One of my all time favorite sites for wedding ideas, Project Wedding, recently featured these adorable mini bundt cake wedding favors. Isn't it amazing how a little bit of cheese cloth can look so pretty? Your guests will love these sweet little bites and be impressed with your creativity as well!
Some people shy away from winter weddings. Obviously snow and cold can be a factor, but at the same time, they can make your Big Day absolutely stunning. This beauty captured by Jill Devries Photography is proof that sunshine and sand aren't required for a fabulous, fun, and perfectly pretty wedding day. The cozy shrugs, black and red color scheme and 'frosty' wedding decorations are simply lovely. Enjoy!
Pantone, the worldwide authority on all things color, recently announced its color of the year for 2012. And the winner is....Tangerine Tango! For all of you in the midst of planning your weddings and trying to decide on a color palette to make your wedding decorations, bridesmaid dresses and wedding bouquets come together in one perfect color scheme, I highly recommend this vibrant color. It goes great with shades of yellow or green - perfect for a Spring or Summer wedding.
Tangerine Tango is a great color for bridesmaid dresses. Whether tea-length, cocktail or full-length, this versatile color works it!
One of my favorite blogs for pretty DIY inspiration is Eat Drink Chic . If you've never been, head on over to their site now. It will not disappoint! I recently found these free and downloadable fruit drink labels that would be adorable at your Spring or Summer wedding.
Filled with juices, ciders, sodas, flavored waters or even pre-mixed cocktails your guests are sure to love the creative and cute touch to your wedding decoration. You can find the downloads on Eat Drink Chic.
Bubbles during the first dance? Check. Sweet mints in adorable favor boxes? Check. Light green and gray color scheme done perfectly? Check. This is a truly stunning wedding day. Everything from the bridesmaid dresses to the cute wedding favors and groomsmen suits are color coordinated and just plain pretty. Enjoy the beauty!
Summer seems far away as we are all layering up on these mid-winter days. And so I bring you a sweet taste of summer. Popsicles in the summer sun, anyone?
These cuties found on Eat Drink Chic were created to be used as a memory card game but the first thing I thought of was how great they'd be as place cards at your summer wedding. You could even string them together as garland around the dessert table --where you would of course have popsicles to offer. Yummy.
As you begin to plan your wedding and start your daily browsing through all of the great wedding blogs, you'll notice some pretty great props being used for some memorable photos. I've found the place to find all of them from mustaches to thank you signs for your save the dates or wedding invitations. Say Cheese Paper Props is your one-stop-shop for all your wedding sign needs.
You can incorporate cuties like these into your wedding day or day after photography shoot. They add that something adorable, don't they?
For those of you who agree that your wedding day should be full of laughter and just the right amount of silliness, you'll love this one captured Studio 7 Wedding Photography This beautiful summer wedding has all of the right touches from hanging lanterns to pretty wedding bouquets. The wall of frames for photo ops is hilarious, and add that gorgeous cake getting spread on the groom's face and you have one laughter-filled day - not to mention, beautiful!
Dessy Group is pleased to introduce the Pantone Wedding™ Chiplette - a new and cost effective way for brides to select and communicate wedding colors. The Pantone Chiplette provides an easy alternative to mix and match colors, while planning the many aspects of a wedding.
The new Wedding Chiplettes allow you to find the perfect color palette for your dream wedding. Each 4" x 1.75" Pantone Wedding™ Chiplette is a full color card with the Pantone TPX reference number. A QR code is printed on the back of each chiplette, which which can be scanned to return a mobile user to the Dessy.com site. You can then share your color choices with the wedding party and distribute them to wedding florists, caterers, bakers and invitation printers.
Chiplettes are manufactured by Pantone using a proprietary six color print process. Easily affordable and sold per chiplette, you can explore a variety of color options and experiment during your wedding planning process. Once you select yourpalette, you may return to purchase more chiplettes in your colors to distribute to wedding attendants and suppliers, thus ensuring her wedding is flawlessly color coordinated.
In addition to the Pantone Wedding™ Chiplette, Dessy has also developed a new Pantone Wedding™ Color Planner for exclusive use with chiplettes. Each planner can accommodate up to six individual chiplettes. The Color Planner has a bride's checklist and six perforated chiplette holders which are dye cut to contain a chiplette. On the back of each chiplette is a place for the you to input yourcontact information serving as a 'color business card'. Dessy currently offers a complimentary Color Planner with the purchase of every 6 chiplettes.
Dessy has also released its exclusive 2012 Pantone Color Fan Guide containing the entire range of 180+ Pantone Wedding™ colors in the current Dessy collections. Chromatically arranged by color family, each color in the color-on-paper fan deck is numerically referenced and named to assist quick color decisions. With the PANTONE WEDDING™ Fan Guide, Chiplettes and Color Planners, you can create a custom color palette in a manageable and creative way!
Happy Friday! I have some news that will get your weekend shopping spree off to a fabulous start. Recently, I told you about The Dessy Group's launch of NewlyMaid. NewlyMaid is a service that helps you find your perfect little black dress while donating your never-to-be-worn-again bridesmaid dress.
Over the past few months we've asked our NewlyMaid customers for their thoughts on the service. They spoke. We listened. Now, we are happy to share a new and improved experience:
No credits required Buy a dress and get it ASAP! You no longer need credits to purchase a LBD (little black dress). We'll include a free prepaid mailer for your bridesmaid dress in the package.
Lower pricing We've adjusted our pricing to offer you the best value, and we still cover the processing cost for your old dress. How can we lower our prices? Our LBDs are manufacturer-direct, so there's no retailer markup.
Your choice: Send us your dress---or not. The original NewlyMaid let you exchange an old dress for a credit toward a new one. But many customers had second thoughts. If your'e not ready to part with your old dress, just keep it until you are. There's no obligation to send us a dress once you've purchased a NewlyMaid style.
International shipping: NewlyMaid now accepts orders from outside the U.S. You can find all of the details on international orders here.
Now, about those must-have LBDs.....your only problem will be in choosing your favorite(s)!
We hope you like the changes we've made, and we look forward to seeing you over at NewlyMaid.com!
Today, I am excited to announce to you the launch of The Dessy Group's new website that is sure to inspire and help in all of your wedding planning. I introduce to you: PerfectCouples.com!
PerfectCouples.com is the first site of its kind dedicated to showcasing the many beautiful, creative and clever, wedding 'wed sites' that are published every day.
Today's couples have many choices on how they want to build wedding day web sites. Sites such as MyWedding.com, WeddingWire.com, Nearlyweds.com and our own builder at Dessy.com are just a few of the technology services providing free or paid wedding web site creation. PerfectCouples.com provides an excellent way to browse popular couples wedding sites from many different sources for fun and inspiration. We don't care where you build your wedding site, if it's fun, creative or clever, we'll feature it on PerfectCouples.com. Of course, that is all subjective so to make things interesting we've added a rating tool so that visitors can review and rate your site.
Visitors to Perfect Couples can easily search for and rate sites that have been organized by their upcoming dates and the location of the weddings.Simply click on the location on the map to find weddings at that location.
Or search by date by clicking on the desired date on the calendar.
PerfectCouples.com is sponsored by us here at The Dessy Group. You will
notice some of our bridal, bridesmaid and Tuxedo styles featured on the
site. We hope you enjoy your visit at PerfectCouples.com, and would love
for you to drop by Dessy.com and check out the latest in wedding
fashions, gifts and accessories too!
**Beginning in 2012, Dessy Group will be giving away prizes to couples with the best wedding web sites, so be sure to nominate your site, or a friend's site for review.*
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If you know a great couple's wed site, and you would like our editors to review it for inclusion, be sure to complete the nomination form.
If you are the lucky couple, and you would like to nominate your own site, you may also do that by filling out the nomination form.
And there you have it! I hope you truly enjoy the new site and that you find oodles of inspiration and fun ideas for your own wedding while browsing. Spread the word, start nominating and rating your favorite sites and I look forward to seeing your wedding web site on PerfectCouples.com!
If you love the color purple, then this one is for you. Featuring Dessy Group bridesmaid dresses this wedding shot by Lily Kesselman Photography is a beauty! With 10 bridesmaids all wearing their choice of dress styles, an adorable flower girl and an over-the-top to perfection wedding cake I think you'll love this one as much as I do. P.S.Ah-mazing wedding dress, no?!
We are so excited to share with you the most helpful, beautiful and stylish digital wedding magazine our there! Our friends over at Style Me Pretty have taken the task of compiling "20 of the most swoon-worthy, gush-able, ah-inducing, style-savvy weddings of the year...all together in one pretty package."
The stunning magazine contains wedding inspiration from "budget-friendly beach nuptials to lavish ballroom weddings and modern city celebrations." And, we are honored that they included a feature on The Dessy Group Twist Wrap Dress. You can see it all on pages 126 and 127. Here is a sneak peak:
If you haven't already hopped on over to Style Me Pretty, now is the time. Click here for the full digital magazine.
In addition, they have created an AMAZING color palette using our Twist Wrap Dress which you are going to love. If you're in the midst of planning your spring or summer wedding, I promise you'll fall in love with the colors. Here is a taste of the loveliness they created:
Visit Style Me Pretty for the full palette - you won't be disappointed!
Ah, summer. It may seem a distant memory in the middle of January, so take some time to enjoy this one. As you plan your spring or summer wedding you'll find some ideas from this beauty. With pops of bright happy yellow everywhere, a school bus and the most gorgeous mountain backdrop, you can almost feel the warm summer sun shining on this most perfect of days.
From the first dance, to the last dance of the evening, you want only the best songs for your big day. Music sets the mood, and whether it be romance and love or breakin' loose on the reception dance floor, good tunes are essential! We asked real brides-to-be for their picks of the top wedding songs of 2012. Listed below are their favorites. Some are classics, some are new, all are sure to bring on the happy tears and romance. Click on each title to view the video and listen to lyrics.
Just as important as how you decorate and make your Big Day your own, is who you hire to capture it. This fantastic summer wedding neatly tucked away in a gorgeous forest is full of amazing outdoor wedding ideas, most notably how to choose the perfect spot. With trees towering above the guests in the green clearing, you can't get much more perfect than that. To see more unique wedding photography check out The Image is Found.
Always on the look out for easy, inexpensive, yet pretty wedding reception centerpieces, this pretty doily DIY from The Thrills of the Hillz fit the bill perfectly. With just a couple of supplies you can turn this:
These could be filled with brightly colored fruit like these tasty cherries, or with your favorite flowers or even confetti. And, voila! a DIY wedding decoration to be proud of! Aren't they oh-so-pretty?!
Lulu recently contacted me to share with all of you her Dessy bridesmaid dress wedding. When I saw the pictures of she and her husband's, Mike, stunning wedding day I couldn't wait to share her story with all of you. Enjoy!
Where was the wedding held? I'm half Swedish and half English and grew up in Sweden, so we chose to get married near where I grew up and where Mike proposed to me. So, we found the beautiful Hogberga Gard, a manor house hotel on the island of Lidingo just north of Stockholm, Sweden.
What was the process of choosing your bridesmaid dresses? I had poured over British, Swedish and US wedding magazines for a couple of years to get inspiration for our Wedding Day. We tried on dresses from different suppliers to see what styles suited my four bridesmaids the best. Although I started off wit a blank canvas, it became clear that even if the dresses were different sytles it would be nice to have dresses in the same material and color.
My final consideration was that one of my bridesmaids had moved from England to New York, so we needed to be able to source dresses from the same supplier where we were guaranteed that the dress color was going to be the same shade as those ordered in the UK.
So, Dessy stood out for 5 reasons:
1. The incredibly wide range of dres styles would make it more likely for all the bridesmaids to find a dress that suited thier body shage and that they would like.
2. The Pantone colors made me feel more confident that we'd get the same shade of dress material even if we ordered the dresses in different countries.
3. Word of mouth. Three of my friends got married before me and they all had Dessy bridesmaid dresses.
4. I'd seen a few Dessy dresses advertised that suited the look I wanted.
5. My bridesmaids looked gorgeous in them and felt great!
Anything else you'd like to say about your wedding day? Our wedding day was just perfect. The meticulous planning that went into the event before hand made it run very smoothly. So, on the day we could concentrate on simply enjoying every special minute of the Big Day, and spend time with our amazing 75 family and friends who had travelled from around the world to celebrate with us in Stockholm.
The best moment of the day was seeing Mike waiting at the end of the aisle. The sun was shining, the Baltic Sea was shimmering and he was smiling. From that moment on I don't think either of us stopped smiling! It was the best day of my life.
**Thanks so much to Lulu and Mike for sharing your beautiful wedding day with us! To find these and and many more Dessy Group bridesmaid dresses visit Dessy.com today!
Yep. It's official. Lace is in. And this bride has done it beautifully with this amazing lace wedding dress captured by Arrow and Apple Photography. The wide straps and detailed buttons are simply gorgeous while the mismatched bridesmaid dresses have that nice comfortable feel. Then, there's the cake. Lovely, with bright pops of color from the cherries and berries. Most definitely in love with this wedding. What's your favorite detail?
Found via Delightfully Tacky these handmade red hot apple cider cocktails are perfect for your winter wedding reception or bridal shower. If you have a large wedding you may need to rope in some family members to help with the apple coring, but the work would be worthwhile when you see your table full of these unique cocktails.
Whiskey, apple cider and cinnamon sticks complete this easy recipe. For the full tutorial visit Delightfully Tacky and be sure to do some taste testing along the way.
Images by Project Wedding
Images by Clayton Austin Photography
Images by Jill Devries Photography
Tangerine Tango is a great color for bridesmaid dresses. Whether tea-length, cocktail or full-length, this versatile color works it!
Styles Pictured:LR136, After Six 6627, After Six 6626, Social 8117, Dessy 2814, LR155, After Six 6622, After Six 6629 
Images by Eat Drink Chic
Images by Shannon Nicole Smith Photography
Images by Eat Drink Chic
Images by Say Cheese Paper Props found via EBWeddings
Images by Studio 7 Wedding Photography
Dessy has also released its exclusive 2012 Pantone Color Fan Guide containing the entire range of 180+ Pantone Wedding™ colors in the current Dessy collections. Chromatically arranged by color family, each color in the color-on-paper fan deck is numerically referenced and named to assist quick color decisions.
With the PANTONE WEDDING™ Fan Guide, Chiplettes and Color Planners, you can create a custom color palette in a manageable and creative way!
Over the past few months we've asked our NewlyMaid customers for their thoughts on the service. They spoke. We listened. Now, we are happy to share a new and improved experience:
We hope you like the changes we've made, and we look forward to seeing you over at NewlyMaid.com!
Today's couples have many choices on how they want to build wedding day web sites. Sites such as MyWedding.com, WeddingWire.com, Nearlyweds.com and our own builder at Dessy.com are just a few of the technology services providing free or paid wedding web site creation. PerfectCouples.com provides an excellent way to browse popular couples wedding sites from many different sources for fun and inspiration. We don't care where you build your wedding site, if it's fun, creative or clever, we'll feature it on PerfectCouples.com. Of course, that is all subjective so to make things interesting we've added a rating tool so that visitors can review and rate your site.
Visitors to Perfect Couples can easily search for and rate sites that have been organized by their upcoming dates and the location of the weddings.Simply click on the location on the map to find weddings at that location.
Or search by date by clicking on the desired date on the calendar. 
PerfectCouples.com is sponsored by us here at The Dessy Group. You will
notice some of our bridal, bridesmaid and Tuxedo styles featured on the
site. We hope you enjoy your visit at PerfectCouples.com, and would love
for you to drop by Dessy.com and check out the latest in wedding
fashions, gifts and accessories too!
Images by Lily Kesselman Photography
The stunning magazine contains wedding inspiration from "budget-friendly beach nuptials to lavish ballroom weddings and modern city celebrations." And, we are honored that they included a feature on The Dessy Group Twist Wrap Dress. You can see it all on pages 126 and 127. Here is a sneak peak:
If you haven't already hopped on over to Style Me Pretty, now is the time. Click here for the full digital magazine.
Images by Ben Blood Photography
Image from Leo DJ Photography
Images by The Image is Found
Into this:
Images by The Thrills of the Hillz
Photography by Nick Sumner Photography
Images by Arrow and Apple Photography
Found via Delightfully Tacky these handmade red hot apple cider cocktails are perfect for your winter wedding reception or bridal shower. If you have a large wedding you may need to rope in some family members to help with the apple coring, but the work would be worthwhile when you see your table full of these unique cocktails.
Images from Delightfully Tacky
