Next challenge: Looking for bridesmaids dresses

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that I got married last year. But that doesn't mean that I never have to deal with wedding related things again, of course. A friend of mine is getting married this winter, and I am helping her plan her wedding, and I will also be a bridesmaid at her wedding. So now I am looking for bridesmaid dresses.

And wow, that is really hard! Not only do the dresses have to fit the theme of the wedding, they also have to fit a blonde (me) and three brunettes. Some of us do not want to show a lot of cleavage, others do not want to expose their knees... there are so many issues to take into consideration. And I used to think it was hard to shop for myself! It really is nothing compared to shopping for myself and three others.

But at least there are a lot of really cute bridesmaid dresses out there. So I think I should be able to find something eventually... And if nothing else, I do run into quite a lot of dresses that I can get just for myself while doing this as well!

(pic from Best dresses for wedding)

Wedding preparations... again!

As you may know, I got married earlier this year. But now it seems I will be planning another wedding! One of my closests friends is getting married, you see, and since she liked my wedding so much, she wants me to help her planning hers as well.
We have already been checking out dresses, custom envelopes and invitations, wedding shoes and soon we will start looking for venues as well.

And to be honest, I have to say that planning someone else's wedding is much more fun than planning your own! With my own wedding I was stressed that I wouldn't find the perfect place, the shoes I wanted, the perfect dress and so on (Of course it all worked out in the end, but I didn't know that when I was looking and nothing felt right)
With someone else's wedding, you don't feel the same stress and can just enjoy yourself. Plus, in my case I get to be the one who's already done it, and knows best, hehe.

(pic from Amy Antoinette)

Online wedding bells

I went to a wedding this week, that was quite lovely. The bride wore a beautiful gown, and these gorgeous Alexander McQueen shoes:

I was very excited to see these shoes IRL, since I have been drooling over them online for ages now. But that wasn't really the most interesting part of the wedding. Instead, their story was very cute. You see, they met on an online dating site, and I know a lot of people really don't think online dating ever works, but I do. I have seen several examples of it in the past, but this is the first couple that I know personally who actually got married after trying a free online dating site.

So if any of you are still so old fashioned that you think only weird people use these services, and that nothing good ever comes out of them, think again! Sometimes they do end up changing lives too!

Some glimpses of my wedding

I'm a married woman now

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I got married this weekend, so I have not had very much time to spare in the last days. Sadly, I do not have any photos yet, but everything went well and I had a blast!

I think I will be back on track with the blogging in a couple of days though, when the last of my out of town guests have gone back home.

(pic from Wedding Splendor)

Busy bride

First of all, thanks for all the lovely compliments on my wedding Louboutins, I really appreciate it. There is nothing like fullfilling a dream you have had for years by finally getting what you wanted to have for so long, I highly recommend it, no matter what your material dreams may be.

Now, if I could just get a Hermes-bag for my birthday too... ;)

Second of all, getting married means you are busy for weeks before the wedding, which I never realized. I thought the week before might be stressful, but not a whole month before. So I am certainly keeping busy with various wedding related tasks, and to make it worse, I also need to sort out my finances rather quickly, for two reasons:
1. I recently opened a small business (nothing fashion related, I am afraid. Not yet anyway!), and in order to expand it, you need all your paperwork to be in perfect order, you need to fill out so many tax forms, take care of irs extensions and much more. I have been putting this off for ages, but I realized I might have to pass up on some really nice business opportunities only because I've been lazy, which is really stupid, so I need to get everything back on track.

2. We are thinking of buying a house or an apartment of our own after the wedding, and in order to do this, you need to take care of all kinds of paperwork as well.

So here I am, basically sitting in a big mess (for now, I hope it will be sorted out soon) of wedding dresses, wedding shoes, papers and files, but I am pretty sure everything will be finished on time.

And all I am wondering is: How do all the brides in movies and tv-shows have time to get cold feet right before the wedding? I've never been busier in my entire life!

Looking forward to getting back to shopping

If you aren't married yet, I want to warn you: while planning a wedding, you do not really have to do much shopping for other things that wedding related things (I am not just talking about the dress and shoes here, there are so many other things too, such as the ring you will be wearing FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, eeeks!, presents for your bridesmaids, the proper underwear, wedding invitations, decorations and much more!), so at least I haven't been shopping much while I have been planning my wedding.

Not because of financial reasons, really (even though I am sure that plays a huge part for a lot of people, but I was lucky enough to find most things I wanted for very reasonable prices), but more because you get exhausted from the hunt for all the wedding related things, so I really haven't felt like shopping besides that.
It is the first time in my life when all kinds of fashion items do not appeal to me that much, which has been a very interesting experience.

Instead, I have just been buying things I really, really need, such as groceries, the smallest amount of makeup I can get by with, a new sofa and so on.

But I have to say, I look forward to getting back into my old habits, where shopping was fun, again! Just a month left to go!

(pic from Passagen)

Lady in white

I've honestly never been a big fan of white clothing. It stains easily and I am a rather clumsy person by nature, so I have always been scared of spilling things on white clothing that I have had in the past. But now... I totally love all the white clothing coming out.

I am not sure if it is because I have been looking for wedding dresses (which, obviously are white) so much lately, or if white has always been superchic without me noticing.

I still haven't purchased any new white clothing, save for the actual wedding dress, but I am seriously considering it!

(pics from Fashion Spreads, you can enlarge them by clicking on them)

Today I'm loving...

... these Make Way heels. What a fun way to spice up a pair of black heels!

On a wedding related note (as some of you may remember, I am getting married in May), I have finally found THE dress, so now I am looking for my wedding shoes. So there might be some more shoerelated posts coming up further on.

What I will be doing this weekend...

I am looking for wedding dresses, my wedding is getting closer and closer. Yikes! (Because I do not have the dress OR the shoes OR the accessories yet, not because of anything more serious than that. But not having found the perfect dress is quite serious too, if you ask me!)

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

(pic from Anna's blog)