Hi friends. It's Monday again. And with that I've decided to throw in a colorboard, which is pretty much all thanks to the many hours I spend browsing the blog 100 Layer Cake. I love this blog, I love everything about it. Even if you have no interest in weddings, or the planning of them, it's worth giving a look just for all the visual and creative stimulation. And it provides links to so many amazing blogs out there.
Anyway, my favorite colors have always been brown and seafoam green (which can easily be confused with seafoam blue, although very different)... and white. White is not a color, of this I am aware, but I do love it so. That being said, choosing the colors for our wedding was the first thing I actually accomplished. Piece of cake! I also happen to enjoy each of these little pictures individually.
I'm also going to report today that I've decided to make my own wedding dress. Initially I wasn't going to, but one fateful day last year brought me to a "discount" wedding gown shop, where I was forced against my will to try on some of the most hideous wedding gowns you have ever seen. One of them actually fit me perfectly and was hilariously fun to wear. I could have had a flock of sheep under the dress and it would have been my little secret! But it was shortly after that day that I decided the only way I was going to get the perfect dress was if I made it myself.
And that's when I discovered Elizabeth Dye of the English Dept. Elizabeth is a designer in Portland, Oregon (hello friends!) whom I am just so impressed with. All of the designers at the English Dept. make gowns that are so tasteful and well thought out and not your typical gigantic wedding gown billowing with a thousand yards of fabric. Who wants to wear a 50 pound dress in the middle of July on the one day you've been working so hard to look your best for? Yuck. Here are some of the dresses that I really like, but you should just really check out the website. They design regular clothes too, the ones to be worn on a day when you're not making life-altering decisions and feeding everyone you've ever met.
I kind of want to stand in a room full of paper lanterns now too. Looks nice.
I wish we could escape like this every weekend...
