Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Vintage flower for my MOH

Last weekend, my Maid of Honor (MOH, as dubbed from Anna's pre-wedding days), Trish was in town. Trisha lives in Nashville now so when she is home, I have to snag her for at least a couple of hours so we can catch up and visit our favorite (since high school) hangout: Coffee Times.

Adjacent to CT, and owned by the same woman, is Street Scene; a very fun and eclectic vintage store housing all sorts of goodies from days past. One of my favorite all time finds in that store was a Barbie airplane, made circa 1972. Well that, or the New Kids on the Block sleeping bag I should have bought when I had the chance. That's the thing with stores like that...you let it pass and it is typically gone forever.

Anyway, Trish and I made a quick stop in Street Scene en route to have a cappucino at CT. I told Trish several months back that I wanted to try and find a vintage brooch of some sort for her to wear in the wedding. Since I will have eight girls on stage with me, all wearing various emerald green dresses, I thought this would be a fun way to differentiate her as my MOH. And a great way to showcase our mutual love of vintage things!

While perusing, we came across this brooch:




Needless to say, we found ourselves Trisha's wedding day brooch. I absolutely love the bright orange color of it! Just what I was wanting. It will stand out beautifully against the emerald green dress. And it's just fun!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Pea-green with envy

Since perusing Etsy a bit more, I think I have refined my necklace style...I was originally thinking of super funky...to someting a little more elegant. I still want an emerald green stone, but I want something a little vintage and more dainty. I have narrowed my choices down to six.

They are:

All are from Etsy. Love love love Etsy!

Without showing you a picture of the dress (can't let Jacob see it!), keep in mind it is ivory. I will wear a veil during the ceremony, a feathery floral headpiece at the reception (sans veil), and will have on those gold shoes I showed you earlier this week. Opinions? Ideas?

As for earrings, some of the sellers of these pieces have earrings to match. That might be a possibility. Not entirely sure yet. Figured I would choose a necklace first and the rest would fall into place.

If you have an opinion, share it! I would really like to hear it before making a purchase (hopefully this week sometime.).