Happy Tuesdays

Q: How amazeballs is this dress Leanne Marshall made for the the Today show?

A: AMAZEBALLS

p.s. There's a new Dear ESB up on 100 Layer Cake for you.

Where can I find a gray wedding gown?

Dear ESB,

I am hoping to get a bit of help from you and your readers when it comes to wedding gown selection.

My fiancé and I have been engaged for two and a half years and we have an adorable two year old son together. We are so happy to finally be at a place in our relationship where we can make our commitment to one another official. Our wedding will be a small, around 50 people, January wedding and will include a religious ceremony followed by a restaurant dinner.

Our families both take tradition very seriously and I would prefer not to wear a white gown out of respect for others. Most wedding gowns have two color choices, ivory and white. What I am looking for is a long gray gown that is elegant, fashionable, and young.

My budget is about $2500.

*****

It turns out gray gowns are not easy to find. Even in the TWO THOUSAND DOLLAR RANGE. Who knew?

But. I wrote another letter to our lady Leanne Marshall and this time she answered! She said she'd be happy to make this lovely number in gray. In fact, she said "Gray seems to be the popular new 'it' color for wedding gowns."

Consider yourself ahead of the curve.

(You can message Leanne through etsy to discuss the dets.)

xo.
______________________________

p.s. Elizabeth Dye's Tempest also comes in pale grey. (I was trying to be consistent with the gray/grey thing but I just effed myself. Oh well.)

eco-chic little wedding dress

Leanimal (aka Leanne Marshall) is taking advance orders for the dani dress, which will be available in mid-April. I kind of love how it's just a wee scrap of a thing... But carefully structured underneath.

With that Birth of Venus hair, I'm feeling these fringe-y Sigerson Morrison sandals.*

(Photo by Anna Wolf)

*If you only spend $575 on the dress, $425 shoes are totally reasonable.

Now you're talking, Leanne

And I swear I'm not just saying that because my wedding dress had an exposed zipper running down the front.

From the SS10 lookbook.

This custom job is pretty slammin too. I mean, if you're into ruffles.

p.s. Am I being an a*hole today? Please forgive, I just got back from a nightmarish trip to the dentist.

of course Leanne M. is a blogger

Who posts cute photos of someone else's cat. She and I are gonna be such great blog friends.

But Leanne, I'm not seeing a lot of petals and waves on petalsandwaves.

Maybe you renamed the blog "Leanne M." because you were feeling stifled. I get it. I mean, you don't want to get stuck making the same collection season after season.

But where are the effing wedding dresses?? Just saying.

Amanda, thanks for the heads up. You Portland girls are so insy.

an open letter to Leanne Marshall

Dear Leanne (imal),

Watcha been up to since you won Project Runway?

No pressure, but I really hope you're working on a line of organic cotton wedding dresses. For some reason, most of the eco-conscious custom gowns currently available are a) nouveau hippie or b) Ren-Faire hippie.*

There is a serious dearth of wedding dresses that are truly both eco and chic. Will you be the one to step up? (I mean, hello.)

The "hippies" aren't the only ones who want to go green.

Love,
ESB

*Real hippies don't get married. They don't need some piece of paper from the man.

no spoilers please

Don't tell me if leanimal won. I'm steering clear of the Cut and staying away from her old etsy shop. (She seems to have posted some kind of message...)

But if you didn't snatch up the avant-garde dress when I told you to (silly bridey!) you can still order this sweet one from her website.

I'm all about the anti-wedding-dress wedding dress.

for the avant-garde bride

One-of-a-kind dress by Leanimal, one of the new contestants on Project Runway.

Snap this baby up from her etsy shop! Seriously, buy it right now (and send me pictures, please).