Greetings!

It has been some time since we've updated our wedding blog.  Life sneaks up and gets a little busy sometimes, doesn't it?  We are currently less then 6 months from our big Day and the anticipation is building! Planning is coming along smoothly, since we've been dedicating each week to focus on a new task.  This week: Bridesmaids Dresses.  Choosing the dress, style, and color was the most painstaking decision of all since for some reason the only nice looking bridesmaids dresses are ridiculously expensive.  My goal was to find a beautiful dress in a fun color that each of the 6 girls will wear again, all for less than $200.  Sounds simple right?  Think again.

This was just a sampling of dresses that I was considering. I thought the colors were nice together, and each girl could pick the one she liked the best.  Decisions are never that easy though, and knew I needed to narrow it down.  Finally, after countless hours of searching and shopping, we have decided on 4 different styles of the same color dress from J Crew.  

                                             

I decided to go with the bright Blue Sapphire color because it was so fun, and really will lokk great against the white sand and the crystal blue water of the Caribbean.  What do you think?

hankies and undies

i knew the minute i decided who my bridesmaids were going to be that i'd need a clever way to ask them to be in the wedding. after all, it's a question i won't get to ask too much in my lifetime and i think it should be special. i originally bought each girl (and my one "bridesman") leather luggage tags that are personalized with a hot stamp monogram. not a bad gift, and useful since it's a destination wedding! but, i wasn't quite satisfied with plain 'ol luggage tags. i needed something else. so, i moseyed down to the vintage store near my house to see what i could find for inspiration, and it turned out that they had a huge bin full of beautiful vintage hankerchiefs. i had seen a gorgeous set of save-the-date hankies online, so i decided to reinterpret the idea into a clever way to pop the question. 

since i don't own a screen printer, and there was no way tyler was going to let me buy one just for this project (even though i tried to convince him that we'd use it "all the time"), i was at a loss. a brilliant plan, and no way to execute it... alas, enter my new friend reggie! our friend matthew introduced her to tyler that very evening and it just so happened that she owns a screen printer! hooray! 

she was kind enough to print all the hankies and the pair of undies too. i think they turned out beautifully! now, how am i going to decide who gets which hankie?