So my cousin came to visit Labor Day weekend and we spent a lot of time together talking, laughing and doing some girly things for the wedding. She is basically the first person from my family other than my parents who has seen the couches and the apartment since we moved in. Somehow the weekend didn't surround that topic though and like my cousin tends to do, she went all out to make me feel like a princess. She is my maid of honor and she brought with her some things that she knows that I have been interested in. She bought almost all of the remaining pieces of my Lenox wedding set!
I received toasting flutes as well as the table/cake topper for the set that me and Nick decided to use for the wedding. I have some photos but I will dedicate the following blog just for the pictures of that stuff. We also decided it was time to go check out some dresses for her and my sister to wear to my wedding. I made them try on a lot of styles and they even made me try on a couple. I have the photos if you want to see them, but out of fear that Nick might sneak into my blog, I can't post them publicly. However the bridesmaids dresses are up for your viewing pleasure as Nick has decided that he doesn't seem to care if those are a surprise. (Little does he know I am sneaky and although he puts in his two sense he may not get a choice but to be surprised.) So as weekends go, that was probably the best weekend that I have had in a long time.
This past weekend was like a completely invisible weekend and although I know we did things, I can't seem to remember what we did or when, and how I got through the weekend in such a fog. I did however realize that weekends like Labor Day weekend are the reason that I want to be in Central New York so much. I would never have been able to spend a weekend like that in NJ. I wouldn't have been able to call my sister last minute to have her meet us at the bridal shop, or call my cousin and say I wanted her to spend the weekend here. I honestly don't know how I spent so much time alone in NJ and did not go crazy! Don't get me wrong, I love NJ too. There are parts of it that I am going to miss, like the amazing weather and lack of snow, but there are parts of NY that make NY too good to be true. Family, friends, and snow on Christmas morning!! I can't wait to see my cousin again in a couple weeks, I am struggling with the perfect gift for her birthday, and not having much luck. So far it is looking like she will get something personalized like a fram or a piece of wall art, but I am not too sure just yet what I have in store for her.
Photo explanation:
photo 1 is some of the detail that I liked in the 5th picture dress, photo 2 is the detail on the leg of the same dress, photo 3 is the back of the dresses in photo 4, photo 4 is one of the two dresses we like the best. Photo 5 is the second dress we really like. Photo 6 is the first dress they tried on and allowed me to decide that I did not want tea length dresses. Photo 7 is the dress that allowed me to decide that the sweetheart bust line did not work well with large straps. Photo 8 was pretty but looked like it would be better for a beach, not a church wedding, photo 9 was a dress I made them try on to see if they looked good with the folds at the waist, needless to say it looked weird at the top as a result. The last picture is the two dresses that we are struggling with. We like them both but aspects of both are throwing us for a loop. We are going to decide after next seasons designs are released in January, this way we won't get something that will not be reproduced in the year we get married.
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