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We Love: The Thanksgiving Wedding

Why have a Thanksgiving wedding? Well, if you just love thanksgiving to pieces, you can really claim it for your own. Some couples love the symbolism, of giving thanks for each other. And you can rest assured, everyone has the day off.

You will need to consider your guests’ needs, when planning. If you have a lot of guests joining you from far away, Thanksgiving is a hectic time for them to travel. But if your guests are mostly family and local, we say go for it!

Even if you don’t plan for Thanksgiving day proper, here are some Thanksgiving-style wedding ideas we love!

We love this Thanksgiving wedding! The couple owns a bakery, and their sense of style is adorably old-timey and quirky. Her bouquet is amazing, no?

100 Layer cake has a great slideshow of Thanksgiving tabletop decorations. They’re amazing for a wedding or just to wow your Thanksgiving guests.

We think this apple-themed wedding fits. Beautiful pictures. And these pumpkins!

And of course, a Thanksgiving wedding needs some feather inspiration!

Here’s a list of tips from the pros on how to do it well.

So what say you? Are you on board with Thanksgiving weddings?

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We love: Apple cider donuts & fall nail colors

The important thing is to be in love with something. ― Ray Bradbury

Or someone. ― Jeff Cooper

So here we are, with our weekly list of fun links and diversions. We hope you find something that inspires you.

Here’s something amazing. (A GoPRo camera strapped to an eagle.)

Something old. (Guy discovers a Van Gogh in his attic.)

Something new. (A wedding theme we’ve never seen before: Moon & Stars.)

Something cheap and chic. (Nail polish colors for fall.

Something seasonal. (Old fashioned apple cider donuts.)

Something virtuous. (A lemony salad.)

Something unexpected. (Bright eyecolor and a chic bun.)

Something understated. (Beautifully calming greys.)

Something light. (Beautifully calming white interiors.)

Something sparkly.

Something social.

And something real.(Our featured photo, a groom, overcome with emotion.)

We hope your weekend is really something!

Autumn Wedding Style

This Sunday marks the first day of fall, so let’s talk about fall wedding style, shall we?

This Australian farm wedding has it all for fall. A rustic, personalized cake, a dramatic venue, a lacy, but demure wedding dress, a bouquet of saturated colors and original textures, and that warm sunset lighting we love.

This one is hip and amazing! The bride’s glasses and lipstick look so cool with her floral wreath and sultry dress, and the color story is incredible.

A bold lip and sexy hair is always in season, but especially for fall, don’t you think?

And how good are these tweed details for bride, groom and attendants? So chic as an alternative or an addition to swishy, silky things.

Sometimes engagement shoots can be a little sugary and over the top, so we love the refined simplicity of this one. Work those stiletto pumps, lady!

Pumpkin centerpieces too twee for you? Don’t judge till you see these. White pumpkins are the perfect blend of minimal and adorable.

So how are you making the most of the crisp, lovely days of fall?

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New Sean Parker Wedding Pictures

We like to think we’ve seen it all when it comes to romantic gestures, but social media mogul Sean Parker took it to an entirely new level with his over-the-top Big Sur wedding.

Parker, who was played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network, personally oversaw the most lavish wedding we think we’ve ever seen. We reported the event here, but we just had to share the pictures and details of this elaborate fantasy wedding.

Vanity Fair has just released new pictures, and although we do tend to favor refined simplicity in our own style, the effect was pretty much magical. To create a Tolkien themed wedding in the woods, the couple spent $4.5 million for the wooded alone. Here are some quick details about the festivities:

Lord of the Rings costume designer Ngila Dickson designed costumes for each of the 364 guests.

Guests entered through a 20 foot gate.

Lounging beds and dining chairs were covered with miles of white fur.

The cake was nine feet tall.

Guest included Emma Watson, Olivia Munn, Sting, LArs Ulrich from Metallica and founders of MTV, Wikipedia, Zynga, Twitter, Facebook and the like.

Wedding inspirations included old growth forests, Disney, Lord of the Rings, and the invitation to the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Bunnies were provided for guests to cuddle.

Set designers made bridges, a ruined stone castle, a 10-foot Celtic cross, and two broken Roman columns for the altar.

Traditional Irish singer Loreena McKennitt performed with a seven-piece band on a 50-foot stage.

And that’s not all. Here’s an except from Vanity Fair:

“The newlyweds dined on salmon with beets and Napa cabbage (entrée choices: porchetta, chicken, or venison) while perched upon a 10-foot sofa-throne, their feet nestled in a bearskin rug. After dark, lights illuminated the hillsides. Sting erupted a cappella in an impromptu version of his song “I Was Brought to My Senses.” Celtic musicians played on. Then the P.A. boomed disco and rock until dawn. At five A.M. guests guzzled leftover bottles of $500-plus wine from Napa Valley’s Harlan Estate. (The following night, stragglers gathered around an inflatable outdoor screen to watch the bloody “Red Wedding” episode of Game of Thrones.)”

Wow.

Cheers to the happy and imaginative couple. We hope their lives together are as exciting as their wedding!

See all the pictures here.

We Love: Chanel Wedding Style

Remember when Keira Knightly recycled her little blush pink Chanel ballerina dress for her wedding?

And a pregnant and radiant Drew Barrymore wore Chanel for an entirely different, still beautiful effect.

And our featured image, supermodel bride Kristen McMenamy at her wedding with Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and fellow model Naomi Campbell, via this lovely link to Vogue Weddings.

Since then, we’ve been pretty enticed by the allure of Chanel-inspired touches for weddings.

Read and adore this slideshow on the 50 chicest French women of all time. This is from Coco Chanel’s entry:

“The first couturière as famous as her clients, Coco Chanel was an iconoclast that redefined the modern woman. Challenging class barriers and staid notions of good taste, Chanel took inspiration from menswear and worked with new materials, incorporating pockets, tweeds, and jersey into her lexicon of soft suits and easy sheaths. If you’ve ever worn a little black dress, designer fragrance, or costume jewelry — and you have — you’ve got Mademoiselle to thank.”

And another amazing slideshow. This one’s all Chanel.

Thank you, Mlle. Chanel!

Here’s a crazy-cool vintage Chanel costume jewelry necklace. Would it be exquisite against a simple wedding dress? Perhaps something Great Gatsby- inspired?

This beautiful inspiration shoot is Chanel-inspired. We’re loving all the black. It looks so chic and sophisticated.

So how much do you love Chanel wedding style?

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we love: midsummer night’s dream wedding

What about a wedding isn’t dreamlike? It’s beautiful, magical, dizzying, a little crazy, then it’s over just like that.

And we’re really loving Midsummer Night’s Dream for a wedding theme.

The play has a wedding, fairies, the Queen of the Amazons and an enchanted forest. So much visual inspiration!

Here’s It Girl Jemima Kirke, talking about her bohemeian wedding style. And here’s a great Midsummer Nights mood board with her in it.

We found this board of otherworldly inspiration on Pinterest.

The Swedish Stuga where this whimsical wedding took place was inspired by A Midsummer Nights Dream. Check out the dreamy, surreal photography.

Here’s a great Midsummer Night’s Dream wedding dress. This one’s pretty great, too.

We love this delicate headpiece. It’s très fairy-chic, no?

Check out Anita Louise, the original Fairy Queen Titania from the 1935 Midsummer Night’s Dream movie.

And what ring could be ethereal enough for the Midsummer Night’s Dream bride? We think it’s Leah, but we’d love to hear your ideas!

 

The featured image is Kate Moss and her flower girls, via Vogue.

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We Love: Summer Cocktails & A Fiesta Themed Wedding

This weekend, we’re trying new things. You have to, to keep things fresh and spicy. What’s on your list of fun experiments and experiences?

We really need to try cronuts.

But instead of waiting in line for them, we’ll probably just make these (surprisingly grown up and elegant!) mojito jello shots instead.

Not into it? Okay, here are some really, truly elegant summer cocktails. Worth a try, right?

To go with them? This salad looks incredible. And these lemon bars are so summery, we want to eat them on a hammock.

We want these tea glasses by Calypso St. Barthe! So pretty on a picnic, right?

We’re definitely trying at least one of these aromatherapy blends. We’re just not confessing which one!

And lastly, we love this vintage fiesta-themed wedding! Kids, babies, green shoes, flowing hair, an incredible bouquet, a groom wearing pink… we don’t know where to look! It’s all so good.

Let’s be inspired to try something extra-colorful this weekend!

Featured image by KT Merry, via Once Wed.

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We Love: mermaid wedding inspiration

Style mag Lucky reports that “mermaid” beauty is all the rage, and we are all about it!

We unveiled our Arielle Engagement Ring a few months ago, which has a decidedly magical-mermaid feel, and we’re loving the trend for weddings. Iridescent colors, siren shapes and under-the-sea inspiration just puts us in the greatest mood!

We wouldn’t necessarily take it so literally, but these pictures are really beautiful.

This mermaid inspired elopement is so perfect!

And we adore this sunset ‘Day After’ shoot from Sean Taylor Photography, with the bride’s wildly sexy mermaid hair.

What do you think of the mermaid trend?

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Wedding Trend We Love: Feathers

Our authorized retailer JCK named our Anneliese Engagement Ring its ‘Jewel of the Month,‘ and it got us thinking about the the feather wedding motifs we’ve been loving.

Here’s feather inspiration from Brooklyn Bride. The cake is epic.

We’re really feeling the chic clutch instead of a bouquet. It draws more attention to the ring!

A feather bracelet is such an easy way to wear the trend.

And the famous Miss James from Bleubird blog held her reception beneath these gold-tipped feathers, for a super bohemian take on the trend.

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Featured photos, our Anneliese Engagement Ring.

 

 

 

 

 

Trend We Love: Scalloped Details

Since we read this post on Brooklyn Bride, we’re seeing scallops all over. A scalloped neckline, a scalloped hemline, they’re everywhere all of a sudden. We love scallops for a unifying theme for a wedding, and we love them most when they’re more retro-sophisticated than cutesy. Here’s the best of the best we’ve seen.

It’s rare to say this about a veil, but this sheer, scalloped fingertip veil is really sexy.

Here’s a garter to go with it.

And here’s the dress.

For the bridesmaids.

For the honeymoon.

And the cake.

For the scalloped engagement ring, there’s Arielle, from our Arabesque Collection.

Thinking scallops on a wedding band, and a bit simpler? Here’s Lola, from our nature inspired Laurel Collection.

 

 

They also look gorgeous together, as in our featured image above. So what do you think of scallops? Love it or leave it? Seen any great ones we missed? Leave it in the comments.

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