Hallowedding
Nov. 2nd, 2015 03:30 pmFoof, I need to clean my apartment badly.
So,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wereleopard's wedding! It was an excellent affair.
I drove down on Friday, and we went to an artisanal pizza place for lunch, which was delicious. I could have been satisfied with half my pizza, but decided not to have the bother of finding a place for it and just ate all of it instead. That's when Julie gave us our bridesmaid gifts, all-important tissues and such, a sticky lint pad that completely flummoxed me (completely), and our masks and jewelry. We wore masks! Gorgeous filigree black metal ones with rhinestones, each one different. The jewelry was made by Julie's mother and was also personalized. After lunch the bridesmaids kind of took a wander through the upstairs at the venue, Ventfort Hall, which wasn't really meant to be seen without a guided tour, but it was pretty great. There's a small wedding dress exhibition up.
We were staying at Taggart House, which was also lovely but very hot for some reason. Otherwise very comfortable, the master suite was absolutely palatial.
The costumes were a. complete. dream. Julie's concept - her in purple, us in black and purple made from any bustle pattern we wanted - was so cool, more brides should do it, frankly. Everyone looked great and harmonized so well. I'm going to do a blog post because the world needs to see it. The hairdressers came in from Saratoga and they were happy about doing more exciting hair than the usual wedding stuff; after looking around the NYPL Digital Collection, I realized I really liked the style that's kind of a mass of hair with no ringlets, and they did that for me very nicely. I borrowed a braided switch from Julie to go across the top of my head, but the main base of it was on the ball of hair I've been saving for ages, so ha, Mom, they didn't even say it was gross (although they could very well have been thinking it). Took 49 bobby pins, but they got it to stay up!
I also realized that I need to make a new corset, as mine lacks sufficient hip spring and killed my lower back the whole time it was on. So that's the next project, after Ottawa.
I'm unfortunately still mired in self-loathing over a couple of awkward faux-pas but that's life, so I'm trying not to fixate (but Julie, if the dance caller says that one of your bridesmaids is a bitch it was me and I'M SORRY, I just thought the first dance was too confusing for a lot of people).
So,
wereleopard's wedding! It was an excellent affair. I drove down on Friday, and we went to an artisanal pizza place for lunch, which was delicious. I could have been satisfied with half my pizza, but decided not to have the bother of finding a place for it and just ate all of it instead. That's when Julie gave us our bridesmaid gifts, all-important tissues and such, a sticky lint pad that completely flummoxed me (completely), and our masks and jewelry. We wore masks! Gorgeous filigree black metal ones with rhinestones, each one different. The jewelry was made by Julie's mother and was also personalized. After lunch the bridesmaids kind of took a wander through the upstairs at the venue, Ventfort Hall, which wasn't really meant to be seen without a guided tour, but it was pretty great. There's a small wedding dress exhibition up.
We were staying at Taggart House, which was also lovely but very hot for some reason. Otherwise very comfortable, the master suite was absolutely palatial.
The costumes were a. complete. dream. Julie's concept - her in purple, us in black and purple made from any bustle pattern we wanted - was so cool, more brides should do it, frankly. Everyone looked great and harmonized so well. I'm going to do a blog post because the world needs to see it. The hairdressers came in from Saratoga and they were happy about doing more exciting hair than the usual wedding stuff; after looking around the NYPL Digital Collection, I realized I really liked the style that's kind of a mass of hair with no ringlets, and they did that for me very nicely. I borrowed a braided switch from Julie to go across the top of my head, but the main base of it was on the ball of hair I've been saving for ages, so ha, Mom, they didn't even say it was gross (although they could very well have been thinking it). Took 49 bobby pins, but they got it to stay up!
I also realized that I need to make a new corset, as mine lacks sufficient hip spring and killed my lower back the whole time it was on. So that's the next project, after Ottawa.
I'm unfortunately still mired in self-loathing over a couple of awkward faux-pas but that's life, so I'm trying not to fixate (but Julie, if the dance caller says that one of your bridesmaids is a bitch it was me and I'M SORRY, I just thought the first dance was too confusing for a lot of people).
