pursuing the picture perfect wedding
Okay, without any intention of doing this twice in one day … I found another dress on Etsy that I have to share. (I’m procrastinating my real work—can you tell?!) This one’s from Makool. I love, love, love that collar (actually a rare find in a bridal or bridesmaid-appropriate gown). For more eye-candy, check out their website and blog, Makool Loves You. I’m trying to find the photo credit and will add it as soon as I have one.
photo credit: unknown
I found this dress this morning on Etsy from Vintage Principessa and had to share. If I squint, I can almost see the wedding it would go with …
photo credit: unknown
Here are some photographs you can enlarge and click through from Jessie and Matt’s wedding as featured in Bride’s Southern California magazine. Jessie found her dress at Paris 1900 in Santa Monica, and her beloved cardigan at a thrift store. Nearly everything else? She made herself. What made Jessie’s wedding so wonderful to photograph—at least in part—was the simple beautiful color scheme, based on the sunsets in Santa Fe. She carried it out across all design elements, including her fashion, stationery (inspired by her mother’s vintage fabric collection), floral arrangements and bouquet, and even the streamers used by the guests as everyone “paraded” to the reception. For those of you who’ve never seen a Santa Fe sunset, it’s a good time for a road trip. I swear: I’ve never seen purple like that.
photo credit: Gia Canali stationery and florals: Jessie Abrams
Now that I think about it and despite how hard all of us tried to get away from the poofiness of wedding fashion in the 80s and 90s, wouldn’t it be fabulous if brides of our generation reinvented “the pouf” in some lovely modern way? Check out this bubble veil one of my brides wore this summer in Portland. The shape nicely set off the sleek and very, very sexy lines of her gown.
photo credit: Gia Canali dress: Paloma Blanca veil: Bel Aire Bridal (we think!)
If I could have one wish, it would be for capelets to catch on with brides … with my brides. (Secretly, I’d want to wear a non-white one, like this one from Holly Stalder, to weddings, but I think the poufy part would get all mashed by my four camera straps. Hmm …).
photo credit: Pete Springer
