I thought I’d add a little sunshine into a dreary cold December day.
How striking is this lovely engagement session by Irish Photographers, KOH Weddings!? Taken in an Italian Sunflower field and vineyard. Lovely.
If you liked that be sure to head over to KOH website here to see their actual wedding in Tuscany. Dreamy.
Annie
Live, Love, Laugh and Dream!
The wedding shows are back, Christmas and New Year’s are just around the corner so that can only mean one thing to couples in serious relationships.
We are getting dangerously close to engagement season.
Has he asked you already? Do you know it’s on the way and want to throw a few hints as to style?
Well engagement rings go through trends just like everything else. When talking about diamond ring trends, what immediately springs to mind for me are the big Dynasty style marquis wedding rings from the 80’s. i.e. this
NOTHING wrong with that. In fact in those days I would have given just about anything for one of those. – even without a man to go with it! I’m just trying to point out how styles change.
Currently we are seeing a lot of large centre stones in white diamonds or colored stones, set around clusters. Very elegant.
As well as a lot of vintage and antique rings. {looking quite similar to the above}
When choosing your ring, just keep in mind that you will be wearing that {stunner of a} ring for the rest of your life.
Personally I think classics or twists on the classics are best. This one below is similar to my own. It looks a bit simple compared to the ones above but I still love it!
We may think the whole vintage trend is fading away and therefore that style of ring will be soon also, but I disagree. Antique and vintage rings are classics and always will be.
Maybe those 80’s Marquis settings will be in another 50 years too.
What is your style? or what does your engagement ring look like?
Annie
Live, Love, Laugh and Dream!
Ok here we go…………….
Wedding trends that we had seen on the horizon may shift because of one epic new driving wedding force to be reckoned with in 2011.
A Royal Wedding.
Whatever Kate decides will be huge. Her gown, her flowers, her bridesmaids, everything. And can I just say that Meghan Ely, our speaker at The Business of Weddings Ireland saw this coming. Meghan said, whatever Kate does will be the be all and end all for weddings in 2011.
The good news is that I have great faith in her. She is Kate Middleton after all and not Katie Price. We will have elegance and etiquette down to the last Royal silver teaspoon.
Let’s start with Will’s first great decision. The engagement ring. Yes, it was Diana’s. A sentimental and priceless decision but because of it, we will see colored stones in engagement rings. And if you are already engaged and would like to include color, why don’t you look at wedding bands with colored gemstones stones?
Now this isn’t a new thing. My best friend has a sapphire center stone with baguette diamonds down the side. It’s gorgeous. And Jessica Simpson is recently engaged and sporting a ruby engagement ring. Penelope Cruz too. In fact many celebs have colored diamonds or gemstones in their engagement rings.
Here are a few I wouldn’t say no to!
Ooh and they are all from Tiffany.
** Huge sigh** The Pink one has my name all over it. **Sigh**
Annie
Live, Love, Laugh and Dream!
