CSA Wedding Registry

I was reading an interesting article on BuzzFeed the other day about unconventional wedding registry ideas. And while I didn't necessarily agree with all of them (I don't really like the mentality of using a wedding to just get a bunch of free stuff. Wedding guests want to help you build your new home. Maybe that's because I'm Southern and we tend to cling to etiquette with an iron fist.), I do like the idea of registering for things that you will actually use and if those things are outside the box, then so be it.

One fantastic idea I saw was signing up for a CSA box subscription. How great would that be? I mean, yes, someone is essentially buying your groceries, but I feel like because it's a subscription it's somehow more "okay."

What do you think? Would you do it?

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J. Crew Wedding Line

i had one of those weedings where everything went wrong (all before the big day...the day itself was wonderful and perfect). one of those disasters was my wedding dress, that i had made, didn't fit and two weeks before our wedding i wound up borrowing my wonderful friend morgan's dress. it was beautiful, but i think i would do things a little differently if i were to get married today and one of those would be picking a physical dress instead of trying to get someone to recreate what's in my brain. and i really think that if i were to get married today, i might just buy a dress from j.crew. so, in honor of "what i would have done" here are some of my favorites (the online pictures are not as good as the catalogue):

the one-shouldered dupioni lumiere gown:

the chiffon and organza dune gown:

the silk tricotine goddess gown:

this dress makes me think of a friend who is going to get married on the beach, or maybe for a city hall wedding, i don't know.

the silk chiffon whitney gown:

this picture does not do this dress justice. and it's only $395.

the genevieve silk radzimir gown:

this is the most expensive one, but who could pass on a dress with pockets?

the silk taffeta sascha gown:

Sunny Austin Wedding

on november 1, i had the privilege to fly to austin and be in one of my best friend's weddings - court miller (better known as fat bottom hurst). how do i describe court? she is one of the most genuine and selfless people i've ever met. and we share a brain. and our future as of yet to be adopted children are already betrothed. she is one of the few (maybe the only) girls that david will call his friend. i'm so happy she found steve. he is equally amazing. so, to let you all share in one of the greatest, most fun weddings i've ever been to, here is my homage.

yes, that is my husband doing the worm on the left.

and they had this awesome photobooth (which is apparently all the rage these days, but i swear they started it in austin). don't you like the way i made it look like a real photobooth strip? yeah? yeah?

all wedding photos © two pair photography and all photobooth pictures © trevor ray thompson photography