Wedding Wednesday - Bridesmaid Dresses

Now that my defense is over, I can finally start focusing a little more on wedding planning. So the next 4 weeks is major crunch time for the big day. My mom was here over the weekend and we finally decided what line we are going to go with for our wedding dresses....Bill Levkoff. I completely love their dresses in European Satin and the Euro Eggplant color.

I am letting my ladies decide what dress they want, so that it will best fit their bodies. Here are the dresses they can decide from and my personal preferences:

I love this dress and I totally do not think it looks like a bridesmaid dress. I am thinking I am going to have my little sister wear this one...she doesn't really get a choice in this decision :)

I could kind of see my cousin in this dress.


I could see my MOH in this dress.

Another good choice for my cousin.

Loving this dress for my former roommate.

All of the dresses will be hemmed so they hit right at the knee...this way they are uniform in length.

Can't wait to see what they decide!

Wedding Wednesday

Ever since Alex and I got engaged in April, my parents have been busy planning our wedding. Or maybe I should say my mom has been busy planning the wedding and my dad likes to think of crazy ideas for our wedding. Typically, they will come up with these new ideas late at night when they have maybe had a few too many drinks and they are with some of the favorite cattle industry friends at the ND Stockmen’s Convention, Louisville, or a wedding.

Here are some of the most recent ideas:
· Instead of having the ring bearer carry our rings down on a pillow….he will carry a head of a horned Hereford bull and the rings will be on each horn. Or as a friend from NE suggested they could donate a roping steer head.

No pretty pillow from TheBloomingSouth

· For our wedding favors instead of having koozies, candy, or matchboxes….we will give away straws of semen that have “Alex and Rebecca - September 3, 2011” inscribed on the side.

No koozies which the boys would love, but I think are tacky anyway.

Instead you can get semen straws!

· And the lasts idea that came up this weekend is that instead of auctioning off a garter…we will auction of straws of semen from the newest bull we have that went into a stud.

Check out Tokach Update 9009 available through Genex.

I have a feeling that if my dad could plan this wedding it would be a crazy, redneck, backwoods affair…thankfully God has blessed me with my mother who knows that all of this is absolutely not going to happen…EVER!

Why would someone want a wedding like this?!?!?

Save the Dates

After cruising some of my favorite blogs this weekend, I came across a huge discovery...Shutterfly now offers stationary and books for weddings! Their wedding store includes wedding websites, save the dates, wedding thank you cards, wedding labels, guest books, etc. Check it out here http://www.shutterfly.com/wedding/index.jsp. These save the dates are a few of my favorites off of their site. I love the idea of something simple with an engagement photo or two on it. Plus, if we add a magnetic strip to the back it could be a great magnet for someone's fridge!

However, one problem with Shutterfly is you can't change much with their templates. So, what you see is what you get. I think our main wedding color will be navy and not of their templates includes a navy background. However, maybe that will come in the future! If not these serve as great ideas and maybe if I ever figure out photoshop, I could design something simple like this myself. Oh a girl can dream...