When Jessie first approached me about this wedding,, I saw the vendor list and immediately got excited...some of my favorite vendors in town worked it - Ocean Aisle Events, Bells and Whistles, Pirates Cove Marina, and Kelly's Restaurant The following is just a peep into the gorgeousness for you - or you can skip right to the video here:<http://animoto.com/play/K2IStNSgCwBFLBW2aS6nhw#>

Let’s face it, this is not your "typical" wedding - Julie

photos by Julie Dreelin of Julie Dreelins Photography/Videography Inc

July 15th 2010

photos by Julie at Julie Dreelin's Photography/Videography Inc.
vendors:Music: Ipod, Venue: Ocean Hill, Corolla: Week-of Coordination: The Bride, Caterer's Coastal Provisions

From the Bride:

OK! WOW! SO I've been on the phone with my sister and we went over these photos over and over! YOU DELIVERED EVERYTHING I HAD HOPED FOR AND THEN SOME! You captured all the joy and fun and happiness and goofiness and seriousness and love that all these people have for one another, not just Glenn and I but the whole special group. It feels like this was how I wanted the pictures to turn out and you made it real! I cannot wait to see the rest, what a completely satisfying moment for GLenn and I!

I have to tell you how homemade this wedding was. I think you'll enjoy it.  My husband to be did my hair, for his first time and got it perfectly. I honestly believe the deeper coloring made it photograph better and made my eyes pop bluer in the pics! It just worked! And you were right, the lighting was beautiful!

I called to order flowers a few months ago...the bill was going to be ridiculous...so I called Harris Teeter and asked if I could order flowers there and make my own. They let me! So...even though the other  florist places were way cool, since I had done flowers in a past job, I couldn't overpay by a few thousand dollars....seriously, so I did them. They had dreamy flowers, really, for all the flowers and enuf leftover to fill the bathtub it cost less than the quotes I got for the bride bouquet alone. Truly!  So we pooled our abilities, (Glenn and I made the pies, ironically he was a pastry chef in another life and could have made a fabulous wedding cake, he did both his sister's cakes, but we like pie better..) He tortured me with mock up wedding cakes to sample and pick from only to decide we liked fruit pies best! Glenn is a mad good cook, so he knew to ask the right questions for the caterers and they were FANTASTIC!

All in all it was a wedding with tons of personal touches throughout- and then adding the cast of characters these families unite, photo -op heaven.

Extremely satisfying, I'm just so pleased already I cannot tell you!  I think they are so fun and so well done- they speak volumes for your talent and should be shared. I feel like the emotional happiness was captured- and everything came together to really make them extra special- mother nature included! Just exceptional. - All My Best, Heidi

And when it was time for our bride Lindsay to get married, she chose to come home again. This Manteo girl and her man Scot were wed on May 30th in Nags Head.

The two fell in love while both working in Texas for Bank of America.

Under a tent on the yard of the scenic First Colony Inn, Lindsay and Scott's reception featured music by The Crowd, with a slew of OBX local guests and Texans coming together to dance the night away in an upbeat celebration!

Click Here for the Web Video of this event

Congratulations to Mr. amp; Mrs. Scot Mitchell!

I bought this newspaper when on the road and found it fascinating so I thought I'd pass it on to all of my brides.

The gown was almost wanton-fluid but curvy with a neckline that plummeted dangerously.  "It makes me feel sexy and beautiful" said Natasha DaSilva, who slipped it on for a fitting last week. Cut away at the rear to reveal a tatoo at the small of her back, the dress suggested a languorous night in the honeymoon suite.

Except that DaSilva, who will married in Long Island in September, plans to wear it at the altar.

"Why not?" she asked.  "I want to look back in 20 years and feel like I looked hot on my wedding day."

"Brides today absolutely want to look sexy and glamourous," said Mara Urshel, an owner and the president of Kleinfeld, the venerable Manhattan bridal salon.

"Young women increasingly look to the red carpet for style ideas," said Millie Martini Bratten, the editor in chief of Brides magazine. "When they marry they they want to be the celebrity of their own event."

Today the prevailing fantasy is no longer, " 'I want to be a princess in my ball gown,' "Dias said.  "A lot of women have done that already for their prom." Dias, who is based in Los Angeles, accommodates clients' desires for dresses that echo runway trends with halter tops and off-the-shoulder gowns that are more emphatically provocative than the strapless looks that have become commonplace.

Similar considerations prompted the designer Monique Lhuillier, a favorite in Hollywood, to fashion a dress with an Empire bodice, wide lace straps and a wispy chiffon skirt - features more often found in a nightgown.

This article was written by the reference above, for the full version, visit the International Herald Tribune