Sadness

I interrupt my scheduled decor posts with an outpouring of emotion.

Today, as I was browsing through my favorite indie dress website, I found this dress:

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Then I repeatedly hit my head on the coffee table while wishing I had seen this dress before I had found my BM's dresses.

Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

Sometime in August I got the BEST news ever!  One of my BMs is getting married next summer as well.  Almost exactly 1 month before I am.  Well, we went out to lunch together at my favorite hippie burrito joint where I shared my first date with Mr. B and I received a pretty cool envelope...

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Yeah, there's an envelope buried in my poor, overworked and underpaid Longchamp.  What was inside the envelope?!

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 YAY!  Excuse the couch upholstered in yellow lab...we have given up trying to get dog hair out of corduroy...it's impossible.  Reallyreallyreally impossible.

Hark! A Theme Awaits!

So what's the first thing you did when wedding planning?  Instead of doing all of those practical things, like picking a date or a church, I decided to pick a theme.  And then another.  And then another.  Since we're just starting to get to know each other, I'll quickly show you the themes that could have been...

1.) Originally, I fell in love with a Breakfast at Tiffany's theme.  The colors: Tiffany black, blue, and silver.  I wanted the emphasis to be black, with the blue and silver VERY sporadically sprinkled in so it didn't look like too much.  At this point, I also wanted a very sleek sheath instead of a gown, which probably would have looked HORRID on me.  Here is a perfect inspiration board I found to illustrate the theme:

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I know you're thinking, "So beautiful and tasteful!  How did this plan go awry? " Well, I was browsing on modcloth.com, one of my favorites store for gorgeous affordable dresses, and I discovered...

The Attendants

I figured in these next string of posts I'd start writing about what I already have nailed down for the wedding, in the order I arranged them. I've read some places that you should wait until 6-8 months before the wedding to choose your attendants, but Mr. B and I wanted to choose ours ASAP.

The Bridesmaids...since we have 7, I have given them appropriate pseudonyms: