primrosebride: ring pillows and garters

something blue: custom ring-bearer pillow with keepsake+toss silk charmeuse garter set

am blue, blue, blue tonight, friends, so here is something blue and lovely -- a gorgeously made set of garters and ring pillow, with a sachet to keep the keepsake garter on thoughtfully included. (i always wondered what people did with their garters, and this makes the most sense yet: throw 'em in the skivvie drawer and put 'em to work!)

you send primrosebride your color swatch and she will make these divine little sets to order -- she also can whip up veils, custom linens, and table runners. here's another:

silk charmeuse ring pillow with seafoam satin ribbons and czech glass button

because i'm personally headed for bitter spinsterhood, my one kvetch is that typographical errors abound in these listings, but when you have mad sewing skills many things are forgiven, no? my sweet boss is lysdexic, as he calls it -- am much less judgmental these days, a soft spot for the spelling-impaired. end kvetch.

regardless of my blueness: truly lovely work. based in seattle, more at primrosebride.etsy.com

boston two-fer: amyjjewelry and gartersbykristi

boston T token necklace*


boston red sox "keepsake and toss" wedding garter set

two guesses as to where i am this weekend -- my old stomping grounds! am in town for the boston "ahts" festival and posting from afah.

i've actually purchased a garter from gartersbykristi -- to be specific, a university of florida gator garter keepsake and toss, because *that's how much i love my sister.* while the USPS intervened and delayed them (i have had *terrrrrible* luck with our postal friends of late -- where's my new yorker subscription, yo?), when the garters did arrive they were impeccably made and quite lovely, as florida gator garters go.

quick story -- a friend from NY (rabid yankee fan) married a guy from boston, whose four brothers were his groomsmen. she was laid back and told them they could wear whatever they wanted. so they show up to her wedding in red sox ties. not only that, but there were two cakes at the wedding (to keep the peace??) -- one red sox, one yankees -- and when the red sox cake ran out before the groom's mother had a piece, she went without cake entirely rather than eat one with blue pinstripe frosting. ah, i love this town. guess once you've gone and gotten baseball cakes, figure people will wear their colors.

more at amyjjewelry.etsy.com (made in boston!) and at gartersbykristi.etsy.com -- go sox!

* i miss these -- the charlie card is dumb. wasn't charlie *trapped* on the T and could never leave?

weekly DBA: cammo huntin' garter

this week's david's bridal award: "deerhunter's dream" wedding garter set

oh, my friends. yes, i am originally from texas, and yes, i can shoot a gun, and yes, i have shot, killed and eaten wild things, not that i feel so great about it now. they were delicious at the time! moral high ground, not so much.

but... on your wedding day... sweet bambi, bounding across your thigh, caught in the moment of the chase just before you annihilate him into bloodspattered cammo oblivion? one to toss and a keepsake bonus? maybe heat-packing bridesmaids skeet shoot this one down...

weekly DBA, it has been a while.
(what's a DBA?)

piperewan

powder blue and golden orchid garter

ay, sexi! the only garter i've ever seen that i'd actually consider wearing. in fact, i might even wear it again after i pried it from the hands of the greedy fool who chased it down at the reception. mine!

also handily qualifies as new *and* blue, if you're into that sort of thing. now that i think about it -- it's orangey-bluish -- maybe, just maybe, my sister won't notice if i swap it for the university of florida "gator" garter she has insisted upon? ;)

more at piperewan.etsy.com