J.CrewAholics

Silk tricotine Jenelle dress

The following is a guest blogging special from a J.CrewAholic, GingerSnap.  You can check out her personal blog, GingerSnap’s Daily Fashion Post.  She wore a J.Crew wedding dress when she got married last summer.

My wedding date was June 21, 2008 and I got married to my long-time sweetheart “Hubby.” Hubby and I met up at college at Florida State University where he was a server in my Sorority house. In the Greek system, Sororities often “employ” Fraternity guys to “serve” at their house (i.e. help with meals) and in return the guys get free food and hang out at the house. Well, I was a new initiate at the time and Hubby had just started working there. He was immediately smitten with me, but I was not “interested” in dating anyone at the time. Thankfully, he was persistent, and about a month later we went on our first date…that was six and a half years ago.

We dated all throughout college and spent countless game days cheering for the Florida State Seminoles, attending Fraternity functions, and just being college kids. I even became his Fraternity’s sweetheart (I was on the composite photo with all the boys and got my own “badge number”). When college was nearing to an end, we decided to move to the same Gulf Coast town together and pursue graduate school. Our second year into graduate school, Hubby proposed!

He collaborated with my Dad to make a “sailor’s valentine” – a small octagon shaped wooden box filled with seashells arranged in a pattern. Sailors used to make them for their loved ones while they were away at sea. He presented the valentine to me in March of 2007. When I opened the valentine up, it had written “Will You Marry Me” in seashells, with the engagement ring tied to a sand dollar on the inside. I immediately said “YES!”

Fast forward a year and three months later, and we were getting married I always envisioned myself in a simple, elegant dress (nothing too frilly or lacey). I immediately was drawn to J.Crew dresses because of their clean lines and simple design. I was particularly taken with the “Jenelle” dress because it was very reminiscent of the dress Caroline Kennedy wore to her wedding. I ordered it from the sales associate in a Petite 0, and when it arrived it fit like a glove! No alterations needed, it was like the dress was made for me. It was a sign.

We got married on a rainy summer Florida day in June, and the wedding was perfect. We had our ceremony at a little chapel by the beach and our reception at a Country Club right on the water. It was picturesque and perfect in our eyes. We still joke about the rain on our wedding day…you know how they say rain is good luck?, well any more “luck” and we would have had a hurricane on our hands!

Overall, I was beyond pleased with the wedding and was happy to have had such a simple, beautiful dress to get married in. Sometimes the most beautiful things are the simplest…and boy did I feel beautiful.