Find Wedding Ideas
Articles + Ideas posts filed under category: Stuff We Love
Your Wedding Invitations: Signed, Sealed and Delivered with Personal Style
Your wedding invitations are more than just functional; they’re a formal announcement of your intentions. So since you’re going to use the U.S. Post Office to send out your invitations, thank-you notes and sundry other correspondence, why not get creative with it? Thanks to modern technology, you can.
Wedding Parasols and Fashion Umbrellas: A Bride Has Options
There’s nothing like a prop to bring out a woman’s inner diva. Whether vamping it up with a feather boa or flirting coyly with a painted fan, a woman becomes positively magnetic with the addition of just the right accessory. Though a bouquet is a bride’s traditional best friend, daring damsels are reaching for parasols and umbrellas to best set off their feminine charms.
Best Face Forward: Airbrush Makeup Design
It’s your wedding day: are you ready for your close-up? If you’re having doubts, you’re not alone. That’s why a professional makeup artist has become an essential part of the modern bride’s entourage. Yet a quiet revolution is changing the way brides prep for the cameras: airbrush makeup.
Haute Stuff
What gal doesn’t crave clean, natural glamour? Although Bay Area make-up artist Taylor Pham created Thí Cosmetics specifically with Asian women in mind, her beauty products draw fans from all ethnicities. Find out more...
Bling Goes Bold
Sure, you say. I’d love to inject a little color into my wedding jewelry. And yet, like so many brides, you end up nixing the idea and defaulting to the predictable refuge of a classic all-white look. Here’s our “dime store psychologist” explanation: The left side of your brain pleads “safety,” while the right side screams “sexy.” Here's how to let your inner sexy out.
It’s All About the Dress
“My friend's excitement over her wedding dress inspired me to create an unusual shower gift: I did a classic fashion illustration of my friend modeling her wedding gown.” Matted and framed, the unique present struck a sentimental chord among the shower guests, most of whom were already married. See these pieces of art.
It’s in the Bag
In a time when most everything around us is mass-produced, it's a rare and wondrous thing to encounter a one-of-a-kind item, crafted lovingly by the human hand. Designer Shannon Presson's custom, handmade bridal bags...
Gift Guide for Groom Guys
When it comes time for the groom to hand out attendants' loot, he's flying without radar. Knowing the male species' innate fear of the shopping mall, overall impatience with social obligations, and proclivity for procrastination...read our Groom's Gift Guide.