Last week the Brooklyn Pop Up Chapel at 303 Grand Street hosted the wedding of Leah and Michael, the winners of Martha Stewart’s contest. The team at Martha Stewart did a phenomenal job of decorating the chapel with fantastic paper based decor that was cheerful for the eyes and the wallet. They took a simple fondant cake by Cheryl Kleinman and transformed it with these beautitiful cutouts. The team from Bridgewters restaurant prepared gorgeous foods for them and Mel Barlow captured the day. For more images and details about their day, check out the Martha site. Mel Barlow took the fantastic video and Milk & Honey’s gorgeous video can be found here.

We are SO excited to announce an AWESOMELY fun opportunity for a lucky bride out there! After the success of our Fantasy Shower at the Morgan’s we wanted to give one of you ladies a chance to win a fancy pants shower of your own, or for the special bride in your life. Always a Bridesmaid and Agent Provocateur are putting together a little soiree for a lucky bride and 20 of her favorite girlfriends on June 10th at the SOHO Agent Provocateur store. We’re shutting this sexy shop down to throw you a party to remember! Champagne will abound, a very special sweet treat will be in store AND the AMAZING Mel Barlow will be on hand to document the event and, if you are up to it, maybe even get some sexy boudoir shots that you can share with your soon-to-be hubby. Because no one wants to be photographed half done, we’ll have a make up artist on site to treat you and the ladies.

What does this mean? Get ready for a great night with the girls while you get some very special treatment at Agent Provocateur including fittings and consultations. There will be a fabulous gift on hand for the bride courtesy AP, and, should you and your girls choose to do some shopping, a special discount for that one night only!

How do you Enter? This is open to Brides or Bridesmaids (to enter for their Bride friend).

Send us an email to blogqs@alwaysaridesmaid.us with your name, the wedding date and location and a short essay about why you or the bride in your life needs a lingerie make-over! Maybe its for that sexy honeymoon. Maybe you still sleep in footy pajamas. Whatever the reason, let us know. Humor gets bonus points, but PHOTOS of your current sleep wear situation goes even further! Remember, don’t send us anything you wouldn’t want me to post :-)

Email your entries over to us by May 27th and we’ll post the winners on May 29th!  Get ready for a major Bra-tervention!

I am practically in tears because Jessy and the team from Fleurs did the MOST AMAZING flowers (both at their table AND for the event) and she didn’t bring a camera and MY Photos of her tables are terribly blurry- apparently I needed to set for candlelight, but didn’t.   Anyway, I’m going to track down photos, but here are some of amazing, inspirational photos from some vendors I hadn’t met before and familiar faces.

Leslie of Mark Joseph Cakes showed the most lovely cakes. The yellow is soooo sweet.
Greenwich Jewelers wowed us with their amazing designs. They will also refurbish and re-design pieces.  Here is one of their gorgeous rings.  Mille Fiore created this amazing piece with cherry blossoms…. Cake Alchemy (they do that show on the food network, Ace of Cakes, I think? NO, i just checked her site and she is on AMAZING WEDDING CAKES) showcased some gorgeous creations, including this very cool tropical cake!  And, Colin Cowie lifestyle wowed me with Carnations (and made us feel good about using carnations at our table).

At our Always a Bridesmaid table we raffled off a 10 Hour Consulting package AND I’m pleased to announce the lucky winner is Beckett Fabbie!  We’ll be getting in touch with you ASAP!
Mayra and I love this event because we get to meet brides, AND meet new people and connect with our vendor friends. We get glammed up (thanks Luis for hooking me up. He’s the greatest, and I recommend him strongly. He’s at the Chanel counter at Saks and available for wedding day makeup) and My Hair and Makeup glammed Mayra up .

Some of the great people we got to spend some time with are (top to bottom): Jessica Alton of Thomas Preti Events to Savor; Cheree or Cheree Berry; the stunning (and glowing newlywed) Lisa Hoffman of CECI with Ron Ben-Israel; Kate Diago of CECI, the talented photographer Mel Barlow, Eyal Tessler of In Any Event, Lisa, Ron, fabulous Mayra and me and the most ridiculous expression on my face; Mayra and Marcy Blum; Mark Ingram.  LOL, it’s like NY Wedding Diary. ;-)

We were sitting around the office missing one of our Bride’s, Raquel, when it occurred to me that I never posted any of her BEAUTIFUL wedding photos shot by the wonderful Mel Barlow.  I had actually posted about this venue a while back, We utilized the Westside Loft for the ceremony and dinner dance, and Penthouse 15 for cocktails!