As you know, I had a lot of DIY projects so now I want to show them off! Remember me talking about making my veil?

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I am fairly fanatical about my nails.  Peachy Mom has done an excellent job of instilling in me the importance of a good manicure. Sadly my law student budget doesnt allow me to get professional manicures weekly, every weekend (usually early Sunday evening) I manicure my nails for the upcoming week.  Not only do I stick to this schedule, but as soon as my nail polish starts to chip, I have to take it off.  Yes this is a tad bit obsessive.  Side story.  Mr. Peach knows how I am about my nails and apparently paid close attention to my nails the week leading up to our engagement and had Peachy Mom on standby that week to swoop in and take me for a surprise manicure.  Have no fear my nails were in tip top shape that day.  See!

Look at those RED beauties!!!

Anyway, as you can see I take pride in my nicely manicured nails, and so my wedding day will surely be no different.  Obviously this decision is one of the more minor details of the day, but still have you thought about what color your nails will be?  They will be photographed often that day!

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If you’ve spent any time on the wedding blogosphere, there is one look you can’t get away from…braids! I absolutely love braids so am happy they are making a comeback.

This beautiful braid from the blog Love Maegan is absolutely stunning!  The link includes a tutorial to show you how to do it yourself and trust me, you can! I just tried it out and it was a success!  With a few more tries and a little bit of patience, I could have the “perfect” side braid updo.

Don’t believe me? Let me show you!

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Well helllllllo there Garden. I am unbelievably sorry about my recent lack of posts. Back in May, I got a new job as a Graphic Designer for a national cosmetics retail chain. Pretty exciting – but also a very, very big change from my previous job. I’ve been working like CRAZY to get adjusted to the new job, and, in turn have not had much time to do wedding planning. (PS – huge thank you to those who suggested a long engagement for me – you were SO right.)

So, with the new job comes a wealth of knowledge of the cosmetics industry. I do a ton of product research to put into my e-blasts each week, and I also got a wonderful goodie bag of products when I started. Prior to working at this company, I bought cosmetics solely from CVS. Didn’t really care what brand, just got what I needed and off I went. So, when I saw a travel size tub of ReVive Moisturizing Renewal Cream in my goodie bag, I had no idea what it was, or what it could do.

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If a picture says a thousand words, why are we all writing long invitations? Can’t I just post card everyone a photo and just leave it at that? Sounds like a good plan to me.

Engagement photos can say a lot, especially if you’re including them with invitations and on wedding blogs/websites. It’s more than just a documentation of how you looked on that day. Just as the style of the invitation may say lot about the wedding so can the photo. When the invitation arrives in the mail the invite is the first peek that the guests have at the theme and style of the wedding. Is it going to be formal, causal? Beach style, Vintage, dress-up, casual, a BBQ or picnic? If that invite can convey that much, even before reading the details, then a photo included can say even more. What does your photo say about you? What does your photo say about your wedding?

The number one thing for me would be for the friends/relatives that know us well to look at the photo and say, “that’s so Daisy Bud and Mr. Daisy.” I spent a long time debating if we were going to include engagement photos in our invitations, we decided to do it because the only decent picture of us together was one taken on a cell phone 3 years ago. (it really is a pretty cute picture), But, we thought it would be good to have something a bit nicer. The hard thing about photos for us in general is that Mr. Daisy is a photographer and so we almost never get in a photo together.

We have a great Wedding Photographer, Vanessa Menendez. She primarily does editorials, headshots and pageant photography. Fortunately she’s a good friend and we were able to snag her for the wedding, engagement photos, and a session of head shots for me.  We met up in a sweet location about 20 minutes away from where I live and we took my headshots (of which I was in desperate need) and then headed off to the park to do the engagement photos we’re hoping to include in our invites.

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I recently had my trial run at Shear Envy in North Canton. I picked my “hair place” by stylist as opposed to salon.

My stylist is Laura, we met through my sister’s wedding and she was working at another salon at the time. She asked what my plans were for hair for my wedding and I confessed that if I had things my way, I would have someone come out to the church and do my hair and my bridesmaids’ hair. She smiled and said, “If you wanted, I could do that.”

{Personal Photo}

So over the past couple of months we discussed logistics of getting my hair, 4 bridesmaids and 2 moms styled at the church on the day of my wedding. Laura and another stylist, Julie, will arrive at the church at 9 a.m. and start making us lovely.

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I will be sporting a bird on my head on my wedding day.

Ah. Although not quite like Carrie

I’m going for a bit more subtle, without being cheesy. Why a bird? Well, there are love birds on our invitations and there are going to be a few recurring bird elements. Again – subtle, without being cheesy.

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Back in October I purchased an awesome handmade fascinator at the Renaissance Faire here in North Carolina. I’m really excited to rock it on my wedding day and have started thinking about my wedding day style. So, I’ve created this inspiration board full of super cute, yes, super cute, wedding-day-dos featuring fascinators.

Fascinators are often used with a birdcage veil, which as you may remember I was hoping to wear instead of a traditional veil. Unfortunately, the birdcage didn’t look right with my chosen dress, but I think any of these updos will look great sans veil.

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Not only am I a first time bride to be, but I am a mother of a 10 1/2 year old as well.  To me I think weddings can be compared to giving birth…nobody ever tells you the truth about what it is really like.  I am sure some women have magical experiences during the weeks leading up the wedding, however I have not.  A co-worker is getting married the day before me, I’ve spoken to her a few times within the past week and it some how comforted me that she was having similar feelings….some tears herself.   Here are some of things I have been dealing with -

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So, like every other bride, I want to look my absolute best on my wedding day. I want to look back on my pictures from my Big Day and sigh. So one of the biggest aspects of my appearance (other than the dress, of course!) is Wedding Day Hair.

I’ve already discussed my issue with the veil, so that won’t carry over into this post, I promise! This is merely focused on the hairstyle itself. So I have to start out by saying that I like my hair better down rather than up. I really do. So my initial idea for my Big Day Hair was this:

Imagine this, but for a Brunette

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