Christy ordered this beauty from us for her nuptials later this month.  She was looking for a custom aisle runner with her pre-designed logo with an addition of the names and date as well as champagne crystal accents.  Love it!

This sensational strapless mermaid gown has been designed with beaded alencon lace and tulle on the bottom. The gown is fully lined, has a zipper on the back with fabric covered buttons, and a sweep train. Accenting it are bugle beads, pearls, and sequins. The gown features 1 inch in-seams on each side to let out.

Guess what the price is? For this discount wedding is only going for $399.99! And they have plus sizes!

Don’t you just love it when when quality and price comes together in a neat discounted wedding package?

Tags from the Etsy Shop

What inspired you to start your company?

If you’re planning a wedding, spend accordingly.  Everything is pretty much possible even within a budget.  Also, personalizing your wedding doesn’t mean spending lots of money.  It just means placing special touches that convey who you and you’re fiancee are.

Making couples happy!  Knowing that when they look back at their wedding day, everything went exacty like they wanted it to go.

So many!  My top three would have to be Weddingbee, Snippet and Ink, and 100 Layer Cake.  I have a long blog roll on my blog, check it out!

The parasol we sent…

I’m short on time because of The Wedding Salon’s aisle runner work this week (see post here), so instead of my normal Featured Vendor Friday blog posting, I’m just going to direct you to such a nice blog posting Jennifer over at Destination I Do Magazine posted about us yesterday.  We sent her one of our custom nylon parasols with a crystal tip.  To see what she said about our parasol, be sure to visit her blog.  Enjoy your weekend and have a Happy Halloween!!

]]> http://kissandwed.info/2009/10/destination-i-do/feed/ 0 http://kissandwed.info/2009/10/the-wedding-salon/ http://kissandwed.info/2009/10/the-wedding-salon/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:00:38 +0000 The Wedding Planner http://hylo.kissandwed.info/2009/10/the-wedding-salon/ I was thrilled this afternoon to receive a phone call from The Wedding Salon in NY asking us if we would be able to supply them with two custom aisle runners for Monday’s event.  We started working tonight and Tweeted a few pictures and we’ll be continuing to work tomorrow and Thursday so we’re able to get them shipped out by Friday for the event.  I wish I could be there to see what is sure to be a spectacular wedding show, but since I can’t, maybe you can…

Lasso’d Moon Designs is a small Vermont based company, located in Brandon, Vermont.  They design custom invitation suites (coordinating paper goodies from save the dates to invitations to reception goodies) with a “modern style and vintage flair.”  Be sure to visit Lasso’d Moon Designs website and blog or follow Carey on Twitter.

What inspired you to start your company?

I started my company after helping my best friend create her save the dates, invitations and shower invitations. Besides being her matron of honor, it was so much fun to be a part of the wedding in a very different, personal way.

What wedding trends are you currently loving?

I love all of the vintage touches that are coming into weddings – flowers in Ball jars, painted wooden signs, old fashioned graphics and fonts, and just that couples are celebrating their day in ways that mean something to them.

What wedding planning advice would you give to engaged couples?

Enjoy the process and don’t stress about what might go wrong. Something will, just be prepared and continue to work together as a couple. Your wedding will be beautiful no matter what.

What do you love most about your job?

When a bride sees her invitations for the first time. They always look a little nervous, then break out into a smile.  It’s the point when seeing it in print makes it all that much more real.

What are your favorite wedding websites and/or blogs?

I love Style Me Pretty, Brenda’s Wedding Blog, Ruffled Blog, and the Perfect Palette. Each provide inspiration in their own way.

I was going to post an entirely different post today, but I’m so in love with our most recent creation…I just had to dedicate a post to it.  We’re often asked by clients if they can use their own logos or if they can use a logo with a graphic in it.  We can never say yes immediately without looking, but often times we’re able to use or tweak the design.  That was the case with Erica’s aisle runner.  She had her own design and originally wanted a LOT of work done on the runner which would have meant many hours of painting and of course more money.  At first, she wanted us to paint the entire design on the runner, but then we suggested going with a green colored runner so we didn’t have to spend as much time painting.  Eventually we were able to tweak the original design  into perhaps one of my most favorite aisle runners yet.  All in all, the painting still took about five hours to do, but I’m loving every bit of it.  Take a look at the original design and then the fabulous finished aisle runner and go ahead and tell me how much you love it.  Then, head over to Kiss And Wed to place your order!

Omigosh I’m sorry, sorry, SORRY for leaving you hanging for so long.

My stress levels have been at their peak since before the trip to Seattle (largely work-related) to and I didn’t think it was possible but they have just ESCALATED.

For those of you dying to know, in short, the trip to was disastrous. We did NOT find bridesmaid dresses, or pants for the groomsmen or cute dresses even a frickin’ HOTEL ROOM in Seattle. Oh yes, you heard me right. It was a thoroughly depressing situation. We came home a day early.

But that’s a story for another day.

The other thing we did NOT find was backup shoes… which I did not think was a big deal since, as we all know, I fell in love and ordered those purple Louboutins from Net-A-Porter…

… until now!!! Because suddenly, YES, it IS a big deal!!

Because I got the lovely Louboutins finally.

And adored them.

Until I went to pull the stickers of the soles today.

The sticker on the right shoe was stuck on the sole underneath the ball of the foot. Normal.

The other one, however, was stuck wayyyy up by the heel.

Hmm, that’s weird, I thought.

Then I went to pull it off…

… and GAAAAASSSSPPPPPPPPPP…..

My darling purple Louboutin wedding shoes are… DEFECTIVE.

I am absolutely APPALLED that these shoes passed quality control. That sticker was placed way up there ON PURPOSE TO HIDE THE BIG GASH IN THE SOLE!

COME ON. You spend frickin’ $600 dollars on a pair of shoes… you expect them to be absolutely PERFECT, no??

Just when I had finally swept away all the the pain and suffering that came with convincing my fiance and my guilty conscience that I loved these shoes/needed these shoes/deserved these shoes, and had finally felt the joy that should come from a purchase that is totally frivolous and yet so amazing and for which I was soooo grateful… THIS HAPPENS.

I just sent an email to Net-A-Porter, complete with above photos, demanding–no, requesting (I’m saving my mean, nasty words for later in case I need them)–a replacement.

The thing is, I’m TERRIFIED that it’s been longer than the “7 days from receipt of shipment” that is noted in their return policy and that they might dare to refuse me.

And even MORE TERRIFYING is the fact that I’ve been monitoring their website over the past week and…

I am so nervous and stressed I feel like I am going to throw up.

I so did not need this to happen right now.

Any advice, anyone? Has this ever happened to you?? Any similar experiences with Net-A-Porter that you can share???

If they don’t have another pair left, do I shut my mouth and keep these ones, gash and all???

Oh my Lord. My heart is racing and my palms are sweaty and I think I might be hyperventilating.

Because of this:

My book club friend Sam–to be herewith forever known as Samantha, Patron Saint of the Heavenly Shoes (God bless her soul!)–just sent me a link to these shoes at Net-a-Porter.

And when I saw them, these spectacularly magnificent, exceedingly ravishing Christian Louboutin Mauresmo chiffon slingbacks I promptly swooned.

It was like the heavens opened up and the angels began to sing.

They are the absolute picture-perfect incarnations of all my deepest, wildest desires. They are everything I’ve been looking for–sexy, summery, comfortable and deliciously purple. I don’t even care how much ridicule and derision I will have to suffer at the hands of my thrifty and penny-wise fiance. I’ll promise him ten years of back rubs or something, so help me God!

As soon as I caught my breath, gingerly clicked on the Choose Your Size drop-down list.

And that’s when the panic set in.

Of ALL the sizes, mine is sold out!!

A rapid online search revealed that they are only available at Net-A-Porter, or at least that’s all I could find.

I’m putting out a call of desperation. Anyone know of any other place to find these amazing shoes? Do you think it would be worth it to try the half size smaller or bigger??

(Helpful leads will be rewarded with your very own Patron Saint name and undying gratitude for the rest of my days.)

I was just writing a post for the hive and stumbled upon this fabulous Nine West Girltime shoe in one of my bookmarks…

… which is now ON SALE for an amazing $29.99!!! If they strike your fancy, run and DO NOT WALK to Nine West.

If I didn’t love my purple Loubs so much, I just might have been tempted by these metallic peep-toe darlings. Too cute.