Savannah Wedding Planning and Bridal Boutique: Ivory and Beau: wedding dress

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

SIMPLY BUSINESS: Ivory + Beau Grand Opening Party!!!

We have been busy at work this past month getting everything ready for our opening + so with no further adieu I would like to announce that our GRAND OPENING PARTY will be on January 11th, 2014 from 12pm to 4pm!!!! And we hope that you ALL will come!! We will be having appetizers, drinks, live music + a fashion show to showcase our new designers!! For more information on the event + to RSVP please check out our Facebook event page:

Ivory + Beau Grand Opening Party!!

And for the time being... here's a sneak peak into the store prep via instagram of Ivory + Beau! You can follow us for more here! ALSO... designers will be revealed in December as we get shipments in!!! Stay tuned!

Friday, November 1, 2013

SIMPLY BRIDAL: Something Blue Bridal Gown

Ladies. Get excited. We are soon to be the only bridal boutique in Savannah with a blue wedding dress. Yes you heard me correctly. Blue. Something blue. When we saw this gown at Bridal Market in New York, Adrienna + I just knew we had to have this blue one. When Adrienna placed the order with the designer, who shall remain unnamed until the big reveal, the designer was like are you suuuuure... it comes in ivory tooooooo. Obviously Adrienna said no way, show us the blue. Well, she probably said it in a nicer way I'm guessing? Adrienna is pretty nice. Just saying. But anyway, we ordered the blue and we could not be more excited for it. It's so pretty and soft and romantic and pretttttttty. And we just loved how non-traditional it was. Now, we don't have any of the something blue dresses as seen below, but trust me when you say our something blue dress is beautiful and we know you will love it!!! Anyway, what do you think? Loving the blue as much as us or what???

{Photo Credits} Bride + Groom via Green Wedding Shoes, photography by Jasmine Star // Bride + Groom with Horse via Green Wedding Shoes, photography by Kay English Photography // Bride with Bouquet via Colin Cowie Weddings // Tulle Overlay Dress via 100 Layer Cake, photography by Jessica Burke // Bride at Table via Green Wedding Shoes, photography by Studio 222 // Bride with Birdcage via Green Wedding Shoes, photography by I Love Wednesdays

Monday, October 21, 2013

SIMPLY BRIDAL: NYC Bridal Market + New Savannah Bridal Boutique

Golly it's been hard for me to get around to blogging this past week for 2 reasons: 1. we have been so crazy busy finishing up last minute details for the October weddings + 2. no wifi at my house means no late night blogging sessions. But anyway, I am back now writing this post now on quite possibly the most fun business trip ever. It's funny when you are in college and you envision what your life will be like and then 4 years later you're somewhere completely different then you could have ever imagined doing something you would have never ever thought you would ever be doing. That's how this business trip was for me. It was like I was living in a dream. This is not real life. I am not really in New York City. I am not really talking to some of the best bridal designers in the world. I am not really about to buy not one, not two, not even four, five or ten bridal dresses but actually thirty. I am not staying at a ridiculously trendy hotel where there is a robot that stores your luggage for you. I could continue this list with other things that didn't feel real but I don't want to bore you too much. Soo... anyway, I don't know if Adrienna felt the same way, but that was definitely how I felt, like this was not really happening and like this was not possibly my life but someone else's life I'm just watching from above. But the thing is... this is real life. And we were talking with some of the best bridal designers in the world. And we were about to buy about thirty bridal gowns. And there actually was a robot that stored our luggage for us...

While at Bridal Fashion Week we met with several bridal designers, out of which we chose our four favorite fits for Ivory + Beau. I am not going to reveal our designers yet but we know ya'll will love them just as much as we do. These ladies are so talented and so incredible. All in all we will have about 40 dresses to start with, 4 designers + 5 collections along with 2-3 accessory designers (that is in the works now). So like always, I love to share sneak peeks of what is to come without revealing everything! Here are some snapshots of our time in NYC! Hope you enjoy!

{Photo Credits} Nicole + Adrienna's iPhones

Sunday, October 13, 2013

{BIG REVEAL} Ivory + Beau

It is crazy to think this little dream of ours was first talked about last June while heading to St. Augustine, FL for the styled shoot shown below and that now this dream is a reality. It still doesn’t fully feel real, but it is. Here we are on a plane to New York City and this is real, 100% real and 100% happening.

So rewind back to the beginning... when I first moved to Savannah I got a part-time job at David’s Bridal and I worked there while being an assistant for Layla and continued to work there after purchasing SSE. At David’s Bridal I met Adrienna, a Fibers SCAD student from Ohio. About a year after working there she got a job at La’ren Belle and left David’s Bridal. For those of you who don’t know, La’ren Belle was another boutique in town. Lo and behold, La’ren Belle closed due to personal reasons and was shut down very quickly without much notice. Shortly after that Adrienna was re-hired for her position at David’s Bridal and talk began of re-opening the boutique.

I’m the kind of person who only needs one little seed. One little idea. And I’ll grow it. Into a tree most likely. Especially when I have someone who is as excited about it as Adrienna. I mean seriously this girl is amazing. She is just as hard of a worker as me and she dreams big, ya'll. So this little seed that Adrienna planted percolated for about one month until we decided let’s go for it. You only live once right? What do we have to lose? So we got down to work and said let’s try this. Let’s make this happen.

Hours spent writing and designing a beautifully branded 30-page business plan that is filled with appendices, images, custom-made Kraft paper tabs and washi tape and we were approved for our loan on September 26^th, 2013. I'm not kidding when I say it is a beautiful business plan... we may just have to share it with y'all later because it really is gorgeous. So with the approval of our loan, Ivory + Beau was born and now we are sitting on a plane to the big apple where we will be purchasing our inventory for the new shop, which will be located at 7302 Abercorn St. Suite #1B Savannah, GA 31406. And we could not be more excited!!!!!!!!!!!

So without further adieu, I’d like to introduce formally Adrienna, the mastermind behind this idea and my new business partner!! She has been working in the bridal industry for four years in boutiques, shops, and has her own small bridal and millinery accessories company, Ava Mae Designs. Originally from Ohio she now lives on the islands with her boyfriend and her cats. She loves cats. I mean really loves cats. That’s probably why we get along so well. I mean, let’s be real, I love cats too. Well, mostly just Tigger. Anyway, she is a total sweetheart and has been so amazing to work with! I don’t think I will ever cease to be amazed at the ridiculous ways she pronounces Savannah street names, or the organization of this lady. You guys are going to love her I Just know it.

Now for all of you are who are wondering, what does this mean for Simply Savannah Events?! Well, let me tell you…

The new boutique will be a wedding planning + bridal boutique that offers wedding planning packages and the bridal gown. We want to have a laid back, fun, and exciting environment for brides while shopping for their gown. No stuffy bridal shop here... we want every part of the wedding planning process to be amazzzzzzzing and whimsical and exciting and adventurous. We want to inspire brides when they walk into our store to push the limits and themselves outside of the box to find a beautiful dress that not every bride is wearing... something that truly shows their personality! We are excited for this ya'll... REAL excited.

Some changes you will notice around here:

1. Simply Savannah Events will now be part of Ivory + Beau, a wedding planning + bridal boutique. Our name will be changed everywhere! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

2. New website coming soon! Blog link will stay the same.

3. Instead of only getting posts from me, Adrienna will also be blogging, Facebooking, and Instagramming. Well, maybe not Instagramming. She likes to post pictures of cats. I told her that’s prohibited. Only on her personal Instagram... but I really can't talk since my feed is filled with Tigger...

NOW… Giveaway time!!! We are so excited to have reached over 1,500 followers on Facebook and as promised we would do a giveaway as soon as we reached that goal!!! So if you are a bride-to-be enter below!!! And if you're not a bride-to-be well... tell your friends who are brides-to-be to enter below!!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Stay tuned for more details to come on the designers we choose to have in stock!! We cannot wait!

Last but not least, I just have to say thank you for all the support from friends, clients, vendors + family! This could not have happened without ya'll (especially clients!) Ya'll are the BEST. xo, Nicole Rene.

P.S. Huge shoutout to Rach Lea of Rach Lea Photography for taking the photos of us for our website at Southern Pine Co. and even huger shoutout to Lindsey Wirht for making us over!!

Monday, October 22, 2012

SIMPLY BRIDAL: Inbal Dror Backless Gowns

I have had a designer crush on Inbal Dror ever since I discovered the site a few months back & posted this on my old blog, Nicole Rene Design.

Designer Crush: Inbal Dror

{Photo Credits} All Images via Inbal Dror

Monday, April 30, 2012

{Bridal Fashion} The Dress

This is my first blog post about wedding dresses, I know, I can't believe I haven't done one yet either! I've done one on bridesmaids dresses though. What brought this post up is because of 1 dress in particular. This David's Bridal dress below was actually bought and worn by THREE of my clients and all of them were in March 2012!! Nicole, my assistant and I were in shock and couldn't believe it was happening. Nicole also works at the Savannah David's Bridal and said that it's one of the most popular dresses. All three of the brides looked different in this dress plus their wedding styles were also very distinct. Have a look for yourself at Whitney, Andrea, and Jenny. I've been dress shopping with most of my friends for their wedding dress and it's never an easy task to find the right one. Everyone has unique body types so it's going to look much different on you then in the picture you've seen of the dress. After looking online at a few dresses, here are some that I found so pretty!

Which is your favorite???