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This wedding is ABSURD. Ridic. Out of control.

But check the Maiden dresses, y'all. (((shiver of glory shudders through my body)))

Seriously? Look at 'em close up:

Probably more fifties than anything, but look at the glorious, rich colors all together! Blue, green, teal, purpley! Yes! Love love love super love with all kinds of lovins on top.

I would also commit a very serious crime or two for that GD bridal gown, Jesus H. Wowza.

Breathtaking

Every single dress in this collection is perfectly amazing. Takes my breath away. WANT.

A taste of the beauty:

Possibly difficult to pull off, but so what? Slap on a few industrial-strength pairs of Spanx and good to go, right?

Actually, it's good that these styles are impractical. It is the unlikelyhood of rocking such satiny material with a full set of curves that I will cling to in order to renew my love for the dress I actually did purchase, which as yet I've not laid eyes on in fully functioning form and so have no idea how it will realistically manifest, but in the ideation is nothing at all like any of these Thirties inspirations. Well, maybe a little Thirties in the frayed edges department...

Anyhoooooo. Click that link up there. Look at the whole collection. It's a feast for the design senses.

Drink Hendricks Gin

I need 7 more of these bottles. These empty bottles, I should clarify.

So please go drink Hendricks Cucumber Gin (seriously, muddle some cucumber in your GT and you will be the happiest happy ever in the history of happys) and save me your empties. It's "from Scotland" and like $25 bux at Trader Joes in CA, but $34 bux here in OR (land of retarded liquor laws) and I'm not really drinking right now (I know, WHAAAA?*) so it's going to be tough to make it happen. But I know you, and with your help, I know we can make it happen.

Actually, I suppose if worse comes to worse, I just get 7 more bottles and empty them into an apothecary jar and put some cucumber slices in that shit and bam! booze for the masses and empty bottles for the show. But in the meantime: Drink up, Johnny!

And ps: thanks for your support.

*starting to realize this is my problem in life: why am I not drinking alcohol during such a stressful time as wedding planning? whose idea was this? Dumb. Dumb dumb dumb. Please pass the martini glass.

If I were bold.

If I were really, truly bold, I would wear this on my wedding day.




I don't mean the beak et. al. because that's just crazy. But the dress. With the feather spray and all. Unbelievably, sensationally, totally gorgeous in every way.

Need. Not want. NEED.

And here I was needlessly stressing about what to wear to a rehearsal dinner type situation. Bingo! On ANY piece of clothing I want? Sold. (Though to be honest, you had me at "Peacock.")

random etsy finds that speak to me, loud enough to drown out the crowd all up in there.

In which we will discover that Etsy has a) lots of weird stuff and b) a ton o ruffles, which c) I apparently have a secret affinity for - who knew?




English Rose Ruffle Dress by Lirola. Reminds me of stuff that the wee Portland girl from Project Runway was doing before she moved to NYC. And yeah, I know there are very few people who could actually get away with this ruffled front. I didn't say the things speaking to me made any sense, now did I?



Ditto on the Project Runway girl comment for this blue number, too. It has a weird pleat on the skirt that probably wouldn't lend itself to easy hang-n-wear, but whatever. Is cute.



The bottom is a little culotte-esque, but the top is rad.



Long ruffled skirt from Econica. Completely infatuated with it, I am not afraid to admit.



$225 worth of peacock-colored awesome. (Swoon).





LOVE. Period.

Fancy change 'em up dresses.

I've not wanted to admit this, but I'm WAY partial to the crazy 46millionwaystowrapit dresses. I keep coming back to them on Etsy. I will throw it out there, and you can tell me if I'm crazy or if you would have to be crazy to be forced to wear such a straight jacket, etc etc.

I mean, come on, look at this blue (not my favorite wrap, but a great blue!):

Also a fan of this blue-ishness, and the wrap style:

See more examples here, here and here. And here.

They look so effing comfortable, right? But maybe hard to vintage up. I don't know. Definitely not a good fabric match with my dress, I don't think (well, maybe... not sure. Actually, no no, it would be totally fine).

But whatever. Bottom line: they look so pretty and comfy that I just want to nap in them, looking gorgeous all the while.