Archive for July, 2008
Here are a few more detail shots from today’s featured wedding…
Thank you so much, Kacie, for sharing your gorgeous day with us! The vintage charm is just about as pretty as it gets, and I am sure that your vision has inspired many others to create a similar look for their own weddding!
I wanted to share a few more images and details from today’s featured wedding…
From Kacie…
My husband Brandon and I were married on July 12,2008 in the garden of my parents’ beautiful wine country home, standing right where they stood during their wedding ceremony 27 years ago, surrounded by 100 of our dearest friends and family. We wanted to create an intimate, hand-made, elegant, free-flowing, graceful, and vintage-inspired wedding…kind of like a modern-day Gatsby garden party. My childhood home, which is full of family history since my dad actually purchased it from my grandparents when I was a little girl, was the perfect setting.
Our wedding was a true handmade labor of love– every single detail was handmade by my mother and family, including the invitations, hanging lace-adorned votives, vintage hanky prayer flags, table coverings, chair pomanders, my garters, and the little doily favor bags of jordan almonds, most of which she crafted from vintage linens, ribbon, and lace.
My dad built an amazing dance floor from scratch, a family friend baked our cake, and my cousin and best friend played us down the aisle to the Beatles’ “I Will.” My maternal grandmother was not well enough to be with us, but she sent her entire silver julep cup collection to hold our flowers, and gifted me her mother’s wedding & engagement rings (family heirlooms). I took pictures with her grand piano, (she was a concert pianist) which still sits in our music room.
My parents grow pinot noir grapes, and we served their wine with local Sonoma County cheese and fruit at the wedding reception!
My husband and I are singers, (we met 8 years ago in the high school choir and have been together since!) so music played a huge part in everything–my sister sang a song she’d written for us during the wedding ceremony, we sang to each other, and later we brought in the incredible San Francisco swing band Stompy Jones to keep everyone dancing into the wee hours!
More to come!!
Without question, my favorite days on Style Me Pretty are those where readers send in Real Weddings based on inspiration boards that we’ve featured in the past. So, when Kacie sent me pictures of her own recent wedding and the board that started it all, I changed the direction of today’s post!!
Kacie designed an inspiration board for on of our contests a while back. Here it is…
And here is how her insanely gorgeous wedding turned out…
photographs are all taken by Kacie’s childhood friend, Dawn Heumann, and her sister in law Lisa Dick
I am impressed by how beautifully the inspiration board translated into a real wedding. The vintage chic charm is just so lovely…it seems like every detail was tended to.
Stay tuned, we have more details and photos from Kacie’s wedding!!
Wedding Dresses by Stephanie James
When I was swooning over the Stephanie James dress from earlier today, I decided to check out her blog. Needless to say, I spent WAY too long drooling over her incredible, 50’s inspired creations….
How beautiful are these dresses!?!? Stephanie’s blog is filled with amazing creations, you absolutely have to check out. Even more exciting, she features tons of pretty awesome head pieces and accessories…
Sigh…so in love! Stephanie’s dresses range in price from $1200 - $4000 and accessories range from $150-$300. If you want to work directly with Stephanie, you can see the ordering information right here. Otherwise, stop in to one of her retailers and try one on!
So…I am curious to know…how many of you would consider wearing a tea length gown? I LOVE the look, but it is a bit untraditional and I would love to know who is looking to embrace the style?
Wedding Dress Trends by Anna Be, II
Here are a couple more wedding dress pics from the oh-so-talented girls at Anna Be in denver…
Christina by Junko Yoshioka
Layer upon layer of French lace – it literally made us cry when we saw it for the first time it’s so beautiful! There’s a touch of velvet at the empire line, a small detail that just pulls the entire look together.
The Quarry by Lela Rose
This is an unbelievable gown. Like all of Lela’s dresses it’s got incredible hand-details. It’s a laundered silk so it’s soft and smooth with a gorgeous flutter back detail.
More wedding dress trends to come!
Wedding Dress Trends by Anna Be
I am so excited that the girls from one of our favorite Little Black Book shops, Anna and Breanna of the beautiful bridal boutique Anne Be in Denver, is offering up her ideas and inspirations in wedding dress trends! Let’s get right to it!
From Anna and Breanna…
As owners of a bridal boutique in Denver, we are lucky enough to spend our days poring over magazines, meeting with designers, and attending fashion shows. The three trends that we are just loving in bridal gowns right now are texture, fabrics, and details. They are a modern way to infuse a little sophisticated style without going too trendy. After all, no one wants to look back on their pictures and have the equivalent of the 80’s pouf!
Texture - A dress with texture just comes to life. It’s got dimension, interest, and is something that you just want to touch and feel.
Fabrics – So long duchess satin… designers are using everything from silk wools, laundered silks, velvet, and new, modern lace.
Details – It’s the small touches that really make a dress stand out and well-placed seams, knots, tucks, and pleats prove that you don’t need bling to make a statement.
Here are a couple of our favorite gowns that exemplify these trends:
Elena by Junko Yoshioka (top left)
Love the unique fabric pearl accents along the empire line as well as the velvet chiffon overlay – so soft and buttery. Yum!
Mica by Junko Yoshioka (top right)
Check out the cord detail throughout the skirt and train – an updated take on embroidery. But this is definitely not your grandmother’s dress. It’s got a peekaboo sheer chiffon accent right underneath the bust that adds a little sass.
Lizzie by Stephanie James
This amazing vintage lace is perfect for a short dress, but it’s really the bow detail and scalloped hem that makes the dress sweet.
We have more pics from Anna Be to come!
Stephanie Land, the photographer behind these beautiful photographs, is working on getting me some more images that haven’t already been published…but, in the meantime, I wanted to share a few more that I did have!
More details…
*Jelsen is a designer and designed our invites himself. My only request was that he would use the Kraft paper, because I love the organic look of it. Our RSVP cards where postcards that guests returned with messages written to us. It was great because every day we would receive postcards from around the world. (Norway, Germany, Italy, U.S etc). The envelopes where handmade by a stationer in Chicago, Amber Favorite.
*We showed our baker a picture of a cake we liked and she made it with all the little changes we wanted. Legos has a special meaning to us (Jelsen’s cufflinks were made of legos and my necklace reads LEGO), and she made these great cake toppers for us. The cake and all other sweets she made for the guests were amazingly tasteful.
*Planners, Maya & Sara of Titans of Industry, were kind enough to take on the task of helping us towards the end. Two weeks before the wedding, I realized that I didn’t want to be the one that everyone would turn to for questions on my wedding day. I also didn’t want to be the one that told our families what to do at the rehearsal, so we decided to hire on this great team to help us out. And did they help! They handled everyone in our families SO well, and if there was a problem at the wedding, I didn’t know and I still don’t really know because they took care of it!
