on April 16th, 2010 | Real Wedding Stories
In sunny California, every season is wedding season. We’d like to share with you, these beautiful images from Eric and Estee’s wedding in Los Angeles that took place in November 2009. Matt Beard of STUDIO 1444 is the photographer whose talented lens captured their wedding with timeless and inspired feel. The colors they chose for their reception were a lovely pink and white, with pink potted orchids for centerpieces. The bouquet, which looks as if it walked off a watercolor, impressionist painting, and the orchids were wrapped with the same ribbon.
Venue: Kanner Hall; Los Angeles, CA
Music: Sam Glaser Orchestra
Photography: Matt Beard
Video: FaMedia
on March 29th, 2010 | Interesting
As you plan your wedding, we’re sure that your plate is quite full. We hope that we’ve helped a bit in bringing some ‘seder’ (order) into your wedding planning process.
From all of us to all of you:
HAPPY PASSOVER!
!חג שמח
on March 18th, 2010 | Wedding Advisor
Planning another bride’s wedding is simply never unpleasant: you get to dream up fabulous ideas, creative themes, exciting details that come together into a perfect wedding. In other words, one can let the event planning imagination run free – you’re not the one paying for it. The sober reality of a budget is only a theoretical idea when it’s someone else money. You’re not the one asking yourself: so, where and how am I going to get the money for all of this. The bride, the groom, their families are, however, keeping a keen and constant eye on the bills like a diabetic on his blood sugar levels, and the ever so delicate matter of who’s paying for what and how much is an ever present elephant in the room.
Thankfully, there’s precedent to lean on; there is in each community an accepted (more or less) custom about splitting the costs. In the ‘frum’ circles the FLOP method with its ill-fitted name divides the expenses between the sides, like countries on a map, along the borders of the various wedding services. (more…)
on March 12th, 2010 | Ideas and Inspirations
As you can imagine, the jewelry business has been victim to our economic slip-slide. According to the preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, however, 2009 hasn’t been as bad as one would expect. Jewelry and watch sales only dipped 1.6 percent over 2009. And guess what sector of this nearly 60 billion dollar industry has been providing the much needed support? You’ve got it – everything bridal. Bridal jewelry – engagement rings, wedding bands, and all sorts of other jewelry that are gifted around the wedding and showered upon the bride or her maids -sells well in all economic environments. The size of the ‘rock’, however, has shrunk. According to a recent survey of jewelers by the National Jewelry magazine, the average bride has shifted down a notch in the size of the diamond. If the bride of the previous would on average go for the 2 carat, last year she’d tone it down to a 1.5. The good news in general for the consumer is that diamond prices have been on a continuous downward trend, especially for the larger ones. They are ,however, expected (acc. to IDEX) to start their slow, upward climb this year. As far as the shape and color: round diamonds still continue to be the most popular shape, and yellow is the most common choice for brides who like their diamonds to have color, followed by blue. Color stones continue to grow in their popularity.
Ok, enough about the numbers. There are thousands of beautiful engagement rings out there; just walk down 47th street and you ask yourself: why do I only have two eyes or how come a girl only gets to pick one of these? One just can never get enough. So here are some more eye-candy.
Corona Ring from Cento Collection by Roberto Coin. Starts at about $15,000. (ouch) Cento diamonds feature 100 facets.
Frome the Amelia Collection by Krrk Kara
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on March 7th, 2010 | Ideas and Inspirations
Sure the hall will usually provide the table numbers, but why not let your style spill over and touch even the mundane details. Here’s some ideas we recently stumbled upon. (Some images are via StyleMePretty.com – a truly magnificent glance onto wedding beauty.)
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