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March 18, 2010

Western Weddings… Yee Haw!

Want a fresh idea that’s actually old as the hills?  Try a Western themed wedding for something crazy and fun and sure to leave an impression on your wedding guests.  Who knows you may want to bring in a mechanical bull and let them ride ‘em cowboy or cowgirl all night or day long.  ;-)

From denim inspired wedding gowns in blues and dainty laces that lace up the back and cut up the leg to adorable table decorations with cowboy hats and boots doubling as flower containers… the big sky is the limit and the grass can be greener.

Blue and browns with touches of white and yellow seem to be the most common color schemes.  Bachelor buttons and daisies can keep the costs down and the whimsey up.  While you peruse cute cake toppers with horses and hitching posts and fun silver ring bearer horseshoes with white satin ribbons.

Accessories for a Western Wedding

Favor Ideas for a Cowboy Wedding

The bride can wear white in a western type period gown or go for something completely different with touches or whole parts of the gown in denim blue.  Why not add some fringed white cowboy boots or cream or off-white granny style boots with pretty lace inserts?  Top it off with a white or off white satin cowboy hat covered in lace, roses and tulle and you’re sure to feel romantic and country cool all at the same time!

Western Wedding Wear

Cultured Cowboy Wedding Dresses

Western Wedding Hat

White Cowboy Boots Granny Style Boots

(I love this denim halter for bridesmaids dresses in the Western themed wedding!)

Of course the variety for grooms is endless and who doesn’t enjoy duding up their best dude in the duds of a cool, clean cowboy?  There are period style vests and ties and natty jackets with and without fringe ;-) as well as boots in all sizes, shapes, colors and textures.  It’s a field day for the fellas and they’re sure to make a splash when they ride in off the range in today’s dashing designs.

Gentlemen’s Emporium

The Old Frontier Clothing Company

And last, but certainly not least, there are mother lodes of wonderful Country songs old and new from waltzes to 2-steps that will keep your first dance and your father daughter dance in the Western theme.  Below are a few of my favorites:

First Dance Country Songs:

I Love The Way You Love Me by Faith Hill

Could I Have This Dance by Anne Murray

From This Moment by Shania Twain

The Wedding Song (Girl Forever) by Marty Falle

Fishin’ In The Dark by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

(Lyrics for Fishin’ In The Dark)

Father Daughter Dance Country Songs:

I Loved Her First by Heartland

My Little Girl by Steve Kirwan

Stealing Cinderella by Chuck Wick

I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack

Daddy’s Little Girl by Kippi Brannon

Happy Trails to you Western wedding fans…

Jillian

OurWeddingDance.com

949 400 7347

* Remember I put these links to other web sites up for your reference and don’t endorse any one in particular.  I’ll let you do the research and remember always get your orders in writing and you can use my handy guideline, “If it smells fishy, it usually is”.  ;-)

January 17, 2010

How Cool Is That?

I raced off to see Young Victoria the other night and was met at the Lido by a nice ticket attendant asking me if I was with the special event?

Hmm, what special event?

Guess not – we bought our tickets and found a seat in the nostalgic black light fish festival mural theater on the pennisula.

The preview came up and then suddenly shut down.

Another employee said they were experiencing technical difficulties… not unusual.

Then another “preview” came up and I noticed that the two people in it bore a huge resemblence to a man and woman who had entered the theater and sat four rows down in front of us.  The longer it played the more I thought “wedding video” as it showed the blond gal doing lots of fun things with her handsome man all over the world. 

Minutes later the film screen went to black and four wonderful words popped up on it, “Will You Marry Me”?

The lights came up in the theater and about fifty people in the balcony (yes, this theater is one of the last I know of with a balcony!) started shouting and whistling and throwing streamers.  The bride-to-be was totally surprised and her fiance got down on his knee and proposed right then and there.

What did she say? – came the shouts from above.

Yes, Yes, Yes the bride responded, tears running down her face. 

And then, Oh you poor people who just came to see the movie!, she added.  :-)

We didn’t mind and after the movie a couple of people announced with a laugh, Anyone else want to get married?, as they left the theater.

So… how cool is that?

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Remember after you say “I do” say – “Let’s dance”!

Call Jillian at 949.400.7347

August 30, 2009

Irvine’s Great Park Great Place To Swing It!

Maybe it’s a “busman’s holiday” but I love to put on my leopard flats and head on out for a night of dancing.

And what could be more fun than to do that just five minutes from where I live in Irvine.

Irvine’s Great Park located on the site of the old El Toro Marine Base (think enormous orange balloon off of Sand Canyon and the 5 freeway) has had a summer of entertainment that keeps even my experienced feet dancing.  

Called Flights & Sounds, the Great Park offers Friday night dances and Saturday night concerts for free with $8/car parking from August 1st through September 26th 2009.

Their musical selections feature something for everyone: from Irish fiddling to Creole Jazz to Afro-Latin rhythms to Swing, Country, Hawaiian, European techno, Reggae, classic R&B, Salsa, accordians, Persion fusion and Bollywood disco.

I can’t decide if I want to get out my belly dancing skirt or my cowboy hat!!

Click here to see their web site for more information.

But last night I really couldn’t resist the place and about 7:45pm joined a long line of cars inching slowing into the Park to see none other than the Big Bad Voodoo Daddys live in concert under the stars. 

Ok, I should have gotten in the line-up a little earlier…  we snaked on into the Great Park for about twenty minutes and then hopped into a shuttle toe-tapping our feet all the way to the old hanger with runway lights still a-blinking in the ground and  the enormous balloon going up and down on its cable in the hot night sky. 

Dressed in their signature zoot suits the Big Bad Voodoo Daddys gave a short but fantastic show with some of the old favorites and a few of their new tunes just out on CD.  Afterward they milled about signing autographs and all the kids dressed in costume got some great pictures.

So who says you can’t “swing it” just about anywhere?

And as long as we’re talking swing – last Friday night the Great Park featured an awesome swing dance party with Pete Jacobs and his Wartime Radio Revue complete with a trio of Andrew sisters-like singers!  I must admit to swinging up a storm at that one too!

Now I just have to throw out there that either of these groups would be awesome at your wedding… 

Ok, we can dream, can’t we???

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