You’ve all been gracious counterparts in my quest for the perfect earrings. We’ve looked, together, at every store/blog/etsy shop for these elusive, magical earrings. You can find those posts HERE and HERE The earrings that would take me from being a bride to being a B-R-I-D-E.

Awww, come on. They’re just earrings, right?! Haha! For some reason, they seemed important. It seemed like they could make or break my whole ensemble. (Once again, what will I obsess with after the wedding is over? Maybe I’ll STILL be obsessing over the earrings, who knows!)

To catch you up to speed…

I wanted earrings that were blingy, had a pearl, and in some way resembled my awesome e-ring (which I realize would only be noticed by me and my mom). I found a gazillion “close but no cigars”. I figured I would just have to compromise on one of the must haves on my list.

But as I entered my Mom’s room the first night I was in St. Louis, my eyes were immediately drawn to a pair of earrings on her vanity. It was “them”. THE earrings. The mystical, magical, clandestine earrings I’d been obsessing over.

They had pearls. They had bling. AND they resembled my e-ring. And went PERECTLY with my bff’s tiara.

I picked them up and said to my mom “What are THESE?”.

And she said “Oh yeah, I was just digging through some of my jewelry and thought you might like them”.

I said “LIKE them? They’re PERFECT”

And she said “I thought so too!”

Turns out she wore them at her 35th wedding anniversary party.

Another Something Borrowed! For which I feel grateful and sentimental and connected to a tradition bigger than myself and my measly wedding! Sorry girls, I couldn’t get a good picture. But they are drop earrings with 3 sections with pearls surrounded by rhinestones… I’m way happy.

So earlier today, Jill posted about her challenge in finding the perfect pair of earrings for her wedding.  I love a shopping challenge so I figured I would do some digging lol.  I don’t know if these are what Jill is looking for – but maybe you’ll love one of them so check it out:)

1. $55 from LizardiBridal on Etsy 2. $32 from ExquisiteBride on Etsy 3. $38 from EuropeanBride on Etsy 4. $58 from BelCanto on Etsy 5. $30 from Angelique 6. $90 from PerfectDetails 7. $12 from JewelryStylist 8. $28 from Wedding Sparkles 9. $55 from Emitations 10. $99 from Emitations

I know this isn’t the end of the world. I mean, seriously, there’s some major bad stuff happening in the world right now. God bless those in Haiti that are still missing loved ones and will have to rebuild their lives from the ground up. God bless those everywhere that are experiencing hunger, abuse, oppression. Please don’t think my bridezilla-ism causes me to forget that the world is bigger than my wedding…

BUT, I am a bride to be, and I think I deserve a second to fuss….

I can not find bridal earrings ANYWHERE. I have a VERY particular pair of earrings floating around my cluttered little brain and I can’t seem to find them. Maybe they don’t exist. Maybe they are merely a fictitious figment of my wedding obsessed imagination.

Here’s what I’m looking for.

• A decent sized drop earring. NOT a chandelier as I worry that chandeliers will be too 2010.
• Not too big.
• Not too small.
• Plenty of bling.
• With a pearl or two to set them off.
• I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it if the drop part of the earring had a big stone surrounded by little ones, like my beautiful e-ring.
• AND I don’t want to spend a fortune. Maybe like $50 or so.

My dear friend and BM Jennifer has graciously lent me her tiara to use as my something borrowed. I’m absolutely overwhelmed at the sentimentality of sharing something so beautiful with a friend I’ve had LITERALLY since birth (our moms met and became bff’s when they were pregnant with us!).

So the earrings I choose must compliment the beautiful tiara. Please, fellow brides to be, do you have ANY ideas???They’d be some sort of amalgamation of these:

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(ALMOST perfect, but no pearl)

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(REALLY almost perfect, but just a week bit too small and a little weak on the bling)