While Cymbie Dude is banned from reading this site, I still am reluctant to put much about my dress on here.  So SPOILER ALERT SWEETIE, if you are reading!

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise

That should scare him off!

The Dress

My dress has a halter and has pearl beads and sequins to make it sparkle.  I’m not a “sparkly” girl, but I decided that for this one day, I’m going to shine and I want the sun to reflect off of my dress and accessories.  Since it has a halter neckline, I decided against a necklace.  I decided to have a couple of dramatic pieces and be done with it.

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I’m one of those girls that isn’t afraid to wear my engagement ring. You’d think I would be considering the diamond was Orchid Boy’s grandmother’s and the band is a 100-year-old antique. But, with the exception of in the shower and when I’m putting on moisturizer – most of the time – the ring is always on my finger.

After four months of wearing it every day, it was starting to get a little grimy. I did a quick Google search to see if I could find some hints as to how to clean my ring with a normal household product rather than spending money on some ring cleaner.

An old discussion board thread popped up, with most of the posters claiming Dawn detergent did wonders.

So into the kitchen I went and filled a glass with Dawn and some warm water and let the ring soak while I wiped down the kitchen counters.

Afterward, I scrubbed it a little with a toothbrush and rinsed with warm water.

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Ah, I love Thanksgiving Weekend – and Cyber Monday! Even if I’m not American, thanks to Etsy, I can still grab some awesome deals. Bridesmaids gifts, anyone?

Recently purchased:

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Subtitle of this post: the things jewelry stores don’t bother telling you.

We recently went on vacation and spent some time in St. Thomas. Knowing that duty and tax free jewelry was definitely of interest and knowing that we had a good experience with Diamonds International with my engagement ring, we decided to visit the main store in Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas.

Downtown Charlotte Amalie, Photo from coolest-travel-pictures.com

We already knew what we liked, we just wanted to look at the selection and see prices. Before I continue however, I have to tell you that the man who assisted us was totally Steve from Sex and the City, he looked like him and sounded like him.

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I finally received my pictures. I am very excited to share with you my bridal accessories. My color was Ivory and everything had to match.

My shoes were very comfortable and I was able to wear theme all night long. I can’t believe I was able to do that! I believe in comfort. Therefore, I didn’t wear high heels on my wedding day. I do however, respect and admire the brides that are able to wear stilettos on their big day.

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Lilac Dude and I ventured out the other evening to a few places near us to check out rings.

Let me start by telling you all how much I love shopping for rings! First, it gives me a good excuse to check out pretty, sparkly things. And second, I get to show off my engagement ring that I’ve had for almost a year now (no one asks to see it anymore).

Photo from: titanium-wedding-rings.com

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So the big day has passed, and for once in the past months to years, you actually have nothing to do! It’s such a weird feeling.  Everyday leading up to it, you planned, you researched, you budgeted all for this one day which was the happiest of day of your life.  What’s next? How do you make sure to keep those memories alive as the two of you start your lives together as husband and wife? You have your guestbook with amazing notes from friends and family.  You probably have some really fancy cake cutting equipment and champagne glasses to carry home with you. You most likely have the top layer of your cake that you and your new husband will dig into on your one year anniversary.  And of course… you have that beautiful white dress that you will have cleaned and will be placed in the back of your closet for years to come.  Where does the rest of it go?

I was recently in Atlanta on business and went with a friend to a shop as she needed to be fitted for a bridesmaid dress.  While she was upstairs doing that, I popped into a jewelry store below that advertised free ring cleaning in their window.  It had been a while and I thought I would just pop in to get a quick shine.  It was a cute shop with everything from fashion jewelry to big diamond rings.  As my ring was being cleaned, I was talking to the ladies at the shop about their amazing jewelery.  That’s when I saw one of the most unique pieces of jewelry I have ever seen.

Bouquet Necklace by Angela Daniels of Palas Jewelers

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This is my first edition of our wedding ring selection saga.

In a former post I talked about some surface things as they pertain to wedding rings. Now Lilac Dude and I are looking more seriously at our rings and our budget.

From the BridalBuds Gallery

So first we started with where we wanted to purchase them, not the store, but did we want to get them locally or on our next vacation in October? We haven’t yet decided that but we will check out stores close to us first.

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I love looking at photos of other’s weddings as I really enjoying searching for the small details, the little things that we may sometimes overlook.  As you all know, I had run the wedding gauntlet in the years leading up to my moment, and for so many of those weddings, I never paid attention to the little things; like bouquets, accessories, table numbers, guest books and even cakes and centerpieces… all the things that you can use to show your personality. Of course once I started planning my own wedding, these things became much more pronounced and I started pulling inspiration from every wedding I attended!

Here are a few shots of some of our small details, that I absolutely loved!

My bouquet... I never would have thought these things would be so heavy!

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Periwinkle Dude still teases me about something I did the night we got engaged.  We were at the top of the Empire State Building, it was mid-February, very windy, and incredibly cold.  After standing outside for so long, nature called so I excused myself to the ladies’ room.  As I was about to wash my hands I worried about getting my new and sparkly ring wet, or worse — dropping it down the sink!  So I (irrationally) slipped the ring off my finger and — not knowing where to put it once I took it off — held on to it in my teeth.

Source: http://www.punchstock.com

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