Thanksgiving nails in 2026 are warm, a little shiny, and happiest when they look like something you’d pass at the table: cranberry sauce red, gravy brown, sweet potato orange, a sliver of copper catching the candlelight. Chocolate brown has settled in as the season’s quiet-luxury neutral, and shimmer runs through nearly everything.

Glossy chocolate brown on most nails, then one sheer pink accent nail with tiny brown maple leaves and flecks of gold foil. It’s the little somethin’ somethin’ that makes a brown mani unmistakably Turkey Day.

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We sorted our 20 favorite sets by vibe so you can skip straight to yours: classic plaid and stripes, quiet-luxury neutrals, the funny ones, his-and-hers sets that coordinate without matching, and whole-family prints with the dog included. One practical note before you fall for a print: most retailers sell each partner’s set in individual sizes, so you’re adding two to cart, not one. And the cutest prints start selling out by early December. Order early. Twinning is winning, but only if both sizes are still in stock.

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In a room at Parc Broekhuizen painted the deep blue of a seventeenth-century canvas, a bouquet was made in the exact colors of the gown it was made for. Coral garden roses and mauve peonies run the same crimson-to-rose gradient as the silk, and bare budded twigs break past the edge the way the trees outside were just breaking into leaf. We could have stopped at that one frame and been happy. Lucky for us, there’s a whole floral workshop behind it, led by Ariella Chezar, produced by The Wedding Collab and photographed on film by Audra Wrisley.

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In partnership with Etsy. Every piece here was chosen by me, and all opinions are my own

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The aisle is the stepped floor of an old cinema in Da Nang, the altar is a circle of sand ringed with candles, and the words projected over it read THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Thy and Quoc had been together for nine years when they walked toward it.

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November nails have a job no other month’s manicure has: they end up in the photos. Passing the stuffing at Thanksgiving, clinking glasses at Friendsgiving, wrapped around a mug of cider at the first holiday party of the season, your hands are in the frame all month long. So the palette stays cozy (cranberry, chestnut, olive, cashmere camel) while the finish gets dressed up with velvet, a little gold, and a cable knit you can almost feel. From glossy cranberry on short, rounded nails to a single maple leaf on a milky base, here are 25 November nail ideas, plus the polishes to pull each one off at home. Let’s get into it.

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The wedding dress of Emily’s dreams didn’t exist, so she found the closest thing and had it dyed hot pink. Then she dyed the veil to match, twice, because the first pink was wrong.

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Plum, dusty blue, olive, mustard. On paper it’s a palette that shouldn’t hold together, and at Captain Whidbey it never once slips. The colors start on the invitation suite, hang as chiffon between the madrona trees, run down a long farm table where the fruit sits right on the wood, and end under a three-tier cake tucked into the curve of a giant painted moon.

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New York Bridal Fashion Week wrapped last week, and this season didn’t sort itself into a tidy trend report. No single silhouette swept the runways. What the week had instead was a handful of designers with a point of view so complete that a trend would only get in the way.

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If you’re planning on popping the question and are currently searching for the perfect engagement ring to #putaringonit, chances are you’ve hit the roadblock of how to measure ring size at home. And you’ve come to the right place! Here at GWS, we know that the process of figuring out ring size can be a liiiiiiitle confusing, so we invited the experts over at Diamonds Factory to break it down for you.

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Victoria and Serezha were friends for years, part of the same circle long before anything turned romantic, and Serezha eventually proposed on the oceanfront in Bali. When it came to the wedding, they knew exactly what they wanted: “bright, dopamine-filled, playful, and a little bit wild.” Victoria photographs weddings for a living and Serezha works in marketing and events, so a traditional look “was never really the goal.” What they built instead was a day centered on two giant swans, necks curved into a heart big enough to stand inside.

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Red cat eye nails are the red we’d book for the cold months, and October is exactly when to start. Take the classic red you’ve worn since high school, run a magnet over it, and the color stops sitting still: a band of light slides across each nail like a candle flame behind ruby glass. It’s the most dimensional way yet to wear the color behind our 38 red nail ideas for the year, and it carries from October through the holidays to the last gray week of winter without ever looking out of season.

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The best proposal ideas have almost nothing to do with budget and everything to do with whether your partner will recognize themselves in the moment. Below are 80 proposal ideas that run from the quietest to the most cinematic, sorted so you can find the one that fits who they actually are.

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Micarah Tewers wore three dresses on her wedding day, and she made every one of them herself. The reception gown, feathers and all, cost about $17. Then there are the shoes, which might be the sweetest detail of the whole day: Dan sculpted them into birds and finished them with feathers her pet bird had shed over the years.

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The best gifts for book lovers usually aren’t books. Reading taste is about as personal as it gets, and unless they’ve been circling one title for weeks, the hardcover you pick is a guess. A gift that makes the reading itself better is never a guess: the lamp, the blanket, the bath tray, the bookmark pressed with their birth flower. That’s the whole idea behind this guide, and it’s how you make the reader in your life feel like the main character in their own story.

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The brief Jordan and Charlie gave their planner was that guests should walk away feeling like the whole day had been “an absolute fever dream, like Jackie O. took a few hits of acid and then planned a garden party.” Alex of XO Moreau took that as a spec. The party started at 11 am under the wisteria at Woodbine Mansion in Austin, a drag queen officiated, a mimosa cart worked the tables, lion dancers brought the couple into the reception, and eight cakes Jordan made herself stood stacked on a giant cake-shaped display at the end of the dance floor.

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There is asparagus in the groom’s boutonniere. Florist Kylie Hale slipped it in among the white blooms, and once you know that, the rest of Tess and Connor’s day lines up behind it: a dietitian and a fellow foodie, a garden in Seattle, a four-course dinner cooked by the venue, and tables set with artichokes and grapes where the roses would usually go.

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Inês and Rodrigo had been married for five years before they threw the wedding. In Portugal, the fifth anniversary is Bodas de Madeira, the wooden anniversary, and the Brooklyn-based pair, she a Portuguese designer, he a visual artist, took it as their cue to bring their people to São Miguel, the Azorean island where Inês grew up, for three days they designed almost entirely themselves.

The food was by Espaço Quinta, a local caterer: a buffet of island fish and meat, salads, and a long grazing table of local cheeses and charcuterie. Plus those amazing pastry rings that guests could top up with caviar .

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An authentic antique ring is an object that literally cannot be replicated: diamonds cut by eye, a setting finished by hand, a maker long gone. That’s the pull of vintage engagement rings. You get a piece of history, and you get the only one of it.

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Held in White is a bridal editorial staged inside the roofless ruins of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vallsanta in Guimerà, Lleida. Vera Fleisner photographed it, and Maite Mach and The Perfect Match planned and designed it around one big idea: ivory drapery moving through the gothic arches like clouds, with the old stone left to do the rest.

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The Life of a Showgirl turned every Swiftie we know into a sparkle-and-feathers girl, and with the Encore keeping the era going, our guide to the best gifts for Swifties is updated for 2026 to match. So before anything goes in your cart: shopping for which Swiftie?

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Every figure on that wall began as a painting by Elena and Alexandr. The pink leopard, the moon with a face, the women in indigo and violet: all of it came out of their own sketchbooks.

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The best coffee bar ideas start with a location, not a mood board. If you’re working with a sliver of counter, one spare cabinet, or a bare wall, your coffee station can live in five places: a counter corner, a cabinet, a rolling cart, a dedicated nook, or your bedroom. Pick your space, then build the prettiest version of it.

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Your bouquet is on a 48-hour clock, so wedding bouquet preservation can’t be a decision you make from a hotel room the morning after, or from the gate before your honeymoon flight, while the flowers you spent months choosing wilt in a vase. Make the call months before the wedding, and the morning after is just logistics.

GWS Pro Tip: Once dry, mist the flowers with an unscented hairspray to protect their fragile petals.

GWS Pro Tip: Going professional? Book before the wedding, not after: a few months out for pressing and resin. The good ones book up fast.

GWS Pro Tip: Assign a bridesmaid as your Flower Preservation BFF. She gets the bouquet at the end of the night, the shipping box, and the deadline, so you can dance without watching the clock.

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