Bridal Flower Headpieces

Perfect little pearls. This freshwater pearl flower headpiece with tiny seed bead accents; rhinestones and sprigs of clear Swarovski crystals is 5 ¾ inches long and 2 ½ inches from the top of the design to the bottom. Securely attached to a heavy-duty silver two inch comb, it is slightly adjustable to accommodate your picture-perfect bridal updo. At Beautiful Bridal find yourself a fine little flower headpiece...starting at only $22.

Custom Made Cake Toppers

These cute wooden couples by Dandelionland at Etsy will not only make memorable wedding toppers, but because they have a non-toxic clear coating on them, will be as smart and shiny 25 years from now as they are today. For $80 to $85 you can have each pair customized according to your own eye colors, hair colors, skin colors, type of suit and tie, boutonniere, and color of wedding dress and veil. These dashing duos are 3 3/4" tall and their heads are two inches wide.


A French net veil never looked so chic!

Ivory Hair Flowers

Here are two of our popular bridal hair flowers, one on a three inch plastic comb and the other on a silver three inch heavy duty hair pin. Flower headpiece S2181 on a comb has two silver metallic ivory and cafe organza flowers with gold and rum pink stamins. This piece also has silver metallic leaves and is 7 inches by 5 inches (not including the natural feathers). If you’re looking for a darker shade of ivory, you may want to select Ivory Flower Hair Comb S2182.

One of our biggest sellers is Ivory Hair Flower S2165R (almost white) with natural feather and translucent organza petals on a three-inch hair pin. The design is four inches in diameter (not including the natural feathers) with a stunning floral centerpiece of round and marquise cut rhinestones. All but one of our new flower headpieces are value priced at $42 or less!

Romantic Wedding Dresses

Fairy tale, feminitity, romance. And that’s just the dress. CHRISTOS was established by Cyprus-born designer Christos Yiannakou. After heading his collection for over 20 years, he retired in 2005, leaving Amsale Aberra at the helm of the CHRISTOS Collection. Amsale stayed true to his tradition of impeccable heirloom quality and by using the finest silks, French laces and silk organzas. CHRISTOS designs are especially known for their use of Alen on lace, or point d'Alençon, a type of needle lace created in a French town by the same name. Alençon, a small town in Normandy, began manufacturing lace in the sixteenth century, that’s how extraordinary they are. Bridal gowns by Christos can be purchased at the AMSALE Salon in New York City, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Klenfield’s in Manhattan.

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Most Popular Wedding Cake Flavors

How much chocolate do Americans eat? The average American consumes approximately 11.7 pounds of chocolate each year. And just what is chocolate ganache? Basically, a delicious dynamic duo of chocolate and cream, made in a 2:1 ratio for filling wedding cakes. For making a glaze, three times as much chocolate as cream is commonly used. So whether you hire a professional baker or make your own wedding cake, these are the top 10 wedding cake flavors (including an incredibly easy recipe for chocolate ganache below--also to be used for bridal shower cupcakes).

10. Chocolate-almond cake, chocolate ganache, and mocha buttercream
9. Banana cake and chocolate buttercream
8. Coconut cake and lime buttercream
7. Hazelnut-almond cake, chocolate ganache, and raspberries
6. White cake, lemon buttercream, and raspberries
5. Chocolate devil’s food cake, chocolate ganache, and praline buttercream
4. Lemon cake, lemon curd, and vanilla buttercream
3. Yellow butter cake and chocolate buttercream and/or chocolate ganache
2. Chocolate devil’s food cake, vanilla buttercream, and raspberries
and the most popular is...
1. Chocolate devil’s food cake and vanilla buttercream

(Compiled by Ellen Baumwoll of Bijoux Doux Specialty Cakes)

More Chocolate Wedding Cake Ideas

Chocolate Ganache

Ingredients
9 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon dark rum (optional

Directions
Place the chocolate into a medium bowl. Heat the cream in a small sauce pan over medium heat. Bring just to a boil, watching very carefully because if it boils for a few seconds, it will boil out of the pot. When the cream has come to a boil, pour over the chopped chocolate, and whisk until smooth. Stir in the rum if desired.
Allow the ganache to cool slightly before pouring over a cake. Start at the center of the cake and work outward. For a fluffy frosting or chocolate filling, allow it to cool until thick, then whip with a whisk until light and fluffy.

recipe courtesy of Allrecipes

Pearl Wedding Hairpins

Up close. That’s how you and I want to see products before we shop online. We don’t want to be told about quality, we want to see it for ourselves. This year we are going to bring you sharper, detailed images of our products in order to help you make more informed choices. These heavy-duty 2 1/2 inch silver hairpins, available in sets of six, have freshwater pearls and marquise cut rhinestones. They are somewhat adjustable and the height and width of the design is one inch by two stunning inches.

Bridal Hair Flowers

Our most requested items in 2009. And unlike some, we are happy to report we doubled our sales last year and continue to grow since going online Christmas Day, 2005. We have added nineteen new wedding hair flowers, all but one priced below $50. Our new pearl jewelry sets from A A Bridal’s Spring 2010 Collection have arrived and they remind me of an era of wedding gowns made from white silk satin charmeuse, with a heavy liquid drape that cried out for a perfect set of pearls. What’s in store for 2010--more flowers, more feathers, more rhinestones and Swavorski crystals. More sparkle...less expensive.

Ivory and cafe flowers with ivory pearls and rhinestone stamins, cafe and ivory colored leaves, and natural feathers on 3" plastic comb. Design is 8 1/4" from top feather to bottom and 4 3/4" wide.

Pale ivory organza flower (almost white) with natural feather petals and clear rhinestone center flower on a 2 1/2" bobby pin. Design is 3 1/4" in diameter.

Fabric lily with feathers and sprigs of freshwater pearls and rhinestones on a 3" plastic comb. Design is 8" high and 9 1/2" in length.

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