Wedding/Event Decor by Tate

I'd like everyone to meet my friend Tate, y'all (and for some reason, when you read that in a Paula Deen accent, it sounds even better). Tate is my roommate and she is SUUUUUUPER TALENTED. The skill of hers I would like to blog about is something she has been doing for a few years now...

Meet Tate, y'all. 

As you can probably gather, Tate has the gift of painting. Especially painting canvases, which she does for weddings all over the southern region. As you can see, her paintings are absolutely exquisite. The bride just tells Tate what she wants it to say and chooses the color scheme, and Tate takes over adding her own creative touch to letters and design. OH, and can you believe the painting of that red car???? LIKE SERIOUSLY?!?!? My personal favorite is the 1st one I posted that says "So sweet of you to come." Presh!!!

So if you have a special event coming up like a wedding, birthday, baby/bridal shower, or special cocktail party, then you should definitely get in touch with Tate and she will whip you up a canvas!
tate_hill@hotmail.com
 (or a christmas bulb, or a naked body, whatever it is you want painted I suppose)

Wedding dress of the week

We all know I'm that girl that researches all things weddings for no reason. So this is my latest favorite....

I'm not sure if it's the way she's sitting, or the fact that there are 182 roses sprawled perfectly along an antique bench (even purple roses, or 'sterling roses', one of my fav flowers), or the fact that there are flowers growing in her hair, BUT I LOVE IT ALL.

One of my favorite wedding dress styles are the sweetheart halter necklines. So classic. I also love that there is only lace details along the sides of her body, and just seamless silk in the middle. Slimming!!!

Lazy Sunday & Shark Week

Today, with nothing to do in particular until 4 pm, I decided to clean house, flip on shark week, and browse through my fav blogs. I came upon a shark week inspired slideshow. I mean, I thought the chocolate muffin I bought for .99 cents was going to be the high light of my day...

click da pic.

....And since it's been too long since I've talked about anything *wedding* related, I have to divulge to my small number of readers about this new bridal designer I found, also via refinery29. Annie Jane (what a cool name?).

Yet something tells me, I'll still always want an Elie Saab dress...

Sorry about the uneventful blog... now time to hulu the bachelorette.

Summer of Shoots

Every summer I do a really fun, sometimes crazy, photo shoot with my friends....thanks to Shannon Varis, redcouchphoto.com. It's always the high light of my summers. My friends and I all go to different colleges and some of us come home for summer, some don't, so it's always really special when we get together and do something fun like this. High school friends are the best! <3

Here are some pictures from the first photo shoot, summer 2oo9. We dressed crazzzyy and actually ended up going to a Carnival that was in town for the weekend. Tutu's, blazers, spandex, neon, the works.

Here are photos from the 2010 photo shoot. We were lucky enough to get 2 days worth of pics!

How cool are my friends? That lucky guy posing with us is Ryan. If you haven't heard about him, ya need ta. Catch his humor at his blog, north-view.blogspot.com.

For summer 2011, we wanted to have a really cool theme. We decided on doing a vintage bridal theme. It was good in theory, but we had no idea what we would wear. Google imaging inspirations could only get us so far. Luckily, on a quick trip to visit my boyfriend in the small town of Portales, I stepped into a consignment store 15 minutes before close, and as fate would have it, there was a bridal section. Beautiful, lacey, old, conservative, 50s inspired wedding gowns! It was perfect. I put 6 of those babies on hold, bada bing, bada boom, we wore them for the shoot. The pictures aren't done being edited yet, but I do have 1 shot I can give for a teaser! Ill post those as soon as they're done. I cant wait!

How awesome is Shannon's photography???? I love looking back on this picture because although we look so perfect, poised, and graceful, we were dying!!! It was over 90 degrees on a hot summer afternoon!!! Our make up was smudging, our dresses were choking us (women in the 50s were tiny!!....btchz) But I mean, we were having so much fun we didn't care. Honey badger don't care.

today's wedding dress

For those of you who don't know, I have a bit of a wedding obsession. I love looking through wedding photography, seeing the cakes, the color schemes, but most importantly, the dresses. I love, LOVE, bridal gowns. It just so happens I also love to sketch dresses for fun. So naturally I love sketching wedding dresses. This was the first one I did, the first original dress I wanted for my wedding. This was over a year ago, so it's of course changed 439 times since then.