Comments on: The Key Lime Mermaid Dress http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/ Dedicated to all SINGLE women who desire to be all that GOD has designed them to be, and to walk in the confiidence of an identity secure in Christ. Wed, 25 Dec 2013 23:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Ollie http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-90 Ollie Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:54:00 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-90 Kudos! What a neat way of thinking about it. Kudos! What a neat way of thinking about it.

]]> By: Larissa Dayana Jean http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-27 Larissa Dayana Jean Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:00:50 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-27 Praise God! I pray that this site really blesses your girls in your teen program! Encourage them to visit the site and to share their stories and insight as well. My heart was to make this site as interactive as possible so that whether you're from Georgia, Florida, New York, California, or wherever, this can be a "support group" so to speak for young ladies concerning relationships, marriage and our identity in the Lord. Ruthnie, you and I both know who crucial it was for US in our teen years to have older sisters in Christ who could mentor us and put us under our wings as we were trying to discover who were were. To God be all the glory! Praise God! I pray that this site really blesses your girls in your teen program! Encourage them to visit the site and to share their stories and insight as well. My heart was to make this site as interactive as possible so that whether you’re from Georgia, Florida, New York, California, or wherever, this can be a “support group” so to speak for young ladies concerning relationships, marriage and our identity in the Lord. Ruthnie, you and I both know who crucial it was for US in our teen years to have older sisters in Christ who could mentor us and put us under our wings as we were trying to discover who were were. To God be all the glory!

]]> By: Larissa Dayana Jean http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-26 Larissa Dayana Jean Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:00:34 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-26 Ruthnie, I LOVE your story!! This was awesome! I'm telling you, the things that we as bridesmaids have to endure to ensure the bride and groom's martial bliss on their wedding day is nothing short of some real love for the bride and groom! With this particular dress that this excerpt is about, I also saw the dress for the first time a few days BEFORE the wedding!! Talk about shocked beyond words! You will definitely love the chapter in the book where I share all of my funny bridesmaid stories, complete with the behind the scenes, "bloopers" that you and countless other bridesmaids experience the day of the wedding. The most important lesson that I have learned in being a bridesmaid is to really be flexible and have the mindset of what Sam mentioned in another post-"It's not about you!" But in spite of that, we should look at this role as a servant to another sister on her special day. My prayer is that one day, when it's my turn, I'll have that same support from my bridesmaids( minus the crazy dresses, lol!) Ruthnie, I LOVE your story!! This was awesome! I’m telling you, the things that we as bridesmaids have to endure to ensure the bride and groom’s martial bliss on their wedding day is nothing short of some real love for the bride and groom! With this particular dress that this excerpt is about, I also saw the dress for the first time a few days BEFORE the wedding!! Talk about shocked beyond words! You will definitely love the chapter in the book where I share all of my funny bridesmaid stories, complete with the behind the scenes, “bloopers” that you and countless other bridesmaids experience the day of the wedding. The most important lesson that I have learned in being a bridesmaid is to really be flexible and have the mindset of what Sam mentioned in another post-”It’s not about you!” But in spite of that, we should look at this role as a servant to another sister on her special day. My prayer is that one day, when it’s my turn, I’ll have that same support from my bridesmaids( minus the crazy dresses, lol!)

]]> By: Ruthnie JeanRae Angrand http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-25 Ruthnie JeanRae Angrand Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:59:40 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-25 Fabulous site Larissa. I have not been a bridesmaid since 27 dresses came out (and I didn't want it to be me... how petty) but I'm getting ready to be there for 1-2 close friends again. This web site is what single, married and considering ladies would need: open healthy sharing focused on the positives. Kudos and this what I will share with my young ladies in my teen program. Keep glowing and I've shared my story below! Fabulous site Larissa. I have not been a bridesmaid since 27 dresses came out (and I didn’t want it to be me… how petty) but I’m getting ready to be there for 1-2 close friends again. This web site is what single, married and considering ladies would need: open healthy sharing focused on the positives. Kudos and this what I will share with my young ladies in my teen program. Keep glowing and I’ve shared my story below!

]]> By: Ruthnie JeanRae Angrand http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-24 Ruthnie JeanRae Angrand Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:59:19 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-24 Wedding #12 "Hampton Hotness" Person One: Let's get married! Person Two: Why? Because we love each other in a deep spiritual God-ordained way? Person One: Yes! and it's summer! I sometimes "imagine" that wedding proposals go like this because it seems that all weddings happen in the dead of 101 degree summers. Fortunately, I know better. I mean, the smoldering summer heat of hot, southern and/or non-ventilated boroughs (that shall remain nameless) seem to attract weddings. All the better to wear silk dresses, up-do's, FDA-banned corsets and high heels in which to walk across hot gravel, roads and grass fields! Imagine my excitement when I hear the wedding is not only in the Hamptons though (while I attend summer school in Florida) but that I will have to mail...yes MAIL my measurements after calling-them in. Ahh, nothing like fitting a dress you will not see until the day before (insert smile). I arrive in New York 24 hours before glory to do nails, buy a corset, go to a rehearsal, have the dress taken in (because somehow my relatives believed I could not have POSSIBLY gained THAT much weight since they had seen me), exchange the stockings, hang out with a girlfriend during eyebrow plucking (whew-laughing complicated things) and buying accessories which would be my only individualized hope of standing out in an army of 8 bridesmaids and 2 flower girls... all twice as thin as I. Lo and behold, the morning of makeup, that I have two left shoes and the corset spine that was attempting to aid me in fitting a dress whose waistline is not my own - has popped and will be digging into my side from 8am until we return. The shoe situation nullified, and prayer leading the way into internal peace, off to be a prettified soldier I went. God only...ONLY... knows and knew that I would have a wonderful time. I learned to kompa, waltz and shine in glorious pain while looking absolutely fabulous. Praying for the bride and trying to be her shield, hoping that my bridesmaids would be soldiers like hers. Moral Lesson: love truly is pain but we must love for whom we endure it. Bridal Lesson: Order my bridesmaids to purchase matching ballet flats for in-between transport and no lingerie with metal. Disclaimer: No bridesmaid dresses were harmed in the making of this wedding production. Though I have now lost enough weight to convert the gold dress to a bell skirt to which I can find no matching jewelry unless I wear pearls :-) Wedding #12 “Hampton Hotness”

Person One: Let’s get married!
Person Two: Why? Because we love each other in a deep spiritual God-ordained way?
Person One: Yes! and it’s summer!

I sometimes “imagine” that wedding proposals go like this because it seems that all weddings happen in the dead of 101 degree summers. Fortunately, I know better. I mean, the smoldering summer heat of hot, southern and/or non-ventilated boroughs (that shall remain nameless) seem to attract weddings. All the better to wear silk dresses, up-do’s, FDA-banned corsets and high heels in which to walk across hot gravel, roads and grass fields! Imagine my excitement when I hear the wedding is not only in the Hamptons though (while I attend summer school in Florida) but that I will have to mail…yes MAIL my measurements after calling-them in.

Ahh, nothing like fitting a dress you will not see until the day before (insert smile). I arrive in New York 24 hours before glory to do nails, buy a corset, go to a rehearsal, have the dress taken in (because somehow my relatives believed I could not have POSSIBLY gained THAT much weight since they had seen me), exchange the stockings, hang out with a girlfriend during eyebrow plucking (whew-laughing complicated things) and buying accessories which would be my only individualized hope of standing out in an army of 8 bridesmaids and 2 flower girls… all twice as thin as I. Lo and behold, the morning of makeup, that I have two left shoes and the corset spine that was attempting to aid me in fitting a dress whose waistline is not my own – has popped and will be digging into my side from 8am until we return. The shoe situation nullified, and prayer leading the way into internal peace, off to be a prettified soldier I went. God only…ONLY… knows and knew that I would have a wonderful time. I learned to kompa, waltz and shine in glorious pain while looking absolutely fabulous. Praying for the bride and trying to be her shield, hoping that my bridesmaids would be soldiers like hers.

Moral Lesson: love truly is pain but we must love for whom we endure it.

Bridal Lesson: Order my bridesmaids to purchase matching ballet flats for in-between transport and no lingerie with metal.

Disclaimer: No bridesmaid dresses were harmed in the making of this wedding production. Though I have now lost enough weight to convert the gold dress to a bell skirt to which I can find no matching jewelry unless I wear pearls :-)

]]> By: Larissa Dayana Jean http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-23 Larissa Dayana Jean Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:57:43 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-23 Believe me girl, I know! But you know, I did find a great website in a bridal magazine called www.dessy.com. They had some GREAT bridesmaid dresses that you truly could wear again at another event. When it's our turn to be brides, this would be a great place to look! Believe me girl, I know! But you know, I did find a great website in a bridal magazine called http://www.dessy.com. They had some GREAT bridesmaid dresses that you truly could wear again at another event. When it’s our turn to be brides, this would be a great place to look!

]]> By: Sammy http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-22 Sammy Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:57:08 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-22 Though I really don't understand where their sense of style goes after they have picked out their dress? Haha! Though I really don’t understand where their sense of style goes after they have picked out their dress? Haha!

]]> By: Larissa Dayana Jean http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-21 Larissa Dayana Jean Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:56:44 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-21 Great attitude, Sammy! Great attitude, Sammy!

]]> By: Sammy http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-20 Sammy Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:56:13 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-20 I have already mentally prepared myself if I do become a bridesmaid "It's the brides day, not about me looking good. She needs to outshine us all." Hopefully that state of mind will work :-) I have already mentally prepared myself if I do become a bridesmaid “It’s the brides day, not about me looking good. She needs to outshine us all.” Hopefully that state of mind will work :-)

]]> By: Larissa Dayana Jean http://larissadayanajean.com/the-kiwi-lime-mermaid-dress/#comment-19 Larissa Dayana Jean Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:55:46 +0000 http://larissadayanajean.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4191906#comment-19 Hey Sammy :) I know, me too! I hope these short excerpts are good preparation for you when you do beccome a bridesmaid or a bride; whichever comes first! Hey Sammy :)
I know, me too! I hope these short excerpts are good preparation for you when you do beccome a bridesmaid or a bride; whichever comes first!

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