What do you do with the “Bride” shirts after you’re married?? Move to Wifeville.
With all the apparel that says “bride” – you only wear it for a short period of time during your engagement. And you throw all of that stuff out once you get married and become a wife! And, honestly – brides don’t have ALL the fun! At Wifeville.com, you can give and receive WIFEWEAR as engagement, shower, and/or wedding gifts – and be able to wear it AFTER the wedding too (sunday brunch after the wedding, on way to airport, on honeymoon, and for the next 50 years of your married life!)
WIFEWEAR includes Tee-shirts, Undies, Kitchen Kitsch, Lounge Pants, Track suits, and Hats. Take a look at all of the WIFEWEAR on the Wifeville website.
The Atlantan Brides presents their first annual event,
“An Evening of Bridal Luxury.”
This lavish bridal affair hosted on Sunday, April 13th from 5pm-8pm, will highlight a runway show featuring 2008 collections from Anne Barge, Priscilla of Boston, and Wedding Angels.
Your taste buds will be delighted with culinary creations served by A Legendary Event. Event Design Group, along with Infinite Designs, will transform Mason Murer Fine Art into an elegant wedding showroom and LaCour Photography will be there to capture it all!
Attending brides will have the opportunity to register for fabulous prizes such as champagne showers, weekend getaways, and many others.
To purchase ticket and for more information, visit
Looking for creative ways to display your escort cards? Here are some photos of ideas we really like. Remember to think out of the box, and be original.
Spring Sample Sale at Impressions Bridal Salon! Join Impressions Bridal Salon and view their collection of designer samples, marked down to incredible prices. Gowns originally priced at $5,400 are now $1,999! Brides and debutantes will have the opportunity to work one on one with a sales associate to select the perfect sample gown. Please call us for an appointment today!
Impressions Bridal Salon
99 West Paces Ferry Road, Northwest
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
(404) 841-6202 www.impressionsbridalsalon.com
Congratulatios to the new Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sandidge. Rebecca Lane and Mark Sandidge entered into everlasting wedding bliss on Saturday, March 22nd. The couple held their wedding soiree at the Historical Trolley Barn in Inman Park. With spring in the air, the outdoor garden ceremony was beautiful. There was not a dry eye in the house as we witnessed the couple share their custom wedding vows and profess their love for each other.
Following the ceremony, the wedding guests enjoyed a dinner reception inside the venue. The ice blue decor, by Jeffrey Blooms, was amazing. The guests enjoyed dinner, a live jazz band, dancing, and more.
Matrimony Inc. provided “Day of Coordination” for the couple. Thank you to Rebecca and Mark for allowing us to participate in their special day. It was a pleasure to serve you on “The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives Together”.
Atlanta brides now have the opportunity to join in on the rage that is sweeping the nation with “Trash the Dress” photo sessions. So you ask what is Trash the Dress? Am I literally putting my wedding dress in the trash? Following the blessed event, the bride straps on that gorgeous dress once again for a final farewell photo to the gown she spent a fortune to wear for one day. What you decide to do to trash your dress is limitless. Atlanta based photographer Matt Adcockalong with his partner Sol Tamargoof Del Sol Photographyare now offering these sessions to their brides here in the US and International Destinations. Check out this amazing video shot on location with a “Trash the Dress” bride and you decide whether or not that dress belongs in a box.
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, the concept of green weddings may well be in overdrive. The green wave is sweeping the United States and many of today’s modern brides are being caught in its wake. This emerging trend in eco-consciousness has done a great deal in raising awareness for issues that are near and dear to a number of growing Americans.
Though it’s a relatively new concept the green wedding draws upon longstanding principals of conservation, social awareness, and environmental friendliness.This can mean everything from wearing recycled wedding gowns, organic confetti and invitations from recycled paper, purchasing conflict-free diamonds, home-grown flowers, and eating locally produced food.
But be careful lessening your weddings environmental footprint may well increase the burden on today’s unsuspecting brides. The planning process is overwhelming ordinarily now we have introduced yet another societal pressure that has the potential to send you over the edge. Evidence of what is being termed as “green guilt” is starting to pop-up in internet chatter and blogspheres. Brides are beating themselves up over the fact that they didn’t find a fair trade dress or they couldn’t afford organic food for their wedding. Its not enough that your Mother-in-law is breathing down your neck, now Mother Nature is piling on.
Weddings are celebrations and each couple will have to set their own standards and stay true to those. Any couple that incorporates green choices into their wedding should be congratulated. And in the end, we want GREEN to equal FUN!
Some of our favorite “Green Wedding” online resources:
Have your heard about the PBS story on smells and how they can attract the perfect mate?Apparently, experiments show that the sense of smell may have more to do with why we fall in love than previously thought.
So it got me to thinking about how important the sense of smell is on your wedding day.From choosing aromatic flowers, proper ventilation in historic yet stuffy churches and cathedrals, to the selection of the most romantic fragrances that can complete your wedding ensemble.
Smells are extremely personal; they can conjure images of our most memorable moments or fill our minds with a landscape of happy thoughts and wistful dreams.A good fragrance is akin to a love potion.We’ve listed Matrimony Inc’s favorites that promise to leave your hubby-to-be spellbound throughout your wedding day and hopefully your honeymoon.
BRIDES Magazine and Sally Hansen have teamed up to create a collection of must-have shades for every bride-to-be. Guided by BRIDES magazine, the industry’s authority on wedding day beauty and nail color SallyHansen has custom designed Diamond Strength Nail Color shades to suit every blushing bride . . . this is the perfect “marriage” between America’s bridal expert and America’s #1 nail expert.
Everything should be perfect from your engagement to your wedding day—nails are no exception. When the question is popped—and when you show off your ring—you’ll want nails with diamond strength and diamond shine. Diamond Strength Nail Color contains real diamond particles to help stop nails from breaking.
The “Just Engaged!” Collection is available in the following 8 shades:
Sheer Magic
I Do
True Love
First Dance
Wedding Bells
Sealed With A Kiss
Passion Flower
Wedding Bliss
How do you invite the guests you want and get rid of the guests you don’t want? Many brides have been attempting to answer this question for years. We recently had a bride with the same dilemma. She wanted to invite over 300 guests to attend the wedding ceremony, and only 150 guests to attend the formal wedding reception. The couples families were inviting distant cousins and friends that the couple had never met. In an effort to cut down on the guest count for the reception, the bride wanted to escort the “Unwanted Guests” off the property immediately following the wedding ceremony, leaving behind the guests they truly wanted to attend.
How do you do that? Tell the guests, “Thanks for coming! Leave your gift here and have a good night”. Of course not. How would you feel if you were unexpectedly asked to leave following a wedding ceremony?
So what do you do? In my opinion, there is no way around it. No matter how much you try, if there is a guest that finds out they were not good enough to make the list, they will definitely be offended. There is such a thing as a “Private Reception”. In the formal invitations, you can invite your guests to attend the private reception. But how do you get the invited guests to keep the secret? It’s not impossible, but very hard to do.
Our suggestion is to invite the number of guests you can afford. You can expect that about 5% of your invited guests won’t be able to attend. This makes room for a small “B” list. By inviting the number of guests you can afford, no one is offended. Many will assume you have planned an intimate wedding of close family and friends, and will respect that. Remember, you want your guests to rave about the beautiful wedding, your dress, and how much fun they had. Not about how rude it was that they weren’t allowed to attend wedding reception.
Let us know what you think. Have you been in the same situation? How did you handle it?
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