Thanks to all the great input, advice, support and encouragement in my journey to DD’s wedding. I am now mother and mother-in-law!

For family privacy, I am not posting any photos, and we don’t have the professional photos back yet, but everything went great. The weather was absolutely perfect, the bride gorgeous (not that I am biased!), the groom handsome, and a great party time was had by all. My DD and her new husband seem so happy and compatible; I feel very blessed.

My dress worked out perfectly. I took both the silk wrap and another one I had not shown, a gray whisper cashmere wrap from Nordie’s also, and I used it, as it got rather cool. I also “cut the tags” on those Lucky bronze pointy-toe flats and changed into them later into the night for more dancing. More on those flats later.

At the Friday family dinner, I wore the EF gray pants with the print ruffle shirt, but with my fuchsia blazer instead of the seersucker. I thought it looked fine and gave me some more color.

I took the black floral jacket/track pants outfit with me, but didn’t wear it as 2 of the bridesmaids had deep coral dresses for the dinner that were similar to my orangey-pink top, so I went with the different color direction, as above. But I wore that outfit this past weekend on date night—woohoo.

I did not take photos of outfits while there, but I tried to dress somewhat smart-casual during the couple of days we were busy running errands and doing last-minute wedding things. I relied mostly on a couple of casual jackets to add some structure and polish to jeans or some tapered crops. My DD gave me the ultimate compliment—she wanted to steal my gray knit blazer , told me that I looked so “hip” and put together and was dressing “cooler” than she—she said we needed to go shopping together for her soon! This of course was an overstatement,, but still I really liked the progress I made compared to my khaki/running shoe/plaid shirt look.

This has been a great experience in putting together outfits, and I can’t thank all the YLF’ers enough.

Interestingly, I am also relieved that this “mission” is over, since it was so occasion-specific and I fretted about being just right, and in time, so now I’m looking forward to continuing a more relaxed fashion and style journey, but still focused on some goals.