Wedding Dress

I bought it!!!! I went shopping with Karen on the weekend and now I have a gorgeous wedding dress, veil, and tiara on order :) I ordered the very first dress that I tried on that Margaret came with me shopping for and the most gorgeous veil (with lots of beadwork) and a sparkly tiara to go with it. I can't believe how easy it was to find this dress. It will arrive in May and then I'll have time to get the alterations done in the summer time. I'll just say it is strapless (not sure if going to have it made into a halter style or not yet), it has beadwork across the chest area, it is tafetta, and it has a long gorgeous train with beadwork down the zipper area that bunches into a bussel for dancing later. I can't wait to walk across the little bridge and through the flowers and trees at Linden Gardens to Greg :)

Flower Girl's Dress

I was talking with Susie tonight and she has the most fabulous idea for the
flower girls Lorelei and Ava....


She found this dress on Etsy and can be custom ordered in turquoise for example and it has hydrangeas on it which is one of the flowers we are using. It could be really cute if we could get the dress in turquoise and get pink/light green hydrangeas on the dress (which match our flower colours). I think Amber will probably end up wearing a dress similar to either the bridesmaids and she can be a junior bridesmaid/flower girl or she could wear a white dress similar to a wedding dress....we'll see. Thanks Susie for the idea... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!

Here is just a skirt, but it is the right colour.

Invitation Protypes

Here are some protype invitations I have been working on...

Champagne Toasting Flutes

Greg and I were

looking at champagne

toasting flutes today

and noticed the prices

ranged from $24.99 to

$49.99 per pair. I

thought, I could dress

up some champagne

glasses myself!

We bought these

glasses for $6.99

each and then I

bought earings

for $3.00 for

a total of

$17.00

and

then

I had

this

ribbon

at

home...

I plan

on

cutting

the tails

on an

angle

yet, but

this gives you an idea as to

what they will look like. Plus the ribbon is in our colour!

Wedding Cake

I was talking with my friend Andrea, and she asked me what a cupcake cake looked like... I wasn't exactly sure... so I decided to look at cake options....

These two are clearly not cupcake cakes,

but they have the colours and I thought they were cute.

I like how this cake alternates the chocolate and vanilla.

This one has the colours and it has the mini cake on the top for the cake cutting, which I like.

This one is so quaint and elegant looking...

Turquoise cupcakes!

This is my favourite! It has the little cake beside two tiers of the cupcakes...

And it is surrounded by cupcakes... one side vanilla the other, chocolate...
I like this idea the best and I think it would work well functionally too.

I love the idea of the moderness of cupcakes... non-traditional... it is cheaper than traditional cakes (aprox $2/serving as opposed to $5-6/serving), easier to serve, gives people options with chocolate/vanilla, and I read it is supposed to make people feel special and more connected to the wedding getting their own special little cake.

Deejay and Marriage Commisioner

Friday night Greg and I met with the Deejay that we have decided to go with. He seems really great and fun, and is the number one Deejay in Kelowna that works at Flashbacks, so I'm pretty confident he and/or his crew can throw a pretty awesome party. He took an hour and a half to answer our millions of questions, showed us the computer programs he uses and will be emailing us lots of sample playlists that can help us get a start on picking some music to incorporate. He also had lots of fun ideas to keep the reception interactive. I don't want to give them all away, but one included kids, adults, and the chicken dance :) So we have booked him and paid the deposit... one more thing planned!

Also, we met with a Marriage Commissioner on Saturday and she was amazing! Actually, we were so impressed with her that we decided right there on the spot that she is the one and she is booked. She also sat patiently and answered all of our questions, she has suggestions for us if we would like, but stressed very much about how important it is that we do what we want that day because it is our day. She will be emailing us a sample ceremony. She explained that there is one part that must be included for legal purposes, and the rest is up to us to cut and paste or add as we see fit.

Now we can work on putting together our music selection and writing our vows.

Progress

This friday Greg and I are meeting with a DJ to get a feel for his personality and DJ style. I hope it works out so that we can have that detail taken care of. Also, on Saturday we are meeting with a couple of marriage commissioners to get an idea of who we feel comfortable with. Hopefully we can take care of that detail this weekend too!

I can finally announce my portion of the wedding party: Courtney, Michelle, and Katie. I'm looking forward to the months to follow and I hope we can incorporate lots of people's ideas and suggestions.

Bridal Show

Greg and I went to a bridal show in Kelowna on the weekend. There was tons of turquoise... especially in the bridesmaids' dresses... loved that. Then... I saw a dress I absolutely LOVE! Most of the time I look at dresses and they are all pretty but they kinda look the same, this dress really stood out and I can't wait to try it on. It didn't have much for beading (which I like, I'm not crazy about the dresses covered in beading, I think it looks too busy and it wouldn't work with a sash), it was a bright diamond white and had off the shoulder strap/sleeves and it flowed out into a princess gown with the fabric bunching all the way down and it had a white sash tied into a bow with a diamond buckle around the waist.

I won a door prize at the show... a basket full of Watkin's products... like chai tea mix, air freshener, medicated oinment for muscles, gravy mix... random selection. Also, I spoke with a DJ who sounds awesome. Howling the Night Away it is called and the guy said he is from one of the major night clubs in town and was like, you probably know, and I was like um no I probably don't, I never go out lol... but he was totally willing to sit down and get to know us and incorporate our broad spectrum of music likes... I think we'll probably go with him.

Wedding Band

We got a letter from the Canadian Jewelry Exchange, where we got our engagement ring from, giving us a discount on all products. We went down just to have a look and found a beautiful wedding band that matches perfectly with the engagement ring and so we decided to go ahead and buy it!

Wedding Band to go with...

Engagement ring

.

I'm so excited! I love putting the two together and thinking about being married :) The band is too small as of yet, but we are waiting until next summer to have it sized.

Chair slips

Coming back to my thinking about how the RED hall chairs are going to stand out and clash so harshly with my soft turquoise colours....

Shane and Margaret had a great idea.... tell me what you think.... They once bought 100 white sheets for really cheap from hotels in Penticton for drop cloths for painting... What if I used that material (only the whitest of the white) to make EASY chair slip covers? I'm not talking about form-fitting, super sewen chair covers because that would be way too much work. If I could borrow one of the chairs from the hall for a month or so I could work on the project. I could cut the sheets to size, then lay a piece over the chair form it by hand to the shape I want... here is where it gets interesting... staple it in the shape... hear me out... and then flip the chair cover inside out and one would never know there were staples used... that is Shane's idea. Do you think it could work? Then I would use turquoise bows like shown in the previous posts and wrap them around the backs of the chairs.

Decorating the Hall

I tried to find more turquoise decorating schemes to give me
ideas and these are what I found:

Beautiful eh?

How beautiful would this be?


If we could only put bows and covers on the chairs....


The chairs at the hall are included... but they are RED but renting covers is $5/chair... it would be cheaper to rent different chairs at $1.50-7.00per chair... just a thought, but probably will just go with the chairs provided

I like this "I DO"... that would be simple, probably could get some wood letters at Michaels and paint them!

More bows on the chairs!

A turquoise decorated hall

... more again

Boxes with flowers as a centre piece... interesting

Close up of bows on chairs...

Turquoise beach wedding with lime green accents...

Another colour I love turquoise with.

This is too bluish... but same idea with the table runner

Flowers and candles with a blue vase

When Greg and I were at Costco the other day, they had out a bunch of Christmas stuff (already) and they had huge rolls of wired ribbon like pictured above... we found roles of bluey/turquoise (more blue than turquoise but it is beautiful) shimmery see through material and bought four rolls... so we have them to do things like make bows on the railings, vases, chairs perhaps?...

Let's Go Virtual Dress Shopping!

I was surfing around the other night on the net with my wedding in mind, lol, and I started looking at ideas for my wedding dresses... sort of a preliminary "like/don't like"...

the following are all likes for various reasons.

Oh, and before I start, I should mention that I prefer dresses that are NOT strappless... but that is a difficult thing to come across as about 95% of all dresses today are strapless.

I love how "flowy" this dress is,

and the fact that it has cute straps

and a bit of a train.

I love the halter-style neck line and lots of material,

but I don't want my wedding dress to look like a quilt!

I like the neckline in this one and I like the wrap around front look,
I think this style is flattering on most figures.

I love this halter style.

This is a beautiful dress and I wouldn't be suprised if my dress ends up being fairly similar to this one. I love how big and poofy the bottom half is and I really like the off the shoulder little sleeves.

Again, another off the shoulder sleeved dress, with a veil!

This is a nice style, but I don't think I like those

straps as much as the ones above.

Another dress with straps, not totally in love with this one.

DETAILS I LOVE

The laced back... classic

Tie bow in the back from the halter style neckline.

TURQUOISE DETAILS

Around the bust line... I hadn't thought of this, but I like it.

Bow hanging down in the front.

Huge sash hanging down in the back... like this one.

And TA DA! My favourite sash.

Here is a picture of random strangers wearing the colours.

A Visual

These are the colours I think would be nice in my bouquet, but with

green hydrangeas and maybe pink lilies rather than roses.

Some excellent news, I will be able to have fresh green hydrangeas as part of the bouquets! When I was at Linden Gardens I noticed they had lots of bushes of both green and pink hydrangeas blooming and so I enquired as to their season. Ken (the owner) is willing to make up my bouquets with the green hydrangeas. I was also thinking of asking him about using some for the tables at the reception... they are so fluffy that one poof ball of them is enough for a vase.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture, I stumbled across it and it is what I had imagined for my wedding. It is actually pretty difficult to find pictures of weddings that use
turquoise and silver as the main colours.