Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: The Complete Set

I blogged a while ago about the whole old...new...borrowed...blue adventure and I didn't have an old. Y'all gave great suggestions and I was mulling over the possibilities of what to wear or take with me to represent the old. And then I realized I never reported back on how that whole thing ended up panning out! So here I am with that info. {I'm sure you've lost sleep over it.}

OLD.

My sister emailed me and said Did you know I have Grandma's wedding rings? Indeed I did NOT know that. So she brought them to the wedding with her and gave them to me that morning before I got my hair done. Grandma apparently had much smaller fingers than I remembered, so they only fit on my pinky, but I loved having them on my hand. Grandma and Grandpa had a marriage I really admired, and both of them are in Heaven now, so to have a piece of them with me was a gift.

I also wore my ruby ring...the one I wore on my ring finger until Ryan replaced it with my engagement ring. The ring that encouraged me to push forward in becoming a Proverbs 31 woman.

And while it's not old...in this picture, you can also see the beautiful pearl bracelet Ryan gave me for our wedding. He had it made just for me - in our wedding colors {white and tan pearls} - to match his tie chain. I loved wearing it as his love gift and as another new thing for the day!

NEW.

Of course, my dress was new. I just realized I still haven't showed you my dress buying adventure! Couldn't blog about it because then Ryan would have seen the dress before the wedding, and of course, we couldn't have that!

I adored this dress. I'll tell you more about it when I tell you the dress buying adventure, but I knew from the moment I saw the dress online that this was my dress. At least I hoped it was my dress. It fit beautifully...and I felt beautiful and ready to be a bride when I wore it that day. {And I don't often feel beautiful, so that was a good thing.}

It was not only the perfect dress for me...but it was also the perfect beach dress. It flowed and was simple, yet elegant...had a bit of a train, but nothing obnoxious. It was perfect. Perfect, mine, and new.

BORROWED.

My veil was borrowed. My friend Marie loaned it to me. When she got it several years ago, I fell in love with it and remember thinking then...I sure hope she keeps this because I love it and would love to wear it on my own wedding day if she'd let me. I never found any other veil I loved better, so when I got engaged, I wrote and asked her if she still had it and if I could possibly borrow it. She said yes...so I went over to her house and picked it up.

Know one thing I love about this veil? It went with the dress as though they were made as a set. It was perfect.

BLUE.

We had blue as one of our wedding colors, so I incorporated it a little more boldly than I would have otherwise, probably. My initial plan was to have blue toenail polish - and I still did...but I added to it.

Here's the pedicure, combined with a blue-ish (and also borrowed!) set of beach sandals that Lynne let me borrow for the occasion.

But since we had blue as a wedding color, I also wore blue jewelry...a stretch for this OCD girl who was raised in the school of good brides wearing a simple strand of white pearls. Though unconventional, my jewelry looked PERFECT with my dress...I loved this little hand blown glass pendant my friend Rachel made. It was exactly what I'd envisioned for my non-traditional jewelry and it was a great contrast to the white dress.

She also made earrings for me that had blue beads, pearls, and crystals - to tie in the wedding colors, and the accent on the dress. I loved them. They were dangly, unique, and exactly what I wanted.

So there you have it! The final call of old, new, borrowed, and blue.