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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Tangerine Tango anyone?

I keep hearing how Pantone's color for 2012 is Tangerine Tango and I have to say, I love their decision. I feel like I am so ahead of the game having already chosen to have an orange wedding in 2012. Tangerine tango is actually a tad more red than my ideal shade of orange, but its still orange! It makes me happy because the next time someone asks, "What's your wedding color?" And I say, "orange," and then they look at me like I'm crazy I can say, "Oh didn't you know? It's Pantone's chosen color for 2012. It's very 'in' right now." Of course I would be having an orange wedding no matter what they chose as their color for 2012. But it makes me happy that orange is "in"!

Image via styleathome.com

Like I said, it's a little more red tone than I like, but it seems to be a color that is up to interpretation... I've seen a lot of different inspiration boards in honor of the pantone color of the year, and most of them are more in the tangerine color family. I definitely like a more burnt orange color myself. Well either way in honor of Tangerine Tango, here are our ideas for incorporating the color into our big day!

Board made on Projectwedding.com
Photo Credit: 1st line from left to right: Alfred Angelo, Santa Barbara Chic. 2nd line Etsy/ Seller goldenrectanglepress, theknot.com / Photography by Antonis Sachileos. 3rd line Santa Barbara Chic, Esty/ Seller madebywildangel. 4th line orangetictacs.com, theknot.com / Photography by Steph Carson

Do you like the tic tacs? I'll explain later... What do you think? Are you on board with tangerine tango? Have you been shopping lately and seen all the orange clothes for spring??? I love it!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Invitation Inspiration!

With our save the dates taken care of, it was time to start thinking about our invitations! While Mr. Castle did an amazing job designing our save the dates, I didn't want to pressure him into designing our invitations. If he really wanted to do them I wasn't going to say no... but he wasn't jumping at the chance. The closer we got to the wedding, the more projects we already have to work on and we both don't need that DIY invitations stress.

So I started searching for some invitations that caught my eye on Etsy, Minted, Weddingpaperdivas, and more. Here are some of my favorites!

Image via Etsy/ seller LetterBoxInk

Image via Etsy/ seller dearemma

Image via Etsy/ sellar goldenrectanglepress

Image via Minted

Image via Weddingpaperdivas

Image via Rifle Paper Co.

I know that last one is a save the date, but it's so cute! I think it could work as an invitation. I am looking for a way to incorporate our kitties....

I wish there was some sort of overall theme to theses invitation examples, but as you can see these ideas are kind of all over the place. We definitely favor the old Art Deco/Broadway "playbill" style invitations. Simple elegant design, but not too serious, and a touch of orange wouldn't hurt...

Did you design your own invitations? Was your decision difficult to make?

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Hair worries

I recently had a nightmare about my wedding hair. In my dream my hair was pulled back, which I hate, and in a messy bun that looked awful. I wanted beautiful soft curls. So dream Miss Castle tried to re-do her own hair, only to end up with what looked like crimped hair. It was not good...

Obviously I woke up thinking about hair...

Image via huffingtonpost.com

OK not the musical, but my own hair. I know exactly how I want my hair to look for the big day. Half up, half down with curls, and my side part. Something like this:

Image via Brides.com

Image via Etsy.com seller JMGJewelDesign

Image via ProjectWedding.com

Seems simple enough, but I fear my hair will fall flat before the ceremony even starts! You see I have pin straight hair. Some girls call me lucky, but I think they're mistaken. My hair won't do anything. I rarely ever blow dry my hair because its going to dry straight either way. When I try to curl my hair... it usually only lasts about 30 mins...

My pin straight hair. This is an old headshot. Photography by Douglas Gorentein

The only thing that has worked for me in the past, while performing in shows has been, hot rollers, and sponge curlers. A good old curling iron doesn't seem to do the trick for me. Oh and hairspray, lots of hairspray.

These next pictures are from that production of Baby that Mr. Castle and I did together. They wanted my hair to have a curly 80s look. The process to get my hair to look like this took almost 4 hours. It involved spraying hairspray on before putting my hair in sponge rollers. Then I would blow dry my hair while the sponge rollers we in. And finally I would add more hairspray before taking the sponge rollers out.

Personal Photo/This is what my hair normally looked like at the time. This was taken during a rehearsal

Personal Photo/My hair right after I took out the sponge rollers

Personal Photo/After running my fingers through it to get the "80s" look.

Everyone who saw this show thought I was wearing a wig, even my own father.

So I don't want my hair to be THAT curly, and I don't want to have to uses tons and tons of hairspray. I want light, bouncy, flowing curls. But can my hair do that? I'm really not sure. I have done a little experimenting and some times it goes well and other times it does not. My Matron of Honor's Mom, also known as my second mother, is a hair dresser and will be doing my hair for the wedding. I guess we'll have to strategize about the best approach for beautiful curls that will last at least through at least through our first dance.

Anyone else have pin straight hair? How do you curl it, what's your secret???

Thursday, August 18, 2011

My first wedding dress

Someone recently posted this picture on facebook and I about died! This is me when I was sixteen playing Laurey in the musical OKLAHOMA! This was the scene right after the main couple in the show gets married. Check it out!

Personal Photo

I think I look about twelve in this photo. I remember thinking it was really fun wearing a wedding dress. They bought it at a thrift store and it fit me perfectly. And it was the first wedding dress I ever wore.

I guess most people's first wedding dress is the one they wear on their wedding day, but not me! Seeing this picture got me thinking about the wedding dresses that influenced my feelings on wedding dresses in general. It's fun to reminisce about the gowns that shaped my ideas of what a wedding dress should be.

There is of course my Mother's dress which I have looked at many times while looking through her wedding album.

Personal Photo

I don't have a full picture of her dress here with me in New York, but her top half is better than nothing! It was 1983, and yes she's rocking that hat veil! She has offered me her hat veil about 100 times... It will definitely be making an appearance somewhere in the wedding process, I can just feel it.

My Grandmothers dress.

Personal Photo from Grandma

I took this picture on my cell phone from their photo album so the quality isn't that great. I just think they look so happy. My grandfather died last year, so I would love to get a copy of the actual picture to have on display at the wedding. I'm not sure if that was her wedding dress, or her leaving on their honeymoon dress, but either way I think it's fabulous.

Cinderella, of course.

Image via themarysue.com

My favorite princess is actually Snow White, but she didn't wear a pretty wedding dress. Cinderella's wedding dress (And ball gown dress), were definitely my favorite of all the Disney princess dresses as child.

Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music

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I loved this movie. I wanted to be in it. (I was in the show later in life and played Louisa) I just always thought Julie looked so stunning and beautiful in this dress.

Monica's wedding dress from the TV show Friends

Image via www.fanpop.com

I remember watching this and thinking, "I'm going to have a dress like that when I get married. No puffy, cup cake dress for me." I was also in my teens, really starting to dream about meeting the man of my dreams and getting married. So this was a big one for me.

And now Kate Middleton. She looked amazing, but I wouldn't mind having Pippa's dress!

Image via www.eonline.com

I'm not ready to share my dress quite yet, but soon I promise! I will say I love my dress and it doesn't look like any of these :)

Do you have any dresses from your pre-engaged days that influenced your thought about dresses?

Monday, August 8, 2011

Does a wedding need a "theme?"

So with our venue booked it was time to start thinking about the overall vision for our big day. I never really thought we would chose a "theme" for our wedding. I've watched a lot of David Tutera's, My Fair Wedding, and I didn't foresee a "Phantom of the Opera" or "Alice in Wonderland" wedding in store for us. Not that there is anything wrong with choosing a theme. I think in some ways having a theme makes the decision process much easier.

Sometimes the venue you chose helps you make a decision. For example, we couldn't have a carnival themed wedding at our theater venue. The reason we chose our venue, other than our emotional reaction to the place, was the fact that it was a theater. Since musical theater is such a huge part of our lives we thought why not run with that "theme."

But what we don't want is for our wedding to become a "show." It's a wedding not a Broadway musical. We want to incorporate elements of the theater but not go to far as to make it cheesy. We also love the fact that our venue is a historical landmark from the 1920s. Mr. Castle loves antiques and anything vintage so we would love to throw some elements of that into the mix.

So what did we came up with? A vintage theater inspired wedding. Kind of vague, I know, but it makes sense in our minds. Here are some idea's of how we will incorporate our "theme" into our big day

Playbill wedding programs