Sneak Peek! Tiffany and Dave's wedding

Tiffany and Dave are married! We spent Saturday at the always beautiful Sherwood Country Club. More (better, professional!) photos to come soon.

Congratulations Tiffany and Dave!!

photo: Deanna Nash Events

I Love Mondays.....Birdcage Veils

Hello Love-lies! Today's "love" is for birdcage veils. Actually, this love started a few years back when I first watched the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" and Melanie Carmichael (nee Smooter) walked down the aisle on her Daddy's arm wearing a beautiful yet simple gown with an equally simple and stunning birdcage veil. It was love at first sight -for the veil, that is. For me, her look personified City-fied Southern girl (sound familiar??).

Years later, I still swoon over birdcage veils. To me they are the essence of elegance, and I've long since envisioned myself wearing one on my wedding day. Additionally, and this is just my opinion, they also work for a bride who might be a bit older than the average age of 27, and with me being just a shade past my 29th birthday (ahem), it just feels right. Just a shade past 29, ya'll. **have the decency to turn your head if you're snickering at that!** :-)

via Utah Bride Guide, photo by Justin Hackworth

via Ruffled, photo by Stephanie Williams

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Happy Monday, Loves!!

xo

d.

Fabulous Friday Five List

Oh Friday, how I love thee! For today's Fabulous Friday Five list, I've decided that rather than post links from around the web, I would post five wedding dresses that caught my eye as I began my search for my own wedding dress!! Anthropologie's new BHLDN line is beautiful and ethereal - could one of these be "the one?" You'll have to wait and see later this year!!

Happy Friday! Have a Fabulous weekend!!

xo

d.

all photos courtesy of BHLDN.

I Love Mondays - Cake, cake and more cake!

I had a fabulous weekend - and I hope all of you wonderful mothers out there did too! Since I'm a doggy-mom, my sweet fiance took me to my favorite Tex-Mex joint for lunch, and then we commenced with some wedding planning activities. And you know what? We had a blast!

Our first stop post-lunch was a local beachside hotel that is currently under consideration as the venue for our wedding. While I've been to this hotel many times and have done multiple events there, my fiance had not and it was great to see the space through his fresh perspective. We both really like it, and can imagine ourselves along with our family and friends there, so we've added it to the short list.

Next stop: wedding registry. I thought that we would have fun, but I didn't anticipate how MUCH fun it would be! We had so much fun that mr. fiance commented that he should get married more often. That drew a laugh from me, and sideways glances from our fellow shoppers...hehehe. Needless to say, mr. fiance got to hold the zapper/gun/thingy while I got to point to the items we need and tell him how many of each to add to the list. **Note to our future guests - we might have gotten a tad carried away with the zapping, so we're going to edit the list before making it public.**

Finally, (and here's where I'll get to the point of today's post) we stopped at a local bakery to try some of their tasty delights. Again, I've been to this bakery, used their services for weddings, and may have tasted a bite (or two or three) of their goods before, but my sweets-loving fiance had not. There was a bit of a line, but that gave us time to decide what flavors to try: vanilla bean frosting on vanilla cake for him, vanilla bean frosting on chocolate cake for me (we are WILD, aren't we?). The verdict: YUM, definitely serving their cake at our wedding. In fact, why stop at just one cake, when you can have multiple? And therein lies the plan - we'll have multiple cakes in varying flavors and design. Now we just need to go back to the bakery and officially "taste" them and make final decisions. Oh, it's a rough life, but someone's gotta do it!

So, in anticipation of the big cake reveal, some of my favorites from around the web:

martha stewart weddings via this is glamorous

via the knot.com

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via doublyhappytoo.blogspot.com

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martha stewart weddings via this is glamorous

Happy Monday!

I Love Mondays - Royal Weddings!

A lot to love on this Monday....First, I'm still basking in all the beauty from The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (also known as Prince William and Kate Middleton) Royal Wedding. So many beautiful images, and it was clear that they are very much in love. So for today's installment of "I love Mondays" some of my favorite photos.

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Oh, and one other bit of good (great, really) news: I'm engaged!! My sweet, sweet boyfriend (now fiance!) proposed over the weekend! No doubt I'll chronicle our wedding planning here so stay tuned.

Have a great week, everyone!!

xo

d.