Wedding Dresses Trends 2014

Hello everybody! 

I hope you had  great holidays and have a happy new year! For the first post of the year, I made a compilation of wedding dress trends for this year by the best wedding dress designers. We can see different styles, textures and colors! But all of them are beautiful. So you can get some ideas for your big day!

I hope you like them! 

To see more wedding dress ideas, visit our Pinterest board.

Angel Sanchez

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Monique Lhuillier

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Rosa Clara

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Vera Wang

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Judd Waddell

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Carolina Herrera

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Heidi Elnora

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Marchesa

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Modern Trousseau

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Theia

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Which is your favorite?
Have a nice day!

What Color is Your Wedding – Yellow Palette

I had been doing the “What Color is Your Wedding” series on my Facebook page, but decided it might be just better to post them on my blog and see if this will help me to post more often. Since we’re still in summer and I’m still getting lots of orders for summer weddings I’ll continue with a bright color: Yellow!

Here are some findings for your Yellow Wedding. If you want to see more make sure to follow my board on Pinterest :)

Yellow Wedding Sash available here

 

Necktie available here

Yellow Wedding Guest Book available here

Canary Yellow Wedding Table Numbers available here

Yellow Wedding Collage

Yellow Wedding Centerpieces

What do you think? Do you like it? Tell me what color is Your wedding and we’ll try to feature those colors next time :)

 

Technorati Tags: Yellow Wedding,Handmade Wedding,Summer Wedding

Summer Drinks + Sparkling Mint Lemonade Recipe

How is everyone enjoying their long weekend? It's been a very nice day here in the SF Bay Area. It's still somewhat cold, but with lots of sun today. Makes you want to have a Margherita or some other tropical drink, but since I can't have alcohol for three more months I had to come up with something different. It's a Mojito style drink but without alcohol. Very refreshing. I'll share the recipe at the end of the post. For now look at this mouth watering Summer drinks that I've found:

Tropical Wedding Drinks here

 Tropical Wedding Drinks here

 Tropical Wedding Drinks here

 Tropical Wedding Drink here

Tropical Wedding Drink here

They all look good, don't they? I think they look great (and sure they taste better) for a summer wedding or party. So now onto the Sparkling Mint Lemonade recipe. You will need:

- 2 Limes

- Sugar or sugar substitute

- Sparkling Water

- Fresh Mint

First pour sugar onto a plate. Cut one lime and pass it over your glass, now take the glass and put into the sugar in the plate. This is only to garnish your glass. Squeeze the lime into the glass, add sugar as desired and a few fresh mint leaves. I get mine from our garden, so they area always fresh! Smash the mint a little bit and then add ice and sparkling water. You're ready, now enjoy!

 Picture for my Sparkling Mint Lemonade Recipe here

Let me know if you like it!!! By the way, a Giveaway is coming soon, so make sure to check back often for the announcement or subscribe to my blog to be notified :)

 

Beach Wedding Ideas

Lately I've noticed that I'm getting more and more Beach Jewelry requests from my customers. As the summer gets closer brides are preparing for their big day and looking for beach themed items. For me here in the SF Bay Area I really don't feel the summer being close since it's still cold and rainy, but I know that other places are already filled with sun and warm weather.

So I made a quick search and found tons of info for beach weddings. I personally love weddings outdoors and especially on the beach. The only part that I don't love is that sometimes it can be really hot, so make sure you have big umbrellas or tents so that the guests are not all the time exposed to the sun. A good way to refresh your guests is offering them frozen Margarita drinks or similar. I normally love strawberry daiquiris or tamarind margaritas...yummy!

Here are a few ideas for your Handmade Beach Wedding. I've included the link to the vendors so you can go check out their shops as well.

Edible Sugar Fan Coral here

 Handmade Chiffon Bridal Dress here

 Handmade Personalized Heart Tags here

Handmade White Flip Flops here

Ring Bearer Shell here

Handmade Beach Bridal Bouquet here

Beach soap Favors here

Handmade Purple Bridesmaids Chiffon dress here

And for the brides that like some DIY items I found this great lanterns. You can buy the wire hooks online on Etsy and then re-use or buy the glass jars. Just place tea candles into the jar and the attach the wire holders. That's it! Very easy to make and it looks great!

DIY Lantern Jar holders here

I will be looking for more ideas and then show them to you in my next post. Meanwhile just a quick note, I've already finished my Beach Jewelry collection and started posting a few of them in my shop. I will be adding some pictures on my Facebook so you can see them there as well and remember that there is always a secret coupon for my Estylo Jewelry Facebook Fans!!!

The most important thing when you get married.....

is_____? Fill out the blank!

Well, I was thinking what do people think is the most important thing when they get married? As usual, I just googled it and browsed around for a while, trying to find what others think. And you know, I just didn't find the answer that I wanted. So here it is this is my answer showed in a few different ways:

available at Artstudio54

available at ChristyLynn316

 available at Colorbee

 available at Tinytreesboutique

available at BazingaCrafts

available at TinyArtbyJMullin

available at Whitefluffdesigns

Ok, I think I made my point clear. Love to everyone and have a great weekend!!!

DIY Wedding Ideas

I know a lot of people enjoy doing their own decoration for their wedding. So I decided to look around and show you some wonderful DIY tutorials for your wedding. First I thought to share one detailed tutorial, but since I couldn't decide from so many I just thought it was a better idea to show you a few and you can access the link to the site where you can see the full steps.

DIY instructions here

You must know that I enjoy eating, so that's why I'm presenting this Pie in a Jar instruction first. I also love to make deserts and cakes, even though I prefer salty items. But anyways, these pies look amazing and imagine to serve them to your guests at the wedding. They will be astonished when you tell them you made them yourself! Follow the link above to see how you can make them!

DIY instructions here

This is a great idea for displaying escort cards. It's also very easy to do and you can choose the flowers you want. It is also fairly inexpensive if you can get the boxes in a Dollar store or similar place and for flowers, it's just very few that you will need. The cards can be printed on your own printer as well. Follow the link for the instructions!

 DIY Instructions here

Look at this fabulous mix of vintage and modern, these save the date cards are a unique idea and you can find all the instructions in the link. You can use this idea also for other occasions, not only for weddings and the recipients will  be amazed with those cards. According to the blog every card cost them only $0.65!!! Isn't that great?

DIY Instructions here

Another great and cost effective idea are these treat boxes. All you need is some ribbon and scrapbook paper and you can basically make your boxes with the designs you want. There's a huge selection of scrapbook paper and it will take you only a few minutes to assemble each. You can the fill these little boxes with the munchies you want. Click the link above to see how to make them.

Hope this post is helpful for everyone. Feel free to share  your DIY ideas! 

Handmade Wedding Favors

As promised, this post is dedicated to other items for your summer wedding, not only clothes and accessories. There are tons of Favor ideas on the internet, you can choose to buy them or make some your self. I don't make favors and didn't make the ones for my wedding but I browsed a little on Etsy and found amazing ideas. You can find even items from $1 or of course of hundreds of dollars. Here are a few:

Beach Flip Flops by Smc801

These Flip Flops are a great gift!!! I've been to some weddings where I danced so much that I had to take off my shoes after a few hours. For us women this is an excellent gift. Trust me, your guests will appreciate those after some hours of dancing.

Starfish Bowl by Elmstudiosonline

A lot of the favor normally go straight to the garbage, so it is a good idea to pick something useful for your guests, like this personalized Starfish Bowl. It's not only useful and nice, but your guests will be remembering your wedding every time they use it. It's customizable with your names, colors, etc.

 Natural Soy Candles by Earthwaysoap

These natural candles are also a beautiful gift. They are made of soy and hand poured into pink mouthed murex sea shells. What a great idea, don't you think? You can either give them as favor gifts or use them to decorate your beach wedding and light them when it's getting darker. Which ever way you choose, it will look gorgeous.

Personalized Wine Charms by SunMoonStars

These Wine charms are another useful and wonderful idea. they will be very useful on the day of your wedding but guests will be able to use them also at home. There are many designs available and in different colors. They are great for wedding favors, but also for Bridal showers.

 Lavender Shaving Kit by Sacredwaterssoapco

Last but not least, a gift for men. It's always so difficult to find nice favor for men. You can always choose some sweet things, but if you want something for them to remember your wedding, this is just perfect. The kit comes with a Lavender Zen Soap Bar and a Shaving Brush tied to a Hand cut wooden disc. You can't go wrong with this favor.

What other favor ideas have you seen? Feel free to list them in the comments!!

See you next week everyone!

Handmade Wedding Findings

I was looking at the treasuries on Etsy and I could see that I'm not the only one who wants to stick to summer. There are many shops that still have summer items and many people are still creating summer treasuries. So I wanted to share a few Summer Wedding Treasuries with you.

Wedding Colors: Yellow+Grey

 Treasury here

Alternative Wedding

Treasury here

Indian Summer Wedding 

 Treasury here

Midsummer's Eve Wedding

 Treasury here

Last golden wedding

 Treasury here

So many great findings for your handmade wedding! For next time I want to look for some decoration for the wedding, like cake toppers, invitations, flowers, so make sure to check back often!!