2010 is looking good, indeed! This morning we received a sweet surprise email, letting us know that Style Me Pretty has been nominated for “Best Design” by the 2010 Weblog Awards, aka “The Bloggies!” We would like to thank the academy and our mothers…  er… we haven’t won yet. But you can help! If you’d like to support Style Me Pretty, we greatly appreciate you...

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Some of you might not know this, I definitely didn’t when I started SMP, that photoshoots like these are actually pretty common for photographers and event designers. Often they are held as workshops to teach up and comers how to shoot weddings and details. Other times they are done to build portfolios and provide a creative outlet for the vendors involved. So for us, it seemed only natural to get our readers involved.

And today’s From Inspiration to Reality was put...

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When we first started our From Inspiration to Reality feature, we didn’t really know how, when or frankly IF the concept would find its big girl pants and grow into something great. Well, I think that we can officially say it has. I have no idea how these vendors (like today’s photographer Jessamyn Harris and designer Jess Flood) come up...

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Okay, kids. Have a seat. Grab the coffee. Kick up your feet. This little number deserves your full and committed attention. The From Inspiration to Reality team that put together today’s latest piece of goodness has also been responsible for some of our...

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We are about to put up the most insane From Inspiration to Reality shoot you’ve ever seen. Seriously. And that is not just the Style Me Pretty talking. Conceptualized and brilliantly executed by Jess Flood, Jessamyn Harris...

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If you are still swooning over the emerald beauty, fear not. I have a ton more eye candy for you. This wedding is bursting at the seams with personality and the colors; oh the colors. I am almost ready to book a ticket to Mexico on the spot. Suzie Qof Q Weddings did such an amazing job of capturing the essence of this day. The pictures really need no introduction.

A few more details about the big day:

After a locally...

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SO excited to introduce Erin to you. Erin is the voice behind one of my all time favorite blogs (which you have to check out if you don’t already obsess over it) Erin Ever After. It’s this great little fairy tale of goodness where she calls things “lovelies” and “pretties” and uses words like “liggity love, love, lovin.” So you know she is a girl after my own heart. Erin is our...

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Okay, if you aren’t already sitting down…you probably should be. I’ve saved the best of today’s wedding for last. The reception tables. These reception tables are quite possibly the most beautiful tables I’ve ever seen in my entire life and have completely inspired me to start collecting chandeliers as a hobby.  A chandelier in every room of my house, maybe two. My poor husband.

Jose Villa, bless you...

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So, if obsession equals Jose Villa. It’s pretty clear that this wedding is obsession taken to an entirely new level. The best part though, is that the bride used Style Me Pretty as inspiration during her planning process. I know, shameless. I just had to get that little piece of ego out the door and let’s be serious…it’s probably not the “best part.” The flowers, the chandeliers, the ridiculous...

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I was at a wedding event this past weekend and one of the keynote speakers said “I would so much rather see a couple put their money towards just a few hours with a great photographer, than settle on a photographer that they don’t love.” I could not have said it better myself. The keepsakes that a great photographer can provide are priceless. Which of course is exactly why I love to brag about Jose Villa so much. His...

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If you’ve been following us on the Little Black Book Blog for any length of time, you know how we love to show-off our vendors’ own weddings.  And that’s just what we get to do today! From Lucie’s Events (a.k.a. “the bride” ~ Wendee) … her own pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty wedding at...

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I have been dying to get this wedding out the door. You guys know that my love affair with all things Jose Villa is pretty huge. But at this point, I would only be able to categorize it as an obsession. And this wedding that Jose shot is total insanity. It takes everything that I love…vintage chandeliers, garden roses, organic detailing, French inspired elegance…and smashes it all together in a total piece of wedding heaven.

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It’s pretty much a given that we are going to fall in love with anything that Lisa Thomas of Ooh! Events in Charleston sends us. Her weddings are always so completely romantic, so completely Charleston. And this one…oh my. It’s total gorgeousness. It has this really old world, Grace Kelly vibe about it, where tradition meets total style. And although I could easily talk all day about this one, I’ll just let the...

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Vintage-Chic weddings are all the rage and this one from Kathy & Brian at Widdis Photography is absolutely precious!

From Kathy …Kristine and Tom had an elegant afternoon wedding at one of Detroit’s grandest mansions – The Whitney. A 115-year-old, 52 room mansion with glorious stained glass and ornate...

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I couldn’t help but fall in love with this completely adorable wedding that Kelty over at Steep Street Photography sent our way. Aside from being held at one of the most fabulous So Cal venues, Smog Shoppe, it’s also 100% personality. Which you know we really love.

We met as next door neighbors freshman year in the dorms at UC Berkeley and were best...

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