photos by Me.
photos by Me.
I've been basking in every moment of alone time I've been able to steal with my dear husband who is venturing out for a big adventure and very soon. The blog has taken on some inevitable neglect in the wake of this. Naturally.
I wore this dress recently when we attended my stepsister's wedding at a vineyard & winery {photos to follow}. It was $20 at a little vendor stand during Sidewalk Days. Her tent had no name. She was just a quiet woman with lovely, affordable dresses. Magical.
The wedding color was purple, so it was fun to have something breezy to match. I did do quite a bit of surveying about the questionable tact of wearing white to a wedding. It's a a largely outdated notion, according to my sources. So, I wore it happily. What do you all think about dress rules for wedding attendees? Is this a polarizing issue?
dress: the mysterious vendor, cardigan: Merona, belt: Charlotte Russe, earrings: Forever21, sandal wedges: Attention, nail polish: Sally Hansen Salon Series ~ Thinking of Blue.
photos by Peanut.
photos by Peanut.
photos by Peanut.
...and, in a way, being carried by my bridegroom.Our engagement period was about 3 months, which didn't leave a lot of time for picking around with a fine-toothed comb for the best dress in the universe..JPG)
I peeked into a few stores casually looking for white-ish dresses for a few weeks, but I just wasn't seeing anything special enough. Then, while walking home from a watering hole with some friends on Brady St. in Milwaukee, my fiance pointed to the most unassuming little mesh and cotton number in the window of a boutique called Uncommon Items, and said, "What about that one?" and I said, "We're done!" Because it was so late at night, the shop was closed at the time, but we went in the next day and bought the dress. It was a sort-of 20's inspired ivory colored, mesh, bias-cut outer layer with peach and light green floral embellishments on the "collar", waistband and across the 'train'. The under layer was a thin cotton. The dress needed very little alteration and was almost as comfortable as a nightgown. My shoes were a simple pair of gold, jeweled kitten heels from Unlisted that cost next to nothing & that I ditched immediately after the ceremony for the sparkly flip flops pictured above (something new). My hair was too short to style very much, but I wore some daisies and greenery on a small comb on the left side of my head. My necklace was my great grandmother' s gold charm (something old) and my earrings were my mother's pearls (something borrowed). My something blue was Peanut's eyes. :)
Unlike many women, I spent less on my dress than I usually do on groceries AND I have had the distinct pleasure of wearing it again (twice!) on each of my anniversaries. On our 1-year I wore it with a jean jacket and cowboy boots at a rustic restaurant on the lake. And this year, on our 2-year I wore it with a black cardigan and black booties in Milan.
