Moya and I are getting legally married soon (thanks, California!) and have spent the last few months planning — yeah, I know most people don’t decide to get married in June and then have the wedding less than 4 months later but we have an election deadline. Marriage became legal in June and there’s an election in November with this awful proposition that might send California back to the dark ages of marriage-only-for-straight-people once again.
While planning this wedding, I made a financial trade in our loose budget — a less expensive dress in exchange for spending more on tasty cake (food/drink is so much more important to me than clothes). Moya and I went to this really great tailor (Edel Claudio) and I had my “perfectly fine second choice” dress shortened.
Then I created a persistent web search to see if I could, before our wedding date, find the dress I really liked and match the price of the less expensive one, and yesterday the internet came through for me! So if my first-choice dress arrives in time, and I can get it shortened in time (I so very much do not want to wear heels), then it’ll be thanks to the world wide web community of selling and buying. I adore persistent searches – they make the web so much more usable when trying to find an elusive item at a particular price.
Here‘s what the brides & flowergirl are wearing – except now I hopefully have a different dress and can get shortened in time (if not, I’ll resort to wearing heels).
The weather might be cool/foggy or warm/sunny so we three have matching velvet jackets and I’m quite fond of the ruffly little girl jacket for our daughter.
Moya and I are both fond of classic clean lines in clothing and we got our gowns from J Crew who has quite a few wedding dresses that are clean and modern instead of princess-y or foofy.
