Bridesmaid Dress Ideas?

I've had some time today to surf the net looking for suitable bridesmaid dresses in the Emerald to Aqua range. This is what I've found so far. The main qualifications are that they need to be in the appropriate color range and be about knee length. My motivation for having non-matching bridesmaid dresses is so that each bridesmaid can choose a dress that 1) suits their body type, 2) they will wear again, 3) they can spend the amount they choose to spend, ideally keeping it from $50 to $150.

From left to right, we have:
Francesca's Collections, Blue Moon Dress, $38
David's Bridal, Style 83176, originally $120, on sale for $59.99
J. Crew, Silk chiffon Juliet dress (in tropical aqua), $180
J. Crew, Silk tricotine Cecelia short dress (in oasis green), $225
J. Crew, Embossed-cotton Aubrey halter dress (in sea green), originally $98, on sale for $78.00

I do know that a couple of these options don't meet the criteria, but I think this gives a good representation of what styles and colors go well together. I'm certainly open to more ideas if anyone wants to share some with me!

Being Indecisive, as Usual!

I've been thinking lately about colors and I'm starting to drift away from the Black bridesmaid dresses idea. I think if I had to pick two colors today, I would choose Emerald and Aqua. Here are a few pictures that I've found lately that are swaying me to use non-matching dresses.

From Sara & Ryan's Wedding

Image via Offbeat Bride

Image via Offbeat Bride

I'm Back!

I have been uber-busy the past month with work, family obligations, etc. This past weekend Jake's brother Justin and his new wife Elizabeth got married and we all had so much fun! It made me realize that there are a lot of little details that I should probably get started on. I'm ready to kick it into high gear and get the rest of this wedding planned. Here's what we have booked so far:

Venue (Ceremony and Reception): Prestonwood Country Club
Officiant: Reverend Barbara Lodge (read her blog here!)
Photographer: April Sirit of Evoke Photography http://www.evokenc.com/
DJ: Jeff Simpson of Simpsound Productions

As for the other things we know so far - I have my Mom's dress that will be getting altered early next year. I'm very excited about this! Jake and I are going to build our chuppah and we should get started on this soon.

I need to figure out:
Bridesmaid's dresses - how about asking the rest of my bridesmaids to be bridesmaids first?!?
Flowers - do I want to have a florist do them all or can I do some on my own?
Transportation - including getting the guests/wedding party to and from Prestonwood as well as for us to the hotel afterwards
Honeymoon - we need to start researching COSTA RICA!!! We definitely want to go to Costa Rica and zipline through the rainforest, go to the beach, go horse-back riding and scuba diving

I know there are many other things TO DO but this will work for now! I hope to have more time this week to catch up on other blogs I like to follow and will post things that I love :)

Bouquet Inspiration

I found it, my new favorite bouquet, pehaps ever. I've never seen anything like this but I love it. Courtesy of Snippet & Ink, from the Sneak Peak of Anli & Kenneth's Wedding.

So much to do!

Okay so between a fabulous beach weekend over the 4th and staying busy at work I've been neglecting the good ol' blog. Here's what's going on in my own little wedding planning world.

Today we will meet with a potential videographer
I have my first dress appointment Tuesday (gasp!)
We need to schedule meetings with potential officiants

I have a couple of invitation books to go through to figure out what we like. We need to get serious about invites and Save the Dates if we are going to do them. Everyone keeps asking me if anything is new and I haven't really had much to say but hopefully there will be more substantial developments soon!

Need a Good Laugh?

Thanks to the lovely Megan's blog (Meg{Moir}) I found an awesome non-wedding related blog that made me literally LOL at my desk. You will giggle (at the least) at every post. The blog is called Stuff White People Like, and it is completely hilarious and very true, at least in my experience. So check it out here: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ and enjoy!

Making an Exit: Bubbles or Sparklers?

I'm waiting to hear back from the Social Director at Prestonwood as to what rules they have regarding the sendoff at the end of the reception, but in the meantime I'm contemplating whether we want to exit to bubbles or sparklers. I'm not afraid of sparklers at all so that won't be an issue for me, but I think that since our sendoff will be around 11pm that the sparklers would look better than the bubbles at night. I've found some pictures of both at Prestonwood to give you an idea of what it would look like.

(Image by Robin Lin at www.robinlin.com)

(Image by Tamara Lackey at www.tamaralackeyblog.com)

(Image by Tamara Lackey at www.tamaralackeyblog.com)