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 …
Why Princess Style Ball Gowns Never Go Out of Style
Why Princess Style Ball Gowns Never Go Out of Style One of the most enduring images of traditional Western weddings is the bride in a white ballgown with a full skirt. This image tends to be what little girls daydream about when they imagine their weddings and invokes princess imagery. Let’s first mention that princess ball gowns aren’t going to …
The Dos and Don’ts of Engagement Photos
The Dos and Don’ts of Engagement Photos Engagement photos should be fun. After all, you’re celebrating! The whole point of the photos is to commemorate this moment when you felt so happy. But often couples stress over getting the engagement photos just right. What should they wear? Do they want a theme? What if one of the pictures comes out …
How to Use Fashion to Accentuate Your Curves
At Fan C Designs, we appreciate that curves are beautiful. Curvy fashion should accentuate your curves, not try to hide them or draw the eye away from them. And there are a number of tricks you can use to draw attention to your curves. Many curvy fashion guides suggest cinching the waist in some way. But what if your waist …
Royal Weddings: Meghan and Harry
If you’re at all interested in weddings, you’ve probably been bombarded with lots of news about the wedding of Prince Harry and Her Royal Highness, Duchess Meghan of Sussex in the last few weeks. While you might not have an entourage — including a few elegantly dressed small children to carry your veil for you — you can look to …