Summer Trunk Shows

Hot New Trend

AWESOME NEW TRENDS!!!!
I am having a great time with this new accessory trend. I have done so many accessory combinations I just have to share it, because it is a fantastic idea. As of late, mostly through trunk shows, when brides have the opportunity to see all of our accessories in one place they are combining pieces to create their own custom look......and it is producing some very fun results.

Today I decided to photograph two of these combinations to show you what I am doing....

The first is the combination of 2 accessories; One of them is our Tulle Flower A505, shown in Ecru combined with our Feather Flower FL382 in Ivory:

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And here is what the combo looks like! SO CUTE!


The second combination is 2 feather pieces; Feather Flower FL388 is used with Ostrich feathers from style A105:

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The result.....A funky new piece!

There are just so many ways to customize these accessories! I have more, but did not photograph them....sorry. However one really fun piece I plan to blog soon is a custom headpiece I did for my Awesome Hair Stylist. She is getting married at the end of this month, so as soon as she gets her pictures, one will be on this blog........it's just too fun!

Stay tuned......

Better Bridal Magazine

I am truly enjoying this new bridal magazine, Better Bridal that is an Couture only, insiders magazine. It is distributed to Couture Bridal retailers and designers. It's less than 40 pages and provides great content. The photo above is a happenings page that announced our collaboration with Lia Terni.

Innovation

This is a picture taken of myself and my husband last week in Hawaii. Now, Hawaii is a fantastic place to travel too, but we did not go to Hawaii to be in Hawaii, we went for the Bob Harrison Increase Event. As entrepreneurs and business owners it is ultimately important to connect with people who think BIG and go BIG. We cannot afford to miss this event each year in Hawaii.

I would like to share with you something that I learned that applies not only to entrepreneurs and business owners, but to people in general. Here is one of my favorite quotes from this past week:

"Crisis and Pressure are the Incubator of Innovation." Dr. Myles Monroe

As humans our automatic response to pressure and crisis is to get out of it as quickly as possible, doesn't matter how, just get me out. Pressure takes us to a place of being uncomfortable. Imagine all of the people in our nation who are uncomfortable right now or maybe that's you.

Bob Harrison illustrated this idea with a story about a boy, who, seeing a butterfly struggling to get out of a cocoon decided to help the butterfly. He got a scissors and cut the cocoon and the butterfly broke through. However, the butterfly could not fly because the pressure to get out of the cocoon is the very thing that strengthens it's wings to fly.

In this season of economic pressure what creative idea or innovation do you have inside of you? In this season inside the cocoon what can you produce so that when the pressure is on, your struggle to break through the resistance will give you the ability to fly?

For me, I want to be an innovator in my industry. I want to use my creativity to come up with unique and innovative designs that no one has thought of yet. And really, I like to change the way people do business. It really should be fun and exciting and about helping people get what they need. Zig Ziglar says,"If you help enough other people get what they want, you always get what you want." I love that!

Anyway...what does this have to do with Veil Trends?......Oh absolutely nothing :)

Lia Terni for VEIL TRENDS

YES! Here it is, finally the "un-veiling" of plans in the works! This past Fall I did a blog on an amazing designer I met at market, Lia Terni. Well shortly after that time Lia and I decided to collaborate our designs to offer unique, never before seen pieces to the bridal industry and here there are!

Lia has designed headbands sold exclusively through VEIL TRENDS retailers.

LiaH09-Grapes

LiaH09-Flower

LiaH09-Crystal

The images below are of our collaboration pieces. Lia has designed some beautiful pieces that I have designed veils for. The image below is a comb done by Lia with a VEIL TRENDS ballet length veil w/a sliver metallic edge. Style LiaV209

This veil is a Crystal Spray Designed by Lia with attached Crystal beaded vines added by VEIL TRENDS. This veil is stunning and my favorite! Style LiaV109

Headbands are so popular right now, so if you are a store owner make sure to contact us ASAP to get these in your store and if you are a bride to be, contact your local bridal shop and ask them to carry these amazing pieces!! Is that a plug for a product???....of course it is, but these pieces are just to much fun to go without :) Plus, the headbands can be worn after the wedding and should be!

Fantastic Weekend

Meet Lynne Rustad of Ellynne Bridal and Nora A'Bell, publisher of the Nebraska Wedding Planner. Lynne hosted the most fantastic Trunk Show this past weekend at her Couture Boutique in Lincoln, Nebraska. Lynne's beautiful boutique flooded with brides Saturday for this one day event.



Veil Trends (myself in this photo) was an honored guest this weekend along with a florist, cheesecake caterer and jewelry designer brought in by Nora A'Bell to give brides a dress fitting they will never forget. Photographer Gina Zabloudil was also on the scene photographing brides as they selected gowns, some for the first time, capturing all the images you see in this blog. Brides were then emailed these images all for free! I mean.....who ever gets images taken by a professional photographer for their first time trying on bridal gowns??? Priceless.



Bride in HER PURCHASED GOWN, trying it on with a feather flower FL645 and Veil Trends veil V1908. Side Note: isn't this an awesome dressing room?? The brides look like these beautiful cake toppers when they stand on this pedestal... I love that!


This is a bride who was trying on gowns for the first time ever and found her dream dress as the 3rd she tried on, along with style V508 from VEIL TRENDS that matched perfectly :)



The Bride had decided on this gown and wasn't sure what she would do for accessories.
"Definitely not a feather girl," this bride loved the idea of FL645 (which is a FEATHER). It is small and soft looking and you would never know it was feather until you touched it. Side Note: This is what makes trunk shows so much fun... putting something on a bride they would never put on themselves and finding them loving it!


This bride came in with her mom wanting to buy a Red wedding gown for her 2009 December wedding. After spending time with an Ellynne consultant, she found this beautiful Pearl colored dress accented with a Red Satin Ribbon ( the consultant's idea...awesome! ). Here she is in a Russian Blusher v1606 w/FL382.



This bride was ecstatic that she finally found the perfect hair piece, an Ostrich feather pin! She bought it right then and there. This hair piece A105 was such a hit this weekend.



This was such a sweet moment captured buy Gina of Zabloudil Photographics. This was the first dress shopping of this mother and daughter who were in tears after 2 gowns.



It was such a Fantastic Weekend, I truly enjoyed my time in Nebraska with Lynne and all of the wonderful ladies of Ellynne Bridal. I am anxious to return in the fall to do it all again!

And I am especially grateful to Nora A'Bell of the Nebraska Wedding Planner who connected us all and made this a truly unforgettable weekend.

Introducing Alisa Benay Bridal Couture

Back in 2008 I was introduced to designer Alisa Benay through Ladies Who Launch. Alisa received a BA in Fashion Design from the Rogers and Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State University in 1994. She has had her custom design studio for 15 years in Colorado Springs servicing individual brides and custom making gowns.....

Until.......now! Alisa will be launching her line of "Modern Vintage" gowns this March in Colorado Springs. In 2009 Alisa's collection is going national and will be available through boutiques throughout the US. (Designs already available at Little White Dress bridal shop in Castle Rock, CO)

So why I am I posting Alisa Benay on the VEIL TRENDS blog? 1. To introduce you to an up and coming new designer. I am giving you the sneek peek that others do not get and if you want to learn more about Alisa, visit her blog at http://alisabenay.wordpress.com/ 2. Because every dress is paired with a custom veil designed by VEIL TRENDS!

That's correct. We are working together with Alisa to create a custom piece for each dress! (Designs only available through Alisa Benay Bridal Couture)

Here is a "behind the scenes" photo I took from Alisa's Blog; the gowns called Beatrice. The veil is a heavier tulle with a poka-dot pattern called "Flock." It is stunning and used in the bottom of the dress as well.

If you would like to learn more about Alisa Benay Bridal Couture or get information about her March "Launch Party" please visit her site.