Ooh La La...

I have been collecting pictures of my dream dresses for forever, it seems like. Almost all of the dresses I love are either all lace, have some lace on them, and are V-neck. I do love wearing strapless dresses, but I just am in love with the way a V-neck wedding gown looks. I absolutely love lace, and am thinking about making it sort of a "theme" in the wedding. Erin at Blue Eyed Bride had the most beautiful lace motif on her wedding stationery! Lace just has that wonderful old heirloom feeling to me and I would love to have a gown that felt that way, too.

Here are a few of my favorites!

Justin Alexander

Lazaro

Jim Hjelm

Alita Graham: Kleinfeld Exclusive

And now for my absolute favorite, if I ever got this I would never take it off, makes me drool, I hear angels singing, and get goosebumps everytime I look at it, dress...
Oh, Anne Barge, how I love you...

The price listed on The Knot is $$$$$ (which most definitely probably is not in my budget.) I'm wondering if the gown could be recreated using lace from my mother's gown? That would be ideal!

Anne Barge

I'm alive! I promise!

I've been so busy since we got engaged that I haven't gotten to make a trip to Barnes and Noble to drown myself in wedding books!

I finally was able to go on Sunday night, and oh boy, did I have fun.

Everytime I'm in Barnes and Noble, I look at every wedding book/magazine I can get my hands on...but now that I'm actually planning a real live wedding, it was like Heaven in there! (it doesn't take a lot to thrill me)

I knew I needed some type of wedding planning notebook, and I originally thought I would just make my own. I found one that isn't so pretty on the outside, but had lots of helpful stuff on the inside! I think I might take all of the "guts" out, go through them and decide what stuff I really need and make my own personalized notebook. Between the pages from my new planner and the free templates/tools from russell + hazel and Martha Stewart Weddings, I will have the most organized planner ever!

It was also the perfect day to go because the new Martha Stewart Weddings magazine came out that weekend. I spent the rest of the night pouring over it and there were so many things in it that make me drool (Martha never fails!) All of the personalization definitely made this my favorite issue yet.

I don't have much exciting news as far as wedding planning is concerned, but we are going to visit a potential reception venue on Saturday morning before Joe's game, and the church we are hoping we will have the ceremony on Sunday morning! I am super excited!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous week! Wofford's Homecoming is this weekend and we are playing the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Go Terriers!

PS. Thanks to the oh-so-sweet Blue-Eyed Bride for picking my picture as a runner-up in her Blurb contest! Check out the other beautiful pictures! I absolutely love her blog, and she was my inspiration in starting my own!