Street Stylin': The Wedding Wrap-Up

Wedding season has come to a close and as promised, here are some snaps of some outfits.

Wearing the Eve Gravel Melting dress at Danielle and Carl's wedding.


Accessorized with Melanie Favreau's As-tu-du feu? earrings, embroidered shawl, April Mayde hairpiece and heirloom brooch.


Wearing the Denis Gagnon purchased at Stylist's Own to Billy and Sandi's, accented with same earrings and brooch as above. Mila peep-toes from Cortina.


Bride Tanya is wearing a custom dress from Gloomth.


Anouk is wearing Montreal company Groggy.


Detail of Anouk's Groggy dress.


Anile wearing Anne Klein and some kick-ass black patent Guess heels.


Jenn wearing a Value Village find, La Canadienne boots and my Deborah Adams belt.


And I didn't forget the boys... they clean up rather well.


We found my partner-in-crime's much-complimented blazer five years ago at Value Village for $12.


Tanya and Steph had matching converse sneakers and Steph's whole lavender and plum outfit rocked the groom universe.

Wedding Weekend

My dear, dear friend Danielle is getting married this weekend and in between memorizing my reading during the ceremony and building up my alcohol tolerance, I have been putting together my outfit.

I am wearing Eve Gravel's Melting dress in grey with made-in-Italy peep toe heels in navy blue from Mila purchased at Cortina (7100 St Laurent).

For accessories, I have fashioned a belt from a strip of black satin and my man's grandmother's brooch, gifted to me by his aunt, along with the silver cuff. For my hair, I am wearing the Victoria black lace hairpiece from Montrealer aprilMayde.

To stay warm during the autumn nuptials, I have a beautiful embroidered shawl given to me by my family.

Street Stylin' Style Tip: Accessorizing for weddings

Adrienne came by to borrow some accessories for a wedding. She had found a gorgeous vintage-styled dress (at Gap, believe it or not) with a beautiful tiger lily print in white on royal blue. I couldn't believe how perfectly the Brazen Design Tiger Lily Necklace went with the pattern. To suit the style of the dress, we strung it on a very long diamond-cut ball chain and then paired it with Adrienne's own pair of Brazen Design Small Leaf Vein Earrings.



The key with accessorizing for weddings it keep it simple: go with one or two larger items than you would normally wear, instead of lots of small. Unless, of course, the wedding is a very formal affair in which case you can wear a full earrings/necklace/bracelet/ring set.

Street Stylin' Style Tip: Belts! Perfect for weddings.

If, like me, you have multiple weddings to attend before the summer draws to a close, you may be feeling it in your wallet. Buying gifts, travelling and needing multiple outfits per wedding really add up. Borrowing is a great way of making a great-looking one-time outfit that doesn't break the bank.

Nancy was in the same situation and so we had an accessory date. Belts were the focus, as we were trying to give shape to a gorgeous but shapeless Banana Republic dress found on super sale. We finally located the perfect one: my wide black leather belt with snap and puckered front detail (handmade from second hand leather in Montreal by Deborah Adams, available at Lustre Boutique). It matched the other pleats in the dress and instantly gave Nancy a flattering hourglass silhouette.

We also had fun dressing Nancy up in a variety of other belts to match her fantastic black tube/black skirt outfit that day. She left wearing a faux leather green wraparound that I picked up in NYC as well as an extra-wide purple leather made-in-Canada corset belt from Bedo.