Rose

If you’re looking at these photos and thinking that this setting looks suspiciously familiar, it is, in fact, the exact same spot where I took my last set of photos. I had a whole other spot where I was planning to shoot (and, in fact, I tried to shoot there), but it didn’t work out and I found myself back at a cemetery, wearing a ballgown and eating macarons at 9am on a Sunday. I mentioned on Instagram that I feel like an objectively absurd person, and this is what I mean.

Anyway, I’m going to toot my horn a little bit here and just say that I LOVE how these photos came out. I don’t usually wear strapless dresses, and I will tell you right now that there are some fairly complicated undergarments and some safety pins at work here keeping everything in place, but it was so worth it. I felt dreamy and romantic and dramatic (especially once you throw that veil in), and I’m honestly really proud that I managed to capture that, even though I was laughing at myself quite a lot about the process.

While I bought the dress from my vintage dealer, it’s actually modern, but with a very vintage style of construction. Boned bodice, tulle underskirt, all that good stuff. I certainly didn’t need it, and I’ve been telling myself for a long time now that I really need to stop buying fancy party dresses, but I just couldn’t resist.

It looks like I’ll be back in the office within the next week or two, which is… exciting? I mean, I’ve loved working from home, especially once I got past the more isolating elements, and I can’t tell you how much I’ll miss having my pink hair, but my continued employment is necessary to being able to afford unnecessary party dresses, so we’ll just go with exciting.

Dress: Jill Stuart from Knee Deep Vintage

Eating food on camera is hard.