Chris and K.B. on their wedding day, May 25, 2013
A year ago, K.B. was
busy with wedding preparations. One of the decisions she had to make was what
sort of jewelry to wear. The necklace was easy: she had purchased one with a
large moonstone, her favourite stone, at a rock and gem store on Vancouver
Island some years earlier, and she’d always been looking for the right
opportunity to wear it.
K.B. had liked the
hair vine that I had worn at my wedding a few years previously and wondered if
she could borrow it to wear on her own special day. I was delighted to be able
to loan it to her. It was made by a craftsperson in Maine who had a shop on
Etsy called Shellscapes. The vine consisted of a brass wire on which were
strung small dried starfish decorated with crystals and glitter, freshwater
pearls, more crystals, and one aquamarine.
Being from the East Coast and having
a March birthday—aquamarine is the birthstone of March—the hair vine had seemed
a natural fit for me. It worked for K.B., too, as she was such a water-oriented
person and Chris, knowing that, had gotten her an aquamarine engagement ring.
By March of last
year she had already picked out her wedding dress, an adorable retro-style baby blue lace dress with a cotton candy pink crinoline. K.B. thought the pink belt
she was planning to wear would be enhanced with a piece of vintage jewelry,
perhaps a rhinestone brooch. I was able to help her out with this, too, as I
inherited all my grandmother’s and aunt’s sparkly brooches from the ‘50s and
‘60s. It was such fun picking through the collection with her to find the one
that was just right.
But of course,
no piece of jewelry could rival the tremendous smile on her face that day last May…or her
bare feet!
The vintage brooch and the hair vine (the aquamarine is at the far right)
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