This is highlyfavoredbride's Blue Wedding!

We are finally under 400 days...so happy!!!

I made the mistake of looking at Couture gowns online and they start around $3,000...is anyone spending that much or are there beautiful and unique dresses out there for much less that I am missing?? Any suggested designers would be appreciated.

Is anyone else having an engagement party? I read that most engagement parties are normally between two and four months after you announce your engagement...well who's really following the rules...not me. So my FH and I are having an engagement party the end of this month. I'm a college professor and he works a lot and the best time for us to have one is this memorial day weekend. The invitations have been mailed and rsvp received...can't wait. It's more like a bbq nothing too formal.

Since my parents are paying for our honeymoon and transportation, my father wants me to have a rolls royce to take me to the wedding ceremony and hotel but my fiance' wants to go on a carriage ride through the city...I love both I ideas.

Ok since my FH and I aren't getting married unti June 09, when should I start trying on wedding gowns? Obviously I've already started the wedding planning and when school of out I will be planning our engagement party in June. I've been looking on website to get a idea but I'm not sure when to start going to bridal stores to try gowns on.

I found a stunning silk wedding flower bouquet. It is made with tiffany blue calla lilies and roses, accented with ivory roses, hydrangea and stephanotis. Love it.

Our guests will walk into the reception area to these boxes being displayed on a brushed-metal and glass stand to receive their place seat cards and to arrive to their seats to tiffany inspired chocolate.

I LOVE this giant diamond ice sculptors for our wedding, keeping it with the tiffany themed wedding. The champagne, rose petals and strawberry slices are on a massive carved ice bar. I love this Hopefully we can get someone to chisel this.

Our guests will ring a bell similar to this one as Chase and I proceed to our limo or after we exchange vows, I haven't decided yet. However, I really thought this was cute and somewhat different too.

Our aisle runner is exactly like this, however, we are trying to get tiffany blue and white petals.

I thought this was so cute. Its perfect for the theme of our wedding.

Our decorations will be very similar to the one in this picture. I did blue sashes and white covers only because we didn't want the blue to be over powering, but simple.

For our favors will be gardenia-scented soaps, we are going to monogram each with an "N" for Noble, their shared new last name. Our calligrapher created individual labels bearing each guest's name, then we placed the soaps in white boxes and tied them with a Tiffany blue ribbon. They looked just like the coveted jewelry boxes, though with the colors reversed.

Tall Tiffany-inspired boxes welcomed out-of-town guests to Atlanta with personalized bottled water, a helpful visitor's booklet, and colorful thumb print cookies.

This will be our cocktail drink. Its a Lowcountry Lemonade adding a drop of blue curacao to the peach Schnapps and lemonade and lining the rims with sugar. Instead of adding a flower to each, we will tie a tiny piece of Tiffany blue ribbon to a clear plastic swizzle stick and placed it into each glass.