Wedding vision?

Trying to come up with a theme has been somewhat stressful for me. I about had a panic attack when I got an e-mail from a vendor saying that they would love to talk to me more about my 'wedding vision.' Although Ronnie and I love each other very much, I think it would be pretty fair to say that most of our major passions are pretty different! We are a pretty good example of left brain/right brain in my opinion. My first thought, considering our venue, was a vintage themed wedding but honestly it was a pretty vague thought and I was having a hard time pulling together ideas. My second thought was a Disney theme. We both love the place, and it would be easy to come up with a cake topper, favors and even some music. I haven't completely given up on this idea, but today I thought of something else:

Tea Party!

Ronnie loves his tea, and I like the idea because it is somewhat Alice in Wonderlandish. Here are some of my inspiration pictures.


Color palate:

Our wedding colors are the blue and the yellow so we could lean pretty heavily on those, but I like the idea of the pastels for some accent colors.


Centerpieces:
I love the layout of this table. (via Brandon Kidd Photography) but we could do fun centerpieces made from teapots instead of vases:



Ebay has some really cheap yet cute teapots, and since we will be inviting a lot of women (lets face it, my mom and dad both have a lot of sisters!) I think it would be pretty easy to get people to take the centerpieces with them.

Favors:

I really would LOVE to do something like this. Tea bags with tea cookies! It's a project from the Martha Stewart website and they have direction for all of it! Sadly we can't have food for favors so this is pretty much so a no go. I guess I could e-mail them and double check but it pretty much so bursts that bubble. Maybe teabags and the recipe...
I did come across a tutorial on hand sewn teabags. That is another idea that could work!

I finished my stockings

Front

Back


Side

I'm happy to report that I've finally finished knitting up my stockings. There was quite a few times when I wanted to tear these things apart and quit working on them, but I finished them a few days ago and I really love them.

The problem is, they don't match my dress. I knew before I bought my wedding dress that I didn't want a stark white dress. I purchased the yarn and started knitting these prior to getting my dress. I ordered my dress in an ivory, but it's so close to a white that I can't really tell the difference. It's hard to tell in the pictures (I'm guessing because of the lighting) but the yarn is a natural color so when I put them on with my dress they look very yellow. Plus my shoes are peep toes and I don't really want to wear stockings with them. I don't think I'll delegate these to the back of the closet just yet though because they are just so pretty, they will just have to be non-wedding stockings.

To first look, or to not first look

(source: Daria Bishop Photography)

From my understanding, doing a 'first look' is a rather new photography trend. To be honest, I probably would have no idea what it was if I didn't read so many wedding communities/magazines. Basically you just see your significant other prior to the ceremony to get some bridal portraits before the wedding. I probably wouldn't care about this trend except one of our planning ladies told me that we could have pictures inside the museum if we see each other before the ceremony while the museum is still open. Why do I care about having pictures in the museum? I absolutely love the hallways in the museum, and of course I've seen so many beautiful pictures under the DC-3.

(Source: Zoom Haus Galerie)


(Source: Mod 4)

Ronnie's official stance is 'maybe.' At first he said no, but I think I'm warming him up to the idea. I still have 300 some days to work on him so we shall see.

In other news, remember how I said I had mailed out all of my will you be my bridesmaid cards? Well, one of them came back to me, about a month after I sent it. I guess my attempt at calligraphy wasn't so great, so I just used my sloppy ole handwriting and mailed Jessica's card out again. Hopefully it makes it to her safely this time!

Infinity Dress

I've been looking at lots of DIY projects lately and I just stumbled on this tutorial on how to make the infinity dress . It's too bad I'm not very good at sewing because I would have loved to make these for my bridesmaids.

And for fun here are some pictures of other brides who have used this tutorial to make the dress for their bridesmaids:

From here and here.



Reversible dresses from here

A post about hair

One of the number one things I get asked about when I tell people I'm getting married is how I'm going to wear my hair. Admittedly I think about it quite a bit myself. It's probably one of the biggest folders of inspiration pictures that I have on my computer, so I guess it's about time I make a post about it.

I've always thought that I would wear my hair down on my wedding day, and in fact I must have told Ronnie one time that it was the only reason why I was growing it out because he teases me about it sometimes. The ugly truth about that my hair is that it is very fine which basically means if the wind blows too hard I have a giant knot of hair at the nape of my neck that has me crying with frustration trying to brush it out. I suppose having it down is possible, but I wouldn't do it without some kind of extensions to make it more thick and since extensions seem to be pretty highly priced they're pretty much so out of the question.

My second thought was for some kind of wavy up-do:
but again, I think my hair is too fine for these styles, as cute as they might be.

What I'm liking the most right now are vintage-ish hairstyles.

And I've got to admit, I just love this:

My only concern is that there isn't very many people who seem to specialize in vintage hairstyling in the metro Detroit area. Or if there are a bunch of people, I'm having a really hard time finding them via google! If anyone knows of anyone please kindly point me in their direction!

Engagement at the Magic Kingdom

(I know, I know. We look like dorks but our little 'second engagement' was totally unexpected. )

Saturday the 26th of last month was a really hot day so Ronnie and I decided to take a slow day browsing around the Magic Kingdom. Our plan was to go through all of the shops on Main Street, and then go and ride some of the dark rides that were indoors. As we were looking around the stores, I stopped at the Jewelry counter in Uptown Jewelers. I've been looking for a unique necklace to wear with my gown, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to browse. As I was leaning over taking a closer look at something, one of the Main Street characters came over and saw my 'Just Engaged' button. Yes, I made Ronnie wear them :D. She started teasing me saying that my ring was so big that I shouldn't need any more jewelry. After we had a short chat, I spotted Ronnie trying to look inconspicuous by browsing things about 100 feet away. I brought her over to him and she asked us where we were from and then announced really loud in the store who we were, where we were from and that we were just engaged and then made everyone clap for us. Then she brought us outside to look for a photographer. When we got outside, she said to Ronnie, "How did you propose?" When he started telling her the story, she said "No no! You have to get down on one knee!" So we reenacted our whole proposal in front of the castle with one of the photographers taking our picture. It even included me getting all teary eyed! It was a lovely surprise to our vacation. I think Ronnie was pretty embarrassed (people were saying things like "Oh my god! he's proposing right there! Right now!) but in the end said he was happy about it, and that I should be pleased because I got my 'Disney World proposal.'

Here is 2 pictures of us and the lady from the Magic Kingdom. If anyone knows what her name is please let me know! I've googled like crazy and I just can't find it. I'd like to write a letter to Disney and it would be nice to thank her personally.

We got a nice little 'just engaged' certificate from someone in the American Adventure over in EPCOT too, but I'm not motivated enough today to scan it. Perhaps later this week.