I'll Be His Mrs: June 2012

Saturday 30 June 2012

Colour schemes/themes: Reds

Red: Passion and romance

Red, ivory and black are a lovely colour combination and are actually the colour schemes we have chosen for our wedding colours, here are a few inspiring pictures for you!

Red, ivory/champagne and black

Reds with pink

Colour schemes/themes: Blues

Thinking of having blue as your wedding theme? Have a look at these inspiration boards to help inspire you of the colours you might choose:

Teale and Red

Shades of Blue

Blue and Green

Sunday 24 June 2012

About 2 weeks after we got from Paris and after our amazing engagement, me, my mum, my sister and my best friend Tom decided to go wedding dress shopping, to mainly try some styles and see what suited me.

The first shop I went in to, I tried on about five. They were quite funny about us taking photos, so we couldn't take many.

It's always good to try different styles because the ones that I thought looked gorgeous on the hangers were not as lush as I expected when I actually tried them on. Take this one for example:

As you can see, not a very impressed bride to be!

I then tried on a lovely dress by Sophia Tolli, which was the only one that I tried on that I though 'ooh, this could be the one'.

This is what the dress looks like on the model from the website:

It was really quite funny, because my mum kept going on and on at me about lace dresses and I always thought they were old fashioned and not my style at all. When we went into the other bridal store, she literally begged me to try on this dress and when I did, I nearly cried. It was the 'one' as soon as I saw myself in the mirror I thought, oh this is the one I'm going to marry my fiance in!

It is from the 2012 Phil Collins Bridal range - PC1925 - look it up, it is so flattering. I felt like a princess. I could see me walking down the aisle and meeting my husband to be at the end, which was the feeling I hadn't got from all of the previous dresses.

The dress is £975 from our local bridal boutique. As I am getting married in 2014, money allowing, I think it is a little too soon just yet to buy it, I am hoping that I might be able to get it when it goes on sale as it is from the 2012 collection, so in 2013 it might be out of season and be cheaper (wishful thinking!). But literally every dress I have been looking at I have been comparing to this one, so I really do think this is the 'one'.

EDITED: Since this post, I have removed the picture of me in my actual dress because felt I was tempting fate and already had a few close calls with my fiancee nearly seeing me in it. Email me at illbehismrs@hotmail.com and I can show you if you ask nicely :) Also, I did buy the dress!! I bought it on sale and got it for £525, bargain! It just shows waiting a few months and keeping an eye on it really pays off!

Wedding Theme: Disney Princess

It might seem a little corny, but all of those films we watched growing up as young girls, we admired the princesses and they inspired us to be a princess for a day, so why not have it for your wedding day? Why not? it's your wedding, anything goes!

Alfred Angelo actually does a whole bridal range based on the Disney princesses, everything from Ariel, Belle to Cinderella and Jasmine! Find your nearest stockist in the UK.

See a sneak peak of some of his designs here, but don't forget to visit the website for the full range of Disney Bridal. Click on the images to enlarge them.

Belle

Cinderella

Rapunzel

Snow White

So now you have seen Disney inspired dresses, what about styles and themes? well check these out:

Source: http://www.lusterstudios.com/sheraton-raleigh-weddings-disney-theme/

Not right for you?

Check out these other styles to whet your appetite!

Vintage

Shabby Sheek

Medieval (Coming soon)

Wedding Theme: Vintage

So, what is vintage? According to wikipedia vintage is:

"Generally speaking, clothing which was produced before the 1920s is referred to as antique clothing and clothing from the 1920s to 1960s is considered vintage. Retro, short for retrospective, or "vintage style" usually refers to clothing that imitates the style of a previous era. Reproduction, or repro, clothing is a newly-made but faithful copy of an older garment. Clothing produced more recently is usually called modern or contemporaryfashion. Opinions vary on these definitions."

So, how does that apply to your wedding? I have found a few pictures around and about the Internet that should provide you with all of the inspiration you need for your vintage themed wedding.

Enjoy :)