Getting my hair did

Rachel, from ZING, did my hair. She was great. My hair stayed put all day, and she was very calm and quiet while doing my hair. I don't remember her once asking me to do anything other than look up/down/to the side. Plus, my head didn't ache at the end of the day like it did after my trial!





There were a LOT of bobbie pins in my hair, but look at that shiny pile of curls!



At that point, I had to get up and stretch. I think this was also when Miri came in and dropped off her baby for me to snuggle.



And the crowning touch, my tiara!

Also, did you notice a difference in photo quality there? The first photo is with my old point-and-shoot and the later ones were with the new camera we received as a wedding present. Andrea used both to take some photos of me getting ready and of the bedekin/ketubah as well.

While Rachel was fussing with my hair, Amanda, from Kokoro Photography, took photos of many of my accessories and details. Her mom and partner, Debi, took lots of photos of Ben (I'll post those tomorrow).

I know that my mom thinks that these photos of what I wore are excessive, but I appreciate them! I spend all that time and effort gathering them, it's nice to have that documented. Plus, now you all can see them! Would anyone like to borrow the veil, tiara, shoes (size 6.5), or earrings? I suppose I could just pass on those accessories, and they can make their way through the world. Especially the veil, when can I ever wear that again?! I suppose it'll just stick around as a future dress-up item if no one else wants it.

I'm sure I'll find other reasons to wear the earrings and shoes again, the brooch is my great-great grandmother's (or her sister's) and is in my mother's keeping, the pearl bracelet is from my grandma via my uncle Richard. Everything else is new.

we have lift off! OK, rings off, but it rhymes, right?

I brought my purple sapphire engagement ring to the jeweler today to get it polished up and brushed to match my new WEDDING BAND! I also brought Ben's ring, or so I thought..... I freaked out when I opened the box to find his ring missing, but apparently he wanted to bling out his ring and get it textured, like in the photo below (without the polished line). Thankfully, when the new lady at the store looked up Ben's name, she realized that she had his ring, and that's why his box was empty. I even tried calling Ben's coworkers when he didn't answer his phone! I'm glad it was located. Now, they're being engraved with 10.10.10 because Ben didn't want anything and I said we needed an identifying factor for his ring so that if he ever looses we don't say "uuuuh, it's a plain gold band that's rounded....." They'll be ready on Friday morning, before our walkthrough/rehearsal with the rabbi. [That was an adventure to book, I'll talk about it later if I remember.]

Pearl Earrings

Pearl Earrings

14k Gold Cultured Freshwater Pearl Earrings - Earrings Pearl - Macy's.

I always thought I'd wear pearls with my wedding dress, but then I decided that I was going to add pinup style halter straps to my dress and the dream of wearing pearls down the tubes, I've now got my heart set on pearl drop earrings. I have 3 pairs of pearl studs (small, large, and pink), but I want danglies! What girl doesn't love a good pair of danglies that won't get caught in her hair? Plus, these have a tiny diamond and euro claps instead of hooks

My birthday is in 6 weeks, if anyone wants to buy my a present.... With your coupon from the Sunday paper (extra 15% off), They come in under $100, including tax.... I tried them on in the store and the nice lady told me that the sale is good through June 16th.

PS- I kindasortamaybe already asked Ben for these for my birthday, so if you're anyone other than him and want to gift them to me, please check with him first. Then he can go back to my original birthday request: a laptop desk (grey).

wedding brain

What is going to be my default topic of conversation once we're married? I hung out with a friend I rarely see yesterday, before crashing another friend's family function (to help her stay sane), and I realized that in both situations where there was an awkward pause that I defaulted to wedding related stuff. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to talk about the weather and current events (btw, that pillar of black smoke last night was SCARY, and I'm not too keen on Boulder Creek flooding either).

In other, wedding related news, I met with Ben in downtown Boulder for lunch and to go visit the jewelry store. We'd dropped off my shiny on Saturday to be polished so that it would be extra sparkly for our engagement photos tomorrow (more news on that later). While we were there we learned that our jeweler sources all his gold from a reclaimed/recycled gold company! Yey! And picked out wedding bands. Ben had originally wanted to get matching bands, but I think that's stilly if it's not what looks best so he looked at others and found a dude rind for himself. Very classic.

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I think it's funny that my ring looks so much bigger than his in these photos, but if you can read the tiny text and see that I wear a 4.5 and he wears an 8 you can see that they're different sizes. I'm pretty sure that my little 2.5 mm band will fit inside his 5 mm band. But my ring looks so pretty with my purple-stoned shiny, though I'm not sure I'll wear them together all of the time. I may also have to have my shiny let out a little because it's currently size 4.25 which fits perfectly by it's self but gets kinda snug feeling when I'm wearing another ring with it.

Now we have to decide what, if anything we want engraved inside the rings. I was thinking "ani l'dodi" in one ring and "v'dodi li" in the other, and 10.10.10, but Ben's not sold on the idea. Or just DJR + BKS 10.10.10 if we can't decide on something else. There's not going to be much room in my ring, and it's going to have some damned tiny micro script in it. I feel sorry for the engraver!

jewelry and other bling

OK, so I'm weird about some things. One of them being jewelry. I'm partial to yellow gold, but I'm starting to think that I look better in silver tones than yellow gold. This is a problem because my brain requires my metals to match each other (though I don't think that my engagement ring and wedding band will have to match all my other jewelry every day).

I think I liked yellow gold because it blends into my skin tone more, but silver really sparkles against it. Boo. My favorite everyday earrings are yellow gold and silver together, so those are fine to wear with the magen dovid necklace I wear everyday.

Anyway, my concern is with this metals-must-match thing that's in my head. My shoes have TINY gold buckles on them, and the tiara I have is on gold plated wire, but it blends into my hair and I REALLY want some sparkle on my head. Then I went and wore silver dangly earrings to my cousin's wedding last weekend (sorry, forgot to take a photo of myself) and my pearls with the white gold clasp, and now I want to wear silver! But gold is better with ivory.

Stupid things to fret about, no? I'll stick with what I have and gold tones, because I think they're more "me" even if silver stands out more. Now, I want to go to the new bead store here in Boulder and try and make earrings like these, that match my tiara, but with gold wires (you know, so they match.....):

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woohoo! I'm a princess!

I just ordered a TIARA! Yeah. Me. Wearing a tiara. It was 1/2 off because it's a sample. Oh darn. Someone wore my tiara to a photo shoot and it's not virgin jewelry, the shame! Pfff, it was on sale! Seriously. I wouldn't care if someone wore it to a funeral. You're talking to the girl who fell in love with sparkly shoes from the DSW clearance rack. If I could find a used dress I liked as much as the one in my head, I'd probably order it too.

Oh, and don't worry, it won't have any rhinestones at all. I'm not that southern, actually I'm not southern at all (take that you damned Red Socks groom [Yankee would sound better, but then I'd have to endure a tickle and/or sock war once he reads this]). I was born in The District and DC was the capitol of the Union, you know.

So, there you go. I now have everything I plan on wearing to our wedding but my dress and there won't be any rhinestones on that either. I'll have to make my short fluffy veil now so that I can play with the placement of the veil and my rhinestone free tiara. Good thing I've had the supplies sitting in the laundry closet for a few months now.

Jewelry Porn =)

I took that one after Ben gave the ring to me and before he proposed. Yes, he gave me the ring, we were both full from dinner, took a potty break, and then went across the street to the plaza in front of the Boulder County Court House to properly ask me to be his wife.



This is one of my favorite pictures of the ring. It was still to big/chunky then, it's little sleeker now, I should take new photos.



 

That's the best picture I got that shows the sides and stuff of the ring.

Needless to say: I love purple almost as much as I love my future Mister!