in the words of renee, the beautiful bride....
the wedding was on my great great grandparents farm. the church was built in 1846 and has hosted many family weddings. the town "emerickville" is made up mostly of my ancestors and family- emerys, who came over from germany. the old pictures setting out of the table in the foyer were of the original farm and church when they were built. i've attached some just for reference. one pic is of my grandparents in front of barn as newlyweds with their new horses. also you'll see a family pic in front of the church like we took after the wedding.
we used a lot of things vintage family lace to make
most of the decor and things. since my grandparents were married in the
church in 1943, i wanted to have the same sort of look of that time that
my grandma might have worn. i felt an ivory lace would be the best
choice for the time of day and for the country scenery.
i wore bracelet my grandma wore, as a vintage bracelet that was my
sisters. austin and i both loved our grandma's homes and found lots of
nick knacks like the tiny glass chickens to set out to have the look
inside their houses at the reception.
my dress was the enzoani dakota http://www.enzoani.com/main.html the bridesmaids dresses were calvin klein www.calvinklein.com.
my veil was edward berger www.edwardberger.com in champagne.
throughout
the wedding we tried to use various shades of ivories and pale beige's,
and whites. all the flowers were mixed solid groupings of white- lily of
the valley, cymbidium orchids, hydrangea, roses, baby breath, queen ann's
lace, etc.
my sister carried sunflowers for becky who was in love with sunflowers.
my
girlfriend and i made the fascinators for the bridesmaids and flower
girls using vintage lace from my moms wedding veil. the gloves the
girls wore i also stitched with scallop edging from my moms veil.
the batons at the reception were made from scrap lace on wooden dowel rods.
the
lily of the valley theme we tried to carry over from the wedding to the
reception with the vintage lily of the valley postcards set out on the
tables. my great grandmother kept hundreds of postcards from the early
1900s-1950s and that inspired a lot of the look of the reception
tables.
for my girlfriends from new york i made wrist corsages out of vintage millinery supplies like wire pearls and tiny white dahlias.
austin
designed the invitations, save the dates, all the signage sat out. he
made a custom designed lettering for most of the pieces. we drew each
others silhouettes for the wedding. they were inspired by a silhouette
we have of my dad when he was in kindergarten.
the flower girls tutus are from princess doodle
beans http://princessdoodlebeans.blogspot.com/ @ etsy http://www.etsy.com/ the jewelry was from etsy http://www.etsy.com/ and ebay http://www.ebay.com/ and it was tiny! my one
month old nieces bracelet was like a ring on my finger. ha. all pearls.
my shoes for the wedding dress were badgley mischka http://www.badgleymischka.com/ kiss kiss.
the blonde fox fur was vintage from ebay http://ebay.com
the gloves were white silk carolina amato carolinaamato.com i'm obsessed with gloves
because my grandma worked a glove factory before she was married.
my jewelry was kenneth jay lane kennethjaylanesales.com earrings and the diamond cross was gifted to me by my parents.
my party outfit studded shoes were sam edelman www.samedelman.com
the dark fur was the fionna stole from alice + olivia www.aliceandolivia.com
the dress was a gold bebe www.bebe.com mini dress.
my
hair was done by friend julie gibson, we looked at lots of pictures
from dior spring 2010 collection hair. she did finger waves, then pinned
all my hair back.
my makeup i did myself, all nars www.narscosmetics.com makeup. i looked at a lot of old hollywood pics!
the
bias cut satin robe i've had for some time. its victoria secret bridal
collection www.victoriassecret.com i've been collecting vintage robes and lingerie for over a
year now! could have done a boudoir shoot with all of it. haha. it's
been the best fashion part of getting married.
austins tux was from mens wearhouse www.menswearhouse.com. lol. that was the most basic thing in the wedding. he wore the lily of the valley also.
the
lily of the valley was super important to tie everything together as
its symbol of christ and also it means, a sort of return to happiness.
:) xoxoxoxo
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