Playing Dress Up

Growing up Ellen and I used to try on my mom's wedding dress every year. Here I am modeling it one year outside our house on West A.

Since mom and dad moved, mama has the dress at her house. We all know I couldn't fit into it today, but she sent me the veil. It's so pretty. I hope I will be as beautiful as mom was on her wedding day. :) And that I have a little girl some day that can put my dress on year after year.

Sylas & Maddie's

Chewie LOVES ice cream. Friday night we got Sylas & Maddie's and Steve insisted we get Chewie a mini cup. I wish there was a way to have Sylas & Maddie's at the reception. I wish we could have Chewie there also. :)

Waiting patiently for his treat....

Eating it up.....

Fabric Swatch

The bridesmaids dresses are going to be aubergine, which sometimes looks maroon(like the yarn I bought) and sometimes looks more purple. So before I go choosing other purple items, I wanted to make sure they matched up. Last week I ordered a swatch of the dress fabric and it came this weekend. I love the color and I think its going to look good on everyone. Just to make sure, I created this....

Bridal Show

Last Sunday Lauren invited me to go along with her and her mom to a bridal show in Overland Park. It was a lot of fun. Most of the people there were vendors for the Kansas City area, but I got a few good ideas. I also was able to check out places to look at invitations. I was inspired to try to do them myself, but I have rethought that. I don't know if I want to spend the man work on them. We will see though.

Shoes!

I forgot to mention a few weeks ago I saw these cute shoes at Marshall's. They only had my size in red though, but I was able to go to another store and find them in this off-white color. I think they may work with some of the dresses I liked, if not they were only $15. They are pretty comfortable and they only have a small heel, just like I would want. I plan on taking them when I try on dresses again in December.

Pom Poms

I saw this is idea and fell in love with it. I think it could look really cool.
Instead of guests blowing bubbles or throwing rice(which I don't think anyone does anymore), you have them throw pom poms. I picked up two skeins of yarn yesterday and started making some pom poms. I have also enlisted mama to help me work on them. The yarn I got is ivory and aubergine, but I think it looks a little more maroon than I thought it did in the store. 14 down, a couple hundred to go. :)

Photographer

I made an appointment to meet with a photographer on Nov 1, when we are in St. Louis for Becky and Steve's wedding. Her name is Patti Gabriel. Cathy, at NEO, referred her to us. She has a great knowledge of photography. I also had my dad look her site, he seems to know a thing or two about photography :) I liked a lot of the work she has up on her site. I'm looking forward to this meeting a lot.
Check out her site
http://www.pattigabriel.com/

If we can get a good guest list together soon I think I am going to try to make an appointment with a caterer for that Saturday. I also scheduled a day in December to look at dresses again with Ellen, mom and if she can come SL.