Charlotte Balbier's Stunning 2011 - Sneak Preview

Charlotte Balbier has done it again - her 2011 collection is truly stunning and is the largest to date. The new collection is a romantic mix of quintessential English designs in her "English Tea Party Collection" with the exotic romance of her Scillian roots and chic-ness of her French roots in the French Savoir Faire.

This stunning gown shown here is part of the Sabella Collection, named after her Sicilian Grandmother. This gown is called Olympia and you can see more of Charlotte's collection soon on our wedding website www.shelaghm.co.uk - so keep checking back!

Inject a bit of colour into your wedding dress!

I love, love, love this way of injecting colour into your wedding dress without veering away from the traditional white/ivory colour scheme, and they are becoming more and more popular!

Petticoats! Let's face it, wedding dresses all need them so why not have a bit of fun with yours and inject some colour into it. Chose a colour that co-ordinates with your bridesmaids' outfits or complements it.

Why not share your photos with us!

Trash the Dress or Rock the Frock

There is a rise in the phenomena that is "Trash the Dress" or "Rock the Frock" (I prefer the latter description) - but what exactly is it?

Allegedly started in 2001 "Trash the Dress" is an opportunity to get some really great edgy photographs of you in your wedding dress in settings that are in complete contrast to everything that a wedding dress symbolises.

When you think of a wedding dress you think of delicacy, and finery but place this in a setting that exudes harshness, rough terrain, mud and more and it is like putting salt on your cup cake!

But, it can be extremely artistic and produce some stunning photos though it is not for the feint hearted! If your wedding dress as a possession is important and you plan on keeping it for future generations, you may not want to go down this route!

Choose your photographer carefully - one of our favourites is Jose of J Cardoso Fotography. Jose's work is urban, contemporary and edgy as you can see from the photograph shown here. But don't take my word for it - go on over to J Cardoso Fotography and see for yourself.

Happy Planning

Nicky ♥

Donna Salado Collection - Featured on Mrs2Be.com

Mrs2Be is delighted to announce that we are now featuring Donna Salado's beautiful wedding dresses on our sister site shelaghm.co.uk

Donna, who has been nominated four times for "Designer of the Year" has turned her passion into a career which coupled with that ever so slightly 'risky' element of her personality is stamped firmly on the designs.

We will hopefully be able to bring you Donna Salado's stockists in the very near future too but in the meantime visit http://www.donnasalado.com/ for more information.

This beautiful wedding wedding dress featured here is Camrie from the Donna Salado Couture Collection.

ShelaghM Designer Samples For Sale

We have added some new ex-designer samples by the now retired wedding dress designer ShelaghM to our website.

If you are looking for a bargain wedding dress, then you must check these out. Starting from just £195 you can buy yourself a dress that would have retailed at £1,950!!! Amazing!

This particular wedding dress is in a pale gold with burgundy edging. An ideal winter wedding dress as it comes with a bolero jacket and long sweeping sleeves which give the gown a slightly celtic feel. This particular dress would have retailed at £2400 and is a size 12.

Be quick though, these dresses go quickly.