Wedding Fever - The Perfect Summer Wedding Dress

As soon as summer hits and the weather picks up, you know it's wedding season! That calls for a new outfit, new accessories, new hair, new nails, the whole lot!

Searching for the perfect summer wedding dress can be a daunting experience if your as picky as I am: is it suitable, too short, too long, etc... But look no further Chi Chi Clothing has the perfect dress for everyone. With various styles, colours and lengths to suit any wedding or event!

I love Chi Chi Clothing, they are so on trend delivering quality occasion wear that's easy on the pocket! I was lucky enough to be sent this gorgeous dress to style.

So here I have created two summer wedding looks. My first look is for the casual wedding using modern accessories to keep the look contemporary. My second look is a more formal, classic look pairing the dress with a vintage clutch and gloves, throwing on a fur shrug or even a shawl to cover the shoulders when it gets chilly. 

Look 1:

 Dress / Chelsea Dress by Chi Chi Clothing

Fluffy Bag / River Island , Floral Headband / Folkster , Nude Heels / New Look

  

Look 2:

 Dress / Chelsea Dress by Chi-Chi Clothing

Clutch & Gloves / Vintage , Sunglasses / Topshop

Nude Heels / New Look , Fur Shrug (below) / Vintage

Sorry I have been missing in action this month as I'm only just back from a fab holiday in Orlando, Florida! 

I'll get a mini holiday blog post up in the next few days for you lovely readers so you can have a goo at a few holiday snaps!

Hope you liked my latest look, and the best news is this dress is now on sale!

Get it here (click) before its gone!!!

Have a great week!

Love Laura

XOX

Weekender

 

Dress / ASOS , Tights / Penneys , Bag / Mulberry , Necklace / Folkster

Belt / Penneys (Primark) , Watch / Michael Kors , Bangle / River Island

Rings / Penneys & Topshop , Fedora / H&M , Boots / Kurt Geiger

 

  

   

 

Hi guys hope you all had a great Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Sorry I have been MIA recently. It has been such a hectic two weeks! But don't worry I have plenty of great new ideas to put on my blog for 2014!

This weekend myself and the boyfriend decided to have a little one night escape to Castleknock Hotel. It's a four star hotel which we found a great deal for on Trivago.com. We arrived down and headed straight to the leisure centre where we relaxed in the jacuzzi, steam room and sauna (HEAVEN), we had dinner that night and a few drinks in the hotel. It was such a nice relax after the absolute mayhem and overindulgence of Christmas! 

This is an outfit I wore the day of departure. I got this dress from ASOS , it actually comes up quite big fitting and I could have sized down but it's perfect with a belt. It's such a soft rich jersey material which I was afraid would shrink in the wash but it hasn't lost it's shape at all yet. I love the cross over back detail on the dress. I think backless dresses (casual & dressy) are so flattering and can be quite sexy if worn tastefully. 

The dark floral print is super on trend this winter. I love how all the colours go so well together. This is outfit can take you from shopping, to cinema, to casual drinks and dinner. It's super comfy and super flattering for any shape and size! 

Hope you all like this look,

(Sorry about the iPad camera photo quality)

Love Laura xox

Shutterbug Vintage Kilo Sale & Folkster Pop-Up Shop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sequins, chiffon, suede, fur, leather, denim, sholder pads, peplum, mini, maxi, midi... am I in heaven?

After work on Saturday I attented the shutterbug vintage kilo sale and folkster pop up shop event in Moxie Studios, Lad Lane, off Baggot Street. As I got off the bus I could see the droves of people emerging from Lad Lane with stuffed bags and happy faces. I got butterflies in my tummy, feeling like I was on a treasue hunt as I followed the cute direction signs through the lanes. Outside the venue was a hive of excitement, music emerging from the venue, trailers selling food and beverages and what a buzz!

I was taken away by the grand scale of the building, it was a huge warehouse filled wall to wall with rails of vintage clothes. WOW. I took off searching through the rails finding three gorgeous vintage midi skirts. The best thing about the event was all the clothes were weighed and charged by the kilo (for example, for €20 you could pick up, 3-6 lighter items, 2-3 medium weight items or 1 heavy item). My three skirts cost me a grand total of just €14. What a steal!! I had hoped to find a lot more pieces but I put this down to my late arrival, so next time it's on I'm going to take the day off work and queue early.  

The Folkster pop-up shop was fantastic; jewellery, floral crowns, turbans, fedoras, bowlers, swimsuits, handbags, clothes and Jeffrey Campbell's, to name just a few! But I was seriously disappointed when I found out all of the fedoras and floppy hats were sold out, they posted the picture of the hats (above) on their Facebook page prior to the event and I was determined to get my hands on one but by the time I made it there after work they were all sold out :( I was devastated but I made up for my loss by getting a necklace, a floral crown, a bracelet and a feather ear cuff :) according to their Facebook page the hats will be available on their website soon!!!

All the items I got are pictured below. Watch out for them featuring in future OOTDs. 

 

 

 

I could literally go on and on about this event for ever and ever I enjoyed it so much it was so well run lots of staff, security, dj and a never ending supply of the most gorgeous vintage clothes. Hats off to the shutterbug/folkster team. Don't worry if you missed it you can visit the shutterbug store on 27 Patrick Street, Kilkenny or add them on facebook www.facebook.com/shutterbugshop or visit the folkster website www.folkster.com. 

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it !!!

Love Laura xox

If you have any questions or would like to know more email me at moustachemouth90@gmail.com