Beach Wedding Dress Tips from boncyboutique.com

May 14, 2012

After you decide to have a beach wedding, then you may come to one of the most vital task-find a beach wedding dress. Unlike traditional wedding dress, dress for beach ceremony is a little bit different, so the affecting factors will be different, and boncyboutique.com summarizes some of useful tips to help you.

Collect information and imagine your ideal dress
Most brides will be lost before numerous of wedding dress, yet it will become much easier to pick if you can narrow down your search. How to narrow down? You do not need to know the specific cut, materials, but you should know what kind of effect you are expecting, do you want a romantic and whimsical dress that’s a bit more on the traditional side?

Decide your ceremony beach wedding dress
Of course, compared to regular church wedding, beach wedding dress is much more casual and relaxed, yet this doesn’t mean that you cannot seek some formality during your special day. Still, a formal beach wedding dress will be different from a formal church bridal gown. If you want to have a formal beach wedding, try browsing white bridesmaids’ dresses. Many of these dresses are elegant enough to fit the bride but are much less fussy than full-blown gowns.

Say no to heavy décor on dress
Beach wedding dresses do not like heavy décors, those dresses with over-the-top details such as long trains, veil or heavy headwork may not that prefect for a beach wedding.

Accessory also matters
Accessories for most time make the beautiful bride much charming. So for your beach ceremony, pick some simple yet pretty items will be better. A pearl necklace, bead earrings or a simple flower will make something perfect even more perfect.

After these tips, do you know what do exactly you want for your beach wedding dresses? If you are still not certain, never be worry about it. Here are some of the best sellers from boncyboutique.com for beach bride.

Mermaid Wedding Dress with beautiful back design
This dress is made for bride with perfect body shape, and it will be better if you have Hour Glass figure.

V-neck Siren Wedding Dress
V-neck Siren Wedding Dress
A backless wedding dress adds much of sexiness for the bride. And those brides who want to wow your friends and husband, this dress is a good choice.

Lace Princess Wedding Dress
Lace Princess Wedding Dress
Unlike the above two dresses, this dress is full of elegance and feminity.

Asymmetrical Wedding Dress
Asymmetrical Wedding Dress
The big feature of this dress is the shoulder design, and customers from boncyboutique.com love this one a lot.

Useful Wedding Ideas for Your Beach Ceremony

May 7, 2012

The best of hot summer for brides must be it is a golden time for beach wedding. Want a beach wedding also? Actually beach wedding can be easy to start, to summarize, 6 rules will be ok to guide you a perfect beach wedding.

Tip 1: the wedding date and time sheet
Here I am talking about the arrangement of the whole day, and you can make the plan according to the wind power or the sunshine. For example, you should better avoid the ceremony at noon, and most beach wedding brides will pick sunfall as the golden time.
beach wedding dress
Tip 2: wedding attire
Wedding dress: Of course, picking suitable wedding dress for beach ceremony must to be the first important thing. It is too formal to wear those wedding dresses with long trains or layers of drapes, and it is suggested to wear simple designed, lively gowns. And fabrics such as organza, chiffon or Crepe Fabric are ideal option for beach wedding dress. Warning: no bodysuit is welcomed in beach wedding.

Wedding guest attire: you can inform your guests of the beach wedding theme ahead of the time, so as to spare time for their preparation work.

Bridal Veils: generally speaking, beach wedding ides do not like veils, maybe you can stick a flower as hair décor. What if you really like bridal veils? You must fix the veils well.
beach wedding dress
Tip 3: wedding food
No matter it is a buffet or formal dinner, those fresh and bland food, and if match with some specialties in the local areas, it will be better.

Tip 4: wedding décor
If it is a little windy, you can scatter petals on the aisle or when the petals is not available, trumpet shell or starfish are great decorations also.

Tip 5: Prepare For the Rains
No one expects rains during the wedding ceremony, yet it still comes sometimes. And the best protective step may be choosing a seaside hotel or a vacation village, in case there is rain on your big day.
beach wedding dress
Tip 6: the cameraman
An expert cameraman will surprise you with great wedding photos, so if you could invite an experienced cameraman who is skillful in beach wedding, it will be lucky enough for you.

Colored Wedding Dresses For 2013

April 24, 2012

If you still think white wedding dress is the only choice for wedding ceremony, you must be out of fashion for quite a long time. No one is able to predict that colored wedding dress, especially red wedding dress has come out as a surprising trend for spring 2013.

For 2013 bridal fashion week, it must be one of most creative event. Besides ivory and white, blue and pink gowns covered in sequined embroidery that produced an audible gasp from the audience.

Oscar de la Renta 2013 bridal fashion
Oscar de la Renta 2013 bridal fashion

Besides blue and pink wedding dress, red wedding dress becomes the hot topic after bridal fashion week.

Last season, Vera wang astonished the fashion and brides with black wedding dress, and when most brides are talking about who dares to wear black bridal gowns, for 2013 bridal fashion trend, Vera Wang is brave enough to abandon white and ivory, red is the only color for vera wang 2013 collection.

vera wang 2013 bridal fashion week

It is said that Vera Wang’s collection was titled ‘Mei Meng” (with accompanying Chinese characters) which means, “Dream.” Per the notes in Wang’s spring 2013 lookbook:

Beautiful dream. The symbolism of Red. Boldly romantic, charming, protective, grand, seductive, sexy. From dahlia to scarlet, crimson and vermilion. A celebration of love.

Not only Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta also showed a red flamenco-inspired confection as part of his fall bridal offerings.

As for why red dress becomes the new favorite of fashion designers? Boncyboutique.com always thinks that red refers sexy, passion and special. And in Asian culture, red is always related with big events. Also from 2011, more and more celebrities choose red dresses for their red carpet show. So if you still did not choose your wedding dress, maybe you could alter your old thoughts and start to embrace red wedding dresses.

Tips for Coming Summer Wedding Ideas

April 9, 2012

Spring and summer are the most favorite seasons among brides-to-be, and since we have shared wedding ideas for spring season, now we will talk about some useful advices on summer wedding ceremony.

With some special favor, the warmth weather, the sunny sunshine, the outdoor wedding ideas, summer indeed is superior to other seasons, yet there are also some needs to be paid special attention to. Some notes here I think you will need.

summer wedding ideas

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Wedding venues choosing
Summer brides and bridegroom prefer to celebrate the big day outdoor. So the first factor to consider for summer wedding is the hot and changeable weather. If you are throwing an outdoor wedding, the golden time of the ceremony is evening, since the weather changes frequently especially at noon. In addition, the temperature often is quite high, so preparing some beach umbrella and the like is worth recommendation.

Wedding theme for summer
Generally speaking, the wedding theme in summer season is inclined to cool colors, so as to create a cool feeling. Personally ideas do recommend blue color, grey, green, white, etc. and red color may be more proper for winter season.

Wedding food for summer
Summer is entitled with delightful landscape, yet it does have some annoying aspects, such as the high temperature. So for summer brides, you may think out great ideas to store wedding food let me say, the wedding cake, chocolate and some hard sweet.

simple wedding dress for summer

Wedding dress for summer
Light and simple or even some short wedding dresses are more ideal choice for summer wedding ceremony. Not only the style, the choosing of wedding dresses fabric is not different also between summer wedding and winter wedding. In hot summer season, satin is not proper, and silk or some other thin fabric is ideal in summer.

In most cases, summer brides would like to have a destination wedding, so simple wedding dresses welcome their golden time. Boncyboutique.com launches a collection of simple yet elegant wedding dress, less than $150.

summer wedding dress

Bride makeup
Hot weather will ruin your makeup, so try to avoid heavy make-up, and the time to refine the make-up should also be increased. Also if your summer wedding is planned to hold outdoor, do remember to pay special attention to sun-proof.

Be light-hearted
Although with those nettlesome factors, the bride and the bridegroom still should keep a high mood. Be calm down, and everything will become easy, and of course a decent summer wedding will become easy also.

Top 3 Spring Wedding Color Ideas

March 28, 2012

Seeing so many brides-to-be are busy in selecting dresses for big day in this season, boncyboutique.com here would like to share some wedding ideas for your spring wedding ceremony.

Spring abounds with all kinds of flowers and colors. And the wise and creative way for spring bride is to combine those shining colors together for the ceremony.
yellow wedding ideas
Yellow-as radiant as sunshine
Yellow color does have the effect that putting you into a cheerful mood. And when matching with different shades of color hue, it will create different effect.

yellow bridesmaid dress
In general, a whole lot of colors can be the best partners of yellow.
Yellow & Golden-a gorgeous pair
Yellow & white-brisk and light match
Yellow & gray-mature and lively
Light yellow & pink blue-elegant and young style
The bridesmaid: using light yellow chiffon or muslin fabric as the dress will be decent option. Do remember never using large scales of covering on the dress.
The groomsmen: for a yellow themed wedding, the tie, shirt, vest and some accessories may be the ideal way to use the themed color.
green wedding ideas
Green-the most vigorous color
Green must be the best speaker man of spring season, and its friendly, fresh and elegant feelings can be perfect choice for dress, especially light green.

green bridesmaid dress
The best matching color for green
Green & light golden-gorgeous in a low-pitched way
Green & cream-elegant matching
Green & light pink-sweet and lively choice
Green & white-comfy choice in spring wedding ideas
The bridesmaid: green color will display a light feeling, so the bridesmaid dress could choose some strapless styles, or high v-neck ones.
The groomsmen: green cannot be widely used in the groomsmen’s attire, just add green in some key places such as tie, pocket openings will be great.

Pink-romantic and pretty
As the color with most feminity, Pink has always been regarded as the synonym of romance, so it is surely another popular color in wedding dress, bridesmaid dresses and more. But the brilliance and depths of color are quite important.

pink wedding ideas

To match pink color, you can seek help from the following color:
Pink & sky blue-sweet feeling
Pink & silver-mature feeling
Pink & white-elegant wedding’s hot pick
Pink & black- easy to create fashion elements

pink bridesmaid dress

The bridesmaid: if pink is used in large scales in the dress, the style of dress may be more simple and mature. And if pink is just used as the décor, just using silky fabric is ok.
The groomsmen: pink shirts with a lighter color can be quite common and magic to enhance the wedding ceremony.

Wedding Dress Inspiration from 2012 New York Fashion Week

March 19, 2012

Brides can be and should be as keen as enough in seeking and collecting wedding dress ideas. We get wedding dress ideas from magazine, the fashion show or from online info. And of course, 2012 New York Fall fashion week is a great way to get the newest and most impressive wedding dress trend. So let’s check what the New York fashion week inspires you for your bridal gowns choosing.

Frothy wedding dresses
Frothy wedding dresses

wedding dress with floral design
Frothy wedding dresses for princess styled brides.
Frothy design matched with big skirts definitely is made for brides who have a dream of being princess. And the flying frothy creates a feeling of princess and nobility, so if you are going to have the ceremony in church or hall, picking such elegant dress is wise choice.
Ethereal wedding dress

Ethereal wedding dress
Ethereal styled dress with gauzy fabric dominates.
2012 wedding dress trends take a pleasure in light fabric, silk, chiffon, etc. are becoming the favor among those designers. Oscar de la Renta showed with the gorgeous ethereal wedding dress collection, also have you noticed that those dresses also featured with beautiful colors? So for your ceremony, maybe it is time to say no to whose white wedding dress, but to embrace colored wedding dresses.
Sheath wedding dress

Sheath wedding  dress
Sheath dress for sexy brides
Unlike ball gown wedding dress or a-line wedding dresses that bring out loveliness and simplicity, sheath wedding dresses would add more maturity, sexiness and fascination.
Deep v-neck wedding dress

v-neck wedding dress
Deep v-neckline becomes the new trend
Strapless wedding dresses have dominate the brides for long time, and now more and more brides start to say no to strapless or sweetheart wedding dress, but to love much sexier deep V-neck dresses.

Inspired from Aimee and Chris Keogh’s Spring Wedding

March 12, 2012

As a time of rebirth and renewal, spring is usually a perfect time for you to tie the knot. And also, there are incalculable resources for spring brides, flowers, wedding venues and vendors are available to cooperate with you for a wonderful ceremony. So that is no wonder celebrities would like to announce their love in Spring.

Aimee and Chris Keogh's Spring Wedding
Aimee and Chris Keogh’s Spring Wedding

And let’s first take enjoyment in Aimee and Chris Keogh’s spring wedding on the 21st of January 2012.
After their love began in a school musical and maintained their romance for more than 7 years, 2009, Chris brought the ring and asked the questions. And in 2012, they announced their love before friends.

At “The Packing Shed” just out of Clyde and under the beautiful blue sky, Aimee dressed in an Australian branded strapless silk gown that with ruched bodice, she was indeed the most beautiful bride. And her four bridesmaids opted for red dress, when they are together; it is just as beautiful as painting.
Aimee and Chris Keogh's Spring Wedding
To match her beautiful wedding dress, Aimee bought peony roses for her bid day. Yet due the finish of peony season, she had to store them in cool store for 6 weeks.

So as for tips for your spring wedding, firstly, we have to talk about wedding flowers.

Indeed, spring is rich in kinds of flowers, yet, if you love certain flowers particularly, boncyboutique.com advices you to pay more attention to the flowers season so as to bring the freshest flowers to your ceremony.

Then as for bridesmaid dress tips, you know that spring loves to see colors. So for your ceremony, we would like to recommend some bright colored bridesmaid dress. For example, light green, grass green, purple, red, pink bridesmaid dresses are ideals for spring occasions.

Another important spring wedding tips is spring is the great time for outdoor ceremony. After so long time of winter season, maybe you are eager to embrace the nature. So holding a wedding ceremony in spring is perfect opportunity. But do remember to pay close attention to the weather, no one expects raining during the big day.

Hot Wedding Dress Trend from 2012 Oscars

March 5, 2012

Since 2011, retro wedding dresses start to win the favor of brides. And long sleeves wedding dress saw its flourishing not only among brides but also red carpet loves it. In 2012 Oscar, Bérénice Bejo shines with a mint-green Elie Saah couture gown. The deep-V neck and transparent sleeves add sexiness to this retro prom dress.

dress with long sleeves
dress with long sleeves

This dress looks similar to Bérénice Bejo’s dress, since they are both with long sleeves. Yet the cutout sleeves must get most attention, and matched with the slim cut design, the dress can be both elegant and sexy.
2012 oscar dress
Asymmetric sheath dress of Gwyneth Paltrow’s, simple as it is, it is still listed as the best dressed in 2012 Oscar. The silhouette shows off Paltrow’s famous figure, not to mention that 163-carat diamond cuff, and to make herself outstanding, the floor-length cape helps a lot.
asymmetrical dress, 2012 oscar
After we talking about the neckline trend and silhouette, we come to style trend. We know that ethereal dresses usually are regarded as the one of the best way to showing feminity and gentleness. And 2012 take interest in ethereal a lot, just see Maria Menounos’s ethereal seafoam-green A-line gown by Maria Lucia Hohan.

ethereal wedding dress
When we look at Cameron Diaz’s nude Gucci gown, the most important peculiarity is the frothy ruffles licked by stokes of metallic sequins. The strapless dress easily helps Cameron Diaz to be listed as the best dresses in 2012 Oscar.

ruffles wedding dress
ruffles wedding dress

2012 wedding dress trend talks a lot about dresses with sheer neckline. The sheer designed neckline not only provides warmth for the brides, which is especially proper for early spring wedding, but also adds feminity, obscurity and mystique to the dress.

dress with sheer neckline
Every bride wants to be especially beautiful on the big day, and choosing a uniquely different wedding dress is the first step. Hope these wedding dress trend inspired from 2012 Oscar could help you to be unmatched.

Top 5 Selected Wedding Dress for Outdoor Wedding

March 2, 2012

It is getting warmer and warmer day by day, and also we know that spring and early summer is the golden period for outdoor wedding, as outdoor wedding could have those beautiful sceneries as your wedding décor. And for outdoor wedding, the brides usually will be dressed in a more causal way. To reduce your time in searching dress for outdoor ceremony, boncyboutique.com selects top 5 best selling wedding dresses for you in this post.

Chiffon Halter Sheath with Rhinestone Siren Wedding Dress
This simple wedding dress has been listed as wishlist by many brides in boncyboutique.com site. The sheath silhouette shows your figure, while the soft and light material brings you comfort. Without too much embellishment, this low-budget wedding dress is suitable for outdoor and beach wedding.

Satin Off-the-shoulder A-line with Side-drape Trendy Wedding Dress
As another exquisite wedding dress with few embellishments, this Satin Off-the-shoulder definitely stands out my list. For the price under 150USD, the dress is cheap. However, it is not cheap-looking. The satin fabric is tough and with high quality. The off-the-shoulder neckline can display your beautiful shoulders to the utmost.
Taffeta Strapless A-line with Rhinestone/Drape Trendy Short Wedding Dress
The fabric of this short Low-budget bridal dress is taffeta, which is not much popular used than satin, lace, organza and other fabrics, but it is durable in use and could bring different feeling to your dress. As a short wedding dress, it is much economical than other exquisite wedding dresses. The shining rhinestones adorned waist is the light spot. This strapless cheap bridal dress is suitable for outdoor wedding.

Ethereal Short Wedding Dress
Wow, I love the feeling of flowing while wearing this wedding dress. Could you imagine that? Chiffon fabric as usual, long style as normal. Have you found the difference? Yup, the design of the back! It is not a simple zipper back, extra symmetrical chiffon fabric is added in the back to completely show the uniqueness of this wedding dress with low budget.
Lace/Taffeta Bateau A-line with Appliques Trendy Wedding Dress

Lace is always on trend. If u cannot offer a wedding dress made of full lace fabric, why not considering purchasing a wedding dress with lace embellishment? This one is the perfect one! The sheer lace composed neckline is perfect!

These above Exquisite 5 Low-budget bridal dresses have one thing in common which is the simplicity in embellishment and design. However, they are all elegant and stand out in every style. Which gown is your favorite? We’d love to know!

Dress Trend Inspired By 2012 Oscar Red Carpet Dresses

February 28, 2012

2012 Oscars unveils with some incredible fashion hits, and more than a few misses writes Katherine Feeney, those fashion elements such as original shoulder designs, mermaid dress, sexy design, etc. adds some unique features to 2012 Oscar dresses. And let’s first have an appreciation of top best red carpet dresses for 2012 Oscar.
Angelina Jolie's black dress
Best dressed- Angelina Jolie’s black dress
She is a woman who born for Red carpet, so of course, her dress on 2012 Oscar attracts you also. The high split black dress from Atelier Versace collection helps her to be listed as the best dressed fairly easily. And no one else could be master of that sexy black prom dress.
Natalie Portman's red dress
Best dressed- Natalie Portman’s red dress
Natalie Portman loves red, there is no doubt. So for 2012 Oscar, she opts for this retro red prom dress adorned with black dots.
Virginia Madsen's purple gown
Best dressed- Virginia Madsen’s purple gown
Simple enough, yet this dress shines with its satin fabric and flamboyant purple color. Although someone comments that it is without any features, love or not, you decide.
Cameron Diaz
Best dressed- Cameron Diaz’s gold favor
You can just tell she loves swish-swishing around in this figure-loving number. With the wispy blonde and hint of sparkle, Diaz is full of mystique and feminine, and when matched the dress with her gold hair, she looks like a sculpture.
Gwyneth Paltrow's white dress
Best dressed- Gwyneth Paltrow’s white dress
Just a satin made long asymmetric dress from Tom Ford and a cape are enough to display Gwyneth Paltrow’s grace and handsome temperament. And white color also gets its favor on red carpet.

Best dressed- Penelope Cruz loves blue
Penelope Cruz astonishes with her princess appearance in this light Blue long dress, she is surely pitching for Cinderella with a gown straight from Disney picture that may very well disappear by midnight. Personally, I love this dress most.

Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz

Best dressed- Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann’s dress surely is prefect and it deserves any words of praising in my view. We know that 2012 parties loves sequins for the dress décor, and as for the color, blue definitely could be listed as the top choice. And Leslie Mann combines them together, what a wise fashion seeker.
Leslie Mann
Of course, 2012 Oscar is more than these, and we will come up with more inspiration also.