Sneak Peek: The Dress!

*****WARNING: Mr. Nee do not look! (not that you read this blog anyway! ;-P)*******

As some of you on FB know, I put a deposit down on my dress yesterday. I am having my dress custom-made from an Australian designer I found on Etsy. Etsy is an online marketplace where everything sold is either handmade or vintage, so yeah if you are into all things crafty and cutesy then you will spend hours perusing this site. I am actually helping my mother set up an Etsy site so she can sell her doll clothes and knitted/crocheted goods.

I saw this design a few months ago when it was featured on the main page and fell in love with it. However, I had just started looking and wanted to shop around a bit. However, I knew I was not going to be a bridal shop dress kinda girl. After looking through thrift stores, vintage shops, couture dress shops, I kept coming back to this dress. I began a conversation with the designer asked a few questions and after talking for almost two weeks about it decided to just go for it. I still need to get some of my measurements into her before she can begin and I will be sending her some of my Girl Scout pins, badges and scarves to make the dress really unique and personal. :-) I am very excited and nervous at the same time!

Anyway on to some pictures!


I love the tuxedo detail and the lace!

This cummerbund is from a different dress but I like the design of it a lot better than the one on the original dress. So mine will hopefully look very similar to this one.

As the title implies this is only a sneak peek but I feel like I have revealed quite a bit! More will be revealed in good time. :-)

Sneak Peek: Reception and Ceremony Site Porn!

In one of my previous posts, I mentioned that we had already selected and reserved our reception site. Well, Mr. Nee and I went to Balboa Park yesterday and took some pictures:
This is the entrance to our reception site. The fountain and the mural, I believe were completed by the same artist in the late 1930s. I love how the natural light hits both of them.



As I am a graduate student in Geography, it is only appropriate that our reception site be equipped with an antiquated map!



I love the windows and how the light flows through them!



Here is a close up of one of the ceiling lamps. I love the bronze detail along the top.




Our ceremony site is in a butterfly garden. When the grotto was first built it was a nudist colony but is now known as the Butterfly Garden (aka Zoro Garden) and was dedicated as such two days before we met in 2007! We saw this as a sign to have our ceremony here! We were also impressed how many monarch butterflies we saw so late in the year. This gives us hope that they will be around next year around this time!