When Ryan asked me to marry him after yes thousand of thought whirled through my mind at a thousand kilometers per second. When? Where?  What will I wear? How will I style my hair? Who should I choose for bridesmaids? Why will it cost so much? But there was at least one thing I was sure of what colours I wanted for the wedding. I have known that years before I even knew I was going to get married because I knew what two colours I liked together. The problem is I’m no good at the names of the colours and cause I am a web geek I only know the hexadecimal colour codes for them. Adding to this is the complication that you can’t just say pretty blue and grey because people need the specific shades, is the grey silver? Steel? Platinum? Pewter? I dunno it’s grey okay!

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So you tell me what colours would YOU call those?

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Meg over at A Practical Wedding, had a great post today about making your own wedding dress. It’s a really great article for the DIY minded bride about some realistic challenges of making your own wedding dress. The reason it caught my eye is I plan on making my own wedding dress, although I think I have a foot up on Meg that I am a fashion designer. For me there was never a doubt in my mind that I would make my wedding dress, after all as I have said I am a fashion designer and I specifically design evening gowns. The more I thought about what I want for my actual dress and how I want it to look the feel of it etc. I realized that I had no other choice.

I have often envisioned my perfect wedding look, really girls which one of hasn’t spent a few hours or so doodling our dress? I knew since I went to college for a pursued a degree in Victorian costume, I knew it was going to be largely inspired by that era. I have since then sat down and really sculpted the look. Change the neck line to be much more modern,  decrease the bustle volume by 50%, keep train length, decide to ad some colours to it, remove 8 tons of the traditional lace and that gives you a very modern looking but dramatic dress.

I think that there are two camps when it comes to the dress and look, there are the women that go for more sublime and subdued look simple elegant dresses moderate train. Then there are the girls who are dramatic they want the long train the perfectly coiffed like a princess hair and by god they better have a tiara preferably a big one. I definitely fall into the second category. I plan on having a 6-10 meter train (detachable of course you think I’m crazy?) depending on the aisle length (which I still need to have measure memo to self). While I want a dramatic bordering on royal look I want a simple wedding, which is good because this leaves me to focus mostly on my dress.

I haven’t yet started it but I figure I have time enough. If I start panicing and screaming about the dress in two months time please direct me back to this post.

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When getting engaged there were a few things I wasn’t aware would happen. As much as I wanted to get married I really wasn’t prepared with the fact that I basically had to start planning yesterday! I wasn’t prepared for the fact that I would actually enjoy the organizing and planning the scheduling and calling. As much as I am an artist I am also a Virgo and my analytical brain can easily sort that kind of a thing out. I Think it also helps that I have done a lot of event planning. I also wasn’t ready to be bombarded with never ending questions. How did he propose? Have you set the date? Where is it going to be held? What are you serving for dinner? What flowers? What colours?

Jeez people it’s only been a week since I said yes to a question that came with a ring. I have noticed already there will be somethings that are a bit harder to get done. Like convincing your fiancé that music from the Doctor Who soundtrack would be wonderful to walk down the aisle to. Or finding comfortable cute white shoes in my size. Making my own dress and invites without going insane. And most of all not to natter on about it incessantly until you all leave for more interesting blogs. These are my challenges and I fully accept them.

Ryan and I also thank you whole heartedly for all of your well wishes and congratulations I will still try to thank each one of you individually(this last week has been a real headspinner) but in the mean while Thank You!!

**This post has been copied from my main blog which you can find here**

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