What’s Your Bridal Style

The holidays are a popular time for engagements, so we thought with all of the newly engaged couples beginning the wedding planning process, it would be appropriate to discuss bridal styles. To help simplify your search for the perfect wedding look, we have created this guide for two diversely different bridal styles: The Romantic and The Minimalist. What’s your style?

THE ROMANTIC BRIDE

Vows & Venues:

• A European destination wedding
• Marrying at a quaint country inn or bed and breakfast
• Writing your own vows and expressing your love in front of a small gathering of family and friends

Your Gown:

• Fitted with a French embroidered lace bodice
• A tulle or organdy A-line skirted style
• Muted dusty rose, vintage ecru or antique blue for the dress color or detail work

Your Engagement Ring:

• A ring that features detailed engraving and/or filigree work
• A natural color diamond in yellow or champagne
• A micro-pave setting with a cushion or rose cut center stone

Your Wedding Band:

• Two thin eternity bands worn as guard rings
• A swirl or scroll motif band
• Floral motifs that blossom around your finger

Your Wedding Day Jewelry:

• A wide cuff bracelet featuring an airy Venetian or French lace pattern
• Mini chandelier earrings with lots of movement and swing
• A bib, choker or antique style fringe necklace

Your Style Idles:

• Kate Hudson
• Jennifer Garner
• Sarah Jessica Parker

THE MINIMALIST BRIDE

Vows & Venues:

• Eloping and then spending a week together somewhere no one can find you
• An informal wedding with your closest family and friends
• A reception at the penthouse suite or rooftop terrace of your favorite modern boutique hotel

Your Gown:

• A long narrow column in silk satin
• A sophisticated, cutaway shoulder, knee-length shift dress
• A one-shoulder sheath gown

Your Engagement Ring:

• An Asscher or emerald cut diamond with a thin outline of pave diamonds
• A brilliant cut diamond with micro-pave band
• A simple platinum tension-set with brilliant or princess cut center stone

Your Wedding Band:

• Side engraved rounded platinum band
• An eternity band with shared prong setting
• Wide high karat gold band with scattered flat cut diamonds

Your Wedding Day Jewelry:

• Linear earrings with fluidity
• Diamond drops
• A stack of diamond bangles

Your Style Idols:

• Sandra Bullock
• Kate Beckinsale
• Jennifer Aniston