When we put the call out for beautiful, colorful wedding shoes, we had NO idea how many incredible shoes would end up in our inbox. Even more amazing? Entire weddings planned around the colors found in the shoes! Just fabulous!

Amber Hughes, a wedding photographer in Vancouver, Canada sent in photos from Adrian & Dino’s Wedding, and we just couldn’t stop raving over them! How incredible are those blue Manolo Blahniks?

But even more stunning is seeing that blue repeated throughout all the details of their wedding day!

Adrian’s dress was custom made for her by Jill McKinnon, a dress maker of 25+ years, who lives on Westham Island in East Ladner. Adrian had fallen in love with a high end designer dress that was out of her budget, so she worked with Jill to create something similar but with her own unique twist. Having an experienced dress maker create your dress allows for the little details that make a dress special to be incorporated – her dress even included pockets, perfect for tissues!

All the bridesmaid dresses were custom made to each girl’s taste. What the couple did is purchase a huge bolt of fabric in the material they wanted and then sent each girl on their way to have a custom cocktail length dress made. The girls are from all over, so Adrian didn’t even see all of the dresses until the day before the wedding. I love how each dress so beautifully represents each girl, yet they all compliment each other so well!

They both got ready at their parent’s homes before the wedding.

The flowers were done by Michelle at Petals and Papery. She also handled the decor and wedding planning.

Their wedding ceremony was held at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Vancouver BC, and their reception was held at The Law Courts Inn, Vancouver BC.

Their wedding cake was made by Jill from The Uncommon Cake. Jill even made the cake dairy free for Adrian & Dino!

At the end of the night, Adrian and Dino did an amazing surprise salsa dance for their first trip around the dance floor as man and wife! Their DJ was John Mazzei. His father, Vick Mazzei, is a well known DJ in the local Italian community. When Vick was busy that night, John stepped in to help them out.

Be sure to check out Amber’s blog post about their wedding to see even more of the beautiful details from their day!

Did you have colorful wedding shoes? How did you incorporate them into your wedding? Let us know!

Aren’t these shoes stunning? Who says brides need to wear white shoes on their wedding day? Have fun with it! Photographer Hilary Mercer from Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina sent in this photograph of these lovely shoes. The bride will be wearing them on her wedding day in October, and they have planned their whole color scheme based on the blue in these shoes!

Stunning!

Lots of fun, funky, wild, and all around beautiful shoes coming up over the next few weeks – along with the gorgeous weddings to go with them!

Jackie Kennedy was an incredible influence on fashion while JFK was in office, and their wedding day was beautiful as well! Now LIFE.com is featuring exclusive never-before-published Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy photos in honor of her wedding anniversary to JFK. The editors share their favorite unpublished frames from the Camelot era as well as classic photos from the wedding day to celebrate the anniversary of the day she became a Kennedy on September 12, 1953.

There are also never-before-published shots from LIFEs famous coverage of John F. Kennedy’s stunning, stylish wife during their marriage and time in the White House. See photos of Jackie taken during the couple’s 10 years together and on their wedding day.

Ahhhh… the magic of old wedding photos. Don’t you just love looking through them?

Had a client who wore something fabulous and you want to show the photos off? Or are you a wedding planner who had a client build their whole wedding color palette around the shoes? Or best of all — you’re a bride or groom, and you want to share not only what you wore on your big day, but also the story behind it? Fabulous! We want to hear all about it!

You can send them all my way – christine@whollymatrimony.com – and over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring some of the amazing shoes! Think of it as Shoe September!

We’ll have a whole new look next week too – so be sure to come back and check it out!

Who doesn’t want to have a little tropical getaway for their wedding? Well here is your chance!

Wedding Paper Divas, makers of awesome Save the Date cards and unique Wedding Invitations wants you to have the destination wedding of your dreams! Fill out the form here for your chance to win a Gourmet Inclusive Destination Wedding from El Dorado Royale, a spa resort by Karisma!

This special package includes:

• A three-night stay in the luxurious bridal suite
• All meals served a la carte with premium drinks, 24-hour room service, a full-service concierge and beach butler service
• The Gold Wedding Package, including a photographer, wedding website, dinner reservations for the wedding party, a homemade wedding album, decorations, wedding planners, flowers and much more!
• Airfare for the bride and groom
• A $500 gift certificate to Wedding Paper Divas

Hurry! You have until 11:59pm (PT) on September 20, 2009. They will select the winner by a random drawing held within 15 days of the contest close date.

[via Aisle Be Your Guru.]

Kristel Wyman’s work always blows me away, but I have to admit that when I saw her photos from Tas & Diraj’s wedding, I was left gasping. They are truly, in every sense of the word, breathtaking. This post is very heavy with images, but can you really blame me? One of my all time favorite photographs is down at the very end.

Their wedding was a three day Indian wedding event in Vancouver, British Columbia. It started with a Mendhi Ceremony on the first day.

On the day of their wedding ceremony at the Mosque, Tas & Diraj made a point of having a lot of time set aside for portraits. Having a lot of creative, more editorial photographs was very important to them, and so they spent a lot of time planning with Kristel. Communicating what you want to your photographer is *so* essential! They will have great tips and advice to help you make the most of the day.

The third day of the wedding celebration was the reception, and these were the first photos I saw that left me blown away when I first saw them. *swoon!* Isn’t Tas’s Melissa Sweet dress incredible?

I love them all, but if I had to pick a favorite one, I think the one below would be it. This is Ali Milner performing at their reception at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Kristel’s vision of the world is just so incredible!

All photographs Copyrighted Kristel Wyman Photography and posted here with permission.

They currently live in Madrid, Spain. Alex is an amateur photographer who has an amazing appreciation for art, as does Belen.

The video below is from their wedding and was created by the amazing and super talented Joel Serrato of Joel Serrato Films. Joel traveled to Spain to create a Super 8mm Film for Belen & Alex, capturing the beauty of their wedding day. Super 8 is perfect for this wedding, as it gives everything a vintage, timeless feel. Just incredible!

Be sure to also check out the scenic Holga shots that Joel captured while traveling in Spain, and if you’re up for it, you can also watch his Super 8mm Film of Plaza de Toros de Malaga (warning: he rated it PG-13)

Thank you Joel for sharing their wedding with us, and best wishes to Belen & Alex as the start this journey of their life together!

The inspiration for Bride$hare™ started like this:

Way back when, Rebecca saw a blog post of mine lamenting the desire for paper lanterns to spruce up the space at my venue, and she contacted me to suggest we go in on them together and share them. That was just the beginning. Together, we were able to co-purchase and recycle many items from our weddings, which went perfectly with Hunter and my mission to both save green and be green in our wedding plans! In fact, the reception venue owner likes them so much, she might even buy them off of us after the fact and keep them up, which means future brides can benefit from them, too! My bridal karma meter must be off tha charts, son!

Hunter & Dana were married back in May, and in early July they went back to their same venue to enjoy their decor all over again – as guests at Rebecca & her husband’s wedding! Dana & Rebecca shared $4000 worth of expenses – saving them each $2000, AND doing something good for the environment by not buying duplicates of the same items!

Dana knew a great thing when she saw it, and has since set up the BrideShare™ site as a way for other couples to save money on their wedding plans and have a wedding with a smaller carbon footprint at the same time.

The Bride$hare™ site is described as part social networking and part wedding planning. Bride$hare™ offers brides the opportunity to team up and share the daunting task, and costs, of wedding planning while creating less waste – addressing three top priorities of brides’ current economy.

While Dana is getting most of the mad props in this post, I want to share some with her fabulous husband, Hunter, as well. Because he has to be supportive and wonderful to stand beside her as she took on creating Bride$hare™, but also because this video he made cracks me up *every* time I watch it. He is mad creative, I tell you!

Oh goodness! I always love a creative invitation, but this? This is just amazing!!! Who comes up with these things? Fabulous! Such an adorable video!