Wedding Ideas are Flowing!

So I picked up my Volume IV of Southern Wedding Magazine at Target this past week and I was delighted to see that they captured exactly what I had in mind for my wedding. After reading I have come up with many new ideas that I'll have to talk to my wedding planner about...sorry Tara! Here some are...
1. All drinks and passed food passed on silver platters during cocktail hour
2. Add mini fried green tomatoes and crab cakes with a dollop of remalaude to cocktail foods.
3. serve the mint juleps in silver cups and the other cocktail drinks served in mason jars
4. wrap my bouquet in my old bonnet that my mother turned into a handkerchief as my something old
5. hang wooden monograms on church doors

Here are some more photos that are inspiring my wedding...

Reception Dress

I have decided to pick out a second dress for the reception after I do all the traditional wedding things (first dance, cake cutting, bouquet toss, etc). I chose something a little less traditional by Sue Wong. I saw her dresses on the red carpet and completely fell in love. I picked out a shorter style lace dress that's reminiscent of France in the 1920's. So fun!

I can't believe that is almost 6 months I'll be a married woman. People keep telling me how fast the time will fly by, but it seems so slow to me! May 5th hurry up!

Bridal Photos!

Well my bridal photos are in and I am VERY please with how they turned out! Since I wanted them to have an "artsy" feel, we did a lot of my photos on location in a broken down building and then some outside with an infrared film. They turned out very "high fashion" in my opinion. I did of course do the traditional in studio shoot for the oil painting too. I wish I could show everyone these photos, but sadly I must wait 8 more months before I can post them.

Note: photo above is an example of infrared photography by my photographer Tom Wood. This is another bride from a few years ago, but this is the same type of feel I was wanting to capture with my bridals.

Wedding Fitting Numero Dos

Today I had my second fitting for my wedding dress for my bridal portraits in 3 days. Last time I went for a fitting it had it to be taken in a little bit, and it was already tight then! I definitely know how antebellum women feel in those girdles! I can barely breath and the alteration lady wants it tighter still. Well of course I went in today and once again it is getting taken in, Ugh!

Also I decided to make a change in my dress. It is a strapless gown, but I really wanted sleeves after seeing Kate Middleton's and Ivanka Trump's wedding dresses. After long deliberation I have decided to contact Vera Wang for a lace and tulle addition to my gown. I am getting it so the fabric is just like Ivanka Trumps lace, but it will be open in the front with shorter cap sleeves.


Should I get a second dress for my reception? My wedding gown is really really big and I'm worried I will die of exhaustion from carrying it around for hours. I bought one today as a second wedding dress, but I am thinking of just using at my rehearsal dinner dress. Can't decide.

Better Late Than Never!

Yikes! I have been so busy with my new life down in Louisiana that I have completely forgotten about updating our blog. Not much has happened wedding wise; we've spent the past month hopping around between Dallas, Shreveport, New Orleans, and Mexico (vacationing and Will's work). We did receive my wedding ring and our engagement photos are up online. My bridal portraits are in less than two weeks and I'm spending most of my time stressing about whether or not I will fit into my wedding gown and if it will be raining

But, please enjoy nonetheless!

All by Tom Wood Photography

Hair trial (third and final)

I finally found who will be doing my hair for my bridal portraits and wedding day! She did an awesome job today and I absolutely loved it!

It's been a long 6 months, but I finally got to try on my dress!

Note: DRESS ABOVE IS NOT MY DRESS! That will be a secret until my wedding day!

I went on my first dress fitting today at Nitsa's Apparel and was so happy to find out that I still fit into my dress!!! Yay! I had nightmares that it was going to be too small and not zip up. But, after I saw my dress all my worry went away. It was even more beautiful than I remembered and it fit like a glove. I only needed to get it hemmed about a quarter inch and bustled. It was definitely was a lot bigger dress than I remembered from the trunk show. There is no doubt it is a ballgown if there ever was one. When I took it off it stood up on its own and looked like a ghost was in it! I really felt like Kate Hudson in Bride Wars or Lady Di in it with my double layered cathedral length veil.
I also went with my two maid's of honor for them to get measured for their dresses a Jcrew. I am so happy with the dress I chose for them. It is beautiful on, and if very figure flattering. I also stopped by Vineyard Vines today and bought an adorable dress for my engagement photos on Saturday. I've been looking forever for a casual navy dress and they had just the right one.