Bridal today, rain or shine!

I've considered myself lucky to not have to worry about rain on my wedding day, since we are doing our ceremony and reception indoors.  Well now that my bridal is scheduled for 5:00 pm with a 40% chance of rain, I'm getting anxious about the weather.  My photographer and I are looking for back-up locations (can't do Prestonwood because of a wedding today). Time is set for 5:00 so we can't do earlier. Any ideas?  Here is an iPhone shot of my bridal bouquet, courtesy of Cydney and The English Garden.  I love it!

Real Wedding Find on Green Wedding Shoes

Green Wedding Shoes is one of my favorite Wedding blogs for inspiration.  Now that I have more time to actually read wedding blogs again, I had to share a Wedding that I found inspiring.  Please check out Megan + Simon's Backyard Wedding on Green Wedding Shoes.  It has color, it has style, it has succulents!  I also LOVE the bouquet shown below.

(Photo credit: JAC Photographers)

*THE* Bridesmaid Dress?

This past Saturday, my local Bridesmaids joined me at David's Bridal for our first Bridesmaid dress outing. We had a lot of fun and I felt like it was a huge success.  If I had to decide on a Bridesmaid dress today, this would be *the one* - I know, this is completely different than what I had in mind when I went.  I originally wanted black, then greens and blues.  Well the dress itself (style 88312) didn't wow me in the green or blue options that they had.  But what I did really like was the color shown below, Sangria!

Here is a link to the dress on the David's Bridal website.  The best thing about it, besides the fact that its fun, flattering on everyone, and could definitely be worn again are (drumroll please) the POCKETS!  I have a few pictures from our outing that I'll try to get on here soon - they are on already Facebook for those of you who can view them already. 

So, if I go with this as the bridesmaid dress, then Sangria and green (with accents of yellow and orange) will be our colors!

Fun Web Finds

Work has been mostly slow this morning (knock on wood) so I've been able to check out the usual wedding blogs that occupy my time so well. Today I found three very unique posts, from the Editors of Martha Stewart Weddings, Snippet & Ink and Style Me Pretty.

• The Bride's Guide idea is to use Radicchio as a stamp that creates a very nice rose. You can see the post here. I'm intrigued, but not sure how I would apply this to our wedding...
• I love the Chuppah that S&I calls to attention here - it wouldn't necessarily fit into our overall feel for the wedding, but I love the colors and the free flowing fringe on the sides.
• The Orange and Teal Bash posted on SMP is super fun. I love the lanterns on the Chuppah and the fabulous pops of color. Again, a little out of our realm but still very cool to see.

So not necessarily anything that we will be using, but hopefully this helps make your Friday go by a little faster as it did for me :)

My Very Own Inspiration Board

Out of boredom at work comes my very own inspiration board, from images that I've found across the web. Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to make this show up as a larger image in the blog post, but you should be able to click on it to be taken to the full-size image. Credits below from left to right.


Photo credits from left to right: Carrie Patterson Photography, Ink & Peat, J. Crew, lovethecard.com, J. Crew, Ink & Peat, Keily and Greg's Nestledown wedding shot by Dana and Jeremy, and Martha Stewart weddings

Color Ideas

If you haven't been to Snippet & Ink's blog yet, you are missing out. They post something new every day, whether its a featured sponsor, creative wedding photos, fun giveaways or inspiration boards! I'm going to use green as one of my wedding colors, but I don't know what my complementing color should be... Here are a few of my favorite Snippet and Ink inspiration boards in colors that I can seriously see myself using.

Emerald and Aquamarine

Summer Lovin'

Jadeite and Lawn
(All images from Snippet and Ink - click on the board titles for the original S&I post as well as photo credits)