The flowers have been figured out, garter belt and guest book with pen set purchased, deposit sent to the photographer and personalised, self-designed stamps and postcards are printing... Plus, there is another secret gift in the making... Involving sewing... The garter belt was a bit frustrating. I found one I luved on etsy.com but it wasn't the right colours... I asked the shop owner to make me one in black and purple and mentioned that black and purple and white are my wedding colours... So she made one in white and purple! I let that slide... I figured... it's gonna be up my dress anyway... But she changed the bow too and made it $2 more expensive... It's cute but in retrospect I think I could have just cheaply and easily made one for myself that was what I really wanted... sigh... I sent her a note with my order asking for the bow to be in the style I liked and if she doesn't change it maybe I'll just rip it off myself and sew on a black one that I like! What's extra annoying is she posted one just today, the same style in black and white! It looks great. Argh.
I looove the black and white anemones. When I first started looking at flowers ages ago, I really wanted black flowers. I still love that idea... I've got my cream white gown so I wanted as much of my remaining accessories as possible to be BLACK! I love the look of it, and I love the idea of doing the opposite of traditional... And the idea of black bringing a kind of deadness... I feel like the only reason my gown is white is because it's the only chance you get to wear a huge poufy white dress... Can't pass that up... The wedding will be pretty traditional overall but nearly everything has our little spin on it... I kinda fell in love with the above bouquet though, I also needed some purple in my look, as do my girls. So. There's still black in the center of the anemones. Plus there will be anemones on the cake. Which my mom is making!!! Gonna taste so good and look so pretty...
And the bridesmaid bouquets... Fantastic purple, I love the shape of the bouquet as well. Eeee, excited!!!As for fabric shopping in Queen West area of Toronto... Affordable Textiles is hands down my favorite. They are super helpful, fast, knowledgeable, professional, well-priced, and they have a fantastic selection of fabrics. I even like the organisation of their shop. Downtown Fabrics is great too, beautiful, quality fabrics and a helpful staff. Affordable just has a little more... affordability and selection... And L.A. Fabrics is OK... Gorgeous fabrics, a lot of designer stuff as well as a good selection of straight colours at good prices. I can't stand the way that staff rip my fabric off the roll though, instead of just cutting it... I get home and the ends are all puckered and threads everywhere...
