A Little Bit of Color

Actually, make that a lot of color.

I love kitschy stuff, garishly colored stuff, knick knacks from the 60s and 70s. I've discovered a newfound love for Irregular Choice shoes, they're absolutely ridiculous. Some of them have clear lucite engraved heels, which is something that a couple of years ago I would've thought was absolutely hideous. They're all in beautiful vibrant colors and full of texture and tiny little special details that make them possibly the coolest shoes ever. These are just a few of my favorites, and ones that I would like to wear in the wedding. Right now I'm really feeling those silver Marie Antoinettes at the bottom right.

Kitschy Wedding by jwednesday featuring handcrafted rings

There's something about a bride wearing oxfords that I love. Maybe it's because it feels like you've stepped right out of the 1920s, but whenever I wear my plain old brown oxfords, I feel special. They're my special shoes! As soon as I saw these pink and white beauties on Modcloth, it was l-o-v-e.

Pretty Pink Wedding by jwednesday featuring round toe shoes

A Few Little Details

I played around today taking some pictures of my ring and also some of the [many] glass bottles we have been collecting for the wedding. A little sneak peek of sorts...

Thinking About Wedding Shoes

I've been thinking about what kind of shoe I want to wear lately. I'd always had ballerina flats in mind for a few reasons, one of course for comfort (and I'm not the most graceful gazelle in heels), and two because there's just something so classically dainty and elegant about flats. The thing about flats though is that I can't seem to find any that look special enough. So here are some fun heels that I would love to wear (click picture for sources).

wedding shoes by jwednesday featuring heel pumps

These puppies are from BHLDN and would set me back $342. They are possibly my ultimate dream wedding shoe. Sigh.

Also from BHLDN, these babies run $220. 

Things I Like Saturday

all images via Love & Lavender

Things Are Coming Along...

So. What's new in my little world of wedding planning these days? Well for one, I found out that Crate & Barrel sucks (sort of). J and I thought we would make a third and final registry there for some fancy nice things. Wrong! We only scanned twelve things in the store and within a week I'd deleted the registry entirely because everything was just crap or overly priced crap. They even gave us a free "gift" for registering which was comprised of a pink bag filled with mostly tissue paper and useless ads and an ugly little rectangular glass vase. As the guy handed it to us he said, "We're giving out a million dollar gift card in these but you probably didn't get one."

Oh, okay, thanks! As J and I walked out of the store we both said that even if we had won that million dollar Crate & Barrel shopping spree, we probably wouldn't have spent any of it.

Okay so enough about that. We've been talking to our DJ, DJ Atticus , whom I am super stoked about! It was important to us that we have an actual DJ who mixes and knows how to read a crowd as opposed to just somebody up there hitting play.

Yesterday I put in an order at Paper in the Park for our save-the-date cards! Paper in the Park is such an adorable little place and the people are great. Plus they have jars of candy. 

Aaaand finally, I'll be meeting with the flower people later this month, Local Color Flowers. I was so excited to find them! I didn't want typical floral arrangements from the typical florist. I searched and searched for a place to buy locally grown buckets of various cut flowers and found this place. And it's in Baltimore, right under my thumb! I just want to throw bunches of mismatched flowers into all of the oddball jars i've been collecting. So enough talking, next post is going to be all pictures!

On Catering

Choosing a caterer and going to a tasting has been at the top of my HOLY-CRAP-I'M GETTING-MARRIED-I-CAN'T-WAIT-TO______ (fill in the blank) list. I've always figured it was going to be a fairly easy task, as, well, I love food (Justin does too). I like all types of food, especially anything that's bad for you, mainly desserts. There aren't really many things that I don't like aside from fish (because it makes me sick), and really spicy things (because I am a wimp). But basically, if it has frosting on it, or a cream filling, I'm probably going to eat it. 


I haven't been to very many weddings in my life, which is unfortunate because I really like weddings (especially when they are my own). I can't really even recall what I ate at those weddings, except for the steak and mashed potatoes at my cousin's wedding (which was mega-yummy), and an awesome red velvet cake. As yummy as steak and potatoes are, I've always known that I had to do something different when it came the time to serve up some grub for my guests. And really, does that come as a suprise (Me, different?!) I had a vision of mini burgers and mini hotdogs and a whole load of desserts. I like when things are mini because I myself, am mini and still enjoy "kid" food on a regular basis (I always get the blue ice cream at Maggie Moos).

                                                             mmmmm

And so enters Main Street Catering in Bowie, MD.  After scouring the websites of several local catering companies and really seeing nothing that caught my eye or made my mouth water, I came across Main Street (thanks, Google!). Not only do they have MINI BURGERS on their menu, but they also have MINI HOTDOGS. Fate? I think so.


I promptly called and began to discuss my vision with them. Not only were they SUPER nice, but they also suggested that we have a QUESADILLA station. Holy camoly. Justin is an avid fan of all things Mexican food but mainly just all things oozing with cheesey goodness. If there is one thing that I can say to get him exciting talking about the wedding it's that we're going to have a quesadilla station. 

On Wedding Registries

Yesterday Justin and I started quite possibly the best part about getting married: creating our wedding registries. First we went to Target and picked out a bunch of kitchen essentials, pots and pans, cookie sheets, cooking utensils, etc. Pretty much everything we chose was from Giada DeLaurentiis' line for Target, super cute red retro-esque stuff! Our kitchen theme is retro, which probably calls to mind several different eras, but basically I want it to look like a kitchen from the 1930s-60s (huge timeline, I know, but each decade was packed with so much cute stuff!). I'm super into really kitschy, colorful stuff (big suprise, right?) A few years ago I found the most perfect bright red pyrex bowl at an antique shop, and ever since then that has been the basis for my future dream kitchen.

When we got home I did a little research on everything and turns out Giada's cooking utensils are not so hot. Apparently the red dye bleeds out occasionally when you cook with them, gross! We also wound up taking off a few other items that had bad reviews. That seems to be our plan of action: go to the store, go crazy with the scanner then get home and remove most of it.

Later on we went to Bed Bath and Beyond, which is basically, I'm assuming, the Holy Grail of wedding registries (or is it the Mecca?). Things were a little more formal there, we had to sit at a special counter (fancy!) and talk to a special "registry consultant" (fancy!), then got a special store tour (fancy!). It was all rather unnecessary, as if we hadn't already been in that store a zillion times before. By the end of our little tour I could tell Justin was getting pretty antsy. Just give us the scanner and let us go!

Surprisingly, we found a set of dishes that we both not only agreed on, but loved! I figured that I would be pretty tough to please since I tend to be picky about that stuff (most everything in my eyes looks too boring or "mainstream", I know, roll your eyes!). We scanned a few other items (food processor, toaster oven, and of course, the beloved Kitchenaid stand mixer).

But then, fatigue and hunger began to set in. Feelings of being totally overwhelmed washed over me...all of the pots and pans and towels and sheets and utensils began to look the same. My legs were tired and I didn't want to look at another thing. I was DONE with wedding registries for the day. Justin was unhurt by my decision to quit for the night. We both agreed that it was our discussion over kitchen knives that did it (there are WAY too many to choose from and we have absolutely no idea how to choose).

And so it ended there. We walked over to Whole Foods and had a lovely little dinner (Justin somehow got an extra slice of pizza for free!) and then got ice cream. I needed a little ice cream therapy after all of that.