My Bloggy Gal Pal is Featured!

Good evening, everyone! Hope you're happy and shiny now that we're almost (or at!!!) home!
Just wanted to share a slice of happy from earlier today: my friend from Creighton, Kamie, is featured along with her new hubby Danny on Nebraska Wedding Day!

Go see and comment on her pink and gray cuteness and princess amazingness! Also visit Kamie on her personal and wedding blog here!

Real Wedding : Love You More, Love You Better

I am SO pleased and proud to present to you, one of my very-best bloggy gal-pals Kim at Party Frosting! has married her love D and has been married for 8 days today! She and D celebrated their nuptuals October 30. It was a rustic, orange, and wine themed celebration of love!

Kim and D did things their own way which I am a huge fan of! They DIY'd the stuff out of their wedding and also did these things their own way:

• The wedding was in their lovely wood-accented home.
• Kim held her daddy's hand and her dress instead of a bouquet.
• Kim went barefoot at the last minute! BOO YAW!
• No attendants; just surrounded by people they love and who love them.
• They had their favorite cake instead of a big fancy wedding cake.
• They had a wine tasting class instead of a first dance.
• They had a wine ceremony instead of a candle unity ceremony. WOOT!

Congratulations to Kim and D!
Read all about her wedding planning journey here and visit her Party Planning prowess blog here!

Vintage Dress Snack of My Own!

OMG is it Friday yet?!

So last week on Offbeat Bride there was a post about a gal name Miranda's parents' wedding. I usually read these and just wish for a scanner of my own so I could share Shawn's Grandparents' wedding photos or my parents' but this time when I read the post I had a mini-coronary.
The vintage dress on the vintage bride: IS MY SECOND DRESS!

Remember my second wedding dress that I found in that thrift store? I wore it before the wedding and then the day after, too. And it is definitely the same dress!

Here's some day-of wedding shots showing it after I altered it!

I think I want to wear this dress again. How would you style it for a dressy occasion without looking too much like a hippie bride?

Real Bride. Real Cool.

  

For my first ever Real Bride feature I will be sharing a delight of a gal who is currently less than 2 weeks away from gettin' hitched (9-10-11)! Her and her partner are crafting a fabric-pennant-banner-fabric-flower-red-barn-salt&pepper shaker-escort-card wedding of amazing cuteness. And it's mostly found at Mighty Market, a kind of handmade swap meet shop. I first found her on a blog I no longer read where we both lost a photography giveaway! Her name is Emily Pauline Fanny Dart-McLean and she has the best/funniest/shortest/randomest/craftinest blog ever. She has really cool weekly features like Cat Whisperer (in which Ava and I have partaken), Bedazzled, Workin' for the Weekend and more.

Here is what she would like to share!

1. What is your and your partner's names?
Emily Pauline Fanny Dart-McLean & Alexander Timm Harris

2. How old are y'all (optional)
twenty six years old

3. How long have you been together?

six delightful years

4. How long have you been/will you be engaged?

One year and three months (at the time of the nuptials)

5. What is the theme/main idea of the wedding?

It has quite a few themes, rustic, whimsical, outdoors, vintage (a real amalgamation if you know what I mean).

6. How are you sourcing items for the wedding?

It's a combination of our own loving labor (not to mentioned bickering labor...not often), as well as thrift stores, rental spaces (for the essentials: tables, chairs, etc.), as well as donated items/ time from our dear family and friends.

7. Any difficulties? Unforeseen? Anticipated?

We have attended quite a few weddings in the last couple of years. As observer we've noticed that something always goes a little wrong. Alex's lovely aunt passed on some wonderful advice early on in our planning "if you are married at the end of day, everything went right." That has been my mantra, which has kept our planning spirits high!

8. Are animals included in the wedding in any way?

The wedding is taking place at Alex's parent's beautiful abode. They live out in the country, 5 acres, a barn, the works. Their beloved family dog, Bailey Anne (a beauty of a golden retriever), will be greeting guests. I tell that dog every time I see her "to start practicing not jumping  on my dress." I imagine she will wear a handmade flower on her collar (or something of that nature).

9. Honeymooning?

We have the good fortune of going to Costa Rica for two glorious weeks. Alex's older brother (my soon to be brother-in-law) is graciously buying our honeymoon flights. He's a generous man....and ladies he's single.

10. Favorite food to eat together?

It's tough, we have so many favorites. Monday night Pho dates (Mo Pho), Thai food, anything with  spice.

11. What does a good day spent together consist of?

A good day spent together, is a day spent together. We thoroughly enjoy one another's company in many respects (this looks like laying around the house listening to music, going for walks, traveling somewhere, talking...listening).

12. What don't you like to do together?
hmm...

13. Care to share a blog/link/youtube (cat) video?

me: http://www.himynameispaulinefanny.blogspot.com/

Alex: http://www.work-party.com/

I highly recommend going over there to visit and catch up on all her amazing finds and projects that are completed, and to wish her and Alex well for their big day fast-approaching!
UPDATE 09/30/11: WEDDING PICTURES!