Beach hair for Outdoor Weddings

Now that the weather is warming up, everyone wants to move the party outside! If you are a spring or summer bride, you can forget about sleek, sculpted hairdos, and let your hair just go with the flow. All photos are from Brides.com. Check out their wedding hair style gallery for hundreds of gorgeous styles! Letting it loose! For the look on the left, a curling iron and water-free hairspray are all that were needed to set and finish the bride's lush locks. In the photo on the right, Brides.com … [Read more...]

Back-lighting for Breathtaking Wedding Pictures

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photo: hp_thornton on flickr A friend of mine got married last month and she just sent me some pictures from the wedding. The back lighting in some of them was so amazing I just had to share them with you. It creates a vibe that is super dramatic in some pictures, and lighthearted in others... but each one unique! Here are some of my favorites! (I will have to find out who the photographer was, to give credit where credit is due...) I loved this style so much I looked around … [Read more...]

Outdoor Weddings: Standing for the Ceremony

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I saw this breathtaking photo from Style Me Pretty and absolutely love the setting for this wedding. It looks just like a perfect summer afternoon. Nothing fancy or extraordinary, just grassy fields, sunshine, and peace. Of course, when you're holding the ceremony in middle of nowhere, it does present a seating problem. According to the bride, Carol: "We did have the guests stand, after much debating about moving chairs around. In the end we had a semi-circle for those that needed to sit … [Read more...]

Flowers and Fairy Tales: The Garden Theme Wedding

For the setting of the sweetest day of your life, what could be more romantic than taking a walk down a grassy isle, surrounded by blue skies, butterflies, and the heady perfume of a garden in bloom? The Faire Garden blog has pictures of the most beautiful garden wedding! I can catch the scent of those flowers all the way from here! And not just flowers... don't you wish you could offer your guests treats like this... straight off the vine! Even if you don't have a gorgeous 5 … [Read more...]