Pretty!

Oh my goodness, if only there were more hours in the day! I cannot tell you how many amazing, wonderful, beautiful, interesting wedding blogs and inspirational websites there are out there, and I probably haven't even scratched the surface.

Last week, I'm not quite sure how I stumbled there, but I found three new sites I absolutely adored (which I immediately bookmarked but haven't had time to get back to and actually look at since) Green Wedding Shoes, Green Bride Guide, and Southern Weddings (gotta keep that little bit of Southern Belle in me, even if I'm not a Southerner by birth and don't even live there anymore!). This week, my new obsession is Style Me Pretty.

As I mentioned, I'm still in the inspiration phase, so it's hard to get ENOUGH of this kind of thing right now. I love love love it. All things wedding, and well, all things pretty! If you know me, this is me: girly to the core, classically feminine, but not boring (hopefully), lover of all things soft, handmade, vintage-y, shabby chic, chic in general, glamorous, gorgeous, sparkly, and pink! (although as of now, I am trying to keep pink out of my wedding color scheme, at least as a major player, so it's not TOO girly... but it's really hard... because it's so pretty...)

In college, my roommates & I called everything "pretty". Both sarcastically and seriously. When we looked like hell after an all nighter after a weekend bender after a high calorie good old Southern style breakfast over-indulgence at McClurg ... we usually looked "pretty". When we found seriously cute seriously on sale shoes down the Mountain at Marty & Liz ... they were "pretty". When we finished the paper from the all-nighter-bender, put a nice little cover page on it, and handed it in ... it was "pretty". When we got all dolled up to go out to Pearls or High Point, even if just with our parents ... we were definitely "pretty"! You get the idea. So I like the word pretty. To say the least.

Style Me Pretty (besides have a fabulous name) has SO many great pictures, ideas, DIY projects, and soooo much more. I had followed links to this site before, but I never really looked at it closely until last night/today. Well, I'm in love. Did I mention that already? :)

Unfortunately, my love does not extend to their inspiration board creating gadget anymore than the one on The Knot. I don't know why this has to be so hard! The first board I created, when I went to save it and create an account to do so, half the pictures disappeared and the format got messed up. Twenty minutes later I had recovered most of the pictures used the original, switched out a few, and tweaked the layout. I'm still not 100% thrilled with it, but I need to wrap up my day here... I'll show it anyway since with all the interruptions (you know, actual work and stuff), it took me almost all day to make... and I think I'm getting carpal tunnel from all this inspiration board creating!

I'm also happy to report the next issue of Martha Stewart Weddings arrived at the shop today... so I have some new reading material for the trip to Texas this weekend! Hope everyone had a lovely Tuesday!