What to do with your eye makeup? Dressing up the eyes is the single easiest way to make a splash with your wedding day make up. Emphasizing your eyes will give you a dressed up look in photos and just a little something special to make you look like you, but better!

Stylist and Make Up Artist (and recent bride herself!!), Jennie Kay Murphy, gave me some tips on favorite products to emphasize the eyes. Not only has Jennie made up the faces of brides all over New England, she also has done make up and hair for movies, Broadway shows, runways, celebrities, and magazines. Don't be afraid of lashes either. Dramatic eyelashes won't look awkward in photographs, they will look sexy and chic!


Photo of Jennie Kay by Daniel Gagnon Photography .

There are soo many ways to bustle a wedding dress. My 12 foot train was a nightmare when trying to figure out how to bustle it but lucky it came out great and stayed! We had 3 buttons on the top part of the bottom of my lower part of the dress, right on the seam so we took the little loops and hung them on the buttons to bustle the dress. We also bustled my veil! You can see it below. :-)

Back when we chose my dress, at the wonderful Sposabella Bridal in Hyannis, Ma. We also found the dresses that we Thought were THE dresses for my MOH and my two bridesmaids...

Picture the following dress in the pictured blue color, with a pale green sash for the featured MOH, and in a pale green color with the light blue sash for my very fair/irish-y BM 1 and 2.

So girls, it's about that time...I've finally made my first appointments to go gown shopping. I have to say, I'm very overwhelmed by this and it's making me a little nervous. Don't worry, I'm not having second thoughts or anything like that, I'm just nervous because I feel like this makes it real. Before I was just meeting photographers and DJ's etc, but I wasn't actually going to be buying something to take home. Not only that, but I have no idea what I want in a dress. My Maids of Honor each think 2 different kinds of dresses will look good on me. My mother can only tell me what I won't look good in (which is very discouraging), and the one style I think I want, no one seems to have an opinion about (which knowing them means they don't like it). I know it's my choice, but I feel like it's going to be a very long day, possibly beginning (mom & one MOH) and ending (me) in tears. Anyway, did anyone else get nervous when they started shopping for "the dress" or am I just being crazy?

I know I am a little late at posting this picture, shoot me.
These are the pictures of my third dress fitting. I still have one more to go since my dress we a little big. Truthfully, the bra really makes the dress along with the oh so clever built in job.
My seamstress Ida, is fabulous! Since, as most of you know, my ceremony shoes are 5 inches tall, she actually built in a front bustle for me to snap the dress with invisible snaps so I don't break my ankle. Also she is going to place ribbon in the petticoat so I can tie the petticoat in the front so as to have this "hemmed" as well.
This dress was the one I had bought at Brides Against Breast Cancer.
I had heard about this event on this website and for you brides that are just getting started, please visit this event. You won't be sorry. I bought a Kenneth Pool duchesse satin ball gown, retail $10,000 for $1500. The train, as you can gather, is 4 feet long with crystal embellishments, all hand sewn. The bodice is pearl and crystal with glass beading.
I bought my veil in Keene, NH at Pamela Moore. She is another one that is just great! Since it is a cathedral veil, I will be french bustling the veil as well for the first song of the night. Check out the photo.

We are having a small religious ceremony the night before our official wedding. We are doing this because my Dad & my fiance's Grandmother really wanted us to get married in a Temple. We however wanted have ours by the beach and have the ceremony at the same place as our reception. So we are only inviting our wedding party and close family members to the Temple and having a personal ceremony (performed by a good friend) right before our wedding reception. It is orthodox so you must wear conservative attire (ie shoulders covered). So I am looking for a white dress that is 3 quarters or long sleeve. I found this dress online but it's made in Egypt. I was really hoping to buy something locally like this. Eyelet or lace material. Has anyone seen anything like this? Any suggestions would really help. Thanks!

My Something borrowed will be my Great Auntie Anna's pearl bracelet, My dress will most likely be my something new unless my hunny surprises me with something :-P, and my something blue...I got the idea from my future sister in law. She did it for her wedding last year. I will be sewing into my wedding dress a patch that is done in blue stiching that will says "Stephanie Marie (my birth last name" November 13, 1984 then under that will be "Stephanie Marie (my new life last name...ie my FH Last name) July 24, 2010". It signifies when my life began and when my new life with my husband begins. I thought it was a cute idea to incorporate something blue. :-)

I think I found my bridesmaid's dresses! Not only is it super cute, but it has pockets and it comes in 3 or 4 shades of blue that I like. My only problem is that I don't have a dress yet and people keep telling me to get my dress before I get their dresses, but I have too much weight to loose to start looking at dresses for me.

I need help fast! I need to find a makeup artist that charges around 150 for bride makeup.
Mine backed out and I cannot afford the other artist that was recommended!
UGH!
I want dramatic eyes and false lashes, anyone out there know of one near Newport?