Weddingbee Blog

Ok, so this is the part where Mr. CC hides his eyes to avoid seeing my wedding dress! Ready Mr. CC? Alrighty, here goes..

This probably isn’t something I should advertise, but my wedding dress cost a whopping $36 (including shipping!). I decided I wanted a BCBG dress for the wedding since I love their designs, so I browsed on Ebay for my size and found one that seemed perfect for me within a few minutes of searching. The dress still needs to be altered…it’s about a foot and a half too long (yeaaaah, I’m only 5’2) and it needs to be taken in a bit.

This is obviously the dress on the model. I’m sure when I wear it, I will have to have my photographer Photoshop out what I like to call my “vagina arms,” aka the little folds on the side of your armpit when your arms are at your side.

Here, Tyra will demonstrate for you (Rich at fourfour is the genius behind this, not I!):

Here is the dress on me (I had to lay down since my tripod and I don’t get along very well and I didn’t have anyone to snap a photo, so I resorted to using my handy dandy dresser as a “tripod”):

It’s pretty darn hard to tell what it looks like in this shot, considering I’m horizontal and made the photo all blue-toned…come to think of it, this is probably a pointless photo to share, but at least there’s a puppy dog in it! I love me some puppy dogs.

This is the other BCBG dress I had originally considered wearing, but decided it was a bit too casual for the location of our wedding. I’ve decided to wear it to the dress rehearsal instead.

Here is a poorly-Photoshopped idea of how I plan on wearing the same brown ribbon as the bridesmaids, so we look like one big, happy, sashtastic family:

I’ve chosen this brooch from Etsy seller Sarah Ogren due to my obscene amount of love for rabbits:

Brace yourself. It’s time for obligatory pet bunny photos!

Top row from left to right: Willie Nelson with his lovah (Eeyore); baby Applesauce and I; Applesauce; Bottom row from left to right: Cadbury being sassy; the babies that the supposedly-male, sexually-assaulted SPCA bunny Cadbury popped out (this includes Applesauce); and Willie Nelson giving his typical look of disapproval.

Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system.

Whenever I visualized my dream wedding day as a young, tinier version of myself, I never imagined wearing a veil. I’ve always been a wee bit creeped out by the possible misinterpretation that the lifting of the wedding veil=the groom taking possession of the wife. It’s just a whole lot of sexual symbolism that I’m not interested in incorporating in our ceremony (more power to the veil-wearing brides, I’ve got nothing against them, it’s just not my cup o’ tea). In my not-so-fashionable opinion, headbands are way cuter.

Since I didn’t have nearly $700 to splurge on the headband of my choice, I found a crafty bride-to-be online who was willing to make me a Jennifer Behr-esque creation from scratch. I couldn’t be more excited about the outcome! I’ve never been one to wear headbands, so I’m hoping I can pull off this look. If anyone digs the final results and wants to get in touch with my headband helper, feel free to shoot me a private message. 

Here’s the headband with the necklace I’ll be wearing from Anthropologie. My hair is in the growing out phase from a pixie cut, so hopefully it will be bob-length come October (I’ve been taking Flintstone vitamins because my hairdresser said they would encourage my hair to grow faster…plus they taste good).

Wow, I babble.  For those of you who are still reading, does anyone in the Philadelphia area have any recommendations for where I should go to get my dress altered? I’ve tried to research wedding dress tailors online and someone suggested Tina Kang at Natural Cleaners. I have an irrational fear that my $36 dress will get butchered and I’ll end up walking down the aisle in my birthday suit. Eep! Thanks in advance for any suggestions!