apricot wedding dress success story?

Dear ESB,

Re. your commenter who said: don't ask "do they make peach wedding dresses" just ask "can i find a awesome peach dress i want to get married in?" That's pretty much exactly what went through my mind as I shopped for dresses.

In a little over a month, I'm getting married outdoors on my family's sprawling farm in Kentucky wearing an Alberta Ferretti apricot dress that I got for a steal on the Outnet. No veil, but hair gathered low around one shoulder. We're going with a Great Gatsby, croquet-playing feel, and making Young's Double Chocolate Stout floats instead of a signature cocktail or some other bs. But as I work six days a week and my wedding date races towards me, I'm terribly afraid I will be barefoot and unadorned at my own wedding. Which wouldn't be the end of the world, but still...not preferable.

Can you suggest footwear? Anything more than a low heel is out bc my fiance in one inch taller than me. I'm thinking dependable yet elegant...maybe brogues like these from Madewell?

Also, since the wedding is outdoors, and Kentucky weather is always impossible to plan for, I'd love to find some sort of jacket or sweater to keep unsightly goosebumps far out of sight. Preferably one without ruffles or traditional bride-y accouterments.

Lastly, what the heck is a girl supposed to wear around her neck with a dress like that? As the queen of necklaces, I bet you know.

All the best,
Apricot Bride

*****

I give the brogues a big fat FUCK YES.

For your neck, I'm kind of loving this Luv Aj Crystal Fragment Lariat.

And I think the apricot would be see-lammin with a classic jean jacket for late-evening croquet. (This one is Rag & Bone.)

When THE GROOM plans the details

I spotted these photos on the One Love blog, and I just knew Damiana and Lex's wedding was something special. Hello, CUSTOM TEMPORARY TATTOOS? GLOW STICKS?

Turns out the crafty groom was responsible for most of the details. Here's what the bride told me:

Lex and I went into planning the wedding with the mindset of wanting to make sure everyone that came would have a lot of fun. The goal was that everyone would have something cool to do, and I think it worked out since there are things I saw in wedding photos that I had no idea were even going on (People went out in boats! People actually used the putting green!) It all seemed to magically go off without a hitch (thanks to my 7 to-do-lists I made and amazing bridespeople not telling me about little hiccups) and it was what we wanted it to be, a cool party with tattoos and rad 90s music. Although frankly, after actually getting married, everything else was just the icing.

Most of our details are thanks to my crafty husband who worked at Michael's Arts & Crafts at the time and had a leg up on even knowing what type of stuff is out there. It turns out you can print out your own temporary tattoos! They're in the iron-on section, so you just print it out and they're sort of more like stickers, and you cut around the design and peel it off and stick it on. Lex's best man drew them because he is a like-minded crafty man.

[Editor's Note To Self: Really hope I'm never getting married again, but I HAVE TO borrow this idea. Nephew's birthday party? My birthday party??]

We got the glowsticks from glowrus.com. We got 5 colors (meant to go with our color palette, as much as anything neon CAN go with a wedding color scheme) and 100 each, which I thought was excessive, but Lex was REALLY into them, and he turned out to be right! In the end we probably only had 3 or 4 left over.

(Photos by One Love Photo)