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Grace Ormonde's Wedding Style Magazine Black Luxury Wedding Professionals For High End Celebrations

My joy and excitement is through the roof right now and I am truly struggling to find the words to express just how I feel at this latest...

Black Pound Day | Opportunity for Black Owned Bridal Shop to Gain Recognition and Raise Awareness

Cynthia Grafton-Holt

4 min

Black Pound Day | Opportunity for Black Owned Bridal Shop to Gain Recognition and Raise Awareness

Hello my lovelies, I hope you are all doing incredibly well and taking life one-day-at-a-time. Well what a week I have had. I could nev...

Simple Sophistication | Oxfordshire Barn Wedding

Cynthia Grafton-Holt

2 min

Simple Sophistication | Oxfordshire Barn Wedding

Whenever I get the chance to design a dress a for a countryside wedding, there are many factors to consider, such as the venue, whether i...

Cynthia Grafton-Holt

4 min

Amy's Upcycled Wedding Dress

How the Things That We Love Become Who We Are “Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue. Happy is the bride with ...

Cynthia Grafton-Holt

2 min

Tying the KNOT with TATLER Magazine

THE SOCIALITES GUIDE TO WEDDING PLANNING If the TYING THE KNOT WITH TATLER MAGAZINE team approached you and said that they would love to ...

A Dream of Swans: Fine Art Wedding Inspiration

Belinda Alvarado

3 min

A Dream of Swans: Fine Art Wedding Inspiration

The vision of this elegant and romantic bridal shoot is to provide inspiration for the Fine Art appreciating bride.

Top Talented Black Professionals @Brides.com

Cynthia Grafton-Holt

2 min

Top Talented Black Professionals @Brides.com

We have been added to The Most Talented Professionals in the Wedding Industry by Brides Magazine

Belinda Alvarado

4 min

Pink Ombre Wedding Inspiration

I am truly proud to share a little more of this incredible bridal shoot working together with the finest wedding suppliers.

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