and people laughingly say "not boyfriend" or "you mean, fiance?". Technically, I guess yes I do mean that, but I assume if you are a friend or family member, you are aware of this nickname I have for him. And when I say I don't really like the label "fiance" I get bizarre looks. That term is just not us. Irritation ensues.

In other news, I have found a new beautiful, if not dangerous, website. Beautiful because of the amazing vintage creations, dangerous because of the price tags. Trashy Diva creations.

Love the print on this one!

Beautiful top, with the puckering

I love this coloring on this one, and it is on sale!

I think I'm drooling.