Thursday, February 28, 2008

I love bridal fashion shows because they help you find great wedding attire but also help you discover great bridal salons and stylists in the Nashville-area. Since I missed the Perfect Wedding Guide fashion show, I couldn’t wait for A Magical Affair (the fashion show producers) to share their pics and more.

In addition to the great wedding dresses, read all about the neat ideas for these wedding planners incorporated into the show and see which might work for your wedding day.

Guest Post: A Magical Affair is a Nashville wedding planning team.

We coordinated the fashion show for the Perfect Wedding Guide show. It was our first fashion show and we had lots of ideas and inspirations and so our inspiration board really helped:

(Ashley’s note - Work with your wedding planner to create an inspiration board for your wedding so you can visual each component.)

We had some pretty basic ideas that we knew we’d like to incorporate: feathers, lanterns that lined an aisle of rose petals, white parasols-and
we really wanted to do something fun with glow sticks. We also had the Wonderful Graffiti quote “Sometimes in the Middle of an Ordinary Life, Love Gives us a Fairy Tale”. That quote was our main source of inspiration, because we wanted the show to reflect the concept of a fairy tale, from its most basic premise (think Cinderella) to a modern fairytale (with feathers & glowsticks.)

We started with some fantastic dresses. We had gowns from A Bride’s Storey, The White Room, and Selah Style & Events and some equally great tuxedos from Street Tuxedo and Bitners Formal Wear.

We wanted three separate and distinct styles to match our dresses. The first was the “traditional” fairytale. In this beautiful photo by Mark Couturier, our model is wearing a gorgeous dress from A Bride’s Storey that is accented by a clutch of sweet white gerbera daisies.

Our second fairytale was the “modern” fairytale- with sleek dresses in longer lines and in more stylish fabrics. The vendor? Selah Style and Events. These dresses were fantastic (and went great with our pretty little umbrellas) Check out this image from Donald Yeager photography of two lovely models looking a little less than modern with their umbrella- but still a very nice picture, we think, that captured a dreamy sort of fairytale look.

This beautiful image above shows off a gorgeous and dramatic back to this beautiful wedding gown. The graceful tieback folds fall in delicate ripples down the back of the gown, and produced quite a few “aahs” at the model’s turn. We can’t say we blamed them.

The dresses weren’t the only works of art on display. We also had some gorgeous bouquets provided for the show by Fresh! by Carry Ann, hands down, one of our favorite florists in Middle Tennessee. If she’s not awing us with her beautiful event floral displays, it’s bouquets like these that take our breath away.

Our last group of brides showed off beautiful gowns from The White Room in Lebanon with flowers by Angela Sadler.

In all, we felt the show reflected some of the most stunning bridal styles that our local bridal salons are featuring.

Last but not least, we designed a custom program for the show.

Want to see more flowers and dresses? The fashion show was photographed by the always amazing Mark Couturier. He has a beautiful gallery of images that are hosted on his website by following this link.

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