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Maria Allaire wedding
O M G an event that didn't get rained out NOR did my car break down! (I tricked it by taking the train up to Adrienne instead.) It wasn't a bad day, weather-wise, considering the whole "summer" thing - hot, but not terribly humid, and there was a good breeze all day. And we made sure to be well-watered.
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misspeachum was getting fake-married as Maria Allaire (they have a little wedding reenactment every year of the daughter of the owner of Allaire in, I think, 1836) so naturally we had to attend and take up an inordinate amount of space. Everybody even made New Things for the occasion! And we've all decided we are very fond of the silly, silly Romantic styles, so despite Tessa departing for William & Mary in the fall (*snif* they grow up so fast!), we plan on making excuses for more 1830s in future.
Tessa's mom is an excellent picture-taker so I snagged the pics she got of us! We totally look like a group of easter eggs, LOL.
I was very pleased with my (overly minty green) dress and my silly bonnet - slightly less so with my stupid front ringlets. I wanted them long but over the course of the day they ended up drooping too long and look fairly stupid in the pictures, which was relatively late in the day. Oh well, hair is trial and error! They'll definitely be pinned up more for the barn dance in August.
Saaaaag. Heh. The bun was good tho.
I do get the side-bust wrinkles that one tends to get from the dropped shoulder-seam - I'd put in pads made of padding for any other dress, but I didn't want even one more layer in my lawn summer dress. Sue me. :P
I was also happy with my mitts, fiddly little things. They tend to stretch out a bit over the course of the day and start traveling downwards, yet still refused to come off when I wanted them to for the drive home. Talented little buggers.
You can see the slighty gappiness I get at the back here - I did the slightly-old-fashioned-at-this-point hooks at neck and waist only. But if it means I can get it fastened by myself, I'll endure some gappiness! (And yes it does mean I can get it fastened by myself. Hooks all the way down is a lot more dodgy.)
It's worse here in Alice's picture...but I was spinning. Hee hee hee.
WHEEEEEEE
Annnd falling over.
STOP MAKING ME LAUGH
Very demurely showing off mah corded petticoat. ;)
Another remarkably demure member of our Easter-egg Entourage!
Nope, can't hear a word you're saying over this bonnet. I need to cut the bottom of the brim at more of an angle, since the straight-out thing doesn't work so well with a curtain, but otherwise I think it's a good shape! Already considering a green velvet one for Christmas... *evil cackle*
Sassypants face.
Our widdle Miss Allaire, all growed up and fake-married!
Alice is disapproving.
"I have real swimmys and you all have sleeves stuffed with net! HAH!" xD
This went on all day. They WERE very perky...
Oi dun go splat.
This photobomb cracks me up.
Someone is always stealing my hats! Also I think this was during the "how much can you move your arms" discussion.
They gave us watermelon. Yes, I hoiked my skirt up so it would drip on my petticoat instead. Yes, I am SO classy.
And then we went to Panera, I pinned my hair up so it wouldn't go in my salad, and there were Sleeve Puff Wars to fit in the booth.
Pics in my album, and Alice's
And now I guess the next event I need to sew for is the Allaire barn dance in August. The idea of the not-spangled spangled dress is sort of terrifying me, which is at least part of the reason I threw this dress together for the wedding - both to stall on starting it, and to give me an option in case I don't finish it in time. (I did some rough maths a couple weeks ago... I'm going to need twice the amount of spangles I bought, and the skirt alone will take 23 days to spangle, if I sew at my usual slow rate. I know I've already put over a hundred bucks into spangles for this dress, but I might short-circuit out on it before it even gets started!)
Our
misspeachum was getting fake-married as Maria Allaire (they have a little wedding reenactment every year of the daughter of the owner of Allaire in, I think, 1836) so naturally we had to attend and take up an inordinate amount of space. Everybody even made New Things for the occasion! And we've all decided we are very fond of the silly, silly Romantic styles, so despite Tessa departing for William & Mary in the fall (*snif* they grow up so fast!), we plan on making excuses for more 1830s in future.Tessa's mom is an excellent picture-taker so I snagged the pics she got of us! We totally look like a group of easter eggs, LOL.
I was very pleased with my (overly minty green) dress and my silly bonnet - slightly less so with my stupid front ringlets. I wanted them long but over the course of the day they ended up drooping too long and look fairly stupid in the pictures, which was relatively late in the day. Oh well, hair is trial and error! They'll definitely be pinned up more for the barn dance in August.
Saaaaag. Heh. The bun was good tho.
I do get the side-bust wrinkles that one tends to get from the dropped shoulder-seam - I'd put in pads made of padding for any other dress, but I didn't want even one more layer in my lawn summer dress. Sue me. :P
I was also happy with my mitts, fiddly little things. They tend to stretch out a bit over the course of the day and start traveling downwards, yet still refused to come off when I wanted them to for the drive home. Talented little buggers.
You can see the slighty gappiness I get at the back here - I did the slightly-old-fashioned-at-this-point hooks at neck and waist only. But if it means I can get it fastened by myself, I'll endure some gappiness! (And yes it does mean I can get it fastened by myself. Hooks all the way down is a lot more dodgy.)
It's worse here in Alice's picture...but I was spinning. Hee hee hee.
WHEEEEEEE
Annnd falling over.
STOP MAKING ME LAUGH
Very demurely showing off mah corded petticoat. ;)
Another remarkably demure member of our Easter-egg Entourage!
Nope, can't hear a word you're saying over this bonnet. I need to cut the bottom of the brim at more of an angle, since the straight-out thing doesn't work so well with a curtain, but otherwise I think it's a good shape! Already considering a green velvet one for Christmas... *evil cackle*
Sassypants face.
Our widdle Miss Allaire, all growed up and fake-married!
Alice is disapproving.
"I have real swimmys and you all have sleeves stuffed with net! HAH!" xD
This went on all day. They WERE very perky...
Oi dun go splat.
This photobomb cracks me up.
Someone is always stealing my hats! Also I think this was during the "how much can you move your arms" discussion.
They gave us watermelon. Yes, I hoiked my skirt up so it would drip on my petticoat instead. Yes, I am SO classy.
And then we went to Panera, I pinned my hair up so it wouldn't go in my salad, and there were Sleeve Puff Wars to fit in the booth.
Pics in my album, and Alice's
And now I guess the next event I need to sew for is the Allaire barn dance in August. The idea of the not-spangled spangled dress is sort of terrifying me, which is at least part of the reason I threw this dress together for the wedding - both to stall on starting it, and to give me an option in case I don't finish it in time. (I did some rough maths a couple weeks ago... I'm going to need twice the amount of spangles I bought, and the skirt alone will take 23 days to spangle, if I sew at my usual slow rate. I know I've already put over a hundred bucks into spangles for this dress, but I might short-circuit out on it before it even gets started!)