Bridal Fashion
The Finest Vintage Inspired Bridal Gowns from NYC Bridal Fashion Week
If a vintage wedding dress, like the fabulous frocks I featured in Exquisite Vintage Bridal Gowns from The Frock, isn’t for you but you still want a vintage inspired wedding or theme, then despair not! Many of the oh so talented designers of today have been drawing inspiration from eras gone by for their recent collections and 2012 is no exception. Jenny…
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Bridal Fashion
Exquisite Vintage Bridal Gowns from The Frock
In my sneak peek of posts to come I teased you with the promise of showing where you can find the most fabulous Vintage Wedding Dresses and today I am finally getting round to keeping that promise! I have been so keen to share The Frock with you, but I confess to having been sidetracked by research…
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Bridal Fashion
Chic Vintage Catchup
Chic Vintage Brides may have been quiet on the post front for a few days but I promise I haven’t been idle – as well as being engrossed in an exciting makeover for CVB, I have also been avidly reading and catching up with some of my favourite Wedding blogs and I am quite frankly…
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Wedding Cake
Love Birds – Oh So Sweet Wedding Cake Toppers
I want to share a new infatuation of mine……. (Source Style Me Pretty) Bird wedding cake toppers! I don’t know what it is about them, they have won me over with their sweet, rustic charm. They’re a little bit kitsch, so cute and they make me smile!
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Bridal Accessories
Old Hollywood Glamour and Exquisite Embellishment from Johanna Johnson
Coming across this stunning Vintage Inspired Noosa Wedding …… ……on the fabulous Polka Dot Bride reminded me about the Johanna Johnson post I promised in my sneak peek last month! But first I have to share these stunning snaps…….
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Inspiration Boards
Spring has sprung! – Inspiration for a Spring Wedding
With the clocks going forward this weekend, it’s official, Spring has sprung! I love Spring – mornings filled with warm light, snow slowly receding from the mountains, lambs playing in the fields and trees heavy with beautiful blossom…. all signalling the end of Winter and better than that, Summer is just around the corner! It’s difficult…
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Bridal Fashion
Utterly Gorgeous Coloured Gowns for the Unconventional Bride
For me, having a vintage inspired wedding was about trying to create a look personal and unique to me – when I was younger I was adamant I would get married in black, so obviously my wedding was always destined to be unique! When planning our wedding I did consider challenging convention and going with…
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Inspiration Boards
Forever Holly – Inspiration for a chic Breakfast at Tiffany’s themed Wedding
Following my blissful afternoon of Audrey the other weekend and my subsequent Style Icon post I began to muse on how a bride might channel the great Miss Hepburn and infuse their big day with some Breakfast at Tiffany’s style….. and after a few hours surfing the wide world of the web I pieced together a couple…
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Wedding Stationery
Luxurious Letterpress Stationery – Bella Figura
Wow, wow and wow! I am not sure where to begin singing the praises of the subject of todays post, Letterpress experts and Wedding Stationery suppliers extraordinaire Bella Figura, there is nothing I don’t love about this company – from their incredible range, that includes a full suite of stationery and stunning designs (of over 200!); to…
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Bridal Accessories
Heirlooms of the Future – Vintage Brooch Bouquets from Noaki
I adored my bridal bouquet and I can still smell it now if I close my eyes…… ivory roses and freesias will always take me back to NYE 2010! But I was devastated when New years Day I awoke to find my perfect ivory roses tinged with brown (as all roses do when out of water for a…
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Bridal Accessories
Stunning Bridal Gowns & Accessories from Mariana Hardwick
One of the best things about Chic Vintage Brides is that it gives me the excuse to spend hours (upon hours, upon hours…) browsing gorgeous bridal gowns, from the very latest collections of the most fabulously talented designers – like Mariana Hardwick!
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Inspiration Boards
Dramatically Downton – Inspiration for an exquisitely Edwardian Wedding
More Downton Abbey-esque Edwardian Wedding inspiration (after my Deliciously Downton Vera post at the beginning of this month) – I know, I know, I am a girl obsessed but look at these incredible photos and you will see why I couldn’t resist one more…….. I found these gloriously vintage Wedding Photos on Ruffled (if you haven’t paid it a visit…
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Beauty & Hair
Finger & Marcel Waves – Stylish Hair of a Bygone Era
I have long loved the glamorous hair styles of the past – starting with the loose pin curls of the 1940s, who could not love the luscious locks of stars such as Rita Hayworth! But my all time favourite is the Finger Wave and Marcel Wave, so hugely popular in the 20s and 30s. So…
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Bridal Accessories
Beautiful Vintage Jewellery – ‘Vintage Bella Bride’
I love vintage jewellery and always have done – my poor Nan, bless her, was forever finding her jewellery box raided and me looking like….. (Image source Dazzling Divas) Nothing can complete a bridal look like a bit of glitz and sparkle! And it is amazing how much more impressive and affecting vintage jewellery is –…
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Bridal Accessories
Deliciously Downton Vera
I am so SO excited by my latest find! One of my biggest loves (at the moment) is the fashion of ‘La Belle Epoque’ – that golden age at the end of the 19th century and before World War I, when women still wore the lavish tightly corseted bodices and long skirts of the Edwardian era.
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