Here is a great find from photographer Niki Rossi’s Blog. What a great idea to have bridesmaids with different colored shoes to match their bouquets. This pop of color is just so fun for the summer months!
All of these bridesmaids also had different style dresses in the same color. A great idea to liven up the bridal party, and their flowers and shoes matched their groomsman’s ties!!
I caught up with the bride, Jaysie, and asked her how she came up with this idea. She said “Isn’t it funny how the ones we love the most- our bridal party- are usually the ones that are the most uncomfortable on that day?” she didn’t want her girls to feel like they were all in the same “uniform”. Well this is certainly a great idea to break up the monotony and have a little fun with your bridesmaids.
Thanks to Hall of Springs Banquet Manager Jen Grogan for this fun find!
This is a new trend that has started to become more popular. The idea behind it is to literally trash your dress. *Gasp*
A lot of brides feel that they never will wear the dress again so why suffocate it in a plastic bag in a closet? Many also think their daughters won’t wear their wedding dress in twenty or thirty years, so now there is a fun alternative. There are a lot of ways to trash your dress, paint, fire, water….
Recently, we had a bride at the Hall of Springs who shared her trash the dress session with us. Remember Desiree? Well, she teamed up with her awesome photographer, Sawicki Studios, and got some really great shots. This is something photographer Chris Sawicki brings up with all his potential brides in their consultation and he sees it becoming very popular. Check out this first series, I am loving this location, it is in the Sawicki Studio in Amsterdam, and the paint! Phenomenal!! I caught up with Desiree and got some great insight into this shoot. “My favorite part, for me,” she says “was probably the paint. the first splatter of paint on my dress was so strange because of how much my wedding day meant to me and now to be wearing my dress covered in paint, but it turned out great.” It certainly did!
We asked Desiree what made her want to do a trash the dress session and she said ” Why preserve your dress? For some people that works, but not for me. I wanted to do something different and have spectacular photos to remember it by.” Well, she definitely succeeded, she has some amazing photos!
If you thought paint and water were crazy, wait until you see this. This next series was inspired both by Chris Sawicki and Desiree, it is, in a word, hot!
When asked if she would do this again if she could, Desiree was adamant. ” If I had to do it all over again, I would in a heartbeat and probably wouldn’t change a thing. It turned out exactly how I wanted.”
Thanks to Desiree and Sawicki Studios for sharing this with us, here’s some behind the scenes video!!
I came across this Fun Find in advertisement in Brides Magazine! Having a problem finding a bridesmaids dress that you absolutely love? Do you like bits and pieces of dresses, but not a single one? Look no further! Lynn Lugo has a whole section of her website that allows you to customize dresses. Called “The Dressmaker,” this is a tool that allows you to choose style, color, sashes, tops, bottoms, rosettes, you name it you can have it. They also come in a variety of fabrics from shantung to charmeuse to organza. Try it out here! It’s a great way to get your bridesmaids involved so they don’t get the “I’m never going to wear this again” feeling. Here are just a couple of dress options shown on their site:
I am loving this red number with the flower detail!
Lynn Lugo is featured in stores throughout the country if you want to see how the dresses fit and look in real life. Closest to us are stores in Boston and NYC, click here for more locations.
Have you ever noticed that when you try to search for an inspiration board on Google, you only like bits and pieces of each? I was having this problem this past week and then I found this really cool application on The Knot! The Knot is free to join and has some great resources, this being one of them! It’s a build your own inspiration board. Choose your template, choose from a ton of stock photos or upload your own, choose your color scheme, and publish! It’s that easy. To play around and try it out, click here.
Check out this Green Board I made (I love playing around with these things!)
