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Your Vintage Wedding is a lavishly illustrated guide to the most popular types of twentieth-century weddings with advice on how to incorporate creative vintage details into your special day to add romance, fun, acrd unforgettable style. From the Art Nouveau elegance of the 1910s to the Art Deco Hollywood glamour of the 1920s; from the night-club and café society of the 1930s and 1940s to the Audrey Hepburn-era elegance of the 1950s,
Your Vintage Wedding reveals what weddings were like during these periods and how to add vintage elements to invitations, flowers, photography, music, menus, and more -- including finding the perfect retro gown.
Playful, sophisticated, and filled with useful res! ources, this full-color book includes dozens of photographs to enchant and inspire. It features accounts and photos of actual vintage weddings, including a 1940s extravaganza on San Francisco's Treasure Island. Whether you dream of a 1910-style bash complete with potted palms, ropes of pearls, top bats, and dancing the tango or simply small touches that add beauty to the day, such as reviving the custom of wearing orange blossoms or tying lovers' knots in your bouquet ribbons, Your Vintage Wedding will help make it a day to remember.This informative guide to planning a period wedding provides the bride-to-be with historic photos and images of wedding fashions and decorating ideas from each decade of the early 20th century. Complete with color photos of period wedding attire and modern period-inspired designs, it also includes guidelines for seasonal attire, formal and informal wedding wear, proper accessories, bridal bouquets, and boutonniere trends. Decorating ideas! include color charts, schemes, and flower arrangements, and i! deas for vintage receptions include full song lists and recipes for entrees and homemade cakes. Resources for dress boutiques, millineries, tailors, and historic wedding and reception venues are also included to help give weddings authentic period flair.
Here comes the beautiful bride, in this followup to Marnie Fogg's popular Vintage Fashion: Knitwear.
Today's bride wants a wedding dress that expresses her personal style while also reflecting a rich tradition. Nothing achieves that goal as gracefully as a vintage or replica wedding gown. Whether it's a dazzling beaded tunic that captures the jazzy energy of the roaring twenties or a glamorous Hollywood-inspired dress from the 1950s, it can shape the entire wedding. With more than 250 photographs, this stunning volume takes readers on a dazzling tour of the past hundred years of bridal fashion, detailing the periods, styles, iconic designers, noteworthy ceremonies, cultural influences, and key looks.
Beautifully photographed and exhaustively researched, this romantic journey through fifteen decades of bridal fashion offers a comprehensive, yet intimate, look at wedding costume c.1860 to the present day. Using original wedding portraits and hundreds of full color photographs, this enchanting book chronicles the changing image of brides, from petticoats and parasols associated with Victorian bustle gowns, to late 1990s bustiers and pashminas, with emphasis on the supporting garments and accessories that add finishing touches to each unique and timeless style. It is a look over our shoulder at those brides of the past, a tribute to the skills of their seamstresses and designers, and a sentimental torch passed to the brides and fashion designers of the future. Accessorizing the Bride is a must have reference for fashion collectors, costumers, vintage clothing dealers, dress designers, and historians. The gowns and accessories within these pages are set in historica! l context, with notations on design, fabrication, embellishmen! t, prove nance (where known), and estimated current value.Get the look of white gold without breaking the bank! This vintage style sterling silver eternity band is adorned with channel set round brilliant cut CZ cubic zirconia stones. The front of the band is decorated with pave CZ stones. This band is 4 millimeters wide and has a flush edge which will fit snugly with other flush rings. It is designed in solid sterling silver and is plated in a platinum derivatire for years of tarnish free wear.Handcrafted details are at the heart of a beautiful weddingadding charm, meaning, and style.
In this delightful book, Eunice and Sabrina Moyle, the founders of Hello!Lucky, join forces with stylist Shana Faust to bring you over 50 gorgeous projects. Whether you favor a modern, classic look or a retro, homespun flavor, you'll find plenty of crafts and inspiration suited to your tastefrom vintage-key save-the-dates to delicate paper wreaths to silhouette bride and groom signs.
At the front of the book you'll find guidance on choosing a look, sourcing materials, and working out timelines. Then, each of the 50 projects are fully explained with photos, how-to diagrams, and step-by-step directions.
Clever, creative, and budget-friendly,
Handmade Weddings is the perfect handbook for the bride looking to style her day her way.
