Get glad in your new gladiators...

If you are having a destination wedding this summer or are honeymooning in a warm and sunny climate, you will definitely want to bring a few pairs of cute sandals with you. Our Wishpot Wedding Experts found adorable summer sandals for your honeymoon so you and your new spouse can relax and soak in some rays in style.

Even if your honeymoon doesn’t take you to Greece, you can channel the relaxed style with some fun Grecian sandals, like any of these pairs above.  There are so many fabulous sandal options out there for you to choose from. Throw on a metallic pair or one with studs and add a little rocker goddess to your swimsuit.  Don a distressed brown leather pair with stone details and channel your inner indie side. With these sandals’ structured ankle straps and hardware, they  look great with a flowing, printed maxi dress or a relaxed t-shirt style dress, but are adaptable enough that you can wear them with your everyday favorite pair of jeans.  Wedding Expert, Gekd Boutique found an adorable white beaded pair that would look fabulous with a pair of distressed denim shorts.

Espadrille-esque fabuloso...

Not a casual sandal type of girl? If you want to dress up your beach wear this season, you are in luck! Wedge and espadrille sandals are back with a vengeance, with taller heels, funkier patterns, and wicked ankle wraps.  Expert, Wedding Nouvea is on point with this style. She found this fun espadrille, perfect for a romantic dinner date or a

Retro rockabilly pin up girl glam...

While neutral colored sandals, are wearable with any color clothing, they are not necessarily for everyone.  If nude sandals just won’t do the trick for you, try one of these flirty, striped espadrilles and add a little interest to your standard summer shorts or skirts, above.

Espadrilles have been a summer staple for decades. While the espadrille trend goes away and comes back like most trends, espadrilles are back with a vengeance this season!  Espadrilles are a unique type of sandal because they are known for their extreme comfort, even though they have a heel.  The beauty of the espadrille is the soft, natural materials of which they are typically made and their wide, supportive platform heel. No complaining about blisters for you on your honeymoon!

Planning a wedding can be a large undertaking. Many brides focus a large portion of their attention on what they will wear the day of the wedding, neglecting their honeymoon wardrobe. Don’t let this happen to you! No matter where your honeymoon takes you, make sure to stock up on some great footwear that will leave you feeling like the queen of the beach!

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Photo Credits:

1. Sam Edelman ‘Hazel’ Thong Sandal

2. DV by Dolce Vita ‘David’ Sandal

3.  BC Footwear ‘Oh Sailor’ Sandal

4. Mossimo for Target Phyliss Nailhead Flat Sandals

5. Stewart Weitzman Fez Espadrille

5. Spectator Sport Wedge

6. Grevy’sWedge

 

For my wedding, I knew I wanted my best friends to be my bridesmaids.  Unfortunately, everyone was scattered across the globe, but I was determined not to let distance get in the way of shopping for bridesmaid dresses together.  A plan was quickly established over email: we’d each surf the web for potential dresses for the group.  Then, we’d discuss all the dresses and pick the best one to order.

Simple enough, right?  However, we soon found ourselves buried in our email inboxes.  Everyone in my bridal party spent hours writing countless emails about cute dresses they found and wasted even more time piecing the mish-mash of communications together.  As a busy professional, I was very quickly getting overwhelmed and simply could not afford to spend so much time deciding on dresses!  So, in the midst of all the confusion, I scrapped the plan. I quickly went to a bridesmaid dress retailer website and bought everyone the first nice dress I found.  (It was an Alfred Angelo bridesmaid dress, because the website was sorted alphabetically by designer).  Luckily, it was a cute dress, and my bridesmaids looked fabulous.

After my wedding, I kept thinking there had to be a better way for bridal parties to browse and shop together for wedding apparel.  Furthermore, I knew I was not the only bride out there with a scattered bridal party.  So, last year, one of my bridesmaids and I left our jobs to build a website called Shiny Orb, a comparison shopping website for bridesmaid dresses and other wedding apparel.  With over ten thousand dresses from more than three hundred designers, Shiny Orb has a huge selection that covers all styles, including many non-traditional and trendy wear-again bridesmaid dresses.

I’m excited to announce that today we’re opening up Shiny Orb Dressing Rooms, a social shopping platform to make it easy and enjoyable for brides and bridesmaids to browse and shop together.  With a Shiny Orb Dressing Room, a bridal party can add any of the thousands of dresses on the site to the room, and everyone in the party can comment and chat about these dresses at their convenience. We’ve already heard some great things about this feature from our group of beta testers, so we really think it’s going to be something brides will love!

About

Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder of Shiny Orb, a comparison social shopping site for bridesmaid dresses and wedding apparel.  She previously worked at Google as a product marketing manager and has been building websites since high school.  Elizabeth hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, where her friend and bestselling 3-book Anti-Bride co-author Carolyn started this all.

 

The vixenry and aristry of Darkgarden.com

Dollys and Dandys, how much do I love living in the Bay Area, a treasure trove of creative swirly heads who put up their tent pole to create  a sublime subculture out  of history, a little steel, a bit of steam, a little lace and quite  possibly, a snifter of absinthe. This, my kumquats is where myself and the mister are spending our weekend: in a sliver of history that might have been. Make sure you check out the launch of Dark Gardens haunting and haute new Dollymop line at the fab fashion show on Saturday night: Alterna-bridal (and boudoir) looks to be displayed. Mon Dieu! See you there!

Event of the Season

The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition returns to the San Francisco Bay Area March 12-14, 2010 presenting a world of polished mahogany, leather and brass, where steam power, airships and clockwork are the cutting edge of technology; a neo-Victorian experience, spanning from the 1830s to the early 1900s and from cultivated London to the rugged coast of San Francisco. The Exhibition has moved to the Hilton Garden Inn in Emeryville, CA for 2010, preparing to host an estimated 1000+ attendees. It will offer a huge Traders’ Concourse and over 25 programs in three tracks including academic presentations, panel discussions and hands-on “Maker” workshops. Our Guests of Honor are: James Blaylock (Author of Homunculus, The Digging Leviathan, Land of Dreams), Phil and Kaja Foglio (Artists of Girl Genius), and Jon Sarriugarte (Maker of The Golden Mean, Electrobite and much more). Appearances also include “Steampunk Scholar” Mike Perschon, Tor Books Editor Liz Gorinsky and acclaimed new Steampunk author Gail Carriger (Soulless, Orbit Books).

New for 2010 is an amazing outdoor Exploratory Steam and Kinetics Enclosure, featuring The Golden Mean snail art car, Tom Sepe’s “Whirlygig Emoto” hybrid steam motorcycle, and steam vehicles, boilers, Pandemonium and Caliope from the Crew of the Neverwas Haul!

For evening entertainment, Exhibition guests can trip the gaslight fantastic at the Steampunk Ball, don their Steamy best to compete in the Costume Competition and gather for the illustrious Party-at the Center of the Earth. Special $99 room rates are available at the hotel for Nova Albion guests on a first-come, firstserved basis and can be booked at: www.steampunkexhibition.com/hotel-reservations/.

The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition is a celebration of all things Steampunk, from Gaslamp fantasy to clockwork mechanicals, and everything in-between. The event is a chance for fans, authors, makers, tinkerers, adventurers and folks of all stripes to gather, converge, discuss and experience the excitement and the possibilities of an alternate History-That-Might-Have-Been.
$60 Early Bird tickets are on sale now at: http://www.steampunkexhibition.com/tickets – prices will increase to $75 at the door.

Photography: Russ Young
Excerpted from www.steampunkexhibition.com

 

You had better believe, I will make it work....

When it comes to Project Runway, I am an self described addict. This is possibly because my husband and I both went through rigorous university design programs and remember all too well that fatal “1 hour til show time drama” that strikes fear into the unprepared or disorganized creative. They don’t call them “deadlines” for nothing.

Project Runway Thursdays are sacred: we pore over the menu, decide on the libations, theme, and take turns cooking all manner of delicious cuisine with our fav PR double date couple (who can always be counted on for the random snarky comment). That said, I believe that this season is, well, “Meh…” From the judges standpoint, let’s face it, it’s Kor-less. I mean, how can you top this standout comment: “your outfit looks like something an Appalachian crack whore would wear.” How much more descriptive can you really get? How can this man ever be replaced for sheer blistering sarcasm and that discerning sense of style and entitlement?

As well, on the nefarious interloper tip, where’s our  Santino, Jeffry Sebalia, or Kenley Collins to upend and demoralize the rest of the team? If I had a dime for every time one of them said “I’m not here to make friends” I’d have a house in Pac Heights!

But for pure creative innovation, the quirky kid from Baltimore who manages to be sweet as pie (and right there with the back handed compliment), and of prodigious talent there is none other than our favorite boy, Christian Siriano.

His Coco Chanel meets streetwise punk design sensibility can be runway, club way, alterna-bridal or couture. He is a fan favorite because he possesses a quality that many of the PR contestants lack: irrefutable charm. And as luck would have it we all get to meet the boy wonder Tuesday Oct. 13th at 2 pm at Saks Fifth Avenue on Post in SF for his book signing (and I suspect to celebrate his new show). I took one look at my insane calendar and realized that I must, simply, make it work….

See you there, and of course, make sure you look FIERCE!

Where and When

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE
Tuesday, October 13 –2:00pm
Book signing
384 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94108