Wedding Blog

We had great vantage points for me to snap some pics at the bigger shows at Bridal Market this weekend, so while we gather our pro pics, I thought I’d blog about a show that I was able to catch on my own camera! Kirstie Kelly for Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings was last night, and appropriately for Disney… the kids stole the show! Kirstie showcased…

Much like many brides before me, I am super excited about wearing a hair flower in my hair. I even talked about it with my six year old niece, who also happens to be my flower girl. We were having a discussion about how to wear our hair for the wedding. No, seriously, we were––this girl knows fashion and has picked out my outfits on…

I’m so over big bows and mini-brides (was I ever under them?)! I love the idea of dressing our flower girl in a preppy little J.Crew number. I don’t know what it is about the ‘Crew; I haven’t shopped there in years, but their stuff lately has got me coveting! I covet!!

Like Jezebel.com writes, “J.Crew’s Ovary-Busting Children Should Come with a Warning.” Their caption is…

After spending a weekend full of work and mild depression (my Dawgs lost AGAIN, but I knew it was coming), I decided to do one of my favorite Sunday activities: catch up on Weddingbee! On the very first page I saw Miss Fro Yo’s post about Ruche.com. Despite better judgment, the shopaholic in me decided to click on the site and take a gander. That’s when I stumbled across what I thought would be the end to my junior bridesmaids’ dress search.

You may or may not remember one of my very first posts way back when about my little sister (the flower girl) and my littlest sister (the honorary flower girl).

I just thought I’d give you an update on how my little ladies’ looks are progressing! We took them to the tailor earlier this week to get their dresses altered to fit them perfectly.

My little sister…

I’m slowly checking off the gazillion and one items on my wedding to-do list as the days quickly tick down. The latest accomplishment was settling on 3/5ths of my niece-entourage’s attire. After some serious lusting over Miss Ramen’s flower girl dress find, I set out on my own search for the cutest little dresses I could find to fit my cheek-squeezin’ worthy gals. I’m extremely…

My parents lived in the same house for most of my life, up until a few years ago when they moved back to Massachusetts. When you live somewhere for that long, there is a good chance that your neighbors become more like family. We were no exception, and I grew up with a pseudo big sister who is about six years older then me. I’m…

Yep, that’s right. I won’t be the only girl sweating underneath a large layer of clothing; my flower girls will be wearing petticoats, but not underneath their dresses. The petticoats will be their skirts. What will they pair with this beautiful skirt? A cute white tank! They are from Oopsy Daisy Baby, and I am totally smitten by them. Plus, I know that every little…

I think if I could, I would have had a million flower girls. Okay, so more like 10 or so… I just LOOOOOVE kids (Mr. Ramen and I could not possibly ever exclude kids, because we love them so much!).

Most of our cousins are older than us, married, and have started families, leaving us with a bunch of sweet little baby cousins, the majority of…

I thought I loved Martha Stewart Wedding’s Ring Bearer Pillow as much as the next girl. And the next girl. But I didn’t love it as much as they did until I saw fashion designer Myriah Zatoun’s version of it featured on Once Wed. Her garden wedding was gorgeous.

Back in April, I paid a visit to sunny (but decidedly not hypoallergenic) Coppell, Texas. I was there paying a spur of the moment visit to my flower girl Z (and, okay, the rest of her family, too). Z was very anxious to talk to me about what her “little dress” would look like. She thought it should have butterflies on it.

I wasn’t quite sure of my ability to find a flower girl dress with butterflies on it, so I convinced her that petals were just as good.

Have I mentioned yet that I’m an auntie now? If I haven’t, it must be because I’m too busy shouting it out the windows and blabbing it to casual passers-by. I’m so, so excited!

My sister’s twins, a girl A and a boy K, will be just about seven months old when I get married.

I’m sure it’s not hard to guess my first thought on this:…

I have a pretty large bridal party: 5 bridesmaids (it used to be 6 but one moved to Ohio and had to relinquish her duties), 3 flower girls (1 is more of an "honorary" FG because of her age), and 2 junior bridesmaids.

I chose to have so many flower girls and junior bridesmaids because they are all my nieces. I just felt like it wouldn’t be right to choose one or two over the rest, ya know?

At least with lots of cute kids running around, I’ll have adorable photos like this one:

Lately I’ve been combing the web for flower girl dresses. I’ve waited until relatively late to purchase them, since little kids seem to grow so fast—I want to make sure they still fit come time for them to wear them. I am in love with the idea of the girls wearing cute little ballet flats that match their dresses. But what should those dresses look…

Here are the gifts I made to go along with my “Will you be my flower girl?” cards.

My supplies

My two flower girls are five and six (or somewhere around that age), and as I mentioned before, they love princess stuff. I decided to make them tote bags and fill them up with princess-related goodies. By “make” I mean iron some sparkly decals onto pre-made mini…