Buying an engagement ring is a huge purchase and if you haven’t bought a new car or house before this point it may be the biggest purchase y, ou have made yet. The range of styles and prices in engagement rings is endless. There are thousands of rings available from hundreds of retailers online (and [...]
Maybe Nordstrom has seen how Macy’s has lost so much of the Marshall Field’s mystique in bridal gown sales in Chicago and have found that if you have quality merchandise at reasonable prices, you can really do well in the wedding business.
I’ve seen two ads for Wedding Coordinators and Wedding Stylists for the Michigan Avenue Nordstrom store. I noticed [...]
I had the unthinkable happen a few weeks ago. I looked at my vintage heirloom engagement ring and noticed one of the small diamonds on the top was missing. I knew this was bad news and one of the things I feared when accepting the vintage ring from my mother in law and deciding to [...]
I recently read on TheKnot.com that pillbox hats are back in bridal style. I’m not sure what to do with this trend. I think hats can be very elegant, but they are not necessarily the best fashion decision for brides. Remember the 80’s? Big bridal hats with large floppy brims and veils were very popular then, as [...]
Choosing my wedding veil and how to wear my hair on my wedding day shouldn’t have been that difficult but it was. I wanted a simple short veil and a simple up-do hair style with a flowered hair clip on the side since I saw it in a Chicago Bride magazine and it looked simple and elegant. The veil [...]
I have had a lot of cold calls from telemarketers latley who seem to be getting my name and number from bridal stores trunk shows and wedding bridal expos. I understand that these companies may use my info to market to me but I did not expect them to sell my name in a database list to [...]
Deciding who will pay for what at your wedding in Chicago is one of the most important things to start figuring out when you get engaged. How much money you have to work with and who is taking part in the planning will determine a lot about what you end up doing. The thing is, money is [...]
The first step in our engagement process was to find and buy an engagement ring.
I went through many iterations of what I thought was a pretty engagement ring over the years, and as styles changed I came back to liking a very classic style. I was not sure what Steve was going to think of this since engagement [...]
Welcome to my blog: The Chicago Wedding and Bridal Blog by a real live Chicago bride. I just got engaged to my boyfriend Steve on Saturday 9/27/2008 and I am thrilled! I wanted to blog about the process that we are going through now to plan our wedding. It is also something I wanted to do because I wanted to [...]