Last week, my great friend Q introduced me to my new favorite website (so favorite that it officially outranked Facebook for a week!!). This website is Pinterest.com. It's a virtual idea board. People from all over the world make their own, sharing things that they've found on the internet that they don't want to forget or find useful or beautiful, and then you can copy things onto your own board!! I have recipes of all types, inspiration for life, fashion, my wedding, and crafty ideas for the house and the holidays! I've already used a couple of the recipes I've found on there!! It's such a great website, and the best part is that you can organize the ideas that you put up by making multiple "boards". I'm officially addicted to this website, and recommend that everyone try it.
My mom and my grandma came to visit me this weekend from eastern Idaho. They arrived Saturday evening, and on Sunday morning J and I took them out to the winery where we are having our wedding. They absolutely loved it!! Afterwards, J went home and they came with me to go wedding dress shopping. I'd been once before, and found a couple that I liked (one in particular), but I really wanted to try more on before making an official decision. I tried on about 10 dresses, and then tried on the ones I'd tried on already once more. I kept coming back to the dress that I especially liked the first time that I went shopping. It's an absolutely gorgeous dress, and it's different than what everyone is expecting me to wear. I kept putting it back on and back on and back on and comparing all of the other dresses to it. And finally, there came a moment when wearing the dress when I realized three very important things: 1) I had no desire to take this dress off, 2) I had no interest in looking at other dresses, and 3) I could absolutely envision myself marrying J in this dress and looking positively ravishing in the process! It was then that I announced to my mom, grandma and my dress consultant, "This is it, this is the one!!" I was so happy I could've cried. At that time, the dress consultant came over to me holding a small golden bell. She said that every time a bride finds her dress, she gets to ring the bell. I rang it, and everyone clapped. Reliving that moment in my memory makes me smile and gives me butterflies... :)
In addition to the dress, we got a veil, a headpiece, a slip and my bra/corset to go with the dress. I am a vision of everything bridal when I wear the set, and I love it!! I feel so special in the dress!!! After we got home, mom and grandma headed home and J left for work. I invited my bridesmaid, H, over to watch a movie, bake cookies, and help me take my dress to my mother-in-law's house for safe-keeping and hiding from J's curious, peeking eyes. :) When H and I got to my MIL's house, I decided to try on the entire ensemble for her. She was so excited and absolutely loved it! She then offered me a very special, very old piece of family heirloom jewelry to wear as my "something borrowed". It's a string of opals and crystals, and looks like it was made to match my dress! So I officially have my something old (my great-grandmother's gold bracelet from England that was a gift from her sisters), my something new (my wedding dress) and my something borrowed (my MIL's necklace). All I need now is my something blue. I have a couple ideas for this. One is a sixpence painted blue, kept in my shoe, in Irish tradition. Another is a blue garter (cute, but not entirely original). And another idea is to have our wedding date stitched into the lining of my wedding dress over my heart. I can't decide which I'll do, so maybe I'll just do all of it!! :)
SO exciting!
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