wedding attire

i picked out my dress long ago. i fell in love with it online and then fell in love with it at the store. it's currently in a bag in our guest bedroom waiting for may 8th. of course, i've gained some weight since i bought it so i'm in the 'please let this fit' stage.



now, for the bridesmaids. this has been a bit more tricky, but i think i have the dress and the color:


This was difficult because i always thought it would be a pink or orange dress. but the pink at david's bridal is too dark, the orange has been vetoed by everyone, so that leaves us with the blue. it's a pretty dress, though.

and finally my handsome fiance will be wearing his army blues. i can't wait to see him in them!!

organized thoughts

ok, so it's been a few hours and i'm hoping i can write a somewhat logical post.

first off, in the off-chance that someone other than my mom reads this, hi, my name is aubrey. i'm 30 years old from richmond, va (originally from orange county, ca), and in a little under 6 months, i will be marrying the man of my dreams, dan.

this is us :)



aren't we cute?

anyways, on to the wedding! may 8th, 2010 we will have our ceremony and reception in corolla, nc. i absolutely fell in love with this venue's veranda and knew that was where i wanted to get married.




So far we have colors & location. more to come later!

let's get this started

yes, it's been exactly 10 minutes since my first post. i got rid of all of the attempts at a custom layout and figured to concentrate on gathering my thoughts.

first up, the wedding colors. pink, orange & blue. and i never had any idea how many different shades of each of those colors existed. these are the shades i picture in my head:



I love the way orange & pink look together and the fiance's favorite color is blue so I know I want to find a good balance between the 3.

A couple of inspiration pics I've found:



This is from my florist's site!

good grief

so i thought it would be a great idea for me to get all my thoughts together on a blog. i have NO creativity and yet i have a random collection of images in my head for what i want our wedding to be. oh, that's important... the whole point of this blog is to put together wedding ideas for our wedding on may 8th, 2010.

in my attempts to get a blog started, though, i spent hours trying to figure out the colored backgrounds. just colors. it's not even 100% how i want it, i just figured i needed to let it go and start actually putting some content on here. but i'm exhausted from the design so i'm just going to write a few paragraphs and be done with this for a while. so pathetic!