Happy Friday! We're heading into the weekend with some amazing images from a very stormy shoot at the Baltic Sea. When the forecast for one of Germany's strongest hurricanes came through, things looked quite dreary for Dina (wearing our HB6979 dress from Victoria Rüsche,) Lasse and their photographer, Katja. But with plans for this shoot already made, they continued towards the coast. With just a 15 minute window and a bit of fearless attitude, the result is truly breathtaking. Thanks so much to Katja Scherle of Festtagsfotografien for sharing this beautiful shoot and story with us! Many congratulations to Dina & Lasse!
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One of our all-time favorite weddings was featured on The Knot yesterday, so we thought we would also share some of the gorgeous photos by Julie Saad as a little TBT. Megan was so striking in HB6622 at her beachy Tulum affair! Enjoy~
After the rain, comes the sun! Today we are so excited to finally share the rest of the photos from Amy & Craig's wedding along the shores of O'ahu. Following an unexpected storm and power outage during their reception, it's safe to say the couple was rewarded with this absolutely breathtaking backdrop at sunset. The extremely talented photographer, Erin Paris captured the stunning Hawaiian landscape as well as our stunning bride Amy in HB6565 so magically and we are so very grateful to share her work with you all! Congratulations again to Amy & Craig, we wish you all the very best~
Every once in a while, we come across a wedding that overwhelms us with it's beauty. There are so many amazing shots from Amy & Craig's wedding in Hawaii that we decided to share them in two parts! The couple was married at Sunset Ranch in Haleiwa, O'ahu and we absolutely love the way they made the best of the unexpected rain that day. The umbrellas during the ceremony, and rainbow afterwards make it all the more special! An incredibly huge thank you to Erin Paris for capturing it all! Amy (who looks flawlessly elegant in HB6565) also shared with us one of the more special moments of the day, during her and Craig's first dance. She said, "Our reception was in a barn and there was actually a big storm that night and the power went out for a few hours after dinner was served. Because of this, we had our first dance on the dance floor lit by our guests' cell phones and Craig's mom led them in singing "You are my sunshine" since we had no power for the speakers to play music. We couldn't use a phone to play the song because the sound would be drowned out by the pouring rain. Amazingly, one of our guests had just purchased a guitar that day and had it in his car, so he ran out and got it and played a few songs for us, while one of Craig's groomsmen sang." Although the photos of this moment are romantic themselves, Amy sent us the video and it truly gave us the chills. Make sure to scroll down to see it play out and check with us next week for the rest of the breathtaking shots Amy and Craig took through the Hawaiian sunset!
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We love spending time with a bride as fun as Mallory, and then seeing her vision come to life so many months down the line. She is truly stunning in HB6622 at her beach wedding in Cape Haze, Florida. Mallory said, "I wanted our wedding to be straight forward, simple and gorgeous." It's safe to say her mission was accomplished and far exceeded with each of these photos being more breathtaking than the last. Thank you so much to Villetto Photography for sharing! Congratulations again to Mallory & Justin, we wish you all the very best~ Saja: How did you meet? Mallory: Justin and I went to high school together. He was friends with my best friends older brother. We did not like each other AT ALL! We reconnected 7 years later on Facebook and started chatting. We had our "first date" watching basketball and chatting and we have been together ever since! Saja: How did he propose? Mallory: We had been together just over four years when Justin decided to propose. He waited until I went out of town to head up to Boston to custom design a ring for me. His mother drove the ring down from Boston to give it to him. He planned to get a limo and take me out to a nice dinner, but once he had the ring he just couldn't wait. He picked me up from work one day and brought me to the beach. I am a beach-aholic so it didn't raise any red flags. He got down on one knee while I was sitting on a jetty and told me he wanted to make me happy for the rest of our lives and asked me to marry him. It was just the two of us and it was absolutely perfect. Saja: Where did the wedding take place? What made you choose there? Mallory: Our wedding took place at Palm Island Resort in Cape Haze, Florida. I have been going there since I was a little girl. It is gorgeous, relaxed and perfect. When we got engaged we knew it was the place! Saja: Which of the photos is your favorite? Mallory: My favorite photo is the one of us in the dunes at sunset. It captures everything that was perfect about our day and our love for each other. Saja: What was your favorite part of the day?
Mallory: My favorite part of the day was how much fun all of our guests had. Watching all of our hard work pay off with smiles on their faces meant so much, all we wanted was for our guests to be as happy as we were on our wedding day. I do have to say though that my Saja wedding dress was right up there. I was so insanely comfortable, I could move, I wasn't too hot and I looked beautiful, it was perfect. We're continuing this week with another beautiful wedding from Florida! Megan told her dad she wanted to have her wedding at the Don CeSar in St. Pete Beach ever since visiting her grandparents as a kid and we love how beautifully it came together so many years later! Her and Josh's special day is so full of love and she is stunning in our HB6899 dress. Thanks so much to Stephanie Smith for sharing these images with us and congratulations again to Megan and Josh~ Saja: How did he propose? Megan: Josh took me on a surprise trip to Big Sur, California for my 30th birthday. We stayed at a beautiful resort right on the coast. The day Josh proposed, we had taken a hike and found a secluded bench overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Josh suggested we return there to watch the sunset and that’s where he asked me to marry him. Saja: What was your favorite part of the day? Megan: I loved the entire day but my favorite part was the ceremony. We had a wonderful, thoughtful officiant, Grace Felice (from A Wedding with Grace), and she designed the most personal and lovely ceremony. The ceremony truly was the heart of our wedding day. Saja: Where did the wedding take place? What made you choose there?
Megan: The wedding took place at the historic Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Josh and I are originally from the east coast, and we now live in California, but I really wanted a location that meant something. The Don CeSar is only a mile from the condo my grandparents owned in Florida and a place I frequently visited growing up. As a child, I would tease my dad that one day I would get married at the Don CeSar, so it just seemed right. We first met Lindsay via Facetime when her sister and mom visited our store. She loved Saja dresses but wasn't able to come to NYC herself just yet! Since our virtual meet-and-greet, it has been so lovely to watch Lindsay's beautiful and vibrant wedding unfold. She looks absolutely radiant in OY6777 paired with OY2000 and we can feel all of the love that went into her wedding day from the bride and groom down to her amazing family and friends. We are so happy to have been part of this bride's journey and so grateful to Binary Flips Photography for sharing the experience with us! Saja: How did you meet? Lindsay: We met on Match.com in February of 2009. We both lived in Durham-Chapel Hill area, and still live there today. I was in graduate school for Art History, and all my classmates were women. Jon worked at a local internet advertising firm. We were both at that point in our mid-20s where it is difficult to meet people outside of your work environment. I sent him a Match.com e-mail two days before his membership was set to expire; he hadn't had much luck with the site and had stopped checking it regularly, and wasn't planning on renewing his membership. I'm glad I timed it the way I did, or else we wouldn't have met! We had our first date a week before Valentine's Day and have been together ever since. Saja: How did he propose? Lindsay: Jon proposed in a very low-key, very "us" fashion on April 20, 2013. We'd picked out the ring together from Hamilton Hill Jewelry, a jewelry store I used to work at, and so I knew the proposal was coming. I also more or less knew the day because my work schedule had been hectic, and both sets of our parents were about to leave the country for a few weeks (and I wanted to be able to tell them as soon as we got engaged, no waiting!). What can I say, I don't like surprises. Jon cooked me a fancy breakfast and served it on our little outdoor patio. He ran inside to get some salt and pepper and came out carrying a Russian nesting doll. Jon had hand-painted each layer so that it represented some part of our relationship. The ring, and a message of proposal, was on the innermost layer. Even though we had talked it out and were fully on the same page regarding getting married (and I tend to be pretty jaded and cynical), I was still pretty fluttery when I looked up from inspecting the nesting doll to find Jon on his knee before me. We quickly called our parents before they got on their respective planes for vacation, and we spent the rest of the day doing our favorite Durham things: eating great food, seeing movies at the Carolina Theatre, and hanging with friends. Saja: Which of the photos are your favorites? Why? Lindsey: My father was really adamant about not knowing anything about my dress or what I would look like on the wedding day, and so we decided to do a First Look with him before I went off to do a First Look with Jon. If you look at the photos, you can see my mom, sister, and sister-in-law peeking around the corner to watch the First Look, which I think is cute! Jon and I also high-fived during our First Look. It was very "us." I think the photo of us smiling right after really captures the joy and excitement we felt, and is probably my favorite of the bunch. This is part of our First Look, and I think this was right around the moment where we realized "EEEE we are getting married in two hours." I'm also partial to all the photos we took at sunset on the waterfront during the reception, because they really showcase the natural beauty of my hometown. Saja: What was your favorite part of the day? Why? Lindsay: The ceremony was our favorite part of the day, no question, especially when we read our vows. It was a traditional Jewish ceremony-I was never a little girl who envisioned her wedding day, but whenever I did think about getting married I saw my wedding as a Jewish one with a Rabbi, a Chuppah, the breaking of the glass, and the hora. Jon is not Jewish, but he knew that having a Jewish ceremony was important to me, and the Rabbi worked with us to build a ceremony that was comfortable for both of us. We also wrote and spoke our own vows during the ceremony. We wrote our vows separately, so the first time we heard them was at the ceremony. You could have heard a pin drop when we spoke our vows (well, aside from all the sniffling), and people are still telling me that we had the best wedding vows they had ever heard. Considering the vows are the most important part of the wedding, this is a pretty great compliment! Our videographer actually included the entirety of our vows in our wedding video; I'm so glad we decided to have a videographer, it is wonderful to have that moment captured. Saja: Where did the wedding take place? What made you choose there? Lindsay: The wedding took place at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center in Sarasota, Florida. Sarasota is my hometown, where I lived until I left for college at 18. My parents still live there. Sarasota is one of the most beautiful places int he world, and we wanted to share it with family and friends who had never visited. I really wanted a waterfront wedding, but I also did not want a cookie-cutter hotel affair, and the beach in the summer has a lot of noise restrictions and also event restrictions for time, due to sea turtle nesting season (really!). The Van Wezel is a beautiful, bright purple, modernist structure on Sarasota's bayfront that plays host to traveling Broadway shows and other performing arts events. I had my first dance recital there when I was five, and my high school graduation was also there, so the theater has a lot of memories for me. The theater has a beautiful reception space with one wall of windows overlooking gorgeous Sarasota bay. The Van Wezel is frequently booked because of theater or symphony performances, but we were able to score a June date, as summer is the off-season in Sarasota. We had a short (but hot!) outdoor ceremony on the waterfront, and then quickly moved inside to the air-conditioned reception space for the cocktail hour and the party. Saja: Is there anything about the photos we might not have noticed? Lindsay: I know that most people say "you won't remember the details," but my mother, who did a lot of the aesthetics of the wedding simply because she is in Sarasota and I am not, worked so hard to make the day beautiful and to set a special, elegant atmosphere. There were gorgeous, colorful flowers galore, and little individual, welcoming details, such as everyone's name being on their menus. Our invites, too, were really special. Even though these are minor details, and aren't necessary to create a wonderful wedding day, I really appreciated my mom working to provide a little "something extra" and to set a special tone for our guests. The hangers that the dresses are hanging from in the photos were also made by my mom, she's really proud of them and she should be! Lindsey said, " The day goes by so fast, and I wasn't expecting to be as overwhelmed by emotion as I was. But everything was wonderful, and we were just thrilled that so many of our family and friends traveled to Florida to be with us on our wedding day."
"The dress I wore is the first Saja dress I ever saw online, and even when I looked at the other (beautiful!) dresses, I figured that would be the one. And it was! The dress made me feel lovely, ethereal, and Grecian, and I was also probably the most comfortable person at my hot, June, Florida summer wedding (how often does the bride get to be the most comfortable person at her wedding?!). I love clothes but it is really important for me to be comfortable, and to find a wedding dress that, well, wedded beauty and comfort was amazing. I'm very glad to have been a Saja bride!" We are certainly glad to have Lindsay as a Saja bride too! Congratulations again and all the very best to this lovely couple~ These photos of our bride Aubrey's wedding are truly out of a dream. This Saja dress couldn't have been more perfect for this bride and this setting. She looks effortlessly flawless and so full of love at her amazing Hamptons affair. We hope this wedding sends you into the weekend as inspired as we are!! Thanks so much to Roberto Chamorro for the photos and congratulations to Aubrey and her groom~
There's such a nautical charm to our bride, Molly's wedding. She looks effortlessly beautiful and so full of love. Thank you so much to Krista A. Jones Photography for these breathtaking images. Congratulations again to Molly and Alex!
Summer is on the way! Our friends over at Bella Bridesmaids in Alabama sent us these shots from quite the amazing styled shoot. Mary Kendall Butler took this Saja dress (PP6253) and styled it to absolute perfection. We love the way she paired that gorgeous headpiece into a soft, romantic braid and the dream-like setting at Rosemary Beach is nothing short of breathtaking! Thanks so much to Jennifer Pharr and Victoria Austin Designs for such beautiful work!!
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