Dreamer

Dress? c/o Dream-ers (here) Floral crown? Antique store Vintage cuff? Auction 

*Photos by Julie

Whoa. So this... was fun.
Now, where to start?
Perhaps with an apology again for too many pictures. I think this may be the most I have ever posted. But it was just too much fun...

Now that the apology is complete, I should tell you about the dress. When Yanique from Dream-ers emailed me to ask if I wanted to feature one of her dresses, I immediately spent some time digging around her site. Of course I got distracted by her rather impressive vintage sequin selection but then I found a collection of new but vintage-inspired dresses that she designed herself. This collection, called Dream-ers, heavily features lace, classic silhouettes AND is produced in the States. It took me three days to pick a dress from her self designed collection because I took this dress decision very seriously.
I think I am supposed to act like it ain't no thing when someone sends me a dress but honestly, I was so flattered that Yanique wanted to work with me. She is such a talented designer (and total sweetheart) and I know that it's big deal for a smaller business to reach out to a blogger. I wanted to do both the dress and Yanique justice in featuring them. Especially when I got the lace dress in the mail and it was perfectly made. Yanique was a manager at a Chanel boutique for years and you can tell she knows her quality. Perfect seams, crisp cotton linings, an additional crinoline skirt for extra fouf and invisible zippers at the side and at the neck... you know I'm a sucker for a well constructed garment and all those good little details. This is the kind of dress you pass on to your daughter or your niece...

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A lot of the Dream-ers collection can be interpreted as bridal (scroll through her FB page if you  want to see some unique brides in Dream-ers...) and I am already married and I don't need a wedding dress. But I just knew the tulle and lace would be so much fun to shoot! I thought about asking Matt to join me for a bit so we could have some pictures of the two of us being all fancy to hang in the bathroom (that's normal, right?) but he had baseball. And I can respect his priorities. Besides it was way more fun with just Julie and I. Julie being all pro behind the camera and me, giving it my all (giving it my all = over the shoulder glances obviously), as a runaway woodland nymph bride. Basically I frolicked in nature and Julie worked her magic. We explored the area and played around with different ideas until the sky burst open. It's probably good that it started to pour. It was hard enough editing the pictures down to 16 (16!?!? I am ashamed).

And while this is likely the only time that I will wear this dress running through fields and with a vintage floral crown, I have big plans on changing up the look with a few minor alterations, a vintage belt and some black tights this winter. I am going to enjoy this dress a lot before I ever pass it down to my favourite niece*...

*Don't have a favourite niece, ok? I will draw a name from a hat...:)