Wedding Dresses, Bridesmaid Dresses, Flower Girl, Gowns, Tuxedos, MN

A sparkling, shimmering wedding is festive and exciting. It’s easy and affordable to make your wedding sparkle. On your big day, add sparkle, shimmer, and shine with these bridal details.
Of course, the bride should sparkle more than anyone at the ceremony! Start with a bridal gown with silver embroidery and crystal beading. Then add a veil with a beaded edge, crystal earrings and a necklace, and bridal shoes with a crystal accent. But dont’ stop yet! You can add a crystal beaded headband, crystals in your bouquet, or even a sparkly new bridal handbag by Judith Leiber. With shimmering silver organza ribbons on the bouquets and lovely crystal earrings, your bridesmaids can be a part of the fun as well. Metallic shoes for bridesmaids are a nice, chic touch, and are versatile enough to be worn again.
Invitations with some shine are a festive way to invite your guests to your big day. A metallic ribbon band on the stationary coordinated with colored ink for the wording makes for a fun and elegant invitation. For more shimmer, choose invitations with a hint of glitter on the edges. This would be especially pretty for stationery with a deckled edge. One bride I know chose crystal earrings for her jewelry, then chose to add a tiny row of crystals to her invitations to match. For eye-catching elegance, line the invitation envelopes with pearlescent paper.
It’s become very popular to add sparkly accents to wedding flowers because it always looks beautiful. The simplest way is to add a crystal tipped pin in the center of each flower in the bridal bouquet. Pearl tipped pins have been used for this purpose for a long time, usually with stephanotis blossoms, and crystals are a lovely update to an old style. This is a stunning complement to the ensemble of a bride wearing crystal earrings and necklaces. You can also add crystals by draping strands of “ab” crystals over the bouquets or by using crystal buttons to decorate a tailored bouquet handle wrap.
Glitter edged accents are another fun way to make your wedding flowers shine. It works well with flowers like roses and also non-floral natural elements such as pinecones. It’s easy– dip the edges of the petals in glue, then dip them in glitter. Use them anywhere, from the ceremony to the centerpieces to the cocktail hour room. Glitter dipped flowers or pinecones are going to be more economical than crystal-jeweled flowers in large numbers, so some brides will use the glitter flowers for centerpieces and reserve the crystal ones for their bouquets to complement their crystal earrings. By the way, glitter is not just for floral decorations. Your flower girl can look sweet and sparkly with everything from glittery shoes to a fun glittery manicure.
There are innumerable other ways to make your wedding shine with differnt accents. Layer shimmery organza toppers over white tablecloths to give them character. Reflect the details of beautiful cut crystal candelabras by placing mirrors around the room. Making your wedding festive and sparkly can be a lot of fun.

Shopping for your unique wedding invitations can include learning terminology related to their design, paper, printing, size, color, etc. Who knew there was so much to know beyond the wording and what enclosure pieces to include.

Here are the details for just some of the terms you may come across:

• Invitation Card – Simply a flat card with no folds and the verse printed on the front.
• Embossing – A printing process that creates a design on the invitation paper by impressing an image so it appears raised. Colored ink can then highlight the design. A raised design with the absence of any ink is called blind embossing. Debossing is created by actually indenting the design into the paper.