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28 September 2016

Twenty Something

Tonight we celebrated TWENTY years of Wedded Bliss. (!!!!)

At my niece's wedding rehearsal and the actual wedding it was hard to hold back the tears. Mostly because I knew my brother was going to shed a few tears giving away his beautiful daughter. It was only a few short years ago that my brother and his wife were helping us rehearse for and participate in our wedding.... well, almost 19...

Rehearsing

In Concert

Lately, life has been abundant with opportunities for time spent with family, outdoors, eating good food and taking in live music.

The Giving Tree Band played at the first Summer Breeze concert of the season and they were really great. Reminded me of being at Winfield.

Aubri learned another life lesson the hard way at this concert. It’s probably hard to imagine that such a cute little dog would nip or scratch when our little Gracie is quite patient with the kiddos, but after years of trying to drive the point home, a concert-goer's dog freaked out when Aubri tried to love on it and scratched her face.

Going to the Chapel

My nephew (who was our ring bearer so many years ago) got married this past weekend. And my little man was a ring bearer and Aubri was their flower girl.

Emi helped out too -- mostly out on the dance floor.

Barefootin'

Mother of the Groom and the Groom

Me and Vincent on my wedding day (17 years ago!!!)

Bon Voyage

What a trip to be a part of my nephew's wedding!

28 August 2011

THE Dress

I was looking through my Nanny's cedar chest (now mine) for my wedding invitation from so many years ago (almost 15!) and while I didn't find the invite, I did find lots of other wedding goodies including a magazine page that was the inspiration for my dress. We were living in Dallas at the time and I had access to lots of bridal stores but I was less than pleased with the dresses on the rack. I was even less impressed with the pressures of the sales ladies telling me I needed to purchase their dress that day. None of the places had a simple sheath like I wanted and so I decided to have my dress made for me based on the dress below.

Such a timeless and classic dress and veil

Loved my dress and my simple daisy bouquet

I sought out Fran Milito in Plano, TX and she was confident that she could make me what I wanted, which was exactly like the dress in the magazine plus some crocheted daisy detailing on the empire waistline and on my headpiece for my veil. The crocheted daisies were a nod to my mom who has crocheted many things over the years. I have a bedspread that she crocheted while she was pregnant with me.

Looking classy there holding that cigar, Mrs. Morgan

I went with silk which sent the cost up a little but it was nowhere near the $3,000 price tag that was listed in the bridal magazine. Fran mocked up a pattern during our first visit or two and then she made the dress from the pattern. For the dress and the veil, the total was $820. I thought it was very good back in 1996. After the wedding I thought maybe I should have gone with satin because no one but me would have known the difference but I was very happy with the way my wedding dress turned out.

Scott's groom's cake was delish! {yes, I know he looks wasted in this picture}

Emi won't be able to wear my wedding dress but Aubri might. We'll see. I don't even want to think about their wedding days yet...maybe I should just make some silk pillows?

21 July 2010

Here Comes the Bride...

After reading all of the recent blog posts and comments about wedding dresses and what happened to them after the wedding, I decided to try to locate my dress. After our wedding 14 years ago the dress went into a garment bag and has been there for 3 moves. I found it in Scott's basement closet and was surprised at how nice my dress and veil looked after so many years of neglect.