Brides On My Mind

I love designing jewelry for a bride and her bridesmaids.  To be honest, it is one of the more challenging type of projects to take on, but the most rewarding.  I go through small worries or fears for the obvious reasons.  I want everything for the bride to be perfect.  I have had a nightmare where the jewelry breaks and the pearls go streaming all down the aisle as she walks down.
Or maybe since Billy and I decided to skip anything 'wedding' like and eloped barefoot on a beach in Kauai, I don't feel as though I can relate to a bride's stress of wedding planning...and therefore I am out of my league.  And yet I know what it is like to want to look and feel the most beautiful.  To want to feel the most comfortable in yourself when it comes to making such a truly big commitment to your partner in life in one day. 
But on the other hand, I absolutely love helping a woman look her absolute best on the most special occasion, most likely in her life.  I love gathering all the elements of a woman's life, style, and point of view and creating something wearably symbolic.  And of course nothing will be exactly perfect.  Perfection is almost unattainable with each detail for a bride and the wedding, like a painting that will never be quite finished.  Small mishaps could and most likely will occur in any event like this.  But what is perfect is all of the details of the wedding that come together for those moments that will be cherished forever.  That all the planning and time and care taken makes for such a memorable event for everyone attending (or in my case, not attending).

So here is a toast to my brides to be that I am currently designing for...(and I hope there will more by the way). A toast to love, beauty and a low stress wedding.  And that the jewelry will be as perfect as you are!