Dresses Weekend #2 Recap

This last weekend was WAY fun!!

Bridesmaid, Meghan Jo and I drove to Las Cruces after work on Friday and stayed with Bridesmaid Charli. We stayed up til 2 am chit chatting and catching up!!!

It was WAY fun!!

While we were there, Charli's current roommate, Raynee was packing for her honeymoon!

Her wedding was on Saturday!!

It was fun to get to see her before her big day!!

Aren't they a GREAT couple!!! *Nabbed from Raynee's facebook ;)

Raynee's wedding planning tip:

"PACK early!

Don't wait til the night before when you don't have any clean clothes!!"

:) GOOD tip! One you don't think about for sure...

Raynee's bridesmaids ended up wearing the SAME dresses that TWO if my maids ended up picking!!! We got ALL of the bridesmaid dresses ordered!

Charli's was already in... So we got to see what it looked like on... LOVE THEM!!

Shame on me... I know... I didn't take ANY pictures.

WHAT was I thinking?!?

But that's ok... It leaves the girls' actual dress choices as a surprise!

Suffice it to say we have one with a cute dress and cover up.

One with a cute bubble hemmed dress.

Two with the same cute dress as Raynee's maids.

And two with a cute strapless dress.

We also looked for my mom's dress... but couldn't find one that she really liked...

So we'll keep looking!

I'm starting to get REALLY excited.

We started talking about parties to come and getting them planned...

The invitations are sent to the printer!
Things are really coming together!! :)

IDEA:

I'd like to host a wedding advice blog hop here and on my Truly Lovely blog...

Would you all be interested in contributing??

A soon to be married couple can use all the advice they can get...

You would write up a post on your advice for a soon to be married couple...

Whether YOU'RE married or not. ANY good advice would be awesome!

And link it up to the hop...

I'm thinking open it up the first-ish of April...

Let me know what you think?

Good idea?

P.S. Check out this Guest Post by Alisha of All About Us over on Truly Lovely!
She explains how to attach your email address to your account within blogger,
so that you are no longer a
"No-Comment Blogger".
If you are that means you can leave me a lovely comment and sadly... I cannot write directly back to you via e-mail... Which stinks... So please, go read that and fix up your account!!!
Thanks!!!

Dresses Weekend #1 Recap

This last weekend was a BLAST!!!

My soon to be sister-in-law, niece and nephew loaded up my little red Nitro and drove the 2+ hours to Phoenix Friday night after work!!

(I say soon to be in the context that they will be so legally, they already are as far as I'm concerned!)



Me and Sis-in-law, Brianne

Time was spent at another soon to be sister-in-law's house

 and then at the aunt-in-law's house!!

Bedtime at 11pm.

Thanks to two rambunctious kiddos... Awake at 5 am!! :)

Then it was a day of dress shopping for the wedding!

Brianne (sis-in-law), Bella (niece), Steph (sis-in-law), Diane (aunt-in-law),
Aimee (cousin), Kayce (bridesmaid)

The dress tally as of right now?

1 wedding dress (for me, sillies...) ;)

2 bridesmaid dresses ordered

1 sister-in-law dress ordered

1 aunt-in-law dress purchased

2 guest book/gift taker girls' dresses ordered

4 flower girl dresses purchased/ordered

For a grand total of 11 dresses for the wedding!!!!

This Saturday will be MORE dress shopping in El Paso, Texas!!

(My peeps are spread out over two full states... What'd you expect... heehee)

Hoping to have 3 more bridesmaid dresses and

the mother of the bride dress ordered by Sunday! :)

Rhonda (aunt-in-law) and Kayce

That only leaves one bridesmaid dress!

And Miss Tracey will be ordering hers from North Dakota! ;)

We're cutting it close to have them all in and if need be altered in time...

But we're gonna make it! :)

Stay tuned for the 3 months post on Friday!! :)

And if you haven't already... You can meet my Maid of Honor here.

Cotton: The Fabric of OUR Lives

How about an update on a couple of Bridesmaid Dress decisions? :)

When we went to David's Bridal a couple of weekends ago, I took three of my ladies with me.  I've decided to do a intro to the girls post or page soon, so may as well start getting acquainted! ;)

Charli. My sister, Kayli (the MOH).  And Megan.

Once my dress was tried on, chosen and purchased we had some extra time so the girls tried on a few maids dresses. Through that process we came to a few decisions...

The color will be David's Bridal WATERMELON. The perfect shade of pink for my ladies!

The fabric will be summer sundress COTTON.

Here Charli and Meg wear cotton and satin. I think cotton looks lovely in the Watermelon. (Charli's wearing Guava and Meg's in Black... but we did see a Watermelon version.
And it fits our summer, outdoor, somewhat laid back theme.)



Also the length is David's Bridals version of short, or cocktail length basically.

So far I think Charli and Meg have decided somewhat on this style... Which I LOVE and want my OWN dress in... :)

A couple of the other girls seem to like this style too, so it will be interesting to see if they all choose the same even though they have, I think, five or so options to choose from in my set criteria. Shows they all have fabulous taste!! ;)



Kayli will be wearing some kind of a cover up for a little modesty...
(She's a good Mormon girl)
But it will also set her apart as the Maid of Honor.

So what do you think??
Do you think our decisions fit what you've seen so far for the theme of the wedding?
Any other bridesmaid dress comments??

I would love to hear!!!

Dresses for the Ladies!

I've been thinking alot about bridesmaid dresses lately... This last weekend we had a little BBQ and get together at our house with a few friends (NFR on TV, see my personal blog for that post...) Anyway, it turns out a few friends adds up to a third of our wedding party! Although my maids have been chosen and set in stone, more on that in a later post, Mr. M is still debating on his dudes. But I think he's got a pretty good idea...

So me and the ladies discussed dresses, and lots of things wedding, during our little get together. Here is my initial bridesmaid dress inspiration board created over at Style Me Pretty. As you can see there's lots of pink... But none are really the shade I'm going for.

The uniformity will come in with all of the girls wearing the same length (cocktail), same color (some shade of bright pink), and same material (sort of leaning towards chiffon).

Then each girl will be able to pick her own neckline.

My ladies vary in size and shape, absolutely. I have everything from my modest sister, who WILL be wearing some sort of cover up if she goes strapless,  to my tall, lanky friend that will choose something sexy. And I love it!

I love that my girls are different. That's why they were chosen, each is different in their shapes, their heights, and most importantly, as a friend. Each is important to me in different aspect of my life. But as I said before, that's a topic for a post coming soon.

So... What do you think? Do you think that's a good balance of uniformity, but also individuality?

I want my maids to be able to choose a dress they will enjoy, and hopefully wear again. If you're gonna spend that much, you wanna wear it more than once! But I also want them to look like their supposed to be standing up there with me, not just some random guests that wondered to the front.

What about the material? It will be a summer wedding, in June. So something light and airy seems to fit the bill? Will chiffon do the trick? Do you have any opinions as to what will work best to keep the ladies comfortable, but still lovely? And classy, but not too formal? I would love to hear your opinions!!