16 May 2012

Accessories

Tonight I managed to find the girls a little gift each for being my flowergirls.  Freshwater pearls.




On the same website, I also managed to find the most perfect beach wedding bracelet. Ever!
Fingers crossed this bad boy translates to the real world and I don't end up with buyers remorse when I receive it, but it looks so darn amazing in the photo. How can it not live up to my expectations?!
 Elegant but still beach chic I think...  



Flowergirls

My (soon-to-be) two gorgeous little nieces jumped out of their socks when they heard their 'naughty uncle Barnin' and I were getting married. The very first thing the girls asked me when they saw me was whether they were allowed to 'walk down the aisle and hold flowers' at the wedding...in other words, be our flowergirls. Of course I said yes, and am excited about including them in our special day.

The other day, I went around to Byron's sisters house to discuss dresses and potential outfits. The problem we origionally faced, was that it's near impossible to find flower girl dresses for an informal beach wedding from bridal stores. From what I had seen, they are over the top, not to mention expensive.
Even plain purple summer dresses are hard to come by, as we are out of season in the middle of Autumn. So after suggesting we purchase online and get a dressmaker to construct the girls dresses to spec, we got to work, looking at designs, shapes and colours. I decided to let the girls have an imput in the decision making, something that was humorous and cute at the same time. Here's why.

This was the dress little miss Olivia picked out first...


We had a little chuckle.

Then with the help of Mr B's sister and brother-in-law, Amy and Trevor, we managed to measure each girl as they giggled away.  

We settled on this dress in the end (in purple). I just know both girls will look so pretty in this dress.



Looking forward to seeing how the dresses turn out!

 



13 May 2012

Aisle Song re-visited

Byron doesn't know this yet, but we are walking down the aisle to Sweet Thing by Van Morrison.