Wedding? There's an App for That!

In this day and age, you can do almost anything with the help of your trusty iPhone, iPod, or iPad. Why should planning a wedding be the exception? Fortunately, there are plenty of apps to help you make sure that your special day is everything you want it to be.

When you’re looking to get organized, find local vendors, or get wedding day inspiration, you can turn to your iPhone to find the help that you need. High-profile names in the wedding industry such as wedding planner Mindy Weiss and bridal media such as “The Knot” and “Brides” have developed apps to offer their expertise to tech-savvy brides.

“Plan Your Wedding with Mindy Weiss” is the signature wedding application from celebrity wedding planner, Mindy Weiss. At 9.99, the app is on the expensive side as far as digital planning tools go. However, its vast array of features may be worth the price for you. Like many other wedding apps, this app allows you to search a database of wedding gowns and manage vendors. However, in addition to these standard features, “Plan Your Wedding” provides you with video advice from Mindy herself as well as a “dreamboard” where you can save wedding inspiration photos, a budget management tool, and a section for keeping track of your gift registries, guest lists, and thank you notes.

Wedding mega-resource, “The Knot,” offers a number of free application options to help you with your wedding planning. For iPhone users, “Wedding Dress Lookbook” allows you to search for the perfect gown by inputting your height, body type, personality, and wedding style in addition to other search terms. “The Knot” also offers “Wedding 911,” an app in which brides submit their questions about etiquette, receptions, ceremonies, saving money, and other wedding day details. For iPad users, “The Knot” offers a great digital edition of its magazine at $4.99 an issue, complete with a spot for saving inspiration and plenty of videos to help you create D-I-Y invites and favors.

Another free app option is “BRIDES Wedding Genius,” straight from the pros at Condé Nast’s “Brides” magazine. This app allows you to explore a huge database of wedding dresses, his and hers jewelry, and travel destinations for your dream honeymoon. For a few dollars, you can upgrade this application to the “BRIDES Digital Wedding Binder,” which allows you access to expert advice, inspiration folders, and a spot to manage your wedding to-do list.

This article was written by FIT Student Corine Brosseau.

From Red Carpet to the Wedding Aisle

Photograph from People.com

Award season is the time when celebrities pull out all the stops and go for the fashion gold. Strutting down a red carpet in designer duds is always a huge deal but at the Oscars, the king of award shows, who you’re wearing becomes even more important. From sleek and sophisticated to modern and fresh, the red carpet at this year’s Academy Awards was home to some major fashion statements. Fortunately for brides-to-be, you don’t have to be famous to wear a stunning gown to a very special celebration.

Whether you hope to exude the confidence of Halle Berry or the grace of Natalie Portman, there is a dress that will make you look as wonderful walking down the aisle as they do gliding across the red carpet. If emulating a certain celebrity style icon’s Oscar look is what you wish for, then it’s easy to make that wish come true.

When you see a fabulous gown on the red carpet, think simple! Don’t try to find an exact dupe of the gown in white. Instead, choose a few of the most important details, or simply the ones you find most striking, such as a neckline, embellishment, or silhouette, and use those as inspirational guidelines throughout your search for that perfect dress. In the slideshow below, we’ve found some stunning bridal gowns that echo the red carpet style of some of the best dressed celebs at this year’s Academy Awards.

This essay was written by Corine Brosseau



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