I found the zip drive with D#2's wedding pictures! Her dress was an Andy Warhol design, that I made up of several wedding dresses I had purchased for $1.00 during dollar days at Good will. She is wearing my Lil sis's wedding veil, my mother's pearls. All that lace was cut and hand embroidered onto the dress. It has wings embroidered in lace down the back, because her name in Swedish means little swan. She also was a professional ballet dancer and Swan lake has the dance of the 4 Cygnets. She was aptly named. I will try to get pictures of the back, but things are downloading so slowly, and I need to identify more pictures off the drive.
Here are Hub's folks, dancing at the wedding. They were really good dancers , it is hard to believe that this was just a little over 5 years ago.
Daughter with a flower girl. It was a little chilly outside.
My three girls. Eldest is pregnant with James here. We had a string quartet from the Washington Idaho Symphony play at the Wedding and Eldest daughter sang.
I will post more pictures later. Today will be hectic, as I have missionaries to feed. They were supposed to come tomorrow for a ham dinner and only three of them can make it tomorrow and all 6 of them wanted a ham dinner to we switched it to today. Also we will have Kelsa tonight as her mom and dad have to work at a fund raiser at Schmills school early Sunday morning.
I want to get my seedlings started, and I want to go to a new grocery that has opened that is supposed to be a restaurant supply, I want to check out prices.
It will be a busy day. So happy I did most of the housework yesterday.
It is fun to look back on good memories.
Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.
Kim
Such lovely pictures and memories.
ReplyDeleteThanks so fun to go through them.
DeleteGorgeous girls, gorgeous dress, and so are you. Simply stunningly beautiful, all of y’all. That dress is to swoon for, it is so delicate and perfect!
ReplyDeleteWell I think the girls are beautiful, me not so much, but thank you!
DeleteBeautiful girls! All of you!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing dress...all the lace is so gorgeous, and I hope you find a picture of the back of it, I want to see wings.
What wonderful memories.
I am still looking, thank you!
DeleteBeautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful! You are so talented Kim, to use multiple dresses to create a beautiful gown for your daughter. Such lovely memories.
ReplyDeleteIt was a lot of work but so worth it!
DeleteOh wow, what a beautiful dress. I had no idea your could buy wedding dresser for one dollar at Goodwill dollar days. That is incredible.
ReplyDeleteI have done that many times. then I rip them apart and keep the lace to add to others that I have to fix. Then I charge for the lace.
DeleteWow-the wedding sounds magical. Someday I hope to celebrate weddings of my offspring. My kids won't read my comments on other blogs, so I can confess to feeling a bit sad this has not happened yet for the older two at least, and no signs for the imminent future.
ReplyDeleteKids are getting married later than they used to. All of my girls married late in their late 20's. All other girls in Hubs family and there were 26 granddaughters married at 18 and 19 and had 4 to 8 children many before they were 25. Mine were not even married at 25. We are the black sheep.
DeleteWe're past 20's now! Mostly I just want them happy and with the right partner and that seems elusive, and not really by their choice, just life.
DeleteThe dress is beautiful and so are your daughters. You have skills I can only dream of.
ReplyDeleteWhen we got married I drew my dress on a napkin. It did not matter to me that I had never seen anything like it before, it was just what I wanted. Mom had crazy sewing skills but needed a pattern and I am a crappy sewer, but can "see" how things need to be assembled. We demolished 2 bedsheets getting all of the pieces like I wanted them, and I loved having a dress that was different than anything I had ever seen in the stores.
I would love to see a picture of that. We would do the same thing to my mom.with prom dresses. We wanted this sleeve, this bodice, it drove her nuts.
DeleteBeautiful pictures!! The dress is spectacular.
ReplyDeleteWhat absolutely beautiful photos Kim. I hope you have that one of you & your daughters in a frame - it is gorgeous. You are so clever with your sewing Kim - I could never EVER make a wedding dress. It would do my head in!!
ReplyDeleteWell I cannot do the small delicate detail work you do. I would go nuts.
DeleteWhat a lovely bride. You have a beautiful family and the happiness of that day is apparent. Brilliant frugal job on the gown.
ReplyDeleteI loves me a bargain!
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