Friday, August 27, 2010

Most Epic Wedding Video Ever

From the epic-ness that you would naturally expect from a world-class supermodel CoCo Rocha, who's the face of numerous fashion houses like Chanel and YSL.

She wedded her designer/artist husband, James Conran in the Chateau Challain of Loire valley, France.

Dreamy location + Dreamy dress + Dream Team of designers and stylists = One Epic Wedding Video

Enjoy!

Coco + James // Short film from Americana Cinema on Vimeo.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

All decked out!

It is customary for most brides to get awesome dresses (of a certain colour) for their bridesmaids/sisters, well, those with a big budget at least.

Some say the purpose of the bridesmaid's dress is to ensure that the said bridesmaid would not outshine the bride.
Case in point:
(Isla Fisher in Confessions of a Shopaholic)
(Katherine Heigl in 27 Dresses)


Though dramatized in most movies, brides really just want to make sure their friends get to bring home something a little special from the wedding, and at the same time, make sure that the receiving line at their wedding looks extremely coordinated and colour-coded.

And you can definitely do so without compromising your bridemaids' sense of style.

(Picture from 100 Layer Cake)

Then comes to all important question, how in the world do I keep within budget to provide dresses for my bridemaids that are of good quality (i.e. not one of those smocked, satiny prom dress lookalike dresses)?

Well, one way you could do it is to either get a close friend who makes dresses, or you could just do it on your own - even if you are not a dressmaker or a designer. There are tons of free dress or skirt making tutorials online and even more books available your friendly neighbourhood library.

This makes dressmaking super easy and manageable - and not to mention, easy on your pocket! It also adds to much more meaning to the bridesmaids' dresses, knowing that the bride herself, made it personally for each one of them.

(Make You Own Clothes by Marie Clayton)

I just bought a book online that comes with tutorial CD and free patterns as well as step-by-step instructions. Needless to say, I am super pumped and excited to FINALLY be able to start on my Bridesmaids Dress project :)

Updates about the project will come... soon.... as soon as I get my hands on the book and some fabric!