The girls accessories!

I havent posted in nearly a week and so much has happened!!!

So I have finally completed the girls outfit- well minus a necklace.

I bought the girls a hairpin awhile back 9.95 each. They only require one each and their so pretty!

Earrings, the girls requested non expensive earrings but they wanted bling ones. So purchased those. 10.00each.

and picked up the girls black clutches last week. So I think the overall look is coming together.
If you can imagine Red silk dresses, and black satin peep toes a black pashmina shawl for when it gets a little cool due to the wind and these accessories, I think the BMs are taken care of.

Super happy with the purchases. Overall look for the girls are
$140 dollars each without the shoes. Girls are purchasing their own. So another thing ticked off the list!

Coastal City Bride - Charis xx

My accessories..

I bought my bracelet about 3 weeks ago. I originally bought a majorly blingy bracelet (about a page post ago) which I adore, but I found this one and I think the pearl look goes a little better with my dress, rather than the bling. It was cheap but I'm not set about heading out and buying real pearls.

Also bought the earrings which I love. Figured they were a long enough so if I had my hair down you could see them glimmer or if up they would be pretty. I don't think I will wear a necklace. Still undecided on that issue!

Another thing out the way! yay!

How hard was it to find your jewelry?

Coastal City Bride - Charis xx

My pretty headband

So on the weekend I travelled to our nearest capital and as well as hanging out with my brothers, I picked up this BEAUTIFUL and my god, do I love it. Alannah Hill (famous Australian Designer) headband.

Why am I getting so excited over a headband... well because it looks like this!

Absolutely 100% love this accessory! and cannot wait to wear it!!

Coastal City Bride - Charis xx

Meeting Mrs Needle

So want to see the results of my dress fitting? Something like this maybe!! (photo below:robo bride) describes exactly how I was feeling on the day of my fitting.. a little stiff, a little tense and a little powder puff.

but needless to say it was a success!! YAY! I actually met Mrs Needle (no play on words here or cute shop story) her name is actually Mrs Needle, she inspired me with the confidence I needed.

Sweetheart neckline achievable. Panel in the back, that's a goer too! yay!

I just need to find 1.5metres of matte satin in my dress color. I have contacted a friend in our nearest capital city and sent her a sample of my dress! that will also create a tie for FH to match my dress. Mrs Needle thinks of everything she does! (I actually just like typing Mrs Needle, I still find it funny.. lame I know huh!)

Dress need to be taken up? Nope.. not an inch. Apparently with the cute heels I'm rocking there at the appropriate length. (10cms)

The two flowers well one of them is gone and I'm going to keep one. I'm using the other as a hair accessory that I will make! (another DIY to add to the list!)

So success!

How did your dress fitting go?

Coastal City Bride - Charis xx

blinging with the best of em.

So yesterday I went with out BMs and got all there little accessories and wraps but I kept on walking past this bracelet at a store called hot house..
I went and visited it three times yesterday till one of the BMs said will you just buy it already!

So i did! It was in a 50% off sale and well I love sales.
I don't think Ill have any necklace on the day, just this and some blinging earrings. I will need to see if it works tho with the dress, it not. I have an awse bracelet to rock out with!

Anyone else find a good bargain for their day?

Coastal City Bride - Charis xx

Invitations,favors and bridesmaids!

So this weekend I finished assembling invitations, all that is missing however is the accommodation card, we haven't quite put that together yet as we haven't blocked off hotel rooms (I know, 5 months till the wedding and I haven't done it, oh dear!) its on the to do list for next week.

I also started work on our favors with the packaging, as you may have gathered from previous posts that we organised to have our favors for guests as playing cards...Well they arrived!
My next task is to package them. I thought about just wrapping them in plain ribbon without doing anything with the box but that Idea just did not sit well. I also thought about wrapping them and putting a sticker on them. Well I didn't have the motivation or the creativity to even think of what to do for a sticker. So I took an easy option. I wrapped and tied it with ribbon.

The end result looking cute! So far 20 done... 160 more to go. its actually not a bad project, a little fiddly but I have been out in the lounge room with FH talking away and having a good laugh so its been enjoyable. Hoping to have this done by the end of the next week.

Also this weekend my BMs and I are catching up for a bit of a day shopping for accessories and shoes to go with their dresses also they are helping me out with a few DIY things and flower choosing.... I haven't shown you pics of their dresses yet but I promise to do that next week.

So its an exciting week coming up. I feel alot better than last week but still quite crook so I'm hoping to have the energy for when the girls come round next Saturday.

Coastal City Bride - Charis xx

Accessories - Hair Slide - Adorable!

I found this hair slide on sale at a store called "The Glitter Co." I am not sure if I am going to have my hair up or down yet, but I couldn't walk past them.

One of my bridesmaids is conveniently my hairdresser and she thinks they may not go with the hairdressing style she wants to experiment with but she said its always great to have accessories in reserve and we will find out at the trial run, if we will put them in or not.

Also I have just picked up my veil and that also will have a deciding factor on my hairstyle.

They were retailed at $75 AUD dollars and I purchased them for $10 dollars each! I bought two. They match my dress perfectly (I will post the dress soon, I promise!)

Coastal City Bride - Charis xx