A SCRAPBOOK OF INSPIRATION: Sarah and Mike's wedding

When I popped on my Facebook page today, there was a lovely reminder of what happened exactly one year ago. It's hard to believe that Sarah was sharing the big reveal of her wedding gown to the bridal party, and the bridesmaids were picking out their dresses.

Here is the post I wrote one year ago today.

I think that I have mentioned that my daughter, Sarah is getting married this September. Mike and Sarah got engaged in Disney World last year.

Sarah and I went to find her dress several months ago, and the dress arrived.

So, yesterday Sarah invited me, Mike's mom, the bridesmaids and maids-of-honor to see her in THE DRESS. When Sarah stepped out of the dressing room, she looked radiant in her beautiful dress. I will share the big reveal on the wedding post.

The girls were also there to try on dresses for the big day. They were trying on dresses for the bridesmaid and maid-of-honor dresses. Sarah has chosen her best friend. Amanda and her sister, Ashley to be her maids-of-honor.

It was the second dress that they tried on that looked absolutely lovely on all the the girls. I'll share them too when I post about the wedding.

Did I tell you that Brayden came along too?

Here are Ashley, Brayden, Sam, Sarah, Amanda, Stephanie and Raelyn. We finished off the afternoon going out for lunch.

The wedding was so gorgeous, blue skies and a lovely backdrop made for the perfect day.

We had so much fun at the reception.

Thank you Facebook, it was such a lovely way to start my day.

I have never shared with you how I created an arbor for the florist to hang in the gazebo where Sarah and Mike exchanged their wedding vows.

I don't know how to use a sewing machine. Waaaaah? Yes, I sew everything by hand. I failed bobbins and try as I might, I still cannot master the art of sewing on a sewing machine. I chose a fun song for this post when the mice and birds help Cinderella sew here dress.

Trust me during the process of sewing this project, I wished I had a fairy Godmother who would magically finish the job.

I ordered six yards of my French script on a white background, per Sarah's request. The six yard were printed on Cotton Satin, and then I sewed the ruffle out of yards and yards of the same design printed on Cotton Voile.

I wanted it to look very Prairie Chic, so I added layers of crinolines underneath the design.

Sewing a ruffle by hand is a challenge, but little by little, week after week I kept sewing.

Then came the fun, when I could embellish the fabric with ribbons and lace.

I felt a bit like those little birds in Cinderella sewing the fabric.

Then when it was finally finished...

I loaded the arbor and Sarah's wedding dress and headed for Zukas Hilltop Farm.

The florist mounted my fabric arbor onto the gazebo. It looked perfect, just enough white to say Here Comes The Bride.

They looked so perfect underneath the arbor as they said their wedding vows. I suspect there were many happy memories of anticipation sewn into that fabric.