Pink Ribbon and Lollipops

 For the final wedding post, I wanted to do a little post on what Ruby wore.  I was so excited when Steve and Camille asked Ruby to be the flower girl.  After finding several vintage dresses in different colors, we landed on this yellow one, which you may remember from my photo shoot for Cakies.  I switched out the black ribbon for pink and it was perfect.  She had a little metal pail for flower petals, but when we couldn't get the kids to walk down, we gave them lollipops and it ended up looking so cute!  My favorite picture from the wedding is the one of Steve and Ruby dancing, it makes my heart melt. 

Photos: 1,2,3,4,6 by me, 5,7 by Dansky Photography, 8 by Katie Morton

Handmade Flags, Jones Soda and Little Pies

For the third installment of Steve and Camille's wedding, I will share what we did for the decor.  The centerpieces featured vintage books, tea cup, frames, handmade flags and wildflowers.  We didn't get a great photo of the centerpieces on the day of the wedding because it was so windy, so I included one of the sample we did.  They had a Polaroid guestbook under a gazebo where people could write on an instant photo which would later be made into a book.  The wedding favors were Jones (their last name) Sodas which doubled as place cards, cute huh?  Dinner was a build-your-own crepe bar by Crepes Bonaparte.  Instead of cake there were individual pies in four flavors and one large one for the bride and groom.

 

1, 2, 3 by me, 4 by Ashley Marimon, 5, 6 by Cynthia Ryan, 7, 9, 10 by Dansky Photography, 8 by Katie Ruiz

Floral Bridesmaid Dresses and a Broken Shoe

For wedding post number two, we have the bridal party, yay! 

I had nothing to do with the boy's clothing but all of the bridesmaid dresses were vintage from Salvage Life.  I started a collection of miscellaneous 1950's floral cotton dresses that matched Camille's specifications and then each girl came for a fitting and numbered the dresses from their top pick and so on.  Amazingly, no one had the same dress as their number one, so every girl got their first pick!

 It was crazy windy the day of the wedding, so our hair was blowing all around.  And my shoe broke, hence why I am not jumping in the second to last photo (I did try, but I must not have jumped very high).  I forgot to take any pictures of just my dress, so you can't see it super close, but it was the prettiest blue floral, I will certainly wear it again.

 

my boys!

 

Photos by Dansky Photography

Rip Off the Sleeves and Make it One Of a Kind

This is the first of four posts this week featuring my brother, Stephen's wedding at the end of April...finally!  I had the pleasure of helping with a lot of the wedding details.  In this post, you can see the dress my new sister-in-law, Camille, wore.  She looked so beautiful, and Stephen looked so in-love.  It was a vintage dress from the 1970's, a Gunne Sax style dress, that we completely redesigned with the help of a seamstress.  It was the third dress she tried on from my shop and like a scene out of a movie, we ripped the sleeves off right there and we knew it was the one! We then had a seamstress reconstruct the bodice to be one shouldered, isn't it dreamy? 

 

Photos by Dansky Photography

Bride to Be Wears Salvage Life

I got so many comments, emails and tweets yesterday in regards to my "dissatisfaction" post.  It is nice to know that I am not alone in my feelings and that it was a good reminder for many.  Let's continue to encourage each other in this journey.  Today's post is a perfect follow up to that discussion.  Sometimes when you sell online, you feel detached from your customers because you just send the items off and never meet the new owner.  Every now and then, you have a lovely customer like Kelly Lavelle, who bought a dress from our shop for her engagement shoot and just sent me the photos. Such a cute and quirky shoot, they are adorable!  The dress looks fantastic on her!  Her mom hemmed the dress and used the extra fabric to make a sash.  I am so blessed to provide clothing to stylish girls like this and especially during such an important time of life.  All photos by Maria Vicencio Photography, if you click on the link you can see more photos in other fun vintage dresses. 

Vintage Wedding Dresses Coming This Week

These vintage wedding dresses are all coming to the online shop this week!  I love how pretty these are hanging on the old brass garment rack, but I am definitely in need of some appropriate hangers, I just can't seem to find the perfect ones.  Maybe I'll have to do a post with a reader vote for the hanger choice, what do you think?

 

Beautiful Vintage Wedding Location

As I've mentioned before, my brother is getting married to one of my best friends, Camille, at the end of the month and it's pretty much a dream come true for me!  Last week we visited the location in Camarillo, CA.  McCormick Home Ranch is a private home that is rented out for weddings and other events. Ruby got a chance to practice her flower girl skills and Camille and I planned how we will decorate everything.  Can't wait for the big day!

Entrance to the Ranch.

 

The Home.

 Ruby practicing on the flower girl path.

 Amazing barn, definitely need to take photos of the bridesmaids in front of this!

 And in front of this!

I had to include this one, isn't she cute?!!