What I'm Lovin' Wednesday!

Hey All!

Today, and possibly every Wednesday, I have decided to link up wiith Jaime at This Kind of Love for a little thing called What I'm Loving' Wednesday. I thought it would be a fun thing to add a little wedding twist to WILW and showcase some wedding loves for the week! Tell me what you think!

Okay so this Wednesday ~

1.) I am loving the weather here in France. I know I just said I would talk about wedding stuff, and I will, but I just had to mention the 60 degree weather we are having in Feburary!! Gotta love it!

2.) I am loving the wedding fashion here in France. To be honest, sometimes I wonder about some of the home decoration options etc. But when it comes to weddings I think they got it right. They are brave with their choices and I love it. It is just one day, you gotta live it up!

3.) I am loving our incredibly busy schedule for this summer, already!!

4.) I am loving that my partner in crime business is coming out to visit me in just less than a month now!! Whooo hooo!!

5.) I am loving this imspiration board/wedding at Style Me Pretty. I just love it when people express their own personalities in weddings and really showcase their own style. Different is cool. Sometimes I wish I could get married all over again every year so that I can try different styles and themes. This particular one wouldn't fit my Bahamian husband, so in this case, I just have to look. Thank you Style Me Pretty!

6.) I am loving this hairstyle with the beautiful hair peice in the side. I think it adds so much. Love it!

Okay! That's all I'm lovin' for today! You can check out Jaime's blog for more what I'm lovin's. Let me know what you think! Maybe I will make it a weekly thing. Now I have to go outside and enjoy this beautiful weather!

We would like to thank the Academy...

We Won!

We won the WeddingWire Brides' Choice Award 2011!!!  What, exactly, does this mean?  Well, let me tell you!  This award recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and services within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 newlyweds from the wedding wire community.  Wow!  What an honor!  If you want to check out our award, or our wedding wire page go here: http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/bliss-makeup-artistry-southern-ca/6ebf7be0540a2a2c.html.  We have loved being a member of the WeddingWire community and are so happy and honored to be given this award.  Make sure you check us out and tell your friends!!

We're back!

Okay, first let me apoligize for slacking so much.  I moved to France in October and it has been an adjustment.  I have every intention to now keep up this blog, so stay tuned!  Now with that being said...

While I have been here in France I have been able to have quite the experience in wedding dresses!  Imagine that!  I didn't think much about how styles very in countries until I went wedding dress shopping with a friend of mine here.  She is getting married June 25th, and I am soooo bummed I won't be able to go, because we have 3 weddings back home!  Anyway, the styles here are incredible.  People wear exactly what they want.  There is not 'box' to fit into.  There are colors, short, long, huge veils, no veils, you name it.  I was loving the experience.  Here is a similar dress to the one my friend here chose:

I absolutely love it.  I think it is creative and fun.  It expresses who she is.  I just loved it when she told me that is the kind of dress she was looking for and then we found it.  And, believe it or, it was the first one she tried on!  Gotta love that.  What you have to love even more, is that it is a wedding present to her from her sister.  Nice.

So this got me thinking.  A wedding day is the one day in your entire life where everything is about you (and your fiance, of course), and it is okay.  It is an expression of your personalities together.  Celebrating the life that you are going to share together, bringing peices of each person.  I think that brides should be creative with the dress.  Do something fun and daring.  Or not, if that is what you want.  Just don't let any stigma or other people's opinions affect your decision.  Live it up, after all, it is the one day you can be a queen!

Real Wedding Wednesday ~ Chad and Rachelle Ball 8.1.2010

We have known the Ball family for years, so it was very exciting when we found out their son was getting married.  It was even more exciting to find out that she was just a lovely person, inside an out.  She is always a pleasure to be around.  Rachelle asked Marissa and I to do the makeup for her wedding and we were honored.  Here are a few pictures of the day of.  There are more on our website ~ http://www.bliss-makeup-artistry.com/.  Enjoy!

Getting Ready

Cute!  On their way to the venue!

Bridesmaid and Bride

Sister-in-laws!

Beautiful Bride

Cutting the Cake

Oh no!!





Makeup Stayed!





Beautiful, Happy Couple!





Tanning for the Cold Seasons

  Okay, so it has been a while.  But a lot has been going on!  Not only have we been crazy, crazy busy for the months of September and October, but half of the Bliss Team moved to France!!  So we have been adjusting our duties and continuing to move forward.  It has been a little bit of a transition, but we are doing it!  Anyway, enough of that, how about some tanning? 

I don't know about all of you, but as the seasons get colder, I get whiter.  And not a pretty Nicole Kidman white.  Like an ashy ghost white.  I never feel very pretty when I am stark white, or thin for that matter.  And I am the Bliss half that is living in France, so needless to say, I see the sun even less!  So here are some of my tips to get that sun-kissed glow during the coldest months of the year. 

1.) Spray Tan!  Hello, this is the best possible way to do it.  I know that people are daunted by the idea of the spray tan because of many orange pictures you might have seen.  Well there is a reason they are orange.  Either they are getting the airbrush too much, or they are getting a color that is wrong for their tone, or the tanner just had a bad solution.  Find someone you know and trust who you know the solutions work for your skin and stay faithful.  It won't look fake. 

2.)  Apply a good tan extender.  You can find some at any tanning salon or online.  I am sure you can get some tinted moisturizing at any drug store too.  Just make sure you watch as you are applying it.  It is meant to help your tan fade smoothly, you just don't want to have it turning you orangey looking!

3.) Moisturize.  Even if you are white as a ghost, there isn't anything worse than being ashy white.  Like flaky and everything.  So if you get a good cream-like moisturizer that you apply daily, you will be good to go.  Combine moisturizing with the spray tan, you are golden.  Literally!

4.)  Bronzer.  But not too much.  Applied wrong or in excess, it could be the problem for the orange.  But if you get a good bronzer and you apply lightly on your face and neck, it helps a ton. Christian Dior has a good bronzer. 

Those are my main tips!  Now get out there and get bronzed!  But do it right, because people will know if it isn't done right.  Stop in for an airbrush tan when you have time!



Real Wedding!

You have got to check out this wedding we did, over a month ago, now!  Wow, how time flies.  I love this wedding because it is different and fun and totally reflects the bride and grooms individual style.  The photographer, Evan Guston, was so kind to send us these digital images as well as some printed for our portfolio!  Thank you, Evan!  Enjoy the pics from this wedding!

 

Real Wedding Wednesday ~ Lindsay & Tony Antenucci ~ July 17, 2010

 

Don't you love weddings?  Most likely if you're reading this and in the wedding business, I am going to guess the answer is yes!  I do too.  I love getting all dolled up and share in someone's special day.  I also love making the bride feel like the most beautiful she has ever been.  Hence, I love my job!  It is always even so much more special when you get to be a part of someone's wedding who means so much to you.  About a month ago, I got to do just that.  My best friend from high school got married!  She was the most beautiful bride.  It was a beautiful wedding.  I really felt so honored to be a part of the big day.  Here is a peak...

 

It was a beautiful night for a beautiful couple!  Congratulations Lindsay and Tony!!

The wedding was at Lost Canyons Country Club.  The beautiful photography was done by Smitten Photography.