The June Bride.  I suppose this month is traditional for brides but we also included with this traditional wedding, a tribute to the bride’s father’s reaction to her!  Check the June wedding of the month for more pictures.  The wedding this month was beautiful and the reception site too good to believe.  Reception: St. Albans Country Club in St. Albans, Missouri WEBSITE Photographer: Jen Henneberry of Catch Light Park Photography of St. Louis, MO WEBSITE Florist: Wildflowers, owner Jane Winter, also of St. Louis, Missouri WEBSITE The dress style chosen was 398 in New Ivory silk with chocolate brown sashes.  For her flower girl dresses, she chose matching Pegeen.com Style 398 in New Ivory and Sprite green.

Pegeen's Chocolate brown and ivory silk Jr. Bridesmaids Dresses by Pegeen.com

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Today, I am putting up the final touches on our Wedding of the Month.  It is going to be a very special one with a bride who is celebrating not only her Christian faith and service but a special moment with her father.  So, it brought to me tears when I saw her Dad greet her for the first time as she was getting ready for her wedding.

My Dad

These photos are going to be highlighted as you will soon see in our June wedding of the month.  But, before I do that, I want to pay tribute to my dad who is the best.  We so frequently in our family say “I love you” to each other when ever we speak on the phone, but Dad, I really mean it from the bottom of my heart. (more…)

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I was pleasantly surprised when I got back to the Pegeen office this week after a bit of an absence.  It was a frustrating and also a sad time for me – not enough time to get into it here but when I returned I found I was staring at our July 4th week weddings and a tear came down my cheek.  What I saw was tons of red white and blue flower girl dresses!  I LOVE my country.  I promise not to get into politics here but am excited that so many brides have chosen to get out their patriotism.

Pegeen's Red White and Blue flower girl dresses by Pegeen.com

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Our wedding of the month at Pegeen.com has been published and this was a beauty!

Pegeen's Orange and red flower girl dresses and jr bridesmaids dresses by Pegeen.com

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When I was a little girl in Collingswood NJ, my father had me visit his old teacher, Ms. Tobin, who lived down the street from my beloved childhood home on May 1st.  He taught us that May Day was a day to celebrate flowers and love and thanking someone special, and especially teachers, in your life.

Gardening in New Jersey, c. 1999 all rights: Pegeen.com

Gardenia Bushes - Florida c. 2009 All rights: Pegeen.com

We would go into my father’s garden gathering up Delphinium, Peony and Violets and make a Construction Paper cone.  We would fill the cone to the brim and run to Ms. Tobin’s down the street, ring the door bell and run fast away.  It always made me feel so giggly and of course, I passed on this tradition to my children.  So, today, with one son away in a trip to the Carolinas and another strapping football player going to practice I have the task of getting flowers for their teachers today (in the ball player’s case – the coaches wife) so that they too can remember their teachers in our family tradition.

My father also made me MAD for gardening.  I was lucky to have purchased a rambling old Tudor Home in NJ (more…)

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