Grooms and Groomsmen: Hot Wedding Wear Trends

 

Let's take note of some grooms and groomsmen attire trends that we're really loving. First - in the photo above and just directly below - I'm loving the color burst in the shirt, the polka-dot handkerchief square, the colorful bow tie, mad-patterned socks, and slender-cut contemporary suit. Click on each photo to see more images from these weddings.

Look at the next two sets of photos (see below), and you'll see the bow tie trend continue, topped off with suspenders, a Gatsby-like white ensemble, and black suspenders with natty black casual shoes.

Thanks to 100 Layer Cake for their beautiful photographs, posts, and wedding inspiration. 100 Layer Cake is a unique, comprehensive wedding planning resource for and by thoughtful, crafty modern women. Their vendors, projects, weddings, resources, sponsors, and marketplace are hand-picked and thoroughly researched with the hope that every single one is a truly unique addition to both your wedding and your planning process. Visit the 100 Layer Cake website today.

If you're interested in learning more about wedding planning, we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Sheffield Jewelry Tool Give Away

To be entered into the Sheffield jewelry blog give away, for the chance to win this Mandrel 4X tool by Bead Smith, leave a brief comment below telling us who your favorite jewelry designer is and why. Who inspires you to want to make jewelry of your own? I know it can be impossible to pick just one, for some people, so it is ok to pick more than one. Enter by leaving your brief description in the comments of this post, with email so we can contact you, letting us know who inspires you and why you are inspired in order to be entered to win.

The winner to receive this multi shape mandrel as a gift from us will be selected, at random, 6pm Monday May 6th, 2013. 

With this multi shape mandrel you will be able to form wire into several shapes creating jump rings, toggles, pendants, earrings, scrap book embellishments and more. 

• Select the mandrel shape you want and insert it into the handle.

• Attach wire to desired size level on mandrel.

• Make round loops in 8 different sizes, oval loops in 4 sizes, square loops in 4 sizes and triangle loops in 6 sizes.

• After forming be sure to harden with Plastic Hammer and Bench Block to hold shape firmly.

GOOD LUCK!!

Look forward to hearing from you!

If you're interested in learning more about jewelry design, we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Update on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 12:33PM by Sheffield Admin

Congratulations to our Sheffield jewelry tool winner Lori Wilson!!

Lori will be receiving her new mandrel in the mail soon!

Thank you for all of your input, the answers were absolutely great to read! We randomly select a winner by picking a name out of a hat. There will be more opportunities coming up to enter to win jewelry making tools and other jewelry making items. Check in to the Sheffield blog regularly so you don't miss them.

Event Planning: This Baby Shower Is Modern and Sophisticated

We assume you’re all familiar with Max and Margaux Wanger? The beautiful duo behind Max & Friends? Yes, well, they’re having a baby boy in a few weeks (who will also undoubtably be gorgeous), and lucky for all of us, the ladies of Bash, Please threw them a sweet little shower to celebrate. It’s simple and perfect and really all that anyone needs to properly shower a mama-to-be with love. And pressies.

Nothing that screams BOY, but it’s seems like the little mister would feel right at home here.

Cute cake from Charm City Cakes West, no?

Love this idea for a baby shower game! And hey, if any of you have ideas, feel free to share in the comments. Bet M+M would appreciate it. And dreaming up baby names is such a fun way to pass the time.

Event Credits

Design, Planning, Florals: Bash, Please / Photography: Jenn from Our Labor of Love  / Cake: Charm City Cakes West / Food: Whoa Nelly / Invite: Bash, Please / Glassware: Casa de Perrin

Many thanks to 100 Cake-let, the best Family Blog on the planet, for allowing us to share this wonderful post with our readers! Also visit 100 Layer Cake, the best Wedding and Event Blog on the planet.

If you're interested in learning more about event planning and decor, we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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On the Radar: NYCx Design Week

View of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan

New Yorkers are gearing up for a big city-wide design month in May called NYCx Design.  Different venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens including galleries, museums, warehouses, and stores, will offer access to current designers across several fields. 

The Collective Design Fair will kick off the design month on May 8th at Pier 57, a huge industrial space.  The Collective, comprised of designers, curators, gallery owners, and collectors, founded and curated this design fair to showcase contemporary art and design. Some of the exhibitors will include:

• 21^st Twenty First – will present limited edition furniture.
• Casati Gallery – will show mid-20th century Italian furniture.
• Modernity –a leading design gallery in Northern Europe will display mid-century Scandinavian furniture – including those of Hans Wegner, Alvar Aalto.
• Wexler Gallery - showing fine art, sculpture, glassworks, and furniture

Ecosystems sofa-tableBrooklyn Designs begins their annual exhibit on May 10-12. Held at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The show will display local designers of furniture, lighting, and accessories. In the above photo, Brooklyn-company, Ecosystems, displays their versatile furniture called the BADA - a table that transforms into a sofa - great for tight spaces. 

City museums are presenting special exhibits as well:  Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) offers After the Museum: The Home Front starting on May 10^th. This show will examine the museum’s role in presenting design to the public and how it could change. The MOMA offers an exhibit on applied design until Jan. 31, exploring the many diverse areas a designer may choose to work in – including video games, bioengineering, consumer products and furniture.

For more events and information, please check out the NYCx Design website. 

Interested in learning more about interior design?  Take a look at Sheffield School's Complete Course in Interior Design.  At Sheffield, you will learn how to transform a space, create color schemes, and select furniture, lighting, and accessories.  

Jewelry Designers Should Be Avid Jewelry Collectors

The Carrotbox is a site dedicated to all those wonderful rings made of glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite, metal, and even stone. Alice Matsumoto from Vancouver, BC, Canada has a ring shop and has kindly given us permission to inspire our jewelry lovers at Sheffield with her discoveries. But unlike past posts, I wanted to share some of the rings in her own personal collection. She ingeniously enables people to click on a color to see her sorted-by-color ring collection, and they've certainly helped to inspire her own jewelry designs. Here are a few colors in her amazing ring collection.

I'm green with envy over Alice's collection of green rings.
 

Alice has only taken 333 photos of rings in her collection - but she has countless more to take!
 

Some of Alice's own ring designs - diverse, unique, playful.

Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

Request a free Sheffield School catalog describing our distance education courses.

Subscribe to the Sheffield Designer newsletter.