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On Friday, I had picked out a dress for Laura that was different from the other bridesmaid’s dresses in cut, but the same in every other way. I really like the idea of the maid of honor having a unique dress. Today Laura came to the store with me to get measured. The dress I picked was okay, but we found an even better one. I think it’s going to look amazing on her once we get the alterations done. I’m pretty excited about the dresses, and now we are half way done with the measurements!

The dresses we picked are by Jim Hjelm. They come in a fabric called “satin faced taffeta” which I am in love with and they are a soft oceany blue-green (they call the color lagoon) and there is a taupe accent fabric. I just love the look of it. Here’s a sample of the color on another dress:

I met Stacy at Penn Station this afternoon and we walked to the bridal shop where we are getting the bridesmaids’ dresses (RK Bridal). We both tried on a bunch of dresses that came in the fabric I had picked out. Once Stacy found the best one, she practiced her walk, dancing and her entrance! I thought it was really cool to have someone brave enough to do this in the store, so I could see how the dress moves etc. One of the other customers took it the wrong way and thought Stacy was the bride. She said she was scared for me because she thought Stacy was demonstrating what I had to do at her wedding!

While we were there, I talked to the staff about the fact that the bridesmaids are all from other places and we can’t all come in at once and they had the perfect solution for our situation. I filled out a sheet with each bridesmaid’s information, and which dress she should be fitted for. Then they keep the sheet there and hold it until everyone is measured and then order all the dresses at once. That way we make sure they are all from the same dye lot and the color is identical on each dress.

Tonight Pete was surfing the internet and said to me, “What does I’m feeling lucky [on the google page] mean?” I said, “Don’t know.” He decided to click it (after typing in his own name) and this is what he found.

I have been struggling to come up with a concept for the table centerpieces at the reception because neither Pete or I have loved any flower arrangements we have seen. I finally found an inspiration photo that we both really like! I love the lanterns, and the sand and starfish fit perfectly with our theme. As far as what goes in the vases, we still have some work to do, but at least we love the rest of the tablescape!

Last night I finished printing envelopes, attaching stamps and sealing up all the save the date cards. Today we dropped them in the mail, so keep an eye out for yours! We really love them and had to admire them one last time before we sent them. We hope you like them too. There are a few stragglers who haven’t given me their mailing address…so if you’re one of those people, get with it!

I know it’s probably a little early, but I was so excited to pick out something special to thank my bridesmaids that once I found the perfect gift, I just couldn’t wait. I’m beginning to find it a little hard to keep a blog about the wedding planning because I don’t want to spoil any surprises for anyone! Well, I guess all I can say is that I decided to get a gift that is personalized for each bridesmaid, just like most of the recommended gifts are! But I tried to get something that everyone will really love, not a silly pink flask or anything like that…

For anyone who doesn’t know, Pete and I painted one wall in our apartment with chalkboard paint and asked everyone to write their best advice or words of encouragement during our engagement party. The wall didn’t turn out quite as we had hoped. After the party I erased all the vulgar drawings and crude comments, which left us with about 75% of the wall blank again. It sat like that for a while, until I saw Pete writing on the wall tonight. He had the great idea that we could come up with our own best advice to ourselves. We had a lot of fun writing all the ideas that came to our heads as well as some of the advice people gave to us verbally. I’d like to take a picture of the wall and post it.. but my camera charger disappeared during the engagement party. I fear it fell into one of the trash bins :(

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Yesterday was a very long day, but a lot of fun. All the bridesmaids and our two moms went on our first trip to look at bridesmaids dresses. For a long time it seemed like I picked a color that didn’t exist. So then we started picking out different colors and styles just to try them out. At one store I found some dresses that were not only in the mermaid cut, but also looked like mermaid skin. I picked out one for everyone and I think I really scared them. They thought I was serious, and once Laura had hers on she said, “If you make us wear these, you’re the worst bride ever!” I was glad I asked them to try those dresses on because we all had a good laugh and I think the trip became more fun after that. We also eventually found a dress by Mori Lee that comes in the color I want (a soft medium blue-grey) and the taffeta fabric it comes in looks rich and beautiful. I am also thinking about pale turquoise but I didn’t see much in that color either. The search continues…

I drove out to the Hamptons again today to see the place we chose for the room block. It’s called The Inn at Quogue. I got to see the different types of rooms available so I can give everyone advice on which room would fit them best. I also saw (and really liked) the layout of the whole area. I love that the two main buildings are from the 1600s and 1700s. It is also on the edge of a quaint downtown area which is very cute. (more…)