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New Find for Veils – Twigs and Honey

We found the most exquisite veils – ethereal, wispy, elegant, simple – in other words, hard to find one that’s not perfect for one of our many beautiful brides. The name of the wunderkind is Twigs and Honey, and is the creative outlet of Myra Callan. They just launched their online store (the website takes forever to load, but the store’s perfect).

Twigs & Honey is based out of Salem-Portland, Oregon and  officially began in early 2008. Another one of those businesses created after their own wedding. Myra’s graduate educational background focused on environmental, geographic, and atmospheric sciences and those themes can be found in her nature-inspired pieces. Twigs & Honey pieces have an almost organic composition with varied textures, complex colors, and whimsical accents.

The Twigs & Honey line features hair adornments, headbands, birdcage veils, traditional veils, bridal jewelry, belts, boutonnieres, ring pillows, hats, shrugs, bouquets, corsages, and more! The line uses fine silks, feathers, laces, and vintage bits that result in completely unique adornments.

Top: Silk tulle with lace trim veil in ivory -$225
Middle: Bridal or Special Occasion crown – $135 and Rhinestone adorned silk chiffon headband – $210
Bottom: Handmade silk tulle flower headband – $165

Hermes-Inspired Wedding at Haiku Sugar Mill, Maui

We found this wonderful wedding idea on Pacific Wedding’s Blog (love notes blog – love that name!). The Hermes-Inspired Wedding is even more exquisite given its setting.

The ruins of the old Haiku Sugar Mill are a magical setting for a destination wedding in Maui. Once a thriving enterprise back in the 1850s, the mill has been lovingly restored over the last twenty years into a kind of secret garden by present owner, Sylvia Hamilton-Kerr. She and her beau adored traveling through the south of France to gather antiques and amazing statues from Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Photography by Visionari and floral design by Floral Inspirations.

Featured Wedding: Elle & Brent

We’ve posted a new featured wedding. It was an intimate wedding with close friends and family, yet as elegant and beautiful as any we’ve posted. Read more.

Featured Weddings: Elle & Brent

At first glance, Ellen “Elle” Warren and Brent Harman are every bit the modern couple: he is the president and CEO of a successful barbeque brand, Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse, and she is the co-owner of a high-end bridal salon, Warren Barrón Bridal. But their relationship, along with their March Dallas wedding, was spotted with details that made for a perfect combination of old and new.

The couple’s first meeting, a blind date coordinated by their shared banker, lasted twelve hours and was a virtual culinary tour of Dallas starting with lunch at Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse  and ending with stops at Fearing’s and Charlie Palmer. Their courtship lasted a year and a half, and Brent planned for a proposal that played off of one of his favorite dates with Elle – an evening where bad weather and a craving for dancing led the two to Elle’s boutique to dance to music played by an antique record player until three in the morning.

The day of their proposal, the couple planned on watching the Cowboy’s game with some friends at a bar, but thanks to some creative genius and a little fibbing from Brent, they ended up back at Elle’s boutique. The original site of their impromptu evening of dancing was set up with flowers and champagne. After she said “yes,” Elle opened a sealed letter that Brent had written years before, meant for his one true love to open on such an occasion.

Elle was perhaps uniquely suited to find the perfect wedding dress because of her experience in the industry, previously working for top gown designers Ulla-Maija and Angel Sanchez and then opening her own Dallas bridal boutique with friend Cecilia Flores-Barrón in 2006. She chose an Elizabeth Fillmore gown and accented the ensemble with a black birdcage veil from Leah C., “something borrowed” diamond earrings from William Noble, a Meridith Griffin for Elizabeth Fillmore necklace and Chanel shoes. Not to be outdone by his bride, Brent wore a Balenciaga suit with an Alexander McQueen shirt.

Dean Fearing, a close family friend of the groom, opened up his restaurant Fearing’s at The Ritz-Carlton for the couple’s reception and personally created a menu and unique wedding cake for the affair. The rest of the details for the couple’s intimate wedding (the 60-person guest list included mostly family and close friends) were made easy by Alison Baker of DFW Events.

Photographer/Studio: John Derryberry Photography

Flowers: Bella Floral

Hair & Makeup: Sonia Trevino Wedding Stylist (hair) & Mayra Rams-Sanabria of My Fabulous Faces (makeup)

Melissa Sweet Bridal Gowns – Modern, yet Feminine

Her bridal gowns are contemporary with whimsical styles and offer a timeless balance of modernism and femininity. Melissa Sweet’s hallmark is beautiful silhouettes that are known for enveloping the body with grace and fluidity. Search Melissa Sweet Bridal Gowns to view a wider more of her beautiful gowns.

Wedding Invitations – Vintage Handkerchiefs

Wedding invitations these days are becoming more unique and more creative than ever before. Brides are no longer limited to paper choices for their invites and save the dates, they can choose from an array of different mediums, including vintage textiles.

In this wedding project from Bird and Banner, each invitation was screen printed on a one-of-a-kind vintage handkerchief, including a few handkerchiefs from the family’s personal collection. As an added personal touch, many of the male guests arrived at the wedding wearing their “invitations” as pocket squares!

Vintage handkerchief wedding save the dates from Lucky Luxe

These save the dates from Lucky Luxe, made for photographer Alisha Clark’s wedding, are another great way to incorporate a unique vintage flair into your wedding. Mixing and matching vintage hankies instead of new ones ensures that every guest will get something unique in the mail.

Source: Junebug Weddings

The Wedding Clutch

On your wedding day, often accessories like handbags and such are last minute thoughts. Yet we found these beautiful clutch bags that are the perfect size for those few items you may carry on your special day from WarrenBarron.com. If they tickle your fancy, I’m sure they’d be happy to let you know more details. 214.526.8400

Bridal Hosiery & Honeymoon FUNky Tights

One of our favorite sites to buy hosiery, stockings, etc. is MyTights.com. People are always commenting “where did we get our hose” when wearing them in cooler weather (we’re dreaming of cooler days, how about you?).

My Tights’ Newletter recently wrote on bridal hosiery, see highlights below. Visit their bridal offerings, then have fun looking over all their funky hosiery!

• Looking your best is all about feeling confident, and for some brides-to-be that means shedding a few unwanted pounds before the big day. Try wearing one of the amazing ShaToBu shapers every day in the run up to your wedding. These streamlining shapewear shorts incorporate resistance bands which help your muscles work harder: research has shown that wearing ShaToBu for at least 12 hours a day, 7 days a week can increase your calorie burn by 12% – over a year, that’s 30,000 extra calories burned!
• For a toned silhouette under your wedding dress, a shaping slip can help to smooth out your problem areas. Trinny and Susannah’s All in One Body Smoother is an open front style which will define your waist and slim down the back, tummy, bottom hips and thighs, whilst giving you the freedom to wear whatever bra you choose.
• It is of course traditional for blushing brides to wear stockings underneath their dresses, and for those who love the look Falke’s Seidenglatt stockings give legs a glossy finish and either the off-white or nude shades will finish your look perfectly. Falke’s Tulle suspender belt in white or nude will secure them in style. If you’re more of a thigh-high girl, Trasparenze’s Athena Bridal thigh highs have a gorgeous deep lace top and come in white or ivory so you can match them easily to your gown.
• The super-luxe Mrs Godiva stockings by Bebaroque are hand-embellished with pearls and lace on one leg.
• For a quirky, inexpensive option Jonathan Aston’s Sweet Roses lace thigh highs are available in ivory and would add a touch of vintage style to an elegantly simple ensemble.

When all the formality and glitz and glamour is done. Put on some fun and funky like the mini skirt and tights below with a pair of flats and enjoy the new you!

Wedding Dessert Tables …so much more!

As we research unique luxury wedding planners in New York City, we came across the phenomenal talents of Amy Atlas‘ and her oh so special wedding dessert tables. Yumm-o! Made us want to get married all over again.

We encourage you to visit her website to view the hundreds of photos that she has of all her sweet treats. Definitely worth the time to marvel at the creativity and (no doubt) flavors that can be experienced from her many goodies.

Photographs courtesy of Gemma Commas

New Featured Wedding – Vintage Romance

Elegant and sophisticated, this wedding was about old world colors and opulent accessories. The fleur de lis was used throughout and captured the essence of the bride’s French background. Read more.