Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Unexpected Blessings


My last post may have made it sound as though I hate wedding planning! On the contrary, everything is going very smoothly, and I'm enjoying all the creative potential of planning a wedding! I just need a little philosophizing once in a while, to make sure I can keep the right perspective. And by the way -- many thanks for all your comments and suggestions! They are greatly appreciated!

So, with that said, I'm here to post about something that went "wrong!" The colors I chose for the wedding are lavender (My favorite flower/herb/scent!) and green. JoAnn's had lavender dupioni silk, which I decided to use it for the bridesmaids' gowns. I waited for a 50% off coupon and went to purchase it -- at which time I found out they couldn't special order the fabric! I started looking again, and within a few minutes I had found a lovely hunter green matte satin. It is much less expensive than the dupioni, a better fabric to work with, and it's a more "classic" color that will look good on my three bridesmaids -- while still working with my original color scheme. God was so good to lead me to something better than I had orginally planned!



It may have been a small incident -- but it was a good reminder that when situations seem difficult to me, the Lord has something better in store!

4 comments:

  1. That will be a lovely colour - my sister chose that colour for her wedding, I was a bridesmaid. It was good, because it suited all 3 of us bridesmaids, even though we had very different colourings. And it still looks lovely in the photos ten years later!

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  2. Very beautiful!! And it's so true. God really does see the "whole picture" in our lives! :)

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  3. Lovely! Now you can use purples for your flowers/ribbons/accents...what fun!

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  4. God is amazing, isn't He!? His time line is not ours, but we DO rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Praise God! :)

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