Bride's Head Revisited

Today is my best pal's 10 year wedding anniversary. I've known her since I was 5. She had a lovely wedding in a beautiful old hotel in Cape May, NJ where she had spent summers as a kid and near where her husband grew up. It was a meaningful wedding.

This has been the week that's officially kicked off my wedding season and has been filled with bridal stuff and brides and I stumbled upon this lovely Seattle based wedding planning site Junebug (with a great blog) filled with inspiration to also make yours a meaningful (and well photographed) wedding.

It's as glossy as a candy apple and just as delicious. The shoots and locations are amazing and suddenly it made my own wedding, wayyyy back in 2000 look a little...homespun.

This wedding, below, reminds me a lot of my own wedding day on a late farm afternoon in August.If I could do it again (and hey, maybe I will) I might wear a shorter dress like this pretty one and a cool little flyaway veil, (like the ones I've been making for other brides) and maybe I'd suggest to Jim he wear a lighter color suit (although he looked damn good in his dark colored suit) for our late afternoon farmhouse wedding. Suddenly I want a do-over.

NY Magazine Weddings features Bonbon

We were one of two out of 106 featured in this little spread.
Oh yeah!

Antique linen cornflower and sweet pea with guinea hen feather.Antique linen blush dahlias
cushioned in handmade tulle flower withhand-sewn antique French glass sequins
and ostrich feather. Say that 3 times fast.

Little antique linen strawflower and sweet pea hairpin.

Something Blue:
an assemblage of antique baubles and lace, mother-of pearl and feathers.

This week four of our little wedding headpieces and hairpins were featured in the Weddings Section of NY Magazine's Shop-a-Matic in a piece about Bridal headpieces (naturally). It's had our phone ringing and that rules.

Brooklyn Flea Sunday May 4th

YESSSS...One more chance to shop live and in person for Mother's Day with Bonbon at the Brooklyn Flea. Come and see us--we'll have more new pieces that mom (and mom's-to-be) will love. I'm betting on sunshine all day Sunday. It's May for god's sake.

Last Sunday was drizzly but busy nonetheless.

Thanks for coming around to see us!

We'll also have that collection of Derby Necklaces that people seem to like snapping up faster than Big Brown in the 8th.

Sunday May 4th, 10am-5pm.
Map and Directions.

Spring Trees

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We've been going for some early morning walks here and there and it's just so damn Spring out there. Trees. You really notice them when they look like this. I like when construction companies cut openings in their galvanized steel to let the trees through. It's an example of the tender side of construction while they get ready blaze over everything else. It's the little things man.

Rainy Days

The days lately have been rainy. You know what they say about April showers. Plus it makes everything smell so good. Finally it's May and here's what's going on in my window box and little (it's a 3' x 4' plot) garden at the moment. I just got to planting finally last Saturday.
Today the sun is shining a little but it's cold. I took these pictures on Monday in the drizzle. I love the sparseness of the early Spring buds because by Summer it's an overgrown jungle out there which is nice to cover up all that black painted iron railing (which I've actually grown fond of).

Window Shopping, Part 2

New shop on Franklin Street which is never open when I walk by, but the cat is always there. Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Display Love

Possible to fall in love with a window? Yes. I believe it can be done. Banchet Flowers in the Meatpacking District.