How to Wear Vintage at the Beach

In this installment of Q&A, we'll talk about what to wear to the beach and how to look classy during water activities!

Starting the New Year Right

We couldn't let New Year's Day pass without a visit to the beach! And we had a few minutes to do some snapshots.

So, sooner or late, you all knew you would see this outfit on the beach! I've always loved nautical outfits and now I have a definite excuse to wear them all the time.

 It was a bit chilly for swimming but walking on the beach is fun too! We're on the Atlantic side of Florida which has chilly water than the Gulf side but that's ok because I'm not big on swimming anyways.

 One thing I love doing on the beach is watching the birds. There are quite a few different kinds that live along the shore and they can run really fast! My favorite are some small ones that run in to grab a bite and then out before the next wave hits.

 Some people might be crazy cat ladies but I'm definitely destined to be a crazy bird lady! Any place with birds is good in my book.

 The waves were great on New Year's Day so we had to get some in the shot. Unfortunately, waves cooperate with photography just as well as small children, but we did get one!

 What did you do on New Year's Day?

Photography by Will Thorpe willthorpe.com

Crafting a Wedding Dress

Having wasted loads of time spent hours researching on pinterest, I knew exactly what I wanted to make for my wedding dress on the beach!

Being a beach wedding, I wanted something comfortable, not too hot and oh so cute!

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Having already spotted this great vintage wedding dress on etsy

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And the pattern (c. 1947) it was made from, I had a plan!

So I ordered up 12 yds of cotton lawn (since I knew I'd have to at least double each layer for modesty!) and got sewing!

The actual sewing of the dress was quite easy especially since I found a copy of the pattern in my magic size 15 (Bust 33).

Originally, I had wanted to do flowers under the bustle like in the vintage dress, but I never found any I liked so ocean blue ribbon it was!

Veil/ Vintage Box 1947
Earrings/ Sparkle Lux
Parasol/ Epcot
Pattern/ Wearing History

What's your dream wedding dress look like?

Photography (c) Charity K Photography unless otherwise noted

Beach Bliss

Finally, I get to share my secret vacation project!! For our five year anniversary, my husband and I decided to do a vow renewal on the beach. So what's a girl to do but sew up her very own vintage wedding dress!

We had a very intimate beach ceremony in Melbourne where we will be relocating to.

I actually have our original wedding vows but I forgot to pack them so we each wrote a letter and read them to each other.

It was crazy romantic!

I was always so bummed that I discovered vintage after my wedding and never got to do a vintage wedding so this helped me live out my dreams of being a vintage and pixie bride!

Charity K Photography came down to Florida to shoot us and it was a blast!

My dress is from a 1947 pattern. Don't worry! It's getting it's own post with even more beach photos!

Will obliged me by wearing a teal tie to match my accessories. It was actually quite difficult to find a tie in that shade!

I just had to have a bird cage veil and earrings with tiny seashells in them! I think I'm going to have to do a wedding accessory video!

It was super hard for me to pick photos to share with you because they were all so amazing!!

So now I'm sort of running out of things to say.

But that's ok because you're all distracted by the pretty pictures.

Oh, look, it's the end!

Photographs (c) Charity K Photography