Fashion Clothing Styles

When my sister-in-law got engaged last year, I was so excited to be able to help her with some of her wedding planning, and mainly, her wedding invitations! Our first order of business was to come up with a color palette that we could use for the invitations and carry onto the wedding celebration. I came up with several palettes for Angela, and after looking them over, she decided on this one

Next I went to work designing her invitations. Angela loves books, so my main inspiration was vintage books.

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When it comes to interviewing possible bridal clients there is one thing every certified wedding and event planner must be: prepared. Being prepared means being on top of new and exciting wedding trends, and it means that planners must anticipate the questions brides-to-be are going to ask. Here are some of those questions; how would you answer them?

. How long have you been a planner? . Are you a certified wedding and event planner? . Is this your full-time job? . How much do you charge? . How many weddings have you planned? . How many clients do you take on at one time? . What is the largest wedding or event you have planned? . Will you be at the wedding? .

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Wave goodbye to a short-lived Indian summer, autumn has officially arrived. It’s time to begin the countdown to snow-days and eating advent chocolate for breakfast (hooray!). This year, however, it seems that simply digging out last year’s Christmas sweater won’t cut it in comparison to a new and rather racy autumnal tradition…

Swapping your skinny chai latte for a hot chocolate? Standard. Stocking up on enough carbs to get through a self imposed hibernation? Of course. And finally, come 31st October we’re also meant to be donning what can be wholly constituted as lingerie for a friend’s party.

From sexy kittens and playboy bunnies to PVC-clad vampires, when did Halloween get super-charged sexy? I don’t

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Tuaregs and their camel-caravans still appear unexpectedly on the horizon before melting into the desert again.

Something lovely happened in those last few days in Paris. I fell in love, I think with a flurry of unexpected details. There was this scent and laughter and kindness and a little silver bangle on a slender wrist. I stepped outside the industrialized and commodified idea of beauty and fashion for a few days. And so this was how I discovered the jewelry work of the Tuareg peoples from the Saharan interior of North Africa. There was so much expressiveness in the minute detail of the metal work that it made me appreciate that the need to create beauty is one of the greatest human instincts.

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