bridal dress trends nows: 2010

Sunday, October 3, 2010

How to Have Your Dream Wedding Dress Without Breaking the Bank

If you are one of the many couples who became engaged between Thanksgiving and New Year's, congratulations! And while the uncertain economy will probably not stop you from tying the knot, it may affect your wedding budget and how much is spent on your wedding dress. Here are some ideas on how to get that dream wedding dress for your big day without breaking the bank.

Set a budget. Look at all the expenses for your wedding and decide if there are some adjustments you are willing to make in certain expenses (such as food or reception hall) so that more money can be allocated for your wedding dress.

Style of wedding ceremony. Depending on the type of wedding ceremony you choose to have (traditional, informal, indoors, outdoors) you may want a wedding dress that reflects the style of the ceremony. If that ceremony is short, simple and informal, you won't need to spend a lot of money on a couture, high-fashion wedding dress. Of course, the wedding should reflect your personal style, so choose your wedding dress and ceremony to match your style and whatever makes you feel comfortable

Friday, October 1, 2010

Wedding Invitation Idea For A Formal Wedding

A formal wedding can be a classy affair that starts with the receipt of the wedding invitation for the guests. For the people involved in the wedding, the choice of the invitation is just the beginning. There are a lot of wedding invitation ideas to help make a formal wedding very memorable even with just the sight of the invitation.

Ideas, Anyone?

The wedding invitation usually precedes the theme of the wedding. A formal wedding invitation idea can be to make the paper of both invitation card and envelope thick and heavy. The thickness and weight of both invitation and envelope says a lot. It can signify the time and effort spent on choosing the invitation as well as the money spent on them. This means that the affair s most likely an expensive formal event as the invitation depicts formality.

Another wedding invitation idea for a formal wedding is to make the invitation simple and clean, with less clutter and color. Cream or off white is usually favored by most couples when it comes to the color of the paper for the invitation. White may be too stark for some while cream speaks of richness and class for others.

Another wedding invitation idea to make the guests know that the wedding is a formal affair is to actually write it down through specifying the attire. Black tie is enough o let people know that men are required to wear tuxedoes and women should appear in evening gowns. This wedding invitation idea will ensure that not one guest will arrive underdressed.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Classic style icons

Latest issue of Gloria Magazine had an article and a fashion shoot about classic style icons and I was inspired by it. These are my icons.

Here's a collection of women, style icons, beauty, names, glamour, eternity, fashion idols, classics, elegance and great fashion; that everyone knows and is still trying to imitate, but no one can replace.

Marilyn Monroe
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Marie Antoinette
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Fashion Wedding Dress Art

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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Evening Dress

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Friday, September 3, 2010

Wedding shopping in Helsinki

I have already featured quite a lot of wedding boutiques in this blog but now I decided to make a single post of wedding stores in Helsinki.

Here's what I've found.

Clothes, shoes, dress makers, designers, accessories etc.
Stilissima http://www.stilissima.fi
Superteks Bridal House http://www.superteks.fi/
Tapiolan Juhlapuku http://www.tapiolanjuhlapuku.fi/
VIP-juhlapuvut http://

Shopping for shoes & clothes in Helsinki, Finland

I'm pretty sure I have complained like 1000 times how it's impossible to find anything from Helsinki or from Finland. I'm also pretty sure you all know how much I hate shopping and I'm so lazy to go out to the stores. Let me explain.

I live in Espoo and it doesn't have "a center of Espoo", like city center where all the stores are. It has Tapiola with two department stores and also some smaller

Floranna

After careful consideration we decided to order our wedding flowers from Floranna. They promised to come to Seurahuone with us to see what type of flowers and which colors fit the location best, and also to put all the flowers to the church and restaurant. So we don't need to worry about the flowers at all. They will take care of it.

It was hard to find a flowershop in Helsinki with a good

Perdita's Wedding Shoes

Here's some of my favourites from Perdita's webshoppe. Check the store out. http://www.perditasweddingshoes.co.uk/

Rachel Simpson shoes

Today I found this amazing collection of vintage inspired bridal shoes from Rachel Simpson. You can buy these shoes online, but for international orders you need to contact the store before ordering. Check the whole collection. http://rachelsimpsonshoes.co.uk/index.php

Here's some of my favourites.

Leopard Wedding

Rawwwwrrrrr!http://www.etsy.com/shop/clfbyclairelafayehttp://www.etsy.com/shop/GartersByKristihttp://www.youandyourwedding.co.uk/fashion/lingerie/honeymoon-beachwearhttp://www.whirlingturban.com/http://www.whirlingturban.com/http://www.whirlingturban.comhttp://www.papertrails.com/http://www.lusterstudios.com/kress-terrace-greensboro-wedding-engagement/http://www.roxx-online.com/http://

Claire La Faye

I can't believe these dresses. So beautiful. If I didn't have my dress already I'd order one of these. Maybe I will order one for the honeymoon. Hmmm. Mmm.

All from Claire La Faye
Check her Etsy store http://www.etsy.com/shop/clairelafaye
Blog http://clairelafaye.blogspot.com/
and
website http://clairelafaye.com/

Love, love, love!

Zara Online

Today I heard that it's possible to order Zara's products online. But I guess it doesn't work yet in Finland? At least I didn't notice a possibility to order anything online. But I did found some nice shoes on their site. Probably you can buy these from normal Zara stores.

My blog's statistics

Hello my dear readers!

Today I was so bored that I decided to check out some statistics of my blogs. I already posted similar post to my other blog and now I decided to do one for this one too.

I used Blogger's own statistics service, Google Analytics and this Feedjit gagdet, I also googled my blog.

So here's what Blogger has to say about my blog.

I'm not sure if this info is from the whole

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Auctions

I've always wanted to go to an auction. I'm not sure why. I guess it's all the history behind the selling items, and all the money people are willing to spent on them. The fine arts... Important jewellery... All the drama and passion. That people spent millions of euros for things. Diamonds. Rugs. Furniture. And they fight for it! Haha. At least that's what I've seen in tv. :) I guess it would be

My veil

I guess I never remembered to post about my veil. I bought it used from a Finnish wedding forum. It's cathedral length, it has 2 tiers and its edged. It's colour is ivory, just like my dress.

Here's a photo. It looks pretty much like this one but it was originally bought from a Finnish wedding boutique.

Meringue Wedding

http://www.moniquelhuillier.com/
Yummy looking wedding cupcakes from Yummy Mummy.
http://yummymummycupcake.co.za/2010/05/wedding-cupcakes/
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Bridal Bow check!

I saw this photo at Ruffledblog from Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine.I just had to find out where to get this bow so I went to Fancy New York site and asked where I could get one. They answered quite quickly and now I have ordered one! Omg!
Photo from their site.

Oh yes, we also got an offer for the invitations and now we are waiting for samples. Me happy!

Liberty in Love

Another great Bridal Online-store.
More from Liberty in Lovehttp://www.libertyinlove.co.uk/

Fancy New York

I'm in LOOOVE again.
http://dressmefancy.com/

Unique Vintage

You have to check out this AMAZING internet shoppe! It's perrrrfect for brides who are looking for that something special.

Check out the whole store! http://www.unique-vintage.com/

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Wedding Dress Bridal Gown

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Monday, August 30, 2010

Column Wedding Dresses

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Miami weather

Yesterday we were talking about our honeymoon once again and I started to wonder if it's warm enough to go to Miami in January.

I did some googling and here's what I found. I guess it's warm enough. :)

Check your honeymoon weather.

MIAMI

MonthAvg. HighAvg. LowAvg. PrecipRec. HighRec. Low
January24.0 °C16.0 °C4.78 cm31.1 °C(01/19/1987)-2.2 °C (01/28/1940)
February26.0 °C16.0 °C5.26 cm31.7

My three biggest stumbling blocks

While planning our wedding I came across three challenges that I had to solve in order to move on in the planning process. Everything else was pretty easy.

So here they are!

1) THE BUDGET!!!

2) THE DRESS!!!

3) THE GUEST LIST!!!

These were my bogeymans.

Let's start from the top.

Having a wedding is really expensive. Buying food, drinks and cake for 100 or more people is gonna cost a lot of

The most common phrases I hear when people talk about marriage

Last Friday I was again in a situation where someone that I don't know said that she doesn't believe in marriage. She was just some girl my friend knew and when she noticed my ring she asked like 1 million questions about my wedding, fiancé, how long we have been dating for etc. I was just in the middle of conversation with my friend so I answered quite vaguely.

Then after like 1 minute of

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Hair and make-up inspiration for a brunette bride

Here's some inspiration and ideas for a brunette bride. It was really difficult to find any pictures since none of the celebrities are as pretty as I am. ;)

I found this make-up how to for pale skinned and dark haired brides.
http://www.ayushveda.com/magazine/makeup-for-cool-skin-dark-hair/
Pale-skinned brunettes can look fabulous by application of strong, cool shades of cosmetics. The skin

Riina Laine make-up and hair

I made a reservation with Riina Laine for my hair and make-up.

Here's some of her bridal work.

You can check her website out to see more photos of her work and for her contact information. http://www.riinamakeup.com/etusivu.php?lang=fi

Winter boots for a winter bride

I tried to look for suitable winter boots but these were the only ones I found. They're are white, warm and easy to walk around. Maybe I will go with these.
See more models from Vagabond. http://www.vagabond.com/

An alternative for winter wedding jacket

Today I got this idea about having a normal winter jacket as my winter wedding jacket. I saw this jacket which looks little like a cloak at Ril's. Since winter is quite cold in Finland it's important to have a good jacket so that I won't be cold while taking photos. But having a white winter wedding cloak which I cannot use after the wedding isn't such a good idea in my opinion. It's not too