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Inspire his Naked Admiration with Holiday Lingerie
'Tis a cardinal Bridezilla maxim: the best way to survive a brutal winter is to keep your body constantly bedecked in Swarovski crystals, Snow Queen style.
Indeed, while others make small talk at fruit cake buffets, Bridezillas like to ring in the festive season with the sounds of champagne popping, jaws dropping and-hallelujah!-Sportscenter stopping. It's easy to get your man's full attention and look great with some scene-stealing holiday lingerie.
Naturally if you are having a winter wedding, holiday lingerie for the honeymoon is a must. But even if you've been married for years, bold bridezillas know how to keep the homefires burning in the chilly months. Lavish your ladybits here here.
Wedding Frock O' the Week: Bellisima Couture
With the snowy season upon us, Bridezilla is swept away by this impeccable wedding dress that feels equal parts silk and Swan Lake.
Elegant and spare, the strapless sweetheart neckline and tailored bodice melts beautifully into a dropped waist that feels like the bride is trailing an ocean of feathers. By keeping the rest of the gown simple, the dramatic back of this dress feels classy and theatrical, while the blend of silk and crinoline is impossibly lush and exquisite. This is a magical dress for a winter wedding. Bridezilla says, bellisima indeed!
Bridezilla Spotlight: Perfect Wedding Dress Preservation
You're a Bridezilla, so of course you want the best of the best. When it comes to your wedding video, you're thinking Sophia Coppola for director, while George Winston will of course play at your reception. While it may not always be possible to get A-listers on board for your dream wedding elements, it is possible to recruit a former museum conservationist from the Smithsonian to help preserve your wedding dress.
Jonathan Scheer, President of the J. Scheer & Co wedding dress preservation company, is the perfect answer to one of the most common problems we hear on Bridezilla.com: how to preserve your precious wedding gown. Scheer, with his background in preserving priceless costumes and textiles for timeless posterity, provides a trustworthy solution. From sophisticated testing to determine and appropriately treat stains (why must champagne and foundation look so much alike on silk?!), to truly reliable storage, Scheer has everything needed to put a bride's mind at ease and ensure her gown looks gorgeous for her, her daughter and her grandaughter (A-lines are timeless, right?). Fans of his work include Reem Acra, Carolina Herrera and Monique Lhullier. Make sure your dress is yours to have and to hold for years to come here.
Five Unexpected Hors d'Oeuvres For The Reception
Egg rolls, crab puffs, and mini-sausages wrapped in phyllo dough? Forget it. The Bridezilla wedding demands the finest cuisine whether it's on the dinner plate, offered up by cute roaming waiters, or in the form of wasabi peanuts at the bar to encourage everyone to drink faster and make that top shelf open bar worth the expense. When you're on the hunt for the best caterer in town (or out of town), make sure they make at least one of the following to ensure that you're serving only the most au courant hors d'oeuvres.
Wednesday Name Brand Pronunciation: Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin
Pronunciation: zhan lan-vinh
The perfect bag for shopping, working, dating, existing.
Whether you're a fan of classic Lanvin perfume Arpege, you've only heard the name in passing, or you're a new convert to the label since Alber Elbaz stepped in, it can't be denied that the 100+ year old brand is experiencing a resurgence. The label has been known for its classic femininity ever since creator Jeanne Lanvin opened up a millinery shop on the rue de Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1889, transitioning to become a dressmaker and member of the vaunted Syndicat de la Couture by 1907. Her daughter took the reigns upon her death, and the label became better known for its perfumes until Elbaz took over in 2001, designing a collection that turned all eyes back on Lanvin.
The refined sophistication of the house can be found in their flawless collection of shoes, handbags, and jewelry, including the buttery taupe leather Kentucky Tote seen above. If you're lacking a local Lanvin retailer, visit Yoox for great bargains like this gorgeous white coat. (Alright, "bargain" might be stretching it, but isn't it pretty?)
Bridezilla's Very Own Ticking Time Bomb err, Wedding Countdown
Wedding Countdown Timer provided by Bridal Guide
Naturally, when it comes to your wedding, you want your groom to move his tookus. But if the constant refrains of "Move it! "C'mon!" and "Step lively" are putting a slight strain on your relationship, there is a more refined solution. By simply, silently, embedding this wedding countdown on your wedding website, his myspace page, his facebook page, etc. there will be a tiny ticking reminder alerting him at all times how behind he is, and how the minutes are peeling away so he better book that band and plan that honeymoon package asap! Think of it as the equivalent of a tapping Jimmy Choo heel in his head, at all times.And when he gets home at the end of the day, you, his beautiful Bridezilla, can smile lovingly and hand him a martini, knowing your nagging is being taken care of. While you're at it, embed it on your personal sites so you can maintain the high level of stress that Bridezillas commonly refer to as "motivation". Viva technology!
Bridezilla Dream Destinations: Thailand
If your daily lunch menu includes pad Thai, tom yam, sticky rice, and anything made with coconut, you may have a problem with Thai food addiction. So why not take your fondness from the corner restaurant to the real thing? Thailand is gorgeous, exotic, packed with luxury hotels, and way, way more impressive than your hated cousin's much-bragged-about Hawaiian honeymoon. Dig into your plate of Gai Phad Khing and read on…
The Best Bridesmaid Gifts For A Holiday Wedding
Don't give your girlfriends some cheap trinket with their name scrawled across it - Bridezilla, darling, you're better than that. Bridesmaid gifts should be fun, unique, and way more personal than a dime store trinket box or velour Juicy-ripoff monstrosity with BRIDESMAID bedazzled across the back in unmistakably faux Swarovski. Check out the sexiest, most non-cliche bridesmaid gifts here, or simply use this guide for a few ideas on what to get your very best girls this holiday season...
Monday Bridezilla Bites
If holiday shopping is making your usually-fabulous face go unattractively Grinchy, ease your worries with Brides.com's Holiday Hot List of gifts for your groomzilla, with a few things thrown in to treat yourself with while you're at it. (We especially like this for frequent flyer Bridezillas.)
Via Fashionator, the Bridezilla-beloved Nanette Lepore offers tips on holiday dressing. We advocate making a strong statement that engaged doesn't mean housewifely by slithering into the Siren dress.
Looking for a great gift for your most deserving BFF, or a stocking stuffer hint for yourself? Spurred by People's recommendation, we suggest you steer your fiance toward the luxe Prada Beauty Exclusive Limited-Edition Atomizer in burgundy crocodile leather.
Get the bridesmaids together in anticipation of the upcoming Bride Wars, starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson as best friends who end up in the ultimate Bridezilla showdown when their wedding dates coincide.
Oh Joy! has tipped us off to the upcoming Target Collection by Jessie Randall of Hollywood favorite brand Loeffler Randall. The line will be revealed on December 30th, so be sure to schedule a Target trip in to grab one of the adorable clutches (pictured). Has anything ever been more perfect for New Year's Eve?
The Very Best Wedding Registries
It's common knowledge that Bridezillas aren't wild about surprises, whether they're in the form of your caterer notifying you at the last minute that the lobster shipment didn't arrive on time and they'll have to substitute monkfish, or your out-of-touch aunt gifting you with coral-colored culottes she found on the Dress Barn sales rack. This is why registering for wedding gifts is one of the very finest times in a Bridezilla's life - finally, a guarantee that you'll love (and even - gasp - use) the gifts you're getting!
Don't think we'd leave you alone during this important time. Follow the cut for our exhaustive listing of the very best wedding registries to guarantee you a haul sweeter than anything Santa could fit in his sleigh.
Continue Reading The Very Best Wedding Registries »Seven Little-Known Facts About Miss Z
We were recently tagged by The Bridal Wishlist with the following meme:
1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Since we are of course a collective (Miss B and Miss Z in the venue, baby), here's a chance for us to step out of the royal we and share a few facts about ourselves. I'm Miss Z, read on for my seven facts.
Continue Reading Seven Little-Known Facts About Miss Z »Wednesday Name Brand Pronunciation: Salvatore Ferragamo
Salvatore Ferragamo
Pronunciation: sal-vuh-tor fair-uh-gahm-oh
Just add sand, oceans, and a coconut daiquiri.
When we were nine years old, we were making up elaborate adventures for our Barbies to go on. When Salvatore Ferragamo was nine, he made his first pair of shoes. Salvatore, we salute you. In a career spanning decades, Ferragamo studied shoemaking in Naples, Italy, moved to Hollywood, designed shoes for legends like Marilyn Monroe and Eva Peron, attended USC in order to study anatomy and make more comfortable shoes for women, and returned home to Italy to set up shop in Florence. By the time he was fifty-two, he had a 700-employee factory turning out 350 pairs of handmade shoes per day, and the brand hasn't lost that luxury cache since. (For the record, we sometimes still miss our Barbies.)
We're particularly romanced by the 2007 resort collection, which includes the beach honeymoon-ready Pelea sandal (pictured). Can't live your life any longer without a signature Ferragamo piece of your own? Neiman Marcus has their own online Ferragamo boutique for all your browsing needs. And for budget-minded Bridezillas, we must note that vintage Ferragamos are among the easiest designer shoes to find for the antique mall-inclined. Fabulous!
Bridezilla Gets Dressed: Sweater Girls
It's December, and there's no denying it any longer: it's freaking cold outside. Until we can afford to spend our winters south of the equator (or, hey, on the equator), there's not much to do but complain endlessly, refuse to drive our cars if we see even the suggestion of snowflakes, and press our freezing cold hands against the Groomzilla's unnaturally warm neck every time we can. Oh, and buy loads of gorgeous new sweaters in which to defensively bundle ourselves.
Triathlons by Tiffany: Bridezilla on Fierce Finishers Jewelry
Bridezillas should never be mistaken for trophy wives, and we're really not much for medals either. But factor in the new women-friendly "finishers jewelry" at the end of some of the biggest ladies' races, and even Bridezilla is considering breaking a sweat. After all, what better way to get a wedding-day workout and score a gorgeous bauble in the process?
Here's the scoop from yesterday's New York Times article, "Though Nike was among the first organizers of women's athletic events to award jewelry to participants and age-group winners instead of medals or plaques, the idea is catching on. This year, the 1,600 women who finished the Mother's Day Title 9K in Boulder, Colo., got a star-emblazoned sterling silver charm on a leather cord. The three top age-group finishers at all 10 Iron Girl races won cuff bracelets. And for the first time, the 800 women running the Hippie Chick half- and quarter-marathons in Oregon next May will receive a flower-stamped sterling silver pendant."
Indeed, Bridezillas are big fans of bling, but the difference between Bridezillas and their trophy wife counterparts is that we believe in earning your own ornamentation through initiative, discipline, and self-advancement. We think the new NIKE movement marries these objectives nicely. Time to trade the Choos for some Pumas? Just maybe!
Wedding Flick Of the Week: Sex and the City Movie Trailer
If this music doesn't put a shiver down your spine on this festive Friday, you're wearing some serious cashmere. Here in the Bridezilla HQ, you can almost taste the cosmopolitans as the famously quirky voice of Carrie Bradshaw rolls over a gorgeous cityscape of New York, and four friends in fabulous outfits step onto the scene. May's a long time away, but you can console yourself by realizing that what Carrie wears on a Tuesday afternoon on a Manhattan sidewalk would make a wonderful New Year's ensemble for Bridezilla! Five months to the longest Sex ever! Now there's a reason to toast 2008.
Monday Bridezilla Bites
Scroll frantically past the nasty faux-Uggs and you'll arrive at the fabulous customizable-heel selection at Steve Madden, like the DYO Lusta, shown here in gold metallic with a bright red patent heel. As far as we're concerned, these put an end to wear-them-once dyeable pumps - imagine outfitting your bridesmaids with shoes in your perfect wedding colors that they'll actually wear again voluntarily!
The Bride's Guide offers a cute tip on regional wedding favors, which make for easy acquisitions and are great for showing some love to the local economy. Why offer chintzy lobster lollipops, though, when you can send your guests a whole live lobster?
Via Off The Rack, we're romanced by The Little Black Apron cookbook for single girls - or, as we like to call them, Bridezillas-in-progress. Sure, one can live on holiday party canapes and macrobiotic takeout, but why should we have to?
Looking for last minute ideas on how to decorate for your holiday party? Hostess With The Mostest recommends reconsidering poinsettias.
Eco-friendly wedding gowns? We say sure, so long as they make us look gorgeous.
May Meets December When King of Miramax Weds Design Star
This weekend in weddings: Marchesa co-designer Georgina Chapman weds movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. While Harvey gained a stunningly gorgeous and successful dress designer 24 years his junior, Georgina committed to the classic upgrade/downgrade of a fabulously rich husband who's also kind of a schlub. We're romanced ourselves with tales of the spectacle, a Westport, Connecticut affair that drew the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Anna Wintour, Paul McCartney, Nicole Kidman, and Cameron Diaz, and starred Georgina in an undoubtedly fabulous ivory tulle wedding gown of her own design (Harvey tuxed out in Tom Ford - we approve). We wish this couple a fabulous life that's a much more interesting match than the aesthetically similar Leah Remini/Kevin James pairing on The King of Queens, and while we're in no rush to marry a well-financed fixer-upper of our own, we certainly might pass a moment or two daydreaming about bridesmaids bedecked this raspberry-red Marchesa Notte confection.
Looking at Harvey, however, we can't help but wonder: would you do it?
Continue Reading May Meets December When King of Miramax Weds Design Star »Ten Tips For Living With Ten Husbands
Via Aisledash, here's a heartwarming story of a woman so addicted to being Bridezilla that she got married ten times - unfortunately, she neglected to get divorced in between. While we're addicted to certain aspects of wedding planning ourselves (oh, the cake tasting diet), we still don't think we could get into the marriage-for-pay scheme that Miami resident Eunice Lopez was engaged in. After all, what does one do with ten husbands?
Actually, we can think of a few things...
What To Do With Ten Husbands
1. Form a sports team of some kind. Then, trade them for millions.
2. Make them compete in competitions like you're on a reality show. Obstacle course! Keep one set aside to bring you drinks as you watch the fray.
Bridezilla Reviews: A Thousand Days In Venice, by Marlena De Blasi
We love a good escapist romance, at least outside of the fainting women and swashbuckling men bodice-ripper genre. There's nothing quite as escapist and romantic as a tale of falling in love with a Venetian stranger and flying to Italy to become his bride, as in A Thousand Days in Venice, by Marlena De Blasi, a true story of a woman who does just that. A delicious read for any time of year, this one works especially well during the cold winters when you'd like to curl up in front of a fire in a palazzo of your own. The luscious-sounding recipes even got us interested in cooking for a hot minute - luckily, that urge passed, and we just set to Citysearching for the nearest Italian restaurant. And if you think your own wedding planning has been trying, revel in the madcap adventures as Marlena navigates the vast and mysterious world of Venetian marriages, from underage seamstresses to bishops insistent that a Catholic wedding will take months. As the Italians insist, of course, the struggle only makes it sweeter. Read this one when you need to get away from it all, and when you're finished, start leaving this page up on your fiance's computer whenever he leaves the room.
Read It, Love It: A Thousand Days in Venice, by Marlena De Blasi
Bridezilla of the Month: Bridezilla
Cheating? Maybe. But for these kids, we'll make an exception. Real Bridezillas they may not be (yet), but they've got the fighting spirit we can get behind! Australian indie kids Bridezilla have been howling their way through opening slots on tours and they're about to make a splash at the big deal Sydney music festival Big Day Out. Looking like a bunch of misplaced MisShapes and featuring fierce frontwoman Holiday Sidewinder, Daisy Tulley on violin, Millie Hall on saxophone and keyboard, lead guitarist Pia May, and Josh Bush on drums, this quintet earns the name Bridezilla, and that's not something we'd say lightly. The ideal wedding band? Maybe not. But we wish we'd been displaying that much sass (onstage, at least) when we were sixteen. Best of luck to you, Bridezilla.
Give them a listen:
http://www.myspace.com/bridezillaa
http://www.bridezillamusic.com/
Wednesday Name Brand Pronunciation: John Galliano
John Galliano
Pronunciation: john gal-ee-ah-no
The scarf you need for easy Parisian chic.
From his knockout French Revolution-inspired first collection as a Central Saint Martins grad on through appointments at Givenchy and Dior, John Galliano has kept the fashion world guessing with increasingly fabulous and daring collections. One of the great contemporary couturiers (and the first Brit to head a French haute couture house), he's kept Dior delightfully relevant and lured in big names like Charlize Theron and Kate Moss for ad campaigns.
Can't get enough Galliano? Take in the deliciously bargain-priced selection at YOOX or the wider selection at SSense, including this deliciously edgy scarf.
Bridezilla's 22 Best New Year's Wedding Tips Ever
1) Go somewhere exotic. Why? The only thing more festive than fireworks, is foreign fireworks!
You're already thinking outside the box with a cooler-than-usual wedding date, so why not throw the shindig in Thailand , Sri Lanka or Hawaii?
2) Have your bridesmaids wear jeweled fake eye lashes. Bridezilla loves bling bling batting!
3) Create a fun slideshow at your reception of political, cultural and celebrity events from the past year, culminating with a slide of the biggest event of the year-your wedding!
4) Buck the trend and save your first man-and-wife kiss to coincide with the midnight countdown!
5) Forget the fairy lights. For a New Year's wedding, decorate your reception area in funky mosquito netting and Japanese lanterns.
6) Have guests sign their New Years Resolutions on your guest book. Read them at your ten year vow renewal to see who stepped up to the challenge.
7) Have the wedding party carry sparklers instead of bouquets. Get these that come in the spangly vases for safely sexy effect.
8) Do your wedding colors in shades of chic metallic-lavender, gold and bronze.
9) Skip the champagne toast and live lavishly by serving Paris Hilton's Rich Prosecco.
10) Take advantage of free fireworks with an outdoor reception.
11) Plasma screens a'plenty are a must to watch the ball drop!
12) Fresh start anyone? Have the entire wedding party join the Polar Bear Swim Club.
13) Play this awesome song at your reception to get bodies moving!
14) In lieu of long boring wedding toasts (clock's ticking, after all), have each groomsmen offer these short, sweet toasts from around the world.
15) Need justification for a nice, long honeymoon? Remind Groomzilla that the original New Year's celebration lasted eleven days. Hey, who are you to contest history?
16) Have your wedding on a cruise boat to really take advantage of the disco ball, DJ, flashing fireworks aesthetic.
17) Let your ringbearer throw snappers down the aisle. It will keep Aunt Mabel awake and will totally make up for the small matter of the sparkly tuxedo.
18) Give out masquerade masks as wedding favors for instant mystique-on-the-cheap.
19) By morning everyone will be on a diet, so go decadent with a dessert buffet.
20) By morning everyone will be in rehab, so drink and be merry with a sparkling wine buffet
21) Walk down a candle lit aisle to U2's "City of Blinding Lights." If you're a traditionalist, an acoustic version of the band's "New Years Day" is a nice choice.
22) Cover everything in this-including your eligible female guests.
Bridezilla Dream Destinations: Venice
Inspired by...well, ourselves, we've been thinking longingly this beautiful afternoon of a vacation in Venice. Palazzos, gondolas, and tasty Italian food? We're practically there already.
10 Last-Minute Gift Ideas to Save Your Ass This Holiday Season
Although it's too late to advise you not to get that sock full of coal for your most hated co-worker unluckily chosen in the office Secret Santa, we're still here for you, Bridezilla! Between wedding planning, working, fulfilling social obligations (we can't be at every party, but oh, we'll try), and tending to the mister-in-progress, certain things can fall by the wayside. If you've skipped holiday shopping altogether or simply find yourself without the one gift you need for your little sister/mother-in-law/best friend/fiance (whoops), consult this guide for last-minute gift ideas so great your giftee will think you actually planned ahead.
Bridezilla Finishing School: The Egalitarian Invitation Address
Now that the dust has settled over the hyphenation issue, there is a new "what's in a name" quandary posed by Something Old, Something New. Bridezilla finds it quite interesting.
The question is how to address a wife in a wedding invitation without having to rely on the chilling "Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Smith" option, which just makes the woman sound like a total non-entity. We agree with the author that regardless what suffix you have selected for married life, you don't have to be a feminist to still be entitled to a first name.
A few options presented by the post:
1) Mr. Matthew & Mrs. Mathilda Smith
2) Mr. & Mrs. Mathew and Mathilda Smith
3) The Smith Family
The last option can be problematic if you don't plan to have children at your wedding, but the first two sound like good solutions. We also agree with the post's advice to always include women's hyphenated names where applicable and also their professional titles. Bridezilla Bonus Tip: If the wife kept her maiden name, it is most appropriate to list her full name first, then list her groomzilla's name underneath. Take care to give the proper egalitarian wedding addresses. Bridezilla says: anything else is the calligraphy equivalent of cows for dowries!
What Are You Wearing This New Year's Eve?
If you're skipping out on the spectacle of a New Year's Eve wedding, you better have a fabulous back-up plan - please. As if you don't. Whether your destination for ringing in '08 is the big city or your very own living room, take inspiration from these suggestions for the most fabulous dresses and drinks to ring in the New Year with.
Bookzilla Review: Shopaholic Ties the Knot
It has been said that Shopaholics are merely a singleton strain of Bridezilla, and we were inclined to agree-until this book. Brilliantly marrying Becky Bloomwood's love of shopping with the excitement of her engagement, our heroine shows that one can seamlessly transition into a full-blown Bridezilla without compromising her Shopaholic status. Bravo!
Furthermore, this book combines Miss B's three favorite things: shopping, weddings, and multiple weddings per day per person. Yes, the irrepressible Becky Bloomwood is living the Bridezilla dream with two weddings booked for the same day, in two different countries. But as internationally glamorous as this sounds for a Paris Hilton birthday bash, apparently the same "more the merrier" mentality doesn't apply to legal unions such as marriages. What's a non-bigamy-inclined Bridezilla to do?
Naturally, our intrepid Bloomwood finds a brilliant solution to this seemingly impossible situation, using Bridezilla's primary artillery-friends with exotic vocations, a highly accommodating groomzilla, and a gift for persuasive prose.
Not only does this book contain one of Bridezilla's favorite marriage proposals of all time, the exchanges between Becky and her bank manager provide many clever tips for Bridezilla's in similar negotiations with stodgy wedding vendors. This book is Wedding Lit Lite at its most blissful! Buy one for you and the bestie!
The One Mode of Wedding Transportation That You Can Whip
Just kidding, we keep our whips in the bedroom! White Christmases and Aisle Dash have us thinking about that grandest statement of wedding transportation luxury: the horse-drawn sleigh or carriage. More environmentally friendly than a stretch Hummer, and frankly less horrifically tacky, horse-drawn carriages are about as magisterial as you can get without donning a crown and velvet cloak. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't do that as well...
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