Link Roundup: News & Inspiration

To start the week off right, we decided to share a few links to news and inspiration that the Bride & Blossom team is talking about today.

Following Sotheby’s sale last week of a flawless 100.2 carat white diamond, here’s a great piece on the most expensive diamonds ever sold. And surprise – colored gems like the famous Pink Star top the list. Fantastic inspiration if you’re shopping for a unique engagement rings featuring colored stones.
Priciest Diamonds in the World: 4 Stones That Shattered Auction Records

In a single day in 2009, Ellen McCarthy became the wedding reporter for The Washington Post and broke up with her boyfriend of nearly two years. At age 30, she was suddenly a chick-flick cliche, interviewing florists and wedding planners between crying spells and dutifully smiling through conversations with blissful couples. Fortunately, her book’s resemblance to a Katherine Heigl movie ends there.

Planning & Inspiration

We Love: RedBliss Design Wedding Invitations

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Want standout wedding invitations that elicit gasps from your guests? RedBliss Design creates showstopping, avant-garde work like nothing else out there, using fresh tech tools like 3D printing and unusual materials like die-cut metal. Like many wedding pros (including our founder, Rachel), Christine Traulich got into the business while planning her own wedding. Now, her sister Doris is her business partner and the duo’s striking style is spreading fast on social media. Here is some of their latest work, for Karen Tran’s Floral Master Class.

The epitome of personalized modern romance. Modern menus by us, romance by @karentranevents. Love collaborating with this remarkable talent! Photo: @pamscottphoto #redblissdesign #karentran #custom #stationery #luxury #menus #modern #chrome #lasercut #colorblock #lavender #romance #glamour #instaglam #eventdesign #eventdecor #eventprofs #luxuryispersonal

A photo posted by Christine Traulich (@redblissdesign) on Apr 27, 2015 at 3:26pm PDT

Planning & Inspiration

Wedding-Worthy Floral Scents for Spring

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Fresh Spring Florals by bride-and-blossom featuring Christian Dior

Endless Euphoria by Calvin Klein / Le Bouquet de la Mariee, by Guerlain/ À la rose, by Maison Francis Kurkdjian perfume fragrance / Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet, by Christian Dior / Valentina Pink, by Valentino

Considering choosing a new fragrance, just for your wedding day? It’s a romantic idea that’s gaining popularity. Scent may have stronger connection to memories than any other sense. Will your wedding-day fragrance become your new signature scent, or will you save it for special occasions and anniversaries? With this seasons bouquet of beautiful new potions, the real question is how will you choose just one?
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Planning & Inspiration

Happy Earth Day 2015!

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Happy Earth Day, everyone! We feel so lucky every day to work with nature’s beautiful gifts – flowers. Today, let’s all put extra thought into how we can protect our planet and preserve the wonder of nature, for generations to come.

Planning & Inspiration

Wedding Flower Inspiration Matched With Designer Dresses

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As bridal fashion week kicks off here in NYC, brides-to-be are pinning runway wedding-dress images at hummingbird speeds. Talented designers stun us each season with their new ideas and exquisite attention to detail. It’s entirely possible to get too inspired. This goes for wedding flowers as well. If you’re starting to feel like you’ll never be able to narrow down which wedding looks are your favorite, we’ve put together inspiration boards matching designs by our favorite wedding fashion designers with suggested styles of bouquets. On our What To Wear page, you can learn to recognize silhouettes that designers repeat from season to season, along with wedding flowers that have a similar look and feel.
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Planning & Inspiration

South Street Seaport Wedding on The Knot

by Rachel Trimarco

Today on The Knot, a wedding we did back in 2012. What a sweet surprise to see our beautiful bride, with her bouquet of champagne roses, white Eskimo roses, peonies and anemones, and to remember that stunning skyline wedding cake. Unfortunately, the downtown Manhattan wedding venue with that beautiful view, Bridgewaters, has since closed due to damage from Hurricane Sandy. Let’s look back on this South Street Seaport celebration as a reminder of resilience, that essential quality shared by every great city and every great marriage.

Images by Chris Leary Photography.