The music at your wedding will contribute a significant amount to the ambiance. The first sounds your guests will hear when they walk in the door or onto the scene will be your wedding musicians. Classic choices like a pianist or a string quartet certainly have their own appeal, and there are many good reasons to go with one of …
Unique Styles for the Alternative Bride
In our last blog, we talked about adding pops of color to your wedding day, with colorful shoes, bows, or lipstick. But what if you want to do something completely different? The traditional white wedding dress is beautiful, sure, but it’s not for everyone. Maybe you want to surprise your guests with a brightly colored dress or a style you …
Adding Color to Your Wedding Day
Popularized by Queen Victoria, the white dress is one of the most-loved wedding traditions across the United States, Europe and places all around the world. Women have been dressed in white on the day they say, “I do” for centuries. However, many brides are looking for ways to add color to their wedding look. Why wouldn’t they? Color is a …
Dressing Your Bridesmaids in Style
If you’ve ever been asked to be a bridesmaid, you probably first felt excitement over being asked to be a big part of your friend’s big day… and then you may have felt dread over what sort of dress that you might be asked to wear. Terrible bridesmaid dresses are a common movie trope: matching dresses that may have been …
Sweet Choices: Wedding Desserts
One of the most fun choices you have when it comes to planning your wedding is deciding what your dessert will be. While planning, you might find yourself wondering if the traditional wedding cake (typically a neutral flavored sponge cake covered in fluffy white buttercream) is right for you. Maybe you don’t like cake or are worried about making sure …
The Story Behind White Wedding Dresses
The “tradition” of white wedding gowns is actually a very modern trend. Prior to the wedding of Queen Victoria, brides would get married in a fashionable dress for the time period. Families would see the occasion as a chance to show off their wealth and status. Wealthy and noble families would dress their daughters in the finest gowns for the …
Sleeves Are Back in Wedding Style
A relatively recent change to the wedding dress industry is the presence of sleeves, after years of strapless ball gowns dominating the market. This is in large part to 2011’s royal wedding. When Prince William married Kate Middleton and she became the Duchess of Cambridge, the bridal industry all turned their eyes to the wedding to see where wedding trends …
Unconventional Wedding Meals
Planning your wedding meal can fill you with excitement or dread. Different budgets make different sort of meals possible, and even if you can afford a fancy plated dinner, you may not want one. The stereotypical wedding dinner with a choice between chicken or beef (plus a vegetarian option) can be boring and forgettable. If having a memorable meal isn’t …
The Perfect Wedding Dress to Match Your Theme
Two of the most fun parts of planning your wedding are: 1) picking the theme and 2) finding the perfect wedding dress. If you can find a way to have the two work in tandem, it’s that much better. Your wedding dress doesn’t have to fit the wedding theme, but sometimes it can be fun to coordinate that way. After …
Our Favorite Bridal Trends of 2018 So Far
Trends have a habit of changing…frequently. In the bridal world, there are some standards that will never go away, like wearing white and carrying a bouquet. Other bridal trends come and go, or surface and resurface every few years. As bridal professionals, we at Fan C like to stay on top of the current trends, as well as the trends …