DIY: Bunting 101! - Project Wedding

DIY: Bunting 101! - Project Wedding

I think I may do this! Depends on the venue, but wouldn't it be cute to do alternating black and white ones with all the color from the candy shop and soda bar?

time to "chuck" the heels?

Okay, so in my post about my wedding dresses, I show a picture where a bride wore Converse All-Stars with her dress. Ever since then I've been dreaming of a way to NOT kill my feet. Not to mention, our venue will likely be outdoors with grass and uneven ground. Have you ever tried walking on a lawn with stilettos?

I just can't get the idea of being able to wear comfortable shoes to my wedding. After all, a wedding dress is long, no one sees your shoes anyway, and my dress will be stiff and unmoving enough.

So I went to converse.com where guess what? You can design your own chucks and even add a personalization tag on the shoes!

Here's my shoe (though I may do a different color for the inner part):

Look on the heel stripe! It says "Oct 10" on it. How cool is that??

I've been researching brides who wear chucks on the internet and I do want to clarify, I'm not wanting to wear them to be "different" or cool or stylish or "hip" and edgy (though they are cute) or any other "offbeat brides" type of term. I'm doing it strictly in the name of comfort. I'm going to be 23 when I get married, I think I'll have live long enough to be allowed to put comfort before fashion! Not to mention, I don't think Calvin will care either way, which is what I love about him!

I have reservations about the type of invitation to use

I'm just not sure what kind of invitation I want to send out yet.

Since our wedding isn't til October, we both came up with the idea to send out Save the Date cards (it was weird, we both suggested it at about the same time), which I think I'll do in a postcard format, but I'm torn on the invitation style.

I could do a fun, different and colorful one:

or a really elegant, classy one:

but either way I think I'm going to end up making them because a) it's fun; b) invitations are expensive!; and c) I can control the weight of the paper so it's cheaper to send in the mail.

Here's a really cute DIY idea that I may modify a bit and do:

http://www.projectwedding.com/wiki/show/diy-pocketfold-invitation

Hair Styling can be a tangled subject

I'm hoping my hair will be nice and long by next October. I wasn't sure at first how I wanted to style it for the wedding but I got a lot of ideas from ProjectWedding.com (my new favorite website) and am going to do my hair pulled away from my face, but super curly and worn loose in the back. I want to put either a few small flowers or some pearls and rhinestones in it or a really nice comb or something. I don't think I want a tiara...yet

oh and here are ideas for hair accessories. I love the pin, and the headband may be too ivory, but I do love it! It's from mark, a boutique company of Avon, which I sell, so the headband would only cost me like $10 or so.

Any other ideas? I'm not sure how the bridesmaid styles are going to be, I may leave that up to them and provide matching clips or something, that would be cute.

Bridesmaid dresses are the icing on the cake

Okay, I'm working on the type of bridesmaid dress I want. I actually want my bridesmaids to be able to wear them after (cliche I know, but I actually mean it), so I don't want any stiff "formal" fabric, nor do I think they need to wear long, floor-length dresses! My favorite fabric types are french satin or chiffon. Here are my two favorite dresses. I'm still not sure on the color yet, so don't ask! If the wedding turns out to be more colorful/nostalgic candy shop/Mad Hatter type, I may have each bridesmaid pick a different, bright color. Or I may have them all in silver or black to ground things a bit. Who knows.

These are both from Eden Bridal for about a hundred bucks a pop, not too bad!

(the link to this dress to see available colors is: http://www.edenbridals.com/7172-p-1108.html)

(link: http://www.edenbridals.com/7245-p-1492.html)

Honestly, if you were a bridesmaid, would you see yourself maybe wearing this later on, like to a dinner or to church or something? Should I keep looking? Does anyone prefer the formal fabrics?

DIY: An Old Fashioned Soda Bar - Project Wedding

DIY: An Old Fashioned Soda Bar - Project Wedding

Click on the link above!

(this is what I am planning on doing for the wedding, since neither of us drink, nor do we want to buy alcohol for a bunch of freeloaders when we're not even going to enjoy it, haha)

Any special soda requests?

Most dresses come from a store...this one came from heaven..

My dream wedding dress:

(Maloman Photography)

This is a picture of my FAVORITE dress ever, it's the Rasharna dress from Maggie Sottero. Problem is, the place in Spokane that carries the most Maggie Sottero dresses, Celestial Selections in the valley, can't get it in for me to try on before ordering it. It's a beautiful dress but a $1259 risk if I were to order it and it didn't look good on me. So I'm going to try on more Sottero dresses over Christmas break when Rachell's in town (and whoever else is in spokane!)

Here's the link to the dress on the website, with details and stuff, only it's shown in blush, not white/white like the one above that I want. It's so beautiful though:

http://www.maggiesottero.com/dress.aspx?keywordText=rasharna&keywordType=any&page=0&pageSize=15&style=A3131

Oh, and the same bride in the picture above (Kristel) also wore pure white chucks with her dress, and they look so comfortable I'm having a hard time imagining my poor feet in heels all day. I may have to find some white chucks for the wedding day!

so that's my dream dress (and it has polka dots on it!!) but really, there's so many beautiful dresses, I'll be fine with whatever I can find under like $300 or so.