lace and silk and fine lil' things

wow, it's been many months since i have updated this...i've finally narrowed down my fabrics for my dress from a pile of all sorts of beautiful things to just a few, that look nice and classic and simple...i've been working a lot, and so not a whole ton to update on here.

here's what i have so far in regards to the gown...lace v-neck with lace capsleeves and silk dupioni skirt....only the bodice is really assembled, the rest is pinned on....but it's neat to finally see it come together:


yesterday we spent the day driving around the santa barbara area looking at park venues. we thought something nice and lush would be nice. there are still a few places up in ojai we need to look at, as well as the alice keck gardens which we missed in SB, but i think we might have found our spot. i just need to do some calling around to see if it's available for the date we need.

we sat down yesterday at dinner and discussed the 'guest list'. originally it was just going to be immediate family (isn't that always how it starts? ) and looks like we're going to have more people than expected. It should either diffuse any tension amongst everyone....or make matters worse. LOL. we'll see! but it made me start thinking about how I'd like to do the invites...

I remember stumbling across some really neat art noveau invitations on someones blog earlier this year. it was a nice simple linear frame with a waterlily or some sort of flora near the bottom. and so i have that in mind....and i would like to incorporate some gold leaf as well. make it look as vintage as possible....

sorta along the lines of this layout (from unitipress):