Another Shower

After I got home from Washington there was a bridal shower down here, too. Mrs Auringer put it on and it was lovely. The shower had a garden theme. Everyone brought food from their garden.

The ladies sitting around the room. Frances played piano music from Pride and Prejudice.


We played pin the bow tie on Andrew. Here is my attempt.

Another game we played was creating toilet paper wedding gowns.

There were five teams. Here are the lovely results. Some of the dresses started falling apart.

The cake was "dirt" cake in flower pots, they looked so cute. Here I am with my two mothers.


Opening gifts was so fun. The little girls were so excited and crowded around to help me. It was very cute.

A New Lawn

In preparation for having the wedding here we have been fixing up our property. The latest project was putting in a new lawn. Dad, Jonathan, and Andrew were out early every morning getting the area ready. Then we had sod delivered and they worked hard putting it in. It looks very nice to have the lawn now.

Andrew and I

The other day we took a whole bunch of photos. We wanted to have some to choose from for the invitations.

The Day's Work

Today was a busy day. It started off early with watering the whole garden well. I knew it was going to be a hot day today so I wanted to make sure to soak everything. Then I went over and milked the neighbors goats and did other chores while they are away.
Most of the rest of the day I spent working on my dress. I feel like I have made good progress. Most of the complicated work on the bodice is finished. That is exciting! I haven't taken any pictures of the work in progress. I really should though, to show how messy I am when I sew. I do have some more pictures of the garden though.


The tomato rows are just starting to fill in nicely.


One of the watermelon plants growing well in the hot weather.


A transplanted volunteer tomatillo.


The sunset this evening was beautiful after a hot, busy day.

Sweet Bouquet

This morning I made this little nosegay from flowers in the garden. I was experimenting to get ideas for my wedding flowers. I really like these flowers and colors. I am hoping to be able to get something similar.

Blue

My wedding colors are green and blue. We have been getting ideas for decorating and flowers. We have been finding pretty blue glass vases and jars at thrift stores. I am also hoping to use blue delphinium in the bouquets. Here are some of our blue finds.

More Dress Fabric

On Saturday we took a trip to Solvang. It is quite a drive from here. Solvang is a cute Danish town with lots of little gift shops. The main reason we went was to look for bridesmaid dress fabric because there is a place with dollar a yard fabric there. We ended up not finding what we wanted but did get some flower girl dress fabric. We also went to some thrift shops and to the bakery to get pastries. On the way home we stopped in San Luis and found the bridesmaid fabric. Overall it was a fun and productive day.


Oriana and Melissa on the drive down


Bridesmaid and flower girl dress fabric

The Perfect Dress

It has been a lot of trouble to find just the right wedding dress, one that is modest and beautiful and affordable. So I decided to make my own. That way it will be just the way I want it. It will be the perfect dress. I bought ten yards of matte satin fabric, a pattern, some trim, and thread. The pattern needs quite a bit of adjusting to make it right. I have started working on that and I made a mock-up bodice last night.