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After graduating from “Shenkar”, the leading fashion design school in Israel, Lihi Hod went to Paris to work at Dior, alongside fashion designer John Galliano. When she returned to Israel, and after working in many fashion brands, Lihi established her own signature studio in 2010, specializing in designing wedding dresses. These are her most beautiful …
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If you’ve been following along with my journey, you know that I chose to redesign my office space (see weeks 1-5 here!) for the One Room Challenge since I work from home for SMP. You probably also know that we were set to close our doors at the end of April. Well, thanks to Abby, Style Me …
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So many of the vendors behind today’s post have been a part of the SMP family for many, many years. I’ve had the sheer priveledge of watching them push their styles, develop their craft, grow and inspire and change this industry in ways that has had such a meaningful impact. While I’ve listed them all …
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Q: My fiancé and I are getting married this fall, so we are having a wedding shower over the summer in my fiancé’s home state. Her sister is also pregnant with a due date two months before the wedding, so there is going to be a new cutie in the family! However, her sister has …
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In case you’ve never heard us say this before, practical and pretty are not mutually exclusive. And our newest APW photographer, San Francisco Bay Area’s Grier Cooper Photography, is the dreamiest example of that yet. For starters she was a real-deal professional ballet dancer (as in San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and Pacific Northwest …
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Sarah + Matt met about three years ago at Detroit’s St. Andrews Hall during a show Matt was playing in. Sarah was on a date with another guy and when Matt set eyes on her, he did everything he could to get her attention. Their relationship was long distance for much of their time dating …
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First of all….You Guys!!! This is our first post since reacquiring Style Me Pretty and there are no words to tell you just how excited we are. You can read all about the Reboot right here. But you know what, rather than dwell in the past, I’m going to dive head first into our amazing …
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How do you choose a single wedding to start this new chapter for Style Me Pretty? Amidst all of the beautiful celebrations out there, how do you find the one that feels just right, the one that represents who we are and who we hope to become? It’s easy. You go back to the basics. …
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The day you sit down to write your wedding ceremony script is the day that it hits you: for something that can take as little as ten minutes, your wedding ceremony is a wildly important part of your day. After all, the ceremony is when you get married, and the act of marriage is why you’re …
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Content Warning: Rape I’m sure everyone can remember their sex-ed class: separated by gender, a pamphlet on all the ways your body will change, and how sex is only defined as hetero penetration. For me, these types of classes happened only one week out of the year, from ages ten to fifteen, and after that …
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