Big news — I found a dress!!!

It’s hard to tell in the picture but it’s got a full skirt with a petticoat.

The top has embroidery, beads, pearls and sequins.

My favorite feature is the back. Again, it’s hard to visualize it on me, but there are three straps on each side that weave through each other, and it’s so pretty!!!

I have been very concerned about  fixing my hair for the wedding.  My hair is very curly and so few hairdressers can cut or style curly hair.  I have a wonderful hairdresser in TX.  She’s my friend, Paula’s daughter, Mandy.  But she just had a baby so I didn’t figure she would be able to come for the wedding.  Well, it turns out that she IS coming!!  She and Paula (and the new baby, Brooke) are coming a day early so she can cut and color my hair and then fix it for the wedding. That’s a HUGE gift for me!

Speaking of hair, I told you before that I want to wear a tiara.  When I shopped for them I learned that they are very expensive.  But my friend Karen is going to loan me hers, and it’s beautiful!!  She’s also going to make my garter for me.  yahooo!!!

Laddan’s girlfriend, Paige is going to make the boquets for me.  I’m using pink gerber daisies.  It HAS to be daisies and here’s why:  Randy and I met through an online dating site.  The first time he contacted me, he wrote a letter to me and in it he said that after looking at all the profiles of the women on the site, when he saw mine it was like “finding a daisy growing in the dirt” 

Paige is also going to make the flower girl basket and the ring pillow for me.  She’s so sweet to do all this for me.

Look at this boquet…if I’d worn a vintage dress, and if I were rich, this is the boquet I’d use!  Click on the image to see the Etsy shop it’s from.

Randy’s sisters are going to help me with the reception.  I haven’t gotten very far on my plans for that yet, but they are going to help with the food and the centerpieces and serving pieces.

I feel so blessed by all these people helping me!  I was really panicking and feeling like I just couldn’t do it.  Randy and I re-grouped and decided to have a much less formal wedding than we originally planned.  Then he helped me find the guy’s shirts and the girls’ dresses.  Soon after that I found my dress, and since then things have been falling into place.

Now I just have to lose about 5 or 10 lbs for the dress to really look good.  Anybody want to help with that? 

Posted wedding |