Early: New Year's!!!

I have ALWAYS wanted to go to New York City and be in Times Square for New Year's. Ever since I was a little girl I have watched the ball drop on TV, and in later years that's all I pretty much did, too. I have never had a party or gone to a party for New Year's... it's always spent at home, in pajamas, yawning and one-eyed napping until it's 12 and time to finally go to sleep.
Just once I'd love to be in Times Square amidst the throngs of people steeped in confetti, delirious and cold next to my best friend counting down from 10... until the big moment when I get that kiss.
I checked airfare... it's under $1,000 for both of us for the weekend but I don't want this to be something I have to talk Shawn into... I want it to be a whirlwhind of spontanaiety and being young, in-love and childless (no baby bag to tote along yet)...
We won't always be able to do something like this but that money was meant for our Jamaica "honeymoon." But it has been 6 months since the wedding and we did go to South Dakota right after it... I know that Jamaica would be a pretty good family vacation one day. New York, not so much.
One thing is for sure though. I am BORED and I have a bad case of wanderlust that has the ability to drive me into a overwhelming self-revolutionary sense of abandonment. I do not want.
I want NYC and my sweetheart on New Year's Eve.

Now that I have rambled, if you wish to comment, make sure it's for my dad. It's his birthday today!
Happy Birthday Dad!

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

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Colored Wedding Dress Crinolines + Part 1: DIY Colored Crinoline

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My favorite thing to see on wedding blogs (besides chuppahs!) is a bride with a colored crinoline. Some brides are women who wanted a colored dress but for whatever reason ended up with a white one. The colored crinoline is a way to wear a pop of the color in a fun way.
I originally wanted a yellow / green dress. Yellow is just my color!

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We all know I ended up with a (most beautiful) ivory dress so I immediately wanted to adopt this detail into my own style for the Day. Problem is... finding these is no easy task!
When searching you are faced with 3 options: Have a short dress, pay the price or buy a white one to dye! Having a short dress is by far the easiest option. There's no shortage of pettiskirts and square dancing petticoats the perfect length! Here's one superb website I found. 

Swank Underpinnings

Good old etsy has a few shops that cater to the colored-crinoline bride. The prices aren't too* bad but $0 is my budget, sooo...! One excellent shop is Swank Underpinnings. They range between $35 to $225 (custom orders!). They make them in all lengths, which is really not easy to find. Some of her custom stuff--swoon!
Loca Loves Pirate has some cutie pastel babies, too. They're even full length!

So what's a budget-spent bride to do?! It involved massive preparation research, scissors, and blind faith. A couple weekends ago when I was making our invitations, I asked my mom to enlist in helping me cut my crinoline out of my dress. With scissors. She surprisingly did not look at me like I was too crazy, but we both felt aprehensive about the whole thing. If I had thought about it much more, I wouldn't have done it.

Steps

1. Put on your dress.
2. Have a helper pull up the top layer(s) so that you can only see the crinoline layer.
3. Make a guide snip at waist-height where you'll be cutting accross the crinoline.
4. Take off the dress.
5. Lay out the dress on the bed and pull all the layers up over the top of the dress, making sure the only layer exposed is the crinoline layer.
6. Just like with cutoff shorts, find your guide snip. Now read: DO NOT CUT THROUGH BOTH LAYERS. ONE LAYER AT A TIME ONLY.
7. Just like with cut off shorts, cut in a straight line across the front.
8. Flip the dress over. You'll see why you don't cut through both layers.
9. The back of a wedding dress is almost always where it zips, laces, yada yadas... and there will be a panel back there you don't want to cut that separates the dress closure from your bare skin. So taking care to cut AROUND that part, Cut straight across the back, around the panel and back straight across to finish.
10. Pull out your crinoline, hang your dress back up and committ yourself. Not to your fiance(e)... To an asylum. You're officially NUTS for doing this DIY.

The second part of the DIY is dying and the third is adding an elastic waistband so you can wear it under your dress. Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3!
In the meantime, there is a whole SECTION of Offbeat Bride that features just weddings with colored-crinoline brides. Enjoy!

Beautiful Wedding Shoes

I wish to share with you why these shoes are the most beautiful wedding shoes (to me) ever. When Shawn & I picked out our shoes, we were going for barefoot. I'm not wearing mine until after the wedding, but the reception will be at a restaurant and you hafta wear shoes there!!! Sandals was the next best thing to barefoot. Especially hippie sandals.
We saw Shawn's sandals at a store called Euphoria in Lincoln, NE when we went to Lincoln on our first ring shopping trip... I'll have to write about that also. Shawn has EcoDragon sandals which are made of sustainably harvested hemp fiber. They last FOREVAR and you can recycle them at the end of their use.
He liked them but it wasn't until the week after when he divulged to me "I want to wear those sandals at our wedding. But they're so expensive." I told him, "Shawn. If you want those sandals for your wedding, you're getting them! I can have a hundreds-of-dollars wedding dress, you can have those damn sandals! ... I'll buy them myself!!!"
So we planned a trip back to Lincoln to try on dresses at the BEST SALON EVAR called Ellyne's and we also went back to Euphoria and bought those sandals! I was more excited about that than my dress experience in Lincoln. Let's not write about that, by the way...

We found my sandals when we went to Kansas City, MO to ask Shawn's friend Sprague (who is tattoo/graffitti artist Manic!) to be in our wedding. We were in West Port near downtown and the Plaza when we went into a little store called Beautiful Day. It looked happy from the outside so we had to  go in. I found my shoes and got that gut feeling of "That's IT!" until I looked in my wallet. I only had like half the money for my shoes. I told Shawn and Sprague heard, too, so we all pitched in. We all 3 bought my wedding shoes. So the way they were acquired is beautiful.
Last Wednesday I took them out to look at them with Shawn's sandals to swoon over how perfect they are together and I examined mine particularly well. On the bag they come in, it says "UTOPIAN Rope Sandals. Handmade by Tom." I wanted to know who Tom was to tell him how wonderful the shoes are and that I love them so much they're going to be my wedding shoes. I looked up UTOPIAN rope sandles on 'teh googles' and found out from Wiki that these shoes are beautiful how they're made, too.
Tom and his community, East Wind, make these sandles along with nut butters and tahini. All the income is pooled for the community to cover medical expenses and each member is given food, clothing, shelter, education and personal money. They believe in equality, social democracy and nonviolence. Each member contributes man hours and lives together, voting on every decision made by the community. So East Wind in Tecumseh, MO is responsible for the creation of my wedding shoes.

Can you say Beautiful?

Daisies and Sunflowers!!! I need your help!

Decoration Inventory

Head Table Butterflies from Michael's

I have spent a lot of time and money buying decorations for the wedding. I started with the things I knew we would need and as details became more specific, I began to purchase more and more!
I have never spent this much before in my life on any one thing and that's kind of scary! I'm sure I'll never spend this much on anything(event-wise) again! I think the decoration total has far surpassed the gown total. Our basement apartment is full of blue spools of ribbon, boxes full of paper lanterns, rehearsal dinner supplies and TONS of fake flora and fauna that is spewing everywhere.
The first things we bought was a thick roll of ivory tulle, brown glitter butterfly clips for the head table and our thank you notes(yay, us!).
Next I bought my Flowerpeople's hair accessores supplies and also my garter supplies, which contributes to the first two rolls of blue ribbon I found myself beginning to collect. That was also my first(not to be remotely the last) elastic rodeo. It went well!
 

Then I found the butterfly decorations of my dreams! I work for a novelty company but not the one these came from! I couldn't find these anywhere and they're absolutely perfect. They each have a twist-tie backing so they can go everywhere and anywhere in our venue! They're going to be "flying" around all over! I also got these wooden ladybugs (and they are from where I work!) for the Flowerpeople's hair accessories and I also will scatter these around like the butterflies so they look like they're crawling around comfortably enjoying the wedding, too!
I found another company (sorry, work!) that I purchased ALL of my sunflowers from. I could not find a better price on silk sunflower stems so I ordered extra just incase! Now I have a box full of sunflower goodness that it's hard to keep the cats out of! The box is a great craft-project-bags holder, too!
On my 234th time back to Michael's I found the big Flowerpeople's Gerber daisy stems to make flower wands for them to carry for $1 each. Score!
I also acquired another roll of blue ribbon (Jumbo size!) and all my invitation supplies: my paper cutter, my tracing paper pads, sunflower sticker seals, brown pens, an adhesive Butterfly border from Martha that matched our wedding album(!!!!) and some brown pigment pens for incidental writing on the invites.
I did have to buy my paper punch for the invites separately on Amazon, though!
Last week I needed more yellow ribbon before starting my Flowerpeople's hair accessories so being in the ribbon aisle at MICHAELS AGAIN, I purchased another jumbo roll of the blue ribbon so I think our ribbon purchases are over. 150 yards of bows ought to do it?
I just did several orders to my place of work so they're currently getting make-up sales for my wedding supplies. I'm getting our flutes, our lanterns, the aisle-runner(a DIY project coming soon!), the ladybugs, the gifts for our Flowerpeople, our serving set, more rolls of tulle, Dec-Ons sugar ladybugs(for the cake because the wooden ones aren't for food), our photobooth cameras and our wedding bubbles. I ordered our rehearsal dinner supplies from them months ago because some of it was discontinued and I just needed it. It helped spacing out the purchases to make them manageable in $20, $50 and $100 chunks.

Oriental Trading Lanterns

 
Now given the scope of the decoration purchases, you may understand how much we have purchased. You may also get an idea of how much that may be. Let me just say, that if we were paying regular rent to an apartment, maybe a third of this would have been purchased. So it is safe to say that thanks to Shawn's Grandpa who is letting us stay in the basement at the rate of $All the food, cooking & dishes + Shawn's Handiwork. So a big thanks for the possibility of decorations to Grandpa! His willingness to help us and sense of family has made our wedding beautiful.

Marriage Certificate - UPDATE

There's the whole layout with the corner!

This will be made into 4 more copies before the original is done! Stay tuned...

A lookback: the Dresses that almost were.

Besides the dresses I have now, I could not have pictured myself in a regular white wedding gown. When I started my quest for a dress in August of 2010, I spied the Vera Wang magic that was Didi: an apple green hand-painted sweetie of a ballgown.

Then in September the announcement of Vera's Spring 2011 line sucked the breath out of my lungs at the sight of Felicity. A gunmetal-lilac ball gown with a tucked skirt and an embellished bodice that would entrance an infant. Either one of these dresses was the One... If I had a couture dress budget!!!

I looked into getting a replica made of either one, or getting a custom white and yellow version of Didi made, but as you can see here, by November it worked itself out.
I have no regrets, I have the dress I love and I can't wait to wear it. I can't wait to wear my vintage second dress, too!
I still want to mention the dresses because they are the most beautiful dresses I've ever seen besides my wedding gown(s)! I think I would have gone with the Didi. I would sleep in it at night.

Which one do you like?
What's more: Would you ever wear a colored wedding dress?

2nd Wedding Dress / Reception Dress

I have come to a point in planning where the budget is thin, as things are getting wrapped up. Most of my DIY projects are in motion currently or they are completed, and the one I was purposely neglecting was the one that cost the most: the second dress.
A lot of women do a reception dress or a second wedding dress. The bride who inspired my decision about a second dress, I read about here.

 We are doing pictures beforehand and I don't want anyone, especially Shawn to see me in my wedding dress before I am walking towards him ready to seal the deal. I was going to copy Vera Wang's purple dress I had liked and make it party-dress length.
Now time is crunching and so is budget and I don't have $100+ to go and buy a dress I don't really need. I have decided to wear my beautiful vintage Gunne Sax Dress I found as my wedding dress for before-photos. It will go well with my headpiece (more to come on that soon!) and I really love it. Like I said, if I didn't have a dress already, that'd be the one.

I actually feel better about this decision and my decision to wear another dress I really love that will match the theme of our rehearsal dinner as well!

OUR FAVORS CAME IN!!!

Shawn's momma Donna had found some sunflower seed packets that were personalizable a couple weeks after he and I got engaged and we all decided they were awesome for our favors. That was decided so long ago that we had almost all but forgotten about them. I even put up the sample picture with the names "Morgan & Matthew" on this post. I was so used to seeing that picture that when Donna sent me this

I got a little teared up, y'all. It's REALLY happening! We're getting married!
I'm a little verklempt.

Today I wanted to mention something that we're doing that is "different." I want both of my parents to walk me down the aisle. I'm an only child and both of my parents are equally close to me. They've walked me through life and they're both gonna walk me to my husband. It's the only way I feel about it.

Photo by JR Compton

That lady had her mommy and daddy walk her. .
Daddy is special, though... I've always been a Daddy's girl. The truth is though, he's a girl's Daddy, too. He may have taught me well more than what's necessary in the garage, but that man can unwrap the packaging on a Barbie like Superman.

We're gonna hafta dance at the reception together and then call Mom out to finish dancing with us all together. That sounds like a plan.

BHLDN + Jennifer Behr

I usually hate Mondays as much as I love Fridays, so this Monday will be confusing. It's Valentine's Day and there is also a couple of pretty wedding things that will be available as of then: Jennifer Behr is opening her new collection of bridal headwear to the public; and BHLDN, URBN's new family member graces us with its loveliness.

Jennifer Behr's pieces are romantic and texture-licious. My fav's are the feather and rose cluster ones. Starting Monday visit Jennifer's website to see the full new collection and her established beauties.

After having worked for the company before, I am SO excited about Urban Outfitters, INC.'s new line BHLDN for all things fabulous related to wedding.

The website "unveils" on Monday to share all their new gorgeousness with us. They have shoes, wedding dresses, accessories and dresses for guests and bridesmaids. I have a hunch that the entire line was made inspired by a collection of tree trunk platters, milk glass vases and a rhinestone chandelier covered in dust and burlap bows.

My favorite is the eyelet dress, but all the short styles are AMAZING! Can't wait to see it all at once.

Eco Chic Wedding

I LOVE(!) Style Unveiled. I just discovered the blog and I found a section on their site called "Eco Chic" so I clicked it, considering ourselves to be so. I found 101 things you can do to help you have a Greener wedding. The most important one: Live green after the wedding. We live green now and we'll live green later!
Here's the other ones we are doing!

Ceremony
-Have your ceremony and reception at the same location. Both the events are on the same level of the building, even!
-Blow bubbles rather than tossing rice; rice kills birds when they eat it. Bubbles, away!
-Have an outdoor ceremony and reception. Outdoor ceremony on the patio.
-Decorate with branches! Cottonwoods have a special meaning to us so all the swag pieces will be local Cottonwood branches.
-Hire an all-digital photographer. Digital camera and photos on a disc only!
-Hire an all-digital videographer. Our friend Josh is in charge of this and he'll do it up on a disc, I know!

Reception
-Keep the wedding cake simple. 2 layers of cake (1 of which is for eating now!), cupcakes and donuts.
-Use the linens that your reception site provides. The color blue napkin they had was the sign I needed that this was our place.
-Rent real glasses and dishes, as opposed to using disposable plates. The venue also has glass plates, cups and real silverware.
-Select a wedding venue close to your home. The venue is literally 10 minutes from Grandpa's house.
-Use cloth napkins, rather than paper. Again, the venue has great blue napkins!
-Rather than hosting a full bar, have a personalized cocktail made of organic ingredients – including organic vodka. Free beer and wine while it lasts, y'all.
-Use food that is in-season for the reception. Beef is always in season in Nebraska and the veggies are seasonal.
-Use beeswax candles. Looking into them for the centerpieces now!!!
-Use reusable linens, rather than disposable ones. Venue linens are furnished to us!!!
-Continue spreading the word about ways to be eco-friendly to all your friends and family! I may try to develop conversation-starter cards for the table with Green-facts that are unknown or less well-known.
-Donate the leftover uneaten food from your reception, instead of throwing it out. I tried to set this up, I really did, but the Nebraska state health code prohibits taking food out of a venue like a reception.

Guests & Bridal Party
-Choose bridesmaids dresses that your friends will wear again.Right off the rack, ladies! If it's a tank top and tea length, it's good!
-Have the groomsmen wear a suit they can use again for work. Casual does it.
-Register for your gifts at local shops, so as to save on shipping materials and gas. Any of our registry items is 20 minutes or less away.
-Keep the wedding small. The more guests you invite, the bigger the carbon footprint left from the wedding.My fingers are crossed at 110.
-Rent the tuxes from a local shop. That's our only idea for those.
-Give a reusable, locally made cloth tote bag to your bridal party as a gift. This might be a last-minute DIY.
-Calculate the mileage guests will travel and then offset their carbon footprint by donating to preserving the rainforests. That's our only idea for those.

Favors
-Donate the flowers from your wedding to a hospital. Fantastic! Will do.
-Give a recycled handmade paper bookmark with wildflower seeds as a favor. This can be planted once they are finished using it. Sunflower seed packets!!!

Paper
-Collect all the paper products at the end of the night and recycle them. I'll have a buddy be in charge of this for sure.
-Order your programs to be printed on 100% recycled post consumer waste paper that has been processed without chlorine.We're DIYing them and our invites on 100% recycled paper and the envelopes are recycled as well.
-Create a wedding website, rather than using mailer inserts with your invitation.Thanks, the Knot!
-When printing for your wedding, use a printer that can use paper with a high percentage of post-consumer recycled content.100% Recycled paper on all wedding paper.
-Have your guests sign the matte of a framed photo from your engagement instead of a guest book. Actually just changed this over when we met with our Photographer!



 Extras
-Purchase wedding shoes that you will wear again. Does it count if I've already worn them, also?
-Purchase your dress or tuxedo from a vintage boutique.Rehearsal dress is vintage!
-Take an eco-considerate honeymoon. Travel close to home or consider eco-tourism for your honeymoon destination. We're taking a Chicago mini-moon right after the wedding! Only a 6 hour drive or 90 minute flight.
-Use all natural make-up. I don't wear makeup but when I do on the wedding day, it's going to be the good stuff.
-Have an outdoorsy honeymoon, such as camping, backpacking, or fishing. Roughing it in Kingston, Jamaica count?
-Use your Grandma’s vintage veil. It can be your "something borrowed." Nana's necklace is my something borrowed. Grandma's hanky is my something old.
-Use a pump spray hairspray can, rather than an aerosol can. If I use hairspray I will!
-Go barefoot! The first idea I had!!!
-Use an environmentally friendly cleaner when it comes time to clean the dress. I don't know if I'll clean the dress, I have plans for it in Jamaica!
-Do your rehearsal dinner at a friend’s home and have everyone chip in to cook. My dad is a Mason so we're having at the Lodge and it's homemade sloppy hilljos with our neighbors and families making sides.

Be sure to check out Style Unveiled for a plethera of bombastically great ideas categorized by--SWOON-- major city!

UPDATE - OFFBEAT BRIDE Kicked Me Out!!!

 To update: My post on the OBB was filtered as spam due to all the attachments like photos and whatnot on my post and I was disabled in error. I hold to my opinions and I'll probably start to slack away from there and be more over here anyway.

My Disclaimer to Keep in Mind While you Read:

These are My opinions in My blog. I personally support any actions by any individual that are done with the pure intention to make that person happy and/or to represent who they are in mind, life or in image, given that it does not harm anyone else. This is my mindset.

DO NOT FEED THE TAFFETA

First: lol. Second: what happened. I understand I broke their terms by linking to this blog's Dress Story on my Offbeat Page because I didn't want to copy/paste or duplicate the post. I only understand this in okay-if-you're-gonna-be-that-way terms. I wasn't trying to advertise myself for free or anything. I was just trying to share my dress story! By the way, I will gladly adverstise ONLY things I personally love for free. So I will continue to link to their website on my sidebar because it can be useful. What I don't like about their community having been in it is:
1) You have to apply to see if you're "offbeat enough." I don't need anyone's validation to be unique. I'm me whether you say so or not and it's quite apparent I'm one of a kind, pink hair or no.
2) The members regularly bash people who may be conventional or more conventional than they are. One of the popular posts right now is titled "The Knot is (k)not for me!!!" Your opinion is fine; But if bashing people is your substitute for being personally responsible enough to kick-butt on your own regardless of anyone else, you have a personal issue.
The Knot has been great for me and I dig their policy of personal responsibility and that they are who they are regardless of anyone else. They don't point the finger of disapproval. I also dig that they advertise not only The Nest and The Bump, their own sites, but you get joint-accounts with WeddingChannel.com, too!

3) The front the Offbeat Bride site gives off is that they're an all-options-are-okay-here site, but if you're average, you're less of a "real" person or you're seen as giving into the masses. A stab at taffeta is specifically taken by the slogan of the site and original book. Seriously, what harm can a fabric do?! So your dress happens to be made of taffeta, what else can they shame into you?!
4) I have a feeling people in the Offbeat Tribe do things more out of spectacle to escape the ingrained feeling of shame anything traditional evokes after being a member.


My advice if you're sniffing around the Offbeat media: stick primarily to the Book and don't let anyone shame you into or out of a white dress.

Unity Candle, Schmunity Schmandle

141 Days to Go!

I started thinking about the ceremony last month in depth with Shawn and we have decided and re-decided some new things. I wanted a basic, bare-bones let's-run-through-this ceremony because I am going to be a mess of crying and emotions the whole time. I wanted to walk down the aisle with both my parents(I'm an only child), exchange Shawn & I's vows, rings, kisses and do the receiving.
I know, I skipped a Unity Ceremony! I think the candle is silly for us. We're having an outside wedding; can you imagine if it blew out?! I don't think I like the symbolism of that...



Other options I found like Hand fasting is cool--but we're not wholly Pagan.




The snap-together crosses they have now are neat--but we're not Western Christians!

It's not that I'm obsessed with doing something based on or off religion it's that I just want to do a Unity Ceremony that means something to us. It's not enough for me to take time out of the ceremony for something I just think is "neat."
I tried researching Rastafarian customs but I found no surprising information: Rastas do whatever they want. That is the custom. 

Then I found Bellenza and they swooned me away into a land where I'm not overanalyitc about this becuase someone else already has been! I found some great inspiration on this page and I bet brides in a similar position will, too. There's things there that I've never though of before like the idea we ultimately chose: Plant a flower/plant together for the Unity Ceremony.

 

I may need one or two of these...



This is perfect for Shawn & I because we garden and started to grow our own food last Summer! He was thrilled when I presented the idea to him. I think we will go buy another nice plant to add to our established forest from the Plant House and use it for the ceremony. If I get one of these bunny planters we'll put a blue ribbon on its neck and maybe paint the eyes. I'm going to put ribbon on the mini shovel handles, too. Then after we add the last two scoops of dirt at the wedding we'll put it aside and save it to take it home. I love this idea and I'm so excited to get the things I need for it!

Boudoir Sessions

I don't understand the whole Boudoir wedding photos. Rather, I do not like it. I know the premise of it, but what I don't understand is WHY this way?! Okay, you buy underwear that only your future husband should see you in, then you go to your photographer (who will see you just for engagement & wedding day sessions) and take it all off for them? This just doesn't sound right to me and usually when I get that feeling I'm right. I get that same feeling seeing how much information is shared on our FaceSpaces or Mybook or whatever it's called. Then people get robbed.


Think about if the tables were turned around here, ladies. Say your fiance gives you a present on your wedding day in the form of a photo book. You open it and it's him losing more and more clothes until he's in his underoos. My first reaction would not be MEee-Ow! It would be, "Who took these. Seriously." So when your hubby gets his boudoir photos of you, beware the "whosawyoulikethisotherthanme?!" reaction because honestly, he's right.
Just because you're getting married doesn't make it okay for some photographer to see you in lingerie that should be a surprise reserved for your Love., Just because it's someone's job doesn't mean they wouldn't latently enjoy you prancing around while you're in denial because "they're a professional." People are people, lingerie is lingerie, and wearing it alone with someone you're not supposed to is wrong. This is my opinion, my blog and this is what we're wearing over here.

PS: My Shawn would be especially miffed as he takes photos and would feel very hurt if someone else took photos of me, especially photos like that.

PPS: I'm especially inspired to write this post because I have been seeing some gals that will post their boudoir sessions or submit them to other blogs to post up for everyone to see. That is especially disgusting.

Groom in Shorts

I refuse to accept that our wedding planning is going on hold for Christmas. So I'm still researching my fiance's fashion choices he has made for the wedding. He loves pinstripe so we started off of that. Since I have gotten my dress and he found his shoes (hemp rope sandles with black straps) he has expressed that he wants to wear shorts.
I am all for my groom in shorts.
Sandals + Pants = Cheese. Who are we trying to fool? No one! This is a casual wedding now and my bare feet will be showing. So he will be wearing shorts, a shrug-sleeve notch tail jacket and a vest with dress shirt. In the perfect series of events we will find a pinstripe ensemble for him to this description that he will love.
Some of our family members raise an eyebrow to his choice but it is just that-- his choice and I happen to like it. He's unique in what he wears everyday; why should his wedding day be any different? The man never wears jeans. He wears flat front black pants every day of his life. With tee shirts and Vans. I love everything about him to death.
Besides, does this J Crew Couple look questionable?