Mariages en France

 

WEDDINGS IN FRANCE will work with you to tailor make your event so that it’s perfect. The list begins with apparent things like professional photographers and can get as elaborate as you want with fireworks, boat arrangements, and wedding favours. The possibilities are endless! They work with only the finest and have a list of top service providers for flowers, photos, music and anything else you may need.  For couples wanting something really original, WEDDINGS IN FRANCE will find the ideal setting with all the trimmings to go with it. Their motto is "We will meet all reasonable requests!"

If your honeymoon dreams call for a fairytale castle, perhaps Strasbourg on the German border is what you’re looking for. The dark wood timbers separating blindingly white walls appear to be straight out of a storybook. The food is very robust and German and the people are just as robust and cheerful. Here is where you will find the wonderful cuckoo-clock shops and gingerbread bakeries from your childhood storybooks. Strasburg is like living in a Christmas postcard all year long! 

 

Whatever your dreams are, whether they call for a medieval setting with the ancient sounds of jousting still ringing from the stone walls, to the seashore to a fairytale-like mountain chalet, to the hip, trendy and super modern world of Paris, France, the country of lovers, has it all – and so much more! Celebrate your love in a land filled with romance where history and intrigue wait around every cobbled corner.

Images: WEDDINGS IN FRANCE

Fleurs dans le style

Carrying your bouquet correctly lets the world revel in the results, instead of subconsciously noting that you're clutching the bouquet to your body like a football, or thrusting it out like it poses a fire hazard. You poured over the designs of these one-in-a-lifetime flowers for months, coordinating them with your venue and bridesmaid attire. Make the most of them!  Look and feel at ease with your bouquet.

• Make sure that your bridal and attendants' bouquets aren't so heavy that you really can't hold them comfortably for twenty minutes or longer.
• Hold your bouquet around belly button height. Rest your hands snug against your stomach (which offers you support in holding the flowers ... and hides any shaking hands!).

• Hold the blooms toward your guests, not the stems. No one wants to see those stems, no matter how beautifully they're wrapped.
• If you're carrying a sheaf of flowers, let them rest in the crook of your left arm like a baby. Borrow a good friend's baby (or a solid pillow) and practice a bit. Scan old movies with pageant winners.
• Practice the beauty queen wave. You may want to use it that day, you'll certainly feel one!
• If you're carrying a pomander or kissing ball suspended from a ribbon on your wrist, fold that arm across your waist so that the ball hangs down the front of your gown.
• A nosegay or tussy-mussy is a smaller, lighter bouquet. Hold it at belly button level if it's large enough, or simply at waist level.

Stay tuned to our next article about the art of flowers!

Bonne Saint Valentin

 

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as nature itself. 

All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower. 

 

Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her, and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris. - Anne Rice

Photography: Chimgla Photographie / Model: Natacha / Location: Paris / Wardrobe: Chic by Sha

Chic by Sha, for your special event

L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2011
Chic by Sha, Pour la génération chic 

Event: The Up & Comers Fashion Market 2011
Time: 10am to 4pm
Date: 5th and 6th March 2011
Venue: St. Ali, Melbourne


Image: Chic by Sha

L'année du lapin

Bon Nouvel An Chinois! A prosperous year of the Rabbit for our Chinese friends celebrated worldwide.  

The Year 2011 for the first time, the parade of the Chinese New Year will take place not only in the Chinatown of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, but also in Belleville with the traders association Belleville and local associations including the support of mayors of the 10th, 11th, 19th and 20th.

Detailed program can be found here.  Visit Chic by Sha tomorrow to view a special Shanghai-chic design for your special event! 

Images: Chanel

Inspiration Paris

Inspiration of the day.

Video: Louis Vuitton City Guide 2011 - Paris, the Saint Honore