Wedding Fashion

I am feeling pretty good right now. Today I took care of all kinds of hurdles. Clayton's mom called and woke me up this morning to talk about the church and that we were going to be able to get it without breaking the bank. Reception area too. That was a huge load off my mind. Last night I utilized a coupon code that Clayton's brother gave us from a friend whose wedding he was in - Tungsten rings costing $300 on average for free - just pay $25 per ring for shipping and if you want engraving that's extra (pro tip: if you use them, don't order the engraving. Before it ships they will call and offer it to you 1/2 price). (click here) JVL Jewelry and the coupon code is 291120. It'll take it off when you add it at checkout. Hopefully if there is another bride out there this will help her!

This is the Devotion Ring which we ordered I ordered my dress about two months ago. I ordered it from a site called In Wedding Dress. There are a few reasons why I ordered the dress from here. First off, look at it!

I got the sash in purple, which is what my colors are going to be. It was $300 dollars base. I wanted a few alterations and since I'm a weird shaped fattie, I wanted the dress custom tailored to my specific measurements. Those are the plusses. The minus, well it came from China. Ordering anything online is always a gamble, especially clothing. Would it arrive okay? Would it fit? Would it look like the picture? Those are the things I had to deal with. I eagerly awaited my dress and after some initial back and forth with the sellers, it arrived in a giant DHL package. You should have seen me open it up so carefully yet with so much excitement! And when I got it out of the package it looked just as beautiful as the photo - even more so because the sash was in my color. My dad said it looked like a $2000 dress. I had to agree!

The cool thing is that at the site, I could pick out the bridesmaids dresses and they could order them in the same color as my sash. So after some back and forth, we all picked out one that everyone could agree on.

This, but in the purple color. I had them get two alterations: (a) they added a 2nd ruffle sleeve (most of my girls have big ta tas and this is to help with the bra situation) (b) Got it lengthened to tea-length. It's going to be gorgeous and my ladies are going to be gorgeous!

The only thing left to do fashion wise is to hash out a dress for his baby sister, our flower girl, and to go to Al's Formal Wear to pick out the men's attire. I know it's going to be grey, and I know that Clayton and my dad will be wearing suits - the rest of the party will be wearing vests and no suit jacket. It's going to look AWESOME.

So all in all today was a good day. Fashion's going well, church is booked. I moved the sweet peas I'm growing over into a larger planter and gave them some water. Now I just need to get working on these invitations!