Wedding – Page 17 – Snapshots & My Thoughts by Ailee Petrovic

Wedding January 24, 2013

Big, Loose, Lovely Curls

As expressed here, I’m a pretty simple hair gal (which translates into: I cannot even braid my own hair!). In fact, while I have never made New Year resolutions in the past, I decided that this year, I would make it a point to be able to style me own hair – and with thanks to The Beauty Department (Lauren Conrad’s amazing team), I’m going to learn how to do this. I’ve been looking at different hair styles for the wedding day, but everything seems too frou-frou for me. I finally found a few pictures on Taylor Lord and Ryan Ray‘s wedding portfolios and love them. Loose curls, unique braids – nothing say summer Napa nuptials better!

PS The image is pulled from my wedding look book that I made… I’ll share piece by piece, but don’t want to ruin the big day! It’s a pretty massive document.

Featured image via Ryan Ray (my wedding photographer – so excited!)

Wanderlust January 21, 2013

Wedding Checklist Weekend in the Bay Area

Leaving San Francisco always makes me so sad (and reminds me of this Walter Cronkite quote + pictures). I was in the Bay Area from Thursday through Sunday – first in Palo Alto, then Mountain View, Oakland, San Francisco, and finally Napa + Sonoma. A lot of wedding tasks were accomplished during this time – tasted our vegan cupcakes, (re)visited the venue, met our florist, and assessed various rehearsal dinner wineries (see list below). We ate delicious food (Oren’s Hummus in Palo Alto, Google cafes in Mountain View, Hopmonk in Sonoma, and DOSA and The Plant in San Francisco). We drank amazing wine + champagne at Artesa Winery (amazing 360 views on site), Gundlach Bundschu, Nicholson Ranch Winery, and Domaine Carneros. It was tough to board my flight yesterday – cannot wait until we go back for the menu tasting in a few months! See highlights below.

Where the adventure began – in Palo Alto

Posing in front of Alcatraz
At Boudin on the Fisherman’s Wharf – love these letters so much

The perfect sunset with the gorgeous Golden Gate Bridge

On the hunt for a rehearsal dinner winery spot – at Domaine Carneros

Georgia during the wine tour at Artesa Winery

At Hopmonk in Sonoma for lunchLocal brew and my favorite – St. Germain Cocktail

View from the top of Artesa Winery

The Wine Country – is there any place prettier? Already missing it

Wedding January 16, 2013

Bridal White Dresses // by McKenzie

On Monday night, I expressed my growing stress to my best friend, McKenzie, and as I’m going to bed, my phone vibrates. I look and there’s an email from her. It’s honestly the most beautifully designed PDF I’ve ever opened. Along with a perfectly uplifting email message about the joys of being engaged, the dress selection is impeccable. I did screenshots of the PDF since they don’t display in WordPress. Isn’t she perfect? I want them all! Especially that beaded number by Parker. You can find these gorgeous dresses at the following links:

First row: 1) alice + olivia Matilda Silk Dress, 2) Rebecca Taylor Pebbled Strapless Dress, 3) Rebecca Taylor Sleeveless Lace Dress, 4) Parker Architect Beaded Dress

Second row: 1) Catherine Malandrino Poplin Cutout Dress, 2) alice + olivia Fierra Y-Back Dress, 3) Rachel Zoe Caroline Faux Wrap Dress, 4) Shoshanna Amber One-Shoulder Bow

Wedding December 13, 2012

Gorgeous Southern Nuptials

I haven’t gotten on Style Me Pretty in ages, which is weird, as I used to scour it all of the time. When I did get on recently, I spotted this gorgeous soft-summer color palette-d, Southern wedding. I want to stare at these pictures all day long!

Wedding November 12, 2012

A Man in a Kilt

Mr. Alexander Sasha Petrovic, in a kilt. I am so excited. When he went to ask my parents for my hand in marriage (what a phrase), my dad pulled out a list of planned questions. One of which was, “The Serbian culture is so strong, but our Scottish culture normally gets overwhelmed. What will you do to make sure it remains 50/50?” Sasha’s response? “I’m wearing a kilt to the wedding.” And he is. And the fitting was yesterday. Doesn’t he look lovely?