My wedding dress

Here is a tiny glimpse of the train on my wedding dress... behind it you get a tiny glimpse of where the river meets the inlet... the reason you are only seeing this much of my dress, is because my fiance might read this, and see this picture, and I don't want him seeing the dress. But if he saw this, it would only be a super cool way to torture him. Sorry babe, got to wait until August.

The reason I had these pictures taken of me in my wedding dress, almost ten months before I get married, was because I had no idea what kind of veil would go with my dress. There were so many options that I just didn't know where to begin! I know how I want to wear my hair, in a loose up do... and I know that I don't want my veil to overwhelm my dress. So no three tiered poofy blusher veils. But other than that, oh my goodness the options are limitless. (Though I think birdcage veils are out). No super long veils, or super short ones. I thought for a while that I wanted a mantilla veil, but I think that's out too now... Mostly this matters because I want to be beautiful when I walk down that aisle. I don't just want to take Ben's breath away (though that certainly will happen), I want everyone there to heave a collective sigh as I walk down the aisle, like they've never seen anything so beautiful in their lives. Maybe that's too much to ask. Maybe that's even selfish of me. I don't know. I just know that I felt that way about the brides at the weddings I've been to, and I want other people to feel the same way about me. Call me crazy, but I want that, and finding the right veil is the first step to seeing that happen.