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Celebrities In Style

We have spotted some celebrities dressed up in gorgeous gowns that can also found in our very own showroom! Our favorite is Jimmy Fallon on the Ellen show wearing Daymor!

~ Blake Fintz

 

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Royal Wedding Mother of the Bride Dress 2011: Blake and Company Blog

mother of the bride dressSo, as it turns out, the most famous wedding dress of the millennium, Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress, has been designed by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen.   The wedding dress was selected because of its fine craftsmanship, beauty and because it is a product of Britain.

The dress itself featured a hand-engineered lace floral design.  Ivory satin material adorned the bodice.  The dress took several workers hours and hours to create.

However, while the wedding dress was spectacular, there is another outfit that caught our attention here at Blake and Company.  The outfit that caught our attention is the one worn by Carole Middleton, the mother of the bride.

The mother of the bride outfit was a beautiful sky.  Apparently, it turns out that the mother of the bride changed her mind at the last minute and ditched the mother of the bride outfit designed by designer Lindka Cierach.  It is rumored that after several months and several secret fittings, the mother of the bride, Carole Middleton, opted for a different mother of the bride outfit leaving the original mother of the bride designer stunned.

It is predicted that as the Royal Wedding was being broadcast, mother of the bride dress designers and wedding dress designers were busy making replicas.  It is highly likely that similarly styled designs will be featured in the months to come.

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what Blake and Company’s NYC wholesale dress showroom has to offer.  We invite you to visit us at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of Mother of the Bride dresses that we have on display.

Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Designer Announced? Who is the Designer of Kate Middelton’s Wedding Dress?

who-is-kate-middletons-wedding-dress-designerThe Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is just weeks away and there is still much speculation as to who designed the wedding dress.  It seems that the Royal Family still has not confirmed it publicly, but insiders think that Libélula designer Sophie Cranston is the special occasion dress designer of choice.  Middleton has worn other Cranston designs in the past, and may have chosen Cranston for what some are calling the the most influential special occasion dress of the century.

Some special occasion dress insiders speculated that the designer Kate Middleton chose would be either Sarah Burton, Bruce Oldfield or Alice Temperley.  Here at Blake and Company, we were rooting for Daymor Couture, Damianou, Ideas by Barbara, SIA SIA, Scaravelli, JSS Knitwear or VM by Mori Lee

It is also predicted that there will be more than one dress just in case something happens to the first dress.  It is speculated that the designer has not been officially named is to protect the designer from a media frenzy.  You just can’t pay for that kind of publicity in the world of special occasion dress designers.

It is a huge responsibility to create such an unforgettable gown that is certain to be seen by billions around the world.  This special occasion dress is sure to be emulated and immortalized in royal and fashion history.

There are only 2 weeks left before the Royal Wedding and the fashion world waits with baited breath for the special occasion dress of the century to be unveiled.  Bridal industry and special occasion dress insiders predict Middleton’s gown to be replicated many times over as soon as the world gets its first glimpse.

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what Blake and Company’s NYC wholesale dress showroom has to offer.  We invite you to visit us at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of Mother of the Bride dresses that we have on display.

What Special Occasion Dress Will Be on the Auction Block in London?

Special Occasion DressPlenty of special occasion dresses will be on display at Kate Middleton’s wedding to Prince William – but there will only be one mother of the bride dress.  There is another dress that is making news and it’s not what you may expect.

It’s not a mother of the bride dress or a special occasion dress.  Instead, what is making a buzz is the sheer slip of a dress that Kate Middleton was wearing the night that she first caught Prince William’s eye.  Middleton wore this ‘dress’ that was designed by a design student Charlotte Todd to appear in a fashion show at Saint Andrew’s University.

Middleton wore this ‘dress’ and caught Prince William’s eye.  He immediately began the pursuit of Middleton.

The garment had been stuffed in a closet for years and is now on the auction block.  It will go up for bid in London on March 17th

When the couple announced their engagement in November 2010, Todd was quoted as saying she couldn’t imagine parting with the valuable royal artifact, but she’s had a change of heart.

The dress goes up for bid at La Galleria in London’s Pall Mall on March 17, where its estimated to fetch as much as $16,000.

Middleton wore a black special occasion dress to a friend’s wedding in January and was criticized by the UK press for being too thin and for wearing an ‘unroyal’ black special occasion dress.

Stay tuned to find out more about the wedding of the century and what it means to the special occasion dress industry.

It is important to stay on top of the latest fashion trends, while also staying true to the classics.  If you want your special occasion dress clients looking their best, be sure to visit Blake and Company’s New York special occasion dress and mother of the bride dress showroom.

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what Blake and Company’s NYC wholesale dress showroom has to offer.  We invite you to visit us at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of Mother of the Bride dresses that we have on display.

Special Occasion Dress Blog: Wedding of the Century: Update

Mother of the Bride DressesDo you have your special occasion dress ready for the wedding of the century?  Well you’d better keep your eyes on the mailbox… It has been announced that Britain’s Prince William and bride-to-be Kate Middleton have mailed out the wedding invites to their hotly anticipated royal wedding.  If you are one of the approximately 1,900 guests lucky enough to have received an invite, then you’d better start looking for a dress.

Daymor Couture special occasion dress collection is sure to have something to offer to even the most fashion conscious shoppers.  As you walk St. James’s Palace why not try out a Scaravelli special occasion dress?  While mingling with European royalty and diplomats a Damianou special occasion dress would be a wise choice.

It is unclear as to whether or not Elton John, a friend of Lady Diana or Kanye West, a favorite of Prince William will receive invites.

It has been announced that David Beckham and his wife Victoria are officially on the royal guest list. One can only imagine that beautiful special occasion dress that Victoria will select.

If you don’t end up getting an invite, that doesn’t mean you can’t take your special occasion dress to the streets.  Ordinary well-wishers will be allowed to watch Middleton arrive at Westminster Abbey and leave with her new husband, Prince William in a horse-drawn carriage in a parade through the center of London to Buckingham Palace.

If you don’t want to make the trip to London, you can join the millions who will watch the ceremony and celebrations on live television.

It is rumored that there will be a giant screen installed in Trafalgar Square.

There will be plenty of special occasion dresses on hand as over 600 guests will attend a lunch reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by the queen, and 300 guests will attend the formal wedding dinner and dance at the palace.

Even if you don’t receive an invitation, remember that Blake and Company’s New York Wholesale Dress showroom has plenty of great deals on a variety of beautiful wholesale dresses!  Come and see our mother of the bride and mother of the groom dress collections for yourself!

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what our dress designers have to offer.  We invite you to visit our wholesale dress New York Showroom, located at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of dresses that we have on display.

Expensive Celebrity Weddings: Look Like a Million Bucks Without Spending a Million Bucks! Visit Blake and Company’s New York Wholesale Special Occasion Dress Showroom

Special Occasion Dress Showroom NYExpensive weddings mean plenty of special occasion dresses and a mother of the bride dress that is extraordinary.  One of the most expensive weddings in years took place in 2010 in New York as Chelsea Clinton and Mark Mezvinsky exchanged wedding vows.  Mother of the Bride Hillary Clinton was decked out in a gorgeous mother of the bride dress that was featured in a previous Blake and Company special occasion dress blog entry.

The Chelsea Clinton wedding cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $3 million.  When you consider that the average US wedding costs approximately just 10% of that at $30,000 just imagine the number of special occasion dresses on hand.  Aside from Hillary’s mother of the bride dress you can bet that there were many celebrities and dignitaries on hand for the festivities. 

Guests wore special occasion dresses by the dozens!  However, there was only one mother of the bride dress.  You can bet that Hillary did everything in her power to get a special occasion dress that would help her look her best.

If you want your special occasion dress clients looking their best, be sure to visit Blake and Company’s New York special occasion dress and mother of the bride dress showroom.

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what Blake and Company’s NYC wholesale dress showroom has to offer.  We invite you to visit us at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of Mother of the Bride dresses that we have on display.

Mother of the Bride Dress More Anticipated than Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress

While all of England and possibly the whole world wait for one of the most anticipated celebrity weddings of the year – new details have been released.  Kate Middleton has not announced who will design her bridal dress or the mother of the bride dress, but Palace officials have announced that Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will preside over the April 29th, 2011 11:00am wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

While special occasion dresses for the bridal party have not been selected as of yet – it is known that the royal couple will travel from the wedding at Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace by carriage.  The festive wedding procession will take place as the carriage passes by several of London’s major landmarks.

The carriage route will go through Parliament Square, Whitehall, Horse Guards Parade and the Mall.  The route is likely to be packed with revelers and well-wishers hoping to catch a glimpse of the newlyweds.  Upon arrival at Buckingham Palace, the couple is expected to make a brief appearance on the balcony.

Once the couple greets the crowd from the balcony, next on the agenda is a star studded royal wedding reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by Queen Elizabeth II, William’s grandmother.

The guest list will be an assortment of royals, celebrities, family and friends all dressed to impress in the latest special occasion dresses of the season.  One can only imagine how many honeysuckle special occasion dresses will be in attendance.

There will be a need for several special occasion dresses to be worn on that day because Prince Charles will also host a dinner and dance for his son William and his new bride that evening at Buckingham Palace. The couple’s closest friends and family will be invited and you can bet that not one of them will be caught dead wearing the same special occasion dress that they wore to the daytime wedding reception.  This is a chance for special occasion dress wholesalers to really rack up!

Further details are to be announced as the wedding date gets closer.

You can bet that the wedding dress and wedding dress designer that Kate Middleton selects will have an impact on the fashion world – specifically the special occasion dress industry.  Here at Blake and Company, all eyes will be focused on a dress that is more important than the wedding gown – the mother of the bride dress.

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what our dress designers have to offer.  We invite you to visit our wholesale dress New York Showroom, located at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of dresses that we have on display.

In the Special Occasion Dress Industry 3 Weddings are Better than 1: Just Ask Shania Twain!

Special Occasion Dresses NYCWe knew that 2011 would be a big year for celebrity weddings and special occasion dresses… and 2011 began on Saturday, January 1st with the first celebrity wedding of the year!  That’s right, Shania Twain got things started off on January 1st 2011 as the country star tied the knot with Swiss Nestle executive Frederic Thiebaud.  But it is doubtful that anyone was drinking hot chocolate as the wedding was held in sunny Puerto Rico (no passport was necessary).

Besides the wedding dress, the wedding had its share of quality special occasion dresses.  While there were just 40 of their closest family and friends, there were not too many special occasion dresses on hand – but the quality of those being worn by the guests in attendance must’ve been spectacular.

At Blake and Company’s New York City wholesale mother of the bride dress and special occasion dress showroom, we’re wondering if any of the guests opted to welcome 2011 with the first honeysuckle special occasion dress of the year.  One thing is for sure – Marie-Anne Thiebaud wasn’t dressed in a special occasion dress for the wedding.  In case you didn’t know, Marie-Anne Thiebaud is the ex-wife of Shania Twain’s new husband.  But, it gets even stranger than that – Marie-Anne Thiebaud was Twain’s long time assistant who had an affair with and later married Twain’s first husband, Robert Lange.

So, in an example of truth being stranger than fiction – in essence, the two couples switched partners.  Anyway you cut it, in the special occasion dress industry – this is good news – it means 3 weddings – and that means triple the special occasion dresses!

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what our dress designers have to offer.  We invite you to visit our wholesale dress New York Showroom, located at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of dresses that we have on display.

Mother of the Brides Celebrate in Style in 2010

As we look forward to 2011 and all of the celebrity weddings, mother of bride dresses and special occasion dresses, we also look back at 2010.  Of all the Mother of the Bride dresses in 2010, Hillary Clinton wore the most famous of all mother of the bride dresses of the year.  But, there were plenty other mother of the bride dresses out there in 2010. 

Here are the top 10 celebrity weddings of 2010:

1. While Democrats and Republicans don’t always see eye to eye, everyone agrees that Hillary Clinton’s mother of the bride dress stole the show this year.  The Mother of the Bride, Clinton wore a gorgeous Italian gown with floral detailing by Oscar de la Renta.  The Mother of the Bride dress design was modern and unique in its shoulder coverage.  Hillary Clinton showed that a Mother of the Bride can be bold as she donned a bright raspberry colored mother of the bride dress.

2. Supermodel Coco Rocha’s wedding to interior designer James Conran must have brought out a plethora of special occasion dresses.  The guest list no doubt included a long list of beauties from Rocha’s modeling agency.  Her mother, Juanita, is a flight attendant and must have looked gorgeous in her mother of the bride dress.

3. Hilary Duff’s wedding to pro hockey player Mike Comrie was a huge event.  Her mom, Susan Colleen surely looked wonderful in her mother of the bride dress.  The event was reported packed with plenty of celebrities in extravagant special occasion dresses.

4. American Idol star and country singer Carrie Underwood also married a pro hockey player – Mike Fisher.  Carole Underwood, an elementary school teacher, most likely chose a traditional mother of the bride dress.

5. Siren Megan Fox’s wedding to 90210 star Brian Austin Green was super-low key.  The only witness at their beach wedding ceremony was Green’s 8 year old son from a previous marriage.  No word on whether or not the mother of the bride even made it to the wedding ceremony or not.  In fact, there were more security guards than guests at the reception so special occasion dresses were probably at a minimum.

6. Nicole Richie’s wedding to Joel Madden was an event complete with a live elephant.  One can only imagine what the mother of the bride dress looked like and how many amazing special occasion dresses were present.

7. “The Bachelor” Jason Mesnick wed winning contestant Molly Malaney – and the wedding was aired on television.  The mother of the bride dress was stunning and there were plenty of special occasion dresses on board for the gala event.   

8. Grammy award winning artist Alicia Keys wedding to music producer Swizz Beatz was a site to be seen as the two tied the knot at a destination wedding in the Mediterranean.  No doubt the mother of the bride was decked out in a gorgeous mother of the bride dress.  Guests were outfitted in the latest style special occasion dresses of the season!

9. VH1 host La La Vazquez wedding to NBA pro Carmelo Anthony was aired on a special five-part VH1 series “La La’s Full Court Wedding”.  Mother of the bride was dresses in the latest fashions as were the dozens of guests wearing fashionable special occasion dresses.

10. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden’s bridal ensemble included a veil worn by her mother on her wedding day.  The royal wedding to Daniel Westling was aired on live television and featured a mother of the bride dress that was fit for a Queen – literally!  The number of special occasion dresses was too much to count.

2011 should be a huge year for celebrity weddings with Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton lined up to take honors of celebrity wedding of the year!

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what our dress designers have to offer.  We invite you to visit our wholesale dress New York Showroom, located at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of dresses that we have on display.

Is Jessica Simpson Planning a Secret Christmas Wedding?

Special occasion dresses and mother of the bride dresses on Christmas?  Christmas Day isn’t really a popular wedding day – but rumors were circulating that Jessica Simpson was going to marry fiancée, Eric Johnson on Christmas Day.

Mother of the Bride Dress

Jessica Simpson with Mom Debbie Simpson.

Whether or not the rumors are true, it will be interesting to see what the bride decides to wear.  The bride wore a Vera Wang dress for her first wedding to Nick Lachey but says she wants to keep it simple this time around.

When it comes to special occasion dress designs, Simpson may select a vintage lace gown, or she may go with something to show off her hourglass shape.  Based on her taste, Simpson has gone for pastel shades in the past when seen in special occasion dresses.  Maybe she’ll choose something pastel for her bridesmaids and mother of the bride dresses.

Perhaps a pale grey would suit Simpson’s style and she may go in that direction when helping her mom choose the mother of the bride dress.

When sister Ashlee Simpson wed rocker Pete Wentz, the mother of the bride dress was black as were the bridesmaid special occasion dresses.  It seems that Jessica would want to do something original, so my prediction is that a black mother of the bride dress is out of the question.

Regardless of what Jessica Simpson’s mom wears, the wedding is sure to be a fashionable event with plenty of the latest special occasion dresses on display.

To be certain that your clients look their best at the special occasions of this season, be sure to see what Daymor Couture and the rest of our dress designers have to offer.  We invite you to visit our wholesale dress New York Showroom, located at 530 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 or give us a call at 212-869-5959.  Our wholesale dress sales representatives would love for you to come see the amazing lines of dresses that we have on display.