Red is a wonderful color to go with during the Christmas season if you want to stick with the traditional, and you want to capitalize on the spirit of Christmas.

You can even add a splash of red to your wedding gown. You can add a red sash or a belt around the middle.

Go with some red embroidery on the train or bodice of your wedding gown.

Red bows, inserts or trim can also add a splash of color to your dress. Or if you want to be a little more dramatic, go for a red train, or underskirt.

You don’t even have to add the red to your dress. This time of the year you can add a cape or cover-up  to your wedding day look with a touch of red in the stitching or trim.

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Wedding Gowns from Linda’s Bridal and Formal

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Wedding Gowns With A Splash Of Red

• amazing grace firming body emulsion, bath gel and spray fragrance
• purity one-step facial cleanser
• hope in a jar moisturizer
• micro-delivery peel pads
• kiss me clear lip balm-spf 20
• kiss me exfoliating lip scrub
• eye hope deluxe sample

The tying The Knot gift set retails for $100, is available for purchase on TheKnot.com and philosophy.com.

To comemorate the launch of the gift set, The Knot and philosophy have created the
“Wedding Day Hope” Sweepstakes, they’re inviting brides to share their hopes and dreams for the big day. These personal messages will be posted anonymously on the site’s user-generated bulletin board. When brides share their hopes they will be automatically entered to win the grand prize of a luxury honeymoon worth over $10,000, courtesy of Viceroy Anguilla Resort & Residences. Other prizes include a Wedding Day Makeover for one lucky bride and her bridesmaids courtesy of philosophy beauty expert and makeup artist John Trau as well as tying The Knot gift box sets.

Good luck!

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Just For The Bride Tying The Knot Gift set

Zazzle has some great winter wedding postage, actually Zazzle has great custom postage, whatever your wedding theme is, you can probably find it there.

Many also have a quick message printed on them from announcing your love, to announcing your engagement or wedding.

I like this crystal snowflake stamp, it’s one of my favorites.

Some of the stamps even have winter wedding printed on them. So why settle for regular postage stamps for your once in a lifetime occasion?

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Winter Wedding Postage

Check out these fun styles: choose from Gypsy Love’s Peanut Butter & Jelly, Zippitty Doo Da’s Sour Apple or Raspberry Truffle from Lace Icing with Sprinkles. They’re available in 20 fun colors and prints, can you imagine Chocolate Dipped Strawberries? I got to check out the Lace Icing With Sprinkles, and I have to say they are adorable! They even come in these cute little butterfly packages.

I loved the shade of pink the Lace Icing With Sprinkles came in, it was like frosting on a cake with the fun designs. The part I liked most was how soft they were,they felt like they would be totally comfortable to wear, not scratchy or stiff, but soft and smooth for little girls legs, to make them feel like a princess on your big day.

You can find out more about these adorable leggings for your flower girl and all the colors and patterns available at the Angela Frost website.

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Angela Frost~Flutter by Leggings™

First up is a beautiful white frost faux fur wrap from Vladana listed at $69.00. It’s an elegant handmade wrap, the fur is off-white decorated with silver, and lined with Casa Collection Bridal silk for a fabulous look.

Vladana’s Etsy Shop also has this longer Off White Faux Fur Mink Stole listed at $79.00. The ends are finished with crystal trim, to give it that extra winter touch, and it’s also lined with the bridal silk. This one just looks like luxury.

This white orchid cream colored bolero from toccata priced at $178.00, if it’s paired with the right dress will definitely turn some  heads. The chiffon petals were individually sewn by hand! Wow!

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Winter Wedding Wraps at Etsy

I also write about weddings at Blisstree’s Our One Heart, and about party planning and entertaining at She Knows Parties, and planning children’s parties at The Kid’s Birthday Fun Review.

I have the opportunity to attend several wedding shows, and expos every year. So I hope to share all the fun stuff I see and learn there, along with wedding fashions and anything else I find along the way.

I love entertaining and taking my own photos, so I hope to have plenty of great wedding fun to share in the upcoming weeks.

Image (c) L Gerlach

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An Introduction

Three of America’s best wedding planners competed for the chance to plan a couple’s wedding. The catch? They have to make the entire wedding happen on the couple’s $15,000 budget.

The claws come out as these three super competitive wedding planners work to achieve with a wedding concept the bride and groom will love.

The planners search Los Angeles for the most romantic venues that will fit into their budget. The competition is fierce and the concepts amazing. The couple has to pick their favorite plan as the winner.

Did you get a chance to check out the show? I’m definitely watching next week!

Images: TLC

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Battle Of The Wedding Planners

Would you like some Prenup Punch, or Bachelorette Party Punch? Or would you like to go green with the Liquid Muse “Green” and White Sangria. This book is a great resource to find a wedding cocktail that will fit your tastes.

I love that this book fits in your hand nicely, so you can take it along as a reference guide to your wedding, or party.  I also love the photos of many of the recipes, I’m a visual person, so I love photos.

The book will hit book shelves in early December, and will also be available at TheLiquidMuse.com and Amazon.com.

Image: TheLiquidMuse.com

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The Bubbly Bride Book Review

I thought Jes’ top ten celebrity wedding list would be fun to take a look at. I have to say that several of the weddings on her list are also among my favorites.

Here are Jes Gordon’s top 10 celebrity weddings.

1. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck
2005, Parrot Cay Resort in the Carribean Islands of Turks and Caicos.
I always love it when celebs go simpler rather than over the top, simply because it so unexpected of them to keep it on the down-low. I adored Ben and Jen’s beach front wedding! I thought it really expressed who they are as a couple and that is so rare these days in the celeb world.

2. Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee
1995, Cancun
I thought that the Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee wedding was hilarious mainly because she got married in a skimpy white bikini. But you have to give them credit as this was very expressive of who they are as couple was personality-wise, and so many more traditional weddings lack that.

3. Madonna and Guy Ritchie
2000, Scotland’s 19th-century Skibo Castle
To. Die. For.

4. Iman and David Bowie
1992, Florence, Italy
Again, simplicity. An absolutely beautiful Tuscan ceremony with only a handful of guests in attendance. The fact that the bride and groom were two icons like Iman and Bowie is over-the-top enough! I also loved that it was quite traditional, which is surprising considering the parties involved! But leave it Bowie to bring the unexpected!

5. Beyoncé and Jay-Z
2008, Manhattan – New York
Jay-Z and Beyoncé played it urban style, having a small affair at their penthouse apartment and I loved the simplicity of the event.

6. Julianne Moore and Bart Eundlich
2003, Greenwich Village – New York
Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich had a lovely, intimate wedding at their Brownstone in Greenwich Village, which I adored. Not only that, but who can resist Julianne’s non-traditional pale lilac Prada dress? (Note: Jes wore two gunmetal gray wedding dresses!)

7. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas
2000, Manhattan – New York
For those over-the-top moments, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas’ $1.5 million extravaganza definitely rocked it out at the Plaza! Pure fairytale stuff…

8. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard
2008, Rome, Italy
Private and intimate – just like the couple themselves. Maggie Gylenhaal had one of the most beautiful weddings I have seen in a long time, mostly because it was in Italy!

9. Ali Larter and Hayes MacArthur
2009, Kennebunkport, Maine
Ali Larter went traditional old skool in Maine with the perfect line-up of über handsome people and gorgeous flowers for her big day.

10. Talia Balsam and John Slattery
1998, Kauai, Hawaii
A wedding I did many years ago for John Slattery (“Mad Men”) and Talia Balsam was most memorable because Talia was 8 months pregnant at the time!

So what do you think? Do you agree with Jes on the top ten celebrity weddings? Or do you have your own favorites? I’d love to hear about your favorite celebrity wedding. One of my faves, Jen and Ben is on the list, who’s on your list?

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Top 10 Celebrity Weddings

You might be so busy on your big day that you won’t notice a little cold air. On the other hand it’s not worth it to be totally miserable on your wedding day just to look good.

Wedding cover ups don’t have to take away from your wedding gown. Some winter wedding gowns even come with a matching jacket or shawl you can wrap around your shoulders if you need to.

Winter wedding cover ups don’t have to cost a fortune either. If your gown doesn’t come with a cover up talk to your bridal shop or your seamstress to see if they rent them, or if they know of someone who rents them. You can often rent a wedding cover up for the day, just in case you need it.

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Bride Cover Ups For Winter Weddings