Vintage Inspired Wedding Dresses by No. 9

I've had a great time over the past few weeks cleaning, repairing and filling the shop with vintage wedding goodies and meanwhile I've gotten a bit obsessed.  Every time a vintage wedding dress leaves the studio, I get a little sad because there is only one bride who will be able to wear it, though that is also what makes it so special!  Anyway, I've been browsing around for "vintage inspired" gowns and came across No. 9.  If you are lucky enough to live is the UK, you might be able to get your hands on one of these.  I'm not sure what is prettier, the dresses or the photos.

Something Blue from Salvage Life

I always love when a customer sends photos! Sending off packages every week and never knowing what the recipient looks like can be a real downer.  A big thanks to Sarah for sending these photos of her wearing a lovely SL vintage 1960's dress at her wedding rehearsal.  Congrats to her and her new hubby! 

Photos by Alex Creswell.

Salvage Life Wedding Dress Feature

Hope you're having a Happy Halloween! What are you dressing up as?  I can't wait to put on costume tonight, I've been waiting to be this favorite movie character of mine for about 10 years! Can you guess who?  (Here's a hint, I'll be wearing a lot of pink.)  Hopefully I will snap some good photos to share on the blog.

On to what this post is really about...I have a lot of fun with my camera and I can take some decent photos in the right settings, but photos like these from Aaron Shintaku, remind me of how much I still have to learn.  Aaron did a wedding shoot with stylist Kassi Gray that featured a few of our vintage wedding dresses and the photos turned out great!  I like how there is a bit of angst and irreverence...at first I thought, why aren't they smiling, they're getting married? But their serious expressions have depth and it adds to the high fashion look of the shoot.  Thanks Aaron and Kassi!  

Models: Trevor Gray and Keslie Felton

Pink Ribbon and Lollipops

 For the final wedding post, I wanted to do a little post on what Ruby wore.  I was so excited when Steve and Camille asked Ruby to be the flower girl.  After finding several vintage dresses in different colors, we landed on this yellow one, which you may remember from my photo shoot for Cakies.  I switched out the black ribbon for pink and it was perfect.  She had a little metal pail for flower petals, but when we couldn't get the kids to walk down, we gave them lollipops and it ended up looking so cute!  My favorite picture from the wedding is the one of Steve and Ruby dancing, it makes my heart melt. 

Photos: 1,2,3,4,6 by me, 5,7 by Dansky Photography, 8 by Katie Morton

Handmade Flags, Jones Soda and Little Pies

For the third installment of Steve and Camille's wedding, I will share what we did for the decor.  The centerpieces featured vintage books, tea cup, frames, handmade flags and wildflowers.  We didn't get a great photo of the centerpieces on the day of the wedding because it was so windy, so I included one of the sample we did.  They had a Polaroid guestbook under a gazebo where people could write on an instant photo which would later be made into a book.  The wedding favors were Jones (their last name) Sodas which doubled as place cards, cute huh?  Dinner was a build-your-own crepe bar by Crepes Bonaparte.  Instead of cake there were individual pies in four flavors and one large one for the bride and groom.

 

1, 2, 3 by me, 4 by Ashley Marimon, 5, 6 by Cynthia Ryan, 7, 9, 10 by Dansky Photography, 8 by Katie Ruiz

Floral Bridesmaid Dresses and a Broken Shoe

For wedding post number two, we have the bridal party, yay! 

I had nothing to do with the boy's clothing but all of the bridesmaid dresses were vintage from Salvage Life.  I started a collection of miscellaneous 1950's floral cotton dresses that matched Camille's specifications and then each girl came for a fitting and numbered the dresses from their top pick and so on.  Amazingly, no one had the same dress as their number one, so every girl got their first pick!

 It was crazy windy the day of the wedding, so our hair was blowing all around.  And my shoe broke, hence why I am not jumping in the second to last photo (I did try, but I must not have jumped very high).  I forgot to take any pictures of just my dress, so you can't see it super close, but it was the prettiest blue floral, I will certainly wear it again.

 

my boys!

 

Photos by Dansky Photography

Rip Off the Sleeves and Make it One Of a Kind

This is the first of four posts this week featuring my brother, Stephen's wedding at the end of April...finally!  I had the pleasure of helping with a lot of the wedding details.  In this post, you can see the dress my new sister-in-law, Camille, wore.  She looked so beautiful, and Stephen looked so in-love.  It was a vintage dress from the 1970's, a Gunne Sax style dress, that we completely redesigned with the help of a seamstress.  It was the third dress she tried on from my shop and like a scene out of a movie, we ripped the sleeves off right there and we knew it was the one! We then had a seamstress reconstruct the bodice to be one shouldered, isn't it dreamy? 

 

Photos by Dansky Photography