All posts tagged: weddings

Rate Kate’s dress

Last week’s wedding dress divided you into three groups. Those of you who were madly in love, those of you who thought it was just a little blah, and finally, those of you who thought it looked like an ice skating costume. Luckily for the dress, the majority of you were in group 1, and it rated a 7.5 out of 10. This week, instead of the usual ‘rate the dress’ let’s look at the entries for the ‘design a dress for Kate‘ contest. She may not wear what we decide, but hopefully she won’t wear an ice skating costume! Below are the three entries (click on the images for a larger view). Entry A: Entry B: Entry C: Now that you have seen all the gorgeousness on offer, you can vote on your favourites. But wait! This is a vote with a difference. I asked Mr Dreamy to contribute to the blog and he suggested that for a fairer voting system we use a single transferable vote system (Mr D knows the names of …

Put a crown on it

Published by The Dreamstress

When I got married I wasn’t at all interested in tiaras. Mostly this is because most of the ones available at the time looked too much like pageant tiaras. I’m not really a pageant girl. Now, if I’d been able wear a good replica of one of these historic tiaras, I would have been all over the idea! This one may be my favourite. Oooh! It’s so sweet and delicate and floral! And we all know my weakness for laurel leaves, so of course I love this one. It’s just so simple. This one may be even better. It has laurel leaves, neoclassical influence, and a cameo. I’m in love! The cameo is a little manly though. I’d prefer a more feminine picture, like this one. In addition to the pretty image, I love the turquoise and pearls, and the slight asymmetry of the central motif. Plus that wirework is so delicate! The silver filigree work on this one is just gorgeous, and of course, many of the Scandanavian countries still have a strong tradition …

A wedding story

Published by The Dreamstress

When it came to a wedding, I was pretty easygoing about a lot of things, but there was one thing that I really, really, really wanted. Dancing. And not that ‘have a DJ who puts on some random popular music and the really brave people bop along to it looking kinda lame’ dancing either. The last time I went to a wedding in Hawaii with that kind of dancing the DJ played that Shaggy song about the spare key and the girl next door, and I wasn’t going to have that! Nope, I wanted proper, elegant, dancing. But it had to be something that everyone could do, which meant contradancing, with a caller. There isn’t actually anyone who does contradancing in my neck of the woods in Hawaii, so my dad and I ordered in instruction tapes, learned how to call, taught a bunch of friends how to contradance, videotaped ourselves calling, and gave the tapes and elaborate instructions to a very brave musician who was willing to try calling. And sorted an entire playlist. …