There’s two people who are very in love.

They’ve assigned all their favorite people a spot around fancy dinner tables.

There’s champagne.

Friends from all walks of life are gathered in one room.

You get to wear pretty shoes.

Did I mention friends? Really great friends.

A hat that is passed around for guests to make song requests.

A bell that rings every time something fun is about to happen.

Maybe speeches, or embarrassing games involving blindfolds.

The bride’s bouquet.

And someone who is very excited to catch it.

Cake.

Cute boys — all dressed up in their finest.

Dancing. Even better, Zorba dancing.

The intelligent conversations that take place after all the wine bottles in the room have been emptied.

Friends who fly halfway across the world to be with you.

Remote location and blurry vision equals no guilty feelings for taking a cab home.

And… LOVE.

The only thing worse than deciding what to wear for your own wedding is to figure out what to wear to your best friend’s.

I didn’t want to buy something new so I made this old Grecian silver dress feel new by pinning it up in the front and adding some cute stockings. (These photos were taken after we got home, hence the slight disheveledness.)

Then there was the hair. I wanted to put it up but since I don’t have very much hair I needed some help. After searching all of Stockholm for a hair donut without any luck, I decided to buy a bath sponge, cut it to the appropriate size and wrap my hair around it (thanks for the help, Anna!). Some very quirky D.I.Y inventiveness that worked great.

/// dress bought at a sample sale about three years ago / stockings, åhléns / heels, Chanel / earrings, Very Wang / bracelet, vintage ///