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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Olive, lavender, chili red, and a peach that reads almost gold, all in one white rotunda under a brass ring chandelier. Nothing here matches, and that is completely on purpose. These colors were picked to argue a little, the way paint does on a palette before the painter commits, and the room was picked because it could handle the argument. So if your Pinterest board has three colors everyone keeps telling you don’t go together? Keep them. They might be the whole point.

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Red jelly nails are the manicure I keep catching in the light this fall. Take everything you love about a classic red and make it see-through: glossy, saturated, and just translucent enough that you can see your nail underneath, like cherry preserves held up to a kitchen window. The nail world has started calling the look “jammy,” and honestly, that’s exactly the word.

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The ceremony arch is a wave. Not a wave motif worked into a sign or a curl printed on the menu, but a cresting swell in teal, ridged the way water ridges right before it breaks, foaming at the crown and the base with a surf of dried cream blooms, and built on a beach in Da Nang so the actual sea sits right behind the sculpted one.

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An advent calendar for yourself might be the easiest splurge of the season to justify. Twenty-four small mornings of something good, before the inbox and before December gets loud. Nobody needs to know you bought it for yourself. Buy the good one, and buy it now … the good ones go fast.

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Some of my favorite wedding details are the ones nobody else ever sees. A locket tucked into the bouquet wrap. A note from Dad folded into the groom’s inside pocket. And lately, a tiny woven label stitched into the seam of a dress or suit, with a date, two names, maybe a line only the two of you would understand.

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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 day Catherine got engaged, she knew who was making her wedding dress. Molly Klemm is a theatrical and historical costumer and a friend from Catherine’s high school years, and the brief was a gown that would keep working long after the wedding was over. What Molly built is a pale blue off-the-shoulder ballgown with ruffled organza sleeves and a cascade of 3D flowers in blue, pink, and white running diagonally from neckline to hem. Underneath all that skirt is a romper, which is a story for later in this post.

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Halloween nails are at their best when they wink instead of shout. Think a milky base with one ghost on the ring finger, a black French tip sharp enough for a dinner reservation, or a blood drip done in deep crimson glitter. Full-on scary still has its place (hi, Ghostface), but the range is the fun part.

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Robin’s egg blue next to saddle brown. On a mood board it sounds like a nursery; on the veranda at Abbott Mansion, with a bronze satin curtain parted over a painted woodland, it reads like the wall of a hunt club. The equestrian theme shows up in the materials: leather browns, big-sky blues, and not a horseshoe in sight.

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“I had dreamed about my wedding for as long as I can remember. I wanted the day to feel romantic and almost otherworldly — the kind of celebration where, for one night, you feel like you’ve stepped into your own little world.”

Congratulations Yesi and Mitchell on your storybook wedding day full of glamour, whimsy, and endless love. Best wishes from all of us here at GWS!

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October nails are the first manicure of the year that’s allowed to go all the way dark, and this is the month to take advantage of it. September asked you to keep the summer finish and just deepen the pigment. October lifts the restriction. Oxblood, black cherry, cacao brown, and forest green are all fair game now, along with the tortoiseshell and leopard prints that make this the most fashion-forward month on the nail calendar. From a glossy oxblood almond to a single, very quiet spiderweb, here are 31 October nail ideas that make the whole month count, plus the polishes to pull each one off at home. Let’s get into it.

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Quiet luxury has spent the last few years getting quieter, and beiger, until it mostly meant oatmeal linen and a lot of restraint. This editorial at the Litchfield Inn in Connecticut takes the phrase back. The tailoring stays clean and the paper stays impeccable, and then the florals come off the columns and run all the way down to the grass.

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Halloween couple costume ideas have a way of arriving at the wrong time. You think of the perfect one in March, text your partner in all caps, and by the time the invite lands in September the whole thing has evaporated. So consider this your saved-for-later list for 2026: every duo we’d actually wear, with the exact pieces to buy for each one.

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Vy and Minh’s planners at The Story Packer didn’t start with colors, florals, or a mood board. They started with the couple: their running jokes, the objects they’d kept, the evenings they liked best, and a Korean BBQ dinner where she out-joked him all night. Two themes came out of it: Friends and tennis. So the end of the aisle is a full-size replica of Monica’s purple door from Friends, with a yellow frame, peephole frame and all, standing in a garden at New World Saigon Hotel. The tennis comes later, and there’s a lot of it.

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Sure Thing Chapel opened its Lower East Side location on September 3rd. Five days later, photographer Sylvie Rosokoff had Maithri and Taylor standing in front of its pink marquee heart, with a 1992 Bob Mackie between them and all that red velvet.

Hair stylist Gabrielle Kim gave Maithri a sleek low bun as a nod to Degas’s ballerinas, then let a spray of white feathers loose at the back of it. The feathers are the first appearance of a motif Sylvie threaded through the day. Nine Orchard has a Swan Room, and there are swan benches outside the hotel, and so the shoot got swans. Feathers in the hair. Jeffrey Campbell’s white feathered kitten heels, which fan up past the ankle like a pair of wings. The swan necklace. And, later, swans on the cake.

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