The gross thing on my dress

   Some of you may have noticed I posted pics from the wonderful wedding this Saturday...but none with me in them. Weird, right? No. I wanted to make you all wait. I wouldn't even tell my 13 year old cousin, Lea, what I chose to do.

   Let me begin by saying that there is nothing like being in a hotel by yourself. It's so peaceful and relaxing. I sat on a fresh bed, Kindle in hand and housed a Subway turkey, bacon and avocado 6 incher. Then I took a nap. It was just amazing. The room was the prefect temperature and sunny. I was in my glory! It was nice considering I couldn't sleep well, though I had my bed at home to myself because my husband was with his BFFs pre-wedding. I was up at 5 that morning (Probably residual anxiety from my own wedding planning). Then I got ready in the hotel and pretended I was a hollywood starlet.

   The final outcome. I took a few pics of myself and then my mother did as well when I stopped at her house between the church and hall. Did I go curly or straight? The answer is both. By the end of the rehearsal my hair was a curly ball of FRIZZ. So I blew it straight and then curled it!

  I was happy with the results and thank you all so much for weighing in! It was brought to my attention by a friend that the short hair straight pics weren't awesome. So I think the curl was the biased vote. 

   The wedding was beautiful. The bride looked like Cinderella, the groom let all his guys wear ball caps to the reception. There was a DJ and live acoustic singers to perform the country version of "Heaven". It was all very pleasing and personal to the bride and groom's tastes. My Aaron did the best man speech which he had spent hours preparing.

   I forgot to bring in the photo booth pictures we all took. That was the party favor and it was SO MUCH FUN! It was a great night and congratulations to Wes + Kelly!

   The down side to the black dress I wore. It was like wearing PJs and I loved how it looked. However, on the ride back to the hotel in the shuttle Aaron dumped all his luggage on my lap so he could get in. We then just left it there. Upon entering the elevator my sister in law, Laura screeches and points at the front of my dress. "What's ON you?" I look down and to my horror there is a baby slug sliming around the front of my beautiful dress. Aaron flicked it off and it landed on the door to the elevator. Everyone got a real kick out of it appearing and disappearing each time the door opened.

Hello Sluggy. Brought to you by Sanrio.

   The grossest part was his remnants that he left on my new dress. I'm mortified to walk into my cleaners and say "Hi, can you get slug off my dress?"

   Freaking disgusting. I tried to wash it off with cold water yesterday and it just reactivated the slime components and it went everywhere. I will never feel bad again if I step on a slug in my walkway outside the condo  after a rain storm.

   XO    Autumn Van Weir

Curly or Straight? Please weigh in

   I need some opinions people! Hair for a wedding...curly?

 Or straight like the salon did?

   If it helps, I'm wearing my amazing $29 BCBG shoes.

And a saucy one shoulder black dress with what I consider "old tyme" beading.

  

   Comments will be welcomed and  are requested! HELP!! Now...I don't want to worry anyone, but I may never have a spare bathroom. That's a lie. I will, just probably not on "Monday" as promised. Bob Smith told me he'd come over Sunday to work on the room. Fine because Saturday we'll be off celebrating the nuptials! But Sunday, get yo' work on. Only issue...as of right now the dry wall is almost all installed. Aaron doesn't recall him saying Sunday. Of course he doesn't. OK so lets do a running listing of what works.

1. We have a tub with 2 shower walls installed.

2. Drywall is installed except for right over the tub where shower head will go (I was informed last night that Aaron "broke something" in that area and Bob has to fix it).

3. Tub faucet is installed and works.

4. Wait, that's it.

   I love little "Orange Ears" the bathroom inspector who somehow slunk into the picture when he was nowhere to be found moments prior. I assume he's as worried as I am. Turk couldn't care any less. She's just off climbing screens and peeing in the sink. Or maybe that's why she's acting out? Any cat specialists? (besides me, I mean) Once this god forsaken bathroom is done I plan to hang the most adorable little watercolors I got off Ebay by the sink. I found them one day by accident (no I didn't Google "cat art"...at least not this time). I ordered 3 of them because they were too hard to resist and the artist threw in a 4th because I paid right away! SWEEEEET.

   I purchased them in January. I just found frames at Michael's to fit them because they are teensy. Like wallet sized. During the Halloween shopping trip. They were perfect and only $3.99 each. That places the cost of each framed mini-print at $8 or so. Check them out and tell me they aren't cute and I'll say you are off your tree.

This was actually the catalyst. Our wedding china has dragonflies on it.

   Love them! And I'll put them in a dainty little row over the excessive amount of new light switches! I better get going...Aaron just sent me a text that said "wait til u see what I did to house". I have a phone call to make, methinks.

Let me know what you think about curly or straight hair! If you enjoy, please follow! I love you guys too!

XO Autumn Van Weir

@AutumnVanWeir