And she's back in the game!!

Hi everyone!

Sorry for my little disappearance in the last week or so. I was crazy with work and then off on a well deserved girl's weekend with my mum and sister to the fine city of Boston.

Why is it that everyone's reaction is "Why Boston??" It was a random choice that brought us to Boston (and the hopes of seeing my favourite football team, which didn't happen this time).

We did some of the tourist stuff, took in a lot of American history! Also, quite important to a good girl's weekend, we found some shopping time.

Walking around after dinner on our first night there was a store that just drew me in! For the unbride, or just a bride who is looking for a great vintage shop please check out designer Michal Negrin. This store located in Faneuil Hall Marketplace is full of romantic and feminine accessories, clothes and paper products, including a bridal line.

A showroom by appointment only is located in Port Hope, ON.

A Beautiful Day in Maine.

One day last week I was browsing my favourite blogs when I came upon this wedding posted on theunbride.com. Laura and Susie are a Maine couple that were getting married, just before before the passing of Question 1.

The photographer Brooke Schwab wrote of the wedding:
"this wedding was sweet and beautiful! laura and susie two met 6 years ago through a job and fell in love quickly. they moved to maine to work and knew that this is where they would be married. these two were fun brides and I learned that it sure does take a lot longer for two brides to get ready. we shot along the coast of maine and in a national forest prior to the ceremony and it was beautiful (minus the rain). the reception was held at a beautiful home with an attached barn where they had an early dinner with friends and family. this misty wedding day was a beautiful affair."

Your dress after the day...

Have you thought about donating it?

The Bride's Project in Toronto has created a great way to give back after your wedding day. They take used dresses and accessories as well as corporate donations and sell them and lower prices to brides to be. The great thing about the Brides Project is that the money they raise goes to help children and adults with cancer.

A cute little idea that they promote, is leaving little notes with your dress for the next bride to wear it. The note will give them a little understanding of where your dress came from and why you donated it.

I think it's a great idea! You don't even have to be in Toronto or go to Toronto to contribute. They have information on their page about the beset way to send your dresses to them in the mail.

Please check out The Bride's Project.

A friend of mine sent me this...

I think it's supposed to be a joke... It's not hilarious, but kind of funny.
The source is unknown.

*****
Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement -- not even her parents' nasty divorce.

Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best dressed mother-of -the-bride ever! A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother!

Jennifer asked her step mom to exchange it, but she refused. "Absolutely not. I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I'm wearing it," she replied.

Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, "Never mind sweetheart. I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day."

A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked
her mother, "Aren't you going to return the other dress? You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it."

Her mother just smiled and replied, "Of course I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding..."

I have to wait till when??

Ok so my new little romance novel addiction of the Bridal Quartet, maybe not be unfinished from book to book. But I want to read more.

Last night I did something a little stupid. Knowing about my long day with both jobs, I picked up my book... and didn't put it down until it was done.

Emma and Jack lived happily ever after... of course only after he made a mistake and she had to forgive him... and in the fashion of romance novels, we now have 2 best friends engaged in 6 months of book time.

Next book is out in May 2010, so I will have to find other things to keep me busy. I'm pretty sure that won't be a problem.

Saturday Night...

This past weekend Ottawa Wedding Planner Stacey Price hosted a fundraiser for Breast Cancer, Something White for Something Right. The event encouraged women to come out in their wedding gowns, or simply wear all white and raised about $5,000.00

Something tells me that this is an event that will be around again next year! Congratulations to Stacey, her team and all the brides that participated!

Photo by: David Gonczol, The Ottawa Citizen

Bed of Roses

I spent a very lazy Sunday, when I had many other things I should have or could have been doing, reading book number 2. Bed of Roses.

These books have a great way of sucking you into a world that, although it doesn't exist, feels like it does.

Emma is falling in love with Jack, who is not a commitment guy but finds himself falling in love with Emma. Will they make it... it's a romance novel.. so of course they will, but I am definitely enjoying reading about their journey.