Weddingbee Blog

I love J.Crew, I really do. Someday I even hope to afford their clothing. Zing!

But seriously, I’m inspired by what they’re doing lately, all funky-preppy. I enjoy their catalogs. I like to sit and read them and imagine myself within their pages, doing what their models do. No one does Catalog People quite like the Crew. I kinda want to jump in their pages, where life seems stylish and simple: have brunch with friends somewhere perpetually warm, in tall boots and crisp jeans and a little cashmere sweater (grab one in every color!), scarves artfully arranged around necks. Join in on summer trips involved hiking, many of us in distressed camp shorts and tall socks and galoshes—who knows why?—hoisting a canoe above our heads, mouths open laughing.

No one does Catalog People like the Crew! And their wedding shots are always the picture of easy-breezy-whimsy-cheer.

But tell me if this doesn’t make you LOL.

Can we dissect this for a moment?

The bride is smiling, but she’s not smizing. Is this because:

a. Someone stole her bouquet

b. Her hippy sister (right) refused to brush her hair and insisted on carrying twigs

c. Her hippy sister is going through an Edward Cullen phase, and brought her fourteen-year-old boyfriend to the ceremony

d. She’d rather be sitting in a canoe with her golden retriever, wearing her knit sweater with the toggle buttons, hunting hat, scrunched neon ankle socks, and stilettos

Uptown granny (bottom left) gets points for her feathered (?) skirt, showing off those toned gams. And the flower girl, Little Cousin Gretta, next to Gram, is adorable with her tousled bun and freckles. But oh, wait—oh no! It’s the return of Sassy Stink-eye in the bottom right! Seriously, people? Another wedding?, her cherubic eyes seems to imply. One: I don’t even know this b, and Two: I’m meeting Chuck Bass in fifteen. Can we wrap this up?

Looks like Uncle Orville skulked his way into another family photo! There he is, to the far right, caught mere moments after kicking over chair, mere moments before flashing the photographer.

Here we are! Just your average family photo! Just your average PO-ed bride and bored groom. Just sittin’ here among the khaki backdrop and random fallen leaves, minding our business!

What will your family photos look like? Have you ever heard the siren song of the Catalog People?