Amy in Orlando Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 :lurk5: This thread has been so much fun to watch! I feel old when I look at some of the pictures- so many very young moms on this board! and I feel comforted that others experienced the big hair/big dress 80's/90's thing! Colleen, I wish I had been as cool as you were. I love the idea of a beautiful black gown and an elegant party. But, that stuff never occurs to me until I read about someone else doing it and then it doesn't really count, does it. LOL My bridesmaids wore pretty much every bridesmaids dress shown here, but in a deep emerald green. Surprisingly, the color is flattering to many people. Not surprising, no one wore their dress again. I love the trend to picking a color and letting bridesmaids pick out their own dress. Two questions - worst wedding story? AND, moms of all boys, what do you plan to do with your wedding dress? Worst wedding story - gah, so many to share. Dh and I standing in a dumpster (yes, a dumpster) looking for his paycheck (that was supposed to pay the photographer and the florist). To this day, I'm pretty sure I'm the one that tossed it - just tidying up things. I think, even after 18 years of marriage that was our biggest knock-down-blow-em-up fight. Something about standing in an apartment dumpster, after a week with your psycho-soon-to-be-in-laws, the night before you're to be married made me snap. Not a moment I'm proud of, but we really, really laugh about it now. We never found the check, my mom very graciously floated us a loan until the check could be replaced. Wedding dress? I don't know. I have the dress here. I'm hoping maybe the boys have daughters someday and I can hack it up into baptism gowns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli in TN Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 This has been a fun thread. Unfortunately I cannot participate. There are no pictures as I was 8 months pregnant when we got married. It was kind of a pathetic "just get it done" sort of day. No flowers, no gifts, no nothing. You say this, I say that, okay we are legal now. But I would have been most likely to pick Karen's dress if I'd had the chance. I think we should do high school senior portraits next time!!! Then you would all see why my mom was constantly nagging me about my eyebrows and why I marched my girls to the beauty shop at about 12 and demanded that their eyebrows be shaped into something not resembling caterpillars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorna in the boonies Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I can't post a picture. I don't have any on my computer and dh has taken the camera out of town with him, so I can't even take a picture of a picture! But as to the question about the worst wedding story . . . . Well, mine would be this: we got married on the Outer Banks (where we had both been living and where he is from) on Saturday at 2:00 and I had a job interview in Baton Rouge (where were moving) on Tuesday at 8:00 am. Obviously, we spent our honeymoon driving. I had asked him several times where he wanted to stop for the night so I could make reservations ahead of time. He kept saying, "Oh, let's play it by ear. We don't need to make reservations." Uh-huh. It was a Saturday. In July. And we were driving on the interstate. We started looking for a place to stop before dark. Every place we pulled into was already booked for the night. After a couple of hours, I was near tears. Some nice worker at one of the hotels got on the phone for us (it was 1990, so before the days of cell phones) and called around. He spent quite a while and made quite a few calls before he said, "There's not an empty room along the interstate for the next 200 miles. You're going to have to get off the main road." So we did. We headed southwest on the back roads, stopping at every hotel in every little town we drove through. We finally found a room at 2:00 am. I was ready to kill him. That was the *last* time we have traveled without reservations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karenciavo Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Two questions - worst wedding story? I stayed out really, really, late with some of my co-workers 2 nights before the wedding and my soon-to-be-dh was furious. Also, my flowers were the wrong color. I wanted white roses with a soft pink hue and no daisies and I got white roses with a soft yellow hue and daisies. Needless to say I refused to pay the balance. AND, moms of all boys, what do you plan to do with your wedding dress?I guess I'm hoping one of my future DIL or granddaughters will want to wear it, if not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*anj* Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I think we should do high school senior portraits next time!!! Then you would all see why my mom was constantly nagging me about my eyebrows and why I marched my girls to the beauty shop at about 12 and demanded that their eyebrows be shaped into something not resembling caterpillars. Oh yes, will someone puleeeeeze do this? I would do it, but my scanner's not working.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in SC Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 We'll see how this goes. I'm still not home to try to share my wedding portrait but since I'm visiting at my mom's I'm able to scan these pics of my girls (ages 4 and 7 at the time, now 11 and 15) playing dressup with my veil, gown, and shoes. I cannot tell you how much fun this was (for me *and* the girls)! :D I think it might be really neat to use some of the pics taken during this portrait session for display at some of their wedding festivities (showers, reception, or the like). I don't know - we'll see how they'd feel about that but, for now, I sure enjoy looking at these. It is this moment in time captured on film that makes the value of my dress for me increase exponentially. Now, no matter what happens to the dress, the memories captured on film (our wedding and this dress up session when my girls were so young) are invaluable to me! Here's two of my favorites from the session (click on the thumbnails once to enlarge and then again to enlarge even further): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIY-DY Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 We got married long before we had a digital camera, and this is the only one I've scanned in. Doesn't show the dress so well, and I promise DH and I aren't this fuzzy and out-of-focus IRL, but... well, this is what I've got. I've SO enjoyed this thread - some gorgeous gowns, and such happy couples. Makes my heart smile. ACK - nope, won't show the picture. (We aren't red x's, either, honest!) Well, here's a direct link to the image: http://bp0.blogger.com/_-LgmZ04hop0/R-EkgUeca8I/AAAAAAAAA64/HE0BGKiNJf4/s1600-h/smwedding2.jpg Maybe that'll work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sharon in SC Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Here's two more of my favorites from the session (click on the thumbnails once to enlarge and then again to enlarge even further): Enjoy these in addition to the first two I scanned in the other post! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PariSarah Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 We got married long before we had a digital camera, and this is the only one I've scanned in. Doesn't show the dress so well, and I promise DH and I aren't this fuzzy and out-of-focus IRL, but... well, this is what I've got. Oh! Is that a kilt?! Lucky girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in SC Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 We are looking forward to seeing your pics when you get a chance.:) I've posted *way* below the pics I promised! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PariSarah Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 AND, moms of all boys, what do you plan to do with your wedding dress? I wore my MIL's dress. It's been preserved again, just waiting for another wedding! I'd offer it to my DsIL-to-be in a heartbeat, and I'd try to be just as gracious and non-pushy about it as my MIL was. The nice thing about this dress is that it's got classic lines and subtle decoration. It'll look heirloom rather than dated. My mom cut up hers and made Easter dresses for my sister and me out of it. It was a maternity wedding dress, though, and I think the desire to have one of us wear it was . . . just not there. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brenda in FL Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Sharon, The pictures are so sweet!! My MIL would take her dress out every anniversary and try it on and then her girls would do the same. My SIL's have done the same with my neices. (I just can't seem to get over unpacking mine from the "sterile" box it was put in to do the same) Anyway it does make for some cute pictures. I thnk one of my SILs even used one of the pics when she was little for a shower invitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIY-DY Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Today - (well yesterday) is my 18th wedding anniversary. Here's a link to a picture of our wedding. I loved my dress - It was ivory damask over a layer of pale pink silk. I was baptized in pink as an infant, had pink ribbons on my first communion dress and was married in pink (yes, I know, smack dab in the middle of Lent, but we were rebels then - it's all ok now) Not a great picture of the dress, but I'll have the new printer scanner up tomorrow if you want a better one. I guess it's old enough now to be considered "retro," huh? ;) http://www.thefoilhat.com/insidethefoilhatblog.htm?blogentryid=1328898 I still can't get to individual entries on your blog, so I can't see the picture. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in SC Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I think one of my SILs even used one of the pics when she was little for a shower invitation. I LOVE the idea of using one of these for a shower invitation! Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate CA Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 We had a JP wedding in 1988 with one witness, and sadly I have no pictures. OK, two things - this is an AWESOME picture! SO totally 80's!! I love it. LOVE it - talk about going back in time!! :) And secondly, what is a JP wedding? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percytruffle Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I just love these pics! They are so precious. I'm glad you were able to post them:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percytruffle Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Gorgeous! You two look amazing together, unfocused and all!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIY-DY Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Did you really go to "South Park"??? Oh, my. Now you officially have a theme song I can play in my head when I think of you. (Sorry.) That is the sweetest picture! I'm glad you played. Dy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Needleroozer Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 This is the world's dumbest pose (who in hades meditates on their engagement ring? please!), but it shows the dress detail pretty well: I love the photo of my oldest sister, meditating on her ring. She has the sweetest smile of joy on her face. So far, yours is my fave, Sarah. Very pretty bride you were! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothicGyrl Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Ok, first DIY-Di-- I AM SO JEALOUS--your husband wore a kilt.. gahh... I don't like you right now :D And Sharon in SC--may I please photo manipulate those photos for my portfolio? PLEASE???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in SC Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 And Sharon in SC--may I please photo manipulate those photos for my portfolio? PLEASE???????? It's certainly OK by me. Not knowing what your portfolio is all about exactly, the only hesitation I have is in the fact that those were done by a professional photographer. If you can somehow give credit (Barber Photography, SC) then maybe it would be legal to do? I guess, *technically*, I shouldn't have posted them without the Barber's permission. I just couldn't resist the opportunity to share with my cyberfriends what we'd done with my wedding gown! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothicGyrl Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Actually, the photograph belongs to them--I'm not using their photograph, per se. It's kind of complicated, but it's the difference between completely plagerising something without proper citation and taking something someone said and making it into your own words. Go here if you need to see my work first: http://www.creativewonders.homeschooljournal.net and click around. That's what I mean by "photo manipulation" and I shouldn't get in any trouble for it as I'm not claiming their work as my own AND I'm not selling it. I'm only selling the techniques I used on it, which is vastly different. Oh and you can post those pictures without problems because technically they are yours once you pay for them. IF you sold them, then there would be problems with the studio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 OK, two things - this is an AWESOME picture! SO totally 80's!! I love it. LOVE it - talk about going back in time!! :) And secondly, what is a JP wedding? :) :blush: Justice-of-the-Peace, AKA civil ceremony...we were young, poor, and IN LOVE! :001_tt1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Did you really go to "South Park"??? Oh, my. Now you officially have a theme song I can play in my head when I think of you. (Sorry.) That is the sweetest picture! I'm glad you played. Dy *snort* Yes: South Park, Home of the Fighting Greenies. :lol::lol: Psst...Is it true that kilt-wearers are required to go, er, commando? :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMindy Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 We'll see how this goes. I'm still not home to try to share my wedding portrait but since I'm visiting at my mom's I'm able to scan these pics of my girls (ages 4 and 7 at the time, now 11 and 15) playing dressup with my veil, gown, and shoes. I cannot tell you how much fun this was (for me *and* the girls)! :D I think it might be really neat to use some of the pics taken during this portrait session for display at some of their wedding festivities (showers, reception, or the like). I don't know - we'll see how they'd feel about that but, for now, I sure enjoy looking at these. It is this moment in time captured on film that makes the value of my dress for me increase exponentially. Now, no matter what happens to the dress, the memories captured on film (our wedding and this dress up session when my girls were so young) are invaluable to me! Here's two of my favorites from the session (click on the thumbnails once to enlarge and then again to enlarge even further): Those are priceless!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyR Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Sharon in SC, LOVE those pictures of your children playing dress up! How precious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenpatty Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I just scanned two pics in... lets see if I can get them here. One is a "dumb pose" similar to Parisarah's and my dress is very similar to a couple of others posted so far. I hope this works! This has been a fun thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenpatty Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Here is the other. I'm flashing my birkenstocks at the reception. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in SC Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Those are priceless!!!!!! Certainly, to me, they really are. :001_wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrid Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 We had a JP wedding in 1988 with one witness, and sadly I have no pictures. :( I do want to play, however, so here is my Homecoming picture, significant only because I did marry my date. ;) I can just SMELL the Love's Baby Soft! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I can just SMELL the Love's Baby Soft! :001_smile: LOL I think I'd graduated to Anaïs Anaïs by then... :tongue_smilie: Hey' date=' at least it wasn't [i']Giorgio![/i] :ack2::ack2::ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothicGyrl Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 LOL I think I'd graduated to Anaïs Anaïs by then... :tongue_smilie: Hey, at least it wasn't Giorgio! :ack2::ack2::ack2: Wearing Baby Soft, stealing mom's Heaven Scent, sometimes affording Liz Claiborne and loving Drakkar Noir on men :) I think I smelled sometimes.. heheh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenpatty Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Aubrey, you and your dh both look like 14 year olds! You are very pretty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Oh, I love picture posts. Can you tell? :D Here it is from the back: and from the front: Sorry they're so big... I didn't know if you could see the dress as well if I made them super small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyJoy Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 This is the only picture I have handy now, and it doesn't show off much of the dress, but you get the idea. The bodice is covered with little beads, and the skirt/train is satin with beaded lace accents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in AR Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 I didn't post on this thread the first time around, but dh and I celebrated our anniversary this week and I thought I would finally join in the fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 it was a combination of a Caroline Hararra (sp) design and the dress Caroline Kennedy wore. My lace overlay was a tulip design, I think hers was 4-leaf clovers... Forgot to mention, my mom made my veil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in AR Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 it was a combination of a Caroline Hararra (sp) design and the dress Caroline Kennedy wore. My lace overlay was a tulip design' date=' I think hers was 4-leaf clovers...[/quote'] Your dress is beautiful! My mom made my dress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 I'm much taller than my mom, so we had to add rows of lace to the bottom. I'll try to post a picture later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5kidsforME Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Your dress is beautiful! My mom made my dress. WoW! She did a beautiful job! Great dress Jackie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brindee Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Lovely! Carrying a bouquet of daisies I see.;) Isn't it fun to see how young everyone looks! Egads, mine was twenty years ago!!! Scary to think about how long it's been. I still have my dress. It doesn't fit anymore though:001_huh:. Actually, it doesn't even fit my 19 year old dd. I was very skinny back then. I haven't looked all the way through, just to this point, written 3-18. DH's and my 20th anniversary was March 20. When was yours? I'm going to see if I can scan in a picture... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5kidsforME Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Well hopefully this works! These are the only 2 pics that looked ok after scanning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5kidsforME Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 ok, sorry these are so big!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ticklbee Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Well, I'll give it a try...sorry if I mess it up...I've never posted a pic in a reply before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in AR Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Those are just beautiful, Megan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5kidsforME Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Those are just beautiful, Megan! THanks! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB in NJ Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Blurry as can be (pictures of pictures)....1989 in case you were a-wonderin' :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizabethian Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Ok I have to share mine. :) My sister made it for me and it was her first dress. I LOVE how it turned out. It ended up different than the pattern but we were going for that. ;) My pics are kind of hard to see but the ones that show the final fitting aren't accurate since we changed up the train afterwards. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Lizabethian/Wedding%20photos/?action=view¤t=CassieandBeto3.jpg http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Lizabethian/Wedding%20photos/?action=view¤t=CassieandBeto2.jpg My computer is freaking out and not letting me do anything but put those links in. Sorry about that. The first is what it looked like from the back and the second is from the side and you can kind of see the detail of the knot on my train and the detail on the top of the dress. Yes my back is red and splotchy. What can I say? I'm a nervous sort of gal. You should have seen my chest. :lol: Oh yeah. 2004. And I want to say the pattern was originally a McCalls though I can't remember. And I wore blue fuzzy slippers. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caitlinsmom Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 The pattern for Lizabethians dress was Vouge. :) We tweaked it so much it really doesnt resemeble the orignal much. :) I love your dress! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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