4-year-old girl comes out to play with lace!

In my last post, I talked about my love of dinosaurs and anything else that a 4-year-old boy loves. Now, my 4-year-old girl comes out through lace.

I haven't really talked about my wedding much. Actually, I haven't talked about it at all. One day I'll get around to it, but it's a lot of uploading and sifting and sorting, and choosing and eliminating through 1000s of pictures. Did I mention that I didn't want a wedding? Not only did I not want one, I didn't want one at ALL, not a bit. But A is an ordained minister and it was important to him, and I'm was the only unmarried girl in the family til you get to my third cousins, who are ages 3-6. I wasn't going to get out of having a wedding and I'm not going to lie, our wedding was gorgeous and at the end of the day, I'm glad we had it despite all the drama surrounding wedding planning. I am going to share one (of many) of the details that I am absolutely in LOVE with, though. It wasn't really a THEME in our wedding, exactly, but lace was definitely a design element throughout, even though it was unintentional. I love lace- the intricacy and the detail are unparalleled and there's something about it that is simple and fancy at the same time. It pops up throughout our wedding and it wasn't even intentional- I just liked the look of it for certain things. My dress had some on top but that was mostly coincidence since I um, bought my dress the Monday before the wedding- that's another story for another day but yes, I literally bought a new dress 4 days before my wedding. There was a big mix-up with my original dress and it wasn't working out but it's okay- my mom was more freaked out about it than I was. These were the lace elements in our wedding:

Our Save the dates. Yes, I made them all myself. Yes, it took a long time.

Our invites wrapped in lace. Sorry they look wonky but I had to edit out names for privacy sake:

My handkerchief that was actually my bonnet from my christening gown. Apparently this is a tradition? Weird, but it was nice:

Last minute dress! There's a belt that goes around the middle but I put it on after I put the dress on:

My mom cut out every single piece of lace for these votives. Cause she wanted them! I asked her several times to just cut straight across or to not do it at all, but she cut all the intricate parts out anyway:

You can't see it, but the top of the luminaries are lacy thanks to a very long car trip and a big Martha Stewart punch that matched the lace around my invitations:

All personal photos except those with a watermark, which are from our amazing photographers.

So the thing about the lace wrapped around my invitations almost didn't happen. I LOVED the look, but good, high quality lace is expensive and the invitations in and of themselves were almost $1000 (yikes). We found some pretty lace at Joanne's, but it was white and the invitations were cream and just wouldn't dye. Thankfully, A's mom knew a place- a secret place. And oh what a place it was. This was the most amazing (and disorganized) store in the world, but Alma has BEAUTIFUL lace. Just gorgeous. At ridiculously low prices. So we bought something like 10 yards, and I got my lace wrapped invitations.

iPhone photos while Mom, A's mom, and Alma were in a different room.

After the wedding I went back and bought more lace...

I fully intend on going back at Thanksgiving when we visit Alan's parents to get more, because it's gorgeous! But I have NO idea what to do with this lace that I have now. It's beautiful but I'm not really a "decorate with lace" kind of girl. I could keep it... forever, but I'd really like to use it for something. Have any ideas?