We want MOORE!!!

Mimosas, fresh whipped cream and berries, and home made croissant sandwiches... a yummy way to spend Black Friday!! The Winter Park store featured Moore Fine Foods today as Brides took advantage of our 20% Off Thanksgiving Sale. What a pleasure it was to have Mr. Kevin Moore serve up goodies and meet our brides! We enjoyed him so much we invited him back again tomorrow. Come bright and early at 10:30am tomorrow Saturday, November 28th to taste his treats and find your gown! I promise, you'll leave wanting Moore :)

Models Needed!

Solutions Bridal is looking for runway models for our Florida Bridal Expo January 31st, 2010 at the University of Florida Hilton in Gainesville. In order to choose our models we will be holding a casting call on Friday, December 11th. No prior modeling experience is necessary, just lots of energy and a great attitude! Sample gowns are typically bridal size 10/12, which compares to a normal dress size 6/8. Height 5'7" and above is also recommended. If you are interested please contact our fashion show director at solutionsbridal@gmail.com.

Solutions Bridal Hearts Jim Hjelm & Jemma Coleman!!

This past Saturday, Solutions Bridal in Gainesville held a trunk show for the brand new Fall 2009 Jim Hjelm Bridesmaid Collection. The dresses were gorgeous, and we had so many fun brides and bridesmaids in the store during the day! We also had Jemma Coleman and her husband David, local Gainesville wedding photographers, in the store to capture the moments of the day!! Check out these compilations of images she made for us... we love them! Aren't Jemma's pictures gorgeous? They definitely captured our Trunk Show beautifully!

Attention SB Brides!

We are in the process of compiling a scrapbook to display at the Florida Bridal Expo January 31, 2010 and we need your help! We want you to share your Solutions experience with all of our future brides. Any stories, wedding advice, or pictures from your wedding day would be greatly appreciated! You can mail your message to 6450 SW Archer Rd., Suite 230, Gainesville, FL 32608 or e-mail us at solutionsbridal@gmail.com. As a special thank you for your help you will receive $25 toward any accessory or gown cleaning/preservation!


Photo courtesy of Footstone Photography

Guide to Style

The cover of Bridal Guide features one of the several new pieces from the Lori London Spring collection. With flowers being the hottest trend, its no surprise Lori London was picked the designer for this fashion shoot. Both Solutions Bridal carry the Lori London line and will be hosting a Spring Trunk Show. Make sure to call your local SB to schedule an appointment to try on this flower piece and many others!

New Moon Ticket Winners!!

It's time to announce the winner of the tickets to see New Moon!

We used a very complex random generating process from Random.org involving randomly selecting a vendor who has a blog/facebook/twitter, randomly selecting one of those from the vendor, then randomly selecting a commenter/retweeter. Ahhhhhh! After all that, winners have been selected and will be contacted by the vendor they commented on. :)

From Posh Pastry’s Blog: Kaci Tetstone
From Pure’s Twitter: Amanda (SwoonOverIt)
From Unique Design’s Blog: Kathy (KB Cakes)
From My Facebook: Shanna Dixon

Shanna is one of my brides here at Solutions, so I was so excited to tell her the good news when she stopped by to pick up her gown yesterday!

Congrats to all of the winners!!

Gift of thanks for all of our amazing clients...

Loving these pictures!

Wow, wow and more wow! We got the files of the pictures back from the Adore photoshoot with Footstone photography. They are absolutely stunning! We cannot wait to hear more about excting new things with both of these amazing companies! Here are some of our favorites of our lovely consultants in Solutions dresses!

Real Wedding: Michelle & John Dill

Michelle and John are the ultimate Solutions Bridal couple! We helped with the gown, accessories, bridesmaid dresses and tuxedos. During all of this, we really got to know the couple. We even got to see Michelle the day after as she dropped off the tuxedos. (Note to wedding planners: please include this in your services)

Their photos just went up on Damon Tucci's blog!

Wedding Chicks Feature

Check us out on Wedding Chicks! The Twilight photo shoot was snagged for feature on this couture bride-loving blog.

Real Wedding: Sara & Mark

I was so excited to pictures from one of our favorite Gainesville brides this week over on the Rob Witzel Photography blog! Sara and Mark's wedding at the Sweetwater Branch Inn was absolutely gorgeous. They look like they had so much fun! Sara looked amazing in her beautiful dress from Watters bridal that she customized by adding extra fabric to create cap sleeves. Her bridesmaids dresses were from Watters bridesmaid line. They perfectly complemented the beautiful boquets that were done by Prange's Florist. The wedding was coordinated by Adore Weddings and Events. We are so happy to have been a part of this amazing couple's big day, and wish them happiness in their new life together!

Alvina Valenta at TWILIGHT

Due to a slight obsession, {Unique Designs} wanted to create a Twilight wedding invitation, an idea which blossomed into a full concept design and shoot. The intent was not to replicate Bella & Edward’s wedding, which was actually an Anne of Green Gables dress and was filled with white flowers, but to make another wedding style based on the mood and concept of Twilight. To acknowledge Edward’s personality, we chose a dramatic look with bold flowers, strong reds, and splashes of black feathers. To incorporate Bella, we wanted to take a vintage twist which can be seen in the creams, vintage brooches, and antique lace.

Now how did Solutions Bridal play into this fabulous photoshoot? We handpicked the gorgeous Alvina Valenta antique lace gown that "Bella" wore during the shoot! This gown is actually a top favorite among the bridal consultants at the store, so we were thrilled to have it featured in such an amazing concept photo shoot!

A HUGE canvas of one of these images will soon be hanging in our Gainesville store! You'll have to stop by later this month to see which one was chosen. ;)

**TWILIGHT GIVEAWAY!**
All of the vendors are coming together on this one! Post comments on this post, Twitter, Facebook, other vendor blogs, the Wedding Chicks blog, basically anywhere you can find the Twilight photos, and you will be entered to win one of four pairs of tickets to see New Moon!!!

Now for the best part...

Who were these amazing Gainesville wedding vendors?!?

Concept & Event Stationery - Unique Designs www.daretobunique.com
Photography - Pure: Photography by Lindsey Tropf www.purebylindsey.com
Concept Designer: Flowers & Tablescape - Event Divas www.theeventdivas.net
Cake - Posh Pastry www.poshpastry.com
Hair - Stephanie & Lonie Carpenter from Mode Salon www.amodesalon.com
Makeup - Sarah Hunter from Mode Salon www.amodesalon.com
Accessories - Kari Roy http://www.kariroy.net/

Female Model - Chanel Bird chanelb17@aol.com
Male Model - Bobby Swan
Wedding Dress - Solutions Bridal www.solutionsbridal.com {That's us!}
Tux - Tuxedo Junction www.tuxedojunction.com
Linen Rentals - Celebration’s Catering www.celebrations-catering.com

We ADORE this New Company!!

So the cat is out of the bag today... Avie Weddings and Events has now become Adore Weddings and Events. Their name change would not be complete without a complete rebranding, which we were so excited to be a part of! Three Solutions Bridal Consultants- Lauren, Hilary and myself, are the faces of the new Adore marketing campaign!! And best of all, during our photoshoot we got to show off a few of the gorgeous Solutions Bridal gowns!

Adore's brand new blog was released today as well as three pictures of us that we couldn't wait to share with everyone!! More pictures and info about the new company will be available later this week when their full website is launched.

Check out the photos below, and then visit the live version here.

Exciting things with our Fav Vendors!

Our friends over at Avie have some exciting new things going on!

Debut of the suprise is coming out Monday! Be on the look out!!