It's hard to resist a little glitz and glam when you are a winter bride who wants to capitalize on the crystalized landscape.  Check out these hot accessories and wardrobe pieces for a Jan/Feb/March bride!

Don't these pics make you feel a tad bit warm and cozy on a cold, drizzly winter night?  Whether it's faux fur or rhinestones galore, why not try on something from this post to spark up your warm fuzzy feelings?

Today I was doing my usually busywork on the computer when I stumbled upon a rad site called Modcloth.com.  Maybe I've been living under a rock.  Maybe I've been too wrapped up in Thanksgiving.  Either way, I've been totally missing out on awesome dress deals from this site.  As your blogger, I daresay it behooves me to ensure that all you who are planning a wedding and picking out bridesmaid dresses and what not get to this site immediately to see the numerous dresses they have for any color palette.  The dresses are AWESOME!  Each one is unique and a refreshing spin off of the tried and true selection that you might find elsewhere.  The best part is, that the dresses are totally reasonable!  Most of the frocks are under $100, and some are on sale right now for as little as $25!  Ladies, start your engines!

I thought it would be fun to show off a selection that I picked out from the hundreds of dresses available on the site when I searched for "red dress".  How much fun would it be to get your gals to don these duds:

And it doesn't stop at red!  This site has everything from blush to bashful.  I love how imaginative the designs are and how they would totally work as bridesmaid dresses AND be awesome deals!  PS - They have a sale on many of their dresses right now that takes of 50% through tomorrow night, so get shopping!

These past few weeks have left me noticing more and more holiday propaganda being thrown haphazardly all over television, radio, and sales adds.  I can't believe how quickly we have approached the holiday season again!  If this statement serves nothing more than to heighten your anxiety level, let me relieve some of that discomfort.

Along with this year's holiday season ending, we can look forward to 2012 and the fabulous new wedding trends emerging through the dresses on the catwalks.  This year, I feel that designers have taken traditional designs and pumped up the volume and also introduced brand new trends that we haven't seen before.  For example, the traditionally crisp white palette for Vera Wang has been totally replaced by tans, nudes, and even blacks!  The result is a myriad of dress fantasies to embark upon, and so I give you today a first glimpse at some of my favorite dresses from some of my favorite designers...

From Elizabeth Filmore...

From Jenny Packham...

From Modern Trousseau...

From Monique L'hullier

From Reem Acra...

From Rivini...

And from the master, Vera Wang...

I love the daring appliqués, necklines, colors, and fabrics!  Creativity was on board this year with all the top designers!  While we QCA brides would have to make a major trek to Chicago and a major dip in our bank accounts to score one of these dresses, we will certainly be seeing our local designers and stores with some of these same concepts.  So go ahead and drool, dream, and desire.  Your choice in wedding dress should match you and not any stale traditions...

I could blame it on the fact that I'm already tall or have big feet or that I'd never have a place to wear them other than a wedding, but what it boils down to is that I am one klutzy gal.  If there's someone who is going to trip, stumble, stub her toes, or what have you, it would be me.  That does NOT, however, stop me from daydreaming and drooling over beautiful shoes that would be ever so cute poking out of the bottom of a beautiful wedding dress.  I was hunting around on zappos.com today, and I found these ten beautiful pairs of shoes that SOMEONE should wear...other than me. 

Looking at these shoes almost makes me want to give my ungraceful self another shot...  Maybe if I strapped pillows to every exposed part of my body and walked in one of those bouncy castles I'd make it to see another day...

What shoes make you go gaga?  What other websites do you love to frequent to finagle fab foot finds? 

Let's face it, we brides can be a tad narcisistic.  We tend to want all the attention directed towards us and all the details we put into our special day...  But I don't think there's a bride out there who wouldn't give up a bit of the lime light for an adorable flower girl sporting a fancy little dress and a killer smile?  While not everyone ends up having a flower girl or two, for those of us who do, here are some pictures to hopefully inspire the hunt for the little girls in your life!

I have to say my favorite is the little girl in the cowboy boots...probably because that's what I would have chosen for myself at that age.  :)  Also, I wish it was age appropriate to wear ruffled  tutus and flower crowns...