From her atelier in San Francisco, Zalikha Safdari of OSSAI COUTURE displays a remarkable talent for all things beautiful and dramatic. The OSSAI COUTURE bridal sashes are so stunning that Luxurious Wedding has acclaimed them as the 'must have' bridal adornment for this year and anointed them the Luxurious Wedding Bridal Waist Wreathe. 
Your wedding gown will never be duplicated when you encircle your waist with a custom Bridal Waist Wreathe designed just for you. Imagine how dramatic a Bridal Waist Wreathe would look as an accent for your bridesmaids. A simply classic bridesmaids dress encircled with a show stopping Bridal Waist Wreathe. Simply Magnificent.
OSSAI COUTURE makes you crave to personalize everything for our wedding. The Bridal Waist Wreathe can even become your wedding theme. Use the same jeweled elements on your embellished wedding invitations as a hint of what is to come. Every thing from OSSAI COUTURE is exciting and extraordinaire.
Choose from the OSSAI COUTURE existing collection of couture wedding invitation designs and their Bridal Waist Wreathe collection or have OSSAI COUTURE take your vision to the nth degree. Luxurious Wedding encourages you to go beyond all boundaries. Be Exciting. Be Exquisite. Be Evocative. Be Envied. Be Anything But Ordinary!
Bridal Waist Wreathe By OSSAI COUTURE Is Acclaimed By Luxurious Wedding As A Must Have Bridal Adornment
Eco Bridal Chic Hair Accents From Christina Garcia Bridal Accessories
Christina Garcia Bridal Accessories pays tribute to Green Eco Bridal Chic with luxurious wedding hair accents made from Pineapple fabric.
Pineapple is oh so sweet and so are these wedding hair accents made from Pineapple. Pineapple fabric molds perfectly to create the Christina Garcia Green Collection of flower combs, pins and headbands. Each piece is named in honor of an endangered plant. A purchase will plant a tree at the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered forests in the world.
Create a work of art in your hair. Add one dramatic accent or a cluster of petite florettes. Whatever your style, Christina Garcia has the perfect barettes, pins, brooches, or the hair art sets.
All Christina Garcia Bridal Accessories are available for purchase through Luxurious Wedding.
Amazon's Kindle DX Is Very Green
Amazon's Kindle DX is very Green when it comes to eliminating the carbon footprint of your paper trail. The Kindle readers are wireless reading devices. But the new Kindle DX has increased its reading area and added other goodies. The Kindle DX is light in weight but it is no light weight. It is bigger and better. Over 300,000 books to read, not to mention the NY Times and virtually anything else that is in print.
Even our
Luxurious Wedding Style Report is available on Kindle. Loving that!
You can read wedding books, blogs, magazines and newspapers on Kindle. Or ask the Kindle DX and it will read books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers out loud to you. Feeling so pampered. Transfer your MP3 files to Kindle DX and listen to music while you read. Feeling so soothed. Upload your wedding inspiration boards, contracts and PDF's to read at your leisure or on the go. Feeling so organized.
With Kindle there is no wireless setup, no monthly wireless bills, data plans, or commitments. You are ready to shop, purchase and read right out of the box. Kindle DX has a long battery life. You can read on a single charge for up to 4 days with the wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for up to 2 weeks.
Luxurious Wedding Style Report now available on Amazon's Kindle.
The Perfect Ceremony Toss For A Green Wedding
An eco-friendly Rose Crowned Cone for your Ceremony Toss is perfect for a Green Wedding. Made from handmade Mulberry paper, they are pretty as a picture and earth friendly too.
Cluster these pretty paper flower cones in hanging baskets or ceramic pots around the exit from the ceremony area. Hang a Ceremony Rose Cone on the back of each chair or place one on each chair seat to grace the wedding program. Suspend a Ceremony Cone on the edge of the pew from their attached ribbon for your guests to take on the way out.
The paper Rose Bloom on the top of the cone lifts off for your wedding toss. Fill them with Lavender Bud Wedding Rice, Eco Friendly Confetti, or Freeze Dried Rose Petals. All are earth friendly yet ever so pretty to the eyes and a colorful image for your wedding photographer to capture. Fill them with
Jordan Almonds and they can be used as a Wedding Favor too.
Throwing things at the wedding couple symbolizes good luck, fertility and abundance.
Lavender Bud Wedding Rice is a tradition that dates back to Ancient Rome.These 100% pure lavender buds are completely biodegradable. They won't harm birds or the environment and when the lavender buds are crushed underfoot, the delicate fragrance is released again and again.
Luxurious Wedding envisions you sprinkling the Lavender Bud Wedding Rice on the walkway leading into the ceremony. A subtle aroma will be release that is know to relax your spirit and make you feel less stressed so that your spirits will soar as you float down the aisle.
See more of our favorite Luxurious Wedding Favors.
Green Wedding Favors & Table Decor
Luxurious Wedding is turning Green with envy over all the great decor ideas for your Green Wedding theme.
Natural Bamboo Coasters can be used as a Green Wedding Favor for your guest or removed from the box and individually placed on the tables to add more texture and dimension. Bamboo is considered lucky so why not spread the luck around. A great companion to the VerTerra compostable Palm Leaf Dinnerware.
The earth friendly Natural Bamboo Coasters come packaged in a bamboo green gift box with a natural raffia ribbon tie. Each coaster measures 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" and the gift boxes measure 4" x 4".
View more Luxurious Wedding Favors.
Have A Luxurious Green Wedding With Earth Friendly Dinnerware
If you want your Luxurious Wedding to be chic, Green, friendly to the earth and friendly to your sense of style, here is a dining element to add to the list.
This beautifully designed and disposable dinnerware collection from VerTerra is made from fallen palm leaves and water. That's it. No toxic chemicals. They look like you are serving food on a modern art sculpture. After collecting fallen leaves that would normally be burned, they apply steam, heat and pressure to transform the leaves into these pretty dishes. They can be put in the oven up to 350 degrees for 45 minutes or the Microwave for 2 minutes, so no matter what you are serving they will hold up. You can not recycle them. They are compostable and will naturally return to the earth in 2 months.
You can place food on them straight out of the package. All VerTerra dinnerware is cleaned and UV sterilized no less than three times. Your guest will certainly appreciate your thoughtful contribution to our planet. Ask your wedding planner about using VerTerra Dinnerware for your Green Wedding. Luxurious Wedding thinks VerTerra is making the creation of a luxurious Green Wedding a very easy and attractive concept.
View our other Luxurious Theme Wedding ideas.
The Art of Planning A Theme Wedding
Do you ever wonder what goes on Behind The Scene of a Theme Wedding?
We interviewed Luxurious Wedding Design Team planner, Joan Glenn of 6 Degrees of Celebration, who revealed some of the awesome details which made her theme wedding A Midsummer Night's Dream come to life.
When your guests walk into your reception you should expect them to be transported to a realm of celebration and delight. We think you will enjoy seeing the magic a true wedding planning professional can create to make your theme wedding luxurious and extraordinary.
View Joan Glenn's interview and see some truly luxurious theme weddings.
Same Sex Marriage Traditions According To The Emily Post Institute
Anna Post is the beautiful great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post plus an author on Etiquette and a spokesperson for The Emily Post Institute.
Anna's most recent book 'Do I Have To Wear White?' has brides clamoring for more information on wedding etiquette.
On the subject of how to translate time honored traditions into a same sex wedding union, Anna Post comments that;
"At The Emily Post Institute, as we examined our books to be sure we covered the emerging question of same-sex unions. I was pleased to find there weren't too many differences then, and there aren't now, either.
When I'm asked questions about how heterosexual marriage traditions translate to same-sex unions and marriages, I find I almost always give the same answer: You have pretty much all the same options as anyone else. It's a very equal-opportunity process no matter the gender pairing in question; you can look to tradition as a model, but just as many heterosexual couples have reason to adapt or abandon certain traditions, so do same-sex couples.
Would you like to cut the cake and feed each other pieces? Have a first dance? Toss a bouquet? It's all about what makes sense and is meaningful to you and your guests. I attended a same-sex wedding ceremony in December, and the grooms chose to walk down the aisle together, hand-in-hand. This was a beautiful adaptation of the classic bride's tradition, and the guests all clapped when they saw the couple together. The crowd usually cheers when the couple embraces for the first time as a married couple at the end of the ceremony--but this time we saw them together from the very beginning, creating a very different energy for the ceremony. No etiquette was broken; in fact, it was perfect for this couple, and therefore the best choice.
Choice is a key word. Brides marrying brides and grooms marrying grooms are not heterosexual couples, and it should never be assumed that one person will play the "part" of bride or groom. Incorporate gender traditions only when they are meaningful to you. When Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi married, Ellen wore a simple white pant suit (as is her normal style) and Portia a full-on wedding dress. The ladies looked lovely, but they could just as easily have both worn pants or both worn bridal gowns. It all comes down to being true to yourselves and respectful of your guests, whether you're gay or straight. Satisfy that, and the rest is just details."
For more wedding etiquette advice visit Luxurious Wedding Etiquette & Protocol.
Luxurious Wedding Floral Designer Jorge Cazzorla of Celebrate Flowers
Luxurious Wedding floral designer Jorge Cazzorla, President and Creative Director of Celebrate Flowers, created his floral eye candy for the Spring in New York City MACY'S FLOWER SHOW. Brides got a chance to meet Jorge personally to see his magnificent work and speak with him about what new visions he has for wedding floral decor.
Celebrate Flowers is a prestigious, New York based, full-service Wedding, Interior Design and Event Planning company. Jorge Cazzorla is recognized as one of New York's most successful and sought after wedding designers. His background in architecture, art and graphic design have inspired his floral designs. His understanding of structure, color, texture, lighting and composition deliver breathtaking floral arrangements and elegant environments.
As a native of Venezuela, Jorge Cazzorla includes cultural and artistic energy into his designs. As a featured designer in Macy's Annual Flower Show, he single-handedly expanded the concept from "flower-in-vase" design to full-scale floral installations. Now in his sixth year with the show, he continues to be at the forefront of innovation.
Luxurious Wedding loves Jorge Cazzorla Celebrate Flowers and so will you!
A Luxurious Wedding Bouquet That Makes A Strong Fashion Statement
Blooms by Martha Andrews has created a signature wedding bouquet that is as much of a fashion statement as the couture wedding gown that you are wearing.
Intensively clustered flowers are suspended in space by crystals and other creative embellishments to define a luxurious wedding bouquet that is worthy of a standing ovation.
These elegant wedding bouquet designs are scaled to your size and the style of your wedding gown. The embellishments can have sentimental items attached and can be as glitzy or as understated as you want.
The added benefit to the Signature Bouquet created by Martha Andrews is that the elongated design will make you look slimmer and taller ! And it is extremely photogenic.
Blooms by Martha Andrews ships her Signature Wedding Bouquet to brides all over the planet. She will also work closely with you and create your entire floral decor.
"Martha Andrews lives in the world of fearless color and design. She pushes the boundaries of her luxurious wedding bouquets and floral decor at every turn."
A Blooms by Martha Andrews wedding bouquet appears on the current cover of Luxurious Wedding.