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New Bridal Trend Alert: Slits and Crop Tops
Brides are going to be showing some skin this spring so get ready for it. No more demure ladies! Elle.com reports that thigh-high slits (not quite as high as Kendall Jenner likes to sport them but still high) and crop...
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Pamella Rowland Launches A Bridal Line!
Good news. Iconic designer Pamella Rowland has launched a bridal line. “We’ve been doing gowns for a while and we did have a lot of people say to us, ‘Why aren’t you doing wedding gowns?'” Roland said at the presentation for...
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Lauren Conrad Talks About How She Picked Her Wedding Dress
Lauren Conrad is a fashion and entrepreneurial expert and now she is a wedding expert. Conrad got married in September (and wore Solemates) and it was truly a fairytale. It was all beautiful, down to every detail. "I don't know...
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5 Milestones To Celebrate In Your First Year of Marriage
  The first year of marriage is one of the hardest but also one of the most mportant. Danielle Tate, Founder and CEO of MissNowMrs.com, the leading online name change service for brides, has some tips for newlyweds on what to...
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Good News. There is a ‘Frozen’-Inspired Wedding Dress!
If you loved the movie Frozen and you are getting married then you are in luck. Now you can wear a dress inspired by the biggest film of the year.  Disney Consumer Products collaborated with bridal designer Alfred Angelo on...
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Lauren Conrad Gets Married and She Wears Solemates!!
In case you hadn't heard, former Hills star and fashion designer Lauren Conrad got married over the weekend. But even more importantly she and her bridesmaids wore Solemates High Heel Protectors! Always the practical fashionista, Lauren knows you need these...
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3 Ways To Wear Mismatched Bridesmaid Dresses
Bridesmaid dresses are always a conundrum. No one is ever happy. But what if the bridesmaids could pick their own dresses out with just a few requirements? That is a new trend lately and it is working beautifully. No more...
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How To DIY Your Wedding Dress (Like Angelina Jolie)
In case you hadn't heard, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt got married last week. And of course, her dress was amazing but in a very unconventional way. The dress itself was pretty simple but it was the veil that really...
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Lauren Conrad Launches Bridesmaid Dress Line!
Good news everyone! Lauren Conrad has launched a dress line specifically for bridesmaids! Her clothing line Paper Crown now sells 12 looks, which Conrad (along with five of her nine bridesmaids) models in the fall issue of Martha Stewart Weddings. “In...
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This Is Why You Should Have A Big Wedding
A new study from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia looking at quality of marriages finds that a larger, more formal wedding is associated with a happier marriage. So tell your fiance that if you don't get the...
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5 Big Fall Wedding Dress Trends You Will See
Even though we still have another month of summer to go, some of us are already dreaming of fall. The wedding trends for the next season have been predicted Here are the big fall trends you can expect to see...
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Shocking Study Shows Brides Want To Spend More on Weddings than Grooms
According to a new a survey from Spectrem Group’s Millionaire Corner, men and women have different priorities when it comes to weddings. Did we really need a study to tell us this?  Thirty-six percent of women want to spend $5,000-$10,000 on...
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Lauren Conrad Has The Best Wedding Diet Ever!!
We all know that when it comes to their big wedding day, most brides diet for months. A 2007 Cornell University study found that 70% of engaged women said they wanted to lose weight, typically 20 pounds. The study showed...
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4 Ideas For A Wedding After-Party!
Are wedding after parties the new wedding? It seems so. With average wedding costs going way up(they hit an all-time high of $29,858 last year, according to TheKnot.com’s 2013 Real Weddings Study of 13,000 brides and grooms), there is no...
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You’ll Never Believe The Latest Bridesmaid Photo Trend
Everyone wants their wedding photos to be unique but the latest trend in bridesmaid photos is more shocking than anything (though it will certainly get everyone's attention)!  For wedding photos bridesmaids are now urged to lift up their dresses and...
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How To Find The Perfect Pair of Wedding Shoes
It's the most important day of your life so of course you have to have the perfect shoe. And there is no place that will have a better and more magical selection than MyGlassSlipper.com. You get to be in your...
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Attention All Bridesmaids! This Site Will Help You Throw The Best Bachelorette Ever
A bachelorette used to be a simple affair. Female friends of the bride get together to celebrate the bride's last day of singledom with a small party. Maybe there are some fun hats involved. That was what bridesmaid parties were...
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Lauren Conrad Followed Her Rules and Had An Awesome Bachelorette
Everyone's favorite upcoming celebrity bride Lauren Conrad had a great bachelorette weekend. The bride to be as well as her BFF Lo Bosworth shared many pictures on Instagram and it looked pretty darn fun. From lounging at the beach to...
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Emily Maynard Wore Solemates to Her Wedding!!
As Us Weekly previously reported, Emily Maynard, the former ABC reality star of "The Bachelorette" said "I do" to fiance Tyler Johnson in a surprise wedding at Johnson's parents' farm in South Carolina on Saturday, June 7. That is super...
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3 Bachelorette Party Tips From Lauren Conrad
Bachelorette parties are super fun, but it seems that they get more elaborate every year. What we really need to remember is that they are just a time to celebrate the bride and her last days of singledom. And who...
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This May Be The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Bridesmaids
This is the best thing that may have ever happened to Bridesmaids (after the movie "Bridesmaids".) Good news bridesmaids with horrible dresses (so roughly 98% of the female population.) Someone is actually trying to help you out! Gone are the...
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