Happy {Polo} Weekend!

Did you have a fabulous week? It was busy as can be over here (because of these beauties) so I am looking forward to a weekend to play catch up (our current laundry situation is borderline offensive). Mr. C is headed to a bachelor party today, so it's a just two member wolfpack weekend in the Super Burbs. To help me cope, Sir Otto is escorting me to a polo match in Newport on Saturday because he is fancy like that. I have to say, I am SO looking forward to it. We're getting all decked out in our polo party clothes, and will be ready to tailgate with the best of them. And with a date like Sir Otto, how can one go wrong?

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Hope y'all have a fancy weekend! xoxo, Abby

New LOCAL Blogs on SMP!

That's right! Another batch of pretty as can be local blogs on Style Me Pretty! We have been busy little bees getting them ready to go live and guess what? Today is the day! So without further adieu - please welcome SMP Massachusetts, SMP Canada, SMP Illinois, SMP Georgia and SMP Australia!

Which state do you want to see next? Let me know! xoxo

Real Wedding: Meg and Halsey

I typically save my real wedding gushing for my day job over at Style Me Pretty - but I had to make a special exception for this downright darling bride and her handsome groom. You see, her bridesmaid extraordinaire - Ashley - emailed me awhile back and thought it would be a fun surprise for Meg to just happen to stumble on her wedding while visiting the Super Burbs. (By the way, thanks for stopping by Meg!) How adorable is that? I was beyond touched - really. It's always so sweet to hear from readers (and I am still amazed people other than my mom read!) So my sweet, darling Meg - SURPRISE! I absolutely adore your wedding to pieces - all the images from Raycroft Art are timeless keepsakes, your style is unbeatable and your bridesmaid Ashley is a keeper :) Just look at these two cuties...

Besties are well...the best Ready for the rest?

From Ashley - the darling bridesmaid of the year... My good friend Meg, who is also a fan of yours and introduced me to your site got married this weekend at The Daniel Island Club in Charleston, SC. Meg is much like you and is a event planner, so needless to say the wedding went off without a hitch! The colors, navy, apple green and khaki looked beautiful against the golf course and marsh backdrop, it was just a perfect southern wedding, with a huge wedding party of 9 bridesmaids (myself included), 1 junior bridesmaid, 11 groosmen, 4 ushers, 1 flower girl and 1 ring bearer. We all had a blast! Meg is extremely detail oriented and she even stole your idea of the striped straws and stirrers, they added the perfect touch. 

Meg and her (new!) husband Halsey are both from up north and met their junior year at the University of South Carolina and after 6 long years finally got engaged and married. Meg is originally from Connecticut and then moved to Massachusetts (where I am from). Meg and I did not know each other when we lived in Massachusetts, though we did live in neighboring towns, so when we met a few years ago, we had an instant friendship! After discovering we lived so close to each other in Massachusetts, we found out we both grew up vacationing in Watch Hill, RI! Needless to say when we saw your wedding video and discovered your blog, we were hooked! Infact, one of Meg's wedding presents was a weekend for her and Halsey to stay at the Ocean House! 

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Photographer: Raycroft Art / Venue: The Daniel Island Club, Charleston, SC

For even more of this lovely affair check out Raycroft Art's blog post! Thanks Ashley for sharing this with me - we all need to meet for a cocktail or two on the Ocean House patio in the very near future!! xoxo, Abby

Tuesday Shoesday

These Loubies spotted on Style Me Pretty today only need one word to describe them - FIERCE. All caps.

Image is Found via Style Me Pretty

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Taking the Plunge

Before I close this computer for the evening, I just had to make sure your pretty faces saw this E-mazing stationery suite featured on Style Me Pretty today. It just happened to be created by the bride herself and shot by Sarah Rhoads, so basically you know I was in invitation heaven. It's a modern, mixed with retro, mixed with organization, and I really think that might be the fastest way to my paper loving heart.

Sarah Rhoads via Style Me Pretty

Happy Weekend!

Yes, yes - it's super hot out. Otto and I are currently working from my bed (he has important business matters to attend too) because we are blessed with central AC upstairs. Growing up in the south I used to think it would be crazy for houses to not have central air - but here in New England, so many of these pretty colonials rely on the gorgeous sea breeze to keep cool. This is something I never realized until moving up here. Lessons learned. But I digress. I think the heat is making me ramble - so I am going to sign off for the weekend. I hope you have pretty things planned!

Photograph, from 1954, via Conde Nast Digital Archive.

It's Getting Hot In Here

Wowzas it's gonna be a hot few days. I personally love it (yes, even the humidity) because 9 times out 10 I am an ice box and the extra heat does this body good. However, the dog days of summer always has me a wishin' for a sweet pool, a comfy float and cocktail. So that is where my imagination is taking me today...

via Color Collective

via The Wedding Chicks

via Mrs. Lilien

Stay cool out there folks!!

P.S. This is TOTALLY happening in the Super Burbs tonight:

Southern Living via Erin Ever After

Tuesday Shoesday

Because sometimes all you need is a few stripes and a nude pump to put the right dose of pep in your step.

One and Only Photography via Style Me Pretty

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DIY Chevron Picnic Blanket

Happy Monday! We had the BEST summer weekend. The.BEST. I wouldn't change a thing about it. Take that back - there is one thing I would change. I wish I had a chance to knock out this DIY chevron blanket before our beach adventures so we could sun in style. See how cool it turn out for Kathleen at Twig & Thistle? Although, other than the missing chevron blanket, I think we made the most out of one of our rare plan-free weekends. How was yours?

via Twig & Thistle

Happy Weekend!

Oh folks, it's going to be a good weekend. Mr. C and I are going to venture out into the Atlantic with our little hooligan to Block Island tomorrow. Yes, we are taking Otto on a little day trip to jump some waves and drink some cocktails with us (his will be of the water on the rocks variety). We've been telling him about it all week, but he doesn't seem as excited about it as we are. Then again, he's never even seen a moped before so he doesn't even know all the fun he is in for. This little trip is going blow his puppy mind. And I secretly can't wait to be on an island with just my two favorite boys...I may never come back.

not Otto, but it sure could be...

Hope your weekend is just fabulous! Miss y'all already! Don't forget your sunscreen!

Pet Portraits by Two Brunettes

This might be my FAVORITE post of all time. I am so in love with it. Probably because I love our dog Otto more than I should admit. But here I am admitting it. So here's the deal - when the I saw that the lovely Carolynn of Two Brunettes (who also made the Super Burbs so pretty with her darling web design) did pet portraits, well I just about died. And when said she would do a potrait of our little hooligan, I was so embarrassingly excited. I sent her a few pictures of our man in action and just couldn't wait to see what she came back with... the end result? Well, it's perfection. I think I shed a tear. Actually, let me just be honest - I did.

Pet Portraits by Two Brunettes

It captures his blocky man-head (as we call it) and his mischievous, Dennis the Menace-esque, hooligan smile so well. Mr. C replied within five minutes of getting the email of this image about how amazing it was (which, if you know Mr. C - that email response time to personal emails is NOT normal). For those of you dog lovers out there - you totally get it. For those without my crazy love for house-hold pets, please love me anyway for my blabbering about our furry guy. I'll get back to shoes and parties soon!

Anywhoo...it looks like our little handsome hooligan is making the new gallery wall in the Super Burbs. Thank you, thank you Carolynn!!

Tuesday Shoesday

To me, you really can't beat a good boat shoe. I think even the classiest of closets needs some of these classic puppies. And I must say, Sperry is getting to be oh so stylish theses days and fancying up their standard styles. I particularly love when folks tie them up with a good ol' barrel tassel knot...

 

I recently picked up these sparkly puppies with a gift certificate and I was SO excited about them. My brain danced with fun outfits to pair them with and my closet immediately thanked me when I brought them home...


And then...

Otto decided the barrel tassel knot was SO yesterday and did this to them...

styled by Sir Otto

Think he was going for a vintage chic look?

Oh so Rosé

This past weekend was just so fabulous I can't even put it into words. It was the bachelorette party of one of the loveliest ladies I know, and we celebrated with our closets friends from all over the country...you know - the group of girls that just get you and all that is fabulous (and not so fabulous) about you. The friends you no doubt just know will be there when you are 70 and discussing things you only discuss with this group of people. I really, truly hope everyone has a group of folks like these ladies. Anywho, there is so much more to say, but I need to get some beauty sleep - so I'll leave you with a little inspiraiton of the rosé variety - we tasted a delicious Anton Bauer rosé over the weekend and let's just say I left the wine tasting very inspired (and perhaps a little tipsy) after devouring it...

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Ombre Baby

Something is definitely in the water in the Super Burbs (and beyond) because every where I look new little ones are running around with their cute, chubby thighs and tiny toes. And although I am not on the baby train yet (or even at the station) spoiling the little ones and their new moms is one of my favorite things to do. So I am always looking for fun and unique gifts and these little ombre month to month onesies just had my heart strings the moment I saw them on On to Baby. How perfect are they for those precious first year photos? Bonus - they sell the entire year as a package :)

via On to Baby

Tuesday Shoesday

Is it just me? Or is everyone in sort of a vacation weekend haze today? A good dose of vitamin D with a side of a days filled with barbeques will do that to ya I suppose. As you are settling into the routine of the work week, how about a little Tuesday Shoesday style to put a little pep in your step? This New Zealand wedding on Style Me Pretty today had style for miles - and the shoes on the bridesmaids? Adorbs. It might be just what you need to knock out your to-do list today...or just give you something to gawk over until it's quitting time...

Vela Images via Style Me Pretty

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