(all photos courtesy of The Knot)
Showing posts with label black-and-white. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black-and-white. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Inspire Me!
It seems that every where I look, brides have an inspiration board! I'm in serious need of some decor inspiration so this is what I came up with today:
(all photos courtesy of The Knot)
(all photos courtesy of The Knot)
Monday, October 15, 2007
Adventures in Bargain Hunting
In a previous post I mentioned that if I were rich I would buy several pairs of these flip flops (below) from J.Crew so that ladies with sore feet could change into something comfortable but stylish.
Well, ask and you shall receive! I was wandering through Willowbrook mall in Wayne, NJ and in the clearance bin at J. Crew I find at least 70 pairs of these babies on clearance for $4.99!! I know $5 is still a little steep but they are amazing and I love them. Plus, little know fact is that if you present a student ID J.Crew will take 10% off anything. The catch is that they only had 3 size 8’s and the rest were size 9’s. A very helpful sales person went into the back room to look for more but he found nothing else. So I loaded up one fiancé, a bridesmaid and myself with 22 pairs (20 black for guests and 2 white for me) and headed for the register. We got some weird stares from the 2 girls at the register but after I explained that I’m a crazy bride they understood.
The best part - Art went back to the mall the next weekend and dropped into J.Crew to find they were having a 25% off sale on their sale items! He talked to the sales person who said, “yes, I remember you!” and he told Art that if he brought the receipt in we could get a price adjustment up to 15 days after the sale!! So we are little bargain hunters and I’m a happy bride!!
Well, ask and you shall receive! I was wandering through Willowbrook mall in Wayne, NJ and in the clearance bin at J. Crew I find at least 70 pairs of these babies on clearance for $4.99!! I know $5 is still a little steep but they are amazing and I love them. Plus, little know fact is that if you present a student ID J.Crew will take 10% off anything. The catch is that they only had 3 size 8’s and the rest were size 9’s. A very helpful sales person went into the back room to look for more but he found nothing else. So I loaded up one fiancé, a bridesmaid and myself with 22 pairs (20 black for guests and 2 white for me) and headed for the register. We got some weird stares from the 2 girls at the register but after I explained that I’m a crazy bride they understood.
The best part - Art went back to the mall the next weekend and dropped into J.Crew to find they were having a 25% off sale on their sale items! He talked to the sales person who said, “yes, I remember you!” and he told Art that if he brought the receipt in we could get a price adjustment up to 15 days after the sale!! So we are little bargain hunters and I’m a happy bride!!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Circle of Indecisiveness
One of the side effects associated with wedding blog obsession is indecisiveness and I am developing a severe case of it. A long time ago I was flipping through a wedding magazine at the beauty parlor and saw photos of a black and white wedding. The idea of bridesmaids wearing black immediately hit me as strange but elegant - I liked it! Art quickly put the kibosh on my idea until a family friend, who is in the catering business, mentioned how her favorite weddings are black and white because they look so clean and elegant. Poof - back to black and white we were! I mean - common, how pretty is this…
But then I see things like this…
And then I start thinking about how I want to tie Sweetest Day into my wedding with candy and chocolate and all kinds of sweet goodness! How do I do that with a black and white color palate? Licorice? Yuck! Wouldn’t chocolate and cream be better for Sweetest Day? But then again, isn’t chocolate (as a color) so over done already? Who wants to be unoriginal?
So if I can’t do chocolate and I’m in love with black and white then why don’t I just add a nice accent color? OK then , what color? Red? But black, white and red are over done too and on top of that, we went to a black, white and red wedding this past summer. We can’t repeat!
When I get to this point in the never ending circle of frustration and indecisiveness I think - screw it! I’ll just get white chocolate everything and that’s it - forgetting for a moment that I really don’t like white chocolate!! This is when I give up, decide I need to read more blogs, and I find this…
Oh lord, save me from myself!
But then I see things like this…
And then I start thinking about how I want to tie Sweetest Day into my wedding with candy and chocolate and all kinds of sweet goodness! How do I do that with a black and white color palate? Licorice? Yuck! Wouldn’t chocolate and cream be better for Sweetest Day? But then again, isn’t chocolate (as a color) so over done already? Who wants to be unoriginal?
So if I can’t do chocolate and I’m in love with black and white then why don’t I just add a nice accent color? OK then , what color? Red? But black, white and red are over done too and on top of that, we went to a black, white and red wedding this past summer. We can’t repeat!
When I get to this point in the never ending circle of frustration and indecisiveness I think - screw it! I’ll just get white chocolate everything and that’s it - forgetting for a moment that I really don’t like white chocolate!! This is when I give up, decide I need to read more blogs, and I find this…
Oh lord, save me from myself!
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