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?

Why do I do this to myself?!

After my final dress fitting on Saturday with all my extras, I came to a hard realization: I love my dress and I love my accessories, just not together! I think I am lucky because I still have time and I am not discovering this the day-of. I also feel lucky because it is freaky-common for brides to start hating their dress around the point we are at in wedding planning. Neither of those things happened so I am just focused on fixing my accessories at this point.
I am going to go barefoot until someone tells me to put shoes on that day. I love my sandals, but I REALLY love how my dress looks with me barefoot. It's so right.
The headpiece makes me look like a little girl in a big wedding dress. I do not appreciate looking younger when I already look like a baby! I want to look like a woman on my wedding day for my Shawnie.


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 So, having said all this I go forth to make something new. Yes, at 16 days to the wedding, a new project.

The Last-Minute DIY Visor Veil

Inspiration:

Check back tomorrow for the results and a whole good lot of photos!!!

It's raining outside... but I feel all kinds of sunshine.

This morning it was raining for me, but about a half hour ago, the sun poked out and all was well again.

Last week I tried to schedule MOH Meaghan and my hair/nail/toes appointments when I got my awesome haircut. The next day I called to make it 2 nail/toe appointments and they said they'd call back. I never heard back so I called again today and they told me Kristin, my personal hair dresser, is booked for my wedding day.
CRASH. BOOM. BANG.
My world fell down around me. I finally decided not to DIY my own hair with my DIY makeup and I can't have it? The one lady besides myself I let touch my hair is busy on my wedding day?
I intermittently cried as it showered outside.

At 12:45 I decided to go see Shawn at lunch and cry to him. He made me feel better and told me, just as my mom did when I called her on the way, "Everything will be ok."

And it was.

At 3:21 PM Kristin called me herself to say that since she is doing my pedicure, she'll just steal me away to do my hair!
Isn't she amazing? Anytime I need anything for my hair whether it's Tuesday or my wedding day, she gets it done and it's done how I see it in my head. That is why I only let her touch my hair!
So even though it's rumbling thunder outside still, I am all sunshiney and happy again.
I'm still crying, but I'm happy now!

Everyone go say Congratulations to Laura of Saying I Do. She's getting hitched tomorrow!!! We love you, Laura!!!

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All about the Solah Shringar today!!!