I'm not sure there is a city in the world that can compare to New Orleans. A city that is so rich in history, so alive, so beautifully flawed where stories dig through generations and despite hardship and pain, continue to thrive in the most warm and loving way. And this wedding - photographed by Audra Wrisley and planned by Elle Ellinghuas - bottles up...
Today is National Grandparent's Day. Which is sort of a mixed bag of emotion. Why do we need a day to celebrate the best part of our world? And yet as life gets busier and busier, a day like today is also a simple reminder that we need to slow down, to sit alongside family, to open our hearts to the life well lived of the people who came before us and learn from the lessons that only that life well lived can teach. Today, we have the most beautiful love story - a marriage of 55 years, a love...
While Style Me Pretty has always been known for the Real Weddings that we feature, there has also always been a place for an exquisitely styled inspiration shoot. Why, you ask? Well, a few reasons. For one, an inspiration shoot is the opportunity for the incredible wedding artists and vendors to show off their chops. To create, to build, to develop new trends and beauty. But we also feature these shoots because of their ability to strip down a wedding to it's basic design. So that you can...
What is the very first thing you did when you got engaged? Try on dresses? Book your venue? Instagram the news? Want to know what I did. I registered. For all of the amazing kitchen-ness I had always dreamed of. Because the thought of stocking my apartment with a stand mixer and a blender and a giant food processor was basically most people's equivalent of winning the lottery. And while I'm not going to say this is a normal feeling, I am going to say that maybe it was the making of Style Me...
Through the years, we've featured many weddings from Michael and Anna Costa Photography, but today's might be my all-time-favorite! For lots of reasons. Cascading orchids plus an abundance of white roses... that crisp California sunshine and a positively romantic dance on the beach... well, you'll see for yourself! This...
Every day, we feature beautiful weddings. We are lucky in that over the course of 10+ years, SMP has sort of established itself as one of the few places to share the prettiest of the pretty weddings and trust me when I tell you, there are no shortage of them. But every now and then we get a wedding that takes the word beautiful to an entirely new level. That truly takes my breath away. And this is one of those very special weddings. I can't tell if it's the exquisite photography by...
Pippin Hill has forever been my number one most favorite wedding venue here in the US. Probably in the world. It's organically stunning and because of it's innate beauty set against the Charlottesville backdrop and it's incredible bones, Pippin Hill tends to attract vendors, brides and grooms who share the classic and yet quietly joyful aesthetic.
Putting together this wedding for you guys today was fun. Like brought me back to the very early days of SMP kind of fun where I couldn't decide which images to share because there were so many good ones. But you know what? Despite the fact that the details were GORGEOUS and the backdrop by Engaged Events and florals by...
Thank you so much to Simply Sarah for taking over our editorial today! We started with a GORGEOUS Rain-Filled Southern Wedding, then moved on to...
We have SUCH a special day planned on SMP! The lovely and talented Simply Sarah is taking over the blog and our instagram in one of the most beautiful little adventures we've ever featured, filled with stunning photography and pure, totally unabashed love. Our first...
We're knee deep in our Simply Sarah total takeover today and up next is a Charleston stunner where photography takes center stage and the beautiful low country backdrop takes each image to a new level. When I was curating this shoot for SMP, I initially began with the beautiful details from A Charleston Bride and the pretty florals by...
There are a few photographers that we can always count on to take the Style Me Pretty vibe...and run with it in a way that elevates our own brand to a place where wedding dreams are made. And Savan Photography is one of those talents. A quick search for their weddings on SMP will instantly prove to you that they are eyes behind some of our most beloved weddings. And this one - where the gorgeous bride is an...
I have three little ones at home with me. And while the first two babies found their names before exiting the womb, it took me five full days to decide on my third's name. Which looking back, was so silly because she is such a little THEA, but giving a human being the name that they will be called for the rest of their life is sort of a big deal. If she had become Everly (the other name I loved), I can't say for sure that she would have grown into the little spitfire that she is today. Anyway, ...
Sylvie Gil's annual workshop is something dreams are made of. Set against the backdrop of the French countryside, Sylvie brings together the best in the wedding industry to build out a shoot meant to teach her students the nuances and art behind photographing a wedding. And this year, Sylvie &...
There aren't many words that I can say that will properly introduce this post. It's a love story. Pure and simple. Childhood sweethearts whose lives were totally disrupted when Alex, the groom, was in a terrible accident that left him paralyzed. Through the grace of God (and a lot of physical therapy and incredibly hard work), he not only got down on one knee to propose, he also walked his beautiful bride, Lily, down the aisle. In one of the more honest, more sincere, more wholly love-focused...
Let me just preface this by telling you that I believe this is the most imagery I've ever put into a single post. I could not - no matter how long I looked through this gorgeous wedding from Sally Pinera - narrow it down into our usual template because every single photo was more beautiful than the next and I wanted to make absolute sure that you got to see this stunner in all it's loveliness. With a design by...
I'm sure that my experience in seeing a wedding is similar to yours. There is always one thing that my eyes gravitate to, that just makes the wedding seem personal. When I first saw this wedding, it wasn't the details, while gorgeous of course thanks to Beijos Events. It wasn't the cake or the...
If you follow Emily Jackson of The Ivory Lane, you know you're dealing with a superhuman. She's gorgeous. She has kind of exquisite taste. And she's the mom to not one, not two, not three... but ...
I've been waiting to share this wedding since the moment my husband, Tait, and I reacquired Style Me Pretty. To me, this is a perfect wedding. It doesn't necessarily fit into a box, it doesn't necessarily follow a script. You can simply feel the joy seeping out of every pretty photograph that Lauren Brandon snapped. You can sense the glow, the charm, the unabashed love. You instantly understand the purity and...
