Brides White Hot Style Shop | Shopping For A Cause

Guess what ladies...starting Thursday, BRIDES magazine is hosting a four day event where you will be able to shop the latest wedding trends and fashion while helping raise awareness for women's and children's charities such as Dress for Success and Operation Smile. There will be hairstyle and makeup trials, cake and cocktail tastings, and even goodybags and giveaways! Admission is free, but it is encouraged to make advance reservations and donate $35 in order to receive a VIP style pass, where you can meet and greet with BRIDES editors, receive priority beauty appointments and much more! What are you waiting for?! For more information, see below.

BRIDES White Hot Style Shop
October 13-15 11-7, October 16 11-6
477 Broome Street
New York City
For Reservations call 888.716.8117

Enjoy!

Kate Spade introduces New Wedding Collection | Join in the Celebration with New York Weddings Magazine event today

Kate Spade introduces their brand new wedding collection called, Wedding Belles and Whistles, a collection of little white dresses and colorful accessories. I personally LOVE the accessories. From blue shoes, to glitzy shoes to the fab necklace a bride needs to finish her wedding look it's all SO pretty!

Today Kate Spade and New York Weddings Magazine are celebrating the new wedding collection and guests will receive 20% off all full-price purchases. To RSVP email: events@NYMAG.com, Subject: KateSpade and mention that you saw the event in The Lela New York Wedding Blog.

xo

Wedding Dress Trunk Show! - Badgley Mischka

Great News NYC Brides! There is a Badgley Mischka Trunk Show this weekend at Lovely Bridal Shop starting today! Trunk shows are always great since you get to see the designers new creations straight from the runway. That's how I found my wedding dress ;)

HAVE FUN!

Your Invited to a Bridal Spa Day! - New York Wedding Event

You are invited to the first-ever BluePrintCleanse bridal event, which will be held at James Corbett Studio in New York on November 10th, featuring an evening of cocktails made with BPC fresh-pressed juices, vegan treats from BabyCakes, complimentary massages and manicures. Space is limited and the first 30 brides to arrive will receive a gift certificate for a one day cleanse from BluePrintCleanse.  Hope to see you there!

Vera Wang in NYC with Brides Editor-in-Chief, Millie Martini Bratten

I was invited to hear Vera Wang speak this weekend at Vera's New York City Madison Avenue store hosted by Millie Martini Bratten, Editor-in-Chief of Brides Magazine, and I jumped at the chance! After all I was a Vera Bride!

Vera has also been my idol for so long and was everything I expected her to be and more. Brilliant, brilliant is what she was.

Vera talked about being inspired by the bride and how her wedding dresses are really not just about Vera's vision like her ready-to-wear line is but more about real women and their different body types and different styles. Vera explained how the "women" in the dress is just as important as the dress itself and needs to reflect the bride. After all, it's usually the first time a women gets to host a party plus it's one of the most important parties in her life and it should express her personal style and taste. This should be reflected in the dress selection.

Vera also advises her brides to think about at least "two things before picking out your dress, location, and the time of day." If you are getting married at a beach, you wouldn't want a ball gown but you may want a light airy dress instead. And the same goes with the time of day. A bride may want to choose a less blingy dress if she is getting married at noon rather than in the evening. Things that may seem obvious but are sometimes over looked.

But overall Vera made it clear, it is important to remain true to yourself and your unique sense of style.

This week will be full of Wedding dress lovelies from New York's Bridal market.

Tomorrow stay tuned for the Vera Wang Fall 2011 collection!

Grace Ormonde's Wedding Style Book Launch - Part 1 The Plaza Party

I was so excited about Grace Ormonde's new book, Grace Ormonde Weddings - Being In Love Never Goes Out of Style that when I was invited to The Plaza for the NYC launch party I had to share the picts with you all! The Plaza Party was simply amazing! The decor and floral design was stunning, elegant and of course The Plaza is always fab.

Lela (Founder of Lela New York) and Grace Ormonde ( Editor & Founder of Wedding Style Magazine)

 Grace Ormonde and Ed Libby

Courtney Kern (Events Beyond), Anne-Marie Scali (Perfect Bound), Lela (Lela New York)

Tomorrow is Part 2. An inside peak of Grace Ormonde's new book, Love Never Goes Out of Style.

Enjoy!

WIN a free engagement shoot! by New York Wedding Photographer Christopher Duggan

Calling all engaged couples! It's the 4th Annual Free Engagement Photo Day and you may be a winner but first you have to enter ;) This amazing contest is being given by Christopher Duggan is the founder and principal photographer of Threshold Visions Photography; a New York City based wedding, family and event photography studio. 

Christopher and his team of professionals cover Manhattan's finest venues, the Metropolitan and Tri-State areas, and frequently travel for destination weddings as far away as the Pacific Coast, the Caribbean and even Africa.

Christopher's photographs appear in Destination I Do, Photo District News, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Dance Magazine, among many others. One of Christopher's images of Bruce Springsteen was recently added to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's celebrated photography collection.

And now you can enter to win a free engagement shoot with him!

Below is the info from Christopher Duggan,

By popular demand, I will be hosting the 4th Annual Spring FREE Engagement Day on Saturday May 15th right here in New York City's Central Park.

Our Engagement Day is designed for the couple who is looking for the right photographer for their wedding. It's not just a matter of hiring a photographer with a nice portfolio.

Our Engagement Day begins with cocktails and a meet and greet with Christopher on Friday evening. Manhattan location to be unveiled soon.
Here's what 10 couples will get on Saturday May 15th on location in Central Park:

 - A 30 minute minute experience with me creating natural, lifestyle portraits of the two of you. It's the perfect sampling of my signature style.

 - Professional hair & make-up artist on site to help keep you looking fresh and camera ready.

 - A chance to win a custom design Lovebook made of images from our Engagement Day 

 - Digital Negatives of images to use on Facebook, their wedding website or other on-line social media

"Christopher made the shoot completely enjoyable, relaxed and a good time.  Our engagement pics capture the fun and warmth of our relationship." - Mistina & Tony

Because of such limited space we can only accept couples who:
 - are engaged
 - are looking for the right wedding photographer
 - are getting married in the Tri-State area or are seriously considering taking their photographer to their destination weddingIn order to be considered, please email me at studio@thresholdvisions.com including the following:
 - wedding date
 - wedding location & venue
 - a current fun photo of the two of you
 - a few brief words about your story or your wedding plans

Submissions must be received by Friday May 7th in order to be considered.
The day will fill very quickly. Have your friends and family send their submission right away.

Can't wait to meet all the fabulous couples!        

For more info visit The Christopher Duggan Blog.
or call him at (888) 379-1359

Best of Luck! And tell him Lela New York sent ya!

TLC is looking to cast couples for a Wedding TV show

Hi Everyone!

TLC is looking to Cast for their season 2 of Four Weddings!
If your interested, and in the NYC, NJ, Connecticut area, see below.

***Just tell them Lela New York sent you :)***

New York Weddings Event Recap

SO, I went to attend the New York Weddings Event yesterday as press but also as a new bride :)

I was super excited to see so much creativity!!!

Enjoy!

Poppies and Posies beautiful Floral Display

Lauren Napier Weddings Make up

Beautiful cakes by Nine Cakes

100 Layer Cake Display with Lovely Bride Dresses

Mark Ingram Bridal Atelier

The fabulous Ron Ben Israel and his amazing cakes.

Beautiful Photos by: Jen Huang Photography. All iphone photos by me :)

NYC Wedding Event! - The Wedding Bootcamp and Dylan's Candy Bar

Join the Wedding Salon and Dylan's Candy Bar for a fun night of Yummy candy and makeup advice from Bobbi Brown Make up artists. Should be a great time!

To attend Just let them know that Lela New York sent you and register here.

Have fun!

The Upper Crust NYC - Great Wedding Local!

Last week I was able to attend a short film about 19 married couples who were interviewed on their wedding day experience at the Upper Crust. It was a cute film, but more than that it was a great opportunity to get to know this great wedding venue!

Here are some picts of the event!

To see the cute movie interviews of the couple's day click here.

The Upper Crust

91 Horatio Street

New York, NY 10014

212-691-4570

Fun Dance Lessons at The Wedding Bootcamp - it's tomorrow!

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to share with you guys this new event happening tomorrow!

It's a fun and free event for Lela New York Wedding Blog readers.

From complimentary dance lessons to yummy cupcakes it's a fun way to celebrate your engagement!

*** Don't forget to RSVP at The Wedding Salon and tell them Lela New York sent you ;)

and ENTER CODE: LRNYC for complimentary tickets***

xoxooxx

David Tutera's Book Launch Pictures

From left to right: Juliet and Sierra (Poppies & Possies), Lela (me), Jackie (Merci New York)

From Left to Right: Jackie (Merci New York), Lela (me), Juliet and Sierra (Poppies & Possies), Vanessa Coley (Topaz Events), Tammy Golson (Tammy Golson Events)

From Left to Right Jackie (Merci New York), David Tutera, and Lela (me),

Had so much fun at the David Tutera's The Big White Book of Wedding launch last week!

I wanted to share picts, hope all who attended had fun too! :)