The flowers are one of my favorite parts, 

I'm not sure why. 

To go along with our colors, 

we chose to use mostly sunflowers, and delphiniums/larkspur. 

The center pieces will look something like this: 

Although we're thinking probably blue tinted jars,

and water beads instead of those glass things.

The bridesmaids bouquets will look something like this:

And for mine, I'm thinking something like this:

For the guys we'll do a single delphinium/larkspur boutonniere like this (although this is an orchid, the idea is similar)

 

I love the way they all tie in with our theme. The colors are perfect and they aren't too fancy.

 

Who would have thought choosing colors was going to be the hard part?
Certainly not I.
Before he even asked, I had them all planned.
A royal purple and a turquoise color (like David's Bridal's Malbu)
Then one day he surprised me at work with those super pretty bright colored daisies.
And I had an amazing idea.

My bouquet would be these amazing bright daises,
and I'd have each girl wearing a black dress
and have her bouquet with one color of daisy,
and shoes to match.
(i.e. blue flowers/blue shoes, purple flowers/purple shoes, etc.)

I thought it was the coolest idea ever.
But not everyone agreed.
Then we went to David's Bridal,
and I fell in love with the color Horizon
(it's a royal blue)
so I decided on blue and white.

Butttt, that was too plain for me.
So I decided to throw in some yellow for good measure.
And here we have the wedding colors:

When he first started talking about getting married, I got all giddy and wedding crazy.
A friend of mine, and I happened to be near a bridal consignment shop, so we stopped in.
I tried on a couple dresses, and fell in love with this one.
Over the last year or so, I've randomly stopped in at that same bridal shop,
and the dress has still been there.

Last month my mom and I started dress shopping,
and of course, back to the consignment store we went.
(After a couple stops at David's bridal)
and my dress was still there.

I tried it on and just kept staring at it.
I wanted to look more, to be sure,
even though I knew this was the one.

The consultant was very blunt in telling me,
"Look, I've seen you in here at least three times trying on this dress over the last year,"

"Probably five, if we're being honest." I interuppted.

"Exactly," she said, "This dress is tried on at least every other day.
It's one of three tea-length dresses we have in the store, and that's a very popular style.
There is a reason the dress is still here.
It's your dress."

And I turned to look in the mirror again,
and smiled.
It was my dress.
And I marched right over to put it on layaway.

And it will be perfect.
As soon as I add the corset back
and possibly a sweetheart neckline.