Meg Henning

How to Dress for a Wedding

Let's see, it is Friday, can I get a woohoo and it is Friday's Fancies, can I get another woohoo!! What are your weekend plans? Tomorrow we are probably keep it low-key because Sunday through Monday, Sean and I are off to celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary and then if you want to count July 18 as the 3rd anniversary of when he proposed. The deal for us is he plans the odd-numbered year anniversaries and I plan the even. He doesn't know what we are doing so I can't write about it just in case he does decided to read today's post.

Today's Friday's Fancies of wedding guest attire is actually a perfect lead into next week because I am sharing more of our wedding, the details, the particulars, etc.

Anyways I will say this about wedding guest attire, please be appropriate.

At our wedding, I came back from our honeymoon and all my co-workers asked me who was that girl who was practically wearing a t-shirt? I think technically it was a dress but it easily be as an extra long t-shirt. Additionally, we had a guest who wore a little too short yellow dress with white shorts underneath the dress, not appropriate.

When it comes to appropriate guest attire, the invitation should tell you all. If the invitation is rather fancy, dress fancy. Sometimes more fancy weddings will instruct on the invitations, black-tie required.

Do some research about the venue where the ceremony and reception will take place.

This is the outfit I created for this week's Friday's Fancies.

There you have it! Have a great weekend everyone!

Raspberry Lemon Bars

Even if I haven't had my Bible study to bake for on a weekly basis, I still love to do it and when opportunities arise when cookies are asked to be baked, I can't pass that up! It gets my little baking heart all aflutter.

I recently made a few desserts for the church Sean and I had been attending, and I intended to post up them before 4th of July since they had red from raspberries and then blue from blueberries. I thought they would be brought to any 4th of July bbq you might attend because they were appropriately themed.

For these lemon raspberry bars, first gather together your ingredients.

1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs, 6 tablespoons butter, melted, 1/4 cup sugar, zest of one lemon, 2 large egg yolks, 1 can (14 oz.) condensed milk, 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest, 6 oz. fresh raspberries.

Preheat your oven to 350F degrees. In a mixing bowl, combine the graham cracker crusts, zest of one lemon and sugar.

Stir all these ingredients together then mix in the melted butter.

When the mixture is the consistency of wet sand, press the mixture down into a square 9X9 inch pan.

Bake the crust for 10 minutes in the oven then remove the pan from the oven and let the crust cool to room temperature.

In another mixing bowl, add the condensed milk, egg yolks and lemon juice and mix.

Add in the lemon zest. Mix all the ingredients together then pour it over the cooled graham cracker crust.

Sprinkle the raspberries on top of the condensed milk mixture and press down on the raspberries slightly, if you want.

Bake the lemon raspberry bars for 15 minutes in the oven, then remove and cool. Once the bars are completely cool, then cut them into squares, serve and enjoy!

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Oh Pinteresting Wednesday - Pallet Couch

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Maybe some of you feel this way but when I am feeling a little bit bored either because of my routine, or just my life in general, I will change up something in my house to give me the feeling of newness and to help take some of the edge of boredom off. I am in that phase right now of changing things around in my house, cleaning up a lot, re-arranging and just giving me that feeling of newness. My latest project has been taking one of the three couches we have in our living room up to the office to provide more seating in that room. My idea is then to while Sean is working or doing homework for his Masters program, that I could sit on the couch and blog there. Therefore, taking my laptop out of the bedroom and leaving that room for one more of entertainment ;-)

In place of the third couch, which has left the living room looking rather empty or giving the impression we are moving, I want to make a pallet couch. We still have a few pallets leftover from when Sean made the wine rack (see post here).

Here are a few pallet couches I found on Pinterest.

Can you all help me figure out which couch to make?
These are a few of my favorite ones, not necessarily in order of most favorite to least.

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Source: goo.gl via Gisela on Pinterest

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Source: ashleyannphotography.com via Melissa on Pinterest

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Source: frenchbydesign.blogspot.com via Jenny on Pinterest

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Source: decordeprovence.blogspot.com via Lucy on Pinterest

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Source: projectnursery.com via Minda on Pinterest

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Source: decoist.com via Khayyam on Pinterest

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Source: laurenscape.com via Michelle on Pinterest

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Source: via Lee on Pinterest

Bachelorette Tuesday #9

Episode number 9 of Emily's season as the bachelorette! First off, I am really excited that they are filming in a location I have been too so far there has been Prague and now Curacao. Last summer, Sean, his family and I visited the island last summer on a cruise. Curacao was absolutely gorgeous and yes if you were wondering Curacao is the island that makes the blue liquer, blue curacao. However, they also make many other colors and flavors as well, but I am digressing. Also the brightly painted buildings they are all over and are so unique to the island.

So we are down to the final three, Jef, Sean and Arie.

Ok Emily you are saying that Sean will always be there for you no matter what, you need to listen to yourself. I feel you should want in a guy someone who will always be there for you no matter what.

That is so important in a marriage knowing that your partner will be there for you no matter what and that is my almost two years of marriage experience talking. Anyone married longer than me out there that want to second that advice?

Ahh, Jef with one f, you were in the friends zone for awhile there in the beginning but you picked up speed ending last week with that sweet note.

Then Arie, you are the wildcard in my opinion, you two go hot and then cold and then hot again...

Sean's date:

I want to go on my own private island and hang out there all day, I mean how gorgeous would that be.

And Sean no you didn't forget what you were going to say, you were trying to say to her, I love you, idiot! Did anyone else want to shake him through the TV and tell him, just say it already?

Finally, he said it! I think both of them had a ton of class to walk away from each other in the evening and Sean was so sweet saying he didn't need to spend those few extra hours to be sure.

Jef's date:

They are so cute together for sure! I don't have too much else to say about the date except wasn't Emily's dress amazing. At the bottom of this re-cap, I will share a few of my favorite fashion item from the show. Jef shows so much respect to Emily by not spending the night with her and recognizing her role as a mom, good move Jef,

Arie's date:

I loved Emily' cover-up but unfortunately where you can purchase the cover-up is still being discovered. Swimming with dolphins is such a cute, fun date. I would love the opportunity to swim with dolphins.

Emily looks really good with just straight hair, doesn't she? Why hasn't she worn her hair like that before? Very pretty and I liked her wooden beads necklace she was wearing during dinner. Oh poor Arie no fantasy date option...

Rose ceremony:
The dreaded fake hair clip-on makes another appearance, oh my. Emily showed absolutely no emotion when watching the videos, I first thought that maybe it was because it was Sean in the video and it was because she was sending him home but then during Jef and Arie's video, she was stoic, completely stone face. Jef gets the first rose.. and then Arie. What?? What happened to Sean? Ugh! My heart is just breaking into a million pieces... my favorite one axed last night. Emily, oh Emily what a bad decision.
Ugh my heart is breaking for Sean...

Here are some of my favorite fashions from the show.

Going clock-wise, the blue dress is from LNA for $143, the white maxi is from Nordstroms, the beaded dress is from AllSaints for $346 and the studs are from Towne and Reese for $25.
There you have it, another episode, another re-cap and now there are two guys remaining. What do you think a proposal in two weeks?

Hostess with the Mostess part quatre

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Ahh Monday, you always coming rolling around again just like clockwork, after Sunday is Monday, it never changes. I have enjoyed Mondays a bit more with the Hostess with the Mostess series because I like to entertain, I love to have people come to my house and have a great meal and just be surrounded by good people. God has definitely given me the gift of hospitality and I have loved sharing with you all.

In this series so far, there have been drinks, appetizers, and last week a Fourth of July edition. Today I will be discussing the theme for your party.

To help set the mood when you are hosting, it helps to have a particular theme in mind along with the place where the party is being held, whether at a country club, in your background or a park.

If you are going for an up-scale party, you might want to consider wine, cheese and fancy appetizers.

Source: celebrationsathomeblog.com via Bhavika on Pinterest

Source: rock-ur-party.tablespoon.com via Julie on Pinterest

You could use a color or a combination of a few colors as the theme to your party.

Such as red, turquoise and white

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Or purple

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You could use just an initial as the theme for your party.

Source: marthastewart.com via Abby on Pinterest

There are an unlimited number of themes you could pick to plan a party. I am going to plan one for you with the theme of the color yellow in a backyard setting for a casual get together with friends.

These would be my centerpieces