joyeux: Summer Lovin'.

So this last August, the bestie got hitched and let me tell you it was one big, beautiful family affair! The ceremony got the whole bridal party choked up (including my own hubs-to-be who was a groomsman (-: ), the setting was divine, and we danced the night away to live music on the lawn. Just the way a summer garden wedding should be.

Now the pressure was on that day. Not only was the weather bi-polar, taking turns between 100 °F and torrential rain, but I STILL needed to finish my maid-of-honor toast AND I was doing bestie's makeup for the day. Phew. No problem. I got this.

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Didn't she look like a gem?! (Mostly because she's gorgeous. But I think my makeup skills helped a little).

And her something borrowed was a pearl bracelet that my momma had given me!


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As I had mentioned earlier in my post about bestie's bridal shower, the colors of the wedding were grey and yellow. The bridesmaids wore grey Bill Levkoff dresses and yellow wedges and the groomsmen wore yellow ties, grey suspenders and argyle socks. Cute, no?


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Now speaking of that bridal shower, a lot of the pieces I put together were able to be reused at the wedding! Like those yellow chevron table runners that were my first sewing project EVER...


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...totally got rocked at the bridal party table.

And all those Izze bottles we saved...well I painstakingly de-gooed the labels and washed them out while bestie spray painted them white so that they could be reused as bud vases for arrangements of credpedia and Queen Anne's lace.