by Blue-Eyed Bride on May 30, 2008
I wanted to let everyone who subscribes to this blog and who has us linked from your blog know that we are changing the title of this blog to “Blue Eyed Bride.” We will be keeping the same URL. I’m making the change because I never imagined the broad range of exposure that this blog would get and that it would evolve from being just ramblings about our wedding planning process and daily happenings to a full blown wedding blog. I’m really enjoying it and actually about to gear up to be a guest blogger for Elizabeth Anne Designs. Because of all of this, I feel the need to maintain our privacy and give a more appropriate content-related name to this project!
Update your links! Blue Eyed Bride is coming on Monday.
by Blue-Eyed Bride on May 30, 2008
We’re in Pittsburgh for the weekend attending a friend’s wedding. We’re staying at the William Penn Omni Hotel where, according to Lawrence Welk, is the place where Champagne Music was born. It’s just something I read after we made the reservations, but I’m not sure what exactly Champagne Music is. The hotel is beautiful and we’re looking forward to a great weekend with friends.
I’ll be back on track on Monday. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on May 29, 2008
I am positively obsessed with this new wedding gown by Amsale. If I could find this dress in another color I’d be all over it! I obviously don’t need a big white dress anymore. The silhouette is beautiful, flattering, and timeless and I imagine that everyone would look great in it!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on May 29, 2008
While I’m sad that our big day is over and I’m no longer planning that special day, I’m so excited to be able to shop for dresses to wear to our friends’ weddings and shop for wedding gifts for them. I’m a firm believer in sticking to the registry. It always surprises me what people come up with when they get “creative” and go off-registry. We did, however, receive a wonderful gift at one of our showers that wasn’t on any of our registries. It happens to be one of my favorite new items in our house and I’m considering it as a gift for some of our newlywed friends. It was so much fun for me to put my new initial on the entry table!
letter stand from anthropologie
Do you stick to the registry when buying gifts for a wedding? If not, what do you typically give a bride and groom?
by Blue-Eyed Bride on May 28, 2008
I think one of Todd’s favorite wedding projects was writing the ceremony program. We decided to use the lace design that we used on all of our wedding paper on the front and back cover of the program. We wanted to eliminate the pink for this piece– to save costs and to keep it simple and elegant.
I’ve been to so many weddings where I watch the bridesmaids come down the aisle and look at the groomsmen and wonder, “How do the bride and groom know these people? Who is that?”
Todd and I chose to have a bigger program and write little bios on each of our attendants. And because all of our vocalists were equally special to us, they were included in this as well.
Our program was 8 pages long and was an 8×8 square. We included lyrics to one of the songs that we used in the ceremony, wrote a message to all of our guests, and included directions to the reception. Our favorite part was definitely telling the stories of how we know all of our attendants. I think they all enjoyed reading what we wrote about them, too. At the reception, my Matron of Honor was approached by one of our old family friends and found out that he was best friends growing up with her husband’s father. He discovered this by reading her bio!
