Last Wednesday my dear handsome brother married his beautiful and talented girlfriend (and the person in charge of most of the photography for this blog) Ariela. The two, who live in Tel-Aviv for the last couple years, but consider hometown Haifa as the no.1 city, decided to get married in a kibbutz near Haifa (Kibbutz Yagur), in a beautiful wedding.
Of course I'm not really objective, plus still on cloud nine, but as for someone who went to a few weddings, I think this one was amazing, and a very happy and joyful one, that is the most important thing! All the people who were involved in making this wedding as lovely as it was deserve a big credit: the venue "Ha'hursha", the great catering, the charismatic rabbi and the awesome DJ.
Also, two gentlemen who must be mentioned are the two best friends of my brother (photographed above) who took care of everything: driving the groom around on his big day, helping Ariela climb a hay stack for the bride-groom photo-shoot, showing up as giant chipmunk and panda on the dance floor... and so on... you guys were great!
As for me, if you follow this blog and my twitter you probably noticed my dress search saga. In the beginning I thought about ordering a dress online, but eventually I didn't. I got an email from the lovely Israeli designer Ya'ara Keydar (whom I didn't know beforehand and now I consider a dear friend), who suggested to be the designer of the dress, which will be a joint project of us both.
And I'm so happy she approached me... from our first meeting on, things started to move quickly - I chose the fabric, which is actually two fabrics, pretty easily: the (visible) lining is a champagne colored fabric and the lace is a high quality gold-silver lace. This will be a good time to mention that most of the pictures here don't reflect the real colors of this dress very well, but until I get some more photos, that's what we have...
After the fabrics had been chosen, Yaa'ra made a few sketches and the wanted dress shape was picked and in joined Galina, Ya'ara's great seamstress. We started a series of fittings and every time I came for a fitting I had such a great time to see the dress progress, to learn about lace and sewing and to soak in some of the calm, serene vibe that Ya'ara spreads around.
A huge thank you to Ya'ara and also to Galina for the beautiful dress that got a lot of compliments, and I'm so glad I was able to take part in a meticulous design process of a dress that was custom made especially for me. I also want to thank Ya'ara for being the professional she is and for being such a great person - which is not less important than how beautiful the dresses that she makes are.

Finally, big Mazal-Tov and congratulations to the newly-weds Ariela and Royie - I love you!!
Wishing you all a great weekend!

p.s didn't say anything about the shoes, this will be in another post, I already wrote too much here...