For your shoes... wait, let's talk about shoes first.

Outdoor weddings: grass: what fun!

I ran across these bits for high-heeled shoes on a wedding forum. Wait, wait, back up. We haven't even talked shoes yet. Before I get ahead of myself, let's talk shoes for a sec:
Since the colors of your dresses will be alternating Purple and yellow, I'm thinking of flesh tone or silver shoes. I'm not expecting to order specific shoes for you, so that you can buy shoes 1. that you have a greater chance of actually liking and wearing in the future and 2. they fit better into your budgets. So either skin tone or silver, your choice. This is preliminary but I think it's doable. (thoughts?)

Ok back to those things for your shoes, which are called sole mates. (www.thesolemates.com) They seem pretty cool, although one of the women on the forum said that she lost one of hers halfway down the grass isle, and that she should have just gone with wedges. Wedges do seem like a good idea, but I find them harder to dance in. I might buy a pair of sole mates and give them a test-run to see what I think and then let y'all know.
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Things I'm loving, part 1

I spotted these on the knot. In the first pic, the "just married" sign is SO CUTE and I would TOTALLY love to have something like that for our chairs. Anyone think they're crafty enough?
(original link here http://community.theknot.com/cs/ks/blogs/wedding_style_file/archive/2009/08/14/vintage-black-and-white-weddings.aspx )

In the second pic the faux chandelier crystals make for such fabulously classy escort cards, and I can see them hanging from a little tree (faux made out of branches or real). I've seen some other cute escort card ideas, but these really blew me away. (original link here http://community.theknot.com/cs/ks/blogs/wedding_style_file/archive/2009/07/20/diy-idea-for-an-formal-wedding-use-faux-crystals.aspx )

This of course also demonstrates my typical battle: balancing the cute with the classy, since I love both. NOT EASY! Another example of this ongoing struggle is themes: to have or not to have? To give names to the tables or just use generic numbers? Names can be cute and personal but also ridiculous (ex do you really want to look back at your wedding day and have the tables named after your old pets?), numbers are classy but also impersonal. Though this faux crystal idea might have solved that, since it's just so damn classy.

FYI you can register on the knot even if you're not a bride to be yet. You can even register as my BM ;)

xoxo
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Welcome to the BrideZone

Well ladies, here we are! The HQ to be up-to-date about what Tia has modestly monickered the wedding of the century! Many a thanks to Kelly for the idea of the blog. More to follow...