STOP THE BRIDE BULLYING

NO TO BRIDE BULLYING!
Photo lifted from http://en.paperblog.com/
WE. ARE. SICK. OF. THIS. If you are a bride who is being BULLIED by the people around you, then think of a scheming way for your momzilla or your insensitive best friend, or your manipulative mother-in-law, or your bitter relatives to "accidentally" read this blog post. Because THEY NEED TO BE PUT IN THEIR PLACE. 

Here in Rebellious Brides, we receive personal messages from ex-brides and bride-to-bes on the bullying that they have gone though over the course of their wedding preps. Here are just some of the messages that really upset us the most:


"Dear Rebellious Brides, I am so sad. No matter how much we try to bring down the cost of our wedding without compromising quality or do what we really want...everyone still has something to say..."why don't you do it like this?", "why can't you just make it as simple as this?". I am seriously losing my appetite for my own wedding" 


"Dear Rebellious Brides, I want to do what I want for my own wedding. But I am not the type to be vocal about it. Everyone has an idea for my wedding. I am losing control over it. Now, I am no longer excited. It's not my wedding after all." 



"Dear Rebellious Brides, I really love your article about not having a traditional reception. I love it!! I am a number one non-reception person but my mother-in-law interfered with all my ideas for my wedding! But I just gave-in to everything my mother-in-law wanted because I was pre-occupied with exams here in the US so I just let her do whatever she wanted! I was so irritated because SHE EVEN DICTATED MY GOWN FOR ME! Every time I would try to inject my own ideas she would say that it would be embarrassing ---blahblahblah! I just surrendered because I was already in that stage where I wanted to get it over and done with so that I can get married already.

The most memorable part of my wedding was when my best friend said something about how my husband and I are just a simple couple with simple dreams and that she hopes for me to come home to Manila. Every time I remember that speech, it makes me emotional because that was the only "ME' part of our wedding. That was the only thing that I felt had a personal touch…through my friend..sorry if I’m opening so much cuz when I read your blog I really felt happy and inspired."

Rebellious Oldies Get Hitched!




I can count about a hundred rules this couple broke when they suddenly realized one, fine day that they've been dating for 17 years and said: okay let's get married NOW....as in now, while we sit facing each other in my orange shirt NOW. I love how Sun Journal wrote this article so I am lifting it as it is. Enjoy! :)










They sat in padded armchairs facing each other, holding hands, Paul Walker with a corsage on his orange T-shirt, Ann Thayer in a smart black pantsuit.

Rebellious Rapture

Ladies, the time has come. More and more brides are embracing the rebellious way. And more and more suppliers and wedding bloggers are acknowledging the existence of these unique and creative creatures/brides.



The RB Emotera in a photo by Jay Jay Lucas of Chestknots Studios (more about this group of fun photogs soon!) Styling by Lifestyle by Feliz, hair by Benjie Angeles and makeup by yours truly.


This photo was shot for Bridal Book as they continue to provide brides with as much bridal options as they can. And I am so proud of them for featuring this rebellious wedding gown alternative. 
 
The rebellious rapture has began. And Kai and I proud to be part of it all.
Yours in beauty and love,

Mica

Rebellious Bride: Claude

I blame Facebook. Nowadays, taking a photo requires some level of modeling for that ever-changing profile picture you love to upload. Wedding pictures are no strangers to the profile photo status. And so, the inner mowdel in you is unleashed for all your 500+ friends to see. But what if you're really not the type to pose? to emote? Then don't be stressed. All you have to be, during your wedding day pictorial, is YOU. So drop the act and that Zoolander pout if it's so not you.

Take for example, rebellious bride Claude. She's an art director who has an inner child wonder (and some kiddie anger) that showed in her wedding photos. They're just so refreshing to look at!

"Hindi ko keri um-emote sa pader," says Claude.

Claude bravely wore smokey makeup for their day wedding.

Kate Spade Mood Board #4






Kate Spade's color of the month is all about multi-coloring--and we couldn't agree more. There are so many delicious colors that why not put it all in your wedding? Whoever said a wedding needed to have a color motif anyway?!? 


Better yet, stomp the color motif and just make your wedding theme a multi-color motif theme! I'm sure some would gag at the thought of a non-cohesive wedding palette. But one look at how Kate Spade executed this and you're in for a wonderful surprise. It's all about taste levels people. Whatever color or theme you want to implement, it's not the theme/color per se that makes a wedding gaudy or tacky--it's how you will edit and put things together that can make or break everything. So go multi-color! Live a little! :)


Let's start!

Rebellious Bride Rachelle - Trashes Her Veluz

Photos by MetroPhoto
"The upper sheer layer got slightly detached from the gown's bodice from all the hand raising and arms stretching which I did during the shoot. 


It was raining when we started out in the afternoon and I've been dragging my dress around muddles of dirty water which soaked up the hemlines. 


We even have to lie down on some parts. It got really maputik at the end of the shoot. Dry cleaning didn't take the dirt stains away."


Rebellious Bride Rachelle on how trashed 
her gown got during their "Trash the Dress" shoot

Rebellious 11-11-11

Out of all the 11-11-11 weddings that transpired last Friday, I am most excited about Jason + Nikki Buensalido's wedding. 


While we eagerly await the "official" photos and details, allow me to explain visually the magnitude of this wedding.


Modern, rebellious architecture of a little something like this: