Royal Quickie

I am going to keep this entry short and sweet!

Probably everyone is going to be blogging about the Royal Wedding for the next few days...

I woke up at 0400 to begin watching the wedding and low and behold- the television was on the fritz! I had to wake up my fiancé (who was not too happy by the way) to fix the television! Soon enough I was watching the wedding!

I absolutely love the dresses the many of the attendees wore!

When the Queen stepped out all I could think was, "look how cute she is"! She looked very cute wearing her canary yellow outfit!

Queen Elizabeth's Dress:




Of course Kate Middleton's dress was fabulous!

Very stylish, traditional, and of course as everyone else noticed very quickly- a modern version of Grace Kelly's wedding dress when she married the Prince of Monaco!

If I had toned arms and an elongated waist like Kate I would leap to buy a similar dress for my own wedding!

Kate's Dress:




Hats were a very prominent feature of guest attire.

The worst hate I saw (which immediately caught my eye as she entered into Westminster Abbey) goes to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Her hate looks like a striking blue slug climbing up her forehead!

I couldn't find a side view photograph which would illustrate what I am talking about!




Now I am off to clean up my house a bit because my mother and father are driving up from Connecticut to see Craig and I!

Have a wonderful day all!

Dream Weddings

Since I became engaged I have given myself "permission" to dream big about weddings. Something that I have always done- since childhood in fact...but I have always kept my ideas to myself.

I have thought of many themes over the years here are a couple themes that I have come up with over the years and some ideas surrounding them!

One of the first themes I am going to share is one I came up with during my childhood. I started out wanting a colonial wedding. As I read the American Girls "Felicity" series I would dream about wearing beautiful frocks and dancing the night away in a blue ball gown like the protagonist Felicity. When the books I read began to mature a bit I began reading Jane Austen....


Ahh yes...Jane Austen...the writer of great fictional love stories.

1) Regency Era inspired wedding

Wedding Dress: Claire Pettibone- "Emma"


Wedding Dress: Claire Pettibone- "Queen Anne"



Venue:

Historical Inn or Mansion...in my ultimate dreams England.

Flowers:

Peonies and Roses



2) Preppy New England Wedding


Dress:

Oleg Cassini



Priscilla of Boston- "Maeve"


Jessica Fontaine- "Lalani"




Venue:

Seaside, Yacht or Country Club in MA

Colors:

Blue, Yellow, White

Pink and Green

Flowers:

Hydrangeas, Dahlias, Gerbera Daisy

Time for an update!

It has been quite a while since I have made a blog update! This past year has been a whirl wind of changes in my life some of which were great and not so great- c'est la vie non?

I haven't really figured out a direction for my blog...I follow so many wonderful and inspiring blogs and I am just too indecisive to really make a directional commitment!

My best friend is getting married in August at her childhood home in CT. It is going to be a tented wedding with citrus colors (Orange, Yellow, and Green). Initially my friend chose yellow to be the color of the bridesmaids dresses which I think would have been amazing personally- some of the other maids were none too thrilled about the selection so she settled on Orange which is great too! I vastly prefer those colors over green *no offense to the green lovers*!

She is letting us pick the style of our dresses as long as it fits within a certain range of orange hues- I have fallen in love with this dress:



This is Alfred Sung from The Dessy Group! It comes in firecracker & fiesta- color swatches coming soon in the mail for the bride to choose! I am so excited I hope I look good in the dress because it is gorgeous!


As for Mother's Day I am not sure what to get my mom! For the past few years I have given her garden oriented presents but this year I want to try something different. It has been a tough year for my family and despite everything my family has been going through they are ever marching forward!

I was thinking of getting her this necklace from Dogeared:



Sorry I don't have an image saved of the necklace. It is the "New Beginnings" necklace from Dogeared. I love their website and I have been wanting to order something for a while.


Finally- my love of shoes survives...here are the latest shoes I am loving right now!

Sperry Topsider's Anglefish Slip on Boat Shoe in Linen/FLoral:



Sperry Women's Palmdale Flats:




I am loving more shoes right now but I should save some for future posts!

With Love,

Chrissy