Old Soul, Young Heart

(Okay... I wrote this entry last night and apparently it didn't save, so here we go again!) My aunt got her bridesmaid dress yesterday! I love it and she looks so great in it! I'll go with Brooke and the flower girls in a couple weekends to choose their dresses. It's all coming together! And I finally got pictures of ME in my wedding dress!

I didn't know the brand, style number, or name of my dress, but I did some investigating so that I could find pictures of it online. The tag said Provonias Barcelona, which is a designer I had heard of, so I started there. None of the numbers on the tags returned any photos of my dress, so I just searched "Provonias 2011 Collection" and by some miracle, a girl had posted a picture of her (my!) dress on The Knot with the name of it. From there I was able to find several pictures in different places and in different angles, so I'm really excited that I'll have those pictures to keep going back to.  It's funny that even though I know what it looks like, it's so easy to forget what it looks like on me. That's why it's nice to see what it looks like on someone else, especially a real person and not a model. I found the picture on the official website on the model and it looks so different! I never would have wanted to try it on if I only saw it from th...

Well, I found my wedding dress!  We went to Bridal Elegance today. It was a different experience than at David's Bridal. The consultant first had us just go through the racks to pick things that I wanted to try on. I wasn't sure if this was the most efficient use of our time, but we did find probably 8 dresses or so. The first two I tried were my favorites and there was another towards the end that went into the "potential" pile. Once I had tried on all the ones we pulled, I asked the consultant if she knew of any others that I might like, so I waited for her to come back. I sat in my little dressing room with a very ruffley dress on, looking at myself in the mirror and really taking in that I was trying on wedding dresses. It was very quiet in there and I'm glad I have those few minutes, because the whole experience seems very fast and overwhelming. She brought about 4 more and I tried on 3 of the 4. There was in particular that stood out for me, making ...

Brooke sent me pictures that she took while we were trying on dresses on Saturday. I want to sooo badly share the one that I loved so much and a different one that made me look really good (the tie-up back does insane things for a non-hour glass figure), but alas, my fiance reads this blog and I cannot have him seeing me in any wedding dress prior to September 22. With a very cheesy smile and wiiide eyes. I'm not really a veil person, but I do look rather bridal, don't I? I'm also actually in the dress that I loved so much, but of course I've cropped that out! Here also are our adorable flower girls, modeling some flower girl fashions... They are too stinkin' cute. Should've had the consultant or someone else take a picture of all of us together... sigh. Good times, though. Can't wait to do it again!

Okay... I AM SO EXCITED. But first things first... On Monday I went to Fox and Hound's with the intent of getting my normal chemical straightener, but she talked me into doing a Brazilian Blowout. (Weird name, I know.) I had heard of BB before, but mostly bad things like it having formaldehyde, which is really bad for both the stylist and the customer... like, it causes cancer. I asked the stylist, though, and she said that they did testing on it and it's not true. (I'm not really sure if I believe this 100%. My general feeling is that anything so full of chemicals has to be bad for humans somehow.) There's so much hype about this straightener being so good, though, that I just wanted to try it, so I did. I must admit that it's pretty good. It takes me like 6 minutes to blowdry my hair now and it's pretty much straight without having to do anything else. There are a few spots that she probably could've added more product to because it's not as straig...