Comments on: Contest: Sephora http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/ A wedding blog for the style obsessed bride. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carrie Phalen-Riccardi http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-372363 Carrie Phalen-Riccardi Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:48:01 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-372363 I couldn't have written what you said any better. I agree fashion for me is everywhere, it could start with a tiny bead to a bow on a shoe and definitely our surroundings! Fashion is everywhere everywhere, I wrote something similar on a job application at "Urban Outfitters " I believe they thought I was nuts! All brides have different tastes, but no matter what style they pick their gonna be glowing! Every wedding I have been to they have all been glowing as if they got hit with a dose of radiation, but in a good way! Their inner beauty comes out like rays of sunshine, they have a radiance about them that I can't even put into words it's truly beautiful! I only wish to be a bride just for that one day, but for me, financially, it's not to be, maybe someday I can be the glowing angel who gets to walk down that aisle! I couldn’t have written what you said any better. I agree fashion for me is everywhere, it could start with a tiny bead to a bow on a shoe and definitely our surroundings! Fashion is everywhere everywhere, I wrote something similar on a job application at “Urban Outfitters ” I believe they thought I was nuts! All brides have different tastes, but no matter what style they pick their gonna be glowing! Every wedding I have been to they have all been glowing as if they got hit with a dose of radiation, but in a good way! Their inner beauty comes out like rays of sunshine, they have a radiance about them that I can’t even put into words it’s truly beautiful! I only wish to be a bride just for that one day, but for me, financially, it’s not to be, maybe someday I can be the glowing angel who gets to walk down that aisle!

]]> By: BurlingtonBride http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22667 BurlingtonBride Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:41:20 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22667 I found my inspiration in our wedding local. Two summers ago we took our first vacation together and went to Burlington, Vermont. We have so many amazing memories from the time we spent together there that we asked our family and closest friends to join us for our destination wedding (from NY/CT). We just want the feelings we had to be translated to a weekend of love and fun. The Church Street Marketplace in particular was a huge inspiration. The wonderful sense of community that is created by the Church Street Marketplace is something we wanted to be a part of with our family and friends. We are getting married at a beautiful Congregational Church and then walking around the corner on the Marketplace to the restaurant we are having our reception with all our guests. We are looking forward to having a big Italian dinner party at the restaurant with high ceilings and beautiful floor to ceiling window overlooking the marketplace. Good food, good wine, good conversation. I have this picture of lots of laughter and merriment all night. I found my inspiration in our wedding local. Two summers ago we took our first vacation together and went to Burlington, Vermont. We have so many amazing memories from the time we spent together there that we asked our family and closest friends to join us for our destination wedding (from NY/CT). We just want the feelings we had to be translated to a weekend of love and fun.

The Church Street Marketplace in particular was a huge inspiration. The wonderful sense of community that is created by the Church Street Marketplace is something we wanted to be a part of with our family and friends. We are getting married at a beautiful Congregational Church and then walking around the corner on the Marketplace to the restaurant we are having our reception with all our guests. We are looking forward to having a big Italian dinner party at the restaurant with high ceilings and beautiful floor to ceiling window overlooking the marketplace. Good food, good wine, good conversation. I have this picture of lots of laughter and merriment all night.

]]> By: Viola http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22666 Viola Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:34:22 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22666 My fiancé loves classic movies while I adore books. Our favourite story is To Kill a Mockingbird. Sounds like a wild idea for a wedding, but being designers, we egged each other on for the challenge. The key for us was to focus on 3 key words that came out of the story: discovery, simplicity and childhood memories. They became the starting point for us to explore the endless possibilities... from our save-the-date bookmarks, our reception location amidst apple trees, a candy station, treasure boxes as centerpieces filled with childhood trinkets ... We loved that in the process of planning the wedding (coming in October), we were discovering our pasts and weaving them into our future. My fiancé loves classic movies while I adore books. Our favourite story is To Kill a Mockingbird. Sounds like a wild idea for a wedding, but being designers, we egged each other on for the challenge. The key for us was to focus on 3 key words that came out of the story: discovery, simplicity and childhood memories. They became the starting point for us to explore the endless possibilities… from our save-the-date bookmarks, our reception location amidst apple trees, a candy station, treasure boxes as centerpieces filled with childhood trinkets … We loved that in the process of planning the wedding (coming in October), we were discovering our pasts and weaving them into our future.

]]> By: Crystal http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22665 Crystal Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:38:23 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22665 My biggest problem in planning my wedding is that I am inspired by too many things! As a graphic designer, I devour textures and colors by the dozen, stashing them in various folders and boxes and just itching for the chance to use them in a project. Well, this wedding is my ultimate project, with design in absolutely everything. The only way I could narrow things down was to focus on celebrating my fiance and my relationship and the things that we love about our city (St. Augustine, Florida). These things amounted to a motif (Birds and Magnolias), our save the dates (photobooth pictures like in Amelie), my dress (1940's inspired mermaid gown), the food (provided by our favorite cafe), and the ceremony and reception sites (a beautiful state park that we spend time in, and a historic officer's club in the armory where his grandparents worked and where his parents had their reception). Now that I have strong jumping off points, it's a lot easier to focus on the particulars and get lost in the details of doing fun things like screenprinted invitations and making my veil. It also makes the chance discovories a lot more exciting (like finding a 1950's tulle slip to wear under my dress triple-marked down at my local vintage clothing store). My biggest problem in planning my wedding is that I am inspired by too many things! As a graphic designer, I devour textures and colors by the dozen, stashing them in various folders and boxes and just itching for the chance to use them in a project. Well, this wedding is my ultimate project, with design in absolutely everything. The only way I could narrow things down was to focus on celebrating my fiance and my relationship and the things that we love about our city (St. Augustine, Florida). These things amounted to a motif (Birds and Magnolias), our save the dates (photobooth pictures like in Amelie), my dress (1940′s inspired mermaid gown), the food (provided by our favorite cafe), and the ceremony and reception sites (a beautiful state park that we spend time in, and a historic officer’s club in the armory where his grandparents worked and where his parents had their reception).

Now that I have strong jumping off points, it’s a lot easier to focus on the particulars and get lost in the details of doing fun things like screenprinted invitations and making my veil. It also makes the chance discovories a lot more exciting (like finding a 1950′s tulle slip to wear under my dress triple-marked down at my local vintage clothing store).

]]> By: Trolley http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22664 Trolley Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:58:53 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22664 P.S. You totally don't have to consider me as an entrant, but I liked the question. =) P.S. You totally don’t have to consider me as an entrant, but I liked the question. =)

]]> By: Trolley http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22663 Trolley Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:58:04 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22663 I have to begin this answer with a caveat: I'm a doctoral student in anthropology, so research & ritual are both second nature to me. When we first got engaged, I tried to drown myself in wedding books & magazines, but I felt sick within a few minutes in the bookstore -- I (at the time, at least) couldn't distinguish between the color differences of white vs. ivory, couldn't care less about where different lace patterns came from (Alcenon? Alcatraz?), and couldn't get myself very invested in what formality level different invitation wordings implied -- this wasn't what I needed! It wasn’t what I needed for several reasons: it wasn’t a co-operative body of literature (very little of it included grooms, families, friends, etc.), it wasn’t inspiration on the level at which our wedding planning was back then, and it wasn’t at all about meaning-making. Wanting inspiration that would help us keep answering questions about what we were doing (why now? what for? etc.), my fiancé and I turned, together, to our passions outside of weddings, relationships, and each other for answers: we read together, we cook together, we design furniture that he builds for our home together, and we debate ideas together. Individually, we pursue other fields from cultural & aesthetic theory (me) to theoretical physics & technological developments (him), and we looked to those, as well. What this means is that we’ve had the luck to find our best inspirations in our daily habits -- the foods we cook, the stories & poems we read to each other, the materials & belongings in our home, the words of friends & family, and the dialogues we have about any image or idea (whether it's one we love or hate). We’ve been able to turn our inspiration-seeking into a weekly ritual of taking a long walk one night, and each brainstorming out loud what we want from life, our marriage, and our wedding. Some amazing things have emerged (from our location, a LEED-certified art education center, to our ceremony format, which draws on the traditions of our families as well as other cultures & symbols), and we’ve been able to draw in everything around us (the beer we drank for dinner, the lunar eclipse, my dissertation research, etc.) as inspiration. What I’ve been happiest to pull on for inspiration, though, are the aspects of my life that, pre-wedding-planning, were completely disparate: professional knowledge, love of food & cooking, and principles & ethics. It feels right that in marrying this fantastic guy, I’m also marrying all the things in which I’m invested. I turned, instead, to my passions outside of weddings, relationships, and my fiance: fiction-reading, anthropology (my graduate studies), and aesthetics/form (art & architectural history undergrad degree!). I encouraged him to do the same and he came to: handicrafts, technology, and function/clarity. Together, we brainstormed what those things had to do with weddings (we read stories and poems about love & marriage together, I researched cross-cultural traditions, he thought of all the things we could make for a wedding, and he took off running on music & photography), and began to look for the inspirations that moved us outside of weddings. In designing a meaningful ceremony & kickass reception, we drew on our principles and ethics (a LEED-certified location, local/sustainable food & flowers), words & technology (allowing us to really make the medium the message -- everything about our wedding is going to have our hand & our message in it), and design inspiration (my love of pretty/funky, and his love of simple/logical). We've found our best inspirations in our daily habits -- the foods we cook, the materials in our home, the words of friends & family, and the dialogs we have about any image (whether it's one we love or hate). I have to begin this answer with a caveat: I’m a doctoral student in anthropology, so research & ritual are both second nature to me. When we first got engaged, I tried to drown myself in wedding books & magazines, but I felt sick within a few minutes in the bookstore — I (at the time, at least) couldn’t distinguish between the color differences of white vs. ivory, couldn’t care less about where different lace patterns came from (Alcenon? Alcatraz?), and couldn’t get myself very invested in what formality level different invitation wordings implied — this wasn’t what I needed! It wasn’t what I needed for several reasons: it wasn’t a co-operative body of literature (very little of it included grooms, families, friends, etc.), it wasn’t inspiration on the level at which our wedding planning was back then, and it wasn’t at all about meaning-making.

Wanting inspiration that would help us keep answering questions about what we were doing (why now? what for? etc.), my fiancé and I turned, together, to our passions outside of weddings, relationships, and each other for answers: we read together, we cook together, we design furniture that he builds for our home together, and we debate ideas together. Individually, we pursue other fields from cultural & aesthetic theory (me) to theoretical physics & technological developments (him), and we looked to those, as well.

What this means is that we’ve had the luck to find our best inspirations in our daily habits — the foods we cook, the stories & poems we read to each other, the materials & belongings in our home, the words of friends & family, and the dialogues we have about any image or idea (whether it’s one we love or hate). We’ve been able to turn our inspiration-seeking into a weekly ritual of taking a long walk one night, and each brainstorming out loud what we want from life, our marriage, and our wedding. Some amazing things have emerged (from our location, a LEED-certified art education center, to our ceremony format, which draws on the traditions of our families as well as other cultures & symbols), and we’ve been able to draw in everything around us (the beer we drank for dinner, the lunar eclipse, my dissertation research, etc.) as inspiration.

What I’ve been happiest to pull on for inspiration, though, are the aspects of my life that, pre-wedding-planning, were completely disparate: professional knowledge, love of food & cooking, and principles & ethics. It feels right that in marrying this fantastic guy, I’m also marrying all the things in which I’m invested.

I turned, instead, to my passions outside of weddings, relationships, and my fiance: fiction-reading, anthropology (my graduate studies), and aesthetics/form (art & architectural history undergrad degree!). I encouraged him to do the same and he came to: handicrafts, technology, and function/clarity. Together, we brainstormed what those things had to do with weddings (we read stories and poems about love & marriage together, I researched cross-cultural traditions, he thought of all the things we could make for a wedding, and he took off running on music & photography), and began to look for the inspirations that moved us outside of weddings. In designing a meaningful ceremony & kickass reception, we drew on our principles and ethics (a LEED-certified location, local/sustainable food & flowers), words & technology (allowing us to really make the medium the message — everything about our wedding is going to have our hand & our message in it), and design inspiration (my love of pretty/funky, and his love of simple/logical).

We’ve found our best inspirations in our daily habits — the foods we cook, the materials in our home, the words of friends & family, and the dialogs we have about any image (whether it’s one we love or hate).

]]> By: Gabby Kang http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22662 Gabby Kang Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:38:40 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22662 My inspiration comes from the Missouri Botanical Garden. My fiance and I go there all the time - we recently became members, and walking through all the different gardens in all of the different weather, condition, seasons, inspires my daily life. We're getting married in the Japanese Garden because the simple aesthetic of the garden exemplified what we wanted out of lives together - something simple, something beautiful, something enduring. My inspiration comes from the Missouri Botanical Garden. My fiance and I go there all the time – we recently became members, and walking through all the different gardens in all of the different weather, condition, seasons, inspires my daily life. We’re getting married in the Japanese Garden because the simple aesthetic of the garden exemplified what we wanted out of lives together – something simple, something beautiful, something enduring.

]]> By: min http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22661 min Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:54:06 +0000 http://www.stylemepretty.com/2007/03/12/contest-sephora/#comment-22661 I get my inspiration from the latest fashions. I love looking at runway photos, fashion magazines and what the celebs are wearing to get guidance on how all the little eclectic pieces really bring it all together. I also try to incorporate designs that I like on dresses or hair clips somewhere in the wedding. All the beautiful things I see and admire I use to piece together my stylish, trendy yet classic, one of a kind wedding. I get my inspiration from the latest fashions. I love looking at runway photos, fashion magazines and what the celebs are wearing to get guidance on how all the little eclectic pieces really bring it all together. I also try to incorporate designs that I like on dresses or hair clips somewhere in the wedding. All the beautiful things I see and admire I use to piece together my stylish, trendy yet classic, one of a kind wedding.

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