It’s time for a new tradition – bridesmaids need something borrowed too! Little Borrowed Dress is the first online wedding boutique to offer bridesmaid dresses for rent starting at just $50, giving brides the opportunity to choose a picture perfect dress in a way that all their bridesmaids can afford. And here’s the best part. Bridesmaids get to return the dresses! So their memories are of how fun the wedding was and not the once-worn dress gathering dust in their closet.
Jessica and Russ set quite the tone with their ingenious timeline wedding invitation, their even more visionary wedding website, and precursor picnic wedding celebration in San Francisco. Then it was off to Brooklyn, their now home away from home, to party with 300 of their friends & fam. Props to Sugar & Fluff for designing & planning a second bash for such dream clients. They’re seasoned pros at this: turning an already beautiful venue like The Green Building into a memorable experience, taking J + R’s style and palette and creating a seamless love story with it. We’re thankful photographer Kristen Marie was behind the lens capturing every pretty detail, because there were plenty. Endless cat stickers and Tattly tattoos included.
As far as invitations go, their collaborative timeline love story, created by a multitude of their designer friends and artists, pretty much blows us away. We shared a few snippets from their wedding website above, but you can see it in entire digital form, here.
We’ve been fans of Jessica Hische‘s work since her days at Louise Fili, where she turned lettering into an entirely sexy art form, giving alphabets textures, colorful illustrations, and new shape. Remember her Daily Drop Cap series? Then in 2009, she released her famous Buttermilk font, which we all know made quite the explosion in the wedding invitation world. We could go on. Point is, we love this cute, lettering, self-proclaimed crazy cat lady and her Facebook Product Designer husband. When we caught word of her engagement and laid eyes on their ridiculously amazing wedding website, that tells the epic tale of how Jessica and Russ met, dated and became engaged, we knew this was the wedding we’d been dying to share!
Now for their happily ever after – that they got to celebrate twice. First in San Francisco for their Bay Area friends, told through the photography of Ben Blood and design of Sugar & Fluff, the second, a New York celebration that you’ll see in a bit.
This totally counts as their ‘first look’. Obvs, this picture was instagrammed.
It’s that time again to take a little dip into the Vendors + Venues Guide of 100 Layer Cake and let you know who’s new, marvelous and would make a sweet addition to your wedding. We’re loving this roundup and think you will too. As always, if you like what you see click on their profiles below and chat them up about your upcoming wedding! Happy Friday lovelies!
Tender Greens will bring their famed farm-to-fork sensibility with a relaxed California style to your wedding.
L A M A R T I N E creates a bespoke floral signature for each event and makes each wedding highly individual and eminently elegant.
Vinewood Plantation is the picture-perfect location for your fairy-tale wedding. Formerly a cotton plantation, Vinewood’s expansive grounds feature pastures of rolling hills peppered with ancient oak trees in a tranquil setting.
Joel Bedford Photography is a modern studio that combines fine art aesthetics, high end retouching and styling to capture your day in a one-of-kind way.
Ultrapom Event Rental specializes in unique rental decor items, from vintage milk glass and typewriters to chevron table runners and modern chuppahs.
Kate Romenesko Photography is a fine art photographer with an organic and romantic editorial approach.
Charm City Cakes creates any cake you can dream of. Really. From the exquisitely elegant to the wildly punk rock.
Dish Wish is an affordable vintage event rental company specializing in mismatched vintage china, linens, flatware, serving pieces and more.
And here are some of our new awesome sponsors!
Coach
Ann Taylor
Tree of Life Films
Sarah Seven
31 Bits
Color Me Carla
The Wedding Collection
Trial By Cupcakes
Brilliance
M&J
Wix.com
Anna Panik
Gabriel NY
Millie Caro
Have you been keeping up with all the buzz over The Knot’s Dream Wedding contest? Everything from the actual couple themselves, the flowers, the theme, to the bride’s hair is getting voted on by the public. Today’s voting is all about the hair and makeup for Sierra’s (the lucky bride-to-be) wedding day look. Take a peek at the styles and head over to The Knot so you can vote on which style you like best. We’re personally a big fan of the Winter’s Goddess look.. a perfectly side-swept low chignon with rhinestone barrette. So sweet.
Heads up! Monday we will be doing a live Skype session at 10am PST, giving our take on the pretty bridesmaids dresses for Sierra and Andre’s wedding. Be sure to tune in!
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