Julia's Dress with Luminex Glow @ the St. Regis

Julia and I finally had enough time to have a wedding ceremony. After a year of appearances, shoots, and other travel that kept us busy for most of the year we relaxed just after Thanksgiving and had a beautiful ceremony on our anniversary. The week-long celebration had friends and family on Kauai doing ATV tours, ziplining, skin-diving, tubing, and hiking. We’re so happy that so many people could find the time to come out to one of the most remote places on Earth to help us have an awesome time. The reception was filled with fire dancers, dancing girls, rum, fusion cuisine, action figures, ultra-lounge and j-pop.

Most of the wedding photos are private, but I will be making a small Flickr stream of a few selected highlights of the week. The photos that are already out on the loose are pictures of Julia’s amazing wedding dress, innovated by fashion tech diva / Julia’s maid-of-honor,  Alison Lewis (author of SwitchCraft). The dress has hit the internet on not only Alison’s own site www.iheartswitch.com, but it’s also been picked up by Make Magazine’s Craft Zine, Couquette, Sundance Channel’s Full Frontal Fashion, Engagement 101, Science Blogs’ Bioepherema, Bride Tide, Ubergizmo, Talk2myshirt, East Side Bride, Wedding Bells Blog, and other places. Lol, it was even farked, so… it’s making the rounds.

From Alison’s article:

“I used Luminex, a fiber-optic fabric imported from Italy, to give the dress a soft glowing undercoat. It has the ability to light large areas without blinding onlookers.

The final illuminated dress has a soft glowing under skirt with a splash of light on the bodice and finishes at the shoulders with feather-like tendrils. It runs on 4 AAA batteries, which are located in a hidden pocket and for easy removal the underskirt is modular. It is connected with a row of snaps to the interior of the dress so that it can be removed for the daylight ceremony when there is no need to be all-aglow.”

Julia spinning in her lighted wedding dress

Alison also made Julia a Luminex shawl that looked great at the 2am bonfire.

Glowing wedding shawl at 2am

Thanks to Micheal Sinterniklaas and Carlos Linares for the photos!