Planning & Inspiration

Favorites From Wedding Crashers in Brooklyn

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Image by David Juliet

Image by David Juliet

 

Wedding Crashers, a Brooklyn wedding fair at the Wythe Hotel, introduced us to new vendors and inspired us with creative ideas. This event emphasized handcrafted and unique touches to bring a personalized, vintage-modern feeling to weddings. Sustainable design and responsibly sourced ingredients and materials were hot topics at the fair, but didn’t pull focus from what couples always look for: charming, elegant and sentimental ways to express their love and taste. Here are a few of our favorite things from the fair.

 

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Bario-Neal
Handmade engagement rings crafted with Fairmined metals and ethically sourced diamonds and gems. Bario-Neal offers total customization of all ring designs and transparency about suppliers and sourcing. Some diamonds in their designs are “recycled” or antique. Couples aiming for a green lifestyle need not sacrifice elegance. We loved the classic shape and colored stone in their Aquamarine Halo ring. Read More

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We Love: The Mrs. Box

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Mrs Box

Irresistible, bright ring boxes by the woman behind Grey Likes Weddings. Created with rare, vintage French velvet in vibrant colors, every detail of these petite treasures is design perfection. Heirloom-worthy boxes can be embossed with a single gold monogram initial. Colors are charmingly named and may have limited availability. Coral-pink box shown is “The Parlour.” Shop and see more photos here: The Mrs. Box

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Planning & Inspiration

Flower-Inspired Fashion: Orchids in Autumn

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Autumn Orchids

Cultivate a rarified air with luxury fashion, beauty treasures and exquisite accessories, inspired by the most mystical flower. Orchids always make an impact. These delicate hothouse blooms are sought after by brides for the exotic beauty and sense of grandeur they bring to arrangements and bouquets. When Pantone named Radiant Orchid the color of 2014, designers, florists and decorators embraced the bright, flattering hue. This fall, orchids appear in deeper and softer shades. Pack dark, feminine floral prints, sculptural adornments and a seductive new fragrance for a romantic city weekend away. You’ll be radiant.

1. Orchid print cotton dress by Givenchy.
2. Crème Smooth Lip Color in Royal Orchid, by Laura Mercier.
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Elegant Wearable Tech

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Apple watch

Wearable technology had a breakthrough month. Apple Watch was unveiled and is on display at Colette Paris. Fashion week in New York launched collaborations between designers including Rebecca Minkoff and Tory Burch, with technology companies, to create accessories with communication capabilities and features to track fitness and interact with wearer’s smartphones.

We believe “wearable tech” is “wedding tech.” Brides and wedding pros tend to be early adopters of technology and tools that streamline planning, encourage creative design and make it simple to record and share memories. (Remember the first Google Glass bride?) This season, editors and audiences have noticed a difference that will get the wedding crowd’s attention: style. Luxury materials and chic lines may soon give hi-tech brides the chance to geek-out while looking wedding perfect. Read More

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Solar Ring from Van Cleef & Arpels

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Solar ring

From Van Cleef & Arpels’ new Peau d’Âne collection, the exquisite Solar Ring is crafted in yellow gold, and features a 16ct cushion-cut yellow sapphire, surrounded by smaller sapphires and diamonds.

The jewels in this collection tell the story of classic French fairy tale, Peau d’Âne, which was made into a 1970 film starring Catherine Deneuve. Radiant with the golden light of the sun, this ring is part of the Happy Marriage chapter of the tale told in gems, and would make an extraordinary anniversary gift. See more here.

Planning & Inspiration

WE LOVE: Loquet London

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Loquet

Elegant, gold-framed crystal Loquets are designed to be filled with tiny charms and birthstones. Scheherazade Goldsmith and Laura Bailey collaborated on this line of bespoke jewelry and call each piece, “a love story coded in charms.” Fill one with initials, numbers signifying your wedding date, and a stone or symbol that has personal meaning, and give the perfect gift to your maid of honor or perhaps, your new stepdaughter.