Thanks to Little Winter Bride

We were recently discovered (via my wife's webstite: Flush Designs) and written up by a cool blog called Little Winter Bride. She's a New Yorker living in Milan writing about cool stuff from all around. Not too bad of a life. I would say that's getting pretty close to the Dolce Vita if you ask me. If you get a chance, hop over to Little Winter Bride. Check it out, subscribe, post and enjoy.

Thanks!!
-Erin

Album - Queensberry

Many of our clients are extremely excited with our new Queensberry album. We,too, are in love with it.

Queensberry is a New Zealand based album company. I definitely think it is one of the best in the market. There are numerous cover options. All mats are laser-cut so we are not confined to pre-designed templates. The end result is a one-of-the-kind heirloom!

Courtney & Erin

Inspired by the aged brick wall of the wedding site, Courtney chose this plum leather with heavy grains for the album cover.

This spread showcases a fold-out flip page.

See below for an album slideshow with more images.

How to Be A Bridesmaid

Bigger Pictures

I just updated our blog template. Check it out, we can finally post pictures that are 935 pixels wide. The format is a bit overwhelming because many people's monitor may not be able to handle the large dimension.

Here are more pictures from Boston. Technically, it was a "vacation" but I really spent most of my time testing, researching, thinking on ways to improve on photography. Boston is like a second home town to me. I love all the public spaces and cityscapes.

Edit: ok.  Apparently I didn't get it right. My blog is bigger in format but the pictures are still the small under whelming size.  I will keep trying.

Edit 2:  I figured it out.  Apparently there is no easy way of doing this.  I had to individually edit the image size in html.  Currently the horizontal images are 600 pixels wide.  And the vertical images are 400 pixels wide.  All images are hosted off site for best results.  

My niece Anja and my sister.

Julieanne & Lauren

I've known Julieanne for over 20 years.  Scary to say we are both in our early 30's.  She's married with a child.  Me - I have dogs.  In high school, we were inseparable.  People thought we were sisters.  She was the outgoing attention grabber; at a very tall 5 ft 2' in, she's the noisy drunk( ok.. not necessary in high school, maybe just a couple times.)  I was the reserved conservative observer who made sure that everyone made it home at the end of the night.

Life takes everyone down very different paths.  Living in SoCal means you don't always see the people you care about on the regular basis.  So, it was very special to have her, Lauren and daddy visiting me  on the 5th of July : )  

Annie and Matt's Slideshow

Finally finished Annie and Matt's slideshow. I'm really liking this new piece of software that we bought. It is so great that our clients will now be able to purchase DVDs of the slideshows! We really enjoyed the simplicity of our old software, but the publisher had no plans of upgrading it to a DVD output. What a shame. 

I hope you enjoy!

Best,

-Erin

Wedding Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony

The Peabody Essex Museum is Salem, MA is currently running an exhibit on "Wedding Bliss, the Marriage of Art and Ceremony."

Here is link I found on the website with some of the displayed pieces http://pem.org/exhibitions/showcase.php#id=WeddedBliss&num=1

The exhibit awed me with a beautiful Vera Wang dress, typical of what we'd expect of a high-end western wedding. As it continued, I got to see the transgression the wedding couture. Right up the the Victoria era, western wedding dresses were in pale blue, or a just a "nice dress" that could be worn again. I believe it was Queen Victoria who woren the first white wedding gown.. as we know the rest is history. I'm still waiting for one of my brides to break the white wedding dress tradition : )

The exhibit also showed other objects and traditions from non-western cultures including China, Japan, and India.

The most impressive item in the exhibit was a Russian nuptial crown of Alexandra Feodorovna. All the women at the exhibit were surrounding this little crown counting the diamonds...
All images courtesy of the Museum website.