March Madness: Love Is In The Air

Well loves, life has been pretty hectic lately and its mostly good. My birthday was fabulous as always, even though a lot of people bailed on me last minute. I still had a blast. I planned a sit down dinner with my family and friends at a restaurant called Max's Tavern and there food is amazing. My oldest sister surprised me with a birthday cake and they sang to me in the restaurant (yes, sort of embarassing).

After the dinner we went to a bar/club in the downtown area (because thats seriously the only place to go out around here) called Alumni. I can't lie I had an amazing time, maybe that has something to do with the 4 Patron shots I had. The day after my birthday I received a call for a new job which I am now working. Its a retail job and I really like it. It's been so hard for me to find work outside of what I've done since I graduated high school and I needed to find something on my own and at a different pace. Along with that came training and then opening day, which went very well. This past weekend was my cousins wedding! Which I had the pleasure of being her Maid of Honor. It was one of those things that went by so fast and felt like a dream. I had so much fun!

My beautiful Maid of Honor dress is from White by Vera Wang for Davids Bridal. I wore it in Plum which was a perfect compliment to the Wisteria color the other Bridesmaids wore. My jewelry is from Debs, the necklace was a set with the earrings and I bought the bracelet separate but they had a buy one get one half off for jewelry. Along with my duty as Maid of Honor I gave my speech which I intended on giving without crying but that was an epic fail. Afterwards we ate and drank and danced. When it was time for her to toss the bouquet the first time it sort of hit the ceiling and was fought over so she did it once more and I caught it while getting hit in the back of my head by some other person also attempting to catch it.

On the left is the bouquet I caught and on the right are my flowers. I saved my flowers and now they are in my room in a vase. It still feels like a dream. I am glad that it has happened and we can move forward, weddings are kind of stressful. The whole day getting ready your just a big ball of nerves. I felt like I had no time for anything but I did.

With March coming to a close I can only begin to think that my faith has kept me going and I'm proud of the progression over the month that I've had. I can't wait to see what else is next for me. Stay tuned.

xoxo, The Social Fashionista

Lucky in Love

Well my lovely readers, its been awhile and as I stated in a previous blog post I mentioned that one of my cousin's was getting married and I would be attending there wedding which happens to be in a month from TODAY! I'm totally excited for that wedding because they truly deserve the day to celebrate their love for each other. As much as I love marriage and coming together to share that moment, I really love weddings.

Not too long ago (literally 10 days ago) one of my girl cousin's handed me her phone with a few dresses selected and told me to pick one. I chose one with no knowledge of why I was doing this and then she told me that she would be getting MARRIED! 

Not only did she ask me to share this day with her, she dubbed me the coveted role as her Maid of Honor. I was honestly so honored. Like I said before I've only been to one wedding where I was a Bridesmaid for my  oldest sister. There are tons of responsibilities for me and honestly I have no problem with fulfilling them. 

Although I was super excited I became super overwhelmed at that fact that it was brought on in such short notice and she's getting married in November. I only have 4 months to help her squeeze in all the planning to make sure it will go off without a hitch. So far everything has gone according to plan. She has all her bridesmaids chosen. The bride herself has chosen her dress, tiara, and veil. All of the bridesmaids have chosen there dresses and the flower arrangements have been taken care of. Her groom has selected his groomsmen and have there fitting this month. We are now looking at venue's for her reception. I would like to say that I've been doing a pretty good job at keeping her calm. 

Aside from all my duties there is one I'm pretty anxious about. My speech. Its tradition for the Best Man and the Maid of Honor to give a toast to the married couple at the reception. I'm honestly not the best at speaking in front of a large group. The last time I gave a speech was at my sisters baby shower and I cried like a baby. I get very emotional and thats one thing I am most worried about. I want to give a very touching and well written speech, and with that being said I know the water works will be in full effect. 

In the end it will be worth it for her to know how extremely happy I am for her. 

xoxo, The Social Fashionista

Holy Matri-Mini

Do you hear that? The wedding bells! Well its that time of year when people express there love with the old age tradition of marriage. BUT I'm not the getting married. That would be rather soon. I'm still young! However my cousins are and I am on the hunt as of now on the perfect wedding ensemble seeing as how the last wedding I was in I was a bridesmaid. I can actually sit back and really enjoy myself.

I've been all over the web and have come up with a few choices from Asos. 

Swing Dress with Color Block Hem

T-Shirt Dress in Skull Print

Skater Dress with Mesh

Skater Dress with Lace and Deep Waisteband

Shift Dress with Slash Sleeves

If you know any other sites I can find cute dresses that are wedding appropriate please let me know!

xoxo, The Social Fashionista