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INCREDIBLY VEILED

Reem Acra
Christian Lacroix.
WOW!!!   I think you'll agree, these top designers really have it for creating one-of-a-kind chic when it comes to veils. These incredible creations I
 hope will be an inspiration point for all you brides-to-be out there wanting to don the veil but go just a bit beyond what you'd find in the traditional salon . . . Happy brainstorming!
 Christian Lacroix
                                                                         Givenchy

Reem Acra
Christian Lacroix.
WOW!!!   I think you'll agree, these top designers really have it for creating one-of-a-kind chic when it comes to veils. These incredible creations I
 hope will be an inspiration point for all you brides-to-be out there wanting to don the veil but go just a bit beyond what you'd find in the traditional salon . . . Happy brainstorming!
 Christian Lacroix
                                                                         Givenchy

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TWO BRIDES: KELLY AND KELLY

 Imagine falling in love and marrying your namesake.  That's just what Kelly and Kelly did when they  celebrated in DC a few weeks back.  Wedding photographer Kat Forder shot Kelly and Kelly's day capturing all the small and personal details so beautifully.  Says Kat, "Kelly and Kelly, along with a small group of their family and friends, traveled to Washington DC  to be married in a small ceremony by officiant Tiffany Newman.  The  couple stayed at the gorgeous Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast, a literary themed B&B with 8 rooms decorated and tailored around African American authors and classic genres.  It’s a gorgeous location that I look forward to returning to soon!
"The B&B is literally around the corner from the ceremony location making the commute super easy and we couldn’t have asked for better weather! I’m privileged to have been able to document this special day and witness such genuine and powerful love . . ."

 Imagine falling in love and marrying your namesake.  That's just what Kelly and Kelly did when they  celebrated in DC a few weeks back.  Wedding photographer Kat Forder shot Kelly and Kelly's day capturing all the small and personal details so beautifully.  Says Kat, "Kelly and Kelly, along with a small group of their family and friends, traveled to Washington DC  to be married in a small ceremony by officiant Tiffany Newman.  The  couple stayed at the gorgeous Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast, a literary themed B&B with 8 rooms decorated and tailored around African American authors and classic genres.  It’s a gorgeous location that I look forward to returning to soon!
"The B&B is literally around the corner from the ceremony location making the commute super easy and we couldn’t have asked for better weather! I’m privileged to have been able to document this special day and witness such genuine and powerful love . . ."

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THE RETURN OF THE RUFFLE

Ruffles are back so jazzed and prettied up on skirts, tops and even accessories layered in them. On trend now is  anything ruched to the intricately gathered skirts rolled into florals. As you've probably figured  ruffles can be worn head to toe on bodice, sleeve, skirt or train. And don't forget those finishing touches like shoes, purses, gloves, hats and veils layered in ruffles. Below are just a few treatments celebrating variations on the ruffle. 
 

Photo 2&3: Zlata Modeen Photography/Dress and headpiece by Deb Shops
Photo 4: Dress by Aire Barcelona via Pinterest/Photo 5: Dress by Leila Hafzi
Photo 6: Via Pinterest/ Photo7: Dress by Armani Prive
Photo 8: Dress by Zuhair Murad
Photo 9: Skirt by Chanel/Photo 10: Elie Saab Haute Couture
Ruffles are back so jazzed and prettied up on skirts, tops and even accessories layered in them. On trend now is  anything ruched to the intricately gathered skirts rolled into florals. As you've probably figured  ruffles can be worn head to toe on bodice, sleeve, skirt or train. And don't forget those finishing touches like shoes, purses, gloves, hats and veils layered in ruffles. Below are just a few treatments celebrating variations on the ruffle. 
 

Photo 2&3: Zlata Modeen Photography/Dress and headpiece by Deb Shops
Photo 4: Dress by Aire Barcelona via Pinterest/Photo 5: Dress by Leila Hafzi
Photo 6: Via Pinterest/ Photo7: Dress by Armani Prive
Photo 8: Dress by Zuhair Murad
Photo 9: Skirt by Chanel/Photo 10: Elie Saab Haute Couture
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THE BOUFFANT ROSE



O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour, which doth in it live.
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade;
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made: 
   And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
   When that shall vade, my verse distills your truth.
--William Shakespeare--Sonnet #54





CREDITS
Photography: Taralynn Lawton
Dresses and headpieces: Amy-Jo Tatum Bride
Models: Oasis and Amber
Venue: The San Francisco Theological Seminary


O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour, which doth in it live.
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade;
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made: 
   And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
   When that shall vade, my verse distills your truth.
--William Shakespeare--Sonnet #54





CREDITS
Photography: Taralynn Lawton
Dresses and headpieces: Amy-Jo Tatum Bride
Models: Oasis and Amber
Venue: The San Francisco Theological Seminary
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A COSTAL FOREST BRIDE

California has two awesome things for which tourists travel the world to see: Redwood forests and a gorgeous coastline.  Mix the two up through the eye of gifted photographer, Jamie Thrower of Studio 13 Designs and we have this stunning study of light and it's play on the landscape.  She's captured Sara as the quintessential wood sprite who seems totally at home in the fields and forest, sporting all the wild flowers she's picked along the way.  
Based out of Sonoma, California, Jamie can be found hitting the antique stores, farm stands and as she puts it, "Peeking out from behind my camera everywhere I go . . . ." 
 
 

Model: Sara
California has two awesome things for which tourists travel the world to see: Redwood forests and a gorgeous coastline.  Mix the two up through the eye of gifted photographer, Jamie Thrower of Studio 13 Designs and we have this stunning study of light and it's play on the landscape.  She's captured Sara as the quintessential wood sprite who seems totally at home in the fields and forest, sporting all the wild flowers she's picked along the way.  
Based out of Sonoma, California, Jamie can be found hitting the antique stores, farm stands and as she puts it, "Peeking out from behind my camera everywhere I go . . . ." 
 
 

Model: Sara
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