wedding

I have that sort of fine, curly hair that is difficult to control. It simultaneously needs to be encouraged to curl and discouraged to frizz. It gets mixed signals. My plan for Saturday requires letting it air dry into the most perfect natural curls before heading over to the salon for the low bun treatment.…

Our first out-of-towners arrived yesterday! My sister and her boyfriend landed from North Carolina in the afternoon. In a stroke of bad luck, she was in a pretty major car accident yesterday morning before their flight. Luckily, she wasn’t at fault and her car took all the damage. She and the dog escaped with only…

Looking for some inspiration on Flickr and found this sweet, simple courthouse wedding in New York. Aren’t they adorable? From Juli’s photostream.

A caution to other brides-to-be. As well as you plan and as strictly you budget, the last few weeks of wedding countdown are going to be expensive. Consider it “closing costs” on your marriage! With more guests than expected, our catering agreement is up by a grand. Costco doesn’t carry polariod film anymore so we’re…

Over the past few years, I’ve received so may questions about what to wear to weddings. And over the past few weeks, I’ve had even more from our wedding guests. So let’s do this thing! Here’s my opinion on what to wear to every sort of wedding: Brunch wedding – This includes lunch weddings too.…

The escort cards came out well! The little envelopes from PaperSource are pretty darling. Although, if you’re planning to use them you should know that they don’t lay flat when stuffed with the business card sized paper and left unsealed. You’ll either have to seal them (tricky to get them open again) or get stickers.…

When going through my floral order for next week, I went on a bit of a Clematis tangent. These vine flowers are going to be a party of my bouquet along with garden roses and jasmine. They’re so gorgeous and so very “bridal.” Martha has a bouquet design that’s all clematis and would be perfect…

Another one of my favorite registry items arrived last night. This 9″ pewter basket is from Match (browse around their site for a bit, they have some great photos.) It’s a lovely, simple thing that I can see using for decades to come. The gift was from “anonymous,” which I think will turn out to…

One more great gift from the blogosphere. Last week, Sherri emailed me with the fun offer of a free hairpiece: “I happen to have a vintage, 1950s style (I don’t know the actual period– ebay!) hairpiece that you might want for your second dress. It is a velvet teal headband approx. 2” wide, that cuffs…

Another very special gift from the internet came from Chelsea, one of my all-time favorite bloggers. In June, she was sorting through the past and sent me an email: “I am going through old family photos for a couple of projects and I came across this one of my great-aunt and her then fiance. It’s…