Rehearsal Dinner Dress

As I have mentioned previously, our rehearsal dinner is a pig pickin' tailgate style in honor of our alma mater, NCSU. Basically what that entails is that it's a red and white theme with bbq and the fixin's! WOO! 

In terms of what attire I wanted, naturally I wanted to wear white, but we also asked our guests to wear red and white. But y'all, it's so hard finding a white dress, that fits and is appropriate for the theme. I didn't want anything too dressy but nothing too casual..

So here's what I've found and am considering. (Although I DO have to admit I'm leaning towards one specifically, but I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts!)

 Trina Turk Esteem Dress

 Zara v-neck dress

Zara pleated dress

BCBG lace dress

Marielle Lace Lilly Pulitzer

What do y'all think? I would love to hear what you're thinking about wearing or if you'd recommend anything!

xoxo,

a.

Weekend Love

We are headed to Asheville this morning for our first wedding of the "season" and I am pretty excited! I LOVE the mountains and I'm so glad I get the opportunity to get up there this year. I'm also excited to see this guy tie the knot:  

circa 2008

Congrats Charlie and Lillian! WOO HOO!!! But thanks for also making me give up going to see my Wolfpack play in Atlanta.. Just kidding, I wouldn't miss their wedding weekend for the world. So instead I will live vicariously through facebook and all my friends going to the game and watch it at some sports bar in Asheville. But in the meantime, let's get pumped for an AMAZING weekend ahead!! Y'all have a great one!!

via YOUTUBE

xoxo,

a.

Let's eat cake!

Fiance and I had an eventful week last week but it was a fantastic week for us!

• booked the honeymoon!
• meet with makeup artist
• ordered save the dates
• mailed the save the dates
• revealed our wedding website 
• went CAKE tasting!

 We went cake tasting y'all! So fun. Something I've wanted to do forever but became a little less excited about it because fiance does NOT have a sweet tooth and that is so not fun for me. :( But I took him to the tasting with me and we both had a good time. 

We met with a wonderful lady named Cinda, from Cinda's Creative Cakes. She bakes out of her house and does an amazzzzing job!! She hand makes sugar flowers and I am all the rage over these silly little flowers because they are stunning and I know hard to make! I found Ms. Cinda at the North Hills Wedding Show back in February. We tasted some cake, gushed over the sugar flower cakes, and continued to walk around because I don't have a huge budget for a cake. Later they did a Q&A to win prizes and this little lady won a FREE grooms cake! HECK YEAH! I secretly wanted to do a grooms cake anyway so one less thing to pay for! (PS. Enter EVERYTHING as a bride, you never know what you may win!)

This is what fiance and I have in mind for his grooms cake. Strutting wolf with a golf bag in honor of his career at the golf course! So cute! I just want to hug Tuffy!

BUT the real reason we were there was to talk wedding cakes. We tried two different flavors, dark chocolate with raspberry filling with buttercream frosting and sweet potato cake with cream cheese frosting. Which one do you think we liked more?! If you guessed sweet potato, you're right! It's not too sweet with the right amount of flavor, the taste of fall to me! (It tastes like pumpkin and I love pumpkin anything!) Since we're not narrowing down flavors yet though, I'll show you a few of my favorite cake designs! I'm wanting round, and two to three tiers most likely.

 I definitely like the rather simple cakes. I like the stripes but I also like the simple butter cream "betty crocker" style with some flowers, real or sugar! I think my favorite cake though is the second from the bottom! LOVE that one! I also like the last for the option of doing sanding sugar, it gives the cake some three dimensional character! All of these are possibilities but definitely leaning towards the all white with the sugar flowers! 

What do y'all think?!

xoxo,
a.

ENGAGEMENT PHOTO REVEAL! EEK!

Since we last spoke, I received my engagement photos in the mail! YIPPIE! I was very excited to say the least. I have to admit though, some of the photos you may have already seen are some of my favorites anyway. I realized a few things during the photo shoot:

1. Do not wear stripped clothing. Even though I had lost weight and felt great about myself, it is not portrayed accurately in a photo.
2. Fiance needs to close his eyes more, makes things more dramatic.
3. Make sure my double chin isn't showing.

Oh the little things in life. All joking aside though, I have some great photos I can't wait to display in the house and I also have some photos I can't wait to put on our save-the-dates! I think I finalized my decision pretty much, but I'm nervous about hitting order.. I also completed my guest list including all addresses!! GO ME!

Anyway, here are a few more engagement photos for you from the amazingly talented Meredith Perdue!!

For more WONDERFUL photos, visit http://www.meredithperdue.com/amanda-and-nick you WON'T regret it!!

xoxo,
a.