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Phillip’s Flowers offers Vera Wang wedding collection

Reviewed by admin on May 17, 2012

By laura amann
lamann@pioneerlocal.com

May 15, 2012 12:28PM

Brides can now add a touch of Vera Wang to their wedding with floral bouquets at Phillip’s Flowers, conceived by the acclaimed designer. Bouquet designed by Walter Fedyshyn AIFD, CFD, PFCI. | Tamara Bell~Sun Times Media

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Brides wanting to add a touch of the famously elegant and stylish designer Vera Wang to their weddings now have the option of using her floral designs.

The bridal line is a recent collaboration between Vera Wang and a select group of FTD florists. Phillip’s Flowers, with locations in Hinsdale, La Grange, Elmhurst and Downers Grove, is one of the few in the country selected for the rollout.

Brides-to-be can choose from three floral lines including traditional, romantic and modern. The arrangements range from traditional bridal white to the more contemporary hot pinks and lime greens. The luxury line includes bridal bouquets, attendant flowers and arrangements for the ceremony and reception.

All designs have the traditional Vera Wang appeal — romantic with simple lines and clean looks. Brides can choose to pick up Wang’s designs as shown or work with local floral designers to incorporate the look into a customized and personalized vision.

“Everything is custom,” said Baxter Phillip, executive vice president of family-owned Phillip’s Flowers. “Most brides want something personalized. The Vera Wang designs can be a starting point.”

Phillip’s is one of the first in the Chicago area to offer the Vera Wang floral collection and among the first hundred nationwide.

“We have a team of dedicated designers that do nothing but weddings throughout the year,” Phillip said. “This program seemed like a good fit and another way we can offer brides a unique designer touch.”

For more information or to view the designs online, visit phillips-flowers.com.

Article source: http://lagrange.suntimes.com/lifestyles/trend/12251453-423/phillips-flowers-offers-vera-wang-wedding-collection.html

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Pull that wedding dress out of the closet

Reviewed by admin on May 14, 2012

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Alyssa Fraser is getting married in June, but she’s already planning her second big day, when she wears her wedding dress again just for the hell of it. Fraser will be surrounded by friends wearing their wedding dresses, too. “We’re having a brunch in August, in the Distillery District, with cupcakes and that wine with the stiletto on the label,” said Fraser, 25, a Toronto public relations professional and proud owner of a $3,400 organza and silk dress by Canadian designer Lea-Ann Belter. “Four of my girlfriends are getting married this summer and we’re all obsessed with the idea of wearing our dresses again. We’re even hiring a photographer for the brunch.”

Teacher Elizabeth Anne Crisolago is organizing a Wear Your Wedding Dress Again party in October. “Why would you spend so much money on something and only wear it once?” said Crisolago, 25, an Italian-Canadian from Toronto who is appalled by the trash-your-dress movement, where brides wreck their wedding dresses during photo sessions. “I could never destroy something so special.” She chose her $1,400 dream dress from the Disney Fairy Tale Weddings Honeymoons bridal collection by Alfred Angelo. Even though she’s only 4 foot 11, she likes dramatic things, so she decided on Belle’s dress from Beauty and the Beast. “I wanted a big gown,” she says. “I’ve been dreaming about my dress since I was seven years old.”

The dress, sheathed in a hand-sewn gauze cocoon for protection, hangs in its own room at her grandmother’s house, where it will stay until the September ceremony. The details for its second debut are not set, but she wants a party at a hall with every other bride she can muster, along with champagne and hors d’oeuvres. “It’s not just a way to re-enact your princess moment,” she explained. “It’s a way to enjoy the dress without the stress of the real wedding day. The pressure’s off.”

Heaving a collective sigh of relief, many brides are starting to look forward to their “after party” as much as the big day. And why stop at wearing your dress twice? Brianna Peters’s post-wedding dress party began as a one-off event. “But we might do it every year,” she said, after hosting the fete at her apartment in Kitsilano, B.C., in December. “We had Sex and the City 2 playing in the background, we ate chocolate-dipped strawberries. It felt like we were in that episode of Friends where the girls wore wedding dresses. I’m not super girly, but if I could wear my wedding dress every day, I would.” As party guest Aron Veen noted, “We have a different mentality now. Our mothers’ dresses just hung in the attic for 30 years.”

That wasn’t going to happen to Stephanie Sulyak’s dress. “I spent too much time, energy and money to hang it in a bag forever,” said Sulyak, the organizer of the second Say Yes to the Dress . . . Again charity event in Red Deer, Alta., this September. “I walked past my wedding dress in my closet every day, wondering if there was a place I could wear it again. There wasn’t! I started out by suggesting a bridal lunch with a few friends and it snowballed into 15 brides.”

Then there’s wedding photographer Matt Kennedy, who got 120 brides together in just three weeks when he decided to stage a bridal ﬂash mob outside the Vancouver central library in February. “We choreographed a dance number to Michael Jackson’s Black or White,” said Kennedy, who wants to stage another in the near future. “The girls loved it, saying they could scratch two things off their bucket list—wearing their dress again and being in a flash mob.”

Some women prefer a more private approach. Michelle Mo-Persia got married in 2007 and every year since, on Oscar night, the Toronto woman has slipped into the Vera Wang wedding dress she found at a Holt Renfrew sample sale for $500. “When the guests left the reception, I was really sad, thinking, ‘Where am I going to wear it again?’ ” said Mo-Persia, 35, a Toronto-based uniform designer. “So, when Oscar night comes, I get into my dress and wear my wedding shoes, and waltz with my dog like we’re dancing on the red carpet. Then the groom comes in and thinks I’m totally crazy.”

Article source: http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/14/pull-that-wedding-dress-out-of-the-closet/

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That’s Amore! The cast of The Bold and the Beautiful film Liam Spencer and …

Reviewed by admin on May 11, 2012

By
Cassie Carpenter

PUBLISHED:

23:59 GMT, 10 May 2012

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00:17 GMT, 11 May 2012

Yesterday, The Bold and the Beautiful was nominated for 11 Daytime Emmy Awards.

And to celebrate, the cast and crew of the CBS soap opera, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in March, are spending the week filming 10 episodes in the picturesque seaside Italian city of Polignano A Mare.

Perched on the rocky cliffs high above the Adriatic Sea, Scott Clifton and Kimberly Matula donned bridal wear to act out Liam Spencer and Hope Logan’s romantic wedding scenes last Tuesday.

Il grassetto e la bella: The Bold And Beautiful’s Luca Calvani, Don Diamont, Scott Clifton, Kimberly Matula, Katherine Kelly Lang, and Ron Moss film Liam Hope’s wedding scene in Polignano a Mare, Italy

The wedding procession was shot at the center of the piazza where a statue of Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno rests, and the soap is making sure to use Modugno’s song ‘Volare’ during the important episode.

Images from the set revealed a series of padlocks bearing their character’s names hanging on a fence as a symbolic ‘promise of their love.’

Offscreen, the soap’s ‘newlyweds’ spent time canoodling with their real-life partners.

The bride and groom: Perched on the rocky cliffs high above the Adriatic Sea, Scott Clifton and Kimberly Matula filmed scenes overlooking the water this week

Italian tradition: A padlock bearing Hope and Liam’s names hangs on a fence as a symbolic promise of their love

The 27-year-old Daytime Emmy winner, who’s also played roles on General Hospital and One Life to Live, embraced his casually-attired fiancee Nicole Lampson during a break.

While still wearing her poofy Vera Wang wedding gown, Kimberly also made time to kiss her tattooed boyfriend offset.

The pair also filmed scenes looking over a gate at the sea, with Scott in a beige suit and Kimberly in a black-and-white polka-dot dress and red heels.

Offscreen love: Scott kissed his casually-attired fiancee Nicole Lampson, and Kimberly embraced her tattooed boyfriend during a break

According to The Bold and the Beautiful press office, the soap is currently watched by 35 million people in over 100 countries, with Italy ranking number one in its market.

Four million Italians tune in each week to follow the series, known in Italy as ‘Beautiful.’

‘Italy has been good to us, we want to give exposure to Italy and do business with a country so close so our hearts,’ executive producer Brad Bell told the Huffington Post.

BB standouts: The show’s lead Ron Moss is already famous for appearing on the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars, and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood nabbed her first-ever Daytime Emmy Award nod yesterday

Meet Jaqueline: The tough 25-year-old Canadian, who plays Steffy, plunged into the Adriatic Sea wearing a black tank dress and coral-colored scarf

The soap also filmed on location in Lake Como in 1997, Venice in 1999, and Portofino in 2002.

The actors were reportedly happy to oblige hundreds of Italian autograph seekers and fans who turned up to watch them shoot in the the heel of Italy‘s famous boot.

The show’s lead Ron Moss is already famous in the country after appearing on the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars.

Diving in: Jacqueline gave the thumbs up after performing her own swimming stunts in Italy’s Adriatic Sea

Marooned: Making even drowning look glamorous, Jacqueline was seen chopping the surf looking as though she just washed ashore

The well-preserved 60-year-old has played Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate, since 1987.

‘Filming in Polignano a Mare, on the southern coast of Italy, again tomorrow. Today went very well. 300 towns people turned out to help film,’ Ron tweeted to his 12,000 followers.

According to Bell, the series moves
to Italy because Ridge’s wife Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) was looking
for a place her daughter Hope (Kim Matula) could escape to because she
was being hounded by the press in Beverly Hills.

Big in Italy: Jacqueline tweeted this image from the soap, which a reported four million Italians tune into each week

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood nabbed her
first-ever Daytime Emmy Award nomination for outstanding younger actress
yesterday for her role as Steffy Forrester in the program.

The tough 25-year-old Canadian
plunged into the Adriatic Sea wearing a black tank dress and
coral-colored scarf as she filmed scenes this week.

Making even drowning look glamorous, Jacqueline was seen chopping the surf looking as though she just washed ashore.

The beautiful brunette has been
Tweeting her Italian adventures to her 8,000 followers, including bike
ride through the vineyards, partying in Milan, and shopping in
Montenapoleone.