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Wednesday Name Brand Pronunciation: Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton
Pronunciation: loo-wee vee-tahn
Cocktail Chatter Cliff's Notes: Did you know that, thanks to counterfeiting, just over 1% of all products bearing the signature LV monogram are actually genuine Louis Vuitton? Since 1854, this luxury leather goods company has been setting the standard for everyone from Madison Avenue fashionistas to bridge and tunnel wannabes. We've been paying extra attention since Marc Jacobs came on as the label's artistic director in 1997, introducing a pret-a-porter line and bringing in art and fashion legends like Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse to collaborate on bags. (Anyone remember these gorgeous shoes? Yeah, you do.)
Louis Vuitton is partnered with eluxury.com for online shopping, so if your nearest metropolis is more Topeka than Tokyo, you can still get a piece of fashion history. Take off on your honeymoon with a luggage set in the classic original Damier canvas or add a quirky touch to your bridal ensemble with these open-toed That's Love pumps.
How to Distinguish Between Cold Feet and the Real Thing
Bridezilla Dream Destinations: Dubai
You Might Be A Bridezilla If....
Check out this classic land hysterical roundup of bona fide Bridezilla traits from Daniel&Claire-we couldn't have said it better ourselves!
1) You think it'd be "really awesome" if the schoolchildren of some country-oh, say Luxembourg or Canada-could gather and hold candles and arrange themselves so they spelled out you and your groom's names from above.
Wedding Flick Of the Week: Introducing the Wedisode!
Lydia's wedding ring in a bride and groom diorama. So darling!
It is Bridezilla's great pleasure to introduce our very first Wedisode, courtesy of the most awesome new site on our zilla radar Brideorama. Thanks to this avant garde new bridal brand, our Bridezillas can now check out real wedding videos aka "Wedisodes" and get great bridal ideas for their own wedding extravaganzas. No cheesy TLC style here! These Wedisodes are classy, urban and beautifully shot. Check out the first one "Zach and Lydia" below to see what we mean. We love this video because it's a great example of how to have a budget wedding with tons of artistic flair. With all the intricate touches, you'll never believe this affair only took four months to plan! Enjoy!
And thanks to Romi from TrueBrideConfessions for the tip!
Bridezilla Undergarment Spectacular: The Best Bras, Bustiers, and Chemises
Wedding Frock Of the Week: Bellantuono
We at Bridezilla have thoroughly relished this year's European Bridal shows, but now it's time to declare a wedding gown winner. It was tough to choose from the bevy of beautiful dresses this year, but our top pick from across the pond is this decadently chic number from Italian atelier Bellantuono.
What sets this stylish gown apart is its stunning mix of old and new. Antique lace feels fresh here when combined with a tailored sillhouette, and the futuristic floral melange blending black ribbon and looping cord feels downright funky. Bella Bridezilla! 
Win Tickets to the Best West Coast Bridal Expo Ever!
Are you a Beverly Hills Bridezilla? Love wedding expos, will travel? If you answer 'yes' to either of these questions, enter our exclusive drawing for two tickets ($150 value) to the event being touted as "the world's first luxury bridal event." The Wedding Salon, bastion of all bridal fabulousness, is being held this year at-where else?- the Four Seasons Beverly Hills on September 26th from 4-9 p.m.
From glittering centerpieces, A-list celebrity wedding planners, and top-shelf swag, this is a most truly Bridezilla-worthy Bridal Show, thanks to its best-of-the-best spread of absolute decadence. From the location to the vendors (Tiffany, Sephora, Godiva, oh my!) this is a showcase of wedding splendor that far out-dazzles the drab tulle and taffeta trade-show effect Bridezilla was forced to endure as a wee- BIT (Bridezilla-in-Training) still working her way up the wedding circuit.
Monday Bridezilla Bites
Shoewawa offers up the Top 5 Skyscraper Heels. We like it - if you're not risking a Naomi Campbell at Vivien Westwood incident every time you step out the front door, you're just not living your life sufficiently on the edge.
Get serious about your honeymoon lingerie with this Agent Provocateur sale.
If you haven't settled for certain on your wedding date yet, here are a few wedding dates to avoid.
DailyCandy has a dreamy list of potential vacation spots or honeymoon destinations, deals included, for you to peruse. (And if you're in NYC, please hold it down for your Bridezilla sisters at these upcoming sample sales while we yearn from afar.)
Wedding Salon Tickets: We Have A Winner!
Congrats again to Angela, and if you weren't chosen this time, fair and loyal reader, stay tuned for the next Bridezilla contest for your shot at more fabulous prizes!
Wednesday Name Brand Pronunciation: Balenciaga
Balenciaga
Pronunciation: Bal-en-see-AH-gah
The ultimate bag for carting around everything a Bridezilla needs.
Cocktail chatter Cliff's Notes:
In 1914, Cristobal Balenciaga started out by making clothes for the Spanish royal family. In the years following, his unique vision revolutionized the female silhouette, challenging Christian Dior's New Look with his sleek, fluid designs, as well as winning him fans ranging from 1950s society queen and fashion icon Pauline de Rothschild to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who spent so much on Balenciaga's haute couture creations that her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy chose to bankroll her couture bills himself rather than have them reflect poorly on the White House. After an early seventies downswing prompted by Cristobal's exit from the company, Balenciaga picked itself back up in 1997 by bringing on design prodigy Nicholas Ghesquiere as creative director, who re-energized the brand through his fabulous grasp of the woman's silhouette, echoing the early genius of Cristobal himself.
We like Balenciaga for their sky-high heels and celeb-beloved oversized bags like the one pictured here: the Giant City in bridal white and gold. We can only hope we'll be able to save up enough for a Balenciaga wedding dress like the one Nicole Kidman wore when she wed Keith Urban - a Bridezilla can dream, right?
Bridezilla Gets Dressed: What To Wear For Your First Five Wedding Anniversaries
You may be Bridezilla now (and therefore Bridezilla forever), but you have many years of Wifezilla fabulousness ahead of you. Follow us into the future for the anniversary info that you really need - what you're going to wear, darling.
Continue Reading Bridezilla Gets Dressed: What To Wear For Your First Five Wedding Anniversaries »Brand New: Buy the Bridezilla Thong!
Never a Bridget Jones' moment when you buy the comfy and sexy Bridezilla thong! When we were opening the Bridezilla Boutique, we racked our brain for an essential debut item worthy of the elusive Bridezilla stamp-something practical, something innovative, something that would carry an enterprising Bridezilla from early brunch to after-hours with cosmopolitan pomp.....Thus, the world's first scientifically-tested, patent-protected Bridezilla Thong is born this August day. Buy it because wedding planning and pantylines don't mix, dear 'zillas.
Bridezillas got back, hayyyyy.
Move over, Russel Stover: Bridezilla Takes a Bite of the Best Chocolates
Bridezilla Reviews: Urban Apothecary
On an otherwise blah Thursday, Bridezilla was amused to receive a beauty product parcel from the most excellent makeup maven Urban Apothecary. Contents included such Bridezilla beauty favors as:
Mineral Makeup Sheer Tints in Light and Natural Glow
True Brilliance Lipstain in Honeymoon Sweet
Here Comes the Bride Palette
Needless to say, we shut down the Bridezilla HeadQuarters instantly for testing. Read on to learn why this beauty line is a favorite of celebs like Kelly Ripa and Katie Holmes....
Continue Reading Bridezilla Reviews: Urban Apothecary »Monday Bridezilla Bites
Mmm, inspiration: the 20 Most Expensive Celebrity Weddings.
Thinking about a destination wedding? Here are a few essential tips to get you started, from destination wedding planner Kelly McWilliams.
Bridezilla bites indeed. Inspired by a random bit of cupcake porn, we've found ourselves in the mood for a little cupcake wedding cake action. Just imagine the possibilities...
Looking for something unique to do with your escort cards? Try this suggestion, via WeddingBee.
How to make a French Spiral Bouquet
Today's lesson in The Bridezilla Finishing School features the fine art of flower-arranging. Flower arranging is a great way to bring beauty to your wedding and surrounding festivities,and honestly, what could help blow off wedding steam better than burying your hands in roses and lillies? But since this is Bridezilla.com, we wouldn't settle for just any old flower arranging facts. Watch and learn how to make the hottest wedding flower mix on the market today: the classic, sexy and sophisticated French Spiral Bouquet. Hint: apparently it's all in the leaf nodes!
Bridezilla Dream Destinations: Santorini
Bridezilla in 2012 - But Until Then, You Decide
This is why we're excited about BridesDecide.com: you can check out the candidates (including wedding pictures for some of them - bonus) and get at-a-glance looks at who stands for the issues that affect your everyday life. We're still deciding on who gets our vote in '08; until then we'll be reading up on the facts, considering red, white, and blue wedding favors for a fall '08 wedding, and gazing just a little dreamily at Senator Obama up there. Obama For Change? Obama for Class Cutie, at least.
Wedding Flick O' the Week:The Wedding Date
In this classic clip from Bridezilla's Friday Wedding Flick The Wedding Date, Debra Messing beautifully demonstrates the trademark Bridezilla Bombshell/Ticking Time Bomb Two-Step. As ballroom dances go, this move is quite mesmerizing to the male species. But don't take our word for it. Watch here!
Monday Bridezilla Bites
Saks Fifth Avenue just unveiled the 17,500 square foot shoe department at their flagship store in NYC. In related news, we are mailing ourselves there in a box.
WedSmack offers a lovely post of tips of how to remember a lost loved one at your wedding. This one is our favorite: One moving gesture is for the bride or groom to place a white rose in an empty chair (next to the aisle or in the first row) as they approach the altar.
Confused about what candyfloss, butter, chocolate, and mint have to do with the latest runway trends (other than making you unable to fit into them)? The Guardian breaks it all down with How To Speak Fashionese.
The semi-annual BlueSale is on at BlueFly - save up to 65% on some of the best Bridezilla-approved designer brands. We like these beach wedding-ready Prada wedges the best.
BZ Featured Item: Bridezilla Boxers
Jeweled Elizabeth Hurley caftans be damned! Bridezilla brings you the cutest, most comfy bikini cover-up of the year: The Bridezilla Boxers. Like the board shorts of yesteryear, our Bridezilla Boxers rock the playful unisex theme, but unlike board shorts, these classic 100% cotton boxers won't go out of style. Don't live near a beach? No problem, these babies are just as perfect for couch-surfing with the Groomzilla in your cuddlies. On that note, check out this super-cute camisole to match!
The Bridezilla Finishing School: Graceful Wedding Gratuities
Today's Bridezilla Finishing School Lesson is: How to give appropriately gracious wedding gratuities to the good wedding help of this world. Remember, no matter how outrageous these wedding tips may seem at the time, they are a lot cheaper than legal fees and bought-off witnesses. Bridezilla Bonus Tip: Don't scrimp when it comes to buying your wedding planner's silence about the whole "I'll tear up this contract and use it as wedding confetti" comment. You were just being wry, we know!
As always, we well-finished 'zillas show our gratitude with a little more style than most. To create the trademark Bridezilla Gratuity Goody Bag, include: a cash tip in a sealed envelope, a hand-written thank you card, and either a wedding favor a wedding floral to take home.
Here's how much to tip per wedding vendor:
Coat Room Attendants: 50 cents per guest. An extra dollar for every wince-worthy "nice rack" joke makes a well-bred Bridezilla out of you. Bridezillas with big weddings may do better to arrange a flat fee rather than a per-person price.
Limousine Driver: A tip of 15% . For getting Bridezilla to the church on time, and doubling as a super designated driver while you imbibed the entire mini-fridge on the way to the ceremony, 15% is the appropriate tip. Hint: Wise Bridezillas never tip twice; make sure the gratuity wasn't already included in your final bill before you pay again upon parking.
Officiant: A $75 donation minimum is de riguer for the one who kindly altered your vows to read "For richer or richer." On that note, $100 is really more becoming of a well-bred Bridezilla. There is a rumor officiants find tips offensive, but this is really just the equivalent of Bridezilla saying "you shouldn't have" when someone gives her a wedding gift, when really she would have gutted them if they didn't. If you are worried about appearing irreverent, opt for a church donation rather than a direct contribution.
Valets: 50 cents -$1.00 per car. Wise Bridezillas encourage car pooling and taxis, or getting married on remote private islands to keep per-car costs down.
Bartenders: 10% of total liquor bill. This one will lighten your Fendi wallet fast, we know, but it was worth it for the top-shelf good time!
Wednesday Name Brand Pronunciation: Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
Pronunciation: jor-jee-oh ar-mahn-i
The classiest wedding shoe.
Giorgio Armani has been the go-to name for fine fashion ever since the eighties heyday when he dressed Richard Gere for American Gigolo. We aspire to Armani Prive, the haute couture line, but Armani Collezioni is often just as alluring: witness this badass cape/lace dress combination - we appreciate a look that brings Gotham City to cocktail hour. Recently Armani became the first line to broadcast their haute couture show live on the internet, which we love for its fashion-to-the-masses approach, and because we haven't yet been able to score tickets to the front row at the actual occasion. Someday, someday.
In the meantime, accent a champagne-hued gown with these Embroidered D'Orsay pumps and if you just can't get enough Armani, watch out for the Armani Hotel, coming soon to previously profiled paradise Dubai.
Bridezilla Bundles Up
Wedding Frock of the Week: Palazzo
The Finer Things in Life: Reinventing The Mall
Bridezilla Reveals: The Inconvenient Truth About Green Weddings
It's not that Bridezilla was born without a social conscience, exactly. But having grown exceedingly weary of the onslaught of bridal magazine ads, radio spots, and Leo Decaprio-type commercials all touting the green wedding trend, Bridezilla has no choice but to reveal the real inconvenient truth: despite all the buzz, most brides aren't actually having green weddings. And there are perfectly good reasons why not.
Read on to learn the top five reasons why-like communism-green weddings look great on vegan recycled paper, but have a ways to go before their practice becomes truly prevalent.
Monday Bridezilla Bites
Do you wait every month for the thump of Martha Stewart Weddings pushed through your mail slot? You can listen a little less attentively now with their brand-new blog The Bride's Guide.
Bridalwave offers a few tips on Alternative Honeymoon Destinations.
Finding current wedding dresses uninspiring? Go vintage with one of the gowns featured at TheFrock.com. (Check out the Designer & Couture section, too - that red Balenciaga coat is the stuff dreams are made of).
Do you intend to leave no adorable detail unaddressed? Make even your maps to the wedding and reception utterly charming with Couture Maps (pictured).
Brand New: Our Bisous Bridezilla Designer Line
J'Taime Design 
Seen here on t-shirt.
What could epitomize Bridezilla quite like the chic fabulosity of the City of Love? Nothing, we decided. That's why today in The Bridezilla Boutique, we are proud to unveil the first design in our new fancy-french Bisous Bridezilla line. This debut piece entitled "J'taime Bridezilla" features a charming wedding chapel twist on the Eiffel Tower ,interspersed with bells and doves that look sweetly stylish, not corny. Like every Bridezilla item, this shirt will look fabulous during wedding planning and beyond, because we all know, Bridezilla isn't just your big day, it's a whole fabulous lifestyle. This design also comes in a precious beauty tote bag, mug or day planner. Please buy and Bridezilla will blow you bisous!
Bridezilla Ballot: Are Ugly Celebrity Groomzillas Better Mates?
You don't have to be Perez Hilton to have noticed the recent rash of outwardly unfortunate Bridezilla-and-the Beast unions that seem to be cropping up all over Hollywood. Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Antony. Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman. Such an uprising of ugly causes Bridezilla to contemplate a possible new celebrity trend: are un-handsome Groomzillas the new adopted orphans?
This theory gains levity when you consider the correlation between a plainer Groomzilla and a longer relationship duration. All of the above unions have lasted longer and with seemingly more success than such physically perfect pairings as Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston or Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
So the question Bridezilla poses is this: do egalitarian relationships have to include physical equality? Or is the whole "really, really good personality" actually the key to monogamous happiness? Weigh in below!
Bridezilla Brand Name Pronunciaton: Emanuel Ungaro
A Statement-Making Ungaro Gown
Emanuel Ungaro
Pronunciation: Eh-MAHN-wayl Oon-GAH-ro
Cocktail Cliff's Notes: Born to Italian parents who had fled to France from Brindisi because of the fascist Italian government, Ungaro is Bridezilla's most favorite fugitive fashionista ever. Embracing his metrosexual side early on, Ungaro took to sewing as a young boy. Decades later, his clothes are known for French flair with an almost surreal sensuality about them, including innovations like the chain mail dress and metal bustiers (fashionable and fierce, Bridezilla adores!) Ungaro's look was popularized by models like Twiggy and Penelope Tree, and his visionary clothing lines are designed to remind every Bridezilla that "women are the joy of every man." Attach that quote to Groomzilla's next credit card bill!
Bridezilla Dream Destinations: Ravello, Italy
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