My family has a tradition that when a girl marries, you get a piece of wedding ivy to carry in your bouquet. The ivy is a cutting of the ivy that my grandmother carried in her bouquet on her wedding day and that is still going strong 65+ years later. I was thrilled to have a piece for my bouquet and carefully brought it home so I could root it and ( Read more... )

Eeep! Saturday started with a moment of disbelief - This was really happening - I was getting MARRIED! O.o

( Morning Preparations )

More journaling for myself. :)

( Final Preparation Details )

So, finding the dress was itself a sort of funny story (partially provided here). I had let it slip to my mom that I had been going to a few wedding dress shops, despite my intent to order one from a bespoke Victorian tailor (because if I am going to spend that sort of money on a dress, I want to wear it again!), and she was super disappointed that ( Read more... )

October went by in an almighty blur. Our wedding was November 1 and as the date got closer, I became more and more grateful that I had done a lot of the research, planning, and item procurement in the early summer, because the days just flew by. I'm a big planner and details are important to me, so I had everything planned out exactly and had a ( Read more... )